Posted in Burma News on Feb 20th, 2009 No Comments »
According to an AFP news report:
The United Nations special rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar, Tomas Ojea Quintana, at the end of his six-day visit there today said that Myanmar/Burma’s human rights situation remains “challenging” and there are very few positive signs of improvement.
“The human rights situation is still challenging. It is difficult for me [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Feb 20th, 2009 No Comments »
By Jeffrey D. Sachs
Professor of Economics and Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. He is also a Special Adviser to United Nations Secretary-General on the Millennium Development Goals.
NEW YORK – The world has yet to achieve the macroeconomic policy coordination that will be needed to restore economic growth following the Great Crash of [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Feb 19th, 2009 No Comments »
By Ian Bremmer
Ian Bremmer is President of Eurasia Group and a Senior Fellow at the World Policy Institute.
NEW YORK – Early this month, Kyrgyzstan’s president Kurmanbek Bakiyev went cap in hand to Moscow to ask for financial aid. To make his request more palatable, Bakiyev announced that he was demanding that the United [...]
Posted in Articles in Burmese on Feb 17th, 2009 1 Comment »
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According to the Associated Press
TOKYO -President Barack Obama’s administration is reviewing its policy toward Myanmar to see if it can more effectively promote reform in the military-ruled Southeast Asian nation, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Tuesday.
Clinton, on her first trip abroad as the top U.S. diplomat, said Washington “is looking at what steps [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Feb 17th, 2009 No Comments »
By Vishakha N Desai, Frank G Wisner, Charles R. Kaye and Alyssa Ayres
Vishakha N. Desai is the President of the Asia Society.
Frank G. Wisner was US Ambassador to India from 1994-1997.
Charles R. Kaye is former Chairman of the US-India Business Council and Chairman of the Asia Society.
Alyssa Ayres is director [...]
Posted in Editorials & Op/Eds on Feb 17th, 2009 No Comments »
Posted in Cartoons & Humour on Feb 16th, 2009 No Comments »
Posted in Burma News on Feb 16th, 2009 No Comments »
On Monday, United Nations special rapporteur for human rights, Tomas Ojea Quintana, visit the notorious Insein prison in Rangoon/Yangon. Details of whom he saw etc. there are not yet known.
Quintana, also on Sunday, during his trip to the Karen State (an eastern state of Burma where ethnic Karen people live), visited Hpa-An prison. A 28 [...]
Posted in Burma News on Feb 16th, 2009 No Comments »
According to an AP news report;
UN human rights envoy Tomas Ojea Quintana travelled on Sunday to Myanmar’s eastern Karen state, a day after a reported attack by ethnic Karen resistance forces on a town there.
(Karen National Union released a statement today that they had nothing to do with the alleged shellings.)
Human rights groups have repeatedly [...]
Posted in Documentary Video on Feb 15th, 2009 No Comments »
- reported by NLD-LA-UK
The exile branch in UK of Burma’s main pro-democracy party National League for Democracy (NLD-LA-UK) on 13.02.2009 held a prayer ceremony in honour of the 94th Birthday of Burma’s late national hero Bogyoke Aung San.
Posted in Documentary Photos on Feb 15th, 2009 No Comments »
- reported by Kay Thi
Posted in Documentary Photos on Feb 15th, 2009 No Comments »
- reported by Salai Kyaw Kyaw
Ethnic Diaspora from Myanmar, currently residing in South Korea, today hold celebrations in honour of the 62nd Anniversary of Burma’s Union Day, which fell on 12.02.2009.
Posted in Articles in English on Feb 15th, 2009 No Comments »
By Dr Win Naing
Dr Win Naing is Chairman of the exile UK branch of Burma’s National League for Deomcracy (NLD-LA-UK).
IT WAS a fine and sunny day in Barcelona, similar weather as in Burma; we were invited there by Burma Campaign (Spain) to hold a conference, which was co-hosted by the Catalyn Government.
We are delegations of [...]
Posted in Burma News on Feb 15th, 2009 No Comments »
A group of dissident youths, known as Generation Wave, and other pro-democracy minded young activists in Rangoon on Valentine Day made a “Valentine Rose” campaign.
They distributed “roses” to the public in crowded areas of downtown Rangoon, Citimart, Gamone Pwint Supermarket, Buddhist pagodas and temple, leisure parks, etc. They also handed out roses to travellers on [...]
Posted in Documentary Photos on Feb 15th, 2009 No Comments »
- reported by William Aung
The Forum of Burmese in Europe (12th conference) was held in Barcelona, Spain, this year on 7 & 8 of February.
It was attended by delegates of pro-democracy Burmese activists from all over Europe, and also by special guests from the National Coalition Government of Union of Burma (the NCGUB, the exile [...]
Posted in Burma News on Feb 15th, 2009 No Comments »
According to an AFP news report;
UN Human Rights expert Tomas Ojea Quintana arrived Saturday in Myanmar for a six-day visit to assess the development of human rights following his visit last summer.
Mr Quintana left for Karen State by helicopter early Sunday to meet with members of the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA), a group [...]