Burma

Zhao said he's watching to see how Clinton addresses the growing potential nuclear ambitions of Burma's regime.

The WFP director said he sought to make this point in a meeting Thursday, with Burma's prime minister.

For that reason, when he entered that state, he would cover his eyes with a veil (burma').

I heard one of my friends said the races in Burma Thailand were derived from Yunnan province. It appears there's really some relationship.

He said he hopes improved U. N. and ASEAN coordination with the authorities in Burma will help scale up relief efforts quickly.

Twenty years of trying to persuade Burma's generals to reform has not secured any improvement.

China's top drug official, Liu Yuejin, said the plan was to bomb the drug lord's hideout in northeastern Burma using unmanned aircraft.

The first lady says the United States wants to do more, but the next step is up to Burma's military leaders.

The UN treats the situation in Burma as if it is just a dispute between two sides, and they must mediate to find a middle ground.

The State Department spokesman said Burma claimed there was a new era that was up to its old tricks.

But what ASEAN seems to have, that the West and the United Nations do not, is the ear of Burma's rulers, however reluctantly they listen.

China has already converted its own 680km stretch into a six-lane highway and is helping to rebuild much of the road inside Burma.

Later he said Burma's top leader agreed to permit all foreign aid workers into the country to help with relief efforts.

The blossoms she customarily wears in her hair never seem to wilt, even as everything else droops in Burma's sullen heat.

'This was our first meeting that I'm aware of in which Burma was a principal topic of discussion, ' he said.

The report pointed out that Burma had been a signatory to the Convention on the Rights of the Child since Aug.

China is likely to sympathise with another of Mrs Clinton's talking points: opposition to any nuclear ambitions Burma might have.

He said the army would increase patrols along the border opposite Burma's Karen State, where ethnic rebels continue to fight the government.

Harries said the genesis of the project goes back to the early 1990s when he and his wife visited Burma.

But a visit to the country, also known as Burma, can be a bit tricky. Here, then, is a cheat sheet for a visit.

And China is building oil pipelines and ports that will give it a hugely important strategic foothold on Burma's Indian Ocean coast.

He said the alliance also gave a message for their least popular member, Burma, officially known as Myanmar.

"The only threat the UWSA is not prepared to face is major airstrikes by the Burma Army, " Soe Than was quoted in the cable.

The result of that extensive review was to launch a policy of pragmatic engagement with Burma's leadership.

It is still unclear how the new system is going to work in Burma, but one thing is certain: Than Shwe continues to call the shots.

Aid agencies also say Burma may need food assistance for at least a year to support communities devastated by Cyclone Nargis.

He says it was not the first time fighting in Burma had forced villagers to flee to Thailand and would not be the last.

When I joined the democracy movement in Burma it never occurred to me that I might ever be the recipient of any prize or honour.

Nonetheless, Pitsuwan defended the formation of the body as a step forward and said there were other ways of pressing Burma to reform.

I visited Burma two years ago, many friends took me around the northern ancient capital of the Burma after the meeting in Rangoon .

Far from being a simple morality tale of good vs. evil, the Lady against the generals, what happens in Burma carries global significance.

Reformers in Burma seem to have the upper hand. They should be encouraged.

Chiang worried that "another failure in Burma would be a disaster for China so grave that the results cannot be predicted. "

Espen Barth Eide, Norway's deputy foreign minister, said he was surprised by the changed atmosphere in Burma during a visit this week.

The supply line of illegal drugs stretches probably from the United States right up to Japan, Thailand and Burma.

She was a founder member of the Burma Forum and a board member with the US Campaign for Burma.

Burma's biggest aid donor until 1988, it has continued to provide small-scale help, apparently hoping to retain a smidgen of influence.

Burma's elections are shaping up to be the detestable sham the dictatorship's sternest critics have warned.

The attack came hours after the mosque's top cleric was arrested while trying to slip away wearing a traditional woman's burma.

Due to Burma is not a democratic country, our people should choose the non violence way of opposing election for your safety.

But China's interests in Sudan and Burma go beyond that of an interested Security Council member.

