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BBC News
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The World Food Programme has halted aid shipments to Burma after the contents of its first delivery were impounded on arrival in the military-ruled country.
The UN body says the Burmese government seized aid material flown in to help victims of the cyc..
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BBC News
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More than 100 monks have marched in central Burma, the first time they have returned to the streets since last month's bloody crackdown on protests.
The monks chanted and prayed as they marched through Pakokku, the site of an incident last month that t..
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BBC News
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The authorities in Burma are continuing to seek and detain those who took part in last month's anti-government protests, the government has announced.
According to a statement in an official newspaper, almost 3,000 people have been detained since the g..
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BBC News
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UN envoy Ibrahim Gambari has described as "extremely disturbing" new arrests in Burma, calling on the ruling junta to stop detaining democracy activists.
Several prominent Burmese student leaders were arrested over the weekend.
Mr Gambari said the d..
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SF Gate
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Chevron Corp. of San Ramon is drawing harsh criticism for its business ties to Burma, the Asian nation conducting a brutal military crackdown.
The company owns part of a natural gas project in Burma, where soldiers crushed pro-democracy protests last w..
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USA Today
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A U.N. envoy met with Burma's top leader and his deputies Tuesday in a bid to end the country's political crisis, as the junta's foreign minister defended a deadly crackdown on democracy advocates that provoked global revulsion.
Ibrahim Gambari, the U...
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This Is London
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Thousands of protesters are dead and the bodies of hundreds of executed monks have been dumped in the jungle, a former intelligence officer for Burma's ruling junta has revealed.
The most senior official to defect so far, Hla Win, said: "Many more peop..
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BBC News
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A senior UN official says there are fragile signs that Burma's co-operation with the international aid effort for victims of Cyclone Nargis is improving.
Kathleen Cravero of the UN Development Programme told the BBC that visas had become more easily av..
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BBC News
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Burma's top leader has agreed to let all foreign aid workers into the country for relief work in cyclone-hit areas, UN head Ban Ki-moon has said.
After talks in Burma's remote capital, Naypyidaw, with Gen Than Shwe, Mr Ban said the decision was a break..
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BBC News
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United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon says Burma's top leader has agreed to meet him when he visits the cyclone-hit country later this week.
Mr Ban will tour devastated regions on Thursday and then fly to the remote capital, Nay Pyi Taw, for talks with Gene..
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BBC News
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A UN human rights envoy has visited prominent political activists held at Burma's notorious Insein jail before departing the military-ruled nation.
Paulo Sergio Pinheiro said the detainees included Labour activist Su Su Nway, who was arrested on Tuesda..
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MSNBC
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Also Wednesday, the NLD said the military government had freed seven of its members who were held for more than a month following the crackdown on the protests.
The releases Tuesday night came ahead of a visit by U.N. special envoy Ibrahim Gambari to s..
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BBC News
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One of Asia's most notorious warlords, Khun Sa, has died in the Burmese city of Rangoon.
He had reportedly been suffering from diabetes and high blood pressure.
After decades of guerrilla warfare against the Burmese government, largely funded by his..
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BBC News
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Burma's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has reportedly left her home - where she is under house arrest - to hold talks with a government official.
She was taken to meet Aung Kyi, a retired general recently appointed to liaise with her, diplomats..
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Yahoo News
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Women in several countries have begun sending their panties to Myanmar embassies in a culturally insulting gesture of protest against the recent brutal crackdown there, a campaign supporter said Friday.
"It's an extremely strong message in Burmese and..
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SF Gate
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Struggling against Burma's stubborn generals and neighboring nations skeptical of sanctions, a U.N. envoy returned to the region Sunday to push for negotiations between the military junta and opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
Ibrahim Gambari, once fo..
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BBC News
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The UN Security Council has adopted a statement deploring Burma's military crackdown on pro-democracy protesters.
The agreement came after China lifted its objections to a statement first drafted by the US, UK and France.
It represents the first tim..
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USA Today
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The party of Burma democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi issued a statement Tuesday calling for no preconditions for dialogue with the military junta.
The junta's leaders have offered to meet with Suu Kyi, who is under house arrest, but only on condition s..
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BBC News
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Scores of monks are trying to leave Burma's main city, Rangoon, following the military's bloody crackdown on anti-government protests, reports say.
Witnesses said many monks were at the railway station, while bus drivers were said to be refusing to tak..
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USA Today
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Soldiers announced they were hunting pro-democracy protesters in Burma's largest city Wednesday and the top U.S. diplomat in the country said she heard that military police were pulling people out of their homes during the night.
Military vehicles patr..
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