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Toronto Sun | When Canada eventually opens an embassy in Burma, International Trade Minister Ed Fast promises it will include a full-time trade commissioner as well. Fast’s trip comes amid warming relations with Burma, as […]
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Bangkok Post | Asian economies should allocate funds to develop basic structures aimed at the welfare of the poor and environmentally friendly growth in large cities, says the Asian Development Bank (ADB). The continent has […]
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Scotsman | Burma’s new information minister might allow private daily newspapers to be published, marking the country’s boldest media reform yet. The quasi-civilian government of President Thein Sein has liberalised media regulation since taking over […]
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Bangkok Post | Thailand is pushing for legislation on greenhouse gas emission reporting, aiming to have a voluntary carbon market established by October 2013, said the Thailand Greenhouse Gas Management Organisation (TGO). Prasertsuk Chamornmarn, TGO […]
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LA Times | The Law Society of Upper Canada and other human rights advocates have helped at least 11 lawyers from Burma who were disbarred for protesting against the state regain their licenses. Burma has […]
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Radio Australia | Former U.S. Secretary of State Madeline Albright, Aung San Suu Kyi’s sons and two dead U.S. congressmen were among 2,082 names removed the list that gives an insight into the paranoia of […]
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A 93-year-old Australian man attempted to escape charges that he raped four young Thai sisters by fleeing illegally into Burma, Thai police say. But instead of being taken to Burma’s largest city, Rangoon, and deported […]
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Cambodia’s Tourism Ministry and World Vision-Cambodia on Wednesday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to forge partnership in combating sexual exploitation of children in tourism. The MoU was signed between Hor Sarun, undersecretary of state […]
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“Trade between Thailand and Iran could not increase for a long time because of the sanctions,” Foreign Minister Surapong Towichukchaikul said in Tehran yesterday. “So we have to try other ways to boost our economic […]
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AFP | The Cambodian government on Friday said it will limit fishing in a zone in the Mekong River to protect critically endangered freshwater dolphins. The Irrawaddy dolphin conservation area will cover a 180-kilometre-long (110 […]
