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...Aung San Suu Kyi on Saturday could presage the same for the Nobel Peace Prize winner from her latest period of house arrest. It's happened before, when both were released within weeks of each other in 1995. But it does not signal any move on the part of Burma's ruling generals to reconcile with their democratic opponents before elections slated for later this year, analysts and party members said...
...helping to document unseen corners of Asia - and define a new generation of filmmakers. First there's Beijing's Zhao Liang, who used a decade of handheld shooting to create Petition, which chronicles the Kafkaesque torment of Chinese citizens seeking official redress for endlessly unanswered grievances. Then there's Burma VJ, the Danish director Anders ?stergaard's dazzling pastiche - marred at times by dull dramatic reconstructions - of material shot at great risk by underground videographers from Burma's democracy movement...
...harassment led Gao's teenage daughter to attempt suicide, his family decided to flee. Gao's wife Geng He took their daughter and infant son and slipped away from their official minders in Beijing. They traveled south, aided by a network of Falun Gong practitioners, and eventually crossed into Burma and then Thailand. Two months later they reached the U.S., where they were given political asylum. On the first anniversary of Gao's disappearance, Geng demanded that the Chinese government produce her husband. So far her cries have been met with disdain. A police officer told Gao's brother...
...annual defense budget officially stands at $70 billion, although the Pentagon believes the real figure to be twice as high. Rather, Beijing sees the embargo as outdated and insulting, considering the other nations currently subject to an E.U. arms ban are all pariah states - Congo, North Korea, Iran, Burma, Somalia, Sudan and Zimbabwe. (A similar E.U. embargo against Uzbekistan was lifted in October, despite continuing concerns about human rights in the Central Asian nation...
...Price, who has written a book on the use of anthropology during World War II, the majority of American anthropologists were actively involved in the Allied war effort. One British anthropologist, Edmund Leach, even led a team of ruthless Kachin fighters - the indigenous group he was studying in Burma - against the nation's Japanese occupiers...