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Myanmar rebel leader shot dead in Thai town
elEconomista.es, Spain -
In an interview with Reuters on Monday, he had predicted apossible increase in violence ahead of a constitutionalreferendum in the former Burma in May. …

Leader Of Myanmar’s Karen Rebel Group Assassinated
eFluxMedia -

… in Myanmar was killed Thursday at his home, in a Thai border town. The assassination was blamed on troops devoted to the former Burma ’s military junta. …

Top Burmese Rebel Leader Killed
Voice of America -
Pado Mahn Sha Lap Han was also a top leader of the National Council of the Union of Burma, a Thai-based group which opposes military rule in Burma. …

Good year for fish discoveries in Myanmar
Natural History Museum, UK -
Myanmar, previously called Burma, has many remote and unexplored regions. In some places, Ralf and his team were the first scientists to collect scientific …

UK-World Summary
International Herald Tribune, France -
A leader of Myanmar’s biggest rebel group was shot dead at his home in a Thai border town on Thursday in an assassination immediately blamed on troops loyal …

Rare Spoon-Billed Sandpipers Found In Myanmar
AHN -
Bangkok, Thailand (AHN) – A conservation group has found 84 spoon-billed sandpipers in a coastal stretch of Myanmar. The discovery in early February comes …

Myanmar Ethnic Rebel Leader Killed
The Associated Press -
MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) — The leader of the Karen National Union, one of the biggest ethnic groups fighting Myanmar’s military government, …

Myanmar extends house arrest of political prisoner Tin Oo
International Herald Tribune, France -
AP YANGON, Myanmar: The military government of Myanmar extended the house arrest of the deputy leader of Aung San Suu Kyi’s party by another year, …

Karen Rebel Leader Assassinated
The Irrawaddy News Magazine, Thailand –

By SAW YAN NAING Mahn Sha, the general secretary of the Karen National Union (KNU) was shot dead on Thursday afternoon at his home in Mae Sot, Thailand, …

Myanmar rebel leader ‘assassinated’
CNN International -

The government of Myanmar, also known as Burma, blames the KNU for waging attacks to destabilize the military junta that has run the country for two decades …

Burmese rebel leader reported killed
Guardian Unlimited, UK -
Mahn Sha’s son, Hse Hse, also a senior member of the Karen movement, blamed a Buddhist Karen splinter group which brokered a truce with Myanmar’s ruling …

Burmese Junta Warns INGOs
The Irrawaddy News Magazine, Thailand -
Ministry officials and 14 INGO representatives based in Burma attended the meeting. Three INGO health groups, including Medecins Sans Frontieres—Switzerland …

Top Myanmar rebel leader assassinated in Thailand: Police
Times of India, India -
… which has the country formerly known as Burma since 1962. “It is likely to be a KNU problem,” said Myanmar analyst Aung Naing Oo, noting that the mainly …

China pledges to support UN special envoy on Myanmar
PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung), Austria -
Myanmar, also known as Burma, has been under military rule since 1962 and has not had a constitution since 1988, when the army brutally suppressed …

Myanmar rebel leader shot dead in Thai town
Reuters -
In an interview with Reuters on Monday, he had predicted a possible increase in violence ahead of a constitutional referendum in the former Burma in May. …

Than Shwe Still Calling the Shots, as Wife Goes Missing

The Irrawaddy News Magazine, Thailand -
By WAI MOE For the second time in two months, the wife of Burma’s military supremo has been absent from a state function to commemorate a national holiday, …

Tay Za Buys Ships in Korea
The Irrawaddy News Magazine, Thailand -

“He plans to open the shipping business to the private sector in Burma,” the source added, indicating that Tay Za, a crony of Burma’s junta chief Snr-Gen …

Burmese dissident shot dead in Thailand
NEWS.com.au, Australia -
A leader of an insurgency group fighting Burma’s ruling military junta was shot dead at his home in Thailand on Thursday night (AEDT). Pado Manh Sha, 65, …

Burmese rebel leader is shot dead
BBC News, UK -
The secretary general of Burma’s largest rebel group, the Karen National Union, has been killed. Pado Mahn Shar was shot at his home in the Thai border town …

Senators Feinstein and McConnell Introduce Legislation to Award …
All American Patriots (press release), Sweden -
today introduced a measure to award the Congressional Gold Medal to Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of Burma’s democratic movement and Nobel Peace Laureate. …

