New York-based Human Rights Watch on Tuesday called on China and Thailand to join the European Union and US in banning imports of gems and jade from Burma, where the state-run trade is allegedly financing military rule and human rights abuses. ...full story at Bangkok Post
from Bangkok Post on Tue, Nov 13 2007
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