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WASHINGTON — The Obama administration will ease the ban on investments in Myanmar, rewarding the country’s political and economic opening over the last year, two senior administration officials said on Thursday. The White House is expected to announce the easing of the sanctions, along with other steps to improve relations, in an executive order later in the day. The move would allow the first significant American trade with Myanmar in decades, a step that worries human rights advocates who say the United States is moving too quickly to help a repressive country that is still far from free. Relations between the United States and Myanmar, also known as Burma, have warmed with startling speed in the last year, after two decades of cold-war-like tensions and ... Continue reading →

By Ruairidh Villar TOKYO | Thu May 17, 2012 5:52am EDT TOKYO (Reuters) - After Penguin Number 337 made a daring bid for freedom from a Tokyo aquarium and vanished into the waters of Tokyo Bay two months ago, many feared the worst for the adventurous feathered fugitive. But the one-year-old Humboldt penguin has now popped up on video footage in a different part of the bay, frolicking in the water and apparently healthy.The penguin, still too young to determine whether it is male or female and thus known only by a number, scaled a rock wall four metres (13 ft) high and squeezed through a barbed wire fence to escape its harbourside aquarium in March."You can see it's got the same ring around its ... Continue reading →

Koyuki Higashi and Hiroko: the couple were first told they could marry provided they dressed 'like a man and a woman'. Photograph: Koyuki Higashi/AFP/Getty Images Days after Barack Obama gave his public backing to gay marriages in the US, Mickey Mouse has emerged as the unlikely champion of same-sex unions in Japan.Tokyo Disneyland said this week it would allow gay couples to hold ceremonies on its grounds, although same-sex weddings have no legal status in Japan.Disneyland's decision came to light after Koyuki Higashi, a 27-year-old woman, inquired about marrying her female partner Hiroko at the resort.Higashi was initially told she would be able to marry her partner provided they were dressed "like a man and a woman", she wrote on her blog. Staff at Disneyland, ... Continue reading →

Todd Heisler/The New York Times Gloria Villegas cares for her sister María Elsy, 61, who showed signs of Alzheimer’s in her 40s. Since this video was filmed, Blanca Nelly Betancur’s mother, who was in the last stages of the disease, has died. | Video Feature » Gloria Villegas cares for her sister María Elsy, 61, who showed signs of Alzheimer’s in her 40s. Since this video was filmed, Blanca Nelly Betancur’s mother, who was in the last stages of the disease, has died. | View Full-Screen Version » In a clinical trial that could lead to treatments that prevent Alzheimer’s disease, people who are genetically guaranteed to suffer from the disease years from now — but who do not yet have any symptoms — will ... Continue reading →