World focus on Burma (10 March 2009)

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Mon 09 Mar 2009, Lyeh Mon, Jaloon Htaw

Independent Mon News Agency – ‎

“The Mon people have been discriminated against and abused in Burma just as women and children are discriminated against and abused everywhere. …

Don’t Move On Yet

Foreign Policy In Focus – ‎

Burma is a tough nut to crack. The Bush administration and its predecessors have tried a variety of sanctions. And the military junta has only dug in its …

UN refugee chief visits Myanmar

AFP – ‎1 hour ago‎

YANGON (AFP) — The United Nations’ refugee chief toured Myanmar’s border with Bangladesh Tuesday as he followed the route of migrants who say they are …

Michael Rowan // Economic Freedom

El Universal – ‎

The bottom six countries are Venezuela, 40; Eritrea, 39; Burma, 38; Cuba, 28; Zimbabwe, 23; and North Korea, 2; all six are among the poorest countries on …

Christians hear of suffering in Burma

ChristianToday – ‎

… first initiated in 1997 by Christians Concerned for Burma at the request of Burma’s democracy leader, Nobel Peace Prize recipient Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. …

China: Comment on Tibet Issue

Global Voices Online –

Remember that China still does business with a VERY Evil Myanmar/Burma, another spoke of the Axis of Evil. All comments are moderated. …

Squaring the Pentagon

The National Interest Online –

Maybe Burma and Venezuela. Toss in Sudan and Somalia, as if the latter actually existed as a nation. Stretch to include Syria. This disparate group is no …

Charity doesn’t always begin at home

Third Sector –‎

There have been many allegations of human rights violations committed against the Burmese by Thai authorities recently. SNF, together with its UK partner …

Economists Criticize Tripartite Core Group

The Irrawaddy News Magazine – ‎

By WILLIAM BOOT BANGKOK — The pace of reconstruction in Cyclone Nargis-damaged areas of Burma is so slow that it would take almost 100 years to replace all …

20 Reported Dead in Naypyidaw Funfair Disaster

The Irrawaddy News Magazine – ‎‎

The disaster has so far been unreported in Burma’s official press. A Rangoon source said on his return from the Naypyidaw festival that it occurred last …

Than Shwe’s New Pagoda Hides More than a Buddha Relic

The Irrawaddy News Magazine – ‎

The Naypyidaw pagoda, visible from every road leading into Burma’s new capital, is 99 m high, less than one meter lower than the original. …

Electricity Shortages, Students and Unrest

The Irrawaddy News Magazine – ‎

By WAI MOE Earlier this week, the head of Burma’s military junta, Snr-Gen Than Shwe, celebrated the consecration of a new Buddhist pagoda in his …

Burmese Begin Issuing ID Cards to Mon

The Irrawaddy News Magazine – ‎

The party secretary, Nai Hang Tha, said that the new constitution, which was written by the Burmese military, guarantees neither democracy nor ethnic rights …

Tripartite Core Group prepares for second round of post-Nargis …

Xinhua – ‎

YANGON, March 10 (Xinhua) — A Tripartite Core Group (TCG) involving Myanmar, ASEAN and the United Nations is preparing for the second round of Post-Nargis …

Amnesty International – March

Salisbury Journal – ‎

Over a year after the violent crackdown on protesters in Burma (Myanmar), some arrested have been sentenced to long prison terms. In November 2008 activists …

Over 2 million workers anticipated to be laid off in Thailand

Shan Herald Agency for News – ‎

Many migrant factory workers from Burma are feeling the effects of Thailand’s economic slowdown, Independent Mon News Agency (IMNA) reported yesterday. …

Visiting the Rohingya, Burma’s Hidden Population

TIME – ‎

From everything that I had heard about this persecuted Muslim minority, the Rohingya come from western Burma’s isolated Arakan State. …

Burmese censors go digital, journalists alarmed

Southeast Asian Press Alliance – ‎

A SEAPA partner, it aims to promote awareness about the situation in Burma and promote democracy and freedom of expression in the country.

