How the Regime Punishes Political Prisoners’ Families |
| By SAW YAN NAING |
| The Burmese regime is being accused by human rights groups of punishing the families of political prisoners by confining the condemned activists in prisons scattered in remote parts of the country. |
Htoo Comapny to take over Malikha Lodge
The tour company owned by the 'Htoo' family is taking over a private hotel at a major tourist spot in northern tip of Burma. The ownership of 'Malikha Lodge' of...Reading letter sent to Than Shwe fetches prison term
A person was sentenced to six months in prison for just reading a letter sent to the junta supremo to his younger brother who is being held in Insein prison...Burmese in Singapore find it difficult to get air ticketsWith many Burmese in Singapore returning to Burma for the December holiday season, it has become very difficult to get air tickets in time. | World Press tells junta to stop repression of mediaThe World Association of Newspapers (WAN) condemned the Burmese military junta for cracking down on freedom of expression, called for the release of all jailed journalists and urged its neighbouring... |
Mizzima.com - New Delhi,Delhi,India by Than Htike Oo Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – Glaring discrimination in the army has compelled two Burmese soldiers to desert and seek refuge in an ethnic rebel ... | ||
Christian Science Monitor - Boston,MA,USA The river, the world's 12th longest, flows through Cambodia, Laos, Burma, Thailand, Vietnam, and the southern Chinese province of Yunnan. ... | ||
| MP attends reception to mark Burmese leader's birthday WalesOnline - United Kingdom CYNON VALLEY MP Ann Clwyd attended a reception at 10 Downing Street, along with female Burmese exiles, to mark the birthday of the democratically-elected ... | ||
| No Immediate Plans for Gambari to Visit Burma The Irrawaddy News Magazine - Chiang Mai,Thailand By LALIT K JHA NEW YORK — The United Nations said on Tuesday that there is no immediate plan for its special envoy to Burma, Ibrahim Gambari, ... | ||
| Regime Shrugs Off Effects on Burma of Global Economic Crisis The Irrawaddy News Magazine - Chiang Mai,Thailand Kyaw Ye Min's unrealistic assessment of the situation echoes a recent statement by Prime Minister Gen Thein Sein, who went even further and said Burma would ... | ||
| Cooler Approach, but Business as Usual with Junta The Irrawaddy News Magazine - Chiang Mai,Thailand Pro-democracy groups are hopeful that Abhisit will place the issue of human rights, particularly in neighboring Burma, higher up the agenda, ... | ||
| The state of human rights in Burma - 2008: A double disaster in ... ReliefWeb (press release) - Geneva,Switzerland Perhaps the two most significant features of the human rights landscape in Burma during 2008 were the morally bankrupt and blatantly repressive response of ... | ||
| WWF: More Than 1000 New Species Discovered in Southeast Asia Voice of America - USA ... wetlands along the 5000-kilometer Mekong River, that flows through six Southeast Asian countries - China, Burma, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam. ... | ||
| Mekong a 'treasure trove' of 1000 newly discovered species CNN - USA War is always a threat in countries touched by the Mekong River, particularly Burma. Also known as Myanmar, the largest country by geographical area in ... | ||
| EarthRights International Special Commentary: Earthrights.org - Washington,DC,USA When asked what advice he would give to private businesses invested in Burma's (Myanmar's) energy sector, the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon firmly stated ... |
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| ENGLISH DEYEA NEWS: Thailand to Host Postponed Asean Summit in ... Military-ruled Burma strongly opposes giving the human rights body the power of even monitoring or investigating violations. Asean secretary-general Surin Pitsuwan maintains, however that the charter is not a "paper tiger. ... |
| Inya Net » Blog Archive » Two Burmese soldiers desert to Thai ... admin | Daily News, Politics | December 17th, 2008. Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – Glaring discrimination in the army has compelled two Burmese soldiers to desert and seek refuge in an ethnic rebel controlled area in eastern Burma last week. ... |
| Afro-Asian organization demands release of Burmese political ... A social consortium of Asian and African non-governmental organizations (NGOs) today collectively called for the release of all political prisoners in Burma, Burma Bloggers' Network - http://www.burmabloggers.net/ |
| 'Momentous' day for Asean as charter comes into force -- Vietnam's ... Intellasia News and Information Services provides Vietnam-wide access to finance, stock market, business, economy, legal and government policy, at your finger tips. Vietnam's largest English searchable database. |
| Journalista - the news weblog of The Comics Journal » Blog Archive ... [Review] Burma Chronicles Link: Steve Duin. Duin calls Guy Delisle's latest travel book "a marvelous graphic memoir of a year in the life in a remote world that is beyond the ability of most readers to grasp." ... Journalista - the news weblog... - http://www.tcj.com/ |
ျမန္မာစစ္အစိုးရသည္ စစ္တုိင္းမႉး (၃) ဦးအား ၎တုိ႔နယ္ေျမမ်ား၌ စီးပြားေရး၊ လူမႈေရး စသည့္ လုပ္ငန္းမ်ားကုိ စစ္အစိုးရကုိယ္စား စီမံခန္႔ခြဲအုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ ႏုိင္ရန္အတြက္ ဆုိၿပီး 
ဘာေလးဘာဟု ၿမန္မာ စာနယ္ဇင္းသမားတို႕ ေခၚတြင္ေသာ စက္တင္ဘာလမွ ဒီဇင္ဘာလအတြင္း ဂ်ာနယ္ မဂၢဇင္း ေရာင္းအားမွာ က်ဆင္းလ်ွက္ရွိၿပီး နာမည္ေက်ာ္ ဂ်ာနယ္မ်ားပင္လ်ွင္ ေစာင္နွစ္ေထာင္ မၿပည့္ေၾကာင္း ၿပည္တြင္း မီဒီယာ အသိုင္းအ၀ိုင္းမွ ၾကားသိရသည္။
