- Thursday, May 9, 2013, 15:40
- News, Uncategorized
INDONESIAN police have shot dead seven terror suspects in raids over the past two days, including several with alleged links to a plot to bomb the Myanmar embassy, officials have said.
Thirteen suspects were captured alive as an elite police unit swooped on houses across the country's main island of Java, in the biggest counter-terrorism operation in Indonesia for months.
As well as investigating links to the ...
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- Thursday, May 9, 2013, 15:29
- News
David Scott Mathieson
The civil war in Burma goes on. But the government seems powerless to stop it.
RANGOON, Burma — Here in Rangoon, the never-ending visits of trade delegations, a flurry of bilateral meetings, and a rampant real estate boom still buoy Western optimism about the reforms undertaken by the Burmese government. Out in the countryside, though, the sense of feverish optimism has been dampened ...
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