World Focus on Burma (29 Jan 08)
Burma arrests 10 over August protests
France24, France - Jan 29, 2008
By AFP Military-ruled Myanmar has filed criminal charges against 10 activists arrested in August over rallies that snowballed into mass demonstrations …
France24, France - Jan 29, 2008
By AFP Military-ruled Myanmar has filed criminal charges against 10 activists arrested in August over rallies that snowballed into mass demonstrations …
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Blogger detained amid increased surveillance of Internet; more …
Southeast Asian Press Alliance, Thailand - Jan 29, 2008 On 21 January, Mizzima reported that Blogger.com, the most popular blog provider to users inside Burma, has been completely blocked after Myanmar Post and … |
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Burma activists charged over demo
BBC News, UK - Jan 29, 2008 But Burma’s military rulers have denied the claims. Aung Thein, a lawyer for the opposition National League for Democracy, said it was not clear what … |
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Rambo’ is just another bloody mission movie review
The Plain Dealer – cleveland.com, OH - Jan 29, 2008 Until one day, a group of religious relief workers goes missing in Myanmar. And there’s only one man who knows how to get them out. … |
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Myanmar Times CEO Supports Regime’s “Road Map”
The Irrawaddy News Magazine, Thailand - Jan 29, 2008 By Wai Moe Burma’s English language weekly newspaper, The Myanmar Times, threw its support unequivocally behind the regime’s seven-point “road map” in a … |
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Irrawaddy Dam Construction Begins, Human Rights Abuses Begin
The Irrawaddy News Magazine, Thailand - Jan 29, 2008 The Burmese state-run newspaper, The New Light of Myanmar, reported in May 2007 that seven hydropower projects on the Irrawaddy River had been designed to … |
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Myanmar migrants fear worst from new Thai government
Swissinfo, Switzerland - Jan 29, 2008 So, hopefully, the TRT-influenced PPP will take migration issues into account,” said Myint Wai of the Thai Action Committee for Democracy in Burma. |
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EU envoy calls for release of Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi
AFP - Jan 29, 2008 BANGKOK (AFP) — The EU’s special envoy for Myanmar on Tuesday urged the country’s military regime to free democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi as he kicked off … |
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Stallone: Time right for another ‘Rambo’
Detroit Free Press, United States - Jan 29, 2008 “Rambo,” the fourth in the series that began in 1982, takes place in present-day, war-torn Burma (called Myanmar by its current government), … |
Federal probe of stolen art goes national
Los Angeles Times, CA - Jan 29, 2008
“Passion for Form: Selections of Southeast Asian Art from the MacLean Collection” contains 53 of his best objects from Myanmar (formerly Burma), Thailand, …
Junta threatens jail for Burma protest leaders
Guardian Unlimited, UK - Jan 29, 2008
Burma’s military regime has filed charges against 10 leading activists for orchestrating the rallies against price rises that snowballed into last year’s …
Guardian Unlimited, UK - Jan 29, 2008
Burma’s military regime has filed charges against 10 leading activists for orchestrating the rallies against price rises that snowballed into last year’s …
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Stillwell road could be Arunachal`s bounty
KanglaOnline, India - Jan 29, 2008 The praise is for the 1079 km long Stillwell road which connects Indian territory in Arunachal Pradesh with Myanmar and China. … |
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Blood Drowned
PW-Philadelphia Weekly, PA - Jan 29, 2008 Alas, we’ll just have to settle for Myanmar. The Burmese army’s relentless persecution of the Karen tribe is cause for much fetishization on Stallone’s part … |
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UN could take lessons from Rambo
Seattle Post Intelligencer - Jan 29, 2008 … in a marsh — of the peaceful fall protests and subsequent violent crackdown in Myanmar/Burma that has so quickly slipped from the public consciousness. … |
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US calls on Myanmar to release pro-democracy activists
AFP - Jan 29, 2008 WASHINGTON (AFP) — The United States condemned on Tuesday the Myanmar military regime’s decision to charge 10 pro-democracy activists, deeming it evidence … |
