New Report Slams Junta for Nargis ‘Crimes’ |
| By NEIL LAWRENCE |
| A new report on the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis says the Burmese junta’s actions in the wake of the disaster could constitute crimes against humanity. |
Will US Oil Companies Return to Burma? |
| By WILLIAM BOOT |
| Will a new US policy towards Burma allow the return of US oil companies as part of a “carrot and stick” approach to influence the regime? |
Burma Insists Rohingyas are ‘Bengalis’ |
| By WAI MOE |
| Burma is insisting at the Association of Southeast Nations summit in southern Thailand that the boatpeople now fleeing Arakan State are not Rohingyas but Bengalis. |
Global Fund Discusses Possible Return to Burma |
| By THE IRRAWADDY |
| A visit to Burma this week by a Global Fund delegation could result in a resumption of the fund’s discontinued anti-AIDS program there, according to a report by the Chinese news agency Xinhua. |
Wa Receive Permanent Identity Cards |
| By MIN LWIN |
| Immigration officers have been issuing permanent Burmese identity cards to ethnic Wa adults over the age of 18 since the beginning of February. |
Weekly Business Roundup (February 27, 2009) |
| By WILLIAM BOOT |
| Burmese bureaucracy’s failure to act on a trade swap of stakes in oil and gas exploration sites between Thailand and China sets back plans of both countries. |
Burma sets condition for accepting Rohingya migrants
The Thai Foreign Minister has said that the Burmese military regime has agreed to take back only those migrants, who have been verified as “Bengalis” from Burma, at the regional...Army-drug gang encounter in Golden Triangle
There was exchange of gunfire on February 18 between Burmese Army troops and a drug trafficking gang operating in Meng Peng region, Shan State in the Golden Triangle.Editorial, Opinion and Analysis
Challenging human rights in Burma
[Interview] The United Nations Human Rights expert Tomas Ojea Quintana, who recently concluded a six-day visit to Burma, said the ...
KNU Colonel faces trial in Thai CourtLeader of an ethnic Karen resistance group, Colonel Ner Dah Mya is facing trial in a court in Thailand, charged with illegal possession of a weapon , an official of... | Burmese junta should be referred to ICC: ReportThe United Nations Security Council should refer Burma’s military rulers to the International Criminal Court for committing crimes against humanity, by stopping relief aids in the aftermath of Cyclone |
| Ramos-Horta Urges Obama to Ease Stance on Burma The Irrawaddy News Magazine - Chiang Mai,Thailand Speaking in Washington on Wednesday, Ramos-Horta said that the decades-long impasse in Burma would be “one of the easiest” in the world to resolve if the US ... See all stories on this topic |
| RIGHTS-BURMA: Rohingya Issue Figures in Regional Summit Inter Press Service - Rome,Italy By Marwaan Macan-Markar CHA-AM, Thailand, Feb 26 (IPS) - Burma’s military regime has set a tough challenge for regional leaders to grapple with when they ... See all stories on this topic |
| ASEAN pressed on Myanmar's abuses International Herald Tribune - France Although reform in Myanmar, also known as Burma, may be discussed on the sidelines of the conference, ASEAN traditionally shies away from all criticism of ... See all stories on this topic |
| Human Rights in Burma Appalling: US The Irrawaddy News Magazine - Chiang Mai,Thailand By LALIT K JHA WASHINGTON — The human rights situation in Burma remains grim as the military government continues to ignore basic rights and continues to ... See all stories on this topic |
| Burma's refugees cut from ASEAN agenda ABC Online - Australia In recent weeks, hundreds of Rohingya asylum seekers have left Burma. Some are being cared for in the Indonesian province of Aceh, after allegedly being ... See all stories on this topic |
| Thailand: Washington Forging New Myanmar Policy Sin Chew Jit Poh - Malaysia The generals of Myanmar, also known as Burma, continue to crush popular protests with guns, commit atrocities against ethnic minorities and currently hold ... See all stories on this topic |
| Ramos-Horta urges Obama to embrace Burma Ninemsn - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia US President Barack Obama should seize on his global popularity and reach out to Burma and Cuba, which are ready to change if sanctions are lifted, ... See all stories on this topic |
