Recent Burmese News – 090719-20

Jul 20th, 2009

Myanmar junta imposes tight security for Martyr’s Day

Myanmar’s ruling junta Sunday imposed tight security for the commemoration of Martyr’s Day — honouring among others the father of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi — including a ban on television coverage of the annual event.
Big News Network.com

Asean not in favour of sanction on Myanmar

PHUKET: Despite world condemnation of the human rights abuses and clampdown on pro-democracy movements in Myanmar, Asean has ruled out sanctioning or further alienating its widely-criticised member.
New Straits Times

Scientists Assess Flooding And Damage From 2008 Myanmar Cyclone – A Natural Disaster That Killed 138,000

Tropical cyclone Nargis made landfall in the Asian nation of Myanmar on May 2, 2008, causing the worst natural disaster in the country’s recorded history – with a death toll that may have exceeded 138…
Medical News Today

Taking bets on increased poverty

YANGON, 20 July 2009 (IRIN) – Illegal lotteries are growing in popularity in Myanmar, fuelled by a sense of hopelessness and exacerbating the widespread economic hardship, say aid workers. On the s…
IRIN

Opposition members arrested in Myanmar

The opposition members were detained for half an hour and released, said National League for Democracy spokesman Nyan Win. They were marching to the mausoleum of the father of opposition leader Aung S…
CNN Asia

Myanmar detains dozens for observing death of Suu Kyi’s father

Authorities in military-run Myanmar detained dozens of opposition party members yesterday as they returned from ceremonies marking the death of the father of jailed pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu K…
Daily Star

Myanmar authorities detain dozens of opposition party members on Martyr’s Day

A military honor guard marches at Myanmar’s Martyr’s memorial during Martyr’s day ceremonies Sunday, July 19, 2009, in Yangon, Myanmar. (AP Photo/Khin Maung Win)
Baltimore Sun

Martyr’s Day in Burma observed in silence

Sunday, 19 July 2009 17:54 New Delhi (mizzima) – Authorities on Sunday turned away several people, who had come to pay their respects to Burma’s Martyrs, including the country’s independence archi…
Mizzima News

Indonesia Suspects Fugitive Terrorist in Bombings

Women walk past wreaths laid out for New Zealander Timoty D.Mackay following yesterday’s hotel bombings on July 18 in Jakarta. (Photo: Getty Images)
The Irrawaddy

Burma and North Korea to feature in ASEAN meet

Sunday, 19 July 2009 17:01  Phuket, Thailand (mizzima) – The situation in Burma and the Korean peninsula are on the agenda of the 42nd ASEAN Foreign Ministers meeting with their dialogue partners a… Mizzima News

Now or never – the UN must act on Burma

Saturday, 18 July 2009 15:28 New Delhi (mizzima) – As members of the United Nations Security Council debate UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s latest visit to Burma, the country’s opposition leade…
Mizzima News

Rangoon Charity Clinic to Reopen Despite Harassment

The Rangoon based Free Funeral Services Society (FFSS) will officially reopen their clinic for poor and dispossessed people despite obstacles put up by the Burmese authorities.Well-known actor Kyaw Th…
The Irrawaddy

Burma faces tougher sanctions if Suu Kyi is jailed

The European Union will impose more sanctions on the Burmese government and its supporters if Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel laureate and opposition leader, is not freed at the end of her current trial, …
Financial Times

Not all is lost on Myanmar

IT was clear to me that Rangoon (now Yangon) was lost in time and in a world of its own when I flew in one dust-blown morning in the late 1980s.
New Straits Times - Comment on this

Tunnel troops’ families look to occult for help

Astrologers and soothsayers in Burma are reportedly being consulted by an increasing number of people who haven’t heard for months from family members of the Burmese army’s Electrical and Mechanic…
BurmaNet

 

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