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Monks command such respect in Burma because 80-90% of the country's population is Buddhist, the BBC News website's Sarah Buckley writes.
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Buddhists cry for help as Thaksin visits the volatile, mostly Muslim region of southern Thailand. As Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra visits the troubled southern region of Thailand, more than 100 Thai
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BANGKOK, Thailand - One of the few unchallenged accomplishments of Myanmar&#39;s military junta - securing peace with the country&#39;s armed ethnic rebel groups - may be in jeopardy after Prime Minister Gen.
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By John Ighodaro, Hector Igbikiowubo, Charles Ozoemena with agency reports. P-HARCOURTâ THE Armed Forces, yesterday, dared an insurgent groupâ Niger Delta Peopleâs Volunteers Forceâ led by Mujahid Dokubo
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BANGKOK, Sept. 26 -- Burma's military rulers cracked down on protesting monks and other political opponents Wednesday after a week of exercising caution. Security forces fired warning shots and tear gas, swung truncheons and arrested hundreds of demonstrators in an attempt to suppress a ninth...
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BANGKOKâThe extension of the opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyiâs detention allows Myanmarâs military regime to press ahead with its proclaimed democracy program
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Traveler magazine's geotourism editor says the military dictators of Burma (Myanmar) are defacing medieval Buddhist temples at one of Asia's greatest archaeological sites.
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MAE SOT, Thailand - One of the main organizers of the September protest marches in Burma, Ashin Kovida, a 24-year-old Buddhist monk, escaped to Thailand last week by carrying a false identification card, dying his hair blond, and wearing a crucifix.
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Myanmar's military junta broadcast warnings on Tuesday that included the possibility of using military force to disperse what it called unlawful street protests.
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Hundreds of Buddhist monks in central Burma hold another demonstration against the military government.
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YANGON, Myanmar  - Aung San Suu Kyi's pleas are  falling on deaf ears these days.
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Marches in Rangoon turn into large-scale show of defiance towards country's ruling military.
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Before Burma's military leaders will let up, Ibrahim Gambari must first persuade its neighbors to crack down
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Thousands of monks and civilians march against Burma's military rulers amid tear gas and baton charges.
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Burma's military rulers try to stop the flow of information to and from the country as a crackdown on anti-government protests continues.
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RANGOON, Burma - More than 100 Buddhist monks marched peacefully yesterday in a northern Burma town noted for its defiance of the country's military rulers, the first large protest since the junta violently crushed a wave of antigovernment demonstrations.
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A rebel group in India's north-east says it has lost six mobile bases in Burma in an offensive by Burmese troops.