Yangon objects to East Timor bid<\/p>\n
MYANMAR: Yangon has objected to a proposal to grant East Timor
\nobserver status to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations
\n(ASEAN), Philippine officials said on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Foreign ministers of the 10-member regional grouping discussed
\nthe issue at a meeting in the Thai resort of Phuket in mid-
\nFebruary, they said.<\/p>\n
Philippine Foreign Undersecretary Lauro Baja said Myanmar in
\nparticular raised East Timorese leaders' \"past dealings\" with
\nMyanmar opposition forces led by Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung
\nSan Suu Kyi when East Timor was still under Indonesian control.<\/p>\n
Myanmar officials said these \"solidarity\" meetings apparently
\ncontinued after East Timor voted for independence and came under
\ninterim United Nations administration, Baja added. --AFP<\/p>\n
;REUTERS;KOD;
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\nAglance-THAILAND-KOREA
\nTop N.Korea official starts four-day Thai visit
\nJP\/9\/ASEAN<\/p>\n
N. Korea official starts four-day visit<\/p>\n
THAILAND: Kim Yong-nam, North Korea's President of the Presidium
\nof the Supreme People's Assembly, began a four-day Thailand visit
\non Thursday that will focus on bilateral trade and security
\nissues, Thai officials said.<\/p>\n
Bangkok hopes talks will boost Thai investment in the
\nresource-rich but economically poor communist state and enhance
\nits role in the reconciliation process between the two Koreas.<\/p>\n
Thai Foreign Minister Surakiart Sathirathai said last week one
\nissue for Kim's visit would be account trades to allow North
\nKorea to raise funds for repaying debts it owes to Thailand.<\/p>\n
Account trade is a form of barter, with cash used only to make
\nup the difference in the value of goods. --Reuters<\/p>\n
;AFP;KOD;
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\nAglance-Cambodia-rebels
\nCourt finds 18 Cambodians, US citizen, guilty of rebel attacks
\nJP\/9\/ASEAN<\/p>\n
Nineteen found guilty of rebel attacks<\/p>\n
CAMBODIA: Amid tears and tight security, Phnom Penh's Municipal
\nCourt on Thursday found an American and 18 Cambodians guilty of
\nterrorist attacks and sentenced them to up to life in prison.<\/p>\n
Judge Sok Setha Muny said the court had found enough evidence
\nto substantiate the charges despite the defendants' denials of
\ninvolvement with the attacks or of being members of the outlawed
\nCambodian Freedom Fighters (CFF).<\/p>\n
The U.S. citizen of Cambodian origin, Gilbit Sao Chum, 38, a
\ncomputer engineer from Long Beach, California, was jailed for 10
\nyears for being a member of the CFF -- which has claimed
\nresponsibility for the botched November 2000 coup attempt.<\/p>\n
Ek Chan Y, 36, was jailed for life after he was found guilty
\nof being the ringleader of terrorist attacks in the capital and a
\nkey member of the CFF operated by Chhun Yasith out of the United
\nStates.<\/p>\n
At least eight people died and 14 were injured in the pre-dawn
\nuprising in November 2000 in an attempt to oust Cambodian Prime
\nMinister Hun Sen and his government. --AFP<\/p>\n
;REUTERS;KOD;
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\nAglance-Vietnam-China
\nJiang warms Vietnam ties, but disputes unresolved
\nJP\/9\/ASEAN<\/p>\n
Jiang warms ties, disputes unresolved<\/p>\n
VIETNAM: China's President Jiang Zemin wound up the serious part
\nof a swan song visit to neighboring Vietnam on Thursday with vows
\nto continue to work on improving ties, but leaving key disputes
\nbetween the communist states unresolved.<\/p>\n
After talks with Vietnamese leaders on Wednesday and Thursday
\nin Hanoi, Jiang was bid an official farewell at the presidential
\npalace and headed south to see the sights in central Vietnam.<\/p>\n
Diplomats said the visit, Jiang's first to Vietnam since 1994
\nand his last before he is due to step down as Communist Party
\nleader this year, would have helped build confidence with the
\nVietnamese leadership, and to bolster its position.<\/p>\n
Festering territorial disputes over the Paracel and Spratly
\nIslands in the South China Sea were touched upon, but there was,
\nas expected, no obvious progress in resolving them. --Reuters<\/p>\n
;AP;KOD;
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\nAglance-Thai-poll-raided
\nSecurity officials raid Thai polling agency, seize confidential
\nJP\/9\/ASEAN<\/p>\n
Security officials raid polling agency<\/p>\n
THAILAND: Security officials raided the premises of a leading
\npoll agency and seized confidential responses to a poll critical
\nof the Thai government, a pollster said on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Plainclothes and uniformed policemen and officials from the
\nministries of defense and university affairs raided the office of
\nABAC agency at Bangkok's Assumption University on Wednesday,
\nThevin Koniewklang, chief of politic and social section at ABAC,
\nsaid.<\/p>\n
National police spokesman Maj. Gen. Pongsapat Pongchareon said
\nhe was not aware of any raid but would look into it. He said it
\nwould not be right for \"police or anyone\" to conduct such a raid
\nwithout a court warrant.<\/p>\n
Thevin said the responses seized were those to a poll of 1,302
\nBangkok residents conducted Feb. 5-9 on the public image of
\nThaksin -- the founder of Thailand's biggest telecommunications
\nconglomerate - and other ministers in his government.<\/p>\n
The poll said 44.7 percent of the respondents people believed
\nthere was a conflict of interest in the government. Some 63
\npercent believed that the government had not been transparent in
\na recent public share-offering. --AP<\/p>",
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