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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: ASEAN

ASEAN stories: 11 news summaries
BACKSTAGE AT ASEAN

 Leaders Punt on 
 Copenhagen Deal 

Acknowledge gaps too far to bridge before climate change summit

Nov 15, 09 12:04 PM CST
(Newser) - Just 22 days ahead of Copenhagen, President Obama and other leaders have declared that a meaningful and binding international deal is unlikely to come out of the climate change conference. The move, as the New York Times reports, sets the bar much lower and effectively delays the most treacherous issues... More »

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climate change • Copenhagen • ASEAN • climate change legislation • President Obama • Copenhagen climate change conference

 Obama to 
 Myanmar: 
 Free Suu Kyi 

First direct appeal for pro-democracy leader's release

Nov 15, 09 8:08 AM CST
(AP) - President Barack Obama today abandoned decades of Western avoidance and told Myanmar's prime minister to free opposition leader and fellow Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi in a rare face-to-face meeting. The strong message, delivered during his summit with leaders of 10 Southeast Asian nations, signals a further thawing in... More »

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diplomacy • Asia • Myanmar • Burma • Aung San Suu Kyi • ASEAN • military junta • Southeast Asia • President Obama

North Korea Blasts 'Funny Lady' Clinton

War of words after Clinton tells Pyongyang it has 'no friends'

Jul 23, 09 8:03 AM CDT
(Newser) - If insults were nukes, the US and North Korea would have destroyed the world today. Hillary Clinton, on a visit to Asia, told reporters that the secretive regime "has no friends left" to block denuclearization, after earlier in the week comparing Kim Jong-Il's coterie to "small children and... More »

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Hillary Clinton • North Korea • diplomacy • Asia • secretary of State • Kim Jong Il • ASEAN • insult

Clinton Voices Concern Over Burma-N. Korea Arms Links

Secretary of state will push ASEAN for tough enforcement of N.Korea sanctions

Jul 21, 09 4:49 PM CDT
(Newser) - Hillary Clinton is concerned about possible military cooperation between Myanmar and North Korea, the New York Times reports. In Thailand on the eve of the ASEAN conference, the secretary of state told her hosts that their country would be particularly vulnerable to a pernicious relationship between the two dictatorships. Clinton... More »

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Hillary Clinton • North Korea • Thailand • nuclear weapons • Myanmar • Burma • ASEAN • arms trafficking

 Asian Leaders 
 Condemn Suu Kyi Trial 

Nobel Peace Prize-winners label pro-democracy leader's trial 'a mockery'

May 19, 09 6:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - The trial of Aung San Suu Kyi drew unusually strong condemnation from Asian leaders as it entered its second day today, the BBC reports. A statement from the ASEAN bloc urged Burma's ruling military junta to ensure the ailing 63-year-old was given proper medical care, repeated a call for her... More »

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trial • Myanmar • Burma • Aung San Suu Kyi • ASEAN • Nobel Peace Prize • John Yettaw

 Asia Unites 
 Against Swine 
 Flu Threat 

Health ministers from 13 countries pledge increased cooperation

May 8, 09 1:32 AM CDT
(Newser) - Health chiefs from 13 Asian countries met in Bangkok yesterday to hammer out a unified response to the H1N1 virus, Reuters reports. The ministers pledged to step up cross-border cooperation, establish joint response teams, and share essential supplies. A statement called for Asia to establish the capacity to produce vaccines,... More »

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China • Asia • public health • vaccine • outbreak • ASEAN • swine flu • H1N1 virus

(AP) - Anti-government protesters stormed a building where leaders of Asian nations were to meet today, prompting Thailand's government to cancel the summit and declare a state of emergency in the seaside city that was to host it. More than 1,000 protesters smashed through the convention center's glass doors and ran... More »

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Thailand • ASEAN • Abhisit Vejjajiva • Pattaya

 Thai Protesters Disrupt 
 Asian Summit 

Demonstrators want to show world the flaws in their government

Apr 10, 09 10:22 AM CDT
(Newser) - Hundreds of demonstrators in the Thai tourist town of Pattaya blocked the entrance to the building hosting an East Asian summit meeting today, giving foreign leaders a firsthand look at the country’s political schism. Economic concerns weighed heavily with the protesters, most supporters of ousted PM Thaksin Shinawatra; one... More »

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Thailand • Bangkok • Thaksin Shinawatra • ASEAN • protesters • summit meeting • financial crisis • Abhisit Vejjajiva

Opinion

 World Toes Junta's Line
 as Burmese Die 

Dictators don't want you to think about the victims, and media is helping

May 21, 08 2:47 PM CDT
(Newser) - The leaders of the Burmese junta don’t want you to think about the victims of Cyclone Nargis, writes Tom Jenkins for the Guardian, and the world and the media are only too happy to oblige. The Chinese government’s heroics in Asia's other natural disaster focuses attention on victims... More »

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China • dictatorship • Myanmar • Burma • junta • ASEAN • negligence • Cyclone Nargis • China earthquake

 Burma Relents
 on Foreign Docs,
 Aid Workers

But only from ASEAN member nations

May 19, 08 7:21 AM CDT
(Newser) - Two and a half weeks after cyclone Nargis hit, Burma finally agreed today to allow foreign medics and disaster experts into the battered country, reports the BBC—but only from ASEAN member nations. UN chief Ban Ki-Moon also plans to jet to Burma on Wednesday to bring additional pressure to... More »

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United Nations • aid workers • Myanmar • Yangon • ASEAN • Than Shwe • military junta • Save the Children • World Food Program • Cyclone Nargis • Irrawaddy Delta • Ban Ki-Moon

How the World Dropped the Ball on Burma

And how we can
pick it back up

Oct 7, 07 11:33 AM CDT
(Newser) - International policy on Myanmar is at an impasse because the world went two different ways on the military junta—the US chose isolation while its neighbors chose constructive engagement—and both strategies failed. The country has gone from “antidemocratic embarrassment and humanitarian disaster” to “serious threat” to security,... More »

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China • drugs • India • Japan • Myanmar • Burma • ASEAN • human trafficking

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