Wings (Burmese Poem)
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Archive for January, 2009
Clarification about Credential Challenge vote in MPU Congress (Burmese)
Posted in Articles in Burmese on Jan 31st, 2009 1 Comment »
Unity Analysis (Burmese)
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UN Envoy Gambari in Burma, his 7th visit
Posted in Burma News on Jan 31st, 2009 No Comments »
UN envoy Ibrahim Gambari is in Rangoon, Burma, Saturday on his seventh such visit. He is scheduled to stay all four days of his visit in Rangoon, the commercial capital of Burma. He has so far got no invitation to go and see the supremo of ruling military regime Senior Genaral Than Shwe in Naypyidaw, [...]
Junta Lackey Militant Kyant-phut Group start nominating candidates for 2010 elections
Posted in Burma News on Jan 31st, 2009 No Comments »
Khonumthung News, 31 January 2009
The military regime’s lackey militany group, calling themselves as Union Solidarity and Development Association (USDA), but commonly known as Kyant-phut, has selected their candidates in Hakha city, Chin state for the 2010 general elections of Burma announced by the military junta.
The USDA has selected Mr. Thatmang and Mr. Ni Kung who [...]
Obama Tells Us To Challenge Our World
Posted in Articles in English on Jan 31st, 2009 No Comments »
By Victor Sang Khambil
The inauguration of Barrack Hussein Obama as President of United States of America on January 20, 2009 was visibly the birth of political liberalism and the unstoppable striking force of democracy of the people, democracy by the people and of course democracy for the people. This new era not only prompts the [...]
The Death of Trust
Posted in WORLD Digest on Jan 31st, 2009 No Comments »
By Sin-ming Shaw
Sin-ming Shaw is a former Visiting Fellow in History at Oxford and Princeton universities.
BANGKOK – A friend recently asked a seemingly naïve question: “What is money? How do I know I can trust that it is worth what it says it is worth?” We learn in introductory economics that money is a medium [...]
Rohingya not recognized as ethnic group in Myanmar
Posted in Burma News on Jan 30th, 2009 No Comments »
According to AP news
YANGON, Myanmar -Myanmar said the Rohingya boat people found adrift in the Andaman Sea last week could not have come from its shores because they are not among its recognized ethnic groups, state media reported Friday.
The Myanmar Ahlin, a state-controlled newspaper in Myanmar, said that foreign media had suggested that the [...]
Clarification about vile rumours on MPU Congress
Posted in Burma News on Jan 30th, 2009 1 Comment »
Clarification: The news of MPU Dublin Congress
30-1-09
There was a false rumour that a brawl broke out in the MPU Congress held in Dublin. I would like to clarify that it is not true.
I am the first person called for first aid care. I am also the closest colleague of the persons reported in the news.
No [...]
Clarification about vile rumours on MPU Congress
Posted in Articles in English on Jan 30th, 2009 2 Comments »
Clarification: The news of MPU Dublin Congress
30-1-09
There was a false rumour that a brawl broke out in the MPU Congress held in Dublin. I would like to clarify that it is not true.
I am the first person called for first aid care. I am also the closest colleague of the persons reported in the news.
No [...]
UN Envoy Gambari hopes to meet Aung San Suu Kyi
Posted in Burma News on Jan 30th, 2009 No Comments »
The United Nations special envoy to Burma/Myanmar, Ibrahim Gambari, is reported to be hoping to meet with people’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi during his visit; he is expected to arrive in Burma’s commercial capital Rangoon/Yangon on Saturday. He will stay in burma for four days.
Gambari is expected to try to revive his so [...]
An American’s New Year Eve in Burma
Posted in Articles in English on Jan 30th, 2009 1 Comment »
- by Jim McNalis
Part 1. NIGHT BUS TO RANGOON
On one of my recent trips to Burma I spent some time in Moulmein. I had arrived there by train from Rangoon . The condition of the train and rails was so decrepit that I found myself constantly bounced up and slammed back down onto my [...]
Chair (Burmese)
Posted in Articles in Burmese on Jan 30th, 2009 1 Comment »
COIN Strategy, part 1 (Burmese)
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Myanmar/Rakhine Diaspora Traditional Performences, in Bangladesh
Posted in CULTURE on Jan 30th, 2009 No Comments »
- reported by Niaing Naing
Burma Censored Obama Speech
Posted in Burma News on Jan 30th, 2009 No Comments »
Burmese authorities made several cuts to U.S. President Barack Obama’s inauguration speech, in particular the sections dealing with authoritarian regimes.
One section of the speech which ran, “To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history; but that we will [...]
UK Government said Burma’s 2010 Election Will Entrench Military Rule
Posted in Burma News on Jan 30th, 2009 No Comments »
- Report courtesy of Burma Campaign UK
British Foreign Office Minister Bill Rammell MP has strongly criticised the Burmese military regime’s elections planned for 2010, saying that they are “designed to entrench military rule behind a facade of civilian government.”
Bill Rammell’s written statement came in response to a Parliamentary Question by Jim Cunningham MP on 12th [...]
Change & Chain (cartoon)
Posted in Cartoons & Humour on Jan 30th, 2009 No Comments »