Archive for January 20th, 2008
World Focus on Burma (20 Jan 08)
- Delhi ties with Yangon on Brown radar
Calcutta Telegraph, India -
“We believe the present situation in Myanmar is unstable… (and) there is greater need for international pressure to move the regime in Burma to take … - Review Blackout on “Rambo”
New York Daily News, NY -
Settled in Bangkok, where he’s renovating gunboats, Rambo is lured out of retirement by news of American missionaries being kidnapped in Burma — or Myanmar … - Rwanda Asked to Explain Disappearance of Parliamentarian
Voice of America -
By Lisa Schlein The Inter-Parliamentary Union is calling on Rwanda to investigate the disappearance of one of its members of parliament, Leonardo Hitimana. … - Karen New Year educates others on ethnic group
Utica Observer Dispatch, NY -
… Kapaw Sasah and Kapru Htoo came to the United States from Burma, a country also called Myanmar, where the Karen ethnic group is being persecuted. … - Myanmar urges tightened security measures following bomb blasts
Xinhua, China -
20 (Xinhua) — The Myanmar authorities have called on all business circles in the city of Yangon to cooperate with the authorities to step up their security … - The Express-Times
The Express Times, PA -
This time Rambo confronts the oppressive regime in Myanmar (Burma) to assist some Christian missionaries. Diane Lane plays an FBI agent chasing down a … - Myanmar auctions gems, jade despite boycott calls–report
Inquirer.net, Philippines -
Myanmar (also known as Burma), one of the world’s poorest countries, is the source of up to 90 percent of the world’s rubies, and each auction rakes in more … - Burma monk still testing the military Aging storyteller uses …
San Francisco Chronicle, USA -
The generals have arrested people caught selling them, but they are still widely available across Burma, also known as Myanmar. To most people, the pain of … - Capital suggestion
Axis of evil | Sunday, January 20, 2008 | Dr Farrukh Saleem | At 9:15 p.m. on 29 January 2002, President Bush delivered the State of the Union Address. The president named Iraq, Iran and North Korea as states t.. - Artist expresses peace using Buddha
| Patrons of the arts usually don’t walk into a gallery and promptly plop themselves on the floor to meditate in front of the paintings. But then few galleries would advertise an exhibit as a “meditative shrine… - A stable Myanmar to benefit India, China
Dawn | By John Feffer | WASHINGTON: When the world’s two most populous countries held a summit this month… - We want India to do more: Gambari
NDTV.com, India -
NDTV: How much influence India has on Burma? Gambari: It is difficult to say. India is a big neighbor. So, clearly Myanmar should take into account India’s …
- Myanmar’s monks hold subtle power
Baltimore Sun, United States -
By Paul Watson January 20, 2008 SAGAING, Myanmar – In one of his most talked-about lectures, Buddhist monk Ashin Nyanissara tells of a king who ruled more … - LIVE AND LET SLY
New York Post, NY -
Soon, however, he’s approached by a group of Christian missionaries who ask to be ferried upriver into war-torn Myanmar (the former Burma) to deliver a load … - China, India ties warming up
The News Journal, DE -
But India has expressed concern about China’s cultivation of relations with Myanmar (Burma), Pakistan and other Indian neighbors, while Beijing is believed … - The public face of Buddhism
The Casper Star Tribune, WY -
… publicly their profound disapproval with the manner in which Myanmar’s military junta has been the source of great dukkha for the people of Burma. … - Families, closed doors and raps on the knuckles
Thought Leader, South Africa -
So, the Burma saga continues. After recent events — September’s bloody crackdown on peaceful rallies in the South-East Asian country, global protests and a … - India has important role to play on Myanmar: Brown
Hindu, India -
“I want to see an end to the violence and release of political prisoners in Burma,” he said. Britain says that the process of democratisation in Myanmar did …
