Friday, October 12, 2012

Myanmar go top; Laos beat Brunei


12-Oct-12

Myanmar are almost through to the 2012 AFF Suzuki Cup after recording 
a routine 3-0 qualifying win over Cambodia on Thursday.

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No. 2 US diplomat to visit Myanmar next week, meet its president and Suu Kyi


12-Oct-12

WASHINGTON — Deputy Secretary of State William Burns will visit Myanmar 
next week during a five-country trip to Asia

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Japan vows aid for Myanmar, urges debt resolution


11-Oct-12

TOKYO (AP) — Japan is moving ahead with financial and economic backing 
for Myanmar while working to clear its mountain of unpaid debt, part 
of a growing effort to shore up the impoverished country's economic 
and democratic reforms.

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UN Says World Hungry Not 1 Billion After All


11-Oct-12

ROME— The United Nations said Tuesday its 2009 headline-grabbing 
announcement that 1 billion people in the world were hungry was off-target 
and that the number is actually more like 870 million.

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China Hits Out at US Solar Panel Tariffs


11-Oct-12

BEIJING—China demanded Thursday that Washington repeal steep tariffs 
on solar panels that Chinese producers fear will shut their equipment 
out of the American market.

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Farmers Persist in Fight to Halt Monywa Copper Mine


11-Oct-12

The public movement to stop a copper mining project in Sagaing Division is continuing, 
with farmers and locals symbolically planting about a thousand toddy palm trees 
in the area, and holding a theater show to publicize their plight.

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