Posts Tagged ‘John Holmes’
World focus on Burma (17 July 2008)
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Burma: Urgent appeal for cyclone-hit communities
آكي, Italy –
Rome, 17 July (AKI) – As the deadline approaches for Burma’s agricultural planting season, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization has revived …
UN humanitarian chief to revisit Burma
Mizzima.com, India –
New Delhi – The United Nations humanitarian chief, John Holmes, on Wednesday said he will visit cyclone-hit Burma again next week to reassess the relief and …
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Oxford Analytica (subscription), UK – … and keen to demonstrate their group’s diplomatic usefulness after it failed to pressure member state Burma to accept outside Cyclone assistance in May. … |
Oxford Analytica (subscription), UK –
The regime may be particularly keen not to draw parallels with national figures this year, following its widely-criticised response to Cyclone Nargis in May …
Column: Promoting democracy without force
The Saginaw News – MLive.com, MI –
In his speech at Monticello, the president cited a Burmese national who was receiving his citizenship that day but did not mention Myanmar’s (Burma) brutal …
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Burmese junta profiting from aid funds? Mizzima.com, India – … here in Burma things are done only in the black market,” the businessman told Mizzima. The source, who is also close to the Myanmar Foreign Trade Bank, … Oxford Mail, UK – By Hayley Cover The team from the town’s community college group, Girls For Sport, raised money for the Burma Cyclone disaster fund in a 10km sponsored walk … UN appeals for $33.5 million for Burma USA Today – By Khin Maung Win, AFP/Getty Images ROME (AP) — A UN food agency is appealing for $33.5 million to help small farmers and fishermen in cyclone-hit Burma. … Nargis refugees exploited to rebuild entire areas of Burma AsiaNews.it, Italy – Others are used on construction sites, preventing them from working first of all to rebuild their own homes destroyed by the passage of the cyclone, … |
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Charleston Post Courier, SC – Previous vetoes have encouraged repression in other trouble spots: Darfur, the southern Sudan and Burma. China had previously blocked the Security Council … Contributed Papers in Specimen Mineralogy RedOrbit, TX – Geological evolution of selected granitic pegmatites in Myanmar (Burma): Constraints from regional setting, lithology, and fluid-inclusion studies. … |
Low expectations for Gambari visit
Democratic Voice of Burma, Norway –
“The only thing this shows is that Mr Gambari’s role, as a negotiator for national reconciliation in Burma on behalf of the UN Security Council and General …
School classes held in temporary shelters
Democratic Voice of Burma, Norway –
Jul 17, 2008 (DVB)–School pupils returning to their studies in the cyclone-affected Pyin district of Hai Gyi, Irrawaddy division, are still waiting for …
Charges of Forced Labor Emerge in Cyclone-Hit Areas
The Irrawaddy News Magazine, Thailand –
Burma’s military regime has been strongly condemned by international rights groups for its use of forced labor in building army camps and constructing basic …
Junta private arrested for bank-burglary
Shan Herald Agency for News, Thailand –
… of interrogation and have banned any information leakingout, said a source. Myanmar Economic Bank is a state-owned bank and runs in every township in Burma.
CBBC Newsround, UK –
But I also got help children across the world who are affected by disasters such as Burma and China, who we have been told about. …
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MEP: EU leaders ‘too weak’ on human rights EurActiv, Belgium – Also the role China plays in a country like Burma. It is a country which is illegitimately repressed by a junta that prevents international assistance for … |
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Louisville Courier-Journal, KY – … Burma have largely been feckless. Nonetheless, there have been two noteworthy responses recently to grotesque, state-sponsored abuses of human rights. … Myanmar court charges 14 for Suu Kyi protest Reuters UK, UK – The group, arrested by pro-junta thugs outside the headquarters of Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) on June 19, were also charged with unlawful … |
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UN Humanitarian Chief to Visit Burma Next Week The Irrawaddy News Magazine, Thailand – By LALIT K JHA / UNITED NATIONS The United Nations’ top humanitarian relief official, John Holmes said on Wednesday that he would visit Burma next week to … A talking shop – or an EU of the east? New Statesman, UK – The organisation’s response to the catastrophe unleashed by Cyclone Nargis on Burma in May this year was hesitant and tardy, and its condemnation of the … Roundhay folk give generously to Christian Aid week Roundhay Today, UK – This year especially Christian Aid has helped with the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis in Burma, Cyclone Sidr in Bangladesh and Typhoon Fengshen in the … New Statesman, UK –
I asked Suu Kyi what she thought of tourists coming to Burma. “Let the junta know tourism is waiting to happen the moment they change on human rights,” she .. |
Cronyism; unhealthy competition in media market Mizzima.com, India – … in other businesses in Myanmar (Burma), stemmed from part of the government’s mismanagement of the country’s business environment,” the editor said. … guardian.co.uk, UK – These youths all came from areas where human trafficking and child labour are ongoing problems. They weren’t well-healed ‘young parliamentarians’ or … ANALYSIS: ASEAN finally gets something right on Myanmar Monsters and Critics.com – Myanmar’s military junta, in their inimitable style, turned the natural disaster into a diplomatic one, by initially blocking the free-flow of international … |
‘Indy’ stars as zoo mangroves open
South Devon Herald Express, UK –
She said the devastating cyclone in Burma which claimed more than 20000 lives earlier this year would have been far less destructive had not the natural …
