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News Summary:
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2. Thai PM
declares war on
3. Firms urged to
pull out of
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state media said.
The stance was taken by
State Councilor Tang Jaixuan
at a meeting with
Deputy Senior General
Maung Aye, the junta's visiting number-two leader, the
Xinhua news agency reported.
"The current domestic
situation in
affairs, and
isolation," Xinhua said,
quoting Tang, a former foreign minister.
The people of
relevant issues and push forward its internal preace process, Tang said.
leader Aung San Suu Kyi who was detained on May 30
following clashes between
her supporters and a junta-backed mob.
sharp criticism from the
The Chinese government
sees friendship with
strategic asset, offering the country its only direct
access to the Indian
Ocean.
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Thai PM declares
war on
bloody domestic war on drugs caused an outcry
from human rights groups, ordered
Thai soldiers on
Wednesday to kill
Thaksin's remarks
came a few hours after Thai troops killed seven and wounded
11 armed drug
traffickers believed to be from the United Wa State
Army -- an ally
of the
Thai soldiers said
they seized one million methamphetamine pills, but made
no arrests as the wounded traffickers managed
to cross the border into
Thaksin said the
incident demonstrated that the Wa were still in the
trafficking
business despite
"From now on
if their trafficking caravan enters our soil, we won't waste our time
arresting them, but will simply kill them,"
Thaksin told reporters.
"I instructed
the Foreign Ministry again to liaise with the
to regulate the Wa. But if they are too busy
or don't have time, we will handle
it ourselves," he said. The
on the head of Wa leader Wei
Hsueh-Kang.
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Firms urged to
pull out of Burma
BBC world News
Human rights
activists have added 11 large companies to their "dirty list"
of firms doing business in
In total the
demanding that they should pull out of
One firm on the
list, P&O Cruises, has now confirmed it is reconsidering whether
any of its cruise liners should continue
visits there.
Advertising giant
WPP has also said it is close to closing its offices in the country,
which it acquired following its recent takeover
of Cordiant.
And accountants
PricewaterhouseCoopers are also reported to be rethinking
their position on the issue.
Burma Campaign
helping to finance one of the most brutal regimes
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