Karen Refugees Warned Not To Talk
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SIMON ROUGHNEEN |
The Thai military has warned Karen refugees at Tha Song Yang not to speak to the media or the UNHCR––or risk arrest and deportation.
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Filipinos Prepare for First-ever Automated Elections
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MARS W. MOSQUEDA JR |
Filipinos will vote in the May 10 general election through an “automated elections system”, which promises to speed up time spent at the ballot box, a quicker results count and a supposedly fraudulent-free process.
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Ban on CNN May Be Related to Haiti Coverage
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WAI MOE |
Burma's only provider of non-state television stations has stopped broadcasting CNN, possibly because of its coverage of US troops involved in the Haiti earthquake relief effort.
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ALEX ELLGEE |
| The prospect of conflict in disputed areas of Burma's Karen State is leading Thai-Burmese border camps to brace themselves for new flows of refugees. |
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 | All refugee returns to Myanmar [Burma] must be voluntary. In our interviews with the [Karen] refugees, none expressed any desire to return home. 
—Kitty McKinsey, UNHCR spokesperson in Bangkok |
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