So far Burma has 7 radar units that have been set up in different areas in the country.

Her years in detention were a result of her calls for peaceful democratic reform and free elections in Myanmar (Burma).

The United States also began to restore bilateral ties with Myanmar (formerly Burma) and to promote ties with Indonesia.

He said with emotion: "A lot of people do not know the Burma Road. "

Some Catalan cities have already promoted bans on the burma, and similar prohibitions may now be rolled out on a regional level.

And last week, the United States led an effort to put Burma, for the first time in history, on the agenda of the U. N. Security Council.

It was in 1988 that she arrived back in Burma to visit her sick mother, leaving her British husband and two children in the UK.

"The point is that North Korea has been providing that kind of aid to Iran, Syria and Burma, " he said.

If you are lucky enough to visit Thailand or Burma during the Water Festival, you may need a hot shower by the end of the day.

Because Burma is part of Asia's greatest rice-producing area, "the storm compounds the problem of lost rice production, " she said.

In recent years, only the pariah government of Burma and a few rebel groups have laid significant numbers of mines.

Economists in Burma said the drop of the US dollar and FEC values lied in the current economic pattern.

"The more the Burma Army is busy with the Shans and the Karens elsewhere, the more secure they are from its attacks, " he said.

All this could mean new opportunities for foreign companies interested in Burma. But for now, most of them are simply watching and waiting.

Bush also said the Commerce Department is tightening its export control regulations for Burma.

Burma also came up in a separate House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing focusing on China and the 2008 Olympics.

But the new parliament will remain tightly controlled by the same military that has turned Burma into a political and economic abomination.

"China and Burma share many common interests in political, economic and security aspects, " he said.

After finishing high school, Suu Kyi leaves for further study in New Delhi, where her mother is Burma's ambassador.

He knew about sludge, because as an ambulance-driver in Burma in the war he had spent long hours in it.

It is cruel enough to deprive an innocent person of her freedom. Burma's generals are crueller still.

More than thirty political parties, many with links to the military, have already applied to Burma's electoral commission to be registered.

The U. S. State Department says it has been told that an American assessment team will not be allowed inside Burma.

Paul Risley, the World Food Program's Asia spokesman, says Burma may need aid for a year.

A fierce heat wave in Burma has combined with a drought to create serious water shortages in many parts of the country.

Mr. Bush plans to ask Chinese leaders about their hand in three trouble spots: Darfur, Burma, and Iran.

S. President Barack Obama was the first phone with Aung San Suu Kyi, Aung San Suu Kyi and Burma to the United States contact support.

In a statement, Webb said he is grateful to Burma's government for honoring those requests.

In a statement today (Wednesday), the fund says the parts were from at least 107 tigers and eight species of wild cats found in Burma.

It is now more than four months since the world was horrified by the violent repression of peaceful demonstrations in Burma.

The Burma Road was a major route by which the United States was supplying China with munitions as part of the Lend-Lease Act.

Burma is a country of many ethnic nationalities and faith in its future can be founded only on a true spirit of union.

A refugee from Burma living in Kuala Lumpur, this woman has been the sole provider for her family of six since her husband fell ill.

The White House said prior to the meeting that Webb would convey "strong" U. S. views on Burma's political future.

Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, is about 90 percent Buddhist, with the rest of the population Christian, Muslim and animist.

Hollywood celebrities are urging the United Nations to help win the freedom of Burma's detained pro-democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi.

Burma's military government has extended the detention of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi for at least six months.

Burma is ill prepared to deal with natural disasters, says the BBC's Rachel Harvey in Bangkok.

Than Shwe was the ruler of Burma when Cyclone Nargis hit in 2008, and he did nothing to help the people.

China has strategic reasons to prop up the regimes in Burma and North Korea, economic ones to keep close to Sudan and Zimbabwe.

"The army is quite decentralized anyway, and it is spread throughout Burma already, " he said.

Burma's top leader, General Than Shwe, arrived in Beijing Tuesday for a state visit ahead of national elections this fall.

