Myanmar's Suu Kyi to run in next elections
Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi leaves the National League for Democracy party offices on November 18.
November 18th, 2011
09:46 AM ET
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Myanmar's Suu Kyi to run in next elections

Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi will participate in the next elections, Nyan Win, the spokesman for her National League for Democracy, said Friday.

Her National League for Democracy announced earlier Friday that it planned to re-register as a political party and participate in all future parliamentary elections.

The NLD won more than 80% of the legislative seats in 1990, the first free elections in the country in nearly 30 years, but the ruling military junta refused to recognize the results.

The elections, as yet unscheduled, are by-elections to fill 48 seats left vacant in parliament by the appointment of ministers in the new government. The last national elections were held in November 2010 and were the first in 20 years.

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Report: Jetliners within six seconds of collision over Hong Kong
A Cathay Pacific jetliner taxis at Hong Kong's Chek Lap Kok Airport in 2007.
September 27th, 2011
10:01 AM ET
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Report: Jetliners within six seconds of collision over Hong Kong

Two jetliners carrying more than 600 passengers and crew came within seconds of a collision near Hong Kong last week, according to a report in The Standard newspaper.

The Cathay Pacific Boeing 777 and Dragonair Airbus A330 were about a mile apart when their collision avoidance systems issued alerts, according a Cathay Pacific statement. The pilots of the jetliners took evasive action to maintain a safe distance from each other, the Cathay statement said.

“There was no risk of collision and at no time was the safety of the flights compromised. At the closest, they were one nautical mile (2,000 meters) apart when abeam from each other with increasing vertical separation," the Cathay statement said.

But Hong Kong's former civil aviation chief Albert Lam Kwong-yu told The Standard that, based on normal speeds of the airliners involved, they were about six seconds from colliding.

"The chance of a crash is absolutely high," the paper quotes Lam as saying. "The passengers really came back from hell."

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