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2003-07-30 Southeast Asia

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Posted by Fred Pruitt 2003-07-30 00:52|| || Front Page|| [11128 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 They also export high grade dark red rubies called 'pigeon's blood red'. The best are smuggled out across Thai border near Mae Hong Son.

Posted by parallaxview 2003-7-30 2:54:08 AM|| 2003-7-30 2:54:08 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 hi there, my ignorant rightwinger.Everyone knows that Burma/Myanmar has lots of Natural Gas. Ask California's Unocal. See the sanctions dont affect Unocal relationship with Burma.The fine print exempts American companies who had deals with that regime before 1990 something. So while we wont get anymore textile from there,Unocal will still make money from its pipelines in Myanmar

Posted by stevey robinson 2003-7-30 3:00:14 AM|| 2003-7-30 3:00:14 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 oh ignorant leftwinger stevey (is that a tautology? I think it might be) it isn't aung san suu kyi, it is DAW CRAW DAW as any non-western person would know!!!

Posted by Anon1 2003-7-30 4:29:33 AM|| 2003-7-30 4:29:33 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 Question for Stevie R:
Are you advocating tighter, comprehensive sanctions (not that I disagree)?

Nevermind the stuff about Daw (Suu Kyi), it's an old inside joke.

Posted by Tokyo Taro 2003-7-30 4:53:25 AM|| 2003-7-30 4:53:25 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 sorry tokyo, i just go nuts now every time I see Aung San Suu Kyi on Rantburg as that troll was very funny.

After all, Suu Kyi is one of the greats and to be respected. I respect her!

That troll however was hilarious. Much funnier than Stevey, who -if that website pointed out a few days ago is correct- is also not very attractive!

Posted by Anon1 2003-7-30 6:31:53 AM|| 2003-7-30 6:31:53 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 and if it's not about the oiil it must be about the natural gas. and if not that, then the steel. If not that then the dirt...

Posted by Anon1 2003-7-30 6:33:49 AM|| 2003-7-30 6:33:49 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 i think i am getting a bit too excited about rantburg, that comment was uncalled for, SORRY STEVEY FOR THE AD HOMINEM ATTACK. not fair. also sorry new people for boring references to age-old trolls.

I am donating to fred as penance.

Posted by Anon1 2003-7-30 7:39:58 AM|| 2003-7-30 7:39:58 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 Anon1 - You're a scream! Don't you dare leave us, ever! Passion is missing in far too many (tres` triste, no?) - and welcome here in Rantburg. And our pathetic little stevey, who needs 2 additional neurons so he'll have a pair to rub together, is precisely as you stated - facts are facts, no apology necessary for truth-telling - ever. Keep it up!

Posted by PD 2003-7-30 8:07:32 AM|| 2003-7-30 8:07:32 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 i have no problem with tighter sanctions, but that will need to be coordinated with other nations to be effective.

Posted by liberalhawk 2003-7-30 9:07:20 AM|| 2003-7-30 9:07:20 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 RELEASE DAW!!!!

Yeah I miss Mike in Tokyo and his lovely wife Yuka. Her "Daw" rant was a blog classic. Just it's hard to explain to somebody who might not have seen it.

Posted by Tokyo Taro 2003-7-30 9:25:22 AM|| 2003-7-30 9:25:22 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 are you an -- Outsider?
(you'd have to see his website)

Posted by Rafael 2003-7-30 11:26:46 AM|| 2003-7-30 11:26:46 AM|| Front Page Top

#12 PD -- as a medical person, I can tell you that the proper way to express Stevey's condition is "two neurons held together by a spirochete."

Posted by Steve White 2003-7-30 2:18:18 PM|| 2003-7-30 2:18:18 PM|| Front Page Top

#13 SW - So, Doctor, does his condition parallel that of, say, Al Capone? A steep deterioration into madness? Given all of his posts, I fear the condition is well advanced...

Can he be saved?
(Knock it out of the park... You're welcome! ;->)

Posted by Anonymous 2003-7-30 2:50:13 PM|| 2003-7-30 2:50:13 PM|| Front Page Top

#14 Hey, Stevey. I actually saw some capital letters in there and this was almost intelligible. What happened? Did you run out of pot?

Posted by tu3031 2003-7-30 3:06:47 PM|| 2003-7-30 3:06:47 PM|| Front Page Top

#15 Contain your screams people but.... Stevey has a point. Read below information taken from www.ibiblio.org, which seems to be a dissident Burmese website of some type.

Burma, Thailand sign big gas deal
By Tavorn Tammachatwichit

Bangkok, Feb. 2 (Upi) -- Thai Prime Minister Chuan Leekpai presided at the signing of a controversial contract Thursday to pipe 10 billion baht (d400 million) worth of natural gas per year across southern Burma to energy-hungry Thailand.

Along with Thai and Burmese government officials, the signing ceremony at the Government House in Bangkok was attended by representatives of the two international petroleum companies with interests in the huge project, Unocal of the United States and Total of France.

The project has been criticized on environmental grounds and by ethnic minorities living in Burmese territory through which the pipeline will be laid.

The signing was the culmination of three years of exploration and negotiation by the two petroleum giants, the Myanmar Oil and Gas Enterprise of Burma, the Petroleum Authority of Thailand and the Electricity Generating Authority of Thailand.

Officials said the 30-year agreement calls for drilling about 1.2 miles (2 km) beneath Burma's Gulf of Martaban in the Tadana field, which has proven reserves of 5.7 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.
IMAO, however, I think that this project will benefit the people of Burma as it will outlive their current government by a long, long time. I say that the feds should leave it alone.

Posted by Secret Master 2003-7-30 7:29:26 PM|| [www.budgetwarrior.com] 2003-7-30 7:29:26 PM|| Front Page Top

#16 www.ibiblio.org??? that's where I go for various Linux resources...

Posted by Rafael 2003-7-30 7:40:18 PM|| 2003-7-30 7:40:18 PM|| Front Page Top

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