Posted in Feature Articles, Interviews on Aug 15th, 2011 No Comments »
Monday, August 15, 2011
The resumption of clashes between Burmese troops and the Shan State Army-North (SSA-North), a former ceasefire group, since earlier this year has resulted in the displacement of more than 30,000 people, according to a press statement released last week by Shan human rights groups. [...]
Posted in Poems in Burmese on Aug 15th, 2011 No Comments »
PDF – _560_ Mud Skipper Capture Pho Long
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Posted in Burma News on Aug 14th, 2011 No Comments »
AP – Cheers in Myanmar as Suu Kyi travel tests freedom
AFP – Aung San Suu Kyi calls for ‘unity’ on road trip
Reuters – Myanmar’s Suu Kyi guarded on signs of political thaw
ANI – Suu Kyi joins fight against China dam construction in Myanmar
Straits Times – Maids from Myanmar fast gaining [...]
Posted in Old Misellaneous on Aug 14th, 2011 No Comments »
AYE AYE WIN | August 14, 2011 07:46 AM EST | AP
BAGO, Myanmar — Thousands of well-wishers lined roadsides in Myanmar to welcome opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi as she tested the limits of her freedom Sunday by taking her first political trip into the countryside since being released from house arrest.
The military-dominated country’s [...]
Posted in Poems in Burmese on Aug 14th, 2011 No Comments »
PDF – _557_ Mu Di Ta Golden Monastery
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Posted in Cartoons & Humour on Aug 14th, 2011 1 Comment »
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AP – Myanmar’s Suu Kyi to test freedom, meet supporters
AP – Myanmar government urges Suu Kyi to register party so it can legally take part in politics
AFP – Myanmar vows ongoing Suu Kyi dialogue
BBC News – Burma government offers Suu Kyi’s NLD ‘reconciliation’
The Malaysian Insider – Myanmar minister, Suu Kyi agree [...]
Posted in Old Misellaneous on Aug 13th, 2011 No Comments »
August 13, 2011 05:21 AM EST | AP
YANGON, Myanmar — Democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi will make her first political appearance outside Myanmar’s main city on Sunday since her release from seven years of house arrest, a journey that is going ahead despite a government warning it could trigger riots.
The opposition leader’s one-day trip [...]
Posted in Poems in Burmese on Aug 13th, 2011 No Comments »
PDF – _558_ Hate to Hear
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Posted in WORLD Digest on Aug 12th, 2011 No Comments »
- Reece Jones
Reece Jones, Professor of Geography at the University of Hawaii – Manoa, is the author of the forthcoming book Border Walls: Security and the War on Terror in the United States, India, and Israel.
HONOLULU – Fifty years ago today, on August 13, under the cover of darkness, East Germany broke ground on [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Aug 12th, 2011 No Comments »
- Nina L. Khrushcheva
Nina Khrushcheva, author of Imagining Nabokov: Russia Between Art and Politics, teaches international affairs at The New School and is senior fellow at the World Policy Institute in New York.
MOSCOW – History’s milestones are rarely so neatly arrayed as they are this summer. Fifty years ago this month, the Berlin Wall was [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Aug 12th, 2011 No Comments »
- George Soros
George Soros is Chairman of Soros Fund Management and of the Open Society Institute.
NEW YORK – Financial markets abhor uncertainty; that is why they are now in crisis mode. The governments of the eurozone have taken some significant steps in the right direction to resolve the euro crisis but, obviously, [...]
Posted in Burma News on Aug 12th, 2011 No Comments »
Please find attached EBO’s 23rd Political Monitor report.
PM_No._23_-_11-08-11
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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Posted in Poems in Burmese on Aug 12th, 2011 No Comments »
PDF – _555_ Call Upon a Deity to Uncle Mind to Bear Withness
Ko Ko Aung
Posted in Burma News on Aug 11th, 2011 No Comments »
Asian Correspondent – Burma forms ‘spokespersons and information team’ to control news leak-out
AP – Myanmar gov’t appoints team to spread information
Gorey Echo – Suu Kyi backs Burma dam protesters
Asia Times Online – To be a Burmese slave in Thailand
AsiaNews.it – Burmese immigrants, hope for the future of Korea
Straits Times – [...]
Posted in Campaigns & posters on Aug 11th, 2011 No Comments »
Rohingyas Call on to Support UN Commission of Inquiry on%
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PDF – _554_ My Poems Against the Military Dictator
Ko Ko Aung
Posted in Documentary Report on Aug 10th, 2011 No Comments »
August 10, 2011
Press release by the Shan Women’s Action Network and the Shan Human Rights Foundation
Over 30,000 displaced by Burma Army attacks face humanitarian crisis in northern Shan State
Numbers of villagers fleeing Burma Army atrocities have soared to over 30,000 during recent intensified attacks against the Shan State Army North [...]