ON 17 MAY IN SOUTHEAST ASIAN HISTORY
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Updated on May 17, 2019
1824: A Burmese force invades Chittagong and drove a mixed Sepoy and police detachment from its position at Ramu, but did not follow up its success
1857 : Birth of Pascual Poblete, Filipino writer and activist who died on February 5, 1921
https://kahimyang.com/kauswagan/articles/1663/today-in-philippine-history-may-17-1857-pascual-poblete-was-born-in-naic-cavite
1917: Death of Charles Brooke, second White Rajah of Sarawak (Borneo) since 3 August 1868
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Anthoni_Johnson_Brooke
1940: Birth of Reynato Puno, Filipino Supreme Court Chief Justice
https://www.masonrytoday.com/index.php?new_month=5&new_day=17&new_year=2015
1944: Chinese/US arm forces take Myitkyina Airport, Burma
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myitkyina_Airport
1954: In the Philippines, Luis Taruc, who has been excluded from the Philippine Communist Party, surrenders
http://cityofsanfernando.blogspot.com/2005/05/ka-luis-m-taruc-june-21-1913-may-4.html
1964: In Burma, all the 50 and 100 kyat banknotes are demonetized without compensation
1992: In Thailand, the so called Black May begins. Thai police and protestors start attacking one another. By midnight, the Thai government declares a state of emergency and military troops open fire
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2009/may/19/from-archives-thai-army-massacres
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/1992450.stm
http://2bangkok.com/09-1992headlines08.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_May_(1992)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QG4YhpJdPZw
1994: Birth of Julie Anne San Jose, Filipino singer and actress
http://www.pinoystop.com/bio/celebrity-profile/2003/julie-ann-san-jose-biography
2000: In Indonesia, for the first time, 24 soldiers are jailed for massacres of civilians in Aceh
2004: In Myanmar, the National Convention, in charge to write a new constitution, convened after more than eight years of suspension
2007: In Thailand, the Defense National Council orders three private radio stations to be closed because they gave interviews to former premier Thaksin Shinawatra
2011: Myanmar’s new government releases thousands of prisoners and reduced others’ sentences in a token aimed at mending its international image. Activists said the vast majority of those released from prisons were common criminals and only a few were political prisoners
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2011/05/2011517181542379456.html
http://www.english.rfi.fr/asia-pacific/20110517-rights-groups-criticise-myanmar-prisoner-release
2012: In an effort to encourage reform, US President Barack Obama on Thursday eased bans on investment in Burma’s financial services industry and on doing business in the country but kept sanctions against “individuals associated with the former regime”.
2014: The Chinese government has evacuated more than 3,000 of its nationals from Vietnam following a wave of anti-Chinese riots
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-27458866
2014: A plane crash in northern Laos kills 17 people including the minister of Defense 2014 Douangchay Phichit
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-05-17/an-laos-plane-crash/5459886
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-27452919