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Movie Review: “Rambo” (Lionsgate 2008
Arizona Reporter, AZ - Jan 29, 2008 Claiming that he devised this fourth installment with geopolitical relevance – namely, to draw attention to the need for aid in war-torn Burma (Myanmar) … |
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Enabling ASEAN’s Economic Vision
Heritage.org, DC - Jan 29, 2008 For instance, Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar (Burma), the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand had until January 1, 2003, to phase out their … |
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Sylvester Stallone set to make fifth Rambo
New Zealand Herald, New Zealand - Jan 29, 2008 The film, which Stallone directs and stars in, sees Rambo taking a group of mercenaries into war torn Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, in search of missing … |
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POLITICS: Security Council Loses Credibility Over Iran, Israel
IPS, Italy - Jan 29, 2008 … Chinese to drop their opposition to harsh sanctions against Burma (Myanmar) and Sudan, two countries with strong military and economic ties to Beijing. |
Gambari in New Delhi to urge fresh Indian support
Mizzima.com, India - Jan 29, 2008
New Delhi, India – In his second trip to India, United Nations Special Envoy to Burma, Ibrahim Gambari, arrived in New Delhi on Monday and is scheduled to …
Myanmar’s Suu Kyi to meet party leaders
Reuters UK, UK - Jan 29, 2008
That meeting stemmed from unprecedented international pressure on the former Burma’s military rulers after their bloody crackdown on mass protests in …
Reuters UK, UK - Jan 29, 2008
That meeting stemmed from unprecedented international pressure on the former Burma’s military rulers after their bloody crackdown on mass protests in …
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Suu Kyi taken from home to military facility–witnesses
Inquirer.net, Philippines - Jan 29, 2008 YANGON — (UPDATE) Myanmar’s detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi was taken Wednesday from her home to a nearby military facility, witnesses said, … |
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Myanmar monks remain defiant
Aljazeera.net, Qatar - Jan 29, 2008 … groups opposed to the military regime – among them, members of the student-led uprising in 1988 when Myanmar was known by its former name, Burma . … |
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Popular blogger arrested in Myanmar: opposition
AFP - Jan 29, 2008 YANGON (AFP) — A popular Myanmar blogger who belongs to Aung San Suu Kyi’s pro-democracy party has been arrested in Yangon, apparently for violating the … |
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Burma ‘acting on child soldiers’
BBC News, UK - Jan 29, 2008 According to the New Light of Myanmar, the general, who heads a government panel aimed at ending the practice, said that there were “only very few cases of … |
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Stallone’s new ‘Rambo’ falls short of ‘Rocky Balboa’
Evansville Courier & Press (subscription), IN - Jan 29, 2008 … missionaries (Julie Benz and Paul Schulze among them) to ferry the group upriver to help villagers endangered by civil war in Myanmar (formerly Burma). … |
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Myanmar punishes officials over child soldiers
AFP - Jan 29, 2008 YANGON (AFP) — Myanmar’s ruling junta has taken action against 43 members of the military for recruiting child soldiers over the last five years, … |
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ASEAN discusses framework for regional rights body
Democratic Voice of Burma, Norway - Jan 29, 2008 ASEAN members Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Burma, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam last year agreed to establish a regional human … |
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Rambo Review [3]
411mania.com, TX - Jan 29, 2008 … but I suspect that it’s probably going to annoy human rights activists in that it doesn’t come down hard enough on the Myanmar/Burma government. … |
Warning: Male Testosterone Rampant in Rambo
Recorder, CT - Jan 29, 2008
It is set in Burma, (now known as Myanmar), during the intense 60-year civil war and genocide still taking place today. The murdering government of this …
Singing while under suspicion in Myanmar
Los Angeles Times, CA - Jan 29, 2008
… of a temple or church, where people can go to learn how to play a Western musical instrument or read music in Myanmar, which is also known as Burma. …
