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washingtonpost.com » washingtonpost.com - Asia/Pacific - Oct 6, 2008
TOKYO, Oct. 6 -- Thanks to tainted milk, China's product-safety reputation is plumbing new depths.
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washingtonpost.com » washingtonpost.com - World - Sep 29, 2008
UNITED NATIONS -- In the days after Georgian and Russian troops marched into the separatist province of South Ossetia, Secretary General Ban Ki-moon frantically telephoned key leaders and offered the United Nations' …
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washingtonpost.com » washingtonpost.com - Sunday Outlook - Sep 6, 2008
The countries of the East won't be banding together to replace the West as the seat of global power -- at least not anytime soon.
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thaindian.com » Thaindian News - Aug 17, 2008
DPA Yangon, Aug 17 (DPA) Myanmar’s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been permitted a rare meeting with her lawyer, the second this month, giving rise to speculation about her possible release, opposition party …
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washingtonpost.com » washingtonpost.com - Asia/Pacific - Aug 16, 2008
RANGOON, Burma -- For the crowds of young Burmese outside the Immigration and Customs Office here, the commodity of choice is a shiny, tomato-red, cardboard-stiff new passport.
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washingtonpost.com » washingtonpost.com - World - Jul 20, 2008
RANGOON -- They operate in the shadows, slipping by moonlight from safe house to safe house, changing their cellphones to hide their tracks and meeting under cover of monasteries or clinics to plot changes that have …
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washingtonpost.com » washingtonpost.com - Asia/Pacific - Jul 5, 2008
BOGALAY, Burma -- Two months after a cyclone savaged the fertile Irrawaddy Delta, in Burma's southwest, the bones of drowning victims still clutter the muddy banks of waterways.
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washingtonpost.com » washingtonpost.com - Asia/Pacific - Jun 20, 2008
RANGOON -- Seven weeks after huge swaths of Burma were savaged by a cyclone and tidal wave, a new and remarkable citizen movement is delivering emergency supplies to survivors neglected by the military government's …
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washingtonpost.com » washingtonpost.com - World - Jun 13, 2008
Just seven days after Cyclone Nargis devastated Burma last month, the ruling military junta parceled out key sections of the affected Irrawaddy Delta to favored tycoons and companies, including several facing sanctions …
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washingtonpost.com » washingtonpost.com - Asia/Pacific - Jun 7, 2008
BANGKOK, June 6 -- In the weeks after Tropical Cyclone Nargis battered Burma's Irrawaddy Delta, Burma's most famous comedian -- a dentist known by his stage name, Zarganar, or "Tweezers" -- spearheaded efforts by about …
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