Posted in Burma News on Feb 28th, 2009 No Comments »
According to the German news agency DPA:
US singled out Myanmar, as well as Latin American powers Venezuela and Bolivia for having “failed demonstrably” to combat drug trafficking in their own countries.
Venezuela has become a major trafficking route for the US and Europe, while Myanmar remains the largest source of methamphetamine pills in Asia, the US [...]
Posted in Poems/Songs in English on Feb 28th, 2009 3 Comments »
Helping Burma is a
Matter of the Heart
- by Jeffrey Karl Hellman
In tears I write these words,
In tears my words will start,
I heard a voice for human rights,
Helping Burma is a matter of the heart.
For years the people of Burma,
have been tortured by a disease,
A tumor, a cancer, malicious, Metastasis,
Bear with me if you please.
See cancer [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Feb 27th, 2009 No Comments »
By Chris Patten
Chris Patten is a former EU Commissioner for External Relations, Chairman of the British Conservative Party, and was the last British Governor of Hong Kong. He is currently Chancellor of Oxford University and a member of the British House of Lords.
LONDON – Bipartisanship seems to have taken a drubbing in Washington since President [...]
Posted in Book Club on Feb 27th, 2009 No Comments »
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Posted in Poems/Songs in English on Feb 26th, 2009 No Comments »
by D.Law 21 Feb 2009
(Sing to the tune of Somewhere My Love in Dr. Zhivago, ’60’s)
First Verse
Someday My Friends — there will be Freedom Bells
Although right now — we’re in a Land of Hell
Somewhere a Spark — Revolution, we’ll start
All of our Dreams — all will come true at last (British pronunciation)
Chorus 1 :
Peo-ple — [...]
Posted in Poems/Songs in English on Feb 26th, 2009 No Comments »
by D.Law 21 Feb 2009
[Sing to the tune of Obladi, Oblada by the Beatles, mid '60's]
First Verse
SPDC Than Shwe is a fearful man
Clenching his two balls within his hands
He is fearful of losing his balls of power
And so he clenches tightly in his bloody hands
Chorus 1:
Oh Burmese, Oh Burma!
President, Help! President Obama, Help!
In a couple [...]
Posted in Poems/Songs in English on Feb 26th, 2009 No Comments »
by D.Law, 21 February 2009
[Sing to the melody of BRIDGE on RIVER KWAI, circa 1956]
First Verse
Than Shwe, – an evil sick old man, – Pan Thay !
Impotent, flower dead, – Than Shwe
He wants more power, – so he refuses – to let go
Of pow– pow– pow-pow pow– pow-er
Than Shwe, – an evil sick old man, [...]
Posted in Articles in Burmese on Feb 26th, 2009 1 Comment »
Posted in Burma News on Feb 26th, 2009 No Comments »
“What we’re asking of other ASEAN members really is, first and foremost, welcome their thoughts and ideas on how we can best work together,” Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Scot Marciel told reporters in Vietnam.
“Our goal vis-a-vis Myanmar or Burma remains to encourage release of political prisoners, dialogue between the government and the [...]
Posted in Burma News on Feb 26th, 2009 No Comments »
According to an AFP news report:
The United States lashed out at the Myanmar regime’s human rights record Wednesday, saying the military was “brutally” suppressing its citizens and razing entire villages.
In an annual global report on human rights, the State Department said Myanmar’s ruling junta carried out numerous extrajudicial killings along with rape and torture without [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Feb 26th, 2009 No Comments »
By Richard Beasley
Richard Beasley is the Director of the Medical Research Institute of New Zealand.
WELLINGTON – Paracetamol (known as acetaminophen in the United States) is one of the world’s most commonly used drugs. It is the preferred medication for relieving fever and pain because of its safety profile. However, 10 years ago, a [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Feb 26th, 2009 No Comments »
By David Rieff
David Rieff is the author of At the Point of a Gun: Democratic Dreams and Armed Intervention. His most recent book, Swimming in a Sea of Death: A Son’s Memoir, is about his mother, the novelist and critic Susan Sontag.
MEXICO CITY – Shortly before America’s elections last November, then [...]
Posted in Editorials & Op/Eds on Feb 24th, 2009 No Comments »
- By Dr Sein Myint
On February 17, 2009, Burma main democratic opposition party – the National League for Democracy (NLD) issued the Special statement -02/12/0, repeating its call for the dialogue between Senior General Than Shwe, the Chairperson of SPDC and Daw Aung San Suu Kyi., General Secetary of NLD. While many of facts [...]
Posted in Burma News on Feb 24th, 2009 No Comments »
Accoridng to United Nations Press Release:
“There are still hundreds and hundreds of detainees (held) under political reasons in Buram/Myanmar,” the United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon said yesterday, after a meeting with his Group of Friends on Myanmar, welcomed the release of the political prisoners. Group of Friends on Myanmar includes neighbouring countries of Myanmar, the [...]
Posted in Burma News on Feb 24th, 2009 No Comments »
The Presidency of the EU strongly calls for an immediate and unconditional release of all political prisoners and detainees, including Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, lifting all restrictions on political parties, and all-inclusive dialogue between the authorities and the democratic forces, including ethnic groups.
The Presidency recalls that the UN GA resolution stated that the political [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Feb 24th, 2009 1 Comment »
By Rebecca MacKinnon and Evgeny Morozov
Rebecca MacKinnon is a fellow at the Open Society Institute.
Evgeny Morozov is a fellow at the Open Society Institute.
NEW YORK – Even the most cold-hearted realists would agree that the failure of Communist censorship played a [...]
Posted in Articles in Burmese on Feb 24th, 2009 No Comments »
Posted in Documentary Photos on Feb 23rd, 2009 No Comments »
- reported by Kay Thi