Posted in Old Misellaneous on Sep 12th, 2011 No Comments »
September 12, 2011 09:01 AM EST |
YANGON, Myanmar — Myanmar has decided to go ahead with construction of a major dam along its main river despite opposition from ethnic minorities and environmentalists, reports said Monday.
Ethnic Kachin people and environmental groups say the Myanmar-China Myitsone Hydroelectric Project in Kachin state will damage the Irrawaddy [...]
Posted in Old Misellaneous on Sep 6th, 2011 No Comments »
September 6, 2011 05:26 AM EST |
YANGON, Myanmar — Myanmar’s nominally civilian government has formed a National Human Rights Commission to investigate reported abuses, state-run media reported Tuesday, although a similar body in 2000 failed to have any impact.
The 15-member commission of retired civil servants will “safeguard fundamental rights of citizens” as described [...]
Posted in Old Misellaneous on Aug 30th, 2011 No Comments »
August 30, 2011 02:13 AM EST |
YANGON, Myanmar — A special court inside Myanmar’s Insein prison has sentenced an ex-army captain to 10 years imprisonment for writing and sending critical articles to the Democratic Voice of Burma and other dissident groups.
Lawyer Hla Myo Myint says 35-year-old Nay Myo Zin was sentenced last Friday [...]
Posted in Old Misellaneous on Aug 25th, 2011 No Comments »
August 25, 2011 11:53 AM EST |
YANGON, Myanmar — The U.N. human rights envoy to Myanmar said Thursday at the end of his visit to the country its new government should release all political prisoners.
Myanmar installed a nominally civilian government in March but still holds more than 2,000 political prisoners.
Releasing them is a [...]
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 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 Old Misellaneous on Aug 8th, 2011 No Comments »
August 8, 2011 07:12 AM EST | AP
YANGON, Myanmar — Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi and other activists marked the anniversary Monday of the anti-military uprising that inspired their still uncompleted crusade to bring democracy to Myanmar.
The low-key commemoration came a week before Suu Kyi’s first planned political trip outside of Yangon since her [...]
Posted in Old Misellaneous on Aug 5th, 2011 No Comments »
August 5, 2011 05:19 AM EST | AP
YANGON, Myanmar — Rebels in northern Myanmar ambushed a car carrying workers from a Chinese-backed hydroelectric project, killing seven people, state media reported Friday.
Ethnic Kachin fighters attacked the vehicle as it traveled from the Tarpein power plant to the town of Moemauk on Tuesday, the government-owned Myanma Ahlin [...]
Posted in Old Misellaneous on Jul 14th, 2011 No Comments »
July 13, 2011 08:57 PM EST |
WASHINGTON — A former Myanmar envoy in Washington says another diplomat at that mission has followed him in seeking political asylum in the United States.
Former deputy chief of mission Kyaw Win tells The Associated Press that first secretary Soe Aung defected Wednesday after he was ordered back to Myanmar.
Kyaw [...]
Posted in Old Misellaneous on Jul 12th, 2011 No Comments »
WASBIR HUSSAIN | July 12, 2011 07:52 AM EST |
GAUHATI, India — A leading separatist group in India’s remote northeastern on Tuesday announced a unilateral cease-fire, moving closer to a peace dialogue to resolve a three-decade-old insurgency.
The United Liberation Front of Asom has been fighting since 1979 for an independent homeland for the [...]
Posted in Old Misellaneous on Jul 5th, 2011 No Comments »
July 5, 2011 06:33 AM EST |
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BAGAN, Myanmar — Myanmar’s democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi was supposed to be on a private tour of the temple city of Bagan, but she drew crowds Tuesday in a test of the government’s tolerance after it warned her against political appearances.
Suu Kyi, in her first trip [...]
Posted in Old Misellaneous on Jun 29th, 2011 No Comments »
June 29, 2011 08:28 AM EST |
YANGON, Myanmar — Myanmar’s state media warned pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Wednesday that her planned tour to meet supporters outside Yangon could trigger riots.
The commentary published in all three state-run daily newspapers said the government would not stop Suu Kyi but appeared to reflect [...]
Posted in Old Misellaneous on Jun 28th, 2011 No Comments »
June 28, 2011 07:14 AM EST |
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LONDON — Myanmar’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has delivered a prestigious annual BBC radio lecture, telling an international audience that her compatriots are envious of people in Tunisia and Egypt, where long-serving dictators have been toppled.
On recordings smuggled out of Myanmar, also known as Burma, [...]
Posted in Old Misellaneous on Jun 24th, 2011 No Comments »
June 24, 2011 07:57 AM EST | AP
YANGON, Myanmar — Four bombs exploded in three Myanmar cities Friday, wounding at least two people, the government and residents said.
The perpetrators were not clear, but bombings have increased recently in Myanmar, where pro-democracy activists and ethnic groups are at odds with the military-backed regime.
A government official told [...]
Posted in Old Misellaneous on Jun 23rd, 2011 No Comments »
GEORGE JAHN | June 23, 2011 10:00 AM EST | AP
VIENNA — World opium production decreased sharply last year due to a blight in Afghanistan but is expected to rebound, and coca growing and cocaine production also fell, the United Nations reported Thursday.
Still, the United States remained the biggest market for cocaine in the world, [...]
Posted in Old Misellaneous on Jun 23rd, 2011 No Comments »
MATTHEW PENNINGTON | June 22, 2011 04:05 PM EST | AP
WASHINGTON — Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi addressed U.S. lawmakers by video on Wednesday, calling for a commission of inquiry into rights abuses in Myanmar and urging lawmakers’ support for steps to open up “the real road to democracy” there.
Suu Kyi, freed from house [...]
Posted in Old Misellaneous on Jun 18th, 2011 No Comments »
June 18, 2011 01:15 AM EST | AP
YANGON, Myanmar — Myanmar’s government has blamed ethnic Kachin rebels for starting a week of fighting along the country’s northeastern border with China.
The state-run New Light of Myanmar reported Saturday that the army battled rebels only to protect a major Chinese-built hydroelectric power project that had come under [...]
Posted in Old Misellaneous on Jun 16th, 2011 No Comments »
June 16, 2011 08:44 AM EST | AP
BANGKOK — As many as 10,000 people have reportedly become refugees from fighting in northern Myanmar between government troops and a militia of the Kachin ethnic minority.
The website of the Kachin News Group, associated with anti-government Kachin exiles, quoted one of the group’s leaders saying that more than [...]