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...matter where they occur. More than two dozen cases have been filed against firms doing business in developing countries, although to date no judgments have been awarded. Corporations doing business in Burma have come under particular pressure because of protests by the country's Nobel prizewinning opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, who is under house arrest. Most U.S. companies heeded her call in the 1990s to sever ties with Burma because foreign investment lends legitimacy and economic support to the junta. In 1997, Congress outlawed all new U.S. investment there, and President Bush imposed further sanctions this summer. Many...
...This is a mutually agreed security arrangement." Than Tun, Burmese Defense Ministry spokesman, defending the house arrest of dissident Aung...
...Mamie M. Thant ’04 said that the museum’s sponsorship of the trip suggests that the University condones the behavior of the Burmese government, which she says has committed a host of human rights abuses and prevented the democratically-elected Nobel Prize Winner Daw Aung San Suu Kyi from taking office...
...RETURNED HOME. Aung San Suu Kyi, 58, Burmese opposition leader; from a hospital stay and four months detention in an undisclosed location by Burma's military government; in Rangoon. Following a three-hour operation for a gynecological condition, the democracy advocate and Nobel Peace Prize winner returned to her lakeside home, where she reportedly will be kept under house arrest. After arriving there, she released her first public statement since her entourage was attacked by a pro-government mob in May: "I thank you for your warm concern and am confident that you have equal concern for my supporters...
...RECOVERING. Aung San Suu Kyi, 58, detained Burmese Nobel Peace Prize laureate, from major surgery; in a private hospital in Rangoon. The Oxford-educated Suu Kyi has been held incommunicado by Burma's military government since a mob attacked her and a group of supporters four months...