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EU to Block Free-trade Deal with Asean unless Burma Reform
The European parliament will oppose any free-trade deal between Europe and Southeast Asia unless Burma makes democratic reforms, visiting parliamentarians warned Friday.

"Without any change in Myanmar [Burma], there will be no agreement from the European parliament on the FTA" with the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations, German lawmaker Hartmut Nassauer told reporters.

Nassauer, head of a nine-member European parliament delegation visiting the Philippines, rejected suggestions by some Asean members that sanctions should not be imposed on the military-led country. Europe will maintain sanctions and isolate Burma as long as reforms are not put in place, he said.
http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=9401

Apocalypse Naypyidaw!
After living for decades under a military-ruled Burma and witnessing the junta’s bloody crackdown on monks and innocent people on the streets in September, many Burmese have begun calling for, not diplomacy, but air strikes and international intervention.

No, it’s not a joke. And it’s not just the exiled Burmese who are saying this—it’s those inside Burma as well.
http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=9395

Norwegian NGO Stops Funding Burmese Student Army
A Norwegian non-governmental organization that works exclusively with Burma has stopped its financial support to a Burmese students’ armed group this week, according to a leading member of the exiled students group.

According to a letter dated November 21 from the Norwegian Burma Committee sent to the All Burma Students’ Democratic Front, the NBC is “disappointed and very concerned” to learn that the ABSDF released a statement on October 4, 2007, in which it declared its decision to conduct active military action against the military regime in Burma.
http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=9405