Posts Tagged ‘Racism’
World focus on Burma (28 December 2008)
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Turning Racism into International Law: The UN’s Durban II Conference
Washington Examiner, DC –
Recall the military junta that misgoverns Burma and brutally suppressed pro-democracy demonstrations a year ago. Observe the horror of Zimbabwe, …
2008 year in review: Big news, small news and in between
The Plain Dealer – cleveland.com, OH –
May 3: Cyclone Nargis slams into Myanmar (formerly Burma), killing an estimated 22000 people. May 4: Ashes to ashes, suds to suds as an Illinois man throws …
2008: Floods, Famine and Pestilence
National Post, Canada –
When comes to loss of life, however, no other event this year tops the cyclone that hit Burma only ten days before the Sichuan earthquake. …
Myanmar refugees celebrate Karen new year
Deseret News, UT –
A few hundred Karen, a minority ethnic group from Myanmar (formerly Burma), gathered in an LDS meetinghouse Saturday to celebrate the 2748th year since …
NK Slammed for Rights Abuses
코리아타임즈, South Korea –
Among those opposing the resolution were China, Cuba, Iran, Myanmar (Burma), Russia, Syria and Venezuela. Abstentions included Brazil, Singapore and …
The game of democracy and the facts in Somalia
Garowe Online, Somalia –
Attempting to transform them into direct or indirect colonies, and began to speak of democracy and democratization of non-European and non-Anglo-Saxon …
Eclipses in 2009
Sky & Telescope, FL –
The Moon’s shadow crosses Bhutan and clips Nepal, Bangladesh, and Burma (Myanmar) before reaching China. Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province, …
Ring the changes: New year, new hope
Daily Mail, UK –
… visit johnbarrowman.com I would like the world’s governments to wake up to the oppression and repression in Burma, before Aung San Suu Kyi is no longer …
UN Mulls Reengaging Burma With More Aid
Washington Post, United States –
The bank left in 1987 because Burma, which is officially known as Myanmar, did not implement economic and political reforms. “It cannot be business as usual …
Cyclone Nargis hits Burma, 2 May
guardian.co.uk, UK –
The night of the cyclone was like hiding beneath a Boeing 747 with all its engines on. The wind was roaring and you could hear trees snapping. …
Columnist Gwynne Dyer’s take on 2008
Salt Lake Tribune, United States –
Dozens died in nationalist demonstrations against the Chinese regime in Tibet in March, and tens of thousands died in the cyclone that struck southern Burma …
Finding freedom: Burmese immigrants say they want help to become …
New Bern Sun Journal, NC –
Eh, who is 53, grew up in Rangoon, a city in the eastern part of the Karen state of Burma. Burma was a democratic country until the military took control …
Families to re-enact wartime great escape from Hong Kong
South China Morning Post (subscription), Hong Kong –
… led by a one-legged Chinese admiral – began a daring escape from the city that would eventually lead some to the safety of Burma (now Myanmar). …
Sojourners are there for detainees
The Associated Press –
Human rights groups argue that jailing detainees amounts to criminalizing them. They condemn the limited right of detainees to appeal their incarceration, …
Japan’s action changes Asia’s image
Asian Tribune, Thailand –
Japan also thinks that ASEAN membership should not provide a smokescreen for oppression in Myanmar.” Its engagement policy toward the Burmese military …
World focus on Burma (20 July 2008)
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Burma FM Says Opposition Leader Suu Kyi Could Be Freed in Six Months
istockAnalyst.com, OR –
Singapore, July 20 Kyodo – Myanmar Foreign Minister Nyan Win on Sunday indicated his country’s military junta could release Myanmar political dissident Aung …
Nation Multimedia, Thailand –
To a certain degree, Asean has regained its creditability after a decade of Burma’s non-compliance by convincing the Burmese junta to loosen up its …
Meadville Tribune, PA –
Only recently did the cyclone hit the Myanmar and Burma region. Shortly after that, China suffered a devastating earthquake. Both of these killed thousands …
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Myanmar may free Suu Kyi in six months Reuters South Africa, South Africa – The document also calls on the military, which has ruled the former Burma since 1962, for the release of all political prisoners and detainees. |
