World focus on Burma (5 September 2008)
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Hereford Times, UK -
By May 9, Shelter Box had successfully delivered £300000-worth of survival kit to Myamar (Burma) to help victims of Cyclone Nargis and visas for aid workers …
Troops extort money from passengers at check points
Independent Mon News Agency, WA -
Burmese troops manning gates along Mon to Karen State southern Burma (Myanmar) have been extorting money from passengers in vehicles and strictly checking …
Burmese jail over 700 monks
Religious Intelligence Ltd, UK -
The dam project is a joint venture between a Chinese company and a military controlled Burmese concern, Myanmar-Asia World Company. Kachin farmers have been …
AFP -
YANGON (AFP) — Myanmar’s detained democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has refused to accept food rations for three weeks, her party said Friday, …
BURMA: AUNG SAN SUU KYI REFUSES FOOD SINCE 3 WEEKS
Agenzia Giornalistica Italia, Italy -
This news came from her party, the National League for Democracy, which said the 63-year-old dissident hasn’t accepted her daily food rations brought by the …
Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi refuses food for three weeks
SINDH TODAY, Pakistan -
Yangon, Sep 5 (DPA) Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has for the past three weeks refused food deliveries to her home-cum-jail in a hunger strike …
What do the Thai demonstrations mean for Burma?
Democratic Voice of Burma, Norway -
Sep 5, 2008 (DVB)–Political tensions are running high in Thailand, with demonstrators from the People’s Alliance for Democracy calling for the resignation …
Free Trade Agreement With ASEAN Countries Announced
Mondaq News Alerts (subscription), UK -
For these purposes, Australia and New Zealand will typically have the shortest implementation timeframes and the 3 least developed countries (Burma, …
Exiled Dissident Visits Burma
The Irrawaddy News Magazine, Thailand -
Zaw Oo, head of the Vahu Development Institute, based in Chiang Mai, Thailand, told The Irrawaddy that he made a four-day trip to Burma in July as an …
Myanmar Airways Unsafe: UK Gov’t
The Irrawaddy News Magazine, Thailand -
By LAWI WENG The British foreign office has issued an advisory warning it staff not to use flights operated by Myanmar Airways, Burma’s state-owned domestic …
iAfrica.com, South Africa -
Myanmar’s detained democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has refused to accept food rations for three weeks, her party said Friday, calling on the military …
TYC President Attends IUSY Meeting
Phayul, Tibet -
The 2007 Asia Pacific Meeting asked for help to restore human rights in Tibet and support the freedom movement of Tibetan people and to put pressure on …
Aung San Suu Kyi ‘on hunger strike’
Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom -
Last month she refused to meet Ibrahim Gambari, the UN special envoy to Burma. Her refusal was interpreted at the time as a sign of frustration that his Mr …
AIPMC Appeals to Surin, Ban Ki-moon to Visit Suu Kyi
The Irrawaddy News Magazine, Thailand -
The letter told Surin and Ban: “We remind you that her continued well-being is vital for a peaceful resolution of the conflict in Burma. …
Hunger strike
Bangkok Post, Thailand -
The detention followed an attack by pro-military thugs on Suu Kyi’s convoy in Tepeyin, Sagaing division in northern Burma on May 30, 2003. …
Suu Kyi’s party expresses concern for her health
The Associated Press -
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — The political party of detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi urged Myanmar’s military government Friday to ensure her …
UNPO, Netherlands -
Burma’s detained democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has refused to meet with the junta’s liaison officer and declined a visit from her personal physician, …
Olympic hero Hoy set to receive top honour
Scotsman, United Kingdom -
They are the Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh, Sir Sean Connery, Nelson Mandela and Burmese pro-democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi. …
Warning to Chauk monks to stay away from politics and protests
Mizzima.com, India -
New Delhi – A letter to 70 monasteries in Chauk Township, Magwe Division by the Burmese junta authorities has warned monks to steer clear of politics and …
Myanmar responded well to cyclone victims: WHO
ReliefWeb (press release), Switzerland -
GENEVA, Sept 4, 2008 (AFP) – Myanmar’s military rulers provided a rapid response to victims of Cyclone Nargis last May despite criticism for shunning …
AFP -
Last month, the United Nations said 1.56 million dollars (about one million euros) of international cyclone aid has been lost due to the military regime’s …
Exotissimo Creates Trips to Irrawaddy Delta
PR Web (press release), WA -
