Posted in Supplementary Burma Digest on Jan 15th, 2008 No Comments »
Britney Spears and Paris Hilton
to Visit Burma
As Burmese news are causing me depression, kindly forgive me for the posting below. I hope this will at least releave the readers’ heavy heart.
Rangoon – Singer and Kojak impersonator Britney Spears and her pal Paris Hilton are planning image makeovers with a trip to Burma in April for the [...]
Posted in Supplementary Burma Digest on Jan 15th, 2008 1 Comment »
The Golden days of the
Great Shan Empire I
Please may you kindly allow me to acknowledge the references first, as I wish to write this in a series of a few short articles.
REFERENCES
Wikipedia encyclopedia
The Encyclopedia of World History.
“Story of Myanmar told in pictures” by Dr Than Tun and translated by Maung Win War.
The Shan Herald [...]
Posted in Supplementary Burma Digest on Jan 14th, 2008 No Comments »
Dr Mahathir Mohamad
offering a few pointers
for Myanmar Junta
Aspiring leaders who resort to unethical ways and even violence should be rejected outright, says Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad.
Unethical ways = Illegal second coup after the election.
Violence = violent suppression and killing of the peaceful demonstrators and monks.
The former Prime Minister said anyone wanting to be a leader [...]
Posted in Supplementary Burma Digest on Jan 14th, 2008 No Comments »
Francis Fukuyama Special to The Yomiuri Shimbun
(photo: WN / deniseyong)
One of the biggest questions concerning the future of East Asia will be the internal evolution of the Chinese political system. China is undergoing breakneck economic development and emerging as a global superpower under the leadership of an authoritarian Communist Party that cannot legitimate itself [...]
Posted in Supplementary Burma Digest on Jan 10th, 2008 No Comments »
AI Malaysia’s concern for
Refugees & Migrants
Amnesty International Malaysia
Every day people make decisions to leave their homes, communities and countries. Some leave because they are – · afraid for their lives, · and for the lives of their children · and loved ones. Others leave because their social or economic situation has compelled them to do [...]
Posted in Supplementary Burma Digest on Jan 8th, 2008 No Comments »
Decision Time in Burma
By R. Nicholas Burns, the U.S. undersecretary of state for political affairs
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Excerpts
Three months have passed since the world called on Burma’s dictators, Gens. Than Shwe and Maung Aye,
to end their brutal crackdown on tens of thousands of peaceful monks and other demonstrators
and begin a genuine dialogue with Burma’s [...]
Posted in Supplementary Burma Digest on Jan 8th, 2008 No Comments »
Don’t Cry for Myanmar, Burma
English: Don’t Cry for Myanmar, Burma
Spanish: No llores por Myanmar, Burma
Icelandic: Gráttu mig Myanmar, Burma
Hungarian: Miért kell, hogy sírj, Burma
Dutch: Huil niet om Myanmar, Burma
Danish: Græd ikke for Myanmar, Burma
French: Ne pleure pas pour Myanmar, Burma
German: Wein’ nicht um Myanmar, Burma
Portuguese: Não chores por Myanmar, Burma
Swedish: Sörj inte Myanmar, Burma
Italian: Non [...]
Posted in Supplementary Burma Digest on Jan 8th, 2008 No Comments »
India halts arms sales to Myanmar
From the Washington Post
December 30, 2007
WASHINGTON — India has halted all arms sales and transfers to Myanmar, a development that could increase international pressure on the military government that crushed pro-democracy protests led by monks this fall.
The Indian government’s decision has not been officially announced, but diplomatic sources said it [...]
Posted in Supplementary Burma Digest on Jan 8th, 2008 No Comments »
A digitally enhanced
Myanmar opposition
By Paul Watson, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
January 7, 2008
Excerpts_
YANGON, MYANMAR — During 45 years of military rule, Myanmar’s generals drilled fear and suspicion so deeply into the minds of their people that when their opponents tried to harness the rage seething on the streets last fall, no one [...]
Posted in Supplementary Burma Digest on Jan 8th, 2008 No Comments »
S’pore’s Lee criticises
Myanmar military rulers
Tue Jan 8, 2008 8:03am IST
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – by Kevin Lim.
Singapore’s elder statesman Lee Kuan Yew has criticised Myanmar’s military junta, saying decisions such as the building of a new capital from scratch were irrational, a newspaper reported on Tuesday.Excerpts_ http://in.reuters.com/article/southAsiaNews/idINIndia-31287320080108
The building of a new capital from scratch were irrational.
I [...]
Posted in Supplementary Burma Digest on Dec 23rd, 2007 No Comments »
Say Young Sone Anyein,
video 1 to 6
You Tube Video source through Niknayman’s blog ( thank you Ko Niknayman for the videos)
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We like to praise the courage of the Comedians after watching the Jokes of the Anyein performance , which is usually combined with the traditional dance with the jokes.
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However the Jokes made by the famous [...]
Posted in Supplementary Burma Digest on Dec 22nd, 2007 No Comments »
RESPONSE OF INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY
ON MYANMAR
The following is the response of the Thailand Newspaper on Myanmar’s acceptence into ASEAN, printed on 1.6.97. in_
THE NATION EDITORIAL.
“SHAMEFUL FOR ASEAN TO EMBRACE BURMA”
Asean will never be the same again.
By embracing Burma as a member it has itself become a pariah organization.
Coming as it does on [...]
Posted in Supplementary Burma Digest on Dec 21st, 2007 No Comments »
Non recognition of UNHCR
Burmese and other refugees
Note: I had compiled these data and written this article since early 90’s. So although it may look as an old issues at the first look but sadly they are still relevant at the present. Some of the International community and ASEAN are in the same stage of closing their [...]
Posted in Supplementary Burma Digest on Dec 21st, 2007 No Comments »
How are we different from Pauline Hanson?
Note: I had compiled these data and written these articles since early 90’s. So although it may look as an old issues at the first look but sadly they are still relevant at the present. Some of the International community and ASEAN are in the same stage of closing [...]
Posted in Articles in English, Supplementary Burma Digest on Dec 21st, 2007 No Comments »
HISTORY REVISITED
RESPONSE OF INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY
AND ASEAN ON MYANMAR
Note: I had compiled these data and written this article since early 90’s. So although it may look as an old issues at the first look but sadly they are still relevant at the present. Some of the International community and ASEAN are in the same stage of [...]
Posted in Supplementary Burma Digest on Dec 14th, 2007 2 Comments »
Ko Mya Aye
Burmese Muslim
(88 Students Group Leader)
Junta pins democracy activists to the wall
Ko Dee
Mizzima News
April 6, 2007 – Pro democracy activists in Burma are slowly and steadily being pushed to the wall by the military junta which has stepped up restrictions and suppression both in economic and social terms, political dissidents in Rangoon [...]
Posted in Supplementary Burma Digest on Dec 10th, 2007 No Comments »
Foreign workers face campaign of brutality
Posted by: Raja Petra
By Seth Mydans
International Herald Tribune
Kang Long, 43, is an ethnic Chin refugee from Myanmar, one of as many as three million foreign workers whose labor on farms, factories and construction sites and in service industries supports the economy of this bustling Southeast Asian nation. About [...]
Posted in Supplementary Burma Digest on Dec 7th, 2007 No Comments »
Dream Interview VII
Rule by Law (of the Jungle)
BURMA DIGEST: Good evening Datuk Sri. Kindly allow me to continue with our dream interview. May you kindly explain us about the concepts of Rule by Law.
H. E. Mr Anwar Ibrahim…The SPDC Junta is seen to be worse than using that Rule by Law. They are seen as not even using the [...]