What Fails ASEAN?

Korea Times –

… fourth, the continued human rights violations in Myanmar (Burma) and recent Rohingya refugee issue; fifth, the new US administration showing interest in …

UNHCR chief in Myanmar, to visit Rohingya area

Reuters –

YANGON, March 10 (Reuters) – The head of the United Nations’ refugee agency met Myanmar ministers this week on his first official visit to the country and …

Charles Freeman, America’s Next Political Rorschach Test

North Star Writers Group – ‎

Frank Wolf, is majority-owned by China’s government and has business ties to the brutal regimes of Sudan, Burma and Iran. Of China’s crackdown in Tiananmen …

Schwarzenberg: ČR wants to emphasise democracy in EU foreign policy

Prague Daily Monitor –

“We must not feel indifferent to what happens in China, Russia, Burma, Cuba, Belarus and other countries,” he said. Havel said the EU should openly comment …

On this day

News24 – ‎

1942 – Rangoon, Burma – now Yangon, Myanmar, falls to Japanese forces in World War II. 1948 – The body of the anti-communist foreign minister of …

Column: Obama finishes what Bush started

Daily Eastern News – ‎

He said we should feed the starving children in Bangladesh, stand up for dissidents in Burma and say “never again” when situations like Darfur arise again. …

Two NLD members in unspecified arrest

Democratic Voice of Burma –

Three of the nine NLD members arrested last year for a protest demanding the release of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi remain imprisoned at Insein jail. …

Norway NGO plans to build 6000 houses in Myanmar cyclone-hit areas

Xinhua – ‎

The report also quoted a post-Nargis joint assessment report of Myanmar, ASEAN and the United Nations as saying that the Myanmar government has arranged to …

Oscilloscope lands ‘Burma VJ’ distrib’n rights

Hollywood Reporter – ‎

… documentary “Burma VJ,” which looks at the 2007 uprising in Myanmar through the cameras of the independent journalist group Democratic Voice of Burma. …

Holidaymakers Urged to Support Tourism Concern’s Call to Boycott …

WebWire (press release) – ‎

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the democratically elected leader of Burma, Nobel Peace Prize Winner in 1991, who has been under house arrest since the election of …

Life at 60 for the Commonwealth

BBC News – ‎

Nigeria was suspended after executing an activist in 1995, but also returned, in 1999. Membership has always been valuable for the very smallest countries, …

Confronting Shared History, Shared Insecurities

Khaleej Times – ‎

While in predominantly Buddhist Thailand, Cambodia, Burma/Myanmar and Laos we still find references to the Sri Lankan roots of Buddhism, there has been …

No home, little hope

South China Morning Post (subscription) – ‎‎

Myanmar’s consul general in Hong Kong, Ye Myint Aung, sparked outrage when he wrote to his diplomatic peers last month to describe the Rohingya boatpeople …

Piñata diplomacy: Where might a new anti-Semitism take root?

McGill Daily – ‎

Activists must also universalize their cause. There needs to be a Burma Solidarity Week, and a Zimbabwe Reform Week, …

S. Asia’s hotbed of terrorism heating up

World Tribune – ‎‎

Appeals beyond ethnicity in each of these countries to democracy relies, among other things, on the electoral process, fall flat when candidates in those …

BHA: First “World Conference on Untouchability” to be held in …

Politics.co.uk – ‎‎

The conference will bring together activists and experts from around the world to explore a problem that afflicts nearly 250 million people in countries …

Arakanese Women Call for Freedom of Women Political Prisoners in Burma

Narinjara News – ‎

The women demanded that the SPDC release Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, other female prisoners, and all political prisoners. They also urged the people of Burma to …

The Dalai Lama & Commemorating ‘Tibetan Independence Day’ on March 10

Beliefnet.com – ‎

And now that we have allowed the unrestrained greed of our financial elite to abuse our democracy and destroy our own prosperity and turn us back into an …