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VIDEO: U.S. takes tentative steps to ease sanctions on Myanmar

In the wake of successful election in Myanmar over the weekend, the United States is taking action to relax some of the sanctions it has imposed on the country, also known as Burma, for more than two decades.

VIDEO: Bangkok residents evacuate as Thailand suffers from continued flooding

Thai election may bring political and economic stability

Secretary of State Clinton Announces Easing of Sanctions in Myanmar

Voices from Myanmar after the Election of Aung San Suu Kyi

Looking at the Future of US-Myanmar Relations

For years, relations between the U.S. and Myanmar have been frozen. Myanmar is one of the least developed countries in the world, with systematic human rights violations, rampant child labor, and a health care system that has been ranked by the World Health Organization as the worst in the world. But a historic visit by […]

Aung San Suu Kyi to Run for Parliament in Myanmar

A year after being released from two decades of house arrest, pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi announced she will return to politics and run for a seat in Myanmar’s Parliament. Her National League for Democracy party plans to contest all 48 vacant seats in Parliament. The NLD boycotted Myanmar’s last election, its first in […]

Bangkok braces for dangerous floods

In Thailand, flooding has plagued large areas of the country since July, and now it appears to be headed for the city of Bangkok. Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has issued an evacuation warning for suburbs of the area, which caused many citizens there to panic. Flood waters are flowing south toward Bangkok, and have already […]

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Asian Markets Get Boost from Thai Election

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The youngest sister of Thailand’s ousted former premier Thaksin Shinawatra is poised to become the country’s sixth leader in under five years. For more on Shinawatra’s political success, we speak with the two reporters.

Voices from Japan: ‘It’s Very Cold’

The BBC’s Rachel Harvey reports from tsunami-hit Ofunato, Japan, where survivors are picking through rubble, looking for anything that might be of value. Meanwhile, the cold weather is taking its toll on victims of the tsunami. Although many survivors have gone elsewhere to stay with friends or relatives, for those remaining, “it is a day […]