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(Photo: AP / Simon Yap)Malaysia, Indonesia propose southeast Asia league
Myanmar's Khin Maung Tun, left, falls after being tackled by Indonesia's goalkeeper Samsidar during the final of the 38th Merdeka soccer Tournament at Shah Alam stadium in Malaysia...Full Story

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Embattled Errol Flynn, at his most winning
| Has any movie star employed as many weapons as effortlessly as Errol Flynn? Bow and arrow, cutlass, saber, six-shooter (he starred in several westerns, you know), and that's just for starters. In the five films found in the new DVD box set "Errol Flynn Adventures,'' h...Full Story
Burma: Soldiers Of Fortune
| The weekend invasion begins with the click-clack of thumbtack-adorned shoes. For four hours, senior cadets from Burma's Defense Services Academy (DSA) and its sister technological institute march through the streets of Pyin U Lwin, briefcases in hand, maroon berets pe...Full Story
Northeast states need uniform power policy: NEEPCO chief
| Shillong, July 31: State-owned North Eastern Electric Power Corporation (NEEPCO) chief and managing director I.P. Barooah Saturday advocated a uniform power policy for the eight northeastern states. | 'The region must think in terms of having a uniform hydel power pol...Full Story
Concert review: Mission of Burma at Subterranean 7/30/10
| Mission of Burma playing at Subterranean in Chicago on Friday, July 30, 2010 Susan Schomburg If you like this ... Concert review: Dead Meadow, Imaad Wasif at Empty Bottle 4/13/10 Festival review: Pitchfork Music Festival 2010 Day 1 Festival review: Pitchfork Music Fes...Full Story
N.Korean FM meets Myanmar FM amid nuclear worries
| SEOUL (AFP) – North Korea's foreign minister met his Myanmar counterpart during a trip to the country, Pyongyang media reported Saturday, in a visit likely to be watched by Western nations fearful the two regimes could be co-operating on nuclear weapons. | T...Full Story
Kim Jong Il biographies seized in Myanmar
Yangon: North Korean diplomats seized translations of a biography on regime leader Kim Jong Il by a local writer prior to a visit of the country's foreign minister, sources said Saturday. | "They came to my office earlier this month and told me to hand over these books,...Full Story
Malaysia, Indonesia propose southeast Asia league
Kuala Lumpur: Malaysia and Indonesia are proposing the formation of a trans-national soccer league in southeast Asia to help revitalise the club game in the region, according to Malaysia’s Sports Minister Ahmad Shabery Cheek. | Ahmad Shabery said his Indonesian counte...Full Story
N. Korean diplomats confiscate copies of Kim Jong Il biography+
YANGON, July 31 (AP) - (Kyodo)—North Korean diplomats in Myanmar have confiscated hundred of copies of a biography of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il written by a well-known local author, the biographer confirmed Saturday. | The diplomats visited a publishing house...Full Story
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Sat 31 Jul 2010
Malaysia, Indonesia propose southeast Asia league
The Guardian KUALA LUMPUR, July 31 (Reuters) - Malaysia and Indonesia are proposing the formation of a trans-national soccer league in southeast Asia to help revitalise the club game in the region, according to Malaysia's Sports Minister Ahmad Shabery Cheek. Ahma...
FPI Overnight Brief
Scoop Saturday, 31 July 2010, 3:50 pm | Press Release: Foreign Policy Initiative | FPI Overnight Brief | July 30, 2010 | ________________________________________ | Special Announcements | FPI seeks college juniors or seniors, graduate students, or recent g...
North Korean officials seize Kim Jong Il biographies in Myanmar
m&c | Yangon - North Korean diplomats seized translations of a biography on regime leader Kim Jong Il by a local writer prior to a visit of the country's foreign minister, sources said Saturday. | 'They came to my office earlier this month and told me to...
Myanmar Loosens Yoke on Farmers
Wall Street Journal By A WSJ Staff Reporter | YANGON, Myanmar—Moves by Myanmar's military regime to loosen its grip on the impoverished nation's once-mighty rice industry in advance of an election this year have raised cautious hopes for the nation's economy. | Af...
Foetal attraction to this cult soup
The Daily Telegraph Australia | IT'S the birth of a new Sydney culinary craze and, fittingly, it involves an embryo - a chicken embryo, to be precise. | The unusual ingredient, an egg pulled from a chicken before the shell has hardened, forms the confronting centrepiece of a...
US and Cambodia in controversial lockstep
Asia Times |      Jul 31, 2010 US and Cambodia in controversial lockstep | By Clifford McCoy | BANGKOK - Cambodia's first-ever multinational military exercise is part and parcel of intensifying competition between the United States and China...
Fri 30 Jul 2010
Free Pre-Screenings of 82nd Academy Award(R) Nominees at the National Archives
PR Newswire   | Download image | Highlighting Four Categories March 3-7, 2010 | , Feb. 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Archives will host free screenings of the 82nd Academy Award® nominees in four categories - Documentary Feature, Documentar...
Pacific military drills coming to a close
Fresno Bee | The Associated Press Share | thefresnobee_994:/2010/07/30/2024693/pacific-military-drills-coming.html E-Mail Print Text Size: tool name | tool goes here Comments (0) | Similar stories: | Koreas mark truce, but drills underscore tensions Koreas mark...
US senators want UN investigation of Myanmar
MSNBC | WASHINGTON — A group of 32 U.S. senators is urging the Obama administration to support a United Nations investigation into possible war crimes in military-run Myanmar. | The Republican and Democratic senators said in a letter Friday to Secret...
