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Burmese junta tells un envoy gambari where to go
Nation Multimedia, Thailand -
The junta later decided to dump all UN requests and even burnt them in public, allowing only the government mouthpiece, the New Light of Myanmar, …

Awesome ancient sites off the beaten path
MSNBC -
Myanmar (née Burma), for instance, hasn’t experienced the rise in tourism that Thailand and Cambodia have, but foreigners who visit the politically unstable …

Veteran Journalist Calls for People Power to Oust Regime
The Irrawaddy News Magazine, Thailand -
By VIOLET CHO Less than a week after an unsuccessful visit to Burma by UN Special Envoy Ibrahim Gambari, one of the country’s most respected journalists has …

Train collision in Rangoon, no fatalities
Mizzima.com, India -
Most trains in Burma are old models and can face engine problems which occasionally result in accidents, he explained. Railway authorities reportedly issued …

Internet, telephone connections in Burma sporadic during UN …
Southeast Asian Press Alliance, Thailand -
Slower or unreliable Internet connections and the abnormal telecommunications problems coincide with what has now been a five-day mission into Burma by UN …

Burmese Gems Losing Their Luster?
The Irrawaddy News Magazine, Thailand -
According to an AFP report, the Myanmar Gems Enterprise said that more than 7700 lots of gems, jade and pearls will be sold at the show. …

UN envoy’s visit falls short of expectations
Democratic Voice of Burma, Norway -
Mar 12, 2008 (DVB)–United Nations secretary-general Ban Ki-moon said yesterday that the recent visit of his special envoy to Burma did not make as much …

US report cites human rights abuses in other nations
Fort Worth Star Telegram, TX -
Myanmar: Human rights conditions in country also known as Burma declined in 2007. At least 30 activists were killed by government security forces during …

Inside Report for March 12, 2008
2TheAdvocate, LA -
More than nine years earlier, the Myats fled Burma — Myanmar — to escape a brutal government that had turned on its own people. “My own country’s soldiers …

Myanmar’s Solution to Energy Crisis: Nuts
ShortNews.com, Germany -
Myanmar has a chronic energy shortage and one Kyaw Sinnt thinks that the solution lies in producing biofuel from the physic nut. Jatropha, is how it is also …

Chinese influx stirs age-old hatred in Myanmar
Guardian, UK -
Even though the former Burma’s second city is one of the few places where the economy appears to be going somewhere, thanks mainly to Chinese capital and …

Myanmar’s nutty scheme to solve energy crisis
Guardian, UK -
Clearly the former Burma’s ruling generals think so too. In the middle of 2006, the State Peace and Development Council, as the junta prefers to be known, …

RIGHTS: US State Department Found Little to Cheer in 2007
IPS, Italy -
North Korea, Burma, Cuba, Iran, Zimbabwe and Belarus, as well as China, have been included on the Bush State Department’s list of worst abusers — defined …

State Department deplores rights records of North Korea, Iran, in …
JURIST -
Burma’s abysmal human rights record continued to worsen. Throughout the year, the regime continued to commit extrajudicial killings and was responsible for …

US says Myanmar’s human rights record getting worse
PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung), Austria -
AP WASHINGTON (AP) – Myanmar’s already bad human rights record got worse last year, the United States said Tuesday. Myanmar, also called Burma, …

US says human rights in Pakistan got worse last year
PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung), Austria -
© AP WASHINGTON (AP) – The United States said Tuesday that Pakistan’s human rights record has gotten worse after President Pervez Musharraf’s imposition of …

Myanmar ‘07 crackdown worsened bad rights record-US
Reuters -
“Burma’s abysmal human rights record continued to worsen,” said the State Department in its annual report looking at human rights around the world 2007. …

Myanmar: Study chronicles 2007 protests and crackdown
ReliefWeb (press release), Switzerland -
The study is quick to condemn the militarization of Burma’s economy as a prime reason for the visible, widespread unrest that gripped Burma in August and …

Junta remains defiant as Gambari’s visit ends
Democratic Voice of Burma, Norway -
Mar 10, 2008 (DVB)–United Nations special envoy Ibrahim Gambari left Burma today after a visit in which UN calls for the release of political prisoners and …

Junta to make propaganda film on draft constitution
Mizzima.com, India -
Sources said, the film will be completed in March and will be aired in May by state-owned televisions – Myanmar TV and Myawaddy. Burma’s ruling junta has …