Mr. Creator’s cartoon (314) : May your wish be fulfilled !
Posted in Cartoons & Humour on May 28th, 2009 No Comments »
Archive for May, 2009
Mr. Creator’s cartoon (313): Ban Ki-moon will visit Burma again.
Posted in Cartoons & Humour on May 28th, 2009 No Comments »
Letter of Daw Suu submitted to court
Posted in Documentary Report on May 28th, 2009 No Comments »
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World focus on Burma (28 May 2009)
Posted in Burma News on May 28th, 2009 No Comments »
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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,’ [...]
Suu Kyi’s Party Says Myanmar Trial May End in ‘Days’ (Update1)
Posted in Burma News on May 28th, 2009 No Comments »
Bloomberg.com
Suu Kyi’s Party Says Myanmar Trial May End in ‘Days’ (Update1)
By Daniel Ten Kate and Michael Heath
May 28 (Bloomberg) — Members of Aung San Suu Kyi’s opposition party in Myanmar say they expect a verdict in her case within “days” as the regime seeks to wrap up a trial that may see her jailed for [...]
Kyat-pyay Gang (Burmese poem)
Posted in Poems in Burmese on May 27th, 2009 No Comments »
Only hell (Burmese poem)
Posted in Poems in Burmese on May 27th, 2009 No Comments »
Aung San Suu Kyi blames security breach
Posted in Burma News on May 27th, 2009 No Comments »
YANGON, Myanmar -Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi blamed a “security breach” for a bizarre visit by an American that put her in a prison courtroom this week and implied that Myanmar’s military government was at fault, according to a statement released by her political party Wednesday.
“The fact that I am the only party being [...]
World focus on Burma (27 May 2009)
Posted in Burma News on May 27th, 2009 No Comments »
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CSW joins global campaign to free Aung San Suu Kyi
ChristianToday
Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) has announced its participation in a new website calling for the release of Burma’s democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, …
Web campaign launched for Suu Kyi’s release
Mizzima.com
64forsuu.org is a website calling for the release of Nobel Peace Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi [...]
Obama urges Myanmar to release Aung San Suu Kyi
Posted in Burma News on May 27th, 2009 No Comments »
Obama urges Myanmar to release Aung San Suu Kyi
CNN International - ??
WASHINGTON (CNN) — President Obama called Tuesday for the immediate and unconditional release of Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who is on trial for subversion.
Obama said the Nobel Peace Prize winner’s detention is “arbitrary” and “unjustified” in accordance with the findings of a [...]
IHT team wins ASOE Journalism Prize
Posted in Campaigns & posters on May 27th, 2009 No Comments »
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(212) 327-9271
INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE TEAM WINS ASIA SOCIETY OSBORN ELLIOTT JOURNALISM PRIZE FOR COURAGEOUS REPORTING OF CYCLONE NARGIS AND ITS AFTERMATH
May 18, 2009—The Asia Society is pleased to announce that a team of writers from the International Herald Tribune has won the prestigious Osborn Elliott Prize for Excellence in Journalism on Asia for [...]
World focus on Burma (26 May 2009)
Posted in Burma News on May 26th, 2009 No Comments »
Over 600000 people sign petition for release of Burma’s political …
Narinjara News –
The campaign is said to have begun on Burma’s Human Rights Day (March 13) and the number of signatures, which could be collected within 10 weeks, …
Military junta lifts Aung San Suu Kyi’s house arrest order but …
AsiaNews.it –
Myanmar’s opposition [...]
Mizzima: Burmese News (26-5-2009)
Posted in News in Burmese on May 26th, 2009 2 Comments »
Myanmar ends Suu Kyi house arrest, keeps her detained: party
Posted in Burma News on May 26th, 2009 No Comments »
News @ AsiaOne
Myanmar ends Suu Kyi house arrest, keeps her detained: party
Tue, May 26, 2009
AFP
YANGON, May 26, 2009 (AFP) – Myanmar officially ended Aung San Suu Kyi’s six-year house arrest Tuesday – but she remains in jail facing charges over an incident in which a US man swam to her house, her party said.
Nyan [...]
NLD’s U Nyan Win: Press Release (video in Burmese)
Posted in Documentary Video on May 26th, 2009 No Comments »
Sources:
(1)YouTube shwenanda 2009?05?26?
(2) http://nldlaaus.blogspot.com/2009/05/25-05-2009-nldhq-office.html
Video: Burma – Trial: Aung San Suu Kyi set to testify in court
Posted in Documentary Video on May 26th, 2009 No Comments »
Video: Burma – Trial: Aung San Suu Kyi set to testify in court
France 24
2009?05?26?
IN THE FIELD: Opposition leader and Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi testified at her trial Tuesday, saying that she did not violate her house arrest when a man swam to her house. Suu Kyi faces up to five years in jail [...]
Suu Kyi to call detained deputy as witness: lawyer
Posted in Burma News on May 26th, 2009 No Comments »
Suu Kyi to call detained deputy as witness: lawyer
AFP -
YANGON (AFP) — Lawyers for Myanmar pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi said they will call the detained deputy leader of her opposition political party as a witness at her trial.
Tin Oo, the vice chairman of the National League for Democracy (NLD), has been [...]
World focus on Burma (25 May 2009)
Posted in Burma News on May 25th, 2009 No Comments »
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Aung San Suu Kyi set to testify in latest trial
CBC.ca –
Human rights groups and the international community have derided the trial as a pretext to keep Suu Kyi imprisoned before 2010’s national elections. …
Suu Kyi to testify in own defense
United Press International –
YANGON, Myanmar, May 25 (UPI) — Myanmar democracy leader Aung San [...]