Burma&#39;s Military Leaders Tell ASEAN Leaders They Will Move Toward ...
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Thailand&#39;s Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra says Burma&#39;s government intends to carry out democratic reforms, despite a leadership shakeup that strengthened the power of hard-line generals.
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The showdown between Myanmar&#39;s military regime and the European Union at the upcoming Asia-Europe Meeting (ASEM) of Asian and European leaders has been propelled into one
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Burma agrees a peace deal with a splinter group of Karen rebels, but the main body insists it will carry on its fight for autonomy.
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Altsean-Burma (Alternative Asean Network on Burma) calls upon the international community to urgently demand access to detained NLD leaders, especially Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, to ensure that they are safe and sound.
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Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra said Myanmar&#39;s detention of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is an attempt by the ruling junta to prevent possible political violence.
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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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Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam (CLMV), four less-developed countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), on Sunday vowed tofurther their sub-regional
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NATO leaders reported progress on Tuesday in freeing up more troops to fight Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan, signaling that some nations had agreed to drop limits on their forces just before an alliance summit.
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Thailand is sticking to its refusal to discuss Muslim unrest gripping its southern provinces at next week&#39;s ASEAN summit. It says the slow pace of Burma&#39;s democratic reforms should feature on the agenda.
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UN diplomats express growing concern over Burma, after days of protests in the military-ruled nation.
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Thailand's junta leader has said that he has asked the government to lift martial law across more than half the country in what would be the first easing of military rule since the September coup.
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Chanting &quot;democracy, democracy,&quot; 10,000  monks marched through the heart of Myanmar&#39;s main city on  Tuesday in defiance of a threat by the ruling generals to send  in troops to end the biggest anti-junta protests in 20 years.
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BANGKOK, Thailand -- Burma's tough but pragmatic prime minister was removed from power yesterday by his hard-line army colleagues, clouding prospects for the freedom of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and for democracy in the military-led Southeast Asian nation.
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BANGKOK: The removal of Myanmarâs PM, architect of a tentative âroadmap to democracy,â has dashed faint chances for an end to military rule and leaves South-East Asiaâs policy of constructive engagement in tatters.
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Southeast Asian leaders will not make any public comment on Myanmar's military junta and its questionable progress toward democracy, according to a draft summit communique obtained by Reuters on Saturday.
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Thailand&#39;s junta chief on Tuesday said general elections would go ahead this year as planned, contradicting earlier comments that a return to democracy might be postponed until 2008.
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BANGKOKâThe extension of the opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyiâs detention allows Myanmarâs military regime to press ahead with its proclaimed democracy program