Word: burma
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...Middle East, making oil security a pressing concern in Beijing. China has begun building up a strategic oil reserve that it hopes to fill with at least 30 days' worth, and the country has several pipelines planned that would theoretically receive supplies from fields in Russia, Central Asia and Burma. But China's state-controlled oil industry, comprising three major companies?CNOOC, Sino-pec and China Nation-al Petroleum Corp. (CNPC)?as well as numerous overlapping bureaucracies, has yet to develop a clear, comprehensive energy policy...
...Whether dips in opium cultivation in key heroin-producing regions like the Golden Triangle - the region where Burma, Laos and Thailand meet, and traditionally Australia's main heroin source - also played a part wasn't looked at by the ANU study. But the federal government credits closer cooperation between Customs and federal police and a bigger a.f.p. presence overseas, as well as the simple size advantage Australia has over countries like the U.S. and Britain in coordinating its law-enforcement program. "In the U.S. they have 18,000 police forces; we have only nine," says Justice and Customs Minister Chris...
...interesting facts about an academic discipline (science, anthropology, history, semiotics) that most of his countrymen would have been loath to learn about if it were not sugar-coated in fiction. The Calcutta Chromosome was brimming with details about genetics and malaria; The Glass Palace explored the colonial history of Burma and India; and The Hungry Tide, Ghosh's latest novel, contains long digressions into cetology?the study of marine mammals...
...DIED. KYI MAUNG, 85, vice chairman and co-founder of Burma's National League for Democracy (NLD); in Rangoon. Kyi Maung led the NLD to a landslide victory in Burma's 1990 election after party head Aung San Suu Kyi was placed under house arrest?the ruling junta has never honored that electoral result. After the election, Kyi Maung, who had often been detained in the past, was sentenced to 20 years in jail but was released in 1995. He eventually fell out with Suu Kyi over how best to fight the junta...
...distance from the political leaders in Beijing has traditionally made it something of an outlaw province, home to dozens of minority groups and, in centuries past, feudal warlords who ruled with nearly absolute control. Today it is the gateway for heroin traffic that drifts into China from Burma, Vietnam and Laos...