How To Use Myanmar In A Sentence
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Myanmar officials have repeatedly asked for more help from the IMF to help the government simplify the country's unwieldy foreign-exchange regime, which involves multiple exchange rates—including an official rate of about six Myanmar kyat per dollar, compared with a street rate of about 800 per dollar.
Clinton Encourages Myanmar
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Myanmar's population is divided primarily into seven separate administrative states, in addition to the Burmans: the Chins, the Kachins, the Karens, the Kayahs, the Mons, the Arakenese and the Shans.
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The men believe the twins hold mystical powers that make them invincible in their battles against the Myanmar military.
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Ahmadinejad's 'victory' saps the Islamic Republic yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Ahmadinejad\'s \'victory\' saps the Islamic Republic '; yahooBuzzArticleSummary =' Article: The Islamic Republic needs to seize the moment to respond to Iranians and the wider world before it traps itself into becoming the Islamic Republic of the Revolutionary Guards of Iran, an isolated military dictatorship akin to North Korea or Myanmar.
Ahmadinejad's 'victory' saps the Islamic Republic
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Dutch postal and express company TNT NV sent a convoy of 22 trucks loaded with rice, eggs, bottled water and other supplies to the city of Mawlamyine in southeastern Myanmar from Bangkok.
Delivery Firms Help in Myanmar and China
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Rising volumes of pipelined gas from central Asia and, eventually, arrivals from Myanmar and potentially Russia will continue to increase China's dependence on foreign imports.
Beijing Lets Natural-Gas Prices Rise in Two Areas
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Coconut, ginger, galangal, red pepper, sesame, tamarind, peanuts, basil and tea leaves - in addition to staples like homemade noodles and white rice - appear frequently in Myanmar's cuisine.
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The western slopes drain into the Salween River, which flows through Myanmar and into the Gulf of Martaban in the Indian Ocean.
Kayah-Karen montane rain forests
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The website, MyanmarNargis. org, has a few telltale signs of being a false front operation -- what is euphemistically known in the field as "counterintelligence" -- headed up in fact by the SPDC.
A Wanted Man in Burma
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It was while in Cornell that he began to be interested in ethnic music from India, Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand and also African as well as Western music.
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A new species of muntjac Muntiacus putaoensis (Artiodactyla: Cervidae) from northern Myanmar.
Biological diversity in Indo-Burma
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Garage rockers Side Effect took to the Internet last year to rustle up enough money to release their debut album without relying on the conservative record labels that dominate the music scene here among the crumbling, mildewed buildings of Myanmar's commercial and artistic hub.
Sanctions Put Rock Band in Hard Place
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Bangladesh borders on the Bay of Bengal in the south; on the Indian states of West Bengal in the west and north, Assam and Meghalaya in the northeast, and Tripura and Mizoram in the east; and on Myanmar in the southeast.
Bangladesh
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The third one is China - Myanmar frontier route.
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In western Thailand and eastern Myanmar, Mesozoic rocks are scattered and discontinuous, and outcrops of Palaeogene rocks are very rare.
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No doubt Myanmar drivers are quite used to the situation, but it seems to take its toll on the vehicles.
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ASEAN has been striving to integrate newer members Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam into the group as quickly as possible.
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Dr Aung Gyi said most of the lactometers on the Myanmar market are from China and India, although a small number of more advanced and more expensive European-made models are available.
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This change is attested in Kamti Tai, a tonal and isolating language spoken in Myanmar.
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Français · Myanmar (Birmanie): Nouvelle politique d'enregistrement pour les associations luttant contre le VIH-sida
Global Voices in English » Myanmar: New policy requires HIV groups to register
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Dutch postal and express company TNT NV sent a convoy of 22 trucks loaded with rice, eggs, bottled water and other supplies to the city of Mawlamyine in southeastern Myanmar from Bangkok late last month.
Express-Delivery Firms Share
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This route is beginning to acquire the status of a major arms supply route in that part of the country, which has implications for Myanmar, even Sri Lanka, said sources.
