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Myanmar icon Suu Kyi readies defense case
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YANGON: Lawyers for Myanmar pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi said
Sunday they were preparing to open the defense case at her trial
this week, as the junta looked set to face further pressure from the
West.
The tribunal’s second week promises to be
crucial, with European nations likely to push Asian countries for
help at a meeting in Vietnam and Aung San Suu Kyi’s official
period of house arrest due to expire.
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Myanmar-Asean-UN unite in
post-Nargis recovery plan
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YANGON: A workshop of the tripartite core group (TCG) involving Myanmar,
the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) and the United
Nations (UN) has been held in Yangon to coordinate ways of
implementing the Post-Nargis Recovery and Preparedness Plan (PONREPP),
the official newspaper, New Light of Myanmar reported Sunday.
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Australian flood waters create a vast ‘inland sea’
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SYDNEY: Thousands of homeowners remained isolated in Australia’s
flood-hit northeast Sunday, where authorities said days of
torrential rain had created a vast “inland sea.”
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WORLDINBRIEF
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JERUSALEM: One in two Israelis back an immediate attack on the
nuclear facilities of arch-foe Iran but the rest want to wait and
see the results of US diplomacy, according to a poll released on
Sunday.
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