According to Mrs. Su Su Tin, Managing Director of Exotissimo Myanmar, “Many people want to visit the Delta, see the situation with their own eyes and lend a …
Myanmar opens to cyclone relief
Seattle Times, United States -
The report said Myanmar, also known as Burma, has now more opened to international relief than at any time in the past two decades, and that the unfolding …
Vets value candidate’s experiences
Stamford Advocate, CT -
Ericsson, who served in Burma during World War II, said the US military has been worn thin by successive wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and will be broken by …
Atlantic storms devastate Haiti
ReliefWeb (press release), Switzerland -
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Volunteer mappers were despatched following the Bolivia floods in January, and then in response to Cyclone Nargis that impacted Myanmar (Burma) in May. …
Unnoticed by world, Myanmar opens up to cyclone relief
College Times, AZ -
The report said Myanmar, which is widely known as Burma, has now more opened to international relief than at any time in the past two decades, …
David Cameron: We cannot impose democracy at the barrel of a gun
Independent, UK -
Liberal because I believe in freedom, human rights and democracy, and I want to see more of these things in our world. But Conservative, because I believe …
Sino-Indian Competition for Burmese Oil and Natural Gas
Harvard International Review, MA -
… has begun to heavily invest in Burma’s oil and natural sector. A man selling gas at a market near Inle Lake, Myanmar. Photo courtesy of FLICKR/geminder. ..
Bride import for love-sick bachelors
Daily News & Analysis, India -
Social services chiefs are already in talks with neighbours like the Ukraine, Moldova and Russia and with Far Eastern countries like Vietnam, Burma and …
Tsvangirai nominated for EU courage award
ZimDaily, UK -
Among the previous winners are former South African leader Nelson Mandela, Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and ex-UN secretary general Kofi Anan. …
Myanmar Silence at UN Half-Broken by Kerim, Mysteries Continue …
Inner City Press, NY -
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Inner City Press asked if Gambari had told Kerim why he had not met with opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. “Yes,” the spokesman said, then declined to …
The Naga internal Problem The Subalterns begin to speak
MorungExpress, India -
The political suffering of the Nagas Burma needed to be highlighted, debated and deliberated. But one thing that is very clear is that unless a form of …
Georgia: Good Humanitarian Donorship Betrayed
Reuters AlertNet, UK -
… for returning refugees and internally displaced people in southern Sudan, and for cyclone survivors in Burma, among many other critical situations. …
Designer bottled water: It’s not altruism
Village Times Herald, NY -
It would truly be lifesaving in the cyclone-torn Myanmar (Burma) and the earthquake-devastated Sichuan province in China. So why not effectively help the …
WHO praises Burma cyclone response
Bangkok Post, Thailand -
Coninx was the only official from WHO’s headquarters in Geneva who was immediately able to go to Burma straight after the cyclone struck on May 2-3 as he …
Europe Undergoing Severe Demographic Crisis
The Epoch Times, NY -
He proposes Serbia to import women from Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Burma, Bulgaria, Romania, or Moldova to marry the many single men, whose number is …
Digital Influence Group Wins Inbound Marketing Excellence Award
MarketWatch -
… the US Campaign for Burma. Digital Influence Group developed a microsite for the campaign featuring imprisoned Nobel Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi. …
Tsvangirai nominated for Sakharov prize
SW Radio Africa, Zimbabwe -
Among the previous winners are the Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and ex-UN secretary general Kofi Annan.
Directionless Thailand falters on world stage
Nation Multimedia, Thailand -
… was given a full range of powers to keep public order, has refused to use force to purge the People’s Alliance for Democracy from Government House. …
Hurricane Gustav losses could reach $10 billion
Environmental Finance, UK -
The highest death tolls were in the Sichuan earthquake and the Burma cyclone. Achim Steiner, executive director of the UN Environmental Programme warned …
Ceasefire groups in Shan State face renewed pressure to surrender
Mizzima.com, India -
New Delhi – The Burmese ruling junta has mounted fresh pressure on ceasefire armed rebel groups in Shan State to surrender arms latest by the end of 2009, …
Junta arrests two more activists
Mizzima.com, India -
New Delhi – In another round of crackdown on dissidence, Burmese military junta authorities in Rangoon on Wednesday arrested two political activists, …
