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Bangkok Post
26th November, 2007
UN asks Vietnam to help rein in Burma
Hanoi (dpa) – The UN special envoy to Burma expressed concern Monday over fresh reports of arrests of opposition leaders by the military junta, and said he hoped to make another trip to the troubled country by the end of the year.
Ibrahim Gambari was speaking [...]
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AP
Posted: 2007-11-27 02:56:40
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) – More than 2,000 foreign merchants attended Myanmar’s major gems auction, state-media reported Tuesday, despite international calls to boycott the sale after the military junta’s brutal crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in September.
The auction ended Monday after more than 3,500 lots of precious stones were sold, the New Light of Myanmar [...]
Posted in Articles in English on Nov 26th, 2007 1 Comment »
By; Researcher (1988 – 2007)
We appreciated the UN officials and special advisor to the United Nations Secretary-General Dr. Gambari read Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s statement on November 8th in Singapore regarding reconciliation.
When we read the Junta’s Newspaper are mentioned the ethnic group or national- races armed groups opinion and intention must be mentioned through [...]
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21- 11- 2007 : By S. N. Oo
Through advanced technology the media as well as individuals have highlighted the demonstration of monks and people in Burma and how the military junta cracked down on the protesters. The junta has tried to hide their brutality from the outside world, but for the first time they have [...]
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AP
Posted: 2007-11-26 12:30:42
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) – Foreign investment in Myanmar’s oil and gas sector reached a record high of more than $470 million in fiscal year 2006-07, accounting for more than 60 percent of the total, according to newly released government statistics.
Oil and gas, together with the power sector, accounted for more than 98 percent [...]
Posted in Supplementary Burma Digest on Nov 26th, 2007 No Comments »
SINGAPORE – When United Nations special envoy Ibrahim Gambari landed in Singapore prepared to brief Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and other East Asian leaders on his mission to Myanmar, he was told at the last minute that the briefing was off. The senior diplomat, charged with mediating national reconciliation between Myanmar’s ruling generals [...]
Posted in Burma News on Nov 26th, 2007 1 Comment »
Russia’s Last Royal Mystery Unraveled
CLIFFORD J. LEVY, The New York Times ; Posted: 2007-11-24
YEKATERINBURG, Russia (Nov. 25) — On the outskirts of this burly industrial center, off a road like any other, on a nowhere scrap of land — here unfolded the final act of one of the last century’s most momentous events.
A short way [...]
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26 Nov 2007 08:35:18 GMT Source: Reuters
PATNA, India, Nov 26 (Reuters) – Hundreds of Buddhist monks, nuns and students marched against Myanmar’s military regime in eastern India on Monday, urging Buddhists around the world to unite against the junta, officials said on Monday.
At least 1,000 monks and nuns, draped in yellow robes, sang religious hymns [...]
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50 Missing After Boat Sinks Off Bangladesh
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: November 26, 2007
Filed at 2:55 a.m. ET
COX’S BAZAR, Bangladesh (AP) — More than 50 people were missing after a boat — possibly being ferried by human traffickers — sank Sunday off a southern Bangladesh island bordering Myanmar waters, a police official said.
The wooden fishing boat [...]
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Source: from Shan Gyi
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Source: Khin Ohnmar
Posted in News in Burmese on Nov 25th, 2007 No Comments »
References:
(AP) UN: Myanmar Must Free All Child Soldiers
(VOA) UN Chief Says Children’s Rights Violated in Burma
(United Nations news service) Secretary-General reports ‘grave violations’ of children’s rights in Myanmar
(Reuters) U.N. urges Myanmar to stop using child soldiers
(ABC news) Burma rebel group denies child soldier claims
Posted in Burma News on Nov 25th, 2007 No Comments »
BBC News
Monday, 19 November 2007
By Sue Lloyd-Roberts
Special Correspondent, BBC News
Despite the military’s riches many in Burma live in poverty
Undercover in Burma
The tourists have returned, the dead have been buried and the debris and blood cleared away from the temples and monasteries where the demonstrations began two months ago.
The government say it’s business as [...]
Posted in Burma News on Nov 25th, 2007 No Comments »
BBC News
Last Updated: Friday, 23 November 2007, 12:24 GMT
Mr Naing said he now wanted to get a job and support his family
A Burmese dissident who faced deportation to his troubled homeland has won his battle to stay in Britain. Lay Naing and his family fled Burma last year after being imprisoned and beaten for [...]
Posted in Supplementary Burma Digest on Nov 25th, 2007 No Comments »
ASEAN’s moral fibre
Excerpts from xpyre
I wish the world was simple, in black and white, 2 dimensional.
Now the Commonwealth has booted out Pakistan. To me, the booting out of Pakistan reveals ASEAN’s complete lack of moral fibre, in contrast.
Instead of allowing the UN’s Special Envoy Ibrahim Gambari to come out and brief Asean leaders on the [...]
Posted in Supplementary Burma Digest on Nov 25th, 2007 No Comments »
May I have a decent immigration policy, please?
By Hizami
Excerpts from
It’s long been apparent that a vicious undercurrent of xenophobia runs through Malaysian society,
cheerfully whipped up by the mainstream press, and
championed by a worrying spectrum of individuals.
Remember the panicky TV3 reports on ‘immigrants’ flooding KLCC during public holidays, and
Wong Chun Wai’s editorial on how ‘uncomfortable’ it [...]
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By JULIA ZAPPEI,
AP
Posted: 2007-11-24 20:03:59
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) – Malaysian police fired tear gas and water cannon Sunday to disperse thousands of ethnic Indians who tried to stage a rally that had been banned amid government accusations that its organizers were stirring racial hatred.
Witnesses claimed dozens of demonstrators were beaten and arrested.
At least 5,000 people [...]