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By MIN KHET MAUNG MAR — APR, 2009 – VOLUME 17 NO.2
Citizenship and land rights are hot issues in Arakan State
MAUNGDAW, Arakan State—In a simple house on the edge of this small town near Burma’s border with Bangladesh, a Rohingya resident carefully adjusted his cheap Chinese-made radio. Six other Rohingyas also huddled around the radio, [...]
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AP – Obama renews sanctions against Myanmar
AP – Myanmar’s Suu Kyi says expects ‘obvious’ verdict
AFP – US extends Myanmar sanctions
AFP – Myanmar warns against predicting Suu Kyi verdict
Reuters – US experts set rules for swine flu vaccines
Asia Times Online – There’s military logic to Suu Kyi’s trial
CommonDreams. org – Prison [...]
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MAE SOT — United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appears to have been granted a belated booby prize from Burma’s military rulers after his recent trip. On July 13, Ban bleakly reported to the Security Council that his visit was a major lost opportunity for the ruling State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) to demonstrate their [...]
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The Finacial Times : By Amy Kazmin in Ka Na So Chaung, Burma
Published: July 29 2009 03:00 | Last updated: July 29 2009 03:00
It was the house of his dreams – wooden, with a 15ft ceiling, a corrugated iron roof and sturdy cement steps leading inside – and U Aung Kyin, a 57-year-old farmer with [...]
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The Times Online : 29 July 2009
The Burmese democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is facing an almost certain criminal conviction and a sentence of up to five years in prison when a Rangoon court delivers its verdict at the end of this week, her defence team said yesterday.
Wrapping up her two-and-a-half-month trial, Ms [...]
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by Nina L. Khrushcheva
- Nina Khrushcheva, author of Imagining Nabokov: Russia Between Art and Politics, teaches international affairs at The New School and is senior fellow at the World Policy Institute in New York.
MOSCOW – My great-grandfather, Nikita Khrushchev, has been on my mind recently. I suppose it was the 50th anniversary [...]
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Suu Kyi expects painfully obvious verdict
London, July 29 : Burmese democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who is facing an almost certain criminal conviction and a sentence of up to five years in prison from a Rangoon court, has said that she is “painfully expecting an obvious verdict”.
Big News Network.com
Registration extended to September [...]
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NEWS ON MIGRANTS
Medical checkpoint put in place at Three Pagodas Pass
Malaysian Official Accused of Selling Burmese Man
Burmese Migrant worker sentenced to life in Thai prison
NEWS ON REFUGEES
Border Situation Update
Displaced in Burma lacking medical aid
FBR REPORT: One villager killed and four wounded in DKBA and Burma Army attack in eastern Karen State
Asean Appeals for Aid [...]
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AP
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama has renewed sanctions against the junta that runs the Southeast Asian country of Myanmar.
Congress last week approved the reauthorization of sanctions, first enacted in 2003, targeting imports from Myanmar. The resolution also maintains a ban on importing jade and other gems from Myanmar, also known as Burma.
Obama signed the bill [...]
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AP
YANGON, Myanmar – A day after democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi murmured in court that the verdict in her trial was already “painfully obvious,” Myanmar’s state-run media warned Wednesday that any predictions of the outcome would amount to contempt of court.
On Tuesday, lawyers gave their closing arguments in the high-profile proceedings against Suu Kyi, [...]
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by Ban Ki-moon
- Ban Ki-moon is Secretary-General of the United Nations.
NEW YORK – A light bulb may not be the first thing that springs to mind when thinking about revolutionary technology. Yet science and smart policy have the potential in today’s world to transform an ordinary household object into a revolutionary innovation.
Recently, I [...]
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24.07.2009
His Excellency Mr Ban Ki-moon
The United Nations Secretary-General
United Nations Building
New York, NY 10017
USA
UN ACTION ON BURMA
Dear Mr Secretary-General,
We, Burmese democratic and human rights activists in Europe, welcome the leadership you have shown during your recent visit to Burma. We express our appreciation for your long-standing support to improvement of human-rights and [...]
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When senior Chinese officials arrive in Washington on Monday for bilateral talks on strategy and the economy, they will find a new item near the top of the agenda: U.S. concerns that North Korea is supplying nuclear weapons technology to Burma. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton [...]
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Important Announcement
AEIOU 2009 Semester
To all our Friends, Students, Faculty Staffs, Office Staffs, Well Wishers, Volunteers, Patrons, Sympathetic, Passionate and Compassionate donors including Cetena Shin (apwem&Sifrsm; ):-
On behalf of the persecuted people of Burma may we convey our profound and sincere thanks for your kind support all these years? Knowing that the [...]
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Bullets in the Alms Bowl Report by the NCGUB on events leading up to, during and following the September 2007 “Saffron Revolution” protests in Burma
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By GRANT PECK and MARIA SUDEKUM FISHER, AP
BANGKOK -He has been called a fool and a madman, an American innocent abroad who swam a lake to meet Myanmar’s most famous dissident and barged into the midst of her 20-year struggle of wills with the country’s military dictatorship.
More than two months after John William Yettaw’s strange [...]