Posted in Old Misellaneous on Feb 21st, 2011 No Comments »
YANGON, Myanmar -The Australian editor and founder of the Myanmar Times has been stripped of his editorial and executive roles following his arrest earlier this month on immigration charges, the newspaper reported Monday.
Associates have suggested Ross Dunkley’s detention on Feb. 10 for allegedly overstaying his visa actually stems from a business dispute with his local [...]
Posted in Poems in Burmese on Feb 20th, 2011 No Comments »
20feb11 PDF – _452_ Give the Answer Find the Answer
Ko Ko Aung
Posted in Poems in Burmese on Feb 20th, 2011 No Comments »
20feb11 PDF – _451_ Whom Been Dog Kick and Sweat
Ko Ko Aung
Posted in Documentary Report on Feb 19th, 2011 No Comments »
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Posted in WORLD Digest on Feb 18th, 2011 No Comments »
- Chris Patten
Chris Patten, the last British Governor of Hong Kong and a former EU Commissioner for External Affairs, is Chancellor of the University of Oxford.
LONDON – Anyone who has read The Yacoubian Building, a novel published in 2002 by the Egyptian author Alaa-al-Aswany, will regard the revolution in Egypt as [...]
Posted in Poems in Burmese on Feb 18th, 2011 1 Comment »
18feb11 PDF – _450_ Who You Wish to Stand For
Ko Ko Aung
Posted in Burma News on Feb 17th, 2011 No Comments »
You are cordially invited to…
A Lunch-debate hosted by Daniel Cohn-Bendit and Barbara Lochbihler
“Human Rights in Burma: More or less sanctions?”
Tuesday, 1 March 2011 from 12:00-14:00
European Parliament, Brussels, ASP 01 G 03
Rex Bloomstein will show excerpts from his documentary “This prison Where I live” which [...]
Posted in Poems in Burmese on Feb 17th, 2011 No Comments »
17feb11 PDF – _449_Who Are You Going to Kill
Ko Ko Aung
Posted in WORLD Digest on Feb 17th, 2011 No Comments »
- Jaswant Singh
Jaswant Singh, a former Indian finance minister, foreign minister, and defense minister, is the author of Jinnah: India – Partition – Independence.
NEW DELHI – For 18 days, during the ebb and flow of protest, it did not seem possible that the end of the Egyptian Revolution would come so suddenly, in [...]
Posted in Poems in Burmese on Feb 17th, 2011 1 Comment »
17feb11 PDF – _448_ Slave Under Military Era
Ko Ko Aung
Posted in WORLD Digest on Feb 17th, 2011 No Comments »
- Daniel Korski and Ben Judah
Daniel Korski is a senior policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations. Ben Judah is a policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations.
LONDON – Two centuries ago, Napoleon’s arrival in Egypt heralded the advent of the modern Middle East. Now, almost 90 years [...]
Posted in Documentary Report on Feb 17th, 2011 No Comments »
FBR REPORT:
Karen State, Burma 8 February, 2011
KEY DEVELOPMENTS The SPDC continue to fight the DKBA and the KNLA throughout the K6 and K7 areas of Northern Karen State, [...]
Posted in Burma News on Feb 17th, 2011 No Comments »
AP – Myanmar junta figure drops out of parliament
AP – 129 Myanmar boat people strand off Indonesia
AFP – Top US senator ‘deeply concerned’ for Suu Kyi safety
Brisbane Times – Aussie publisher’s fate with Burma govt
Asian Correspondent – Ex-Gen. Tin Aye resigned from Burma’s brand new parliament
The Ottawa Citizen – Honorary [...]
Posted in Old Misellaneous on Feb 16th, 2011 1 Comment »
WASHINGTON -The United States stands with cyber dissidents and democracy activists from the Middle East to China and beyond, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Tuesday.
She pledged to expand the Obama administration’s efforts to foil Internet repression in autocratic states.
In an impassioned speech on Internet freedom, Clinton said the administration would spend $25 million [...]
Posted in Feature Articles on Feb 16th, 2011 No Comments »
I am back near the Burma border, to report on the Shan/Burma situation. I have plans to visit a number of aid organizations, migrants, civilians, refugees,
and military, to do a documentary series similar to the one I did in 2007
and 2008.
As always, I am self-funded and I really need financial help to complete
this project. Donations can be made through the paypal on my website
www.speakingadventure.com , or through my bank account, which I have pasted below. And, as always, I will share all of the stories, photos, and videos with you.
A few years ago, I did a video about a young Shan soldier whose family was murdered by the Burmese government. I did a video and article on him when he was a Shan soldier. Then I did a second video and article when he became a monk again, when he [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Feb 16th, 2011 No Comments »
- Shahid Javed Burki
Shahid Javed Burki, former Finance Minister of Pakistan and Vice President of the World Bank, is currently Chairman of the Institute of Public Policy, Lahore.
ISLAMABAD – Pakistan’s domestic situation is becoming increasingly precarious. Indeed, serious questions are now being raised as to whether the country can survive in [...]
Posted in Poems in Burmese on Feb 16th, 2011 No Comments »
16feb11 PDF – _447_Loving Kindness From the People of Burma to General Than Shwe
Ko Ko Aung
also published as :- Loving Kindness from the people of Burma to Gen.Than Shwe
Posted in Old Misellaneous on Feb 15th, 2011 No Comments »
Please find attached EBO’s 6th Political Monitor report.
15feb11 PM_No._6_-_15-02-11
All Political and Election Monitors as well as other information on the 2010 elections can be found on EBO’s Elections Page.
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Euro-Burma Office
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