Word: burma
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Students from 56 universities across the nation will fast today to urge corporations and univerities to get rid of their financial holdings in Burma...
...working man's and woman's preferred intoxicant, gradually becoming more popular among Thailand's underclass than heroin and eventually replacing that opiate as the leading drug produced in the notorious Golden Triangle. While methamphetamines had previously been sold either in powdered or crystalline form, new labs in Burma and northern Thailand commoditized the methamphetamine business by pressing little tablets of the substance that now retail for about 50 baht ($1.20) each. At first, only bar girls like Jacky smoked the stuff. Then some of the younger guys who hung out with the girls tried it. And then...
...warehouses. "No one knows that this isn't an agricultural product," he smiles. "No one knows what methamphetamines look like." After Li's speed is processed it is handed over to local crime gangs, who ship it to Japan, Taiwan, Indonesia and Australia or take it overland into Burma to the Wa state, where the drugs are further refined into the tablets that are eventually smuggled into Thailand and sold, via numerous middlemen, to Jacky and her fellow addicts at the Do It Yourself Happy Homes. The pink pills that Jacky smokes are all stamped WY, the symbol...
...DIED. TIN OO, 67, Burmese army chief of staff who was the fourth most powerful member of the country's ruling junta, in a helicopter crash; near Pha-an, southeast Burma. A serving lieutenant general, Tin Oo was second secretary in the State Peace and Development Council, the 21-member group of army officers that took power in Burma in 1988 after crushing a pro-democracy uprising...
...China has held an allure for religious emissaries since Ricci in the 16th century, then today's Mecca is Yunnan province, which abuts Burma. It attracts Christian workers for its distance from the country's political medulla in Beijing, its poverty and its large number of isolated minority hill tribes. So many Christian families have located in Yunnan that they have set up a school for their kids. The Kunming International Academy, nestled against an apartment complex in Yunnan's capital, Kunming, began with two families in 1994 and now has 100 students from 18 countries. It is run like...