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Southeast Asia gets Trump's attention
Associated Press, Published on 21/04/2017
» JAKARTA - Southeast Asia, a focus of past US presidents, has been overlooked thus far for the Trump administration, but Vice President Mike Pence's visit to Indonesia Thursday marked a sign of change and he announced the president would follow him to the region later this year.
More than 2,000 fishermen rescued
Associated Press, Published on 18/09/2015
» More than 2,000 fishermen have been rescued this year from brutal conditions at sea, their freedom prompted by an Associated Press investigation into seafood brought to the US from a slave island in eastern Indonesia.
Myanmar factions find common cause in fighting malaria
Associated Press, Published on 06/08/2015
» WASHINGTON — Setting aside decades of animosity and suspicion, senior Myanmar government and military officials have held unprecedented discussions with representatives of the main opposition party and ethnic minorities here on fighting a common enemy -- malaria.
Rising drug trade threatens Myanmar's aspirations
Associated Press, Published on 25/03/2013
» THON MIN YAR, Myanmar - Deep in the lawless mountains of the Golden Triangle, sloping fields of illegal poppies have just been scraped dry for opium. This is the peak season for producing drugs here, and in Myanmar's nascent era of democratic change, the haul has only gotten bigger.