So prosperous was the kingdom that her neighbor Burma (now Myanmar) coveted her, so the Burmese army succeeded burned and sacked the city.

MOST writing about the benighted land of Burma, dubbed Myanmar by the grotesque junta running it, falls into one of two traps.

Unlike South Africa's apartheid government when Nelson Mandela was released from prison, Burma's dictatorship is not in its death throes.

This highway is the main trading route in Shan State and is an important thoroughfare for goods between Burma, China and Thailand.

And that's why the president decided to send Secretary Clinton to Burma.

She was known as a staunch supporter of federalism in Burma.

The focus is expected to be on dealing with the global economic downturn rather than human rights issues and growing concerns about Burma.

On issues such as Burma and Iran, however, Washington has often been frustrated by China's unwillingness to sign up to its agenda.

In water-logged Burma, now known as Myanmar, World War II crews built dozens of bridges, while under constant attack by the Japanese.

Muni says although India is not pushing openly for democratic change in Burma, it has engaged in quiet diplomacy on the issue.

In the past two years, Burma's military government has almost doubled the number of people locked up for opposing military rule.

And as Burma moves in that direction, a better relationship with the United States is possible.

The British colonists imported large amount of labors into Burma to seize resources after their occupation of Burma.

Not far from it is the old suspension bridge over the river, formerly busy with caravans on the Southern Silk Route to Burma and India.

As they cope with this tragedy, the men and women of Burma remain in the thoughts and prayers of many Americans.

In terms of access to medical care, it was fourth from bottom, beating only Sierra Leone, Brazil, and Burma.

Meanwhile NLD members led by veteran official Win Tin recently toured Burma reminding people of their legal right to avoid voting.

Pressure remains on Burma's military to allow international aid agencies greater access to the region to help survivors.

Burma's military-run government has drawn out a "roadmap to democracy" that critics say is designed to keep the generals in power.

Indian strategists have been particularly worried by a string of ports constructed with Chinese assistance in Burma, Sri Lanka and Pakistan.

Critics have dismissed the election as a sham designed to cement nearly 50 years of military rule in Burma.

Its military purpose served, the road rapidly deteriorated, disappearing altogether in parts of Burma.

Burma's delegation said losses from the storm, which hit May second and third, could be up to $10 billion.

It's the first time the authorities have permitted this inside Burma since her release from years of detention.

The white house has criticized the military government in Burma for arresting pro democracy demonstrators about the rising fuel prices.

Criminal trials of political prisoners in Burma do not meet international fair trial standards.

Steve Marshall, a spokesman for the U. N. country team in Burma, says that some aid is reaching the region, but it is insufficient.

even in Burma, which has few other friends, China's growing stature and self-confidence are being watched with a degree of trepidation.

Few will be surprised to find Somalia, Burma, Iraq, Afghanistan and Congo among the bottom 10.

THE recent news from Myanmar, that beautiful, blighted land formerly known as Burma, has offered an all-too-rare cause for optimism.

Even as it provides assistance to the people of Burma, the United States targets its rulers and their associates with economic sanctions.

Through acts of intimidation and petty corruption, the USDP has spread throughout Burma to perpetuate military rule with a civilian face.

Ping highlighted the lack of court action in Gaza, Iraq and Burma (Myanmar) as evidence of a double-standard against African states.

Myanmar, also known as Burma, is politically isolated by the West and largely impoverished, but it is strategically important to China.

Burma is rich with ethnic diversity which has also been a source of violent conflict.

It was unclear where the Thai-registered fishing boat, crewed by Thais and a handful of people from Burma, sank.

Afterwards, Thein Sein expressed his appreciation that Washington had decided to re-engage with Burma.

The letter also mentioned the group's past clashes against the anti-Rangoon Mong Tai Army (MTA) on the side of the Burma Army.

Critics are concerned the new rights group will have no authority to address abuses in ASEAN countries, like Burma.

Burma was criticized by the West and human rights groups for restricting access to the hardest hit areas and for refusing direct aid.

