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Senior US officials visit Burma...in Washington's longtime stance of shunning the military junta. Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell, the top US diplomat for East Asia, and his deputy Scot Marciel were scheduled to meet senior Burma junta officials on Tuesday and... In this article: Burma, United States, Washington, Democracy, US Air Force, and Aung San Suu Kyi |
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Sydney Morning Herald - Business | 5 days ago
Burma engagement offers false hope
...to be desperate to have sanctions lifted. Earlier this month, the US Secretary of State for East Asia, Kurt Campbell, and his deputy, Scot Marciel, met Burmese Prime Minister Thein Sein in Rangoon. They also met Suu Kyi, who was released...
In this article: Aung San Suu Kyi, United States, Burma, Democracy, Than Shwe, Best interests, Madeleine Albright, and Thein Sein
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Guardian Unlimited | November 15, 2009
Obama calls for Aung San Suu Kyi release
...in detention, has said she supports the White House's fresh approach, and earlier this month met Kurt Campbell, Obama's top diplomat for east Asia in a rare trip outside her dilapidated mansion in Rangoon. Speaking in Tokyo yesterday,...
In this article: Aung San Suu Kyi, Barack Obama, Burma, Asean, US, Thein Sein, Democracy, Robert Gibbs, White House, and Singapore
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Centre Daily Times | November 03, 2009
Senior US officials visit Myanmar
...diplomats for the highest-level visit in more than a decade. Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell, the top U.S. diplomat for East Asia, and his deputy, Scot Marciel, will meet senior junta officials as well as detained pro-democracy...
In this article: Myanmar, United States, Aung San Suu Kyi, Nyan Win, Yangon, Washington, National League for Democracy, and U.S. Air Force
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The Australian | November 03, 2009
Top-rank delegates fly in to Burma
...longtime stance of shunning the junta, a US embassy spokesman said. Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell, the top US diplomat for East Asia, and his deputy, Scot Marciel, were scheduled to meet senior Burma junta officials last night,...
In this article: Burma, US, Washington, Democracy, National League for Democracy, and Reserve Bank of Australia
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Honolulu Advertiser | November 04, 2009
Top U.S. envoy meets with Myanmar dissident Aung San Suu Kyi
...to visit Myanmar since 1995. Earlier Wednesday, Campbell, the top State Department official for East Asia, greeted Suu Kyi with a handshake after she was driven to his lakeside hotel in Yangon where they met privately for two hours,...
In this article: Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma, United States, State Department, Thein Sein, Yangon, Democracy, and North Korea
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East Asia
East Asia or Eastern Asia (the latter form preferred by the United Nations) is a subregion of Asia that can be defined in either geographical or cultural terms. Geographically and geopolitically, it covers about 12000000 km2, or about 28 percent of the Asian continent, about 15 percent bigger than the area of Europe, though some categorize Tibet, Xinjiang, and Mongolia as Central Asia. In some contexts, Vietnam is considered part of East Asia because of the significant Chinese cultural influence it has experienced.
More than 1.5 billion people, about 38 percent of the population of Asia or 22 percent of all the people in the world, live in geographic East Asia, which is about twice the population of Europe. The region is one of the world's most populated places, with a population density of , being about three times the world average of 45 /km2. Using the UN subregion definitions, it ranks second in population only to Southern Asia.
Historically, many societies in East Asia have been part of the Chinese cultural sphere, and East Asian vocabulary and scripts are often derived from Classical Chinese and Chinese script.
Major religions include Buddhism (mostly Mahayana), Confucianism or Neo-Confucianism, Taoism, Chinese folk religion in China, Shinto in Japan, Shamanism in Korea, Mongolia and other indigenous populations of northern East Asia, and more recently Christianity in South Korea. The Chinese Calendar is often to root from which other East Asian calendars are derived from.
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