World English News » Myanmar http://worldenglishnews.com International English Language News Articles and Blog Sat, 14 Apr 2012 17:17:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Myanmar releases political prisoners to gain US favor http://worldenglishnews.com/2012/01/15/myanmar-releases-political-prisoners-to-gain-us-favor/ http://worldenglishnews.com/2012/01/15/myanmar-releases-political-prisoners-to-gain-us-favor/#comments Sun, 15 Jan 2012 01:41:41 +0000 admin http://worldenglishnews.com/?p=1911 [Globe and Mail]-  Myanmar’s government sent a message of its desire to improve relations by releasing many of the country’s most well known political prisoners.  The hope is that the United States and the West will lift trade restrictions.  Over 600 people were freed.

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]]> http://worldenglishnews.com/2012/01/15/myanmar-releases-political-prisoners-to-gain-us-favor/feed/ 1 Senator Jim Webb secures release of John Yettaw from Burma http://worldenglishnews.com/2009/08/16/senator-jim-webb-secures-release-of-john-yettaw-from-burma/ http://worldenglishnews.com/2009/08/16/senator-jim-webb-secures-release-of-john-yettaw-from-burma/#comments Sun, 16 Aug 2009 16:16:53 +0000 admin http://worldenglishnews.com/?p=216 The US should abandon sanctions against Burma, a senior senator said today after flying out of Rangoon with the American man jailed for swimming to the house of the Burmese democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi.

Jim Webb was speaking in Bangkok after securing the release of John Yettaw, the eccentric American well-wisher whose clandestine visit to Ms Suu Kyi inadvertently led to her being given an additional 18 months of house arrest.

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