Myanmar's 'secret tunnels' were revealed on a Norwigan television station run by Burmese exiles. The group, Democratic Voice of Burma, claims that hundreds of underground facilities are being built.It is...
My son, David and I visited this place inside Burma a few months ago, March 8, 2009. The kids were laughing at this village near the Thai-Burma border called Ler Per Her -- a relatively “safe” place...
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On the day of Aung San Suu Kyi's birthday, supporters are protesting around the world against her continued detainment by the Myanmar government. Aung San Suu Kyi turned 64 on Friday, while facing new charges...
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In the mountainous jungles of the Karen State in eastern Burma, a small village of fragile bamboo huts sits poised on the idyllic banks of the Moei river at the border with Thailand. But the reality is far from...
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"Adventures in Southeast Asia" by Ace Preston
On May 26, 2009 U.S. President Barack Obama pressured Burma’s ruling junta into requesting them to release opposition leader Aung San Suu...
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Myanmar for the last couple of decades was blended with trauma under the bloody realm of Military Juntas which makes headline every other day. Rangoon, despite being a member of United Nations plainly nullifies the international principles on human rights and carries out...
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Many years ago I did a stint for Food not Bombs in San Francisco, while there I met a student activist from the Free Burma group. She was a cool gal. We were riding the bus back from taking the food...
opinion by HellaD | 6 wks ago | updated 5 wks ago 54 views | 2 recommendations | 1 comment
Burma's government said the incident that led to the arrest of Aung San Suu Kyi was staged by 'anti-government elements'. The foreign minister stated that a visit to Suu Kyi by a US national was a stunt designed to embarrass the government. Witnesses are continuing to...
Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning democracy activist and Prime Minister-elect in Myanmar, now faces new charges of violating her house arrest, despite being scheduled to be freed on May 27, 2009. Suu...
According to the *taxi driver who picked John William Yettaw up at the airport on May 2nd “John did not swim to Aung San Suu Kyi’s home”, John was dropped off at the gate of Suu Kyi’s home. Then the cabbie witnessed as John showed the guards a red document then was...
Junta seems to have have forgot the power of listining, whole world is crying that Suu Kyi is innocent and the latest charge is not genuine to put her behind the bars, but Junta started the trial and trying to extend the detention period for another one year.Next year Junta...
Burma's pro-democracy leader and General Secretary of the National League for Democracy, Aung San Suu Kyi, has been detained at Insein prison in Rangoon and has been charged under section 22 of the State Protection...
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Junta is not not ready to show any mercy on pro-democracy leader Aung San Su Kyi but leaves no opportunity to punish her. Latest incident of Junta's harsh action is all about an US man visit and charges of...
Burmese democracy leader Aung San Sui Kyi is reported to be in poor health. She has been under house arrest in Burma since 1989 for agitating for a return to democratic government. The party that she...
Burma Democratic Concern (BDC) warmly welcomes the National League for Democracy (NLD)’s Shwegondaing Declaration issued on 29 April 2009. We embrace the NLD’s gesture of goodwill in an effort to resolve the...