An Inconvenient Truth
The Irrawaddy News Magazine, Thailand -
Why should Burma accept a constitution that is undemocratic to the bone and came about during an undemocratic process designed to cater to the wishes of the …

INFORMATION WARFARE: The Big Lie Returns
Strategy Page -
… lot of people that the CIA was using the war as a means to export heroin from Myanmar (when it was called Burma, and was the major source of that drug). …

India: Militants Abducting Recruits
The Associated Press -
… active in neighboring Arunachal Pradesh and is believed to have some 5000 fighters based in camps across the border in Myanmar, also known as Burma. …

PPP will protest if Feb 18 polls are rigged: Zardari
TopNews, India -
Organised by the Mahabodhi Society of India, the over weeklong festival is being attended by several Buddhist monks from Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Myanmar, …

Conservationists Plan Genetic Tiger Corridor Across Asia
Environment News Service -
The proposed corridor includes extensive areas of Bhutan, northeast India, Myanmar, Thailand and Malaysia, along with potential connectivity to Laos, …

UN: 13 Countries Recruit and Use Child Soldiers
The Irrawaddy News Magazine, Thailand -
“Progress on action plans to end the recruitment of children by armed forces and groups has also been made in the Central African Republic, Myanmar [Burma], …

Myanmar authorities extend detention of deputy opposition leader
Jerusalem Post, Israel -
By AP Myanmar’s military government extended the house arrest of the deputy leader of Aung San Suu Kyi’s party by another year, shrugging off demands for …

US Senate bill honours Burma’s Suu Kyi
Radio Australia, Australia -
The bill was put forward by US Democratic senator Dianne Feinstein and Republican Senator Mitch McConnell, who are both long-time critics of Burma’s …

UN Myanmar envoy criticizes holding of dissident
Reuters India, India -
By Patrick Worsnip UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The UN envoy to Myanmar criticized its extension of the house arrest of a top opposition politician on …

Burma: The Heartbeat Is Still Alive Underground
The Moderate Voice -
In late 2007 in Burma, (renamed Myanmar, by the current despotic regime,) thousands of monks poured into the streets of Yangon and other cities, …

Elections, generals and broken hearts
Bangkok Post, Thailand -
The generals’ National Unity Party, a reincarnation of late dictator Ne Win’s Burma Socialist Programme Party which ruled the country with an iron fist …

Rare Sandpipers Found in Myanmar
The Associated Press -
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) — Eighty-four spoon-billed sandpipers have been discovered in a coastal stretch of Myanmar, offering hope for saving the endangered …

Senators urge top US honor for Myanmar’s Suu Kyi
U.S. Daily, ca -
Feinstein called Nobel Peace laureate Suu Kyi “a woman of unrivaled courage and commitment” who offered hope and democracy to Myanmar, formerly called Burma …

“On The Road To Mandalay” At The Bushnell Theater
Hartford Courant, United States -
On his latest trip, Hatton’s footsteps took him to Myanmar (formerly Burma), visiting the southeast Asian nation’s monuments and ancient cities and …

Burma’s Referendum Will Be Nonsense without Essential Human Rights
Asian Tribune, Thailand -
Nevertheless, people categorized the New Light of Myanmar Daily as the cheapest packing paper in the country. The military elite have run Burma under a …

US Senate mulls top honor for Myanmar’s Suu Kyi
AFP -
… it will also demonstrate to the world that her cause is our cause: a free and democratic Burma (Myanmar),” said Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein, …

US Congress award for Aung San Suu Kyi moves forward
Monsters and Critics.com -
Washington – The US Senate Wednesday introduced a bill to bestow detained Myanmar Nobel peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi with the highest civilian honour …

Generals finance military rule with sale of precious stones
The Asian Pacific Post, Canada -
About 90 per cent of the world’s rubies come from Burma or Myanmar, currently the subject of considerable controversy. Once plucked from the ground, …

Stakes high for Burma’s ‘roadmap’
BBC News, UK -
This dramatic announcement came out of the blue – a reminder that Burma is ruled by the whims of an isolated general who once decided to move the country’s …

5000 mile-long tiger corridor proposed
Mongabay.com -

The Wildlife Conservation Society and the Panthera Foundation announced plans to establish a 5000 mile-long “genetic corridor” from Bhutan to Burma that …