It’s Time For Asean To Deliver
Sin Chew Jit Poh, Malaysia –
In the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis in Burma, Asean took on an unprecedented role, attempting to coordinate relief and reconstruction and intercede between …
US reverses decision to sanction Chevron over Burma
Radio Australia, Australia –
The US House of Representatives passed a package of sanctions to pressure American businesses out of Burma in the wake of the junta’s crackdown on …
Asian students take in America
SIU – Daily Egyptian, IL –
But political and economic factors in Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, have made the career difficult, he said. Myanmar, a nation of roughly 47 million, …
India and Southeast Asia ties: 2000 years and still going
Jakarta Post, Indonesia –
In January 1948, India and Burma gave support to Indonesia’s independence struggle by holding a conference in New Delhi to support it, and for the first …
Matthew Bourne, in town to talk Wilde
The List, UK –
… on Burma, an Amnesty lecture, two debates, readings from imprisoned writers and the annual Amnesty award for a theatre production about human rights. …
Burma after Nargis: Devastated, depressed and dejected
The New Nation, Bangladesh –
The devastating tropical cyclone Nargis that struck southern Burma (Myanmar) two months ago, has revealed to the world that it was even less disastrous …
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Cartoon exhibition to raise funds for cyclone victims Democratic Voice of Burma, Norway – Jul 17, 2008 (DVB)–More than 200 cartoonists are participating in a fundraising cartoon exhibition in Rangoon to support victims of Cyclone Nargis, … |
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Support plea for repressed kingdom in the clouds Phayul, Tibet – It borders India, Nepal, Bhutan, Burma and China. • It is split into three provinces Amdo, Kham and U-Tsang, which together with western Kham is referred to … |
Irreconcilable Enemy? Examining Hamas and Hezbollah
Global Politician, NY –
I do not mean to suggest the dictatorship of Burma is similar to the “inconsequential participants” of a barroom brawl. Nor should we “reconcile” ourselves …
SAM DONNELLON: Like it or not, these Games must be covered
MiamiHerald.com, FL –
Sales of arms to Burma’s military junta receded after last September’s bloody crackdown of dissidents, and China took a more prominent role in UN attempts …
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Singapore: MFA Spokesman’s Comments on the Myanmar Government’s … ISRIA (subscription), DC – “Singapore welcomes the Myanmar government’s decision to invite UNSG Special Advisor Professor Ibrahim Gambari to visit Myanmar again in August 2008. … |
Why sanctions on President Mugabe are bound to fail
Business Daily Africa, Kenya –
Indeed, one only needs to look at Burma where alienation and sanctions against the Burmese junta has not helped topple the regime even after several years. …
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UN Asks Donors to Give More as Rising Food, Fuel Prices Threaten … Voice of America – The biggest increases are for Somalia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, Zimbabwe and Burma. West Africa also had one of the biggest increases, … |
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UN official to visit Myanmar next week Reuters – UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – UN humanitarian chief John Holmes said on Wednesday he would visit Myanmar next week to check on aid delivery to the isolated … |
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Myanmar: Where is happiness in Burma for Waso festival ? OpEdNews, PA – In Burma, full-moon is for contemplation, and monks do not travel. In this special day, the Buddha tried to spread His teaching of peace and happiness to … |
Help Cyclone Victims in Myanmar
Concierge, NY –
… and to help victims of the recent cyclone. by Brook Wilkinson Remember the devastating cyclone that hit Myanmar (also known as Burma) back in May? …
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Eyeball to eyeball at the top of the world Mmegi Online, Botswana – … in 1913 – the MacMahon Line, which China rejects (though it accepts that line as its frontier with Burma, which was then part of British India). … |
City business supports cyclone victims
MK News, UK –
The funds will go towards aid efforts in Burma (Myanmar) as it tries to recover from the effects of the natural disaster which wrecked thousands of lives in …
‘Free Daw Suu’ campaigners charged with instigating public unrest
Mizzima.com, India –
Chiang Mai – Fourteen members of Burma’s opposition party – National League for Democracy – who were arrested for protesting on their leader Daw Aung San …
Frogs, not chocolate: Post-cyclone survival in Burma
Reuters AlertNet, UK –
On May 30th, four weeks after Cyclone Nargis struck Burma, the New Light of Myanmar, one of the government’s propaganda mouthpieces, ran a particularly …
US House vote to bar Burmese gems
Mizzima.com, India –
New Delhi – In a renewed pressure, United States’ House Foreign Affairs Committee on Tuesday voted unanimously to block Gems and Jewelries from Burma to …
Republicans trying to make Rangel an issue for Kirkpatrick and others
PolitickerAZ, Arizona –
… once represented the repressive regime in control of Myanmar – formerly known as Burma. When the Burmese junta refused to allow foreign aid into its …
Signal Magazine, VA –
Also, the 3rd Marine Logistics Group, based in Japan , recently used the capability while deployed to Burma as part of Joint Task Force Caring Response, …
The National Interest Online, DC –
Instead, it would have numerous and unsettling parallels with the Soviet Union: contempt for human rights abroad and civil liberties at home even as it …
SINGAPORE’S economic SUCCESS IS ITS SHIELD
Nation Multimedia, Thailand –
The latest report by the London-based International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) is a case in point. …
Guardian Unlimited, UK –
We were told that liberal democracy was triumphant and that the new era of globalisation would bring about the spread of democracy and human rights. …
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