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HEARING FOR UNOCAL BURMA SUIT DELAY



Subject: HEARING FOR UNOCAL BURMA SUIT DELAYED


Monday June 9 6:38 PM EDT 

Hearing for Unocal Burma suit delayed

LOS ANGELES, June 9 (Reuter) - Lawyers for activists hoping to block Unocal
Corp's
development of a natural gas project in Burma postponed a hearing scheduled
for Monday in U.S.
District Court in Los Angeles. 

Lawyers for the plaintiffs asked a judge to push the hearing back to
September or October, but
the judge did not set a specific date. 

The $1.2 billion pipeline project is to carry natural gas from offshore
Burma to Thailand beginning
next year. 

The government of Burma, also known as Myanmar, has come under international
criticism for its
alleged human right abuses.