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ASEAN lawmakers comment on Myanmar crisis
Bangkok, Thailand - 28 September 2007
1. Wide of press conference at Foreign Correspondent's Club of Thailand
2. Slide show of photos from Yangon
3. Cameraman filming
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Zaid Ibrahim, Malaysian MP:
"I think the...
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US President meets with Thai PM, joint presser
1. Thai Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej and US President George W. Bush walk into room, Bush takes seat to sign book
2. Close-up of Bush signing, tilt up to face
3. Samak watching
4. Samak and Bush shake hands and leave room
5. Samak...
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Malaysia - Albright meets Chinese FM Qian Qichen
US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright met Chinese Foreign
Minister Qian Qichen on Saturday (26/07) as ASEAN foreign
ministers gathered for an international security forum.
WS exterior hotel,
Man walking past flags;
US Secretary of...
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Democracy icon meets Pope, Italian president and prime minister
Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar's Nobel Peace Prize laureate and long-time political prisoner, met with Pope Francis at the Vatican on Monday.
Myanmar's opposition leader leaned over and kissed the Pope's hands on meeting him. The two then...
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US President arrives in Myanmar; news conference with Aung San Suu Kyi
US President Barack Obama gave a blunt assessment on Friday of the need for further reform in Myanmar's move toward democracy, weighing into sensitive controversies over the treatment of religious minorities and a prohibition keeping...
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Philippines- Albright denounces Burmese government
US Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, on Monday (27/07) slammed Burma's ruling military Junta over its treatment of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Speaking at the ASEAN summit in Manila, Albright said that she deplored "Burma's...
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Myanmar opposition leader in Japan; delivers speech at Tokyo university
1. Wide of Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi walking onto stage
2. Cutaway of audience
3. Wide of Suu Kyi walking towards podium
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar opposition leader:
"We have started out on the...
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Myanmar government ends direct media censorship; journalists react
The government of Myanmar abolished direct censorship of the media on Monday in the most dramatic move yet toward allowing freedom of expression in the long-repressed nation.
But related laws and practices that may lead to...
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PHILIPPINES: FREE BURMA COALITION MEMBERS DEMONSTRATION
English/Nat
A group of Filipinos have protested against the Burmese government for the recent crackdown on pro-democracy activists in Burma.
At a demonstration in Manila, members of an organization called Free Burma Coalition urged that...
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WRAP British FM comments on Myanmar and Darfur
1. Wide of UK Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett walking into news conference
2. Cutaway to mid of reporters
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Margaret Beckett, UK Foreign Secretary:
"What we would very much like the Chinese government to do is to...
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Burma - Suu Kyi House Arrest Continues
Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi remained under house arrest on
Thursday (19/1) despite the expiration of the period of her
detention set by Burma's military junta. The junta has confined
the Nobel Peace Prize winner to her lakeside...
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USA: US GOVERNMENT CONSIDERS IMPOSING SANCTIONS ON BURMA
English/Nat
The U-S is exploring whether to impose sanctions against Burma.
But before going that far, the White House wants to join Asian nations in pressing the Burmese government to reform.
U-S concern has been especially aroused by...
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President Obama is praising Myanmar's transition to democracy. The President held a news conference on Friday with Aung San Suu Kyi, an opposition leader in Myanmar who spent years as a political prisoner. (Nov. 14)
President Obama hailed Myanmar's transition to democracy in Yangon. The President held a news conference with Aung San Suu Kyi, a pro-democracy activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner who is now an opposition leader in Myanmar.
President...
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US SPECIAL ENVOY FOR NKOREAN HUMAN RIGHTS IN GROUP INTERVIEW
The US envoy on North Korean human rights issues said the reforms unfolding in Myanmar are a great example for North Korea to follow.
Robert King told reporters in Tokyo on Friday that if North Korea took similar steps to open up, the...
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USA: US SECRETARY OF STATE MADELEINE ALBRIGHT PRESS CONFERENCE
English/Nat
U-S Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has accused Burma's military government of repression on a large scale.
Speaking in Washington on Tuesday, Albright announced that the Clinton administration is banning new U-S...
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Myanmar tells UN it will free political prisoners, reax
AP Television
FILE: date unknown
1. Wide of United Nations headquarters
13 July 2008
2. Wide of Security Council room
3. Wide of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon sitting down
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, United Nations...
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BURMA: GOVERNMENT TERROR CONTINUES DESPITE ASEAN MEMBERSHIP (2)
Karen State, Burma - July 1997 and Bangkok, Thailand. September 17 1997 and file
1. Refugees come down slope, carrying goods
2. Children struggle through jungle
3. Refugees in jungle - rear view
4. People in village
5. Refugees walk...
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Rights group on continued detention of Suu Kyi
Los Angeles, USA - 27 May 2006
1. Medium shot of Sam Zarisfi, Research Director for Asian Division of Human Rights Watch at his computer
2. Close-up of hands typing
3. Close-up of computer screen showing Aung San Suu Kyi
4. SOUNDBITE:...
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BURMA:TOURISM CAMPAIGN
1. Shwedagon Pagoda Ceremony, Rangoon.
2. Reverse shot of the ceremony.
3. Dome of the Pagoda.
4. General Shot of Pagoda.
5. Burmese citizens in costumes, walking past Pagoda.
6. SOUNDBITE: U Tin Htay, Director of Tourism,...
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MYANMAR OPPOSITION LEADER AUG SAN SUU KYI SPEAKS TO ECONOMIC FORUM
Myanmar opposition leader and former political prisoner Aung San Suu Kyi spelt our her reform agenda at the World Economic Forum in Bangkok on Friday.
Suu Kyi noted that Myanmar (also known as Burma) is still in the very early phases of...
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Met dept warned Myanmar about Cyclone 36 hours before landfall official says
1. Computer screen showing the satellite picture of cyclonic formation as taken on May 01, at 1130 hrs Indian Standard Time (IST)
2. Computer screen showing satellite picture as taken on May 01, at 1930 hrs (IST)
3. Computer screen...
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WRAP Gates with Teodoro, on Myanmar ADDS Japan and China
1. Wide of meeting room
2. Mid of US Secretary of Defence Robert Gates sitting with another conference official
3. Gates at podium
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Robert Gates, US Secretary of Defence:
"With Burma the situation has been very...
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HRW accuses Myanmar government of taking sides in ethnic conflict
As a top UN official envoy toured the scene of recent vicious inter-communal fighting in Myanmar on Wednesday, a New York-based human rights group released a report accusing government security forces there of having taken sides in the...
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Australia - Albright and Cohen meet with Downer
US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and US Defence Secretary William Cohen met with Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer on Friday (31/7) to discuss regional problems and the situation in Burma.
Police car leading convoy...