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...campus, the Burma Action Movement (BAM) released a statement yesterday calling upon the University to divest from Unocal...
Drawing upon sources as diverse as long-classified FBI records arid the Wellesley Magazine, Seagrave, a journalist who grew up on the China-Burma border, feverishly ransacks the past. He resurrects old Shanghai and recollects, in passing, such spicy background scenes as the sailors' prison in San Francisco, a "bin full of murderers, cutthroats, sodomists, and mutineers dredged from the leaky hulls that jammed the docks." He also does some riffs on Chinese secret societies, the erotic kinks of foot-bound "sing-song girls," and the power of opium in a culture in which at least one Chamber of Commerce...
...been a general rapprochement between New Delhi and Beijing since the 1980s, questions over the border continue to be an irritant. And in the future, the two nations' rapacious demand for energy will almost certainly involve them in contests for influence in such resource-rich states as Bangladesh and Burma...
...Have these two earthquakes finally relieved the region's tectonic stress? A: Don't bet on it. The area off the coast of Sumatra is a subduction zone, a highly unstable region where the India Plate, the Australia Plate, the Sunda Plate and the Burma Micro-Plate collide and dive beneath one another. Earthquakes tend to occur in clusters in subduction zones, and McCloskey says his initial findings indicate that the latest quake has accentuated the stress along the Sunda Trench fault for another 300 km south. The result is like the steady growth of a crack...
...Everyone knows there is no democracy there." NAZRI ABDUL AZIZ, Malaysia's Minister for Parliamentary Affairs, urging the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (asean) to block Burma's chairing of the group in 2006 unless it agrees to democratic reforms and releases opposition leader Aung...