Unocal strikes deal with Myanmar villagers over alleged slave ...
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LOS ANGELES: US-based Unocal Corp. will pay to boost living conditions and protect villagers near Myanmar&#39;s Yadana gas pipeline under the settlement of a key human rights abuse case, the parties said.
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The UN holds talks on the crisis in Burma, following a violent crackdown on pro-democracy protests.
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LOS ANGELES - Unocal Corp. will settle a human rights case filed over a pipeline in Southeast Asia by paying villagers and funding improvements to living conditions along the project route, lawyers on both sides said Monday.
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By Bloomberg News. The Unocal Corporation, which has oil and gas operations on five continents, has agreed to settle lawsuits concerning human rights violations committed during the construction of a pipeline in Myanmar.
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Myanmar's junta held nearly 1,200  political prisoners before a crackdown on Buddhist monk-led  street protests last month, according to a report by the U.N.'s  independent expert on human rights in Myanmar.
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At least two Myanmar dissidents were among thousands of prisoners freed after the military government announced it had begun releasing more than 5,000 detainees in a third mass release in less than a month, relatives and officials said.
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19 November 2004 - United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today welcomed an announcement by the Myanmar Government that it has begun releasing nearly 4,000 prisoners and called for freeing all others detained for their political beliefs.
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The United States demanded on Tuesday that Myanmar let humanitarian groups visit people arrested in recent protests against fuel price increases, citing unspecified reports they have been brutally beaten.
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Myanmar has arrested almost 100 dissidents since it promised a UN envoy there would be no more detentions, according to Amnesty International.
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Unocal Corp. (UCL) has agreed to settle two closely watched lawsuits accusing the US oil giant of turning a blind eye to human rights abuses that occurred during the
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Unocal Corp. UCL.N has agreed to  settle two closely watched lawsuits accusing the U.S. oil giant  of turning a blind eye to human rights abuses that occurred  during the construction of a pipeline in Myanmar, the company  said on Monday.
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Burma frees a protester who was injured during arrest, in an apparently conciliatory gesture, activists say.
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19 October 2004 - Concerned by reports of the dismissal and detention of the Prime Minister of Myanmar, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today called on the country&#39;s authorities to remain committed to the process of national reconciliation
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Myanmar's junta has charged social activist Ko Htin Kyaw, arrested in August for staging a two-man protest against declining living conditions, with "public mischief", his lawyer said on Thursday.
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United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has called for Myanmar&#39;s opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi to be released from house arrest.
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LOS ANGELES A spokesman for Unocal Corp. says tonight the oil and gas giant has reached a tentative agreement to settle human rights lawsuits.
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Myanmar&#39;s junta was interrogating 13 activists arrested for organising a rally against the regime over its massive hike in fuel prices ahead of likely legal action, state media said Saturday.