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AUSTRALIA TO BOOST MYANMAR AID BUT KEEP SANCTIONS

by: Jeff Ooi Chuan Aun   February 8 7:32pm

Australia will inject more humanitarian aid into Myanmar but maintain sanctions until the Southeast Asian nation's military junta significantly improves how it treats its people. Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said his country would ramp up aid to impoverished Myanmar over three years from 30 million Australian dollars ($26 million) in the current fiscal year to AU$50 million a year. But Australia agreed with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton that remov...