A Suggestion by NDF to NCGUB (Burmese)
Posted in Burma News on Dec 31st, 2008 No Comments »
Archive for December, 2008
Myanmar signs gas deal with China
Posted in Burma News on Dec 30th, 2008 No Comments »
AP
YANGON, Myanmar -Myanmar’s government and four foreign companies have signed an agreement to sell natural gas from offshore fields to neighboring China, state media said Monday.
The agreement, signed last Wednesday, was the first for sales of gas from Myanmar’s northwestern offshore fields.
The New Light of Myanmar newspaper said South Korea’s Daewoo International and Korea Gas [...]
Burma Freedom Calendar 2009
Posted in Book Club on Dec 30th, 2008 No Comments »
Please click here, or on the picture above, to download the calendar.
Photo: Myanmar Diaspora got a taste of democracy in Bangladesh
Posted in Documentary Photos on Dec 30th, 2008 No Comments »
- reported by Naing NaingAfter two years of care-taker government, Bangladesh this Monday held new general elections.
Many people of Rakhine ethnicity, originally from Myanamr, are now residing in Bangladesh. Some of them are Bangladeshi citizens now. And in Bangladesh they get a taste of genuine democracy, which they could never have in their ancestral land [...]
9 Activists calling for release of Aung San Suu Kyi arrested
Posted in Burma News on Dec 30th, 2008 No Comments »
30 December 2008
Today, the National League for Democracy (NLD) party held a ceremony to mark the 61st anniversary of Burma Independence Day at their headquarters.
After the event, nine NLD Youth members marched from NLD headquarters to Sanchaung Township, Rangoon, holding photographs and placards with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s image. They called for the release [...]
Myanmar Diaspora got a taste of democracy in Bangladesh
Posted in Burma News on Dec 30th, 2008 No Comments »
- reported by Naing Naing
After two years of care-taker government, Bangladesh this Monday held new general elections.
Many people of Rakhine ethnicity, originally from Myanamr, are now residing in Bangladesh. Some of them are Bangladeshi citizens now. And in Bangladesh they get a taste of genuine democracy, which they could never have in their ancestral land [...]
Can you answer?
Posted in Articles in Burmese on Dec 29th, 2008 No Comments »
Than Shwe & his Puppet-master
Posted in Cartoons & Humour on Dec 29th, 2008 No Comments »
138th Political Prisoner died in Burma’s Prison
Posted in Burma News on Dec 29th, 2008 No Comments »
Date- 29th December, 2008
The 138th political prisoner has died in Burma’s prisons, the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (Burma) has learned. Htay Lwin Oo passed away in Mandalay prison yesterday. He was suffering from tuberculosis.
Htay Lwin Oo, a teacher and member of the National League for Democracy from Amarapura Township in Mandalay, was arrested on [...]
Photo: Karen New Year Celebration in Korea
Posted in Documentary Photos on Dec 28th, 2008 1 Comment »
- reported by Salai Kyaw Kyaw
Karen ethnic people from Myanmar/Burma, now residing in South Korea as expatriates, today hold celebrations to mark their traditional New Year.
UN General Assembly Decision on Myanmar Human-rights Abuses (Burmese)
Posted in Articles in Burmese on Dec 28th, 2008 No Comments »
Hopes for the New Year (Burmese)
Posted in Articles in Burmese on Dec 28th, 2008 No Comments »
Jailed Blogger’s Father, the Late Actor Tun Tin Naing
Posted in Campaigns & posters on Dec 28th, 2008 No Comments »
Asia Human Rights Commission Report 2008 on Myanmar/Burma
Posted in Book Club on Dec 28th, 2008 No Comments »
Please click here, or on the picture above, to read the report.
UN envoy will not return to Burma
Posted in Burma News on Dec 28th, 2008 No Comments »
The United Nations special envoy for Burma, Ibrahim Gambari, says he will not return to the country just for the sake of it.
Mr Gambari says the past year has been disappointing with virtually no progress in his attempts to get meaningful political talks between the military government and the Opposition.
He says there will have to [...]
Ashin Ottoma Day Honoured by Rakhine Activists in Exile
Posted in Documentary Photos on Dec 28th, 2008 No Comments »
- reported by Naing Naing (Sittwe)
Concise History of Zo Indigenous People
Posted in CULTURE on Dec 28th, 2008 3 Comments »
- by M. Rex Khai Nou
The ZO People were then inhabitants of the undivided country of their own, roughly 91,000 square miles, covering present hill areas of the Tipperah Hills, Tripura (India); the Cachar Hills, Assam (India); the south-eastern and western hills of Manipur (India); the Lushai Hills, now called Mizoram (India); the Chittagong Hills [...]
Multi-faith Prayers for Freedom of Political Prisoners in Burma, at Daibusu Temple in Japan
Posted in Documentary Photos on Dec 28th, 2008 No Comments »
- reported by Kay Thi