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    Day: August 19, 2011

    August 19, 2011in News, Politics6by SHWE AUNG / DVB
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    Suu Kyi 'relaxed' after talks with president

    Details of opposition leader’s first meeting with Burma’s premier unclear but aide says the talks were ‘warm and casual’

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    August 19, 2011in News, Politics4by NANG MYA NADI / DVB
    271

    Shan children ‘used as human shields’

    Children as young as 10 this week forced to accompany Burmese army column through volatile stretch of Shan state

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    August 19, 2011in Photos135by LESSONS FROM TOXIC THAILAND
    219

    Tavoy's forewarning

    In the late 1980s Thailand embarked on an ambitious project to transform a popular stretch of coastline east of Bangkok into the country’s largest industrial estate. Ten years later however…

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    August 19, 2011in News, Politics1by JOSEPH ALLCHIN
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    Govt offers peace talks with ethnic armies

    Olive branch offered to warring ethnic groups but scepticism of the Burmese government’s true intentions remains strong

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    August 19, 2011in Analysis3by ANDREW MCKENNA
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    At a critical juncture, Burma’s government needs a Plan B (Pt. 3)

    Final installment looks at historical ties between Russia and Burma and whether geopolitical tensions will draw them together, or pit them as competitors

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