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IRIN – MYANMAR: Few options for the blind
RFA – Conflict Children in Forced Labor
EarthTimes – Myanmar prime minister to attend UN General Assembly
Bernama – Myanmar National Gets 12 Years’ Jail For Death Of Countryman
Xinhua – Myanmar’s ethnic peace groups urged to adhere to new constitution
Xinhua – Myanmar PM warns against disturbances
Bangkok [...]
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Was Win Tin Speaking for Suu Kyi?
MYANMAR: Few options for the blind
Myanmar makes efforts to promote tourism industry
Monks under the Eye of the Junta
China has no influence over Myanmar
Myanmar’s ethnic peace groups urged to adhere to new constitution
Myanmar prime minister to attend UN General Assembly
Myanmar PM warns against disturbances
Three Daughters Form Democratic Party
Suu Kyi Blocked [...]
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Myanmar national gets 12 years’ jail for killing countryman
SHAH ALAM: A 35-year-old Myanmar national lost his life for a mere RM400. Khirola Armad, a general worker at a market, was alleged to have extorted the money from his fellow countryman as “prot…
New Straits Times
Resurgent Win Naing asks junta to [...]
Posted in Feature Articles on Sep 15th, 2009 3 Comments »
By U Khin Maung Saw
Burma or Myanmar? Burmese or Burman? Rangoon or Yangon?- (pdf)
I. Introduction:
In May 1989 the present ruling military junta called the State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC) reintroduced back the indigenous name “Myanmar” for Burma and requested the United Nations and other World Bodies to call their country “Myanmar”. Because of [...]
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Monday, 14 September 2009 13:25
The ousted Kokang leader, Peng Jiasheng, has told The Irrawaddy that the Burmese military government attack on his headquarters in Laogai was an attempt by the junta to eliminate the Kokang and other armed ethnic groups and achieve a military-run “unified” country.
In his first interview since the fall of Laogai on [...]
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UNHCR Report : News Stories, 14 September 2009
© UNHCR/J.Musau
In the remote Bangladeshi village of Faruk Para, 34-year-old Kil Cer, a Chin refugee from Myanmar, weaves a blanket under a self-reliance scheme funded by UNHCR.
FARUK PARA, Bangladesh, September 14 (UNHCR) – Kil Cer, a shy, petite 34-year Chin refugee from Myanmar, can be found every [...]
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Radio Free Asia report :
2009-09-14
Burmese refugees say more and more youngsters are being press-ganged into working as military porters.
RFA/Khin May Zaw
A group of Karen children, who say they were used as porters by soldiers in Burma, gather in a village for refugees in northern Thailand, Aug. 23, 2009.
NORTHERN THAILAND—Children as young as 10 are being [...]
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Daughter of first Myanmar prime minister forms political party
Yangon – A daughter of Myanmar’s first and last democratically- elected prime minister, U Nu, has set up a political party to contest a general election planned for 2010, party sources said Monday. “Da…
Earth Times
Offices of Burmese groups in Thailand raided [...]
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Reuters – China’s sway over Myanmar limited, says crisis group
Reuters – Bangladesh: Myanmar refugees weave together self-reliance and hope
Reuters – Myanmar police release veteran opposition leader
AFP – Myanmar briefly detains Suu Kyi aide: friend
AP – Myanmar politicians’ kin set to join new party
EarthTimes – Myanmar military urges ethnic groups to [...]
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AAPP(B) Information Release – for immediate release : 14 September 2009
Female political prisoner punished in Monywa prison
[Mae Sot, Thailand] The Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (Burma) (AAPP) has learnt that Hnin May Aung aka Nobel Aye (female) has been sent to a punishment cell within Monywa prison, in Burma’s Sagaing division. At present, she [...]
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Daughter of first Myanmar prime minister forms political party
Yangon – A daughter of Myanmar’s first and last democratically-elected prime minister, U Nu, has set up a political party to contest a general election planned for 2010, party sources said Monday. “Da…
Earth Times
Offices of Burmese groups in Thailand raided
Monday, 14 September [...]
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Beijing/Jakarta/Brussels, 14 September 2009: After two decades of failed international approaches to Myanmar, Western countries and China must find better ways to work together to push for change in the military-ruled nation.
177_chinas_myanmar_dilemma (PDF report)
China’s Myanmar Dilemma*, the latest International Crisis Group report, examines Chinese national and provincial policy towards Myanmar and its implications for international [...]
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by Sin-ming Shaw
- Sin-ming Shaw is a former visiting scholar of history at Oxford and Harvard.
BANGKOK – Last week, a Taiwanese court sentenced Chen Shui-bien, Taiwan’s president from 2000 until 2008, to life imprisonment for corruption.
Chen had been caught stealing millions of dollars of public funds. He did not act alone. [...]
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Peng Jiasheng Breaks His Silence
Former KIA brigade warned not to help KIA in event of war
China Military Spotlighted in National Day Parade
Drugs Seized in Tachilek
China’s Myanmar dilemma – ICG report
Retired Military Personnel to Form Political Party
HIV/AIDS voluntary groups to register with health ministry
On the Tourist Trail to War
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Peng Jiasheng Breaks His Silence
By THE IRRAWADDY Monday, [...]
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Announcement by Students and Citizens in Support of the Buddhist Monks’ Courageous Action in Honor of the Second Anniversary of the Saffron Revolution
The 88 Generation Students
All Burma Federation of Student Unions
No: 1/2009 (88G+ABFSU)
Date: 14.09.2009
(1) The Saffron Revolution, which was led by Monks, was the most honorable event in the history
of Burma’s movement for democracy and [...]
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The pipeline to riches
Myanmar – a headache for ASEAN
Myanmar strives for expansion of gems market
Dissident questioned over pacemaker in Myanmar
Myanmar strives for promotion of development of traditional medicine
Myanmar, Hong Kong SAR to boost trade co-op
Myanmar official media stress working towards 2010 general election
Paper Plane Maker Gets a Chance to Fly, but Still Has Nowhere to [...]
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Suu Kyi aide detained
Win Tin Released after Questioning
Suu Kyi’s Delhi college campaigns for her
Weekly Business Roundup (September 12, 2009)
Behind Burma’s closed doors
Webb Announces Burma Hearings
Whereabouts of US Citizen Still Unknown
Emerging Fault Lines in Sino-Burmese Relations: The Kokang Incident
Junta insists KIA be transformed to BGF
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Sep 12, 2009
Suu Kyi aide detained
The 80-year-old former journalist, Win [...]