Posted in Burma News on Aug 17th, 2010 No Comments »
AFP – Canada fears ‘oppressive conditions’ for Myanmar elections
EarthTimes – Myanmar rebels: Regime railway plans cover for sinister agenda
The Huffington Post – Thailand Sets a Poor Example to Burma
Bernama – Pharmaniaga Eyes Thailand, Myanmar Marts
The Nation – EDITORIAL – Burma: is a bad election better than none at all?
The Nation [...]
Posted in Feature Articles on Aug 17th, 2010 No Comments »
Ashin Issariya (aka King Zero): “We need unity. We need to act and work hard.”
September 27 will be the third anniversary of the brutal crackdown on the peaceful Saffron Revolution in Burma in 2007. Since then many monks have been arrested, forcibly disrobed, and put into jail and forced labor camps. Others [...]
Posted in Poems in Burmese on Aug 17th, 2010 No Comments »
17Aug10 PDF – _354_Do You See the SPDC’s Fang
Ko Ko Aung
Posted in Burma News on Aug 16th, 2010 No Comments »
AP – EU tells Myanmar world is watching its elections
AFP – Canada fears ‘oppressive conditions’ for Myanmar elections
Reuters – Reclusive Myanmar sets date for elections
Reuters – Barclays to pay $298 million in sanctions case: court documents
New York Post – Burma’s sham elex
Asian Tribune – Aung San Suu Kyi made the right [...]
Posted in Feature Articles on Aug 16th, 2010 No Comments »
Sunday 15 August 2010
by: J. Sri Raman, t r u t h o u t | Op-Ed
I see I hear I know
I beat I hit I touch
I kill I kill the monks are dead.
That was the chant of Than Shwe, Burma’s military dictator, as he meditated recently at Bodhgaya, the place in India where Gautam [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Aug 16th, 2010 No Comments »
- Stefan Rahmstorf
Stefan Rahmstorf is Professor of Physics of the Oceans at Potsdam University, and a member of the German Advisory Council on Global Change. His latest book is The Climate Crisis (co-written with David Archer).
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BERLIN – This summer has been one of weather-related extremes in Russia, Pakistan, China, Europe, the Arctic – you name [...]
Posted in Articles in English on Aug 16th, 2010 No Comments »
Burma will hold general elections on November 7, the military junta announced today. The president of the Oslo Center, Kjell Magne Bondevik, says that the elections will not be free and fair. “There will not be a democratic election. The generals have designed a constitution and a set of election laws [...]
Posted in Editorials & Op/Eds on Aug 15th, 2010 No Comments »
Kanbawza Win
Finally, the Burmese Junta has announced that there will be a fake election on Nov. 7th. Short of the numerically attractive 10th of the 10th 2010, 7th was chosen for its numerological significance given that the 7 + 11= 18 divisible by 9 is an auspicious number in local numerology, so much so that [...]
Posted in Burma News on Aug 13th, 2010 No Comments »
BBC: 13 August 2010 Last updated at 07:12 GMT
Burma’s first general election for two decades will be held on 7 November, the ruling generals have announced, ending months of speculation.
The poll is the first since pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) won a landslide victory in [...]
Posted in Campaigns & posters on Aug 13th, 2010 No Comments »
Posted in Old Misellaneous on Aug 13th, 2010 No Comments »
YANGON, Myanmar -Myanmar’s ruling junta said the country’s first election in two decades will be held Nov. 7, finally announcing a date Friday for long-awaited polls that critics have dismissed as a sham designed to cement military rule.
Foreign governments have urged Myanmar to ensure the polls are open, fair and include the party of detained [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Aug 12th, 2010 1 Comment »
- Ronald S. Lauder
Ronald S. Lauder is President of the World Jewish Congress.
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VIENNA – Last month, firecrackers were thrown at the only synagogue in the Swedish city of Malmö, breaking three windows. [...]
Posted in Burma News on Aug 12th, 2010 No Comments »
The Diplomat – India’s Shameful Burma Ploy
Reuters AlertNet – Unloved and unwelcome: Myanmar migrants in Thailand
AP – Refugees prepare for next challenge: School in US
EarthTimes – Myanmar gets constituencies but no election date
bdnews24 – 5 Myanmar citizens held with fake passports
Galway Advertiser – Opinion: Treatment of Aung San Suu Kyi [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Aug 11th, 2010 No Comments »
- Yevgenia Albats
Yevgenia Albats is Professor of Political Science at The Higher School of Economics and Editor of The New Times Magazine.
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MOSCOW – For over a month, Moscow has been boiling in 40-degree [...]
Posted in Burma News on Aug 11th, 2010 No Comments »
Tuesday, 10 August 2010 12:03 Ko Wild
Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – Supporters of seven detained Shan leaders are taking advantage of the regional visit of a special UN envoy to call on the world body to take up the cause of those detained.
Shan State Joint Action Committee (SSJAC) [...]
Posted in Burma News on Aug 11th, 2010 No Comments »
Reuters AlertNet – Burma: EU Should Endorse International War Crimes Inquiry
The Star Online – Myanmar opposition party threatens to shun polls
The Canadian Press – ?Myanmar designates constituencies for Parliament in step closer to election
The Hindu – Opinion:Crafting a richer India-Myanmar partnership
PTI – Myanmar national dies in jail
SOS Children – ?HIV cases [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Aug 11th, 2010 No Comments »
- Shashi Tharoor
Shashi Tharoor, a former Indian Minister of State for External Affairs and UN Under- Secretary General, is a member of India’s parliament and the author of several books, most [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Aug 11th, 2010 No Comments »
- Lee Byong-chul
Lee Byong-chul is Senior Fellow at the Institute for Peace and Cooperation, Seoul, South Korea.
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SEOUL – There was a time, not long after the Cold War’s end, when almost everyone [...]