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BURMA RELATED NEWS - January
12, 2002.
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HEADLINES
-------------------------------------------------------------------------- BBC - Burma announces nuclear
plans
AFP - Japanese PM agrees to increase
role in Myanmar reconciliation process
Reuters - Japanese PM arrives in
Indonesia, focus on trade
LATimes - Teacher Who Fled Myanmar
Wins Asylum
RS - Mission of Burma Fight
Again
Free RealTimes - Myanmar Trade Sector
Contributes 23.9 percent of GDP
Bkk Post - Wa use cars stolen from Malaysia
Bkk Post - Special allowance sought
for clash with Burmese
The Nation - Editorial - Thai- Burma:
all give and no talk
ST - Child prostitutes worry
Bangkok
-------------------------------------------------------------------------- BBC - Friday, 11
January, 2002, 15:07 GMT
Burma announces nuclear plans By BBC Burma analyst Larry Jagan in Bangkok
Burma has announced it plans to join the nuclear club.
The Burmese Foreign Minister, Win Aung, told the BBC his
country was committed to developing a nuclear research facility for medical
purposes and possibly to generate nuclear power.
But it would be some time before a nuclear reactor was
actually built in Burma he said.
In recent weeks there have been numerous reports that
Russia has signed a deal with Burma to supply a reactor.
The Burmese authorities have admitted more than 200
technicians have received nuclear training in Moscow in the last 12 months.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna
has officially asked Moscow to provide details of any deal they have done with
Rangoon.
Safety standards
Win Aung said no deal had yet been signed but initial
research had been done and Burma is keen to explore the use of nuclear energy.
He said many other countries in the world are using nuclear power.
Given Burma's chronic energy shortage, there is little
wonder they might want to experiment with nuclear power.
IAEA officials said Rangoon told them last September of
plans to acquire a nuclear research reactor and asked for help to secure one.
Two months later the IAEA sent an inspection team to Burma
to assess the country's preparedness to use and maintain a nuclear reactor
safely. The team concluded that the safety standards in place were well below
the minimum the body would regard as acceptable.
Burma has yet to respond to the IAEA report, but nuclear
officials in Vienna fear this means that Burma plans to proceed with their
nuclear ambitions without the necessary attention to safety.
Asian concern
But nuclear experts say that even if the military
government wanted to build a nuclear reactor, it is likely to be several years
before this happens.
In the meantime many countries, especially in the Asian
region, will be concerned about the prospect of a nuclear Burma.
Diplomats in Rangoon say authorities have trouble maintain
existing electricity generators let alone a nuclear reactor.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Friday January 11, 8:37 PM
Japanese PM agrees to increase role in Myanmar reconciliation process BANGKOK, Jan 11 (AFP) - Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi
has agreed that Japan would play a more active role in the reconciliation
process in Myanmar, officials said friday.
The agreement came during a meeting with his Thai
counterpart Thaksin Shinawatra, as part of a whirlwind tour of
Asia.
"Japan agreed in principle to be a core in creating
stability and reconciliation in Myanmar," Thai government spokesman Yongyuth
Tiyapairat said after the meeting.
The ruling State Peace and Development Council and Aung
San Suu Kyi's opposition party National League for Democracy (NLD) have been
involved in secret discussions on a democratization process since October 2000,
but analysts say the talks are more or less stalled.
"Japan and Thailand are going to consult and cooperate
more closely for the democratization in Myanmar," a senior Japanese government
official told reporters.
"Political stability and democratization in Myanmar should
be approached in tandem.
"Of course democratization is very important but political
stability is also a point that we have to take into account," he added on
condition of anonymity.
"The dialogue between the two parties in Myanmar is
developing for national reconciliation but it takes time," the official
said.
He added that Japan had recently resumed substantial
assistance to Myanmar in recognition of the development of a democratization
process.
The United States and the European Union have not given
any indication on an early lifting of their sanctions against
Myanmar.
Both are pressing for the ruling junta to release
political prisoners and allow freedom of movement for Aung San Suu Ky, who has
been under de facto house arrest since September 2000.
