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Veteran opposition leader Win Tin detained by police
Saturday, 12 September 2009 15:57 Win Tin, a senior leader of the National League for Democracy was taken to the Aung Tha Pyay detention camp this morning by the Special Branch of the police in Burma….
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Singapore education fair launched in Myanmar second largest [...]
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Credits: Yebaw day & Taisamyone
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by Dani Rodrik
- Dani Rodrik, Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, is the first recipient of the Social Science Research Council’s Albert O. Hirschman Prize. His latest book is One Economics, Many Recipes: Globalization, Institutions, and Economic Growth.
CAMBRIDGE – Something happened [...]
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Burglar enters Myanmar women’s dormitory but fails to rape them
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Burglar enters Myanmar women’s dormitory but fails to rape them
By LOH FOON FONG
KUALA LUMPUR: Seven Myanmar women factory workers were spared [...]
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It is now common knowledge how Gen. Thanshwe, Supreme Generalissimo of that tragic nation of Burma, has exploited all its national resources to enrich himself and spent billions on upgrading his Burma Army into the strongest armed force in all of Southeast Asia, which will make him the undisputed Leader of that corner of Asia.
Than [...]
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Deadline for Chinese to leave ceasefire areas over
Junta Cracks Down on Internet Access in Ministries
Kokang Crisis Disrupts Border Trade
Webb to Hold Congressional Hearing on US Burma Policy
Body Searches Ordered at Suu Kyi Compound
Singapore banks reject Burma junta cash report
2 banks deny junta’s billions
Suu Kyi and lawyers finalise strategy for appeal
India takes up with Myanmar reports [...]
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Total CEO defends role in Myanmar
The chief of Total has defended the oil giant’s presence in Myanmar and says detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi never asked him to pull the company out of the country.Christophe de Margerie r…
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Brothers at Arm’s Length
A Burmese saying goes [...]
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AFP – Singapore banks reject Myanmar junta cash report
AFP – Porn, fireworks, diamonds made with child labor: US
Reuters – Total says won’t quit Myanmar after NGO accusation
UPI – Webb plans to hold hearing on Myanmar
EarthTimes – Oil giant Total’s presence in Myanmar is ‘positive’: CEO
The Star Online – Burglar enters Myanmar [...]
Posted in Campaigns & posters on Sep 11th, 2009 1 Comment »
SNLD Chairman Biography
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By Ko Ko Aung
BBC Burmese Service
The Pao say they must fight to keep their own cultural identity
After flying half-way across the world I finally arrived at a rebel camp on the Thai-Burmese border on my quest to track down the elusive leader of the Pao National Liberation Army, Khun Thurein.
It took [...]
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The Nation: Opinion : EDITORIAL : By The Nation : Published on September 8, 2009
Burmese military action against Chinese-backed ethnic armies could explode into wider conflict on its northern border
It has always been said that China is Burma’s closest ally. Given the fact that the junta doesn’t have many friends, one like China will [...]
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ERI released two major reports which link energy giants Total and Chevron to serious human rights abuses in Burma, including showing how revenues from the companies’ infamous Yadana gas project are helping to prop up the country’s brutal military regime. The first report, Total Impact, provides the most comprehensive coverage to date on the billions [...]
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Myanmar soldiers parade during ceremonies in the administrative capital of Naypyidaw. (AFP/File/Khin Maung Win)
Energy giants Total and Chevron are propping up Myanmar’s junta with a gas project that has allowed the regime to stash nearly five billion dollars in Singaporean banks, a rights group said Thursday.
by Danny Kemp [...]
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AP – Labor Department exposes goods made by child labor
AFP – Total, Chevron enriching Myanmar regime: report
AFP – Total rejects accusation it props up Myanmar regime
IPS – China Pushes Burma Pipelines Amid Criticism
Reuters – Myanmar junta siphons gas revenue offshore-report
EarthTimes – Report: Pipeline pumps billions in Myanmar junta’s
Xinhua – [...]
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Zaw Naing Wynn, Canberra, Australia : 10 September 2009
As preparations for the planned 2010 election are under way (implicitly or explicitly) by the
Military dictatorship, we, Burmese – freedom fighters, human rights defenders and democracy
activists, should remind ourselves that, these days the overt Military dictators around the world
want to abuse and misuse the democratic title.
The prime [...]
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Thai Immigration Plans Burmese Concert Fundraiser in Mahachai
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Refugees Fear Return to Abuses in Karen State
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Thai Immigration Plans Burmese Concert Fundraiser in Mahachai
Wed 09 Sep 2009, IMNA, Mon Jit
According to an [...]