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Ai Husheng also visited Mandalay and the Defense Services Technological Academy in Phin Oo Lwin, the state-run newspaper The New Light of Myanmar reported on Friday.
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Citing a recent corruption incident at a trade checkpoint in northern Myanmar on the border with China, Shwe Mann said, ‘We have taken action against responsible officials involved in corruption of thousands of millions of kyats.’
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Washington is expected to resist pressure to lift trade sanctions on Myanmar.
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Washington is expected to resist pressure to lift trade sanctions on Myanmar.
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North Korea will be on the agenda after its missile tests, as will Myanmar, since its generals persist in prosecuting Aung San Suu Kyi, the world's most famous political detainee, on trivial charges.
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The only thing that stands between the people of Myanmar's quest for freedom and its actualization is merely time, and Indians of all people should know that.
Amnesty International: Has India Abandoned Burma?
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It will be operationalised through a separate agreement between the Exim Bank of India and Myanmar Foreign Trade Bank.
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Myanmar's ruling junta passed a degree in September 1999 declaring forced labor illegal.
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Phnom Penh Post/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images The Myanmar Times's Ross Dunkley in happier times The court set Mr. Dunkley's bail at five million kyat, or about $6,000 based on current exchange rates in Yangon, for each of the two charges he faces: drugging a local woman and violating immigration law by committing an illegal act.
Editor Released on Bail in Myanmar
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The Common Jezebel is a medium sized pierid butterfly found in many areas of South and Southeast Asia, especially in the non-arid regions of India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar and Thailand.
Kottu
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Drag to Playlist suu kyi fobama feel when husband started debosh on the road near sarkozi fields-i reminded how scientology package attacke dme at july suu kyi news-throw with drunk women and blowed me-undertood sharp that to have training today here-then, could not escape from non stop shutign me up by hsuabdn and scandal for videos making-i thank about that need to go to burma embassy, what too direct-it means, the onces survived left the energetical clowd at the same place and inform us about next developement of evenst on the same matter. -- xObama urges Myanmar to free democracy leader Suu Kyi November 15, 2009 8: 09 am EST Aung San Suu Kyi, the iconic face of democracy in Myanmar, was placed under house arrest in 1989.
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With the latest steps to unblock sites, Myanmar residents now have access to a wide array of foreign news sources, as well as dissident publications such as the Irrawaddy, which is based in Thailand and regularly publishes scathing criticisms of Myanmar's government.
Myanmar Relaxes Media Grip
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Southeast Asian foreign ministers gave Myanmar's military-run government an "earful" while demanding that it hold free and fair elections - a rare stand by the cautious group often accused of overlooking rights abuses in member nations.
ASEAN Urges Myanmar To Hold Free Election
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A product called tiger Balm, which was originally developed in Myanmar and contains ingredients such as camphor, menthol, cajuput oil, and clove oil—has been shown to soothe muscular aches and pain, in part by chemically heating the area.
You Being Beautiful
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ASEAN's culturally sympathetic but fast - growing founder members would show Myanmar the way.
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Therefore, the mountains are young and unweathered; the terrain is rugged and dissected, with north-south-oriented ranges that reach south, toward the central plains of Myanmar.
Northern Triangle temperate forests
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** TO GO WITH STORY SLUGGED: MYANMAR CHILD SOLDIERS BY GRANT PECK ** Two young ethnic Karen boys look on following ceremonies to honor those killed in fighting with the Myanmar government Aug. 12, 2001, at Kaw Thoo Lei, Myanmar.
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Most of what is known about the early history of Thai Boxers comes from Burmese accounts of warfare between Myanmar (formerly known as Burma) and Thailand during the 15th and 16th centuries.
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Myanmar produced only 7,000 tonnes of farmed fish in 1990; by 2008 its output of 675,000 tonnes made it the world's twelfth-largest aquafarming producer, with an output larger than America's.
The Economist: Correspondent's diary
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A recent weakening of the dollar against the kyat in street markets has made it tougher for Myanmar exporters to compete overseas, adding pressure for further market reform.
