World Focus on Burma (23-12-2007)
- Burma’s generals aim to stay in power – Sunday Tribune
International Analyst Network, NY -
TEN WEEKS after driving peaceful protestors off the streets of Rangoon and other cities, Burma’s reclusive and paranoid military dictatorship is taking … - Resistance to regime boils on in Myanmar
Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription), MN -
Quite unlike the dictatorship in North Korea, the zippered-up and ethnically homogeneous police state far to the northeast, Myanmar’s is a dog’s breakfast … - Peace – when there is no peace
Gilroy Dispatch (subscription), CA -
We see it in the massive loss of life in the Middle East, in videos smuggled out of Myanmar (Burma) showing the deliberate shooting of Japanese photographer … - Myanmar refugees wretched in Malaysia
Peninsula On-line, Qatar -
… Altsean Burma. “Large groups of refugees are in hiding around the country and they are penniless and desperate,” she adds, using Myanmar’s former name. … - Thai police find 22 bodies of Burmese migrants in sea
The Age, Australia -
Ranong, 460 kilometres south of Bangkok, is one of the major trading and commuting points between Burma’s Victoria Point and Thailand. AP. - Rebels kill three people in Burma
Radio Australia, Australia -
Three people, including two soldiers, were shot dead and at least 10 people injured when ethnic Karen rebels ambushed a passenger bus in Burma. … - News in brief
Chicago Tribune, United States -
The move is an effort to streamline tourism to the region and may also be adopted by Laos, Vietnam and Myanmar (Burma). If that occurs a traveler could … - Prayer for Burma
Manila Times, Philippines -
Has the international pressure on the Myanmar junta helped the process of democratization in Burma at all? At the Kapihan sa Sulo media forum Saturday, … - A home away from home
Daily Press, VA -
The 23-year-old refugee from the country he still calls Burma — officially it’s the Union of Myanmar — would rather be with the wife he had to leave behind …
