Posted in Articles in English on Feb 11th, 2009 No Comments »
By Nava Thakuria
The author Nava Thakuria is a Guwahati, India, based independent journalist.
THE PRO-DEMOCRACY Indian civil society groups and the exile Burmese in India came come together to raise voice for the detained 34 Burmese freedom fighters in Kolkata for their immediate release from the Presidency Jail and to mount pressure on the United Nations [...]
Posted in Burma News on Feb 11th, 2009 No Comments »
- report from Milieudefensie (Friends of the Earth – Netherlands), through Burma Campaign UK
Despite a European trade ban, Dutch timber companies are continuing to import Burmese wood. Today Milieudefensie has published a research which shows that the wood arrives in Europe via a loophole in the sanction regulations. The Milieudefensie ‘Burmese wood inspection team’, cordoned [...]
Posted in Campaigns & posters on Feb 11th, 2009 No Comments »
Posted in Campaigns & posters on Feb 11th, 2009 No Comments »
Posted in Burma News on Feb 11th, 2009 No Comments »
According to AP news,
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Tuesday at a news conference that he looks forward to building on special envoy Ibrahim Gambari’s recent visit “with a view to further promoting national dialogue and reconciliation.”
Gambari “had good discussions there even though one may not be totally satisfied,” Ban said.
“I would again call on [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Feb 10th, 2009 1 Comment »
By Martti Ahtisaari, Wolfgang Ischinger and Albert Rohan
Martti Ahtisaari, a former president of Finland, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2008.
Albert Rohan, a former Secretary General of Austria’s foreign ministry, was deputy UN Special Envoy for the final status negotiations for Kosovo.
Wolfgang Ischinger, a former German [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Feb 10th, 2009 No Comments »
By Dani Rodrik
Dani Rodrik, Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, is the first recipient of the Social Science Research Council’s Albert O. Hirschman Prize. His latest book is One Economics, Many Recipes: Globalization, Institutions, and Economic Growth.
CAMBRIDGE – Capitalism is in the throes of its most severe crisis [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Feb 10th, 2009 No Comments »
By Barry Rubin
- Barry Rubin is director of the Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center and editor of the Middle East Review of International Affairs (MERIA). His latest books are The Israel-Arab Reader, The Truth About Syria, and The Long War for Freedom: The Arab Struggle for Democracy in the Middle [...]
Posted in Burma News on Feb 10th, 2009 No Comments »
Dr Noeleen Heyzer, UN Under-Secretary General and Executive Secretary of the Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP), at the launch of The Post-Nargis Response and Preparedness Plan (PONREPP), said that the right architecture is essential for the next phase of post-Nargis-Cyclone recovery in Burma/Myanmar.
“Strong institutions, effective mechanisms and accountable processes are [...]
Posted in Documentary Photos on Feb 9th, 2009 No Comments »
- reported by Kay Thi
Human rights activists in Japan this week made demonstrations and public rallies, attended by many hundreds to thousand, to call Myanmar military government to release all political prisoners immediately.
The rallies are organized by the exile branch in Japan of Burma/Myanmar’s main pro-democracy party National League for Democracy (NLD-LA-Japan).
Posted in Documentary Photos on Feb 9th, 2009 No Comments »
- photos by Kay Thi
Myanmar Diaspora in Japan celebrated this week Burma’s 62nd Anniversary of Union Day which falls on 12.02.2009.
Posted in Documentary Photos on Feb 9th, 2009 No Comments »
- photos by Min Htet Naing
An exile branch in Malaysia of Burma’s main democracy party National League for Democracy (NLD-LA-Maysia), celebrated this week Burma’s 62nd Anniversary of Union Day which falls on 12.02.2009.
Posted in Burma News on Feb 8th, 2009 No Comments »
The Shan State Army – a Shan ethnic resistance group in north-east Myanmar – has opposed the junta’s planned general election in 2010, joining a growing number of ethnic minority groups determined to upset the polls, media reports and analysts said Sunday. Shan State Army leader Colonel Yod Serk said the SSA was one of [...]
Posted in Burma News on Feb 7th, 2009 No Comments »
A group of Burmese dissident youths, known as Generation Wave, is launching a new campaign in Rangoon calling upon the people to fight for democracy in the country; graffiti on the walls, posters and leaflets calling for a new government to lead the country.
The new campaign is called Change New Government, a play on the [...]
Posted in CULTURE on Feb 6th, 2009 No Comments »
Posted in Burma News on Feb 6th, 2009 1 Comment »
Breaking a European Union boycott of the military-regime in Burma, two European ministers last month paid a semi-official visit to the country.
The Danish minister of Development Cooperation Ulla Tørnæs and the Norwegian minister of development and Environment Erik Solheim entered the military ruled country on 21st of January as the highest ranking Europeans [...]
Posted in Articles in Burmese on Feb 6th, 2009 1 Comment »
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