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Myanmar monks take
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YANGON: Hundreds of Buddhist monks have taken about 20 members of
Myanmar’s security forces hostage inside their monastery, one day
after clashes broke out at an antijunta protest, residents said
Thursday.
The security forces came to the
monastery to apologize for the violence Wednesday in the central
town of Pakokku, about 500 kilometers north of the country’s
commercial capital Yangon, residents said by telephone.
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O T H E R R E P O R T S
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Killer of
Indonesian activist still at large after 3 years
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JAKARTA: Three years after the
high-profile Indonesian activist Munir Said Thalib died on an
Amsterdam-bound flight after imbibing a lethal dose of arsenic, the
mystery of who ordered his death looms large here.
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APEC shuts door on
India, other hopefuls
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SYDNEY: India is among a dozen
nations set to remain out in the cold after foreign and trade
ministers of the Asia Pacific grouping declined Wednesday to discuss
expanding the 21-member club, an official said.
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Japan’s new
minister dismisses charges
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TOKYO: The fourth person to take
the job of Japan’s farm minister under embattled Prime Minister
Shinzo Abe on Thursday dismissed charges that he too received dirty
funds.
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INBRIEF
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JAKARTA: A 33-year-old
male plantation worker from Sumatra Island died of bird flu on
Thursday, bringing the death toll in the world’s worst-affected
nation to 85.
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