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Rescuers are struggling to reach remote Burmese towns hit by a powerful earthquake as rare images from the area showed roads torn apart and wooden homes reduced to piles of timber.
Burmese villagers are opposing a huge copper mine, but does the involvement of the country's military Generals call into question the new political freedoms?
Burma has pardoned a number of prominent dissidents, journalists and a former premier under a major prisoner amnesty, intensifying a surprising series of reforms by the army-backed regime.
The United States said it will ease restrictions on investment to Burma and quickly appoint an ambassador following landmark elections in the long-closed nation.
Western powers have dismissed Burma's first election in 20 years, denouncing it as rigged, with US President Barack Obama saying the vote was "anything but free and fair".
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says the US will ease its import ban on Burma that had been a key plank of remaining American economic sanctions.
Aung San Suu Kyi called for unity in Burma during her first political trip outside her home city since being released from house arrest.
Fifty people have been killed and scores wounded in communal clashes in western Burma, state media said, as the UN warned of 'immense hardship' faced by thousands displaced by rioting.
Burma's information ministry says all publications are free to go to press without interference from government from August 20.
Democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi has told an ecstatic crowd of Burma migrants in Thailand she would do all she could to help them, on the first stop of her first trip abroad in 24 years.
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