Posted in Old Misellaneous on Dec 22nd, 2006 No Comments »
The concept – “ethical tourism†is alike ethical investment, ethical living and ethical consumerism etc; a new phenomena allegedly developed by the prodigies of neo-liberals and the environmentalists in the West. In nutshell, it means deploying the concept such as right, wrong, good and evil and responsibility.Â
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Posted in Old Misellaneous on Dec 22nd, 2006 2 Comments »
Both of my parents graduated with B.Sc’s at RASU, my father in the late 1970s, and my mother in the early 1980s. But my mother could not get a foreign college degree equivalency in the U.S., probably because the educational system had deteriorated so much within a few years, while [...]
Posted in Old Misellaneous on Dec 22nd, 2006 No Comments »
U.S.  President George W. Bush had called consistently ‘to stay the course’ on his policy in Iraq until the November midterm elections for both the US Congress and the Senate. The outcome was that the Republicans lost control of both houses to the Democrats, given a mandate by the by the [...]
Posted in Old Misellaneous on Dec 22nd, 2006 No Comments »
History of Democracy
After the end of the World War II, democracy slowly gained momentum.
This map shows the official claims made by world governments with regard to democracy, as of
Posted in Old Misellaneous on Dec 22nd, 2006 No Comments »
Today JordBur watched the movie Brokeback Mountain. It is about two whisky drinking, gun carrying, macho sheep boys (shepherds) in their twenties babysitting herds on the range falling in love each other, leading separate lives to conform with society.
A good movie and streams of weird thoughts [...]
Posted in Old Misellaneous on Dec 22nd, 2006 No Comments »
Burmese who live in Europe countries held 9th Conference of Forum of Burmese in Europe. The Conference was held in Oslo, Norway on 9th & 10th December 2006.
Posted in Old Misellaneous on Dec 22nd, 2006 No Comments »
Burmese pro-democracy activists in Malaysia this week held a ceremony to honour 15th anniversary of Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and International Human Rights Day.
Posted in Old Misellaneous on Dec 22nd, 2006 No Comments »
About 100 Kuki people invited from the five districts-Khamti, Laysi, Homalin, Tamu & Tonjang of Burma attended “The Seminar on Kuki National Reconciliation†organized by KSDF, KPC & KWHRO and funded by National Reconciliation Program- NRP(an NGO formed by the seven state based ethnic nationalities of Burma), at Moreh [...]
Posted in Old Misellaneous on Dec 22nd, 2006 No Comments »
Over 50 Burmese from Europe participated in 2006-Nobel Night in Oslo, celebrated in honour of Nobel Peace Laureates.
Posted in Old Misellaneous on Dec 22nd, 2006 No Comments »
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Friday, December 8, 2006,  4:00 – 6:00 PMÂ
At The Permanent Mission of the Union of Myanmar to the United Nations, 10 East 77th Street (between 5th and Madison Avenues) New York City Â
Myo Min Zaw was a student organizer who helped lead peaceful demonstrations protesting [...]
Posted in Old Misellaneous on Dec 12th, 2006 2 Comments »
Some say that education is taboo for dictators.
Some claims that educated intelligentsia are thorn in the side of authoritarian governments.
Some believe that information is regarded as poison by totalitarian regimes.
Of course freedom of information will lead to informed people and informed people start to see [...]
Posted in Old Misellaneous on Dec 12th, 2006 No Comments »
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Military Regime cannot Stop Internet – Editorial: Khin Ma Ma Myo
Internet Journalists Jailed In China – News Report: Thaung Nyunt
The Reality inside SPDC Army, part 16 – Serialized True story : Captain Nay Thu (retired)
On Strategic Non-violent Conflict, part 11 – Serialized Strategy Discussion: Lwin Aung Soe
Analysing Burma’s Democracy Revolution, 8 [...]
Posted in Old Misellaneous on Dec 12th, 2006 1 Comment »
In early November this year, Reporters Without Frontiers released a blacklist of the 13 worst ‘Enemies of the Internet’ – not surprisingly, Burma is on the list. The list identifies those countries that are suppressing freedom of expression on the Internet. Reporters Without Frontiers (Reporters Sans Frontières – RSF) [...]
Posted in Old Misellaneous on Dec 12th, 2006 2 Comments »
Last month, in November, Burma Digest’s main page has got 367346 pagehits; what do you think?
           Reading the statistics, I can’t help but wonder: who are all those people who take time to check upon our work, to read the articles that we’re doing our best to [...]
Posted in Old Misellaneous on Dec 12th, 2006 1 Comment »
We all know that the executive, legislative and judiciary are the three separate main pillars of the Government and the mainstream media is known to be the forth pillar. The main function of the mainstream media is to correct the wrong doings of a government as a watchdog using its [...]
Posted in Old Misellaneous on Dec 12th, 2006 No Comments »
Last month, the Burmese military junta ordered the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to seize its operation of five field offices. In its press release, the organisation’s seems to be loosing its patience with the military junta. It did not give any reasons for such a move by [...]
Posted in Old Misellaneous on Dec 12th, 2006 1 Comment »
It is costlier and more difficult to get admission to good overseas colleges. The ideal situation will be college education locally and graduate/professional degree in overseas so that it will indirectly promote good reputation of college education in Burma.
But the sad thing is that Burmese students are [...]
Posted in Old Misellaneous on Dec 12th, 2006 No Comments »
SPDC is declaring that they are aiming for the “Guided Democracy†or “Dispilined Democracy†but they even could not hide that the Myanmar Military’s promised “Democracy†is dominated by SPDC and Myanmar Military. Some of their Military Personnel may change their uniforms to disguise as non-military ordinary citizens.
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