Posted in Articles in English on Jan 29th, 2009 No Comments »
- by AKS
I am not a Facebook generation but I was introduced to it lately and using it to connect with some of my family members, cousins, niceces and nephews. Out of curiousity, I started looking around Burmese youths around the world and I saw a trend; some youth are proud to say that they [...]
Posted in Campaigns & posters on Jan 29th, 2009 No Comments »
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By Ian Deary
Ian Deary is Professor of Psychology, Centre for Cognitive Ageing and Cognitive Epidemiology, Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh.
EDINBURGH – People with higher intelligence test scores in childhood and early adulthood tend to live longer. This result has been found among people from Australia, Denmark, England and Wales, Scotland, Sweden, [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Jan 29th, 2009 No Comments »
By Guy Sorman
Guy Sorman, a French philosopher and economist, is the author of Empire of Lies.
PARIS – Hollywood history is often nonsensical, but filmmakers usually have the good sense not to whitewash killers and sadists. Steven Soderbergh’s new film about Che Guevara, however, does that, and more.
Che the revolutionary romantic, as depicted by Benecio del [...]
Posted in Burma News on Jan 28th, 2009 No Comments »
By MICHAEL CASEY,
AP
BANGKOK, Thailand -Myanmar faces food shortages in many parts of the country, largely because of last year’s cyclone and a rat infestation that destroyed crops, according to a U.N. report released Wednesday.
About 185,000 tons of emergency food aid will be needed this year throughout the impoverished country, said the report by the United [...]
Posted in Burma News on Jan 28th, 2009 No Comments »
Khonumthung News, 28 January 2009
Block/village chairmen are collecting Kyat 15,000 from block/villages in ThanTlang town, Chin state for one year to free them from forced labour from 2009 January.
A report said that there are total of three blocks in ThanTlang town. People in block I have started to pay to be free throughout the year [...]
Posted in Burma News on Jan 27th, 2009 No Comments »
Burmese exiled MPs, making up the MPU, travelled from the US, Thailand, India, Norway, Australia and other countries to a seaside town near Dublin, Ireland, to elect an exile prime minister and to discuss the situation in Burma. Dr Sein Win, first cousin of Burmese people’s democratic leader Aung San Suu Kyi, has been re-elected [...]
Posted in Burma News on Jan 27th, 2009 No Comments »
- Independent Mon News Agency
The Mon National Democratic Front (MNDF) supports the New Mon State Party’s (NMSP) recent announcement that it will not participate in the 2010 election, say sources in Burma and Thailand.
After over two weeks of deliberations in the NMSP’s 7th Party Congress, in the third week of January the NMSP announced it [...]
Posted in Campaigns & posters on Jan 26th, 2009 1 Comment »
We, the team of BURMA DIGEST, representing our readers, here send our felicitations and congratulations to the newly elected extended exile government NCGUB (National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma), and its elected Priminister Minister & Ministers.
And we also praise and cheer and appreciate the wisdom and moral courage of the exile parliament MPU [...]
Posted in Burma News on Jan 26th, 2009 No Comments »
The fourth conference of Burma’s elected people’s representatives (of 1990 election, which is the last free and fair election in Burma) hosted in Dublin by the government of Republic of Ireland has elected a new exile government for Burma.
The conference in Ireland is attended by members of the MPU (Union of Members of Parliament, in [...]
Posted in Burma News on Jan 26th, 2009 No Comments »
Shan Herald Agency for News
Burma’s Armed Forces is training hard in the use of Russian-made Igla MANPADS (Man-portable air defense missile system) in Naypyitaw, the new capital, according to veteran border watchers.
The training course is being conducted by the Office of the Air Defense General, whose boss is Lt-Gen Myint Hlaing, formerly Commander of [...]
Posted in Articles in English on Jan 26th, 2009 3 Comments »
CHANGE, CHANGE, everywhere people are waiting and expecting what change will be happening next. What will be new policy and new approach on Myanmar from new US President Barack Obama? People also expect and wait for new political party registration law from Myanmar authorities. When will it be announced? Who will be main players in [...]
Posted in Poems in Burmese on Jan 25th, 2009 No Comments »
Posted in Cartoons & Humour on Jan 25th, 2009 No Comments »
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Posted in Burma News on Jan 25th, 2009 No Comments »
The UN special envoy will once again try to persuade the Myanmar military junta to shed its stubborn attitude and kick start a dialogue with the Opposition to usher in political reconciliation even as the regime prepares for general elections in 2010 .
In yet another attempt to make the obdurate Myanmar military junta see reason [...]
Posted in Documentary Photos on Jan 25th, 2009 No Comments »
- report by Kay Thi
Pro-democracy activists, exiled in Japan, this weekend made a political meeting in Tokyo to discuss strategies for Burma’s political future.
Posted in Articles in English on Jan 24th, 2009 No Comments »
When the Army Commander seized political power in 1962, where were the mass demonstrations ?
Why—apart from a student protest some months later—was there no significant public opposition ?
Amongst possible reasons, here are three :–
A majority of Burmans felt it their historic right to dominate non-Burman neighbours, and the latter were showing increasing signs of restiveness [...]
Posted in Burma News on Jan 24th, 2009 No Comments »
Forbes list 2008
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and democracy icon, who has been under house arrest since 2003 May 30 Dipeyin Massacare was chosen as No. 38th of 100 most powerful women in Forbes list 2008.
If she can enjoy freedom to build Burma in a democratic way, how much powerful do [...]