World focus on Burma (4 August 2008)
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Bush Heads To Asia For Diplomacy And Sports
MyFox Saint Louis, MO –
He will also meet with activists who oppose the repression of the military junta in neighboring Myanmar. That country, also known as Burma, …
Three months after Burma Cyclone survivors are still in need
ChristianToday, UK –
Rebuilding homes and getting farmers back to work are the urgent priorities for Christian Aid partners working in cyclone-hit areas of Burma. …
International Herald Tribune, France –
In Burma, the Chinese quietly hardened their stance toward the military junta after the September 2007 crackdown against peaceful monk demonstrations. …
Boycott buying blood-Jade from Burma: Campaigners
Mizzima.com, India –
But following a ceasefire agreement with the KIO in 1994, Burma’s military regime passed what is known as the ‘Myanmar Gemstone Law,’ which purportedly …
Foreign Policy In Focus –
Most discussion about China’s Olympics revolves around whether the Olympics should be boycotted in part or as a whole because of China’s human rights abuse, …
OpEdNews, PA –
I suddenly find myself wondering if maybe, after all, human rights issues will be given more than incidental treatment by the hordes of media visiting …
New appeal over 8888 uprising Burma prisoners
More than 2,000 political prisoners still languishing in Burmese jails, 20 years after 8888 uprising crushed by junta
InTheNews.co.uk, UK –
… ahead of an official visit by the UN secretary general’s special representative Ibrahim Gambari and Thomas Ojea, the UN expert on human rights in Burma. …
Landslide in Phakant kills 20 people
Mizzima.com, India –
Most of the dead hail from central Burma. “People tried to save them that day and the next. They have now stopped the rescue and search operations. …
Thai, Burmese Note 8-8-8 Anniversary
The Irrawaddy News Magazine, Thailand –
Ajarn Pornpimon Trichot, a senior researcher at the Institute of Asian Studies at Chulalongkorn University, who visited Burma soon after Cyclone Nargis,….
The Sun, UK –
He was approached by a group of missionaries who wanted to help the oppressed Karen people in Burma, but Westerners are not welcome in this secretive Asian …
Bush’s Asia agenda: Burma, Thai friendship
Bangkok Post, Thailand –
… protests by Buddhist monks and the Burma regime’s initial blockade of aid workers who wanted to help survivors of the devastating cyclone Nargis in May. …
North Korea, Trade to Top Bush’s Asia Trip
Voice of America –
The president will get a briefing on cyclone relief efforts and will meet privately with Burmese activists, while in Bangkok. At the same time, …
UN urged to act on Burmese prisoners of conscience
Religious Intelligence Ltd, UK –
The UN Secretary-General’s Special Advisor, Ibrahim Gambari, and the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Burma, Thomas Ojea Quintana, …
Clean Water & Disaster Recovery Top List of Asia’s Greatest Needs …
Earthtimes (press release), UK –
Of the new Greatest Needs projects, four deliver disaster recovery for the Burma cyclone and China earthquake. They include:
Burma’s PM to attend Beijing Olympics
Radio Australia, Australia –
Burma’s media says Prime Minister Thein Sein will attend the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games in China. The government mouthpiece New Light of Myanmar …
Looking toward the 2010 elections
Mizzima.com, India –
However, because of the limited number of capable political representatives, there would be an influx of political opportunists into Burma’s already …
The Associated Press –
He will also meet with activists who oppose the repression of the military junta in neighboring Myanmar. That country, also known as Burma, …
President Bush heads to Asia to take on troubles, then to take in …
Minneapolis Star Tribune, MN –
He will also meet with activists who oppose the repression of the military junta in neighboring Myanmar. That country, also known as Burma, …
Uganda: Do More to Help Darfur, Nobel Laureates Tell China
AllAfrica.com, Washington –
Laureates Wangari Maathai and Jody Williams, and American actress turned Darfur activist Mia Farrow visited Juba, as part of a tour starting from Burma and …
Advocacy group appeals for common stance on Burma
Mizzima.com, India –
Issued in commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the 8-8-88 uprising in Burma, ALTSEAN Burma (Alternative ASEAN network on Burma) asserts that: “Twenty …
Time for Stalling on Human Rights Over
The Irrawaddy News Magazine, Thailand –
By BO KYI rapporteur, Tomas Ojea Quintana, to Burma this week to seek improvements on the human rights situation in Burma. One might have expected that Than …
Burma: 2000 forgotten prisoners languish in jail 20 years after …
Amnesty International UK, UK –