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Japanese PM arrives in Indonesia, focus on trade JAKARTA, Jan 12 (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro
Koizumi arrived in Indonesia on Saturday on the latest leg of a trip through
Southeast Asia to drum up support for his regional free-trade vision.
Koizumi will hold talks with President Megawati
Sukarnoputri later on Saturday that officials have said were also likely to
focus on aid for Indonesia, along with a debt rescheduling that has been taking
place under the Paris Club of official creditors.
Japan is Indonesia's biggest donor country and a vital
investor. It has staunchly backed the Southeast Asian giant, which has struggled
to regain its footing after plunging into chaos during the Asian financial
crisis of the late 1990s.
Officials said it was also likely the issue of terrorism
would be discussed.
Indonesia has come under the spotlight because of fears
the al Qaeda network of Saudi-born militant Osama bin Laden would exploit the
country's poverty and weak law enforcement to link up with local radical Muslim
groups, which form a small minority in the world's most populous Muslim nation.
Officials have not found any evidence of such ties.
During his regional trip, Koizumi has won support from
Thailand and the Philippines for a proposal to create an economic cooperative
"community" among the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) and Japan,
China and South Korea.
But Malaysia has stopped short of giving its backing to
the proposal, which may ultimately include Australia and New Zealand.
Koizumi's vision centres on a comprehensive economic
cooperation framework among Japan and ASEAN, centring on free-trade agreements
(FTAs), seen as Tokyo's bid not to lag behind China's burgeoning influence in
the region.
Koizumi has already clinched an FTA with Singapore, to be
signed on Sunday and the first such bilateral pact for Tokyo. The island state
will be the last leg of Koizumi's five-nation trip, where he will also outline
Japan's new Southeast Asia policy.
ASEAN comprises Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos,
Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.
China's regional influence is expected to strengthen now
that it has joined the World Trade Organisation and its economy continues to
boom while others in the region suffer.
China agreed with ASEAN to establish a free-trade area
within 10 years at an ASEAN+3 (Japan, South Korea and China) summit last
November, rattling Japan, which saw China stealing the initiative in a region it
long regarded as its backyard.
Unlike China, Japan has not set a timeframe for concluding
the free-trade zone with ASEAN.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Los Angeles Times
January 11, 2002 THE NATION Teacher Who Fled Myanmar Wins Asylum By LISA GETTER, TIMES STAFF WRITER WASHINGTON -- Sometime this weekend, Tialhei Zathang, a
math teacher who fled persecution in Myanmar for protection in the United
States, will tell his family the words they have waited more than three years to
hear: "We are free."
Zathang's tortuous journey through America's immigration
courts ended Monday, 1,130 days after it started, when the Board of Immigration
Appeals reversed an immigration judge's earlier decision and granted him
political asylum.
"I am very, very happy," Zathang said Thursday. "I feel
very, very, very good right now." The decision means he will finally be able to
start the paperwork to bring his wife and three children--now 7, 8 and 17--to
the United States. They have been in hiding in India since the family fled the
Burmese military in 1998.
Zathang claimed he had been persecuted in Myanmar, the
Southeast Asian nation formerly known as Burma, where human rights abuses are
rampant. He had been imprisoned and beaten as a practicing Christian in a
Buddhist country who fought for democracy. Myanmar has been under military rule
since 1962.
His asylum case was featured in a Times article last
spring as a window into the problems plaguing U.S. Immigration Court, where
justice can be arbitrary.
Although Congress defines the mission of the courts as the
"expeditious, fair and proper resolution of matters coming before immigration
judges," in reality the courts are backlogged. It is difficult to find competent
translators. Judges have enormous discretion to interpret the law, so that
decisions often turn on who the judge is, not the facts of the
case.
Immigration Judge Joan V. Churchill presided over
Zathang's asylum hearing in the summer of 1999. Churchill is the toughest judge
in the Washington area, granting asylum in about 10% of her cases. The national
average is about 14%.
Zathang said he and his family fled Myanmar in the middle
of the night on Feb. 27, 1998, after the wife of the village leader warned him
he was about to be arrested. The journey to India took 16 grueling days. But
Indian authorities had begun deporting illegal immigrants back to Myanmar, so
the family went into hiding.
Zathang said he purchased an Indian passport on the black
market and used it to get to the United States, where he sought
asylum.
