World Focus on Burma (5 Mar 08)

1. Myanmar junta unlikely to heed UN envoy
   Khaleej Times, United Arab Emirates -
   BANGKOK - UN envoy Ibrahim Gambari returns on Thursday to Myanmar to press the junta to include opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi in its election plans, …
2. Myanmar’s past key to changing its future - author
   Reuters India, India -
   But understanding how history has shaped Southeast Asia’s most stubborn military junta not only adds accuracy to debate about the former Burma, …
3. Myanmar: Cholera outbreak in Mon State
   ReliefWeb (press release), Switzerland -
   Sixty-one Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) of Mon ethnicity have contracted cholera in Ananbon village in eastern Burma, an area controlled by the New …
4. Asia Sentinel Writer Wins Fellowship
   Asia Sentinel, China -
   … Chins of Myanmar: Refugee Life in a Distant Neighbor,” with a focus on the protection of the Chin ethnic group, which ranges from western Burma across …
5. UN’s Gambari set to return to Myanmar, hopes low
   Reuters India, India -
   It will be Gambari’s fifth visit to the former Burma since he was appointed in early 2006 and his third since a crackdown on monk-led protests in September …
6. The Price of Truth
   Mizzima.com, India -
   3 with 88 generation student leaders Ko Ko Gyi, Ko Mya Aye, Ko Win Maw, two abbots from Maggin monastery, Myanmar Nation Chief Editor Ko Thet Zin, …
7. Burmese monks in Thailand pace, pray and wait
   San Francisco Chronicle,  USA -
   … and television sets around the world, these exiled monks fear the world has forgotten their struggle to bring democracy to Burma, also known as Myanmar. …
8. UN Envoy to Return to Myanmar
   Guardian, UK -
   AP YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - A UN diplomat will return to military-ruled Myanmar on Thursday for his third attempt to coax democratic reforms out of the junta …
9. UN Refugee Agency Praise SL Government for Rescuing 71 People out …
   Asian Tribune, Thailand -
   … lauded the Sri Lankan Government for rescuing the 71 persons who were drifting onboard the ill fated Myanmar wooden hull vessel nearly for two weeks. …
10. Junta Increases Pressure on Media
    The Irrawaddy News Magazine, Thailand -
    By VIOLET CHO Only two weeks after the Burmese military government closed the offices of the Myanmar Nation, the military authorities appear to be offering …
11. Monks launch ‘no’ campaign against constitution
    AsiaNews.it, Italy -
    Last month the All Burma Monks Alliance (ABMA), which played a leading role in the September pro-democracy demonstrations, issued a statement condemning the …
12. NLD expects meeting with Gambari
    Mizzima.com, India -
    New Delhi – Leaders of Burma’s main opposition party – National League for Democracy – are likely to meet the visiting UN special envoy to Burma, …
13. UN envoy returns Thursday to Myanmar on latest mission to coax …
    PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung), Austria -
    Myanmar, also known as Burma, has long been under international pressure to make democratic reforms, particularly since it crushed the peaceful mass …