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The New York Times reports that some 100 Buddhist monks staged a peaceful protest on Saturday in Sittwe, a town in western Burma, to mark the anniversary of last year’s crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators.
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This day, Buddhist monks joined the protests in Sittwe.
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The commitment of Saudi crude through the pipeline running from Myanmar's western port of Sittwe to Kunming city in Yunnan could create friction with the U.S., which has repeatedly tightened sanctions against the military regime in Myanmar.
Aramco Agrees to Supply Oil to Chinese Refinery Summer Said 2011
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AccuWeather reported: The site of landfall was about 40 miles southeast of Sittwe (Akyab), or 250 miles northwest of Yangon, the Myanmar [Burma] capital.
Cyclone Giri explodes, socks Burma shore Jason Samenow 2010
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The other pipeline system will belong to India, which is spending $100 million to develop the Arakanese port of Sittwe as a trade window for its own landlocked, insurgency-roiled northeast.
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The other pipeline system will belong to India, which is spending $100 million to develop the Arakanese port of Sittwe as a trade window for its own landlocked, insurgency-roiled northeast.
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Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters An election official prepared ballots for voters in Sittwe, Rakhine state.
Myanmar 2010
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Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters A woman cast her ballot at a polling station in Sittwe.
Myanmar 2010
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I found Serbs admired in Sittwe, Burma, where the Buddhists oppress their Muslim minorities with near-Balkan gusto.
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Other "pearls" that China has been developing are naval facilities in Bangladesh, where it is developing a container-port facility at Chittagong; in Myanmar, where it is building radar, refit and refuel facilities at bases in Sittwe, Coco, Hianggyi, Khaukphyu, Mergui and Zadetkyi Kyun; and in Thailand and Cambodia.
India alarmed as Chinese-built Gwadar port of Pakistan becomes operational 2008
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