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Obama, Cambodia premier crisp on 1st presidential visit

By DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE STAFF FROM WIRE REPORTS

Posted: November 20, 2012 at 4:57 a.m.

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President Barack Obama on Monday embraces Burma opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi at her lakeside residence in Rangoon, Burma.

On a history-making trip, President Barack Obama on Monday paid the first visit by an American leader to Burma and Cambodia, two Asian countries with troubled histories, one on the mend and the other still a cause of concern.

Obama uses both ‘Burma’ and ‘Myanmar’ during trip

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President Barack Obama (left) toasts with Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen on Monday at the East Asia Summit dinner at the D... (By: CAROLYN KASTER) (Credit: AP)

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