Myanmar Considers Foreign-Exchange Overhaul
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Myanmar has eight major ethnic groups - Bamas, Kayins, Shans, Rakhines, Mons, Kachins, Chins and Kayahs.
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The first American plane loaded with aid for cyclone victims touches down overnight in Myanmar.
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Malagasy · Myanmar: rivo-mahery vaika nandrava an'i Mandalay
Global Voices in English » Myanmar: Rogue Wind Blasted through Mandalay City
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Although politically part of India, the archipelago is biogeographically more similar to Myanmar and other areas of Indochina.
Andaman Islands rain forests
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Myanmar's military is trying to 'turn up the pressure' on rebels through the troop deployments, said Bertil Lintner, a Thailand-based military expert who has followed the issue.
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The Nagas lived in mountainous north-east India on the Myanmar border.
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In response to the minister's remarks, pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Monday reiterated her appeal to Myanmar and China to re-evaluate the project, calling the Irrawaddy "the most significant geographical feature of our country.
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Although death sentences are handed down in Myanmar, they often are commuted on appeal, by presidential pardon or in occasional amnesties.
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That Myanmar refugees and undocumented migrant workers face hardship is well known among Malaysians.
Global Voices in English » Malaysia: Humans as Commodities
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Human-rights groups have been especially critical of what they call an escalation in army violence against ethnic minorities this year, and many U.S. congressional leaders are leery of Myanmar's ties with Pyongyang.
Clinton Encourages Myanmar
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The article first appearer on Monday, October 6, 2008 on the web then on the 10th in print Child Labor in Phuket shames Junta PHUKET: Burmese daily newspaper True News was ordered by the Press Scrutiny and Registration Board of Myanmar to suspend publication for two months, following its publication on September 30 of a large image depicting a Burmese child working on a construction site in Phuket.
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Legendary for its blood-red rubies and spinels, the Mogok stone tract of northern Myanmar also produces an amazing array of other minerals.
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Myanmar swore in its first elected civilian leader in more than 50 years.
Times, Sunday Times
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This is the first time that we have organised three existing associations with 29 recently founded rice companies to develop Myanmar's rice industry," said Chit Khine, president of MRIA.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper
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Washington is expected to resist pressure to lift trade sanctions on Myanmar.
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ASEAN should just stop threatening to expulse Myanmar from the Association unless she is back to follow the democratic road map and make the threat real with an expulsion.
What responsibility do we bear for rehabilitating child soldiers from serving in armed conflict?
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Myanmar swore in its first elected civilian leader in more than 50 years.
Times, Sunday Times
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NOBODY could accuse the generals who run Myanmar of making hasty reforms.
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YANGON, MYANMAR: The number of foreign tourists who visited Myanmar in the first nine months of 2008 was almost one-quarter less than for the same period a year earlier, official statistics show.
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Last week, several local banks were given the right to trade Myanmar's kyat for dollars, euros and Singapore dollars and a new automatic teller machine appeared in Yangon for the first time in several years.
Firms See Myanmar as Next Frontier
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YANGON, MYANMAR: The United Nation's special envoy to Myanmar was expected to meet detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi during a visit to the country that began Saturday (31 Jan), the latest effort to coax democratic reforms from the ruling junta.
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Shaped like a kite, trailing its tail along the sea, Myanmar is the largest country on the Southeast Asian mainland.
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And this new information I just got, also, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs said during a press conference as well that the airdrop is a matter of Myanmar's national sovereignty.
CNN Transcript May 8, 2008
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Thursday I traveled to Bago and Friday to Mawlamyine, Myanmar’s third largest city.
Help Us Report on the Cyclone in Myanmar - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com
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China, such as Hubei and Jiangxi provinces, have resorted to rationing of gas producer, announced on Monday it has signed an agreement with Myanmar's Iran, further eroding Russia's historical domination of its energy sector.
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He wants her to give up the idea of international sanctions on Myanmar and he wants her change what he calls her confrontational stance.