His court case bogged down from the start. It took four
different court dates over three months before his hearing was
completed.
Immigration and Naturalization Service lawyers argued that
Zathang was not Burmese at all. They claimed he was Indian, citing as proof the
Indian passport he had used to enter the U.S.
Most asylum applicants have little evidence to back up
their stories. But Zathang's case was unusually strong.
A University of Illinois anthropology and linguistics
professor testified that he knew Zathang in Myanmar and that Zathang spoke a
dialect found only in the Chin state that he claimed as home. One of Zathang's
cousins, who had been granted asylum himself, testified that he too purchased an
Indian passport. An exiled member of the Burmese Parliament, who said he had
known Zathang for 20 years, verified his story.
And an Indian newspaper article described Zathang's flight
from Myanmar and said the police were "seeking him for
interrogation."
It took Churchill 13 months to issue her decision, even
though immigration judges are supposed to rule within 60 days after a hearing
ends. She rejected Zathang's claim, deciding that he had Indian nationality. She
said he could possibly have Burmese nationality as well, but since he had lived
safely in India before coming to America, he did not qualify for
asylum.
His lawyers appealed.
Zathang has been living with friends and relatives in
Maryland and Indiana since then.
In May, after the Times article appeared, the immigration
appeals board sent the case back to Churchill, asking her to review the tapes of
the hearing.
The board said it could not finish reviewing the case
because it found some of the tape-recordings to be inaudible. The only record of
an immigration court hearing is a tape-recording kept by the judge.
Churchill reviewed the transcript and sent the board an
addition to her earlier ruling. She stood by her earlier decision and said she
found it "quite preposterous" that Zathang, his wife and children had time to
flee their village in Myanmar while the military was in pursuit.
Zathang's lawyers, meanwhile, submitted additional
evidence to the INS that showed dual citizenship between India and Myanmar did
not exist.
INS attorneys in Washington finally conceded that Zathang
was indeed from Myanmar.
On Dec. 28, INS and Zathang's lawyers submitted a joint
motion to the appeals board that urged he be granted asylum.
The board ruled to grant the motion. Immigration judges
are banned from talking about their decisions. A court spokesman said Churchill
would not comment on the outcome of the appeal.
"I think the article had a big impact," said an elated
Jessica Attie, who represented Zathang while a student at Georgetown University
Law School. "Unfortunately, not every case gets its own article."
Zathang, 42, has been working 12-hour shifts at a factory
in Indianapolis, where he is living with five other Burmese refugees. His long
days and the time difference have made it tough for him to reach his wife. He
hopes to call her this weekend.
"I got asylum," he said he will say. "Don't worry about me
or you or the children. We are free."
-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rollingstone
Mission of Burma Fight Again TOM KIELTY (January 11, 2002) Boston band conducts reunion warm-up in front of hometown
crowd
After a nineteen-year break, post-punk pioneers Mission of
Burma will kick off a short stint of reunion shows at New York's Irving Plaza on
Saturday night. Last night, the band performed at Boston's cozy supper club 608
under the name "Myanmar" (the name the nation of Burma took on in 1989), and
that clue was more than enough to pack the place with the hometown faithful.
Other than an informal gathering with drummer Peter
Prescott's Peer Group in an opening stint for Wire in 2000, the band had not
played since their farewell tour in 1983, an exit hastened by guitarist Roger
Miller's severe tinnitus, a buzzing in the ear caused by exposure to loud noise.
On Tuesday night, in anticipation, MIT's radio station, WMBR, had broadcast a
live show taped in the school's cafeteria in 1982 and news coverage had run the
gamut from local remembrances to a caricature in The New Yorker.
"I'm flabbergasted -- that's the word," said bassist Clint
Conley, the author of Burma's two most widely recognized compositions, "That's
When I Reach for My Revolver" and "Academy Fight Song," following the band's
hour-plus "open rehearsal." "Everyone calls this 'inexplicable,' which is
perfect, but if there's a second word it's 'flabbergasted.'"
