A lawyer for a prominent Chinese dissident says his client has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for contract fraud. The lawyer said Li Befeng was sentenced Monday at a court in southwestern Sichuan province. Li was formerly imprisoned for five years for involvement in the 1989 Tiananmen Square democracy movement. Li is a […]
Prominent Chinese Dissident Sentenced for Fraud
Posted November 19th, 2012 at 6:25 am (UTC-5)
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Obama Tells Burma Reforms Have Much Further to Go
Posted November 19th, 2012 at 5:05 am (UTC-5)
U.S. President Barack Obama has told Burma that government reforms have just begun and have much further to go, in the first visit to the country by a serving U.S. president. In a speech Monday at the University of Rangoon, Mr. Obama said he had come to keep his promise and extend “the hand of […]
Obama Meets with Aung San Suu Kyi in Rangoon
Posted November 19th, 2012 at 3:30 am (UTC-5)
U.S. President Barack Obama has met with Burmese President Thein Sein and democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi in the country’s main city of Rangoon, in the first visit to the country by a serving U.S. president. After an hour-long meeting Monday, Mr. Obama, with President Thein Sein at his side, told reporters that the […]
Obama Meets with Burma President in Rangoon
Posted November 19th, 2012 at 2:15 am (UTC-5)
U.S. President Barack Obama has met with Burmese President Thein Sein in the country’s main city, Rangoon, in the first visit to the country by a serving U.S. president. After the hour-long meeting Monday, Mr. Obama, with President Thein Sein at his side, told reporters that the process of democratic and economic reform in the […]
Obama Arrives in Burma, Says Trip Not Endorsement of Government
Posted November 18th, 2012 at 11:40 pm (UTC-5)
U.S. President Barack Obama has arrived in Burma, becoming the first American sitting president to visit the Southeast Asian country. Mr. Obama is scheduled to meet with both Burmese President Thein Sein and Aung San Suu Kyi, the nation’s leading democracy activist, who has been free only since 2010 after 15 years of detention or […]
2 Tibetans Die in Self-Immolation
Posted November 18th, 2012 at 7:00 pm (UTC-5)
Rights activists say a 24-year-old Tibetan man has died after setting himself on fire to protest Chinese rule in his homeland. Hours earlier on Saturday, a cab driver and mother of two died after setting herself afire, the latest death in a wave of self-immolations to protest Chinese rule. Several sources tell VOA’s Tibetan Language […]
Obama: Burma Trip Not Endorsement of Government
Posted November 18th, 2012 at 10:00 am (UTC-5)
U.S. President Barack Obama says his upcoming trip to Burma does not represent an endorsement of the government, but is rather an acknowledgement of the political reform process underway in the country. Mr. Obama said there has been a stated commitment to further political reform in Burma and that deserves encouragement. “But I do not […]
ASEAN Summit Opens in Phnom Penh
Posted November 18th, 2012 at 5:50 am (UTC-5)
Southeast Asian leaders have begun talks that are set to focus on territorial disputes, a declaration on human rights, economic cooperation and deadly ethnic unrest in Burma. The annual Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit opened Sunday in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh, with leaders of the 10-nation ASEAN bloc expected to present a […]
Obama Arrives in Thailand on 3-Nation Asia Tour
Posted November 18th, 2012 at 4:35 am (UTC-5)
U.S. President Barack Obama has arrived in Thailand on the first leg of an Asian tour that will also take him to Burma and Cambodia in his first foreign trip since winning re-election nearly two weeks ago. While in Bangkok Sunday, Mr. Obama will meet with Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, attend an official dinner […]
ASEAN Summit Opens in Phnom Penh
Posted November 18th, 2012 at 2:45 am (UTC-5)
Southeast Asian leaders have begun talks that are set to focus on territorial disputes, a declaration on human rights, economic cooperation and deadly ethnic unrest in Burma. The annual Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit opened Sunday in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh, with leaders of the 10-nation ASEAN bloc expected to present a […]
