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World Cup Celebrates Shared Human Passion |
By JOHN LEICESTER |
Even if we don't speak each other's languages, don't always appreciate and respect each other's cultures, religions, politics and lifestyle choices, "Goal!" is a word that resonates joyfully and is understood from Beijing to Bogota, Sydney to Seattle. |
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As a victim of racism and a sports fan, I urge all who play or simply watch sport to use the World Cup as a catalyst to call for global action against intolerance and racism. — Navi Pillay, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights |
Webb's Mission a Lost Cause? |
By AUNG ZAW |
US Sen. Jim Webb learns the hard way that “engagement” with Burma's military regime is a treacherous business. |
National League for Democracy party young members have started planting more than ...
Junta denies developing nuclear arms with N Korea
Burma’s military junta has strongly denied recent allegations made by Burmese media ...
Haulers allege big graft at city’s weigh stations
Cargo truck tonnage checkpoints are demanding exorbitant penalties from weight violators ...
Mon party to push for free market, development
All Mon Region Democracy Party chairman Nai Ngwe Thein said that in parliament it ... Ammonia cylinder explodes at ice factory in Rangoon
An ammonia gas tube exploded at an ice factory in Kamayut Township, Rangoon, ...
Blackouts unnerve Burma’s World Cup fans
Football fans resorting to massage parlours and karaoke bars to circumvent electricity shortages that threaten to
spoil the quadrennial competetion
Trade unions claim rights abuses
Trade union coalition in Burma complains that the ruling junta is failing to abide by domestic law as it continues to imprison labour activists