Burma opens final talks on constitution
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NYAUNG-HNA-PIN, Burma -- Burma's military government opened yesterday what it says will be the final session of a national convention aimed at completing a process launched 14 years ago to draw up guidelines for a new constitution.
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YANGON: Myanmar has pledged to adhere to its âroadmap to democracyâ and draft constitution timeframe, media reported on Saturday, despite the sacking and arrest of the nationâs former premier who was seen as the key architect of the plan.
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Military-ruled Burma said it will stick to its plans for gradual democratisation, despite abruptly appointing a new prime minister believed to hold a hard line in dealing with the country&#39;s political reform movement.
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VIENTIANE, Laos Thailand told Myanmar on Tuesday that it must take real steps toward democracy in the coming year but failed to get any clarification from the junta on reports that the house arrest of the pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi had been
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Myanmar's military junta unveiled a timetable for the country's first elections in two decades, but it was unclear Sunday if detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi would be allowed to stand.
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Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, under house arrest for 12 of the last 18 years, left her home Thursday afternoon to meet with a Myanmar government official, a diplomat said.
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Britain on Saturday gave a guarded response to Myanmar's announcement that a referendum would be held on a new constitution in May before multi-party elections in 2010.
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A panel appointed by Thailand's coup leaders to draw up a new constitution agreed on a final draft Friday and scheduled a referendum in August, setting up the possibility of elections later this year.
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Indonesia has accused Burma of trying to avoid the issue of the ongoing detention of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Burma was asked at an Asia-Pacific summit this week to clarify media reports that
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Myanmar's military government will hold  a referendum on a new constitution in May 2008 followed by  multiparty elections in 2010 as part of the junta's roadmap to  democracy, state television announced on Saturday.
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Myanmar's military government will resume a convention to draft the country's new constitution on Oct. 10, an Information Ministry official said Saturday.
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The army-backed authorities in Bangladesh begin talks with political parties on electoral law reforms.
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Asian and European leaders were to wrap up summit talks here by calling for the United Nations to lead the fight against terrorism while largely side-stepping a rift over military-ruled Myanmar.
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Myanmar's military government marched ahead Saturday with its much-criticized plans for a new constitution amid U.S. pressure on the United Nations to condemn the junta's iron-fisted treatment of protesters.
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A military-appointed council was set Friday to approve its final draft of a new constitution that is meant to guide Thailand back to democracy after last year&#39;s coup.
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Myanmar's military junta completed the first stage of drawing up a new constitution on Monday after 14 years working out the broad outline of what it terms "discipline-flourishing democracy", a delegate said.
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Proposals to hold a May constitutional referendum and general elections in 2010 represent significant steps forward for Myanmar, a U.N. diplomat said Tuesday.