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Myanmar says Suu Kyi may be freed soon The Associated Press – She has now been detained for more than 12 of the last 18 years at her home in Myanmar, also known as Burma. Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy party … |
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Columns: Catastrophe victims need help Meadville Tribune, PA – Only recently did the cyclone hit the Myanmar and Burma region. Shortly after that, China suffered a devastating earthquake. Both of these killed thousands … |
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ASEAN foreign ministers urge Burma to release Aung San Suu Kyi Radio Australia, Australia – ASEAN foreign ministers have expressed deep disappointment over the extension of the house arrest of Burma’s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. … |
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Thais try to calm feud Japanese Agency Views Issues “Overshadowing” ASEAN’s Singapore Meeting istockAnalyst.com, OR – … and also political developments in Myanmar [Burma] at their informal working dinner on Sunday, which kicks off this week’s series of ASEAN-led meetings. … |
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RP to host first ASEAN disaster response exercise Inquirer.net, Philippines – “You know, we have been beset by so many natural disasters, recently we have [cyclone] Nargis in Burma, earthquake and floods in China and of course the … |
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Myanmar: Two very ancient statues of Buddha found in Mandalay city … OpEdNews, PA – by Ashin Mettacara Page 1 of 1 page(s) By Ashin Mettacara In Mandalay, the second city of Burma ( also known as Myanmar) three very ancient Buddha statues … |
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Regional Integration, Disaster Relief, Security Expected to …
Voice of America – Burma was criticized by the West and human rights groups for restricting access to the hardest hit areas and for refusing direct aid. … |
AlterNet, CA –
Cyclone Nargis left an estimated 2.5 million people homeless and dispossessed, and at least 130000 dead. The Burmese military junta continues to obstruct …
Voice of America –
High on the agenda will be relief efforts in the military-ruled nation of Burma, which was devastated by cyclone Nargis in May The storm killed 78000 people …
Thai Based Website Urges UN, ASEAN to Be “Proactive” Over Burma …
istockAnalyst.com, OR –
Meanwhile, the country’s leading pro-democracy figure, Aung San Suu Kyi, remains under house arrest and opposition groups suffer intimidation and the threat …
Asean talks overshadowed by Thai-Cambodia dispute, Myanmar
Straits Times, Singapore –
A TENSE border dispute between Thailand and Cambodia, and perennial questions over military-run Myanmar, are overshadowing three-day talks among Asean …
LAWRENCE J. HAAS: Democracies can react to genocide, global …
Fresno Bee (subscription), CA –
… Council could not agree on collective action to stop the killing in Rwanda, the Balkans or Darfur, or the brutal suppression in Burma and Zimbabwe. …
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Myanmar: Sui Kyi under restricted residence Merinews, India – The SLORC of Myanmar has placed Aung San Suu Kyi, the leader of National League of Democracy, under restricted residence, isolating her from any contact … |
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Asean must move on Human Rights Bangkok Post, Thailand – The CMLV bloc (Cambodia, Myanmar/Burma, Laos, and Vietnam), who are seen to be less open to human rights, and indeed may view the issue as a non-Asean … |
Thailand condemned for kicking out refugees
Bangkok Post, Thailand –
New York-based Human Rights Watch yesterday blasted Thailand for forcing 52 Karen refugees to return to a conflict zone in Burma on Asarnha Bucha Day. …
Big Brother Versus YouTube: Let the Beijing Games Commence
istockAnalyst.com, OR –
Sousveillance famously made an appearance with the beating of Rodney King in Los Angeles, the hanging of Saddam Hussein in 2006 and the protests in Burma in …
World War II museum in New Orleans has new mission
Dallas Morning News, TX –
Plans include an exploration of the great campaigns of the war, including China-Burma-India, Italy and North Africa. Exhibits will detail the support of …
East St. Louis man built roads
Belleville News Democrat, USA –
Instead, they would be working on the Ledo Road, a ground route through the foothills of the Himalayas from India through Burma and on to China. …
