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26 Aug 07 : 54 | Myanmar’s Suu Kyi Refusing Food Supplies-Diplomat BANGKOK, Aug 26 (Reuters) - Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has refused new supplies of food for 11 days to the house where she is being detained, prompting fears for her health, exiles and a diplomat said on Tuesday. The Nobel Peace laureate was not thought to be on a hunger strike, the... Source : NEWSMEAT - Headlines |
26 Aug 07 : 23 | Suu Kyi Fails to Pick Up Food Delivery in Myanmar Myanmar’s detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi failed to retrieve food delivered to her home amid speculation she may have launched a hunger strike. Source : NEWSMEAT - Headlines |
23 Aug 12 : 32 | UN Envoy Leaves Myanmar, Fails to Meet Suu Kyi YANGON, Aug 23 (Reuters) - A U.N. envoy left Myanmar on Saturday after failing to meet detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi or coax concessions from the military junta during his six-day mission, diplomats said. Source : NEWSMEAT - Headlines |
22 Aug 16 : 35 | UN Ends Cyclone Relief Flights Into Myanmar Regularly scheduled cargo flights arranged by the U.N. to bring cyclone relief aid into Myanmar have been concluded after three months. Source : NEWSMEAT - Headlines |
20 Aug 14 : 10 | UN Chief Expected to Visit Myanmar in December U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is planning to visit Myanmar at the end of this year to hold talks on the country’s political problems, the main opposition party said Wednesday. Source : NEWSMEAT - Headlines |
18 Aug 08 : 00 | UN Envoy in Myanmar Amid Waning Hopes for Reform YANGON, Aug 18 (Reuters) - United Nations special envoy Ibrahim Gambari arrived in military-ruled Myanmar on Monday for five days of talks to try to kick-start negotiations between the junta and detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Source : NEWSMEAT - Headlines |
15 Aug 20 : 07 | UN Envoy Gambari to Return to Myanmar Monday UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Myanmar envoy Ibrahim Gambari will visit the Asian country Monday to renew pressure on its ruling junta to democratize and improve its human rights record. Source : NEWSMEAT - Headlines |
12 Aug 10 : 02 | Myanmar Police Arrest Opposition Party Executive Police in Myanmar’s western Rakhine state arrested a member of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s party Tuesday, a party official said. Source : NEWSMEAT - Headlines |
10 Aug 13 : 45 | Myanmar’s Suu Kyi Allowed Rare Visit by Lawyer Detained Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has met with her lawyer for the first time in five years, one of her colleagues said Sunday. Source : NEWSMEAT - Headlines |
09 Aug 08 : 14 | Myanmar Anniversary Demonstrators Freed Myanmar authorities have released 43 demonstrators who held one of the country’s few protests marking the anniversary of the 1988 pro-democracy uprising, an opposition party official said Saturday. Source : NEWSMEAT - Headlines |
08 Aug 07 : 17 | Security Tight on Anniversary of Myanmar Uprising Twenty years after it violently suppressed a bid by more than a million peaceful protesters to restore democracy, Myanmar’s military junta was on high alert Friday with riot police guarding the country’s main city and detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s home. Source : NEWSMEAT - Headlines |
07 Aug 18 : 43 | Conditions in Myanmar Starker Than Portrayed A rare bird's-eye look at Myanmar’s Irrawaddy delta shows the devastation still left from Cyclone Nargis — broken levies, flooded farm roads, the shattered remains of bamboo huts and trees strewn like matchsticks along the coast. Source : NEWSMEAT - Headlines |
07 Aug 08 : 09 | Bush Spotlights Myanmar Repression President Bush praised the spread of freedom in Asia while training a harsh spotlight Thursday on the region’s democratic laggards, sharply criticizing oppression and human rights abuses in China, Myanmar and North Korea. Source : NEWSMEAT - Headlines |
06 Aug 12 : 04 | Bush’s Thailand Trip Is All About Myanmar BANGKOK, Aug 6 (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush was due in Bangkok on Wednesday on the latest leg of a pre-Olympics Asian tour, although his focus in Thailand is firmly on the "outpost of tyranny" junta in neighbouring Myanmar. Source : NEWSMEAT - Headlines |
05 Aug 04 : 48 | UN Envoy Visits Cyclone-Hit Region in Myanmar A United Nations human rights envoy left Tuesday to inspect the devastation from the cyclone that struck Myanmar’s Irrawaddy river delta three months ago. Source : NEWSMEAT - Headlines |
04 Aug 08 : 27 | New UN Rights Envoy Starts Mission in Myanmar YANGON, Aug 4 (Reuters) - The U.N.’s new human rights envoy to Myanmar started his first mission to the military-ruled Southeast Asian nation on Monday, four days before the 20th anniversary of brutally crushed democracy protests. Source : NEWSMEAT - Headlines |
02 Aug 10 : 30 | Myanmar Detains Comedian Who Delivered Cyclone Aid A famous Myanmar comedian and three other activists who helped deliver relief supplies to cyclone victims could be imprisoned for two years on charges of causing public unrest, his lawyer said Saturday. Source : NEWSMEAT - Headlines |
01 Aug 20 : 43 | UN Investigator to Assess Human Rights in Myanmar UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Myanmar’s military junta has invited a U.N. investigator to make his first visit next week so he can assess the human rights situation in the Southeast Asian country, the United Nations said Friday. Source : NEWSMEAT - Headlines |
01 Aug 06 : 30 | Myanmar Charges Comedian With Public Order Offence YANGON, Aug 1 (Reuters) - Myanmar’s military junta has charged popular comedian and leading dissident Zarganar with public order offences, which could see him jailed for up to two years, a lawyer said on Friday. Source : NEWSMEAT - Headlines |
29 Jul 17 : 26 | US Clamps Down on Firms Linked to Myanmar The Bush administration is imposing financial sanctions on companies suspected of being owned or controlled by the military-run government of Myanmar. Source : NEWSMEAT - Headlines |
22 Aug 19 : 12 | UN Envoy Aims for Second Chance Suu Kyi Meeting UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. special envoy Ibrahim Gambari is extending his trip to Myanmar and expects to have talks with detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi after she missed a scheduled meeting, the U.N. said Friday. Source : NEWSMEAT - Headlines |
20 Aug 06 : 51 | Report: 1,200 Flee as Quake Hits Southern China A report says about 1,200 people have evacuated their homes after a 5.3-magnitude earthquake hit southern China near its border with Myanmar. Source : NEWSMEAT - Headlines |
07 Aug 08 : 38 | Bush Cites Oppression, Human Rights Abuses in Asia President Bush praised the spread of freedom in Asia while training a harsh spotlight Thursday on the region’s democratic laggards, sharply criticizing oppression and human rights abuses in China, Myanmar and North Korea. Source : NEWSMEAT - Headlines |
