12.04.2008

BURMA NEWS

Thai Political Parties Look for New PM

By DENIS D. GRAY
Thailand's battered political parties tried to come up with a candidate Thursday to replace the ousted prime minister as airport authorities hurried to restore international air links severed by protesters who occupied Bangkok's two airports for a week.

Corrupt clerk yet to be punished

A local township clerk, caught selling relief materials donated for victims of Cyclone Nargis in Irrawaddy division has been removed from office but sources said no action has been taken...

Burma's jailed hip hop singers shifted to remote prisons

At least four political prisoners including popular hip hop singer Zeya Thaw and his three colleagues were shifted to remote prisons in the country by a vindictive Burmese military junta...

Revealed: Britain's torture of Obama's grandfather
guardian.co.uk - UK
Hussein Onyango Obama, the president-elect's paternal grandfather, had served with the British army in Burma during the second world war and later found ...
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Burmese PM Says Jobs Aplenty for Returnees
The Irrawaddy News Magazine - Chiang Mai,Thailand
By WAI MOE Burma’s Prime Minister Gen Thein Sein said that the country would not be affected by the global financial meltdown and insisted that there are ...
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Bleak Economic Prospects in Store for Thailand
The Irrawaddy News Magazine - Chiang Mai,Thailand
Burma, whose regime depends on tourism as a major source of income, also can expect fewer visitors, a situation which could have an adverse effect on the ...
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Confusion Over Special Voting
Peace fm Online - Ghana
At about 9:10 am when reporters got to the Burma Hall premises, a polling centre designated for the special voting in Burma Camp, 234 junior ranks and ...
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Former Leaders Urge UN to Press Burma on Prisoner Releases
The Irrawaddy News Magazine - Chiang Mai,Thailand
“We urge you to make it clear that all political prisoners in Burma must be released by the end of this year, regardless of whether you travel to Burma,” ...
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Former world leaders urge Ban to visit Burma
Mizzima.com - New Delhi,Delhi,India
by Salai Pi Pi New Delhi (Mizzima) - More than 100 former state leaders of several nations have called on UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to visit Burma ...
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Burma - Bangladesh Border Trade Normalizes
Narinjara News - Dhaka,Bangladesh
Teknaf: The border trade between Bangladesh and Burma has returned to normal with Burmese cargo boats entering Bangladesh's Teknaf Port after trade stopped ...
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China, Burma take steps to strengthen military cooperation
Mizzima.com - New Delhi,Delhi,India
by Salai Pi Pi New Delhi (Mizzima) - Chinese and Burmese senior military officials on Saturday agreed to boost bilateral cooperation in various fields ...
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Learning From (Recent) History
Atlantic Online - USA
... but in all the really serious cases -- North Korea, Iran, Burma, or even Zimbabwe or Sudan or Somalia or Pakistan or Venezuela or Cuba! ...
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India puts Pakistanis on notice about attacks
Minneapolis Star Tribune - Minneapolis,MN,USA
The same goes for turning a blind eye to Palestine/Israel, the Sudan, Congo, Burma, Somalia, Georgia, Cuba, etc., etc. Just what magnitude of disaster or ...
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Silencing Burma’s Monks
By Dagmar FourBears
The 68-year prison sentence handed down to Ashin Gambira for his role in last year’s monk-led protests shows that Burma’s brutal junta now exercises total control over the country’s Sangha Submitted by Dagmar FourBears to World ...
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China, Burma take steps to strengthen military cooperation
By www.deyea.blogspot.com/(www.deyea.blogspot.com/)
Burma's third highest ranking military official, General Thura Shwe Mann, and his counterpart, Chen Bingde, Chief of the General Staff of China's People's Liberation Army (PLA), on Saturday agreed to enhance military relations. ...
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Fire at market in Southern Burma's Mon state
By moderator(moderator)
Meanwhile, the Thailand-based Independent Mon News Agency (IMNA), which extensively covers Burma's Mon state, on its website said the fire originated from one of the floating restaurants and subsequently spread throughout the whole ...
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