UN Slams Burma over Forced Labor Practices |
| By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS |
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The UN labor agency has criticized Burma for failing to abolish forced labor more than a decade after the global body first took up the issue. |
Junta Seeks to Win Hearts and Minds with FM Radio |
| By KYI WAI |
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Popular programming on local FM radio stations is helping the Burmese regime to combat the influence of shortwave radio broadcasts by exiles. |
Bangkok’s Future Filled with Floods |
| By ROB CORBEN |
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Thailand’s capital is threatened by long-term flood inundation as rising sea waters triggered by global weather change and monsoonal rains combine. |
Weekly Business Roundup (November 21, 2009) |
| By WILLIAM BOOT |
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Proposals by China to finance a railway 100 kilometers into northern Burma appear to be part of Beijing’s efforts to link its landlocked southwestern regions with the sea. |
Khmer Rouge Prison Chief Anxious as Trial Wraps up |
| By JERRY HARMER |
| Closing arguments began Monday in the trial of former Khmer Rouge prison chief Kaing Guek Eav, the first high-ranking member of Cambodia's ousted regime to be tried for war crimes at a UN-backed tribunal. |
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 |  One of the best steps that they (Burmese generals) could take to show that they are willing to open up their system is to release political prisoners.  — Ian Kelly, spokesman for US State Department |
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Climate Change and Aung San Suu Kyi |
| By AUNG ZAW |
| The regime in Burma is like climate change—if you don’t contain it now, it could be catastrophic. |
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The Next Big Step |
| By KYAW ZWA MOE | |
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The Facts Remain the Same |
| By YENI |
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| EXCHANGE RATES |
  1 US = 960 kyat 1 BT = 28.50 kyat November 20, 2009 |
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Above the Law |
| By ARNOLD CORSO |
| Burma’s rulers will continue to lean heavily on the judiciary to impose their vision of a “discipline-flourishing democracy” |
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A State-run ‘Market Economy’ |
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Nudging the Junta toward Democracy |
| By KYAW ZWA MOE |
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Revenue from Refugees? |
| After a stressful meeting in Naypyidaw, a senior Thai government official relaxes in the barber’s chair. |
