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by Ian Buruma
- Ian Buruma is the author of Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance. He is a professor of democracy, human rights and journalism at Bard College. His latest book is the novel The China Lover.
NEW YORK – Moods and [...]
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NEWS ON MIGRANTS
Keeping them close: how to avoid ‘mis-education’
Young security risks
Economic Crisis Hits Burmese Migrant Women
NEWS ON REFUGEES
10,000 More Kokang Refugees Flee into China
30,000 flee as China rebukes Burma
US expert urges for human-trafficking victim Rohingya
Flow of Burmese Refugees into China Dropping
No Government Relief for Storm Victims
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Border war rattles China-Myanmar ties
Burmese unrest may provoke reaction from China
China resolves issue with Sino-Myanmar border inhabitants
Kokang Conflict Highlights Constitutional Flaw
New Japanese Gov’t Expected to be More Critical of Junta
Myanmar occupies Kokang region, sending message to other rebels
Economic Crisis Hits Burmese Migrant Women
Myanmar opposition leader Suu Kyi to renovate home-cum-prison
Why Violence Erupted on the China-Burma [...]
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Myanmar opposition leader Suu Kyi to renovate home-cum-prison
Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi plans to renovate her lakeside home-cum-prison, where she has spent 14 of the past 20 years under detention, media reports said Monday.
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China’s rare rebuke to Burma over “properly handling domestic problems”
Beijing, Aug. 31 : [...]
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NANSAN, China -Thousands of Myanmar refugees headed home from China on Monday as fighting between government troops and a rebel militia that left more than 30 people dead appeared to be over.
More than 30,000 civilian refugees streamed into China to escape the fighting, which broke out last week after hundreds of Myanmar soldiers moved into [...]
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by Naomi Wolf
- Naomi Wolf is a political activist and social critic whose most recent book is Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries.
NEW YORK – Mohammed al-Hanashi was a 31-year-old Yemeni citizen who was held at Guantánamo Bay without charge for seven years. On June 3, while I [...]
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by Masahiro Matsumura
- Masahiro Matsumura is Professor of International Politics, St. Andrew’s University (Momoyama Gakuin Daigaku) in Osaka, Japan.
Osaka – Yesterday’s landslide general-election victory by the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) terminated the one-party-dominated system that the catch-all Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has controlled almost without interruption since 1955. For most [...]
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By Nehginpao Kipgen
Sunday, August 30, 2009, Special to The China Post http://www.chinapos t.com.tw/ commentary/ the-china- post/special- to-the-china- post/2009/ 08/30/222601/ p1/Burma’ s-ethno-politica l.htm
Without addressing the root cause of the country’s problems, the Burmese military junta is intensifying attacks against its own citizens. The latest tension erupted between the Burmese army and the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance [...]
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Influx from Myanmar creates headache for China
Myanmar clashes spark China flight
China rebukes Burma after border fighting
The forgotten political prisoners
Myanmar border inhabitants begin to return from China as situation calms
Clashes along China-Myanmar border subside
Myanmar, the regime’s policy of “divide and conquer” against minorities
Myanmar refugees enter China
China seals Myanmar border
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Influx from Myanmar creates headache [...]
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New report details process of pervasive sexual trafficking and abuse of women along Thai-Burma border
Woman and Child Rights Project
August 31, 2009
The ongoing abuse of women through sexual trafficking is a “pervasive and arguably growing problem”, which is systemically bound to the economic mismanagement of the Burmese government, says the Woman and Child Rights Project [...]
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S.H.A.N. Monday, 31 August 2009 14:01
After three days of heavy fighting, 27-29 August, the bulk of the anti-Naypyitaw Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA), the name given to their armed force by the Kokang, moved yesterday into China where they were disarmed by the People’s Liberation Army (PLA).
The biggest question raised by the [...]
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The Nation – Published on August 31, 2009
Opinion
SOMETHING IS BREWING in the Burmese corner of the Golden Triangle and it’s more than just the chemicals boiling in the clandestine heroin and methamphetamine labs.
Bluffing between the military government and one of the cease-fire groups – the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA), also known as [...]
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A Myanmar man holds a child at a refugee camp in Nanshan, in southwestern China’s Yunnan province, Saturday, Aug. 29, 2009. Thousands of refugees have fled across the Chinese border to escape fighting between government troops and ethnic militia in Myanmar’s Kokang region. : (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
By NG HAN GUAN, [...]
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BBC News : By Chris Hogg : BBC News, Nansan
Chinese authorities have set up tents to house the Burmese refugees
From the nearest big Chinese city it takes many hours to drive to the border town of Nansan.
This is a remote part of China – the town which normally has about 15,000 residents and [...]
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Myanmar activist criticizes China, others for dealing with junta while ignoring corruption
By JIM GOMEZ Associated Press Writer
MANILA, Philippines August 27, 2009 (AP) : The Associated Press
China and other governments with lucrative business deals in Myanmar are ignoring massive corruption by its ruling military junta, a pro-democracy activist said Thursday.
Myanmar’s Ka Hsaw Wa, one of [...]
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By Nehginpao Kipgen
Sunday, August 30, 2009 WITHOUT addressing the root cause of the problems, the Myanmar’s military junta is intensifying attacks against its own citizens. The latest tension erupted between the Myanmar’s army and the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA), an ethnic Kokang armed group.
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees estimated that 10,000 [...]