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SURAT THANI -- Support for the Democrat Party is partly based on “patronage-clients relations and what some argue as the cultural distinctiveness of the southern people," says Thai scholar Aim…
http://www.latimes.com/world/worldnow/la-fg-wn-myanmar-claims-muslim-militants-targeted-cop-20140125,0,4039692.story#axzz2rQObQuY7 YANGON, Myanmar — Myanmar’s government is continuing to push back against calls for an investigation into the reported massacre of more than 40 Rohingya Muslims in northern Rakhine state,…
Bagan, Myanmar - It was the first big meeting of Myanmar's first year as the chair of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) – a conclave of the region's…
http://www.irrawaddy.org/burma/burmas-inflation-pains-sharpest-poor-majority-world-bank.html RANGOON — The World Bank has added its voice to concerns about Burma’s surging inflation, saying price rises prompted by a growing economy would likely have a greater impact…
BAGAN — With 200,000 tourists visiting in 2013, a 20 percent jump from the year before, according to Burmese Tourism Ministry statistics, it should be boom time for Bagan’s lacquerware…
BAGAN, MYANMAR - Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa said today that Australia's recent incursions into Indonesian waters were “disturbing” and said that Canberra's apologies for the recent incidents were not…
http://www.irrawaddy.org/burma/sectarian-violence-burma-regional-impact-says-indonesian-foreign-minister.html BAGAN – Indonesia’s Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa said Friday that Burma’s ongoing Buddhist-Muslim violence has ramifications outside of the country, citing attempts by Indonesian terror groups to attack Burma’s…
http://www.irrawaddy.org/asia/south-china-sea-asean-chair-burma-ready-mediate.html BAGAN, Mandalay Division — Burma’s government is hopeful that it can make progress on mediating the divisive South China Sea dispute during its 2014 chairmanship of the Association of…
http://www.latimes.com/world/worldnow/la-fg-wn-thai-premier-protests-bangkok-20140114,0,144873.story#ixzz2qOhYJjpY BANGKOK – As anti-government protesters continued their siege of the capital, Thailand’s embattled prime minister on Tuesday rejected growing calls for her resignation, saying she had a “duty to…
http://www.irrawaddy.org/asia/protesters-begin-bangkok-shutdown-calling-yingluck-step.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01p2pd7 BANGKOK — Hundreds of thousands of protesters seeking an unelected council to run Southeast Asia’s second biggest economy took to the streets of Bangkok on Monday, blocking off…