Posts Tagged ‘Child trafficking’
World focus on Burma (12 December 2008)
Burma needs Rambos
Mizzima.com, India -
by Mizzima News As the year is about to end and the junta’s plan for its proposed election draws ever nearer, many democracy and human rights activists …
Former Norwegian PM urges action on Burma
Democratic Voice of Burma, Norway -
Dec 12, 2008 (DVB)–Former Norwegian premier Kjell Magne Bondevik expressed his hopes for a democratic transition in Burma but said a fair election could not …
Health care at risk in cyclone hit areas in Burma: UN
Mizzima.com, India -
“There are very positive results from projects related to prevention and treatment of diseases like Malaria and HIV/Aids in Myanmar [Burma]. …
Rangoon Residents Suffer Power Cuts
The Irrawaddy News Magazine, Thailand -
… sector in Burma in recent years. Quoted in the state-run newspaper, The New Light of Myanmar, he said, “There was only 228 megawatts in the past. …
Tay Za: Recession Taking a Toll
The Irrawaddy News Magazine, Thailand -
The junta’s response to Cyclone Nargis in May of this year has also been highly criticized. Tay Za’s meeting with executives took place just one day after …
Sundance Film Festival lineup announced
Desert Valley Times, UT -
211:Anna / Italy – The story of Anna Politkovskaya, a Russian journalist and human rights activist who risked her life to report the truth about the Chechen …
First’s lady’s Biography: Laura Bush
Webnewswire.com, India -
She also met with President Hamid Karzai and expressed America’s continued support for Afghanistan’s new democracy, which ensures equal rights for women and …
A vote against ‘discipline democracy’
Asia Times Online, Hong Kong -
By Nehginpao Kipgen Shed another tear for Myanmar’s (Burma’s) swelling population of prisoners of conscience. In recent weeks, the country’s ruling military …
Junta Releases Activist after 2 Months of Interrogation
The Irrawaddy News Magazine, Thailand -
By AP RANGOON — Burma’s military authorities freed a prominent member of the opposition National League for Democracy (NLD) party Thursday after holding him …
Weekly Business Roundup (December 12, 2008)
The Irrawaddy News Magazine, Thailand -
… but the Hindu News newspaper reports that Burma’s neighbor will now face competition from several Middle East countries. It quotes the Union of Myanmar …
Child trafficking continues between Burma and Thailand
Human Rights Tribune, Switzerland -
It has Thailand’s largest Burmese population, estimated at 80000-plus, nine refugee camps, and probably the largest concentration of Myanmar-focused …
YANGON (AFP) — Myanmar’s military government is working on pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s appeal against her detention but has rejected her …
Ashin Gambira awarded honourary citizenship by Italy
Mizzima.com, India -
by Zarni Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – Ashin Gambira, sentenced to a lengthy prison term for galvanizing the monk community into staging protests in Burma last …
Asia and Africa’s wild elephants live longer than their zoo …
Fresh News, India -
… National Park in Kenya; and the Myanma Timber Enterprise in Myanmar (Burma), a government-run logging operation where Asian elephants are put to work. …
Myanmar junta sweeps clean for 2010 polls
TopNews, India -
Yangon – The two pivotal events for Myanmar in 2008 – Cyclone Nargis and a national referendum – fell on the same month, highlighting the ruling junta’s …
Nobel Women
The Globalist, DC -
Mother Teresa of India and Aung San Suu Kyi of Burma remain perhaps the most famous of recent winners for their work on eliminating poverty and facilitating …
Force: The Real ‘F’ Word
Antiwar.com, CA -
The Burmese junta ruthlessly represses both activists promoting democracy and ethnic groups fighting for autonomy. Lebanon has suffered through civil war, …
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After Pax Americana?
Liberal International – Bangkok Executive 2008
Elephants kept in zoos die younger than in the wild
Mugabe, please tell the West to shut-up!
