Posted in Supplementary Burma Digest on Dec 6th, 2007 No Comments »
BY GORDON BROWN, PRIME MINISTER OF BRITAIN
& NICOLAS SARKOZY, PRESIDENT OF FRANCE
Just two months ago, the world was shocked and outraged by the violent repression of peaceful demonstrations that took place in Myanmar(Burma). The images may have vanished from our screens, but we cannot and will not forget the plight of the Myanmar(Burmese) people.
A country [...]
Posted in Supplementary Burma Digest on Dec 6th, 2007 No Comments »
Dream Interview VI
Rule of Law
BURMA DIGEST: Could you kindly highlight about the free and independent Media?
His Excellency Datuk Sri Anwar Ibrahim…The media must be free and independent from government or other sources.
Journalists and the media must be allowed to present a diversity of political views.
SPDC must accept that the media contributes positively to [...]
Posted in Supplementary Burma Digest on Dec 6th, 2007 No Comments »
1001 Malaysian Nights
(DSAI interview Part V)
His Excellency Datuk Sri Anwar Ibrahim… 1001 Malaysian Nights? What? I only agreed in your dreams, to day dream my dream interview. What do you mean? What is your Game Plan or Dream Plan?
It would be not nice if you derail into other topics rather than Burmese Politics as [...]
Posted in Supplementary Burma Digest on Dec 5th, 2007 No Comments »
Dream Interview with DSAI
Part IV
BURMA DIGEST: Dear Datuk Sri, thank Your Honour for allowing to continue interviewing you in my day dreams. Let’s continue the topics we were discussing in the last article. Is poverty the cause of lack of Human Rights?
H. E. Datuk Sri Anwar Ibrahim… Yes, I agree with you. I noticed that we should [...]
Posted in Supplementary Burma Digest on Dec 4th, 2007 No Comments »
My day dream of speaking with
former Deputy Prime Minister
Part III
BURMA DIGEST: Dear Datuk Sri, thank Your Honour for allowing to interview you in my dreams. But today I am awake and thinking about the coming Human Rights Day. Please may Your Honour kindly allow me to day dream to day, as if we are [...]
Posted in Supplementary Burma Digest on Dec 4th, 2007 2 Comments »
Dreams
I am a daydreamer because dreams give me hope and I always think, plan, prepare and try my best to achieve my dreams. I used to dream about the future of our country. This article is meant as my excuses for writing the dream interviews.
All men dream, but not equally.
Those who dream by night,
in the [...]
Posted in Supplementary Burma Digest on Dec 2nd, 2007 No Comments »
Dreaming an interview with
Datuk Sri Anwar Ibrahim
Part II
Beware this is just fictional, not real.
Many Malaysians affectionately referred Datuk Sri Anwar Ibrahim as DSAI. I have this unusual dream of getting a chance to have a face-to-face interview with DSAI. I hereby wish to apologize Datuk Sri Anwar Ibrahim, his family and the political party from [...]
Posted in Supplementary Burma Digest on Dec 1st, 2007 No Comments »
BY H.E. BOGUSLAW MARCIN MAJEWSKI
Poland’s Ambassador to Singapore
Poland’s Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Mr Lech Walesa, is known for many things. Among them, his pointed comments on political reality. In the early 1990s, he was asked to describe the task Poland faced in transforming its economy after decades of communist rule.
“Well,” he said, “the communists were [...]
Posted in Supplementary Burma Digest on Dec 1st, 2007 No Comments »
Déjà vu declaration
of an ASEAN FM
Let me explain about Déjà vu first.
It is the French word for “already seen.”
Déjà vu is an uncanny feeling or illusion of having already seen or experienced something that is being experienced for the first time.
If we assume that the experience is actually of a remembered event, then déjà [...]
Posted in Supplementary Burma Digest on Nov 26th, 2007 No Comments »
SINGAPORE – When United Nations special envoy Ibrahim Gambari landed in Singapore prepared to brief Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and other East Asian leaders on his mission to Myanmar, he was told at the last minute that the briefing was off. The senior diplomat, charged with mediating national reconciliation between Myanmar’s ruling generals [...]
Posted in Supplementary Burma Digest on Nov 25th, 2007 No Comments »
ASEAN’s moral fibre
Excerpts from xpyre
I wish the world was simple, in black and white, 2 dimensional.
Now the Commonwealth has booted out Pakistan. To me, the booting out of Pakistan reveals ASEAN’s complete lack of moral fibre, in contrast.
Instead of allowing the UN’s Special Envoy Ibrahim Gambari to come out and brief Asean leaders on the [...]
Posted in Supplementary Burma Digest on Nov 25th, 2007 No Comments »
May I have a decent immigration policy, please?
By Hizami
Excerpts from
It’s long been apparent that a vicious undercurrent of xenophobia runs through Malaysian society,
cheerfully whipped up by the mainstream press, and
championed by a worrying spectrum of individuals.
Remember the panicky TV3 reports on ‘immigrants’ flooding KLCC during public holidays, and
Wong Chun Wai’s editorial on how ‘uncomfortable’ it [...]
Posted in Supplementary Burma Digest on Nov 21st, 2007 6 Comments »
Birds of same feathers,
living in glass houses
Scene 1
Excerpts from Star 0n line, Testing Asean’s patience,
Comment by MERGAWATI ZULFAKAR
As Asean continues to defend a recalcitrant Myanmar, the world is calling for action against Yangon. Just how much more patience does Asean have left?
IT WAS an informal dinner for the 10 Asean leaders, a casual affair [...]
Posted in Supplementary Burma Digest on Nov 8th, 2007 1 Comment »
The following presentation is delivered by Harn Yawnghwe, Director of the Brussels-based Euro-Burma Office and Advisor to the Ethnic Nationalities Council (ENC) at the public seminar held at the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic, 6 November.
It was also attended by well known Burma activists such as Bo Kyi, Nang Hseng [...]
Posted in Supplementary Burma Digest on Nov 6th, 2007 No Comments »
The signed petitions, which the military junta (SPDC) provided to UN representative, Mr. Gambari, were obtained from the civil servants and civilians.
Translated by Burmese Bloggers w/o Borders
(http://bbwob.blogspot.com)
We thought long and hard about this matter that we are about to say in this letter. We have to reveal it as otherwise; we will feel guilty for [...]