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FBR REPORT: Karen State, Burma 13 May, 2010
“What can we do? They are dead but at least they are free. We want our children to be with us but at least they are free.”
– Karen mother of 5 year old girl and 5 month old boy shot dead [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on May 13th, 2010 No Comments »
- Yoon Young-kwan
Yoon Young-kwan, South Korea’s foreign minister in 2003-2004, is currently Professor of International Relations at Seoul National University.
SEOUL – North Korean leader Kim Jong-il’s recent visit to China [...]
Posted in Burma News on May 13th, 2010 1 Comment »
AP – Philippines FM calls Myanmar polls ‘a farce’
Reuters – Burmese monks who fled to U.S. a vanishing breed
AFP – China drug addicts struggle to kick the habit
IRIN – In Brief: Thailand registers nearly a million labour migrants
ABS CBN News – ASEAN vents concerns over Thai [...]
Posted in Poems in Burmese on May 13th, 2010 No Comments »
13May10 PDF – _326_The Begining of the Water Shortage
Ko Ko Aung
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Posted in Old Misellaneous on May 13th, 2010 No Comments »
YANGON, Myanmar -Myanmar’s military leaders have rejected international poll monitors for the country’s first elections in 20 years but asked for unspecified cooperation from the United States in supporting the vote, official media said Wednesday.
An official urged the U.S. to “show a positive attitude” about the military-organized vote, even though American envoy Kurt Campbell had [...]
Posted in Burma News on May 12th, 2010 No Comments »
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AFP – Myanmar’s Suu Kyi files new appeal against detention
AP – Myanmar junta rejects international poll monitors
IRIN – MYANMAR: Concern over future Nargis cooperation
Xinhua – Myanmar ministers speak on direct engagement with U.S.
Xinhua – Myanmar says formation of political party by gov’t ministers lawful
Thaindian.com – India [...]
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12May10 PDF – _325_Want to Be Good or Ugly
Ko Ko Aung
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12May10 US Envoy Warns Junta Over NKorea Arms
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Dear Friends,
Below are the “2010 Election Watch” highlights for Week 9, covering 4-10 May:
Developments
Burma’s Supreme Court rejected the NLD’s petition to annul the SPDC election law that required the dissolution of the party.
Journalists in Rangoon said the SPDC Censorship Board was not allowing any coverage that criticized the formation of the pro-junta [...]
Posted in Articles in Burmese on May 12th, 2010 No Comments »
12May10 CRPRP14
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- 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. [...]
Posted in Burma News on May 11th, 2010 No Comments »
AP – Aung San Suu Kyi asks for her freedom
AFP – Top US envoy in Beijing after Myanmar visit
The Huffington Post – Hope and Humanitarian Space in Burma
Xinhua News – Heat wave kills 2 people in Myanmar
Xinhua News – Japan to help Myanmar build concrete jetty
VOA News – US: [...]
Posted in Burma News on May 11th, 2010 No Comments »
By THE IRRAWADDY MAY, 2010 – VOLUME 18 NO.5
Harn Lay, The Irrawaddy’s cartoonist and illustrator, has received a grant from Human Rights Watch in recognition of his satirical cartoons targeting the Burmese military regime.
Marcia Allina, the coordinator of the Hellman/Hammett grant program for the New York-based NGO, told The Irrawaddy [...]
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May 11, 2010
Suu Kyi asks for her freedom
YANGON (Myanmar) – MYANMMAR’S detained democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi is making a final bid for freedom, lawyers said on Tuesday after submitting a request for a special appeal against her house arrest.
The Nobel Peace Prize laureate has already lost two appeals against an August 2009 conviction, [...]
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FBR REPORT: Karen State, Burma 9 May, 2010
Villager in ruins of his home after Burma Army attack May 2010
” I don’t want to live under this government” were the words of a villager as he stood in the [...]