… Burma), was imprisoned in 1998 on a 17-year sentence for ‘collaborating with terrorist groups’ and writing a history of the student movement in Myanmar. …
Burma innovation ‘leading recovery’
Charities Aid Foundation, UK –
Innovation and hard work from aid agencies and the Burmese citizens are leading to progress in cyclone-hit Burma, a charity has said. …
Family cannot yet meet Zaw Thet Htwe
Mizzima.com, India –
New Delhi — Sports columnist Zaw Thet Htwe was arrested while he was into a relief campaign for Cyclone Nargis victims but his family is yet to meet him …
Lloyd?s Faces Campaign in United Kingdom Over Activities in Burma
TMCnet –
(BestWire Services Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Lloyd?s is facing a public campaign in the United Kingdom over its activities in Burma, also known as Myanmar …
UN needs to take stronger stance on Burma: AI
Mizzima.com, India –
“Nothing speaks louder of the government’s poor faith than the fact that there are more long-standing political prisoners in Myanmar [Burma] now than at any …
Call to fight trafficking of unborn
The Australian, Australia –
The practice was a blatant abuse of human rights but difficult to expose and eliminate, he said. Mr Pascoe said Australia could play a role in stamping out …
Arbour’s record as rights boss at UN comes under fire
Ottawa Citizen, Canada –
It said she criticized 39 different countries “many of them ruled by regimes with poor records on human rights and democracy, including Sri Lanka, Burma,
Cyclone Nargis – three months on
ReliefWeb (press release), Switzerland –
This weekend marks three months since Cyclone Nargis devastated the Delta region of Myanmar/ Burma. The cyclone obliterated entire towns and villages, …
Junta gives aid to cyclone survivors on credit
Gulf Times, Qatar –
BOGALAY, Myanmar: Myanmar’s military regime is giving desperately needed aid to cyclone survivors on credit, requiring them to pay back to the government …
The Irrawaddy News Magazine, Thailand –
But his three-nation Asian trip also takes him to the doorsteps of two troublesome regimes while forcing him to balance the Olympic spirit with the …
Glasgow Daily Record, UK –
DEC Myanmar Burma Cyclone Appeal: £10 Grateful thanks to Our Lady of Mount Carmel, The Holy Trinity, and Saints Anthony, Jude, Theresa and Brigid for …
Olympics Notwithstanding, Trip Won’t Be All Fun and Games
Washington Post, United States –
Political repression in neighboring Burma will be high on Bush’s agenda in Bangkok. He will meet with dissidents at the US Embassy while L aura Bush tours …
NeoConstant Journal of Politics and Foreign Affairs, AZ –
And the case could be made that criminal negligence, as in this year’s case of Burma, might be added to the notion triggers on the responsibility to protect …
Envoy expected to meet Myanmar democracy activists
International Herald Tribune, France –
AP YANGON, Myanmar: Leaders of Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy party hope to meet a UN human rights investigator who was in Myanmar on …
Myanmar asking farmers to repay cyclone aid
Daily Times, Pakistan –
BOGALAY: Myanmar’s military regime is giving desperately needed aid to cyclone survivors on credit, requiring them to pay back to the government any …
One and a half cheers for CNN
OpEdNews, PA –
Monks in Burma have been in the news, due to a crackdown last year and a cyclone this year. Another coalition member, the Montagnard Foundation,
Comment: Parliament and foreign policy —AG Noorani
Daily Times, Pakistan –
This reflects an old South Asian tendency to seek institutional or legislative action to meet a political problem — set up a Committee, or a Commission of …
Saluting the survivors of the cyclone
Metro, UK –
Mr Dennis said a better warning system needs to be put in place, as well as cyclone shelters, to avoid a similar catastrophe. He said Burma’s military …
China Can’t Control Nature’s 2008 Olympic Rebellion
Pressemeldungen.at (Pressemitteilung), Austria –
The hurricane devastated Myanmar (Burma) and left everyone in the international community wondering how China can continue to provide United Nations …
Christian Science Monitor, MA –
In Thailand, he’ll meet with political refugees from Burma (Myanmar), while first lady Laura Bush will travel to refugee camps on the Thai-Burmese border. …
Burma highlights Bush’s visit to Thailand
Nation Multimedia, Thailand –
If that is the case, Burma should have since shown some political openness and improvements. After all, Burma joined Asean over a decade ago. …
The Herald, UK –
This was crowned last week by Amnesty International’s report saying human rights had deteriorated since China was awarded the 2008 Olympics in 2001. …
Maui News, HI –
Designated a World Heritage site in 1991, Ayutthaya is described as “evidence of the highest prosperity of Southeast Asian civilization in the 14th to 19th …
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