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Myanmar Signs Truce With Ethnic Rebel Group
Posted: January 12th, 2012, 8:37am EST by By SETH MYDANS
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The government of Myanmar signed a cease-fire agreement on Thursday with ethnic Karen rebels who have been fighting for greater autonomy, reports said.
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Myanmar Said to Ready to Free Thousands
Posted: October 11th, 2011, 6:01am EDT by By SETH MYDANS
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State-run media in Myanmar said 6,300 prisoners would be released, and a new human rights body urged the country’s president to free what it called “prisoners of conscience.”
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Lured by Oligarch’s Cash, Soccer Star Samuel Eto’o Enlivens Dagestan
Posted: September 12th, 2011, 5:35am EDT by By SETH MYDANS
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Samuel Eto’o has left behind a life in the limelight on the European circuit to play for an obscure team in an unsafe city.
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Lured by Oligarch’s Cash, Soccer Star Samuel Eto’o Enlivens Dagestan
Posted: September 12th, 2011, 5:35am EDT by By SETH MYDANS
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Samuel Eto’o has left behind a life in the limelight on the European circuit to play for an obscure team in an unsafe city.
NYT > Health
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In Russia, Harsh Remedy for Addiction Gains Favor
Posted: September 3rd, 2011, 3:02am EDT by By SETH MYDANS
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Centers like City Without Drugs employ a detoxification and rehabilitation program that would be considered harsh by Western standards.
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Batac Journal: A Hero’s Burial for Long-Dead President Marcos? It’s Being Considered
Posted: March 10th, 2011, 2:30am EST by By SETH MYDANS
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Two decades after his death, former President Ferdinand E. Marcos of the Philippines is being formally considered for a burial with honors in a cemetery reserved for prominent figures.
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Survivors Fill Hospitals as Cambodia Toll Rises
Posted: November 23rd, 2010, 7:07am EST by By SETH MYDANS
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One of the worst stampedes in recent years killed at least 378 people at a holiday celebration Monday night.
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Thai Police Find 2,000 Illegally Aborted Fetuses
Posted: November 20th, 2010, 1:10am EST by By SETH MYDANS
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The remains were discovered hidden at a temple in Bangkok after its crematorium broke down.
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Tough Choices for Myanmar Dissident
Posted: November 16th, 2010, 7:54pm EST by By SETH MYDANS
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Daw Aung San Suu Kyi faces difficult decisions on uniting the opposition, armed ethnic groups and challenging the government.
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Release of Myanmar Opposition Leader Anticipated
Posted: November 12th, 2010, 9:09am EST by By SETH MYDANS
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Supporters of the pro-democracy leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi gathered amid reports about her release.
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Myanmar Refugees Flood Thailand
Posted: November 8th, 2010, 2:47pm EST by By SETH MYDANS
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Clashes have pushed at least 10,000 refugees into Thailand, one day after Myanmar held its first election in 20 years.
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Anger in Cambodia After Sentencing of Khmer Rouge Jailer Duch
Posted: July 26th, 2010, 3:26pm EDT by By SETH MYDANS
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Survivors of Cambodia’s notorious Tuol Sleng prison expressed frustration that its commandant received less than a life sentence.
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Wasps to Fight Thai Cassava Plague
Posted: July 18th, 2010, 9:05am EDT by By SETH MYDANS
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The first wave of an army of 250,000 wasps was deployed to eradicate a plague of mealybugs that threatens to devastate Thailand’s $1.5 billion crop of cassava plants.
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Thai Government Supporters Vow Counter-Protest
Posted: April 18th, 2010, 2:01pm EDT by By SETH MYDANS
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The pro-government “yellow shirt” movement added to Thailand’s tensions with a threat to challenge the red shirt protesters with a counter-demonstration.
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Typhoon Kills at Least 41 in Vietnam
Posted: September 30th, 2009, 9:04am EDT by By SETH MYDANS
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Typhoon Ketsana headed west toward Laos after battering Vietnam with powerful winds and heavy rain, leaving behind blue skies but dangerously rising flood waters.
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A Terrorist Mastermind Whose Luck Ran Out
Posted: September 17th, 2009, 12:41pm EDT by By SETH MYDANS
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Noordin Muhammad Top, suspected of orchestrating major bombings in Indonesia, repeatedly eluded capture before being killed in a raid.
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Senator Wins Promise to Free American in Myanmar
Posted: August 15th, 2009, 3:03pm EDT by By SETH MYDANS
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Senator Jim Webb’s office said he secured the release of John Yettaw, who was sentenced to prison after intruding into the home of the pro-democracy leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.
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Pro-Democracy Leader in Myanmar Is Convicted
Posted: August 11th, 2009, 9:37am EDT by By SETH MYDANS
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Daw Aung San Suu Kyi was sentenced to three years of hard labor, but her sentence was commuted to a new term under house arrest.
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Myanmar Court Delays Suu Kyi Verdict
Posted: July 31st, 2009, 2:23am EDT by By SETH MYDANS
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A verdict in the trial of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s trial had been expected Friday, but the court delayed a ruling until mid-August.
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Tales of Torture and Death Fill Court in Cambodia
Posted: July 14th, 2009, 3:32pm EDT by By SETH MYDANS
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The trial of a Khmer Rouge prison chief has uncovered details about the suffering of victims of the regime.
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Trial Begins for Khmer Rouge Leader
Posted: February 17th, 2009, 1:34am EST by By SETH MYDANS
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Kaing Guek Eav, the commandant of the Tuol Sleng prison, is the first senior Khmer Rouge member to face trial for the communist regime’s crimes. -
Thai Premier Evades Protesters
Posted: December 30th, 2008, 10:05am EST by By SETH MYDANS
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Antigovernment protesters forced the prime minister of Thailand to deliver a speech inaugurating the work of his new government at an alternate location.
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Thai Premier Is Short on Common Touch
Posted: December 15th, 2008, 2:34pm EST by By SETH MYDANS
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The new prime minister of Thailand has not cultivated ties to a decisive electoral bloc: the rural and urban poor.
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Myanmar Rulers Still Impeding Access
Posted: June 2nd, 2008, 9:22am EDT by By SETH MYDANS
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Relief agencies said Monday that they were still having difficulty reaching hundreds of thousands of cyclone survivors who are in urgent need of assistance.
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U.N. Chief Says Junta to Admit Aid Workers
Posted: May 23rd, 2008, 9:00am EDT by By SETH MYDANS
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The United Nations secretary general said that Senior Gen. Than Shwe had agreed to allow “all aid workers” to help survivors of the country’s cyclone.
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Myanmar Faces Pressure to Allow Major Aid Effort
Posted: May 7th, 2008, 9:47pm EDT by By SETH MYDANS
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An American diplomat warned of the possibility that the death toll could rise sharply, and a French diplomat urged the U.N. to force Myanmar to accept aid.
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Aid Flows to Myanmar as Death Toll Rises to 22,500
Posted: May 6th, 2008, 2:40pm EDT by By SETH MYDANS
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An international relief operation was being mobilized as the government raised its estimate of the death toll and reported 41,000 people still missing.
NYT > Business
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An Asian Art Moment: Indonesia’s Contemporary Painters Ride a Market Bubble
Posted: April 1st, 2008, 11:03pm EDT by By SETH MYDANS
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With Chinese art being hot now and commanding huge prices, demand has trickled down and collectors are looking to Indonesia as the next Asian tiger.