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Web-only Exclusives November 30, 2000 From Our Correspondent: Hirohito and the War A conversation with biographer Herbert Bix From Our Correspondent: A Rough Road Ahead Bad news for the Philippines - and some others From Our Correspondent: Making Enemies Indonesia needs friends. So why is it picking fights? |
Week of June 11, 1999
YANGON The U.S. embassy will not confirm her appointment, but Priscilla Clapp, who was most recently deputy chief of mission in South Africa, will become the Americans' highest ranking diplomatic official in Yangon. Clapp will serve as chargÈ d'affaires - the U.S. has not had an ambassador there since it downgraded relations after the regime refused to honor the 1990 election results.Week of June 4, 1999
BANGKOK Myanmar officials sat silently at the first EU-ASEAN talks since a row erupted two years ago over Yangon's human-rights record. Myanmar's passive role was the compromise between the two blocs over the country, which joined ASEAN in 1997.Week of May 21, 1999
YANGON Seven MP-elects of the National League for Democracy have denied claims by the party's hierarchy that they were forced by the government to recommend opening a dialogue with the regime. NLD leaders around party secretary-general Aung San Suu Kyi condemned the group as "lackeys of military intelligence." But Tin Tun Maung, one of the MPs calling for talks, said they had done nothing wrong: "Our motive was to seek another solution to the political impasse and we harbor no guilty conscience in this matter."Week of April 16, 1999
MYANMAR'S EMBASSY IN COLOMBO, SRI LANKA, apparently speaking for the Yangon government, expressed its sadness on hearing of the death of Michael Aris, husband of oppositionist Aung San Suu Kyi. The announcement also expressed a willingness to help her to return to England to attend Aris's funeral - which Suu Kyi had already rejected for fear she would not be allowed to return to her homeland. The next issue is whether her two sons will be allowed to visit her.Week of April 2, 1999
BANGKOK A compromise giving Myanmar a "passive role" at May's Joint Cooperation Committee meeting between ASEAN and the E.U. makes way for the first meeting between the two blocs in two years. The agreement allows Myanmar to be present at the meeting as an observer along with Laos, which also joined ASEAN in 1997, and possibly Cambodia, which is still waiting to become an official member.THE GROUP OF SEVEN countries are considering waiving all their development aid loans, worth some $20 billion, to 41 low-income, heavily indebted countries - mostly in Africa, Latin America and Asia. Vietnam, Laos and Myanmar would be the Asian beneficiaries.
Week of March 19, 1999
CHIANG RAI PM Chuan Leekpai hosted Myanmar's generals Than Shwe and Khin Nyunt for a two-day state visit. At the top of the agenda was pressure from Chuan for more cooperation in fighting cross-border drug trafficking.Week of March 5, 1999
YANGON Interpol went ahead with its three-day conference on the narcotics trade despite a boycott by Western critics of the Burmese government. Home Affairs Minister Tin Hlaing minced no words when he criticized some of those absent:"As two of the largest markets for heroin in the world, the U.S. and Britain bear special responsibility to work with the rest of the international community in every way possible," he said at the opening ceremony.Week of February 12, 1999
ON JAN. 31, THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY of the start of the Karen uprising, General Bo Mya, head of the Karen National Union, lashed out at ASEAN for propping up the Yangon government. Around 93,000 Karen refugees shelter in a string of holding camps along the Thai frontier with Myanmar most of whom are believed to be loyal to Bo Mya Mya.''Week of January 15, 1999
YANGON Rumors that the military junta would deport oppositionist Aung San Suu Kyi before Independence day on Jan. 4 proved unfounded. It is doubtful any country would aid the government by taking Suu Kyi, the daughter of independence leader Aung San.News from Myanmar in 1998
News from Myanmar in 1997
News from Myanmar in 1996
News from Myanmar in 1995
