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Yesterday | CCTV

Myanmar issue advisory to foreign tourists over hot weather

The Myanmar tourism authorities Wednesday advised foreign tourists visiting the country to take good care of their health against usually hot weather.

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Related Topix: Travel, Weather

Wed Nov 11, 2009

People's Daily

Korean-language speech contest to be held in Myanmar

A Korean language speech contest will be held in Myanmar's former capital of Yangon next month to boost language communication between peoples of Myanmar and Korea, according to the Embassy of South Korea here Wednesday.

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Related Topix: Burma, Southeast Asia, World News, Travel,

Malaysian National News Agency

Bangkok Voted No 1 Most Attractive City In Asia

Foreign tourists voted Bangkok the most attractive city to visit among 10 of 11 member cities of the Asian Network of Major Cities 21 , Thai News Agency reported.

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Related Topix: Burma, Yangon, Burma Travel

Mon Nov 09, 2009

Sunday Times

Myanmar could release Suu Kyi for election

Myanmar's military-ruled government may release pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi soon so she can play a role in next year's general elections, according to a senior Myanmar diplomat.

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Related Topix: Burma, Southeast Asia, World News, Travel, US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Aung San Suu Kyi, Yangon, Burma Travel

Sat Nov 07, 2009

The Star Online

Japan urges Myanmar to release Suu Kyi before poll

Japan urged Myanmar on Saturday to release detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi before next year's election, adding it was ready to provide more aid if democratisation in the country advanced.

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Related Topix: Travel, World News, Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma, Thein Sein

Fri Nov 06, 2009

Raw Story

Myanmar vote plan clouds new US dialogue

US envoys who paid a rare visit to Myanmar say the new dialogue will be slow and cautious, but the junta's plans to hold 2010 elections are casting a shadow that could disrupt the delicate process.

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Related Topix: Burma, Southeast Asia, World News, Prison, Travel, US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Aung San Suu Kyi, National League for Democracy

People's Daily Online

Myanmar to launch anti-malaria project in three state, divisions

Myanmar will launch a one-year project to fight malaria disease in country's Rakhine state, Bago and Magway divisions under Japanese grassroot grant assistance, sources with the Ministry of Health said on Thursday.

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Related Topix: Travel, Malaria, Medicine, Health

Thu Nov 05, 2009

Malaysian National News Agency

US State Department Official Meets Aung San Suu Kyi

Visiting United States Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia Kurt Campbell met with house-confined General Secretary of the National League for Democracy Aung San Suu Kyi at the Inya Lake Hotel here Wednesday under arrangement made by the Myanmar government.

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Related Topix: World News, Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma, Travel, Southeast Asia, National League for Democracy, Yangon, Burma Travel

Burmanet

Myanmar Times: Plastic bags to be banned as govt acts on pollution - Ye Lwin

A worker at a plastic factory in Hlaing township holds low-density polyethylene beads used to make plastic bags.

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Related Topix: Travel, Burma, Yangon, Burma Travel, World News, Global Warming

Wed Nov 04, 2009

TheNational

Suu Kyi meets US envoy

Myanmar's detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi made a rare appearance in front of reporters at a Yangon hotel today before holding talks with a visiting US envoy.

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Related Topix: Travel, Aung San Suu Kyi, World News, Burma,

Xinhuanet

Bangkok rated favorite destination among 10 Asian cities

Bangkok, the Thai capital, was voted by foreign tourists as the most attractive city to visit among 10 of the 11 member cities of the Asian Network of Major Cities 21 , with Thai food the most attractive factor, Thai News Agency online reported Wednesday.

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Related Topix: Burma, Travel, Yangon, Burma Travel, World News

TravelPod.com Recent Updates

Jumping cats and water lilies - Inle Lake, Myanmar

We moved on for two days to another, justly, popular tourist site in the south of Shan State on Inle Lake.

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Related Topix: Travel, Burma, World News

Tue Nov 03, 2009

Reuters

U.S. delegation in Myanmar for rare talks with junta

A delegation of senior U.S. officials, pursuing a new dialogue, met with Myanmar's military rulers on Tuesday in the highest-level talks with the reclusive junta in 14 years.

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Related Topix: Burma, Southeast Asia, World News, Travel, US Politics, US News, Barack Obama, Aung San Suu Kyi, National League for Democracy

TravelPod.com Recent Updates

A boat, a buddha and a bridge - Mandalay, Myanmar

Another magical sunrise kicked off an otherwise sticky and uneventful 12 hours up the Ayeryarwaddy to Mandalay.

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Related Topix: Travel

Mon Nov 02, 2009

Earth Times

US envoy unlikely to meet with Myanmar junta chief on visit - Summary

US Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell is unlikely to meet with Myanmar's junta chief Senior General Than Shwe on his two-day visit to the military-ruled country this week, government sources said Monday.

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Related Topix: Burma, Southeast Asia, World News, Aung San Suu Kyi, US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election

Sun Nov 01, 2009

People's Daily Online

Myanmar, Japan cooperate in promoting trade, investment

A 30-member Japanese economic delegation is due to arrive in Yangon Monday to meet and discuss with businessmen from the Union of Myanmar Chambers of Commerce and Industry to seek ways of promoting trade and investment in the country, the UMFCCI, Myanmar's biggest private business organization said on Sunday.

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The Straits Times

Envoys unlikely to meet junta

TWO senior US envoys travelling to military-ruled Myanmar this week will meet detained democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi but are unlikely to see the reclusive junta chief, an official said Sunday.

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Related Topix: Burma, Travel, Southeast Asia, World News, Aung San Suu Kyi, Thein Sein

Wed Oct 28, 2009

4 Hoteliers

Sedona is first in Myanmar to achieve Green Globe Certification.

Sedona Hotel Yangon and Sedona Hotel Mandalay lauded for promoting environmentally sustainable tourism.

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Related Topix: Travel, Green Globe, Energy, Burma, Yangon, Burma Travel, World News, Mandalay, Burma Travel

Tue Oct 27, 2009

TravelPod.com Recent Updates

Yangon - Yangon (Rangoon), Myanmar

After doing some traveling in Thailand, Mon, Kyle and I hopped on over to Myanmar for a gander.

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Related Topix: Burma, World News, Travel

Fri Oct 23, 2009

TheNational

Nats, moustaches and generals in Myanmar

Our pick-up bowls through a patchwork countryside of green rice-paddy fields criss-crossed by small waterways.

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Related Topix: Travel, Burma, Yangon, Burma Travel, World News

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