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Online campaign gathers support for Myanmar’s Suu Kyi

CNN –

“It is not any action of yours, but your house arrest, which symbolizes the suppression of Burmese democracy, that is criminal. It is your trial, …

Myanmar junta allows only one witness for Aung San Suu Kyi defence

Monsters and Critics.com –

… ‘Saving Suu is Saving Burma,’ witnesses said. Suu Kyi’s trial has been widely criticized by the international community and even some of Myanmar’s close …

Brown to Burma: Release Suu Kyi

InTheNews.co.uk –

The auspicious date of the Beijing Olympics opening ceremony will be marked for very different reasons by the people of Burma. Full Story Gordon Brown has …

China’s race to supremacy

guardian.co.uk –

In those years China has come to support even more delinquent regimes such as Burma, Zimbabwe and Sudan in order to keep the international arena unsettled, …

Ministers confront Myanmar

Phnom Penh Post –

… said EU and ASEAN leaders were in a good position to pressure Myanmar’s leaders for reform. “I feel that the Burmese government is abusing the law [in] …

US Man Says God Led Him To Suu Kyi

OfficialWire –

by OfficialWire NewsDesk YANGON, MYANMAR — (OfficialWire) — 05/27/09 — The US Vietnam veteran who swam to Aung San Suu Kyi’s house in Myanmar told a court …

Recession breeds more repression

Toronto Star –

The Amnesty report, released yesterday, said governments in Burma (also known as Myanmar), North Korea and Zimbabwe have used food as a weapon to keep their …

Underlying the economic crisis is a human rights time bomb

Amnesty International UK –

Skyrocketing food prices have led to more hunger and disease in many countries, and in some countries – notably in Burma (Myanmar), North Korea and Zimbabwe …

Myanmar rejects foreign ‘interference’ over Suu Kyi

AFP –

Outside the court security officials arrested a lone protester in his 50s holding a banner in Burmese and English said “Saving Suu is saving Burma”, …

Myanmar junks foreign ‘pressure’ over Suu Kyi

Inquirer.net –

PHNOM PENH–Myanmar’s deputy foreign minister told Asian and European officials Thursday that the regime rejects foreign “pressure and interference” over …

Free Aung San Suu Kyi

PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung) –

2009-05-28 09:56:10 – Burma’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been named recipient of Mahatma Gandhi International Award for Peace and …

Junta rejects UN Security Council’s demand

Mizzima.com –

Following the trial against Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the UNSC issued a statement on May 22 expressing its concern over developments in Burma. …

India criticised for silence on Burma

Democratic Voice of Burma –

May 28, 2009 (DVB)–The Indian government has been lambasted by celebrities and former senior ministers for failing to condemn Burma’s ruling junta,…

Free Aung San Suu Kyi

PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung) –

2009-05-28 09:56:10 – Burma’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been named recipient of Mahatma Gandhi International Award for Peace and …

Myanmar Foreign Minister says Suu Kyi trial “not political”

Reuters South Africa –

In the first public defence of the trial by an official, Nyan Win accused the international community of meddling in the former Burma’s affairs and said …

Indian Human Rights Activists Support Suu Kyi

The Irrawaddy News Magazine –

A conference was held in the Constitution Club in New Delhi on Wednesday to show the Indian people’s solidarity with the people of Burma and Suu Kyi, …

Burmese court rejects Suu Kyi witnesses

Financial Times –

By Tim Johnston in Bangkok Lawyers for Aung San Suu Kyi, the detained Burmese opposition leader, say they are likely to have a verdict in the next few days …

Myanmar trial: Court disqualifies most of Aung San Suu Kyi witnesses

Chicago Tribune –

AP YANGON, Myanmar — The court trying Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi on allegations she violated the terms of her house arrest disqualified all …

Mongla follows Wa to reject border force proposal

Shan Herald Agency for News –

The Burma Army on the other hand, will be putting to use weapons imported from North Korea, according to a local businessman. “It will also kill a lot of …

Suu Kyi defence witnesses rejected

Aljazeera.net –

The sole defence witness in the trial of Aung San Suu Kyi, the detained Myanmar opposition leader, is expected to be called to testify on Thursday after the …

Amnesty International Report on Asia

GulfNews –

In May – only a week before the scheduled day for the referendum – Cyclone Nargis devastated parts of southern Myanmar, affecting approximately 2.4 million …

Get kids off Christmas Island, Amnesty urges

ABC Online –

Amnesty says the worst example is the military junta in Burma, which refused international assistance for more than two million survivors of Cyclone Nargis …

Foreign worker enclaves mushroom in Singapore

AFP –

Movie stills featuring the history of the country formerly known as Burma, as well as pictures of its famous actors, adorn the walls of the cosy restaurant …

Remembering Tiananmen Square

Forbes –

In Myanmar–or Burma as we then called it–thousands of democratic protesters took to the streets in 1988. They were gunned down, their leaders killed, …

Movie Reviews: Burma VJ, Up, What Goes Up

LA Weekly –

By Freelance GO BURMA VJ How we view the relationship between traditional and new media should forever be changed by Danish filmmaker Anders Østergaard’s …

MediaWATCH: Swine Flu to Affect One in Five

Phuketwan –

The zoo’s star residents had shown no interest in reproducing since they arrived on a 10-year loan from China in 2003. scmp.com Myanmar democracy icon Aung…

UPI NewsTrack TopNews

United Press International –

Critics suggest that the military junta ruling the country formerly known as Burma want Suu Kyi behind bars during elections next year. …

GFA Missionaries Reaching Out to Bengal Cyclone Victims

Christian News Wire (press release) –

Cyclone Nargis, a storm that claimed 146000 lives in Myanmar (Burma) last year. Gospel for Asia is an evangelical mission organization based in Carrollton …

Scribe a star to Myanmar refugees

The Japan Times –

The Kyoto native said his father was sent to Burma, as Myanmar used to be known, during World War II while Tanabe was a child. He recalls hearing tales from …

Chevron CEO: Chevron Is ‘Constructive Force’ In Myanmar

CNNMoney.com –

O’Reilly described a similar approach to the situation in Myanmar , formerly called Burma, where the government recently increased its pressure on human- …

One Way to Deal With Burma

UN Dispatch –

Second, it will address the widespread culture of impunity in Burma. Third, it has the potential to deter future crimes against humanity in Myanmar. …

Creative counseling

Daily Tar Heel –

There are more than 400 refugees from Myanmar, formerly Burma, in Chapel Hill. Most of them are of the Karen ethnic group, the minority group in Myanmar. …

Plight of Rohingya forgotten: HRW report

Mizzima.com –

by Solomon New Delhi (Mizzima) – Regional countries and neighbors should press Burma’s ruling junta to cease in the systematic abuse of the Rohingya and …

In northern Thailand, food gives a history lesson

BusinessWorld Online –

… also at times be called very Burmese. A popular dish is khao gan jin, or rice wrapped in banana leaves cooked in pork blood, and imported from Myanmar, …

EU-ASEAN: ever closer

7thSpace Interactive (press release) –

… Member states and the 10 ASEAN countries: Brunei, Burma/Myanmar, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. …

200 students to receive English Literacy Certificate

fwdailynews.com –

… Burma, Chad, China, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Mali, Mexico, Monland, Myanmar, …

Two bombs explode in Mon state

Democratic Voice of Burma –

Yesterday, the state-run New Light of Myanmar newspaper reported that a bomb had been found aboard a train headed for Burma’s capital, Naypyidaw. …