Taking the stage, the band looked healthy and well
preserved. A plexiglass baffle between drummer Prescott and Miller, along with
heavy duty protective headphones, seemed to give the guitarist a steadfast sense
of confidence as the band launched into the rhythm-heavy dissonance of
"Secrets." The capacity crowd stood seemingly awestruck as the band moved
gracefully into a jumping version of "That's How I Escaped My Certain Fate."
With a smile, Miller addressed the crowd.
"I never went to my high school reunion," he said, eyes
sweeping over a crowd that included Mighty, Mighty Bosstone Dickey Barrett,
former Weezer bassist Mikey Welsh and producer Paul Q. Kolderie (Radiohead,
Morphine, the Pixies). "I guess I'm making up for it now."
What the band also seemed intent on making up for was lost
time and its no-holds barred yet convincingly tight set was impressive. The new
Miller tune "Wounded World" proved that the band's standing with such one-time
peers as Gang of Four has not diminished, yet the ferocious snarl meets smart
melody of "Dirt" and "Dumbells" proved the band's original work timeless.
"There are some songs that sound very 1979 to me but I
wouldn't say too many in our set," Conley said. "They sound like something you
might hear now, and I'm very proud of that. I think we wrote some sturdy songs."
The percolating groove of "Max Ernst," with its inherent
melodicism dissolving into a cacophony of divergent tape loops, proved this
theory. If "Ernst" was the song that set the band's set on fire, the immediate
segue into "Academy Fight Song" poured on the fuel. The band's deftly confident
handling of the song brought smiles to the band's faces before "Fame and
Fortune" proved Mission of Burma have not lost an innate ability to maneuver
through hairpin turns into hair-raising sonics. The band left the stage
grinning, a loop of feedback still ringing above the assembled.
As Mission of Burma made their way back onstage for an
encore, they immediately picked up where "Fame and Fortune" had left off.
Stepping into the pounding "Battle of Johnny Burma," they built the song to a
peak before launching into "Revolver." With Conley's exquisite bass line
augmented perfectly by Miller's chiming guitar and Prescott's intuitive
percussion, the song sounded as though the band had secretly been playing it
every weekend since 1984.
"It's a thrill playing with those guys, absolutely a
thrill, and it was from the first rehearsal," Conley said with a warm smile
following the set. "When Peter and I were rehearsing alone, it was lacking some
magic, but once Roger came onboard it's been just great."
Few in attendance at 608 for Myanmar would disagree.
"Surreal" was the word shared backstage by Thalia Zedek, one-time frontwoman of
Boston's Come, and Mark Kates, former head of the Beastie Boys' Grand Royal
imprint and Burma's de facto manager for this stint of dates. Mission of Burma's
two New York dates (January 12th and 13th) this weekend are sold out and ticket
demand in Boston has been so great that in addition to scheduled shows at the
city's Avalon Ballroom (January 18th) and Paradise (January 19th), a second
matinee performance, dubbed "Brunch With Burma," has been added at the Paradise.
The band will conclude the reunion with April shows at the All Tomorrow's
Parties festival in the U.K.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Free Realtime
Myanmar Trade Sector Contributes 23.9 percent of GDP YANGON, Jan 12, 2002 (Xinhua via COMTEX) --
Lieutenant-General Khin Nyunt, first secretary of the Myanmar State Peace and
Development Council has disclosed that the country's trade sector contributes
23.9 percent of its Gross Domestic
Products (GDP). Khin Nyunt made the remarks at a work coordination meeting
of the Myanmar Ministry of Commerce here Friday afternoon, official newspaper
The New Light of Myanmar reported Saturday.
Measures are being taken to improve the trade sector so
that the contribution of the trade sector to GDP can grow by 11.9 percent during
the present five-year plan period and up to 24.5 percent in the 2005-2006
financial year, the last year of the plan, he said.
In six nations out of ASEAN members, the system concerning
the ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA) has been introduced, he added, disclosing that
by 2006, Myanmar will integrate itself into AFTA and reduce customs duties in
the trade sector among ASEAN members.
According to the statistics of the Ministry of Commerce,
the Myanmar's foreign trade volume in 1998-1999 fiscal year was over 3, 700
million U.S. dollars. The foreign trade volume during the period of nine months
at the end of the thirdquarter of the fiscal 2001-2002 was over 4,200 million
dollars.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bangkok Post - Jan 12,
2002.
