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After the swift response to the situation in Libya by the United Nations Security Council, humanitarian groups documenting more than 20 years of abuse by the Burmese military against ethnic Karen say it is high time the council took similar action on Burma
Published: 6/03/2011 at 12:00 AM
A lone [...]
Posted in Poems in Burmese on Mar 6th, 2011 No Comments »
06mar11 PDF – _463_ Know the Cause & Effect Just Do It
Ko Ko Aung
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06mar11Only One Alliance
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By Antonio Graceffo
Stateless, undocumented, exploited and fearful, they say it’s still better than going back to Burma.
Down a dirt road outside of the city, I find myself in a make-shift camp, a small clearing in the jungle, containing a handful of bamboo huts. This is the unofficial home to a collective of Shan migrant workers. [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Mar 4th, 2011 No Comments »
- Omar Ashour
Omar Ashour is a lecturer in Middle East politics and Director of the Middle East Graduate Studies Program at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter. He is the author of The De-Radicalization of Jihadists: Transforming Armed Islamist Movements.
LONDON – “The enemy of yesterday is the friend of [...]
Posted in Editorials & Op/Eds on Mar 4th, 2011 No Comments »
Kanbawza Win
All revolutions start with enthusiasm but usually end with tears. Will the Burmese revolution which started with a mighty force in 1988, fizzle out in 2011? The tears still could have been avoided, if the people firmly stand by the values which they have inherited from their ancestors especially from the founding fathers of [...]
Posted in Campaigns & posters on Mar 4th, 2011 No Comments »
LEGO Portrait of Hkun Htun Oo
A photoarticle by David Law
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For a sick, ageing man of 66 to be denied medical care and sentenced to 93 years in prisonfor holding a routine political meeting is a new Guinness record of absurdity.
Let us not forget this brave leader who was found “guilty” of only trying to do [...]
Posted in Burma News on Mar 4th, 2011 No Comments »
AP – Myanmar pro-democracy group slams govt’s budget
AP – Myanmar to enforce ban on illegal ivory business
AFP – Myanmar, Bolivia, Venezuela fail in drugs fight: US
Japan Today – DPJ’s Okada speaks by phone to Suu Kyi
Asian Correspondent – Burma junta buys MiG-29s, spends $2 per person on health
Calcutta News.Net – [...]
Posted in Poems in Burmese on Mar 4th, 2011 No Comments »
04mar11 PDF – _462_What SPDC Should Do Now
Ko Ko Aung
Posted in Articles in English on Mar 3rd, 2011 No Comments »
http://www.asiaviews.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5153:colcomalias1117&catid=3:column-a-commentaries&Itemid=10
Tuesday, 21 December 2010 06:12
Winning the ‘Peace’ after the ‘Prize’ in Obama’s Burma
Monday, 19 October 2009 17:46 May Ng
Mizzima News – Burma seems a long way from Obama’s White House compared to when Laura Bush was there, but Burma still holds an important spotlight during this historic moment of Obama’s Presidency.
The [...]
Posted in Cartoons & Humour on Mar 3rd, 2011 No Comments »
Mr Creator
Posted in Statements on Mar 3rd, 2011 No Comments »
03mar11 Statement on Peasant Day in Burma by FBF
Posted in Old Misellaneous on Mar 3rd, 2011 No Comments »
AFP – Myanmar court mulls bail for Australian editor
AP – Myanmar suspends rice exports to control price
Sydney Morning Herald – Australian publisher in Burma seeks bail
Independent – Editor goes on trial as Burma’s junta cracks down on media
Asian Correspondent – Burma’s Facebook revolution
Scoop.co.nz – UN: Myanmar and the Human Rights Council review
Strategy Page – China [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Mar 3rd, 2011 No Comments »
- Harold James
Harold James is Professor of History and International Affairs at Princeton University and Professor of History at the European University Institute, Florence. His most recent book is The Creation and Destruction of Value: The Globalization Cycle.
PRINCETON – When is it legitimate to lie? Can lying ever be virtuous? In the [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Mar 3rd, 2011 No Comments »
- Heizo Takenaka
Heizo Takenaka was Minister of Economics, Minister of Financial Reform, and Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications under Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi; he is currently Director of the Global Security Research Institute at Keio University, Tokyo.
TOKYO – The closing decade of the twentieth century offered a crystal ball for [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Mar 3rd, 2011 No Comments »
- Mark Roe
Mark Roe is a professor at Harvard Law School.
CAMBRIDGE – For Egypt, the question of the day is whether the country will build an open, democratic political system or relapse into some form – new or old – of autocracy. But an equally important question – above all for Egyptians, [...]
Posted in Old Misellaneous on Mar 3rd, 2011 No Comments »
YANGON, Myanmar -Myanmar has suspended rice exports in an effort to keep prices down while also grappling with higher fuel costs due to the turmoil in OPEC member Libya.
A rice exporter says the suspension began in the last week of February, and apparently seeks to ensure rice prices are not driven higher by shortages. He [...]
Posted in Campaigns & posters on Mar 3rd, 2011 No Comments »
A photoarticle by David Law, 2 March 2011
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On this 49th anniversary of Ne Win’s horrendous coup of 1962, I’d like to share this mosaic picture of Min Ko Naing. Please step back and view this picture from a distance to appreciate the mosaic effect. A picture says a thousand words but [...]