CNN Transcript Oct 5, 2007
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For the Myanmar people the Padauk tree is also a symbol of strength and durability.
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Washington is expected to resist pressure to lift trade sanctions on Myanmar.
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SKorean court upholds conviction for late president's brother, reduces prison term Police: Bad grammar, spelling trip up man accused of trying to impersonate W.Va. governor Myanmar accuses detained Myanmar-American of seeking to create political unrest Sarah Palin urges smaller government, talks US-China relations in speech to investors in Asia Authorities in southwestern Michigan say they have cracked case of 'pillowcase' burglaries Ohio woman who said she was unfaithful wears sign to ask fiance for a second chance Fishy find: Australian teens hand in $87,000 after surprise catch on angling adventure Game over: Fla. cops caught playing Wii game in house they had just raided, face discipline Woman pays with a $20 bill printed in 1934 at a UPS Store in North Dakota
Undefined
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The Fakim Sanctuary, close to the Myanmar border, is inhabited by tigers and hoolock gibbons.
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Myanmar has rich natural resources, yet is Southeast Asia's second - poorest nation.
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In neighboring Myanmar, the military government there marked the anti-drug day by opening a ‘Drug Elimination Museum’ said to have cost 820 million kyat.
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YANGON, MYANMAR: Foreign investment in Myanmar _ much of it from China _ nearly doubled in the first nine months of 2008 compared to the same period last year, according to government statistics seen Monday (5 Jan).
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The pictures taken just before Myanmar's foreign minister claims security personnel had exercised what he called the utmost restraint.
CNN Transcript Oct 3, 2007
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Pico Iyer tells of a "bright, resourceful, well-educated" trishaw driver in Myanmar, stifled in a country where intelligence is "something to be feared and can best be used by giving oneself to something other than words and ideas.
Archive 2009-03-29
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Thai doctors do not know what to do with her because she could not submit her past medical record and she cannot submit the tissue or paraffin wax of the tissue of the breast she cut off in Myanmar.
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The Myanmar Rice Industry Association (MRIA) was created on January 12 as a national body uniting three existing separate associations - the Myanmar Rice and Paddy Traders '
The Earth Times Online Newspaper
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YANGON, MYANMAR: The prime minister of military-ruled Myanmar will make official visits next week to Southeast Asian neighbors Indonesia and Singapore, just two weeks after the three countries 'leaders met at a regional summit.
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Also read about a snub-nosed monkey that was found and eaten in Myanmar.
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Roberts says that the new species is a member of the cyprinid subfamily Danioninae and is most closely related to two danionins from Inle Lake in Myanmar, Microrasbora rubescens and "Microrasbora" erythromicron.
Archive 2007-02-01
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We reported a 37-year-old man, a Myanmar immigrant, with established pulmonary histoplasmosis. No known risk factors, such as AIDS or immunosuppressive therapy, were identified.
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The first American plane load of aid arrived in Myanmar earlier today.
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YANGON, MYANMAR: A Myanmar newspaper says the military government has lifted a rice export ban it imposed after Cyclone Nargis devastated the country's main rice-growing areas in the Irrawaddy Delta and south of Yangon in May.
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Thailand is a major market for drugs trafficked from neighboring countries, most notably Myanmar.
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Myanmar's military leader, General Than Shwe, has spoken at a military parade of what he called gentle moves toward democracy being made by his country.
Radio New Zealand News Headlines
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Myanmar has eight major ethnic groups - Bamas, Kayins, Shans, Rakhines, Mons, Kachins, Chins and Kayahs.
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Named after the Hindu monkey god Hanuman, these lanky, long-tailed monkeys are found in the humid forests, swamps, and even urban areas of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Myanmar (Burma).
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Without any access to English-language news I was utterly unaware of the extent of the storm’s damage until Sunday when I took a bus from Mawlamyine back to Bago and then another bus to Nyaungshwe in East-Central Myanmar.
Help Us Report on the Cyclone in Myanmar - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com
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The pictures taken just before Myanmar's foreign minister claimed security personnel had exercised what he called the utmost restraint.
