Global Tribe Video: In Memory of Dan Eldon and dedicated to the Shan and the people of Burma
Dan Eldon
A collaboration between Sam Stavros and Antonio Graceffo. Twenty-two year-old Reuters photographer, Dan Eldon was stoned to death in Mogadishu, Somalia. In addition to covering conflicts in Africa, he personally organized aid and relief missions to [...]
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Posted in Burma News on Jul 15th, 2010 No Comments »
15Jul10 M&R-News_150710
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Posted in Burma News on Jul 15th, 2010 No Comments »
AP – Former Suu Kyi aide released from jail in Myanmar
AFP – US House renews Myanmar sanctions
AFP – Myanmar dissident takes struggle to ballot box
People’s Daily Online – Over 80 trafficked Myanmar people repatriated from Thailand in first six months
Ventura County Star – Auction will HELP build wells [...]
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Mr Creator
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Posted in Poems in Burmese on Jul 14th, 2010 No Comments »
14Jul10 PDF – _349_ Drop Off Noble Flower
Ko Ko Aung
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Posted in Burma News on Jul 14th, 2010 No Comments »
Please find attached EBO’s 30th and 31st Election Monitor reports.
14Jul10 EM_No_30_-_14-07-10
14Jul10 EM_No_31_-_14-07-10
All previous Election Monitors as well as other information on this year’s elections can be found on EBO’s Elections Page.
If you would like to be removed [...]
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Posted in Burma News on Jul 14th, 2010 No Comments »
AP – Foreign investment in Myanmar tumbles
AFP - US sceptical on Myanmar election move
IRIN – MYANMAR: Kya Kya Win*, “The parents of a child soldier helped me, now I help others”
ReliefWeb- Burmese Minorities Head for Safer Pastures Ahead of Poll
Bernama – Two Robbers Nabbed In Just 10 Minutes
MCOT – Nationality [...]
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Posted in Old Misellaneous on Jul 14th, 2010 No Comments »
YANGON, Myanmar -Foreign investment in Myanmar, one of the world’s poorest and most authoritarian countries, dropped more than two thirds last fiscal year as Chinese investment tailed off and economic sanctions on the military-ruled nation continued, according to government figures.
A statistical report from the country’s Ministry of National Planning and Development that was seen Wednesday [...]
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Posted in Burma News on Jul 14th, 2010 No Comments »
Dear Friends,
Below are the “2010 Election Watch” highlights for Week 18, covering 6-12 July:
Developments
Union Solidarity Development Party officials requested that village headmen in Mudon Township, Mon State, recruit 40 to 50 villagers in each village to join the party.
Unidentified people distributed leaflets urging people not to participate in the elections in Muse and Namkham, Shan [...]
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Posted in Burma News on Jul 13th, 2010 No Comments »
YANGON, 13 July 2010 (IRIN) – At age 14, Khin Myint* was forced into the life of a child soldier. For months, his mother, Kya Kya Win, had no idea where he was. Eventually, she discovered his whereabouts, and after two years, he escaped but lived in fear of being arrested [...]
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Posted in Burma News on Jul 13th, 2010 No Comments »
Date: Friday 30 July, 6.30pm
Venue: Free Word Centre, 60 Farringdon Road, London, EC1R 3GA
Join us for an evening benefiting the first ever Burmese Arts Festival, an event designed to highlight the role of artists in bringing about change in Burma.
The evening will feature a special preview excerpt from the new film [...]
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The Irrawaddy : By MARK FARMANER Thursday, July 8, 2010
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Posted in Poems in Burmese on Jul 13th, 2010 No Comments »
13Jul10 PDF – _348_Flood With Martyr’s Blood
Ko Ko Aung
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13Jul10 PDF – More Martyr’s Poems
Ko Ko Aung
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Posted in WORLD Digest on Jul 12th, 2010 No Comments »
- Jonathan Fenby
Jonathan Fenby is the author of The General: Charles de Gaulle and the France He Saved.
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LONDON – By coincidence, this is a busy year for round-number anniversaries for France’s [...]
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Posted in WORLD Digest on Jul 12th, 2010 No Comments »
- 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. [...]
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Posted in WORLD Digest on Jul 12th, 2010 No Comments »
- Chuck Sudetic
Chuck Sudetic, a former analyst at the ICTY, authored a book on the Srebrenica massacre and is making a film on the trials. He works for the Open Society [...]
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12Jul10 khrg1003
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