Talks are apparently taking place in China between the KIA and the Burmese government.
Burmese President Thein Sein has urged Western countries to scrap all sanctions against his country.
Yet it would also remove the only credible interlocutors available to China and the Burmese junta.
So did Fort Wayne Mayor Tom Henry, whose city is home to a sizeable Burmese population.
That production used smuggled footage to capture the 2007 Saffron uprising led by Burmese monks.
Officials told the BBC Burmese service that three wagons overturned and burst into flames.
Keeping the Burmese army tolerating, if not necessarily backing, political reform is a delicate balancing act.
The mine at Monywa is jointly owned by a Chinese company and the Burmese military.
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No one from the Burmese government was available to comment immediately on the report.
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Movers have crated the Ming dynasty furniture and sculpture and the Thai and Burmese Buddhas.
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Under current Burmese law Aung San Suu Kyi cannot become president because of her British husband.
Burmese president Thein Sein is scheduled to make a five-day visit to Japan this weekend.
At his peak he commanded some 20, 000 men, with better weapons than the Burmese army.
And some of the independent Burmese groups that emerged to help cyclone survivors are still active.
That dialogue has been focused on things like the professionalism of the Burmese military, human rights.
Ultimately, Burma's reforms will succeed or fail based on the efforts of the Burmese people themselves.
Fighting between the Burmese army and Kachin rebels broke out last year, ending a 17-year truce.
This story of the Burmese pythons seems like an appropriate metaphor for our time.
He is said to see the Burmese cyclone as the defining crisis of his tenure.
If that happens, it may prove to be a pyrrhic victory for the Burmese high command.
Some Burmese may wish that their country will not become a new cockpit of superpower rivalry.
Burmese pythons, which can grow up to 23ft (7m) long, eat small mammals, birds and alligators.
The Chinese had assumed that such development work would be welcomed by the Burmese.
The Florida Everglades are reeling from an explosion in the number of deadly Burmese pythons.
The Burmese government is to establish a committee to review the detention of its remaining political prisoners.
The Wa, a Burmese tribe with a 20, 000-man army, are considered Asia's new heroin and amphetamine kings.
The Burmese regime plays India and China off of each other, protecting its own interests above all.
Monwara, a 25-year-old woman, says that last month Burmese soldiers held her and her eight-year-old daughter overnight.
On Friday, many of the college girls were dressed in the traditional Burmese longyi or long skirt.
More often, Chinese state-backed energy firms compete with all-comers, for Sudanese oil and Burmese gas, and win.
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