CNN Transcript Oct 2, 2007
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But he also argued it would throw Myanmar into confusion similar to that in Indonesia now if democracy movements were pushed for too hastily.
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The Annapurna is the snazziest spot to switch between Indian and Myanmarese menus — and follow that with some honeyed treats or rice pudding while lingering over Indian chai at Mashoor's sweets shop.
BANGKOK CITY WALK: SURPRISES IN THE SHADOWS
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She repeated her criticism of Myanmar's handling of the cyclone aftermath and its stated reform plans, which she called badly out of step.
CNN Transcript Jul 24, 2008
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Japanese, Vietnamese and EU foreign ministers agreed Friday to find ways this month to resolve the row between Asia and the European Union over admitting Myanmar to the Asia-Europe Meeting, a Japanese official said.
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General Ne Win, the first military ruler of Myanmar
Myanmar: What is the 8888 demonstration and what was General Ne Win's reaction?
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In it, she said she is willing to cooperate with the junta in having international sanctions lifted and proposed that she meet with Western diplomats to discuss the measures, according to her when husband started debosh on the road near sarkozi fields-i reminded how scientology package attacke dme at july suu kyi news-throw with drunk women and blowed me-undertood sharp that to have training today here-then, could not escape from non stop shutign me up by hsuabdn and scandal for videos making-i thank about that need to go to burma embassy, what too direct-it means, the onces survived left the energetical clowd at the same place and inform us about next developement of evenst on the same matter. -- xObama urges Myanmar to free democracy leader Suu
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Panda range once extended from eastern and southern China into North Vietnam and Myanmar.
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Washington is expected to resist pressure to lift trade sanctions on Myanmar.
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We're looking for more rain for Myanmar, and this is just really the beginning of what we call the monsoon season.
CNN Transcript May 17, 2008
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The cost of a 20-kilo bag of lower-quality grain has declined by 1,000 Myanmar kyat $153 to 12,600 kyat since last week, though prices of medium and high-quality grades continue to remain high, traders said.
Myanmar Puts Lid on Its Rice Exports
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YANGON, MYANMAR: Authorities in military-ruled Myanmar sentenced a lawyer who has defended pro-democracy and labor activists to four years in prison, accusing him of having links with
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The cause of the standoff was ASEAN's decision to admit Myanmar to the group three years ago.
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The triumph marked a successful emergence from a prolonged hibernation for the sport in Myanmar.
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much opium is grown in Myanmar
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The images just smuggled out by men and women who risked their lives are at least two days old, the pictures taken just before Myanmar's foreign minister claimed security personnel had exercised what he called the utmost restraint.
CNN Transcript Oct 2, 2007
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Myanmar swore in its first elected civilian leader in more than 50 years.
Times, Sunday Times
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The country also clinched the team championship despite stiff opposition from Vietnam and Myanmar.
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Information is so scanty regarding the hoolock gibbon (found in Yunnan, Myanmar, Bangladesh and Assam) and the white-cheeked gibbon (found in Yunnan, Laos and Vietnam) that their conservation status is not even defined.
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Malagasy · Myanmar: Rava ilay fiangonana bodista manan-tantara
Global Voices in English » Myanmar: Collapse of an Ancient Pagoda
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The official government exchange rate is about six Myanmar kyat for every U.S. dollar, compared with roughly 800 kyat per dollar in public marketss—a gap that introduces a range of distortions to the Myanmar economy and makes it complicated to do business there.
Myanmar Considers Foreign-Exchange Overhaul
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Myanmar is a lynchpin - or "arrowhead" - for the "Look East" policy as it represents the land bridge between India and ASEAN.
Asia Times Online
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INDIAN AMBASSADOR TO MYANMAR: We are dealing with the present regime in Myanmar.
CNN Transcript Oct 4, 2007
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The estate is estimated to be worth 400 million kyat, but it is unclear what price it would fetch on the open market in economically battered Myanmar.