Wa use cars stolen from
Malaysia
Thai criminals act as go-betweens
Wassana Nanuam, Subin Kheunkaew and Sermsuk
Kasitipradit
Thai criminals are selling hundreds of stolen Malaysian
vehicles to the United Wa State Army in Burma for use in drug
trafficking.
An army source said huge bribes were being paid to allow
the smuggling of hundreds of vehicles each year from Malaysia through Thailand
to the drug-producing army, known as the Red Wa.
Up to three stolen vehicles were being smuggled each day,
with the Red Wa paying 350,000 baht each for their preferred offroad
vehicles.
The source, from a special unit of the Third Army's 2nd
Cavalry Division based in Mae Ai district, said the Thai-run gang received the
vehicles after Malaysian officials were bribed.
The source said Malaysian thieves, and in some cases
crooked Malaysian police, drove the stolen vehicles to border checkpoints at
Sungai Kolok or Padang Besar.
The vehicles were issued with a border passage document
with corrupt Malaysian authorities collecting 100,000 baht as bribes, the source
said.
Thai gangsters picked up the vehicles, put fake Bangkok
number plates on them and produced bogus registration records. The vehicles were
then driven north.
The source said a Hat Yai man caught behind the wheel of
one of the vehicles in Chiang Mai's Fang district claimed uniformed Third and
Fourth Army soldiers were among those used as drivers.
The vehicles crossed into Wa-dominated Burmese territory
at the officially closed Doi Pa Mee border pass in Chiang Rai's Mae Sai
district.
Bribes of up to 80,000 baht were paid to soldiers and
border police to allow the vehicles through.
Lt-Gen Udomchai Ongkasingha, the Third Army commander,
ordered an inquiry into soldiers under his command suspected of being paid to
turn a blind eye to the smuggling.
Gen Surayud Chulanont, the army commander-in-chief, was
briefed and ordered an investigation into Fourth Army soldiers in the South
believed to be helping the gang.
The source said the gang's ring-leader was a Thai man
married to the daughter of a Red Wa officer who owned amphetamine pill
production bases in the Wa town of Muang Yon.
The source said stolen Malaysian vehicles were preferred
as Thai vehicles had traceable police records.
The source said the sale of the stolen vehicles to the Red
Wa posed a threat to national security as the vehicles were used to transport
and distribute drugs.
At least three stolen vehicles were smuggled into Thailand
each day.
The most sought-after vehicles were off-roaders and
preferred models were Toyota Landcruiser and Mercedes-Benz E-class.
``The Red Wa are filthy rich. They use money to talk ,''
the source said.
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January 12, 2002.
Special allowance sought for clash with Burmese Wassana Nanuam The army is seeking the defence minister's approval for a
special allowance for soldiers who fought Burmese troops in two clashes in
Chiang Rai last year.
An army source said the Third Army Region had proposed
payment of a special risk allowance for about 2,000 soldiers who clashed with
Burmese troops at Kuteng Nayong in Mae Sai district in February last year, and
at Khao Hua Lone hill in Mae Fa Luang district in May last year.
The proposal had gone to army chief Gen Surayud Chulanont,
and would be sent on to Defence Minister Gen Chavalit Yongchaiyudh, the source
said.
However, the source said Gen Chavalit might not back the
move for fear of upsetting closer ties between Thailand and Burma.
The border at Kuteng Nayong and Doi Lang in Chiang Mai had
been sealed by Thai and Burmese troops and the situation had
improved.
Gen Chavalit will meet Burma's ruling State Peace and
Development Council first secretary Lt-Gen Khin Nyunt at the opening of a
Thai-Burmese trade fair at Tachilek on Friday.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Nation
EDITORIAL: Thai- Burma: all give and no talk Published on Jan 12, 2002
If diplomacy is the art of bargaining, Thailand is quickly
becoming morally bankrupt in its dealings with the military government of Burma.
It wasn't so long ago when bilateral ties between the two neighbours had reached
one of its lowest points following cross-border shelling early last year. The
artillery clashes were followed by months of a war of words between the military
commanders of both sides who accused their counterparts of taking kickbacks from
drug lords and supporting insurgent groups operating along the
border.