Widespread international criticism of the unfair electoral process has not resulted in any concessions by Burma's military government.

"It would be destabilising for the region. It would pose a direct threat to Burma's neighbours. "

Burma is in chains, Zimbabwe is a human tragedy, in Sudan thousands of people have died unnecessarily for wars that we could prevent.

Philip Toosey was the senior British officer who commanded operations for building the Thai-Burma Railway, the inspiration for the movie.

But, when U. S. orders stopped, he says more than half of Burma's 300 textile factories closed down and thousands of jobs were lost.

Aung San Suu Kyi and the people of Burma deserve nothing less than our most strenuous efforts to help them secure their freedom.

Our world is sometimes lacking wise and good leadership or, as in the case of Burma, the leadership is forbidden to lead.

The borders of Thailand , Laos and Burma all converge at this point.

A spokesman for the Burmese government in exile has urged Washington not to hastily ease sanctions against Burma's military government.

There is a strange parallel between Burma's geriatric opposition leaders, known as the Uncles, and the junta's clutch of aged generals.

She also called upon Burma's Naypyidaw-based government to "be more transparent in its relationship and dealings with North Korea. "

The Free Burma Alliance said, a pregnant woman was dead with her undelivered child two days after this attack.

At this point the Chinese stopped the Japanese penetration of Yunnan, the Chinese province which adjoins Burma.

The United Nations says up to 2. 5 million people were affected by cyclone - the worst natural disaster in Burma in recent times.

Burma's military rulers have refused to let foreign aid workers enter and begin major relief efforts.

He mounted an offensive in northern Burma with an expeditionary army, expecting a British and American naval assault on southern Burma.

The United States has said it intends to submit a resolution on Burma to the United Nations Security Council in the very near future.

Consumer protests have forced Pepsi-Cola out of Burma due to Pepsi' s link with the country' s unjust regime.

United Nations agencies warn that Burma's food shortages and escalating prices pose a threat to its food security.

Shanghai's Yufu Temple by has two rare images of Buddha to be famous, each becomes with the entire block white Burma jade carving.

'I reckon they're probably calculating that Burma is not going to lurch to the American side just yet. '

It is regarded as one of the foremost journalistic publications dealing with political, social, economic and cultural developments in Burma.

It was a scene of open support for Burma's most famous dissident not seen in the military-controlled country for years.

Although they were aware of the threat, Burma's state-run media failed to issue a timely warning to citizens in the storm's path.

UNHCR spokeswoman Jennifer Pagonis tells VOA, the overland journey from Thailand into Burma, also known as Myanmar, was long and difficult.

Many countries, including the United States and the European Union have imposed strict economic sanctions against Burma.

At an ASEAN meeting on May 19, Burma agreed to let the group coordinate international relief efforts.

The second part reviews Orwell's long journey from an imperial police man in Burma to a fighter against totalitarianism.

The trial of Burma's opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, has concluded, and the verdict is to be announced Friday.

But the top tier of government has at least displayed a basic human decency that is conspicuously absent in neighbouring Burma.

He has been a visiting scholar to Charles Sturt University, Australia, and some universities in Vietnam, and Burma.

In Burma, women and children have been subject to violence and brutality at the hands of the military regime.

Burma's legislature has four hundred forty seats in the lower house and a two hundred twenty-four seat Senate.

Western governments including the United States and Britain have imposed sanctions on Burma's government.

U. S. First Lady Laura Bush says the United States will do all it can to help the victims of the cyclone that hit Burma on Saturday.

Roth moderated a day-long discussion of developments in Burma at The Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies.

Beijing has repeatedly called for a peaceful solution and national reconciliation in Burma's ethnic affairs.

President Bush called for a series of steps to help bring peaceful change to Burma.

If there is no democracy and ethnic rights in Burma, they cannot be another political step.

The generals in Burma find themselves accused of an "inhuman" response to their disaster, bordering on a "crime against humanity" .

Burma has approved a United Nations flight to help victims of Saturday's devastating cyclone.

A Saturday release would be six days after Burma's first election in two decades.

