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Ken Zaw, Burma’s Minister of National Planning and Economic Development, outlined challenges awaiting the Association of Southeast Asian Nations as the region moves closer to regional economic integration.
Burma is confident that it can become a catalyst for change in ASEAN when it takes the chair in 2014, but its domestic strife is likely to dominate the agenda
While controversy concerning Thailand’s ‘reconciliation crisis’ shed light on the country’s tense political landscape last week, Aung San Suu Kyi presence at the WEC forum grabbed headlines across the globe
Allowing ASEAN monitors in for the April by-elections will be a test of how much the government trusts its neighbours, and a key step in Burma’s rocky road to democratic transition
Underground reporters from North Korea, Iran and Zimbabwe are following in the footsteps of their Burmese counterparts to broadcast state brutality to the world
