Activist (part 7)
Posted in Articles in Burmese on Apr 5th, 2009 No Comments »
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Archive for April, 2009
Flames of Life (Burmese Poem)
Posted in Poems in Burmese on Apr 5th, 2009 No Comments »
State Terrorism & Burma (Burmese)
Posted in Articles in Burmese on Apr 4th, 2009 No Comments »
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Third Strike will end it all (Burmese Poem)
Posted in Poems in Burmese on Apr 4th, 2009 No Comments »
17 members of US Congress urged Hillary Clinton to keep Burma sanctioned
Posted in Burma News on Apr 4th, 2009 1 Comment »
According to AFP news
In a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, 17 members of Congress said they were “greatly concerned” by indications that the United States was considering lifting sanctions on Myanmar.
The lawmakers, led by longtime Aung San Suu Kyi champion Joseph Crowley, said that Myanmar’s leader Than Shwe had shown no desire to [...]
GW: Free our brothers Now!
Posted in Campaigns & posters on Apr 4th, 2009 No Comments »
Members of Generation Wave activists who are being incarcerated in military regime’s notorious prisons in Burma now.
A leading US senator wants Burma sanctions lifted
Posted in Burma News on Apr 4th, 2009 1 Comment »
According to AFP news
Jim Webb, who heads the United States Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee on Asia, said the United States needed an “aggressive diplomatic posture” on Myanmar but one that was more “constructive.”
“Certainly the way that we approach it now I don’t believe has had the results that people want it to have,” Webb, a [...]
Aid To Myanmar Not Enough To Meet Existing Needs
Posted in Burma News on Apr 4th, 2009 No Comments »
Press Release: United Nations
New York, Apr 3 2009 1:10PM The level of humanitarian assistance that is currently being provided in Myanmar is much lower than the actual needs of the people, a senior United Nations relief official said today at a donors meeting in Yangon, calling for increased support for cyclone-affected communities and others.
Bishow Parajuli, [...]
The Vanishing Bomb
Posted in WORLD Digest on Apr 3rd, 2009 No Comments »
By Aleksander Kwasniewski, Tadeusz Mazowiecki and Lech Walesa
Aleksander Kwasniewski was Poland’s president from 1995 to 2005.
Tadeusz Mazowiecki was prime minister in Poland’s first non-communist government (1989-1990).
Lech Walesa, leader of the Solidarity movement and Nobel Peace Prize laureate (1983), was Poland’s president from 1990 to 1995.
WARSAW [...]
US wants Myanmar out of isolation
Posted in Burma News on Apr 2nd, 2009 No Comments »
According to AFP news:
The United States wants to forge a common strategy with Asia to coax military-run Myanmar out of isolation, a senior official said yesterday, suggesting six-way talks with North Korea could be a model. President Barack Obama’s administration has launched a review of policy on Myanmar, also known as Burma, where a US [...]
Junta moving towards cooperation with US
Posted in Burma News on Apr 2nd, 2009 No Comments »
According to AFP news:
The US government donated 16,000 tons of rice to typhoon-ravaged Irrawaddy delta in Burma/Myanmar yesterday, prompting the normally hostile state-run media to the cover the news, an official of the US Embassy in Yangon confirmed.
“There were five journalists from Ministry of Information who joined our trip for the first time,” the official [...]
Philippines urges Myanmar to protect human rights
Posted in Burma News on Apr 2nd, 2009 No Comments »
MANILA, Philippines (AP) – Myanmar should free all political detainees and fulfill a long-standing pledge to democratize to make a new Southeast Asian human rights body credible, the Philippine foreign secretary said Thursday.
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations plans to launch a landmark human rights body in October during an annual summit. But diplomats have [...]
Internet service disrupted in Myanmar
Posted in Burma News on Apr 2nd, 2009 No Comments »
YANGON, Myanmar (AP): The Internet is running at a snail’s pace in Myanmar, costing travel agents and exporters much-needed business and forcing computer cafes to turn away customers.
The military-run government on Wednesday blamed the slowdown on maintenance it has been doing since March 21 on an undersea cable in the Bay of Bengal. State-owned Internet [...]
Peaock will kick out Than Shwe (cartoon)
Posted in Cartoons & Humour on Apr 1st, 2009 No Comments »
Hailing Armed Forces Day (cartoon)
Posted in Cartoons & Humour on Apr 1st, 2009 No Comments »
Photo: Rakhine National Day ceremony in Bangladesh
Posted in CULTURE on Apr 1st, 2009 No Comments »
- reported by Naing Naing
North Korea’s Missile Tantrum
Posted in WORLD Digest on Apr 1st, 2009 No Comments »
By Sung-chul Yang
Yang Sung-chul, chairman of the Advisory Committee of the Kim Dae-Jung Peace Foundation and a former Korean Ambassador to the United States, is the author of The North and South Korean Political System: A Comparative Analysis.
SEOUL – Once again, tension is rising across Asia over North Korea’s missile program. [...]
Reasoning with Iran
Posted in WORLD Digest on Apr 1st, 2009 No Comments »
By Francois Nicoullaud
François Nicoullaud, a former French diplomat, was France’s ambassador to Iran from 2001-2005.
PARIS – Negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program have been stalled for more than three years. For six years, the voices of reason have largely been drowned out, with passions and delusions claiming primacy.
Countries sitting on their own nuclear arsenals [...]