Today, with the announcement of special GSP treatment for
Rangoon for more than 60 items, as well as investments in some agriculture
products to be purchased by Thailand, the leaders of both sides are all
smiles.
Moreover, there is also talk of funding a Bt20 million
model "drug-free village" in an area under the control of the United Wa State
Army, a pro-Rangoon outfit whom the Thai government and the international
community maintain is responsible for millions of methamphetamine tablets
flooding the country and tonnes of heroin on the streets of major cities world
wide. But since diplomacy is the art of give and take, the generosity on
Thailand's part begs the question as to what the Burmese are putting up. So far,
the answer from Rangoon is simple: nothing.
On the issue of refugees, Burma decided to pass up an
opportunity at the recently concluded Thai-Burmese Joint Commission meeting to
show Bangkok that they, too, can meet Thailand halfway. Instead, Rangoon
reiterated what they have been saying for decades - that they agree in principle
to take back all Burmese who are displaced by war and currently living on the
Thai soil but they must first agree on the definition of "displaced person".
On the issue of drugs, a top priority for this and
successive governments, Burma has made it clear that Thailand doesn't have much
choice but to handle the demand side of the equation. In other words, Thailand's
bad habit is not Burma's top priority.
The message from the Burmese Foreign Minister Win Aung is
that Burma does not have a drug problem. It's the consumers and pushers in the
streets of Bangkok and other Thai cities who have the problem. And if Thailand
wants to change, it is going to have to do something about the demand side of
the equation.
The minister has ruled out military options to dismantle
the 20,000-strong United Wa State Army, dubbed the world's largest armed drug
trafficking group.
The Wa army, as well as similar outfits, operates
independently from Rangoon. Many set up clandestine labs just a stone's throw
away from the Thai border.
A year ago when he came into office, Prime Minister
Thaksin Shinawatra was determined to make a name for himself. Like others before
him, he rode on the back of the methamphetamine problem. An entire "who's who"
from all government agencies in the anti-narcotic business were summoned to
Chiang Mai for a high-profile meeting.
The gathering was a rude awakening for the Burmese as all
fingers were pointed at them. The question of the day was what was Rangoon going
to do to curb the illicit activities of the Wa, who had entered a cease-fire
agreement with the junta in 1989.
Today, instead of holding Rangoon accountable for the
criminal acts of these drug lords, the Thaksin government has reached out to the
Wa in a very unprecedented manner. They call it "a goodwill gesture". Many think
this "gesture" will free Rangoon from any arrangement in which they, too, would
have to be accountable for the Wa's crimes.
For now, it appears that both sides are letting bygones be
bygones. But will it last?
-------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Straits Times - January
12, 2002.
Child prostitutes worry Bangkok MAE SOT (Thailand) - Thailand must deport child
prostitutes and beggars who come from Myanmar because foreigners were getting
the false impression that they were Thais, the Thai national police chief has
said.
'In fact, when we check in detail we come to know that
these children are from Myanmar. All the authorities must cooperate to eradicate
these bad things from our country,' Police General Sant Sarutanond told
reporters on a trip to the Thai-Myanmar border.
Gen Sant, who spoke in the town of Mae Sot, 370 km
north-west of Bangkok along the border with Myanmar, appeared to be rebutting a
UN report which named Thailand as a centre for prostitution and child
labour.
Last month, a United Nations Children's Fund report
estimated that there were hundreds of thousands of children involved in the sex
trade in Thailand.
The Thai government says those figures are greatly
exaggerated, and puts the total at 12,000 to 18,000.
Gen Sant also told local police and immigration officials
that Thai officials were involved in the trafficking of Myanmar migrants, and
allow them to travel to areas of the country where they were not allowed.
There are about 500,000 registered Myanmar migrant workers
in Thailand, but many others work illegally, providing cheap labour for
factories and farms.
Increasingly, girls from Myanmar and other poor countries
in South-east Asia are being trafficked into Thailand's burgeoning sex
industry.
At a meeting of the Thai and Myanmar foreign ministers
this week, Yangon agreed in principle to take back illegal Myanmar migrant
workers deported from Thailand. --AP
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