Burma marks independence day
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Burma's leader calls for national unity, as the country marks 60 years since the end of British colonial rule.
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Burma's government says its draft constitution has been completed, paving the way for a referendum in May.
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Bangladesh celebrated the 36th anniversary of independence from Pakistan on Sunday, but the powerful Awami League and three other parties boycotted a key event, accusing the government of condoning war criminals.
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Ghana celebrates its 50th year of independence this week, the first of many such anniversaries.
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Burma has been ruled by a repressive military junta for the last decade and a half, prompting economic stagnation and international condemnation.
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BANGKOK, Sept. 26 -- After nine days of restraint, Burma's military rulers cracked down on protesting Buddhist monks Wednesday, with security forces firing warning shots, shooting tear gas canisters, swinging truncheons and making scores of arrests to suppress anti-government marchers.
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Burma&#39;s military junta has confirmed a National Convention to form a constitution will restart at the end of the rainy season in November, despite the turmoil caused by the purge of Prime Minister Khin Nyunt.
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Hundreds of Burmese monks march in Rangoon, in the latest of a series of protests against the government.
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[India News]: New Delhi, Oct.25 : India and Myanmar inked a landmark agreement on Monday in the field of non-traditional security issues amidst staunch opposition by pro-democracy activists to mark the first visit by a head of state from the former Burma
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Military rulers in Burma are bracing themselves for a new day of protests after a dusk-to-dawn curfew passes.
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Military-ruled Burma says it will stick with its âroad mapâ to democracy despite the juntaâs recent purge of the prime minister who proposed it, but is ducking questions on when pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi will go free.
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BANGKOK, Oct 13 (IPS) - A healthy mix of European passion for wealth and  Asian comfort in repression have given a new lease of legitimacy  and political life to one of South-east Asia's most brutal  regimes, the military government in Burma.
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Security tight in Colombo as Sri Lanka marks 60 years of independence amid renewed unrest.
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Burma&#39;s military government appears to have stopped releasing thousands of prisoners it pledged to free less than a week ago. Relatives of hundreds of political prisoners say there have been no new releases since Saturday.
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Bangladesh celebrated the 35th anniversary of its independence on Saturday amid continuing strife ahead of parliamentary elections due next month, with rival leaders laying wreaths at a war memorial near the capital.
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About 200 Buddhist monks staged a brief demonstration in Myanmar on Friday, the fourth day of protests in the country, witnesses said. A day earlier, nearly 1,000 monks and thousands of citizens marched, the largest challenge in a decade to the iron-fisted junta that rules the nation.
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Burma's military junta says it is ready to "take action" against monks in mounting protests, state media report.