Worlds apart: Asia and West at odds over approach to Burma

Article Abstract:

Growing Western pressure for economic sanctions on Burma is pitted against a supportive Asia where governments encourage business to form more links there. US-based PepsiCo and Denmark's Carlsberg have both pulled out in 1996, due to pressure from consumer groups at home, and even as the European Union and the US Congress debated sanctions in July the Association of Southeast Asian Nations moved closer to Myanmar. Any success by Western groups in scuttling a $1.2 billion gas pipeline project would be hard to overcome.

United States, International relations, European Union, United States foreign relations, Burmese foreign relations, Myanmar, Civil rights

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New frontiers

Article Abstract:

Military relations between Thailand and Cambodia are improving as Thailand's ban on aid to the Khmer Rouge takes effect in the field. Continuing and embarrassing charges of collusion convinced the Thai prime minister to give the matter higher priority in order to prevent further erosion of international good will. Another helpful factor was a reshuffling of Thai military leaders, with a new leader with field experience taking command of the unit that guards the Thai-Cambodia border.

Thailand, Political aspects, Military aspects, Thai foreign relations, Cambodia, Cambodian foreign relations, Khmer Rouge

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Standing firm: Asia sticks to its view of human rights

Article Abstract:

Asia's first regional meeting on human rights was held in Bangkok, Thailand in Mar 1993. The Bangkok Declaration that resulted declared that, although human rights are essentially the same everywhere, how they are protected must accord with each country's cultural traditions and with the principle of non-interference in each nation's domestic concerns. Some participants, notably Japan, objected to the Declaration's hesitancy and ambiguity.

Social policy, Human rights

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