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• Myanmar activist follows dad, granddad to jail
YANGON, Myanmar - A court in military-ruled Myanmar sentenced a student activist to 6 1/2 years in jail on Wednesday, a week after his father received a 65-year prison term for his own political activities and a decade after his grandfather died in ...
• Gunmen seize cargo ship off Somalia
In October, 22 sailors — eight South Koreans and 14 citizens of Myanmar — were released following a month of captivity after their South Korean shipping company paid a ransom to Somali pirates. South Korea has said it is considering dispatching ...
• Ex-child soldiers launch network to help kids
The 13 countries where groups that recruit child soldiers operated are Afghanistan, Burundi, Central African Republic, Congo, Myanmar, Nepal, Somalia, Sudan, Chad, Colombia, Philippines, Sri Lanka and Uganda, according to the United Nations. In 2005 ...
• Books for those bummed about staying home
Coffee table books: National Geographic's "Sacred Places of a Lifetime: 500 of the World's Most Peaceful and Powerful Destinations" ($40) takes you from the Maya temples of Guatemala to the Shwedagon Pagoda in Myanmar to Israel's Western Wall to Mardi ...
• FBI: Girl was raped, forced to cook and clean
She was reunited with her parents last month, authorities said. Soe, who was born in Myanmar and is not a U.S. citizen, met her in 2007 and became enamored with her, according to an FBI account. The girl, also an immigrant, knew Soe's sister, the ...