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...missing and 20,000 injured. The extent of its destruction is devastating - to the tune of some $4 billion. Despite this, there was not even one small picture of this sorrowful event to be found in TIME's year-end issue. Did the victims not deserve recognition? K.N. Thein, Rangoon...
...Speculated year that the Crab Rangoon was introduced to America at the St. Louis World’s Fair...
...arrest 19 years ago by Burma's military regime. "I will keep fighting for the emergence of democracy in this country," proclaimed the 79-year-old former journalist, still wearing his blue prison uniform as he spoke to reporters outside the home of a friend in Rangoon...
...plight receives immeasurably more international attention than it did 20 years ago. U.S. President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush met with Burmese activists and visited refugees during their stopover in Thailand en route to the Beijing Olympics, while the U.N. has dispatched two special envoys to Rangoon this month. Yet ordinary Burmese have less faith than ever that global diplomacy will improve their lives. Last September's protests taught them there are limits to what the world is willing or able...
...Seoul, Bush had met with President Lee Myung-bak to plot what he hopes will be the next phase in North Korea's slow motion nuclear disarmament. In Bangkok, he dutifully praised southeast Asia's economic progress, then slammed both the Rangoon regime's human rights record and that of his soon to be hosts, the Chinese. The U.S., he said, has "deep concerns over religious freedom and human rights. The United States believes the people of China deserve the fundamental liberty that is the natural right of all human beings...