Burmese authorities have sentenced four opposition members to prison for campaigning against the military government's new constitution.
A spokesman for the National League for Democracy, Nyan Win, told reporters Friday that all four were sentenced
Myanmar 's heartland has also roiled a political landscape dominated by the military for more than four decades.Buddhist monks are regrouping after the battering they took nine months ago, civil socie...
Yangon - Myanmar authorities charged 14 members of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy Friday who called for her freedom on her 63rd birthday last month. The 14, who shouted slogans and released 63
The four members of the National League for Democracy (NLD), the party led by detained Nobel Peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, were arrested in March for distributing leaflets urging a no vote in Rakhine State.
Our sources have confirmed that the court
So near and yet so far, for so long.
Fifteen hostages were rescued from FARC, the left wing guerilla organization in Columbia that has used abduction and holding of hostages to finance and further their bloody guerilla war.
Three American hostages,
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Catholic threat to the English throne.
1609 - The Catholic League is formed in Munich to oppose the Protestant Union, raising tensions in Germany that erupts in Thirty Years' War.
1645 - Oliver Cromwell's army defeats
BANGKOK, Thailand—The cyclone that devastated Myanmar's heartland has also roiled a political landscape dominated by the military for more than four decades.
Buddhist monks are regrouping after the battering they took nine months ago, civil society
“I don’t really need much courage for the challenges most frequently encountered in a political career. Political courage in our consensual political system is seldom all that courageous”.
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Anwar told Reuters that “the sodomy allegation was a ploy to distract public attention from rising food and fuel prices and other scandals afflicting Prime Minister Abdullah Badawi’s government.” Those convicted of sodomy in Malaysia can receive a
TOKYO : UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon pledged on Tuesday to press Myanmar to bring "genuine freedom" to its people after he struck a deal to bring in international aid after a devastating cyclone.
Ban in May became the first secretary general in 44