World focus on Burma (12-9-2009)
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Win Tin released from brief detention
Mizzima.com –
by Mizzima News Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – Senior leader of the Burmese…
opposition party – the National League for Democracy – Win Tin, who was briefly detained
Myanmar police detain veteran opposition leader
Reuters India –
The 80-year-old is a founding member of the National League for Democracy (NLD) party and was the longest-serving political prisoner in the former Burma …
From our Correspondent
The Temasek Review –
… in Military-Ruled Burma (Myanmar) explains that Total and Chevron’s Yadana gas project has generated US$4.83 billion dollars for the Burmese…
regime.
DBS and OCBC should sue NGO to clear their names
The Temasek Review –
At a packed news conference in Bangkok, US-based NGO EarthRights International (ERI) released two stunning reports alleging that Burma’s…
military regime has
ASIA: One of World’s Rarest Animals in Danger of Extinction
Inter Press Service – Marwaan Macan-Markar –
asean’s members, which include Brunei, Burma (or Myanmar), Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, the Philippines and Vietnam, …
Weekly Business Roundup (September 12, 2009)
The Irrawaddy News Magazine – William Boot –
“They can go to hell,” Total’s CEO Christophe de Margerie said of critics of its business activities in Burma. In an interview in the US magazine Newsweek …
CWS Hotline – 14 Sep 2009: Indonesia, Myanmar, Kenya
ReliefWeb (press release) –
In the year-and-a-half since Cyclone Nargis devastated parts of the Irrawaddy Delta in Burma, Church World Service has provided cash assistance for some …
Rambo kills EVERYBODY!
Willamette Week – Ap Kryza –
In fact, Rambo kills a good chunk of the country of Burma. Picking apart Rambo would just be too easy. Setting his self-directed film in Myanmar, …
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