Activists send underwear to Burmese embassies
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Pro-democracy activists have resorted to sending female underwear to Burmese embassies, in a bid to hit the superstitious military regime 'where they will feel it.'
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A senior US official meets Burmese ministers to press for the release of democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi.
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Activists handed out condoms to passers-by and pamphlets urging people not to inject drugs, challenging conservative social mores in Asia as the region marked World AIDS Day on Wednesday with vows to fight harder to halt the disease&#39;s spread.
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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
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The United States has cranked up the pressure on Myanmar's rulers by introducing a UN Security Council draft resolution urging them to release all political prisoners and end the use of rape as an instrument of war.
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RANGOON, Burma - About 20,000 protesters led by Buddhist monks and nuns yesterday mounted the largest antigovernment protest in Burma since a failed 1988 democratic uprising, shouting support for detained prodemocracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
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More than 25 celebrities including actors Jim Carrey, Dustin Hoffman and Robin Williams on Thursday urged the United Nations to help win freedom for Myanmar democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
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Barlinnie prisoners complain to inspectors they are given "ill-fitting and stained" prison underwear.
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The Bush administration and lawmakers from both parties are pushing for the U.N. Security Council to condemn Myanmar's recent crackdown on activists.
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Myanmar&#39;s military junta tightened the  net on leaders of a rare string of protests on Thursday,  raiding homes of known activists and their friends and  distributing their photographs in a manhunt around Yangon.
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Burma reopens its constitutional convention,  amid criticism the delegates are unrepresentative.
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Leaders of an Asia-Europe grouping urged new member Myanmar on Friday to improve its rights record and pursue democratic reforms but a final statement is unlikely to call
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An "army" of female activists is being launched by the government to inspire and help women start companies.
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Burma's military government stepped up its propaganda campaign against the United States on Sunday, accusing Washington of inciting last month's pro-democracy demonstrations in hopes of installing a puppet government
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MAE SOT, Thailand, Oct. 25 -- The young Buddhist monk arrived here by boat last week from Burma, exhausted and disheveled, with no passport, the stubble of his hair dyed blond for a disguise, and wearing a traditional Burmese longyi wrap instead of his saffron-colored robe. He had to elude capture...
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Prime Minister Tony Blair was among dozens of politicians and celebrities backing a British-based campaign launched today which urges tourists to boycott Myanmar because of its appalling human rights record.
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Burma's military rulers try to stop the flow of information to and from the country as a crackdown on anti-government protests continues.