| Letter to ASEAN Secretary-General Surin Pitsuwan منظمة هيومان رايتس ووتش - حقوق الانسان - USA First, ASEAN should set a new standard to address the human rights situation in Burma. Secondly the recent tragedy surrounding the perilous exodus of ... See all stories on this topic |
| Rethinking Relations With Burma Voice of America - USA This entails a review of the way the United States deals with specific countries, and such an effort is now under way regarding the government of Burma. ... See all stories on this topic |
| US Rights Report Cites Abuses in China, Russia, Iran Voice of America - USA Burma's military-led government was said to be continuing repressive measures including harassment and imprisonment of human rights and democracy activists. ... See all stories on this topic |
Blogs Alert for: Burma news
| Burmese monks share stories of repression - News "There were brutal crackdowns for Burma's own people, even its religious leaders, shocking the world," U Pyinya Zawta said. "The monks use nonviolent and peaceful response to the military government. We look to our own people as our own ... The Chronicle - http://www.dukechronicle.com/ |
| GMANews.TV - Asean pressed on Myanmar's abuses - World - Official ... "The tragedy surrounding the Rohingyas' perilous exodus reveals glaring failures of Asean in dealing with Burma," Human Rights Watch said. "Asean's continuing failure to hold the Burmese military government accountable for abuses and ... GMA News.tv - http://www.gmanews.tv/ |
| Thugs and Thieves_The Burmese military junta has purchased 14 ... By peacerunning They increase our target every year,” said a farmer in Letpanchau village. The junta has started purchasing rice from November 2008. But there is no explanation or information to the people regarding this. - Khonumthung News ... democracy for burma - http://democracyforburma. |
| Color Daily World News (beta): Annual U.S. rights report cites ... By Color Daily "We will be conducting a review of our U.S.-Burma policy, again with the notion of looking for: are there any other ways that we haven't tried, are there more creative ways that we might add to our approach to push for greater respect ... Color Daily World News (beta) - http://colordailyworldnews. |
| Pastor Mark's Thailand-Burma Trip: Burma Retrospective - Part Two By Rev. Dr. Mark S. Caruana Burma Retrospective - Part Two. I am currently sitting in Toyko's Narita Airport with a three hour layover before the next leg of hour-long flight is behind me. The bad news is that I have another twenty-one hours in planes and airports ... Pastor Mark's Thailand-Burma Trip - http://pastormarksthailand- |
ဆႏၵခံယူပြဲဆိုတုန္းကလည္း ဆႏၵခံယူပြဲအေလ်ာက္မို႔ အခုလည္း ၂၀၁၀ ေ႐ြးေကာက္ပြဲဆိုၿပီး နအဖက အနံ႔ေလး ထပ္ထုတ္ေပး ထားျပန္ေတာ့ ၂၀၁၀ ေ႐ြးေကာက္ပြဲ အနံ႔ကို ႐ႈရင္း႐ႈိက္ရင္း တိုက္႐ိုက္ ေလလိႈင္း ေဆြးေႏြးပြဲေတြမွာ အာေပါင္အာရင္း သန္သန္နဲ႔ ေဆြးေႏြးျငင္းခုံ ေနၾကသံ ေတြၾကားေနရျပန္ပါၿပီ။ ပါ၀င္ေဆြးေႏြးၾကသူ အမ်ားစုက ျပည္ပမွာ ေနထိုင္ ၾကသူေတြပါ။ အေမးႏြားေက်ာင္းသား မ်ားက ေပ်ာ္မဆံုးေမာ္မဆံုး ဆြေမး ဖြေမးေနၾကသလို အေျဖဘုရားေလာင္းမ်ားကလည္း တေယာက္တမ်ဳိး မ႐ိုး ႏိုင္ေအာင္ ေျဖၾကားေတာ္မူေနၾကတာကို ခပ္စိတ္စိတ္ ၾကားေနရပါတယ္။ ေဆြးေႏြးသံေတြ ၿမိဳင္ၿမိဳင္ဆိုင္ဆိုင္ ၾကားေနရပံုမ်ား “သီတင္းကြၽတ္ ပြဲေတာ္ႀကီးၿပီးလို႔ တန္ေဆာင္မုန္း တန္ေဆာင္တိုင္ ဆီမီးကၿမိဳင္္” ဆိုတဲ့ သီခ်င္း ကို စာသားေျပာင္းၿပီး “အတုအေယာင္ ရီဖရင္ဒမ္ႀကီးၿပီးလို႔ ၂၀၀၉၊ ၂၀၁၀ တိုင္ ေလလိႈင္းေတြကၿမိဳင္” လို႔ ထဟဲရေတာ့မလို …။ 
ဦးေအာင္သူၿငိမ္းရဲ႕ ေဆြးေႏြးခ်က္ကို သံုးသပ္ရရင္ (၉၀) ျပည့္ႏွစ္ ေ႐ြးေကာက္ပြဲဟာ ႏွစ္ (၂၀) ေက်ာ္ခဲ့ၿပီမို႔ လႊင့္ပစ္ရမယ့္ အေနအထားလို႔ သြယ္၀ိုက္ဆိုလိုရာ ေရာက္ေနပါတယ္။ လူထုက မဲေပးေ႐ြးခ်ယ္ခဲ့တဲ့ ရလဒ္ ႀကီးတခုကို မစဥ္းစားမဆင္ျခင္ဘဲ အလြယ္တကူ လႊင့္ပစ္လုိက္မယ္ဆိုရင္ မဲေပးခဲ့တဲ့ ျမန္မာလူထုႀကီးရဲ႕ သေဘာထားဆႏၵကို ပစ္ပယ္ေစာ္ကားရာ က်မေနဘူးလားလို႔ က်ေနာ္ေတာ့ ေတြးမိပါတယ္။ ေနာက္ၿပီး (၉၀) ရလဒ္ ကို အေကာင္အထည္မေဖာ္ႏိုင္ခဲ့ဘဲ အႏွစ္ (၂၀) ေက်ာ္ၾကာခဲ့ရတဲ့ အ ေၾကာင္းအရင္းဟာ အန္အယ္လ္ဒီက ဘာမွမလႈပ္ရွား မေဆာင္႐ြက္ လို႔လား၊ နအဖစစ္အုပ္စုက နည္းမ်ဳိးစံုနဲ႔ ညစ္ပတ္ခဲ့လို႔လား ဆိုတာကိုေတာ့ ဦးေအာင္သူၿငိမ္းအေနနဲ႔ ရွင္းရွင္းလင္းလင္း ျမင္ႏိုင္မယ္လို႔ထင္ပါတယ္။
ထုိင္းႏုိင္ငံ ဟြာဟင္းတြင္ က်င္းပေန သည့္ (၁၄) ႀကိမ္ေျမာက္ အာဆီယံ ထိပ္သီးေဆြးေႏြးပြဲ တက္ေရာက္ရန္ အတြက္ နအဖ ၀န္ႀကီးခ်ဳပ္ ဗုိလ္ခ်ဳပ္ႀကီး သိန္းစိန္ ယေန႔ ေနျပည္ေတာ္မွ ထြက္ခြာ လာခဲ့ ေသာ္လည္း ႐ုိဟင္ဂ်ာ ျပႆနာကုိ 