Panel looks at ‘the crime of all crimes’
Study: Elephants live longer in wild than zoos
Zoo life harmful to elephants: Research
[WT논평]The plight of Myanmar
MYANMAR-THAILAND: Child trafficking continues, but not fuelled by …
IRINnews.org, NY -
MAE SOT, 11 December 2008 (IRIN) – When Cyclone Nargis hit Myanmar in May, leaving close to 140000 people dead or missing, aid workers feared an increase in …
World focus on Burma (12 July 2008)
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New York Sun, United States -
Moscow and Beijing use the same argument to block action aimed at helping people in places like Burma. This strategy assures that words like Tibet, Taiwan, …
Newsweek -
The failure of their “click-here activism,” says a Cairo human-rights expert who spoke anonymously because of the sensitivity of the issue, has shown “the …
MISSION WATCH: Burma’s Military Allows Christians To Install Water …
BosNewsLife, Hungary -
… some 12 installations, including in Maubin, a township of the heavily-populated Irrawaddy Delta region in southwest Burma, also known as Myanmar. …
Zimbabwe sanctions: A schism between the United States and Europe …
Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom -
Last year, Russia vetoed a US sponsored resolution that criticized Burma’s human rights record. In 2004, Russia agreed to a Security Council resolution …
The downside of good intentions
Guelph Mercury, Canada -
Two months ago, the world looked on in shock and disbelief as, after Cyclone Nargis had smashed ashore in Burma (Myanmar), that country’s ruling generals …
Zimbabwe sanctions: A schism between the United States and Europe …
Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom -
Last year, Russia vetoed a US sponsored resolution that criticized Burma’s human rights record. In 2004, Russia agreed to a Security Council resolution …
West suffers historic defeat as China and
Times Online, UK -
The showdown heralds a chilling of international relations as Russia and China resist growing UN intervention in other repressive regimes, such a
‘Dodgy Dossier’ on Zimbabwe crushed
Zimbabwe Guardian, UK -
In January 2007 China and Russia jointly vetoed a US-sponsored resolution criticizing Burma’s human rights record. How then could they support a vote on …
Vetoes defeat sanctions on Mugabe
Boston Globe, United States -
Once the Russians made it clear that they would exercise their veto, the Chinese, often leery of taking a lone stand on sensitive human rights issues, …
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, IN -
Unlike in Christianity, where monks profess vows for life, temporary monkhood is common in Theravada Buddhism in Burma, also known as Myanmar. …
The Irrawaddy News Magazine, Thailand -
By MIN ZIN Burma’s conflict is moving into a new phase of intractability. In other words, the conflict will become institutionalized in 2010. …
Stately home to hold car boot sale
Scarborough Today, UK -
… go directly to the British Red Cross Disaster Fund, which is currently providing aid to victims of the earthquake in China and Cyclone Nargis in Burma. …
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, IN -
Unlike in Christianity, where monks profess vows for life, temporary monkhood is common in Theravada Buddhism in Burma, also known as Myanmar. …
Drugs, Religion and the Secret Empires
Strategy Page -
For decades after World War II, most of the heroin came from the remote Burma (now Myanmar)-China border area. But both of those nations eventually cracked …
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Weekly Business Roundup (July 12, 2008) The Irrawaddy News Magazine, Thailand - He did not propose how the Asean countries should pool their resources for mutual benefit. Thailand and Burma have natural gas resources while Indonesia, … |
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Arsenic risk high in Burma: study The Age, Australia - Eastern Sumatra, the Irrawaddy delta in Burma and Cambodia’s Tonle Sap lake are among areas in Southeast Asia facing a high risk of arsenic contamination in … |
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Faith and hope: ‘All they had’ GoErie.com, PA - … both 24, met William at the Mae La refugee camp in Thailand, about 3 miles from Myanmar, the southeast Asian country formerly known as Burma. … |
An American Pastime: Smoking Pot
TIME -
About 20% of residents surveyed in the Netherlands, by contrast, reported having tried pot; in Asian countries, such as Japan and China, marijuana use was …
Kubota sees Thailand playing key Asean role
Bangkok Post, Thailand -
Kubota is now expanding to overseas markets by exporting diesel engines, walk-behind tractors and other machinery to new markets including Burma, Laos, ..
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guardian.co.uk, UK - Why should Burma be “tiny”, for example? He also has a habit of announcing that something is not well-known when, like Admiral Zheng He’s 15th-century … |
By JAMIE JAMES, New York Times, United States -
Burma, which many people now call Myanmar, the Southeast Asian country west of Thailand, is one of the most poorly studied places in the world. …
Has The Post-American Era Already Started?
INDOlink, CA -
The Western powers also failed to change the regimes in Burma and Sudan. They made a big issue of human rights violations in Burma and Darfur, …
Boothbay Register, ME USA -
Both groups work tirelessly to prevent child trafficking in the Golden Triangle that is comprised of the countries of Thailand, Laos and Myanmar (Burma). …
Christian Ministry Brings Life to Burma
Christian Post -
By Joshua Goldberg Two months after cyclone Nargis claimed over 90000 lives and wrecked untold destruction across the Southeast Asian nation of Burma, …
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Daily Sun, Nigeria - He said: “If that were the case, why am I, a Nigerian being sent to Burma, Myanmar to help them solve the problem of democratization, of human right, … |
