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		<title>Strategic power play in Myanmar</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 05:53:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The US Secretary of State Ms Hilary Clinton’s recent visit to Myanmar, the first ever of its kind in the last five decades, is likely to be a turning point in the estranged relationship between the two countries. And that could bring the US-China power play closer home to Myanmar.
Myanmar President Thein Sein had been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Opening-up of Myanmar</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 04:26:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The three-day (Nov.30—Dec 2, 2011) visit of Hillary Clinton, US Secretary of State, to Myanmar&#8212; the first by a US Secretary of State since the visit of Johan Foster Dulles in 1955&#8212; indicated the growing self-confidence of President Thein Sein that the cautious policy of domestic reforms and external opening-up initiated by him had the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Myanmar – A New Player in the Region</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 04:39:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Myanmar is moving at an unbelievable pace to shed its unsavoury reputation of a ruthless military dictatorship towards a democracy ready to take over a new political and economic stand in the South East Asia.
On November 15, Foreign Ministers of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) gathered in Bali, Indonasia approved Myanmar’s bid [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Myanmar: Fast forward to democracy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 05:28:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The decision of the opposition National League for Democracy (NLD) to register as a “legitimate” political party may well become a turning point in Myanmar’s history. The NLD under the leadership of Aung San Suu Kyi had been at the vanguard of peoples struggle for democratic reforms during the last two and a half decades. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aung San Suu Kyi: Change in Tactics or Colours?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2011 05:11:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Slowly and steadily, the Army-propped civilian regime in Myanmar headed by President TheinSein and Aung San SuuKyi, the democracy icon, are coming to terms with each other to avoid a confrontation and to pave the way for a Government, which would enjoy her support from outside, if not association, and thereby enjoy a greater credibility [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Myanmar’s chances for ASEAN chairmanship brighten</title>
		<link>http://www.c3sindia.org/eastasia/2638</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 10:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Myanmar President Thein Sein must be rejoicing at the visiting Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa’s comment that political reforms in Myanmar looked &#8220;irreversible.&#8221; Reuters quoted the Indonesian Minister as saying, “I wish to believe and I get the sense that they are meant to be irreversible. I did not get any indication that the process [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making India-Myanmar relations meaningful</title>
		<link>http://www.c3sindia.org/eastasia/2636</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Oct 2011 06:42:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pramila</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Myanmar Preident Thein Sein’s  visit to India from October 12th to 15th had only limited visibility in Indian media that has become characteristic  of  news relating to Myanmar.  Unlike the earlier visits of Myanmar’s heads of state, Thein Sein’s visit is of special interest on two counts – the changing political environment in Myanmar and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rectification of Past: Myanmar Govt Takes First Hesitant Steps</title>
		<link>http://www.c3sindia.org/eastasia/2614</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 06:11:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an attempt to rectify the anti-democratic policies  and human rights violations of the past by the military junta that ruled the country for 23 years till a few months ago, the Government of President TheinSein, a military strongman-turned civilian to head an ostensibly civilian Government, has started releasing from October 12,2011,  political prisoners who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>August Breeze in Myanmar</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 06:02:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[August, 2011 may become a watershed mark in Myanmar’s recent political history. ‘May’, because, what started in this particular month has surprised the international community, especially the US and the West. The changes towards democracy still appears to many as too good to be true, and every step taken is reversible. The shifts have also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Myanmar-China relation entering a tricky phase?</title>
		<link>http://www.c3sindia.org/eastasia/2606</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 05:10:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Myanmar’s recent decision to suspend the construction of the Chinese-aided Irrawaddy Myitsone hydroelectric dam project in Kachin State comes as a pleasant surprise, whatever be the reasons behind the Myanmar decision.
However, the moot point is, whether the three-decade old relationship carefully nurtured by both sides is entering a new tricky phase?
China’s immediate reaction to the [...]]]></description>
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