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, …