India's foreign minister is in Burma for meetings with top leaders that are expected to focus on security and trade.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says Washington will engage directly with Burma's military rulers in a bid to promote democracy there.

During the second world war, it was the terminus of the Burma Road.

The ship, the Kang Nam 1, reportedly was bound for Burma, when it changed course late last month after a U. S. warship began following it.

Indian hegemony, the editorial decided, was "100% the result of British colonialism" , when the Raj ruled from Pakistan to Burma.

Pressures remains on Burma's military to allow it national aid agency strate greater access to the region to help survivors .

Comparing with that posted by Suiyu, the latter are the ruby and sapphire from Burma, Thailand and Sri Lanka.

ASEAN members include Brunei, Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam.

Hundreds of thousands of Chinese live in Burma and there have been protests against their increasing economic influence and presence.

The ship returned to North Korea without ever docking in Burma.

The United States is pledging more than $3 million to help Burma recover from Saturday's cyclone that killed more than 22, 000 people.

They say ASEAN's engagement policy with Burma has failed to produce credible steps toward democracy.

Burma is not a major rice producer but the move indicates concerns that rice prices may rise as transportation costs increase.

Many of her supporters say Burma's military is using the trial to make sure she can be kept imprisoned next year.

Burma (Myanmar) and Guatemala are the principal sources of modern gem jadeitite, and Canada of modern lapidary nephrite.

For a start, Chinese influence in Burma will not be easily dislodged.

A piece of fossilized resin from Burma yielded something that looked very similar to Saccharomyces, brewer's or baker's yeast.

This is a universal truth that Than Shwe, the dictator of Burma, has failed to understand.

At the Quebec Conference in August 1943, Allied leaders agreed on an early 1944 date for a counteroffensive into Burma.

China also offers Burma some protection within the United Nations Security Council.

In short, China was isolated except for supplies moving from the west along the so-called Burma Road or through French Indochina.

ASEAN played a key role in brokering an agreement between Burma and the United Nations in a bid to speed up relief efforts.

As the Burmese regime bolsters its forces in the conflict zones of eastern Burma, the likelihood of disputes escalating increases.

Phyo Than fled Burma in 1991, during a government crackdown on political dissidents in the wake of that country's last general election.

For years, Burma had a few strong opposition parties or groups.

Burma's government has rejected offers to use other country's military helicopters to carry relief supplies.

Burma's President Thein Sein also spoke to the General Assembly.

We are not only helping people but trying to change the system in Burma, to seek to build a new generation.

a hard green mineral consisting of sodium aluminum silicate in monoclinic crystalline form; a source of jade; found principally in Burma.

"How about Myanmar? " he asked, spying the junta's official name for Burma among the options.

China has made it clear that it will not allow the UN Security Council to take up Burma in any meaningful way.

Her letters paint a wonderfulpicture of her life in Burma.

For instance, Burma, which is about to build its link, will exchange lithium (used in batteries), in order for China to build the line.

Thailand: Burma & Cambodia borders; extreme southern provinces Pattani, Yala, Narathiwat and Songkhla.

The government says Burma is receiving relief aid and distributing it "with its own resources. "

He was speaking after a meeting of a group of nations supporting the UN's efforts to promote democracy in Burma.

Ruthlessly repressive governments in North Korea, Burma, and Turkmenistan deprive their people of fundamental rights and dignity.

Many will sign up to join Amnesty International or the Free Burma Campaign.

The British ambassador in Burma, Andrew Heyn, told the BBC he didn't think the elections were a sign of real change.

Burmese regime also asks to set up a check point in the NMSP-controlled area near Halockinee refugee camp on the Thai-Burma border.

Lianghe County south of the ancient Silk Road, the strategic location, the Ming and Qing dynasties will trade in Burma Road business.

India: States Assam, Manipur, Nagaland & Tripura, Bhutan border, and immediate border areas with Burma(Myanmar) and Bangladesh.

The U. N. chief says he hopes to meet Burma's Senior General Than Shwe and other top government officials.

