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...million Value of gifts, according to one estimate, at the lavish wedding of the daughter of Burmese junta leader General Than Shwe, a leaked video of which was released last week $18 million Estimate of Burma's total annual health-care budget in 2003, the latest reliable data available. The country of 53 million people is one of the poorest in the world...
...DIED. Thet Win Aung, 34, Burmese activist sentenced to 59 years in jail in 1998 for organizing protests demanding education reform; of unconfirmed causes; in Mandalay. While officials for Burma's military dictatorship said that Thet Win Aung had died of heart failure, human-rights groups alleged that his health had deteriorated as a result of torture and neglect, and demanded an independent investigation into his death...
...oral rehydration for pediatricians, hospital staff, pharmacists and - most importantly - health workers and volunteers in tiny, remote villages. The country has also developed a system to track outbreaks so that doctors and scientists can work to prevent repeats. That's in contrast to most of Africa and to neighboring Burma, Cambodia and Laos, which Wandee says resist public counts of diarrhea cases lest they put off foreign investors and tourists. "If the governments do their job and allow ngos to reach down to the community level," Wandee says, "we could save more people. We could prevent 2 million deaths...
...money in anti-trafficking and child protection training for Cambodian officials. But the stick came in 2005 when the U.S. State Department, fed up with the impunity enjoyed by traffickers here, relegated Cambodia to it lowest tier 3 rating on its global trafficking report. Cambodia was lumped in with Burma, Cuba and North Korea, and Washington threatened sanctions against Phnom Penh for its inability to comply with "minimum standards" to combat human trafficking and convict officials involved...
...That soldiers now run Thailand?and are powerful political players in Indonesia and the Philippines?doesn't prove (as Burma's generals might gloat) that democracy is dead, but that many Asian democracies are immature and fragile, with political systems incapable of guaranteeing smooth and legitimate transfers of power. Even if General Sonthi keeps his promise and returns power to civilian hands, the damage is done. Neither the dictatorial style of Thaksin's rule, nor the manner of his departure, are worth celebration. Sukma believes the Thai coup will embolden "antidemocratic forces" across the region. "They are all laughing...