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BurmaNet News: November 21, 1994





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BurmaNet News: Monday, November 21, 1994
Issue #68

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Contents:

1 BURMANET: BBC REPORTS SUU KYI CHALLENGED SLORC ON DEVELOPMENT
2 BKK POST: NASREEN TO RECEIVE SAKHAROV AWARD
3 NATION: EXIM IN BURMA, LAOS, CHINA

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BURMANET: BBC REPORTS SUU KYI CHALLENGED SLORC ON DEVELOPMENT
November 21, 1994

B.B.C. Television reported that the address written by Aung San Suu
Kyi for the 5th World Commission on Culture and Development
challenged the notion that economic development must precede
democratisation.  No further details are available although the
full text will be posted as soon as it become available.

The report also said that Suu Kyi called on the United Nations
to help promote democracy in countries like Burma.


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BKK POST: NASREEN TO RECEIVE SAKHAROV AWARD
November 21, 1994

Exiled Bangladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen was awarded the European
Parliament's top human rights honour on Thursday. Nasreen is to
receive the socalled Sakharov award, named for the late Russian
physicist and dissident of the Soviet era, on December 13.

Nasreen fled Bangladesh under a death threat from Muslim fun-
damentalists who say her novel Lajja (Shame) blasphemes their
faith.

Two other writers were in the running for the $18,000 prize:
Sebastain Arcos, vice president of a Cuban human rights
organisation, and Leyla Zana, a Kurdish deputy in the Turkish
parliament who has been in jail since March.

The Strasbourg-based parliament has given the award since
1988, the year before Sakharov's death.
Previous winners include Nelson Mandela and Burmese dissident
Aung San Suu Kyi. (BP) 

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NATION: EXIM IN BURMA, LAOS, CHINA
November 19, 1994

The export and Import Bank of Thailand has announced three
joint investment projects in neighbouring countries. The move
is in line with the bank's attempt to reassure Thai investors
channelling investment overseas. It plans to take a 5-15 per
cent stake in each project which has to be in a key economic
sector.

The three projects are: a sugar plant in Burma in which the
Exim bank will take 15 of the 50 per cent Thai stake; 5 per
cent in a US $1 billion power plant in Laos which has a 600-
megawatt capacity; and a construction material manufacturing
plant in China. (TN) 

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 AFP: AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
 AW: ASIAWEEK
 AWSJ: ASIAN WALL STREET JOURNAL
 Bt.: THAI BAHT; 25 Bt.=US$1 (APPROX), 
 BBC: BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION
 BI: BURMA ISSUES
 BKK POST: BANGKOK POST (DAILY NEWSPAPER, BANGKOK)
 BRC-CM: BURMESE RELIEF CENTER-CHIANG MAI
 BRC-J: BURMESE RELIEF CENTER-JAPAN
 CPPSM: C'TEE FOR PUBLICITY OF THE PEOPLE'S STRUGGLE IN MONLAND 
 FEER: FAR EASTERN ECONOMIC REVIEW
 IRRAWADDY: NEWSLETTER PUBLISHED BY BURMA INFORMATION GROUP
 JIR: JANE'S INTELLIGENCE REVIEW
 KHRG: KAREN HUMAN RIGHTS GROUP
 Kt. BURMESE KYAT; 150 KYAT=US$1 BLACK MARKET
                   100 KYAT=US$1 SEMI-OFFICIAL
                   6 KYAT=US$1 OFFICIAL
 MOA: MIRROR OF ARAKAN
 NATION: THE NATION (DAILY NEWSPAPER, BANGKOK)
 NLM: NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR (DAILY STATE-OWNED NEWSPAPER, RANGOON)
 S.C.B.:SOC.CULTURE.BURMA NEWSGROUP 
 S.C.T.:SOC.CULTURE.THAI NEWSGROUP
 SEASIA-L: S.E.ASIA BITNET MAILING LIST
 USG: UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
 XNA: XINHUA NEWS AGENCY 
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