Exile Burmese groups in Thailand hailed Aung San Suu Kyi for winning the 2002 Alan Neuharth Free Spirit Award.
This week's Far Eastern Economic Review reports on the upswing of tourist industry in Burma with international visitors mostly Europeans, Thais and Chinese flocking to the military-ruled country as a 'safe' place, following the October Bali bomb blasts.
The Delegate General of International Committee of Red Cross Asia told a Washington gathering about the ICRC's humanitarian work in Burma.