Word: burma
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...which is what kills people." The study's results still need to be replicated in African children, by far the worst victims of the disease; it's possible they will react differently than the subjects in the Wellcome Trust trials, which took place in India, Bangladesh, Indonesia and Burma. In addition, the Chinese companies that manufacture the injectable version of the drug haven't yet received full approval from the WHO. When they do, the world will have a formidable weapon against an ages-old scourge...
...climate was close to impossible to work in, and that was a climate created by the junta." CHRIS BEYER, AIDS expert at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, on the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria's decision to cancel its program in Burma due to new travel restrictions on humanitarian workers...
...BEAR Weight: 60 to 145 lbs. Length: Up to 5 ft. Range: India, Burma, Laos, southern China, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia How dangerous: Quite. Will attack humans without provocation Status: Unknown, because of insufficient field data. Poaching and habitat destruction have conservation experts worried...
...TRIAL. KHIN NYUNT, 65, former Burmese Prime Minister; on charges of corruption and bribery; in a secret tribunal at the infamous Insein prison; in Rangoon. Once considered a comparatively moderate member of Burma's ruling military junta, Khin Nyunt has been under house arrest since being purged in October by Senior General Than Shwe. If convicted, he is expected to receive a long prison sentence; his two sons have already been tried and found guilty on similar charges...
...Reilly, however, was not dissuaded. He wanted to expand Chevron's footprint in Asia. Unocal owns valuable production and distribution facilities and has a stake in oil and gas reserves in Thailand, Indonesia and Burma. On Feb. 7, Williamson told O'Reilly that he had been approached by others?Italy's Eni, a partly state-owned oil and gas company, had also expressed interest at this point?and that Unocal's board would evaluate any and all offers. That's what O'Reilly had wanted to hear: Unocal was now officially in play...