"And when that happy ending arrives, " she continued, "I hope I will be able to welcome all of you into Burma. "

The WHO says other signs of drug resistant strains have appeared on the Thai-Burma border as well as in Vietnam.

Since the storm, 21 expatriate Red Cross and Red Crescent aid workers have joined the team. More aid is being flown into Burma.

His decision is tantalizing to observers, and has had some speculating that the winds of change might really be blowing through Burma.

Zaw Win's journey from Burma to Buffalo, New York was not a matter of just buying an airline ticket.

More details have emerged about a flash flood on Thursday in central Burma with dozens more bodies recovered and scores still missing.

Burma has agreed to accept foreign aid, but insists that its own nationals be used to distribute relief supplies.

News of the meeting was carried by Burma's state-run media on Friday, one day after Ai Husheng concluded his Naypyidaw visit.

One Indian friend had the idea that Afghanistan, Burma, Ceylon [Sri Lanka], Indian and Pakistan should all be in some kind of federation.

"The crackdown in Burma is far from over, " said Brad Adams, Asia director at Human Rights Watch.

Burma is holding elections on Sunday. Voters will fill forty-five seats in elections for the national legislature or parliament.

The United Nations has cleared an area at an airport in the capital of Thailand for transporting aid to cyclone survivors in Burma.

Dam building in Burma has contributed to renewed fighting, ending a 17-year ceasefire between the Kachin Independence Army and government.

The International Red Cross says heavy rains will bring new misery to survivors of the cyclone in Burma's Irrawaddy Delta region.

The underground tear started 100 kilometers off the coast of Sumatra, on the western edge of the Burma plate.

Officials with the UN World Food Program say two shipments of food and equipment to Burma have been impounded.

During this period, Burma became one of the world's most impoverished countries.

Inside the Ethiopian amber is an ant that looks nothing like ants found in Cretaceous amber from France and Burma.

He was accused of dividing the Karen community in Karen State and those in other parts of Burma.

"Thein Sein is on a journey and his destination is not democracy, " says Mark Farmaner, director of the Burma Campaign UK.

The U. N. envoy next travels to Indonesia, Singapore and Japan to discuss Burma.

The grant seeks to strengthen disease surveillance systems in the Mekong Basin, stretching from Vietnam and Burma to southwestern China.

A railway from kunming to mandalay in burma was almost finished when work was interrupted by the second world war.

We would not live up to our values if we ignored Burma's plight.

Female singers in the former Burma are traditionally more conservative and cautious, seldom veering from well-worn romantic ballads.

The United Nations General Assembly elects U Thant of Burma as the new UN Secretary-General.

Zhu said there are fears that Burma will open too fast and violently, with something like a color revolution that fueled the Arab Spring.

A member of a low caste of agricultural and domestic workers in southern India and Burma.

For years, Burma's military closely controlled the economy. Relatives and friends of military members received rich contracts.

Today, Afghanistan competes with Burma as the main provider of narcotics to China.

Seized land In Burma, all land is nominally owned by the state, leaving small-scale farmers without legal land titles.

China's ambassador to Burma, Li Junhua, made the remark in an interview published Wednesday by the official Xinhua news agency.

Senator Webb said Mr Yettaw had suffered a "medical incident" just before leaving Burma as authorities there read him his deportation order.

You can get in touch with him by calling the Burma Hotel.

Children in Burma are among the most affected by the country's endemic poverty.

Jiang also said China supports the work of UN special envoy Ibrahim Gambari and wants a timetable set for his next visit to Burma.

They should step aside to make way for a unified Burma governed by legitimate leaders.

The United Nations reports logistical obstacles are making it difficult to get aid to cyclone victims in Burma's Irrawaddy Delta.

This success enabled him to claim the allegiance of central Burma.

Even in China-friendly Burma, a giant dam project orchestrated by a Chinese company was just shelved due to local popular opposition.

Already, resource-strapped China is building oil and gas pipelines across Burma to create another vital artery to feed its economic engine.

The prospect, then, is that the authoritarian upgrade ushers in a new era of military rule in Burma with a civilian face.