WASHINGTON—President Bush said Thursday he has ordered the U.S. Treasury to freeze the assets of Burma's state-owned companies to further pressure the leadership there over human rights abuses. (Burma is called "Myanmar" by the ruling junta.)
"Today I've issued a new executive order that instructs the Treasury Department to freeze the assets of Burmese state-owned companies that are major sources of funds that prop up the junta," Bush said at a celebration of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month.
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