Palm Beach Synagogue trip to Israel includes teen’s visit to …
Palm Beach Daily News, FL –
Another memorable experience was traveling the so-called Burma Road, a primitive mountain track the Israelis built and used to carry supplies to Jerusalem …
Around The Globe, Subsidized Gas, Rampant Growth
Hartford Courant, United States –
… last summer when Burma raised fuel prices? A vast popular uprising and crackdown that brought the world’s wrath raining down on the ruling junta. …
ASEAN to continue soft treatment of Myanmar – Feature
Earthtimes (press release), UK –
Debbie Stothard, coordinator of the Alternative ASEAN Network on Burma, warned ASEAN against kowtowing to the whims and caprices of the military junta that …
Tasmanian Government Media Releases (press release), Australia –
Ms Singh said that conditions in both countries remain difficult in the wake of tropical cyclone Nargis which hit Myanmar (Burma) and the earthquake that …
North Korea, Myanmar to dominate Asia’s main security dialogue …
International Herald Tribune, France –
Also on the agenda will be the behavior of Myanmar’s junta, which has done little to allow democracy and has refused to free opposition leader Aung San Suu …
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ASEAN not shedding kid gloves in treatment of Myanmar – Feature Earthtimes (press release), UK – Even with the humanitarian effort in Myanmar, formerly Burma, ASEAN treaded carefully and did not ram its way into the situation, coming in only three weeks … Goals for emissions cuts rely on dictators San Francisco Chronicle, USA – Remember what happened last summer, when Burma raised fuel prices? A vast popular uprising that brought the world’s wrath raining down on the ruling junta. … |
Fanning the Flames of Racism
Town Hall, DC –
Yet, as Brett D. Schaefer explains in hisHeritage Foundation piece,”While the council has passed relatively mild condemnations of Sudanand Burma, …
Fascism in Indonesia, no big deal?
Jakarta Post, Indonesia –
Onghokham contrasted Indonesia’s national struggle and other popular movements in Burma, Vietnam and China. Led respectively by General Aung San, …
ASEAN urged to heap pressure on Myanmar
Inquirer.net, Philippines –
Debbie Stothard, of the Alternative ASEAN Network on Burma, a rights group, said that how Myanmar’s junta “seriously mishandled” the cyclone will be “the …
The comb-over Soviet-style tyrant who could soon be one of the …
This is London, UK –
Since January 2005, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has listed it along with Zimbabwe, Burma, Iran, North Korea and Cuba as a five-star pariah nation. …
Asian security talks to tackle NKorea, Myanmar
AFP –
“For the first time in its history, ASEAN was actually effective at something,” said Dave Mathieson, a consultant on Burma for the US-based Human Rights …
Thai Asean chief urges border restraint
Bangkok Post, Thailand –
Singapore (dpa) – Secretary General Surin Pitsuwan of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations has called for “maximum restraint” in the border dispute …
A New Generation of Activists Arises in Burma
Washington Post, United States –
The most recent statements criticized the junta for holding a referendum on a new constitution while the bodies of cyclone victims were still floating in …
Sanctions; Do They Really Work?
The Standard, Zimbabwe –
Limited sanctions against Burma have not shifted the ruling junta there. The Arab embargo on Israel has not changed Israeli policy. …
Why has China bought Mugabe a mansion?
Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom –
(Mr Howell’s father survived being shot down in one in Burma.) As I reported in February, a 175-page document, known as EC Regulation 1899/2006, …
Irish college accepts Burma refugees
Times Online, UK –
Dundalk Institute of Technology is offering on-line degrees to Karen students living on the Thai-Burma border BURMESE refugees living on the Thai-Burma …
Semi-Synthetic Narcotics Facts
TransWorldNews (press release), GA –
Four foreign source areas produce the heroin available in the United States: South America (Colombia), Mexico, Southeast Asia (principally Burma), …
Judging by the recent political deadlock in the Security Council — over Iran, Myanmar (Burma), Palestine, Zimbabwe and Sudan — one wonders whether the …
Nation Multimedia, Thailand –
In its statement, the KWO expressed concern about the safety of the Karen, mostly women and children, who were forced by Thai soldiers back into Burma. …
