2.17.2010

Burma's News World's News


Residents of the Golan Heights demonstrate in support of Syria - 14 February 2010
The US sends one of its top diplomats to Syria in its latest move to improve ties with Damascus after years of tension.

Pakistan confirms Taliban arrest
Pakistan confirms a Taliban suspect captured earlier this month is one of the organisation's top leaders, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar.

Assassin 'suspects' shock at claim
UK nationals whose names were on passports used by an alleged hit squad insist they had nothing to do with killing a Hamas official.

QUOTE OF THE DAY
Even if I lost the sight in both of my eyes, I would continue in politics until Burma gained democracy.
— Tin Oo, NLD vice-chairman.

UN Rights Envoy Meets Judges Who Jailed Activists

By BA KAUNG
In a sign of how seriously the Burmese junta is taking the UN envoy's calls for judicial reform, it arranged for him to meet with two of the country's most hardline judges on Monday.

The Key to Decide

By KYAW ZWA MOE
Detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi holds the key to whether her party decides to take part in the upcoming election.

Another Strike in Rangoon, as Labor Unrest Continues

By BA KAUNG
Riot police have been deployed around a garment factory in Insein Township as workers demand a salary increase in line with pay hikes for public employees last month.

Abbot's Opposition Stalls BGF Plan in Karen State

By WAI MOE
Approval by the Karen ceasefire group Democratic Karen Buddhist Army of the regime's plan for a border guard force has been stalled because of opposition from the DKBA's spiritual leader.

Junta Woos Rohingyas

By LAWI WENG
A Junta-backed organization and a pro-junta political party are issuing temporary IDs to Rohingya to get their support in the 2010 election

Malaysia Cracks Down on Migrants

By ALEX ELLGEE
Thirteen Burmese are among 116 foreigners arrested in western Malaysia in a police crackdown on illegal immigrants.
Rights Group Takes Nyi Nyi Aung Case to UN
By LALIT K. JHA
The Washington-based organization Freedom Now has asked the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention to investigate the case of the Burmese-American Nyi Nyi Aung, who was sentenced by a Rangoon court last week to three years imprisonment.

Win Mya Mya's shop auctioned
In a high handed action, civic authorities auctioned off a shop owned by ...
Chinese killed in twin bomb blasts in Kokang
A Chinese national was killed and eight people were injured when two bombs ...
Nine hundred Karen refugees “return” to Burma
Over 900 Karen refugees from a camp on the Thai- Burma border returned to Burma ...
Rangoon sans lights, water
Residents living in upper floors in Rangoon Division are in a quandary, facing as they are severe water shortage due to frequent ...

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