Chinese miner goes from corporate star to villain
MSNBC | BEIJING — A month ago, Zijin Mining Group was a Chinese corporate star, a profitable gold and copper miner with ambitions to further expand abroad. | Today, Zijin is an environmental villain to China's public after a July 3 leak of copper min...
North Korean diplomats seize books on Kim in Myanmar
MSNBC | YANGON — North Korean diplomats in Myanmar have confiscated hundreds of copies of a locally published biography on the Stalinist state's reclusive leader, Kim Jong-il, the book's author said Friday. | Prominent Burmese writer Hein Latt, 62, s...
Global human trafficking roundup (July 30, 2010)
The Examiner | NORTH AMERICA | Minnesota: Former assistant county attorney was accused of running a high profile prostitution ring in the state. The prostitution ring allegedly connected foreign women to the nice guys in Minneapolis such as lawyers, accountants, ...
MYANMAR: NGOs cut programmes as government takes on recovery oversight
IRINnews web | BANGKOK, 30 July 2010 (IRIN) - Funding shortages are forcing NGOs to cut operations in the Ayeyarwady Delta, as the Myanmar government takes on oversight for recovery efforts two years after Cyclone Nargis on 1 August. | "The need is enormous,"...
US 'Carefully Watching' Myanmar-NKorea Talks
The New York Times | Filed at 2:39 a.m. ET | YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- The U.S. said it is carefully watching the budding secretive relationship between Myanmar and North Korea for signs of nuclear cooperation, as official talks between the authoritarian regimes entered ...
AFC president eyes second World Cup in Asia in 2022
ESPN | July 30, 2010 | He may be widely tipped to take over from FIFA president Sepp Blatter when the Swiss finally decides to call it a day, but for now AFC president Mohammed Bin Hammam has set his sights firmly on bringing a second FIFA World Cup to th...
US 'carefully watching' Myanmar-NKorea talks
Breitbart YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - The U.S. said it is carefully watching the budding secretive relationship between Myanmar and North Korea for signs of nuclear cooperation, as official talks between the authoritarian regimes entered a second day Friday. | Nort...
US 'carefully watching' Myanmar-NKorea talks
Newsday | July 30, 2010   | (AP) — The U.S. said it is carefully watching the budding secretive relationship between Myanmar and North Korea for signs of nuclear cooperation, as official talks between the authoritarian regimes entered a second day Fri...
N.Korean diplomats seize books on Kim in Myanmar
The Star | YANGON (Reuters) - North Korean diplomats in Myanmar have confiscated hundreds of copies of a locally published biography on the Stalinist state's reclusive leader, Kim Jong-il, the book's author said on Friday. | Prominent Burmese writer Hein Latt...
US 'carefully watching' Myanmar-NKorea talks
The Boston Globe | YANGON, Myanmar-The U.S. said it is carefully watching the budding secretive relationship between Myanmar and North Korea for signs of nuclear cooperation, as official talks between the authoritarian regimes entered a second day Friday. | North Kor...
US 'carefully watching' Myanmar-NKorea talks
Herald Tribune | YANGON, Myanmar - The U.S. said it is carefully watching the budding secretive relationship between Myanmar and North Korea for signs of nuclear cooperation, as official talks between the authoritarian regimes entered a second day Friday. | North K...
US 'carefully watching' Myanmar-NKorea talks
The State | YANGON, Myanmar - The U.S. said it is carefully watching the budding secretive relationship between Myanmar and North Korea for signs of nuclear cooperation, as official talks between the authoritarian regimes entered a second day Friday. | North K...
US 'carefully watching' Myanmar-NKorea talks
The Press Democrat | North Korea's Foreign Minister Pak Ui Chun's four-day visit to Myanmar is shrouded in secrecy. Myanmar has not officially announced that the visit is taking place and few details have leaked out about the nature of the trip, which is Pak's first si...
US 'carefully watching' Myanmar-NKorea talks
The Guardian | YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — The U.S. said it is carefully watching the budding secretive relationship between Myanmar and North Korea for signs of nuclear cooperation, as official talks between the authoritarian regimes entered a second day Friday. | ...
US 'carefully watching' Myanmar-NKorea talks
MSNBC | YANGON, Myanmar — The U.S. said it is carefully watching the budding secretive relationship between Myanmar and North Korea for signs of nuclear cooperation, as official talks between the authoritarian regimes entered a second day Friday. | N...
US 'carefully Watching' Myanmar-NKorea Talks
CBS News YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - The U.S. said it is carefully watching the budding secretive relationship between Myanmar and North Korea for signs of nuclear cooperation, as official talks between the authoritarian regimes entered a second day Friday. | Nort...
US 'carefully watching' Myanmar-NKorea talks
The Associated Press YANGON, Myanmar (AP) -- The U.S. said it is carefully watching the budding secretive relationship between Myanmar and North Korea for signs of nuclear cooperation, as official talks between the authoritarian regimes entered a second day Friday. | Nor...
US expresses concern about Myanmar-North Korea ties as isolated regimes hold secret talks
Star Tribune | YANGON, Myanmar - The U.S. said it is carefully watching the budding secretive relationship between Myanmar and North Korea for signs of nuclear cooperation, as official talks between the authoritarian regimes entered a second day Friday. | North K...
US 'carefully watching' Myanmar-NKorea talks
Denver Post | YANGON, Myanmar—The U.S. said it is carefully watching the budding secretive relationship between Myanmar and North Korea for signs of nuclear cooperation, as official talks between the authoritarian regimes entered a second day Friday. | Nor...
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