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Best Western to open first hotel in Burma
Wed 22 May 2013
Tags Middle EastYangonAung San Suu KyiMyanmarAsia Best Western International has announced plans to open its first hotel in Burma. The hotel chain has signed a deal to take over management of the... (photo: WN / Sayali Santosh Kadam)

The Asian black bear (Ursus thibetanus) is a medium-sized species of bear largely adapted for arboreal life. It is distributed through much of southern Asia, northeastern China, far eastern Russia and Japan.

Bear Bile Chengdu China Photos Wikipedia: Guizhentang Pharmaceutical company

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A Chinese Folk Remedy Draws Charges of Cruelty From Bear Advocates
Wed 22 May 2013
CHENGDU, China — It was, at first glance, a rather modest initial public offering by a small Chinese company seeking to expand production of the key ingredient used in traditional remedies said to... (photo: Creative Commons / Abu0804)

President Barack Obama meets with Senate Minority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., in the Oval Office, Aug. 4, 2010.

The Washington Times Tue 21 May 2013
McConnell calls for end of import sanctions on Myanmar
Facebook Follow @washtimes Do you believe Jay Carney's assertion that aides insulated President Obama from the IRS scandal? Login to Vote View results Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell on... (photo: Public Domain / The White House from Washington, DC)
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Top 10 places off the beaten track
The members and editors of VirtualTourist.com have selected their "Top 10 Places off the beaten path". Reuters has not endorsed this list. 1. Chile Stretching 4270 km along the Pacific Ocean, Chile's... (photo: WN / RTayco)
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Golkar party Chairman Jusuf Kalla, who is also Indonesian vice president, delivers a speech during the special meeting of the party leaders in Jakarta, Indonesia, Thursday, April 23, 2009.

Jakarta Post Tue 21 May 2013
Jusuf Kalla re-elected to lead CAPDI
Former vice president Jusuf Kalla was re-elected as chairman of the Centrist Asia Pacific Democrats International (CAPDI) for a third time at the second CAPDI... (photo: AP / Achmad Ibrahim)
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Myanmar Prime Minister Thein Sein attends the ASEAN meeting with Southeast Asian business leaders during the 13th ASEAN Summit in Singapore on Tuesday November 20, 2007.

my SA Sat 18 May 2013
Myanmar leader to meet Obama but stalls on reforms
WASHINGTON (AP) — Myanmar President Thein Sein's historic White House visit next week is the culmination of U.S. outreach to a former pariah regime. That's been based on... (photo: (AP Photo/Romeo GACAD, POOL) / )
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Myanmar's President Thein Sein, left, shakes hands with Australian opposition leader Tony Abbott as they meet at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, Monday, March 18, 2013.

BBC News Fri 17 May 2013
Burma's Thein Sein heads to US for first state visit
Burma's President Thein Sein is heading to the US and will meet President Obama on Monday - in the first state visit by a Burmese leader since 1966. More than 20... (photo: AP / Mark Graham)
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Myanmar political prisoners who were released from Insein prison stand outside the gate of the facility Friday, May 17, 2013 in Yangon, Myanmar.

Huffington Post Fri 17 May 2013
Myanmar Pardons At Least 20 Political Prisoners Ahead Of U.S. State Visit
YANGON, Myanmar -- Myanmar's president pardoned at least 20 political prisoners on Friday, just ahead of an historic state visit to the United States that will highlight... (photo: AP / Khin Maung Win)
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Thein Sein, President of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar addresses the general debate of the sixty-seventh session of the General Assembly.

The Guardian Fri 17 May 2013
Myanmar leader frees prisoners ahead of US visit
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Myanmar's president has pardoned political prisoners just ahead of a state visit to the United States, maintaining the momentum of warming ties... (photo: UN / Jennifer S Altman)
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File- Japanese Emperor Akihito, left, speaks with Japanese scientist Sinya Yamanaka of Kyoto University during the annual spring garden party hosted by the emperor and empress in Tokyo Caption here in Tokyo, Japan, Thursday, April 16, 2009. Standing from left are: Osaka Prefectural Gov. Toru Hashimoto and his wife, Noriko, Jaapanese actress Kaori Momoi.

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Myanmar's President Thein Sein stands near his nation's flag before speaking to the media after a meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda, not pictured, held on the sidelines of the Mekong-Japan Summit at the State Guest House in Tokyo on Saturday, April 21, 2012.

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Muslim refugees gather at Thechaung camp refugee camp upon arrival in Sittwe, Rakhine State, western Myanmar, Sunday, Oct. 28, 2012. Boats carrying some of those fleeing arrived outside the state capital, Sittwe. They trudged to the nearby Thechaung camp, a place already home to thousands of Rohingya Muslims who took refuge there after a previous wave of violence in June.

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ARCHIV: Die Friedensnobelpreistraegerin Aung San Suu Kyi steht in Yangon, Myanmar, zwischen Unterstuetzern (Foto vom 04.01.12).

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Secretary-General Ban Ki moon visits a Drug Alternative Development Project (UNODC and Government) in Kyauk Ka Char (Hopong township, Shan State) , Myanmar. April 30 2012 -Upon landing, the Secretary-General and Mrs. Ban will be greeted by local ethnic/village leaders, and by other officials from Naypyitaw who will be part of an advance team. -The delegation will travel by car for 3-4 mins to a constructed meeting location outdoor. -Pol. Col. Tin Maung Maung, Joint Secretary of the Central Committee for Drug Abuse Control (CCDAC), will deliver on behalf of the government a 10 min presentation on the area, with specific reference to the issues of opium poppy cultivation, eradication, poverty, food insecurity and the link between these and the current cease-fire agreements in Shan. -Mr. Gary Lewis, UNODC Regional Representative Regional Centre for East Asia and the Pacific, and Mr. Jason Eligh, UNODC Country Manager will make a 10 min presentation on what the UN, as represented by UNODC and WFP 'delivering as one' on the ground, do to address these problems and support Myanmar in contributing to the peace-building process in this region. -The Secretary-General will be invited to deliver brief remarks -Local villagers come forward to meet the Secretary-General and Mrs. Ban and interact with them for approx. 10 min.

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