Posted in Articles in English on Nov 28th, 2011 No Comments »
(Reuters) – Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping offered to boost military ties with Burma on Monday, days ahead of U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s historic visit to China’s isolated southern neighbor that has begun showing signs of political reform.
The calls by Xi, heir apparent to the Chinese leadership, to deepen military cooperation with Myanmar [...]
Posted in Articles in English on Nov 17th, 2011 No Comments »
Shan Drug Watch 2011 report: What it is all about
Thursday, 17 November 2011 14:53 S.H.A.N.
One of the 3 main plots of ‘Traffic’, the Oscar-winning movie in 2001, was about a general who was waging war against a drug cartel in Mexico. Applauded by the Americans [...]
Posted in Articles in English on Oct 10th, 2011 No Comments »
BURMA: Release of political prisoners could speed up democratic transformation
Monday, 10 October 2011 14:19 Khio Fah
By: Sai Wansai
Monday, 10 October 2011
Amid euphoria that Naypyidaw is on its way to irreversible democratisation process through implementation of recent reform initiative is heartening but still fails to touch the [...]
Posted in Articles in English on Sep 7th, 2011 1 Comment »
Al Jazeera correspondent Barnaby Phillips tells a story of friendship, bravery and sometimes uncomfortable truths.
Al Jazeera Correspondent Last Modified: 29 Aug 2011 12:05
Barnaby Phillips travelled to Nigeria to meet Isaac Fadoyebo, one of the so-called ‘Burma Boys’
By Barnaby Phillips
I am standing under a pagoda, deep in the jungles of Myanmar. The [...]
Posted in Articles in English on Aug 25th, 2011 No Comments »
August 25, 2011
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/opinion/can-western-optimism-on-burma-bear-fruit-60773.html
By Nehginpao Kipgen
The past few weeks have given a new hope to Burma’s decades-old political imbroglio, as a number of positive developments have emerged. Some notable ones are: a couple of meetings between the Burmese labor minister Aung Kyi and Aung San Suu Kyi on July 25 and Aug. 12; [...]
Posted in Articles in English on Jun 6th, 2011 No Comments »
Student in Free Enterprise
06jun11 SIFEIITD Press Release Detailed
Posted in Articles in English on May 26th, 2011 No Comments »
Wednesday, 25 May 2011 19:40 – Thea Forbes
Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – In a conference held by the Nobel Women’s Initiative, Burma’s own Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Aung San Suu Kyi condemned sexual violence against women in conflicts around the globe.
In a video message presented at the conference, Suu Kyi decried [...]
Posted in Articles in English on May 10th, 2011 No Comments »
STATEMENT OF THE 2011 ASEAN CIVIL SOCIETY CONFERENCE/ASEAN PEOPLES’ FORUM
We, more than 1,300 delegates at the 2011 ASEAN Civil Society Conference/ ASEAN Peoples’ Forum, representing various civil society organizations and , movements of workers from rural and urban sectors as well as migrant sector, peasants and farmers, women, children, youth, the [...]
Posted in Articles in English on May 1st, 2011 No Comments »
The Independent
The regime is the last in the world still planting mines and the rebels improvise their own devices. Liane Wimhurst meets the people caught in the middle
Sunday, 1 May 2011
afp/getty imagesRefugees from the conflict in Burma at the Mae Sot camp in Thailand
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Ootepew lies with his withered leg under [...]
Posted in Articles in English on Apr 18th, 2011 1 Comment »
o The Guardian, Saturday 16 April 2011
Burma’s tireless political campaigner talks about rebuilding the National League for Democracy, the revolutionary power of social media and her love of The Grateful Dead
But it has been enough to allow neo-liberal Western economists to call for compromise and the lifting of sanctions, accusing her of stubbornness. “They say [...]
Posted in Articles in English on Apr 18th, 2011 No Comments »
BURMA
Shan community denounces atrocities against civilians
Published on April 12, 2011
Shan human rights groups on Tuesday denounced widespread atrocities against civilians inside Burma, one day after the Thai National Security Council (NSC) talk about repatriating more than 100,000 Burmese refugees back to the trouble-plague country.
The Shan community groups “strongly denounce the current [...]
Posted in Articles in English on Apr 17th, 2011 No Comments »
Poison Letters and Septuagenarian Scoundrels
Dear Alumni
Not surprisingly, the dirty tricks streak in the DNA of the septuagenarian scoundrel is expressing in full again. It comes in the wake of a poison pen letter by one anonymous Gamani which is reminiscent of calls for Phyote Htoke Thut or attack articles often [...]
Posted in Articles in English on Mar 31st, 2011 No Comments »
For Immediate Release
31 March 2011
NO REAL CHANGE AS BURMA SWAPS MILITARY RULE FOR CIVILIAN PARLIAMENT
Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) has warned that although Burma’s State Peace and Development Council has been officially disbanded, there is no prospect of true democratic reform for the country.
As part of the changes that followed the [...]
Posted in Articles in English on Mar 20th, 2011 No Comments »
More than 50 years of Shan Struggle
Friday, 18 March 2011 13:15 Jai Wan Mai
(News Analysis) – Twenty armed groups are now operating in Shan State, 53 years after the Shan started an armed resistance movement against the Burmese regime.
A SSA soldier stands guard duty at Loi Tai Leng [...]
Posted in Articles in English on Mar 7th, 2011 No Comments »
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 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 Articles in English on Mar 1st, 2011 No Comments »
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