Burma allows human rights visit
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The Burmese regime agrees to let the UN's human rights expert visit after refusing permission for four years.
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Thailand yesterday told military-ruled Myanmar that it must take real steps toward democracy in the coming year, but failed to get any clarification from the junta on reports that pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi&#39;s house arrest has been extended.
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Thailand tells Burma it must improve its record on political reform, but gets no details on Aung San Suu Kyi's detention.
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RANGOON, Burma -- Burma's military junta released at least 19 political prisoners yesterday, including members of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi's party who were among thousands of inmates whose detentions were ruled improper. Suu Kyi, a Nobel laureate, remained under house arrest.
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Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi meets an official from Burma's ruling junta for the fourth time.
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The military government in Burma says it will restart talks next month on a new constitution
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Thailand on Tuesday told military-ruled Myanmar that it must take real steps toward democracy in the coming year, but failed to get any clarification from the junta on reports that pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi&#39;s house arrest has been extended.
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VIENTIANE, Laos Thailand told Myanmar on Tuesday that it must take real steps toward democracy in the coming year but failed to get any clarification from the junta on reports that the house arrest of the pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi had been
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Myanmar's junta has agreed to allow a U.N. envoy to return to the country earlier than expected next month to help promote national reconciliation following the military's violent crackdown on peaceful protesters, the U.N. said Tuesday.
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KLERDEY, Burma -- For a repressive police state, Burma has borders that are curiously porous.
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Burma reopens its constitutional convention,  amid criticism the delegates are unrepresentative.
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The United Nations expert on human rights in Myanmar said on Monday he would visit the reclusive military-ruled Asian country next month to look into its fierce crackdown on pro-democracy protests.
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North Korea yesterday signalled that it may decide to lift the veil on some of its human rights violations after being challenged to allow the inspection of one of the country&#39;s notorious prison
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MAE SOT, Thailand  - The photographs cover almost an entire wall, 200 simple black-and-white reminders that opposition leader and Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi is not the only prisoner of conscience in military-ruled Myanmar.
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The ruling generals in Myanmar have agreed to the first visit by the UN's top human rights official in four years, the United Nations said on Monday.
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RANGOON, Burma, Sept. 22 -- Hundreds of Buddhist monks marched past barricades to the home of Nobel Peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, increasing pressure on the military government by symbolically uniting their growing protest movement with the icon of Burma's long struggle for democracy.
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Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has told Burma it needs to improve its record on political reform. Mr Thaksin noted that Burma was to host the 2006 summit of the Association of South East Asian nations