Sat. October 11, 2008
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E-Pao.net
October 11, 2008
Identifying the two arrested
Myanmar Nationals as Hammad Khan (15) of
Mandalay and Ridwan Khan (18) of
Sagaing, the PRO conveyed that during interrogation, ...
Huddersfield Examiner
October 11, 2008
STUDENTS at Fartown High School turned their thoughts to
Burma during the
Islamic month of Ramadan. They organised several charity events in aid of the ...
Orillia Packet & Times
October 11, 2008
Project Umbrella Burma was the focus of the Oct. 8 meeting of The Rotary Club of Washago & Area -- Centennial. Project founders, Dr. David Downham and his ...
Xinhua
October 11, 2008
Yangon, Oct. 11 (Xinhua) --
Myanmar leader Vice Senior-General Maung Aye's recent three-day goodwill visit to
Bangladesh helps cement bilateral friendship ...
Times Online
October 10, 2008
Today
Gordon Brown whistled up the ghosts of Picasso, Titian, Adam Smith, Field Marshall Montgomery and
uncle Bill of
Burma to launch his counter-attack. ...
Daily Times
October 10, 2008
Yangon:
Myanmar authorities arrested nearly 400 drugs traffickers in September as part of their crackdown on the narcotics trade, state media reported ...
Drowned In Sound
October 10, 2008
The reason: the reissuing, in deluxe form, of three Mission Of Burma releases. Their Signals, Calls And Marches EP, originally released in 1981, ...
ReliefWeb (press release)
October 10, 2008
Fortunately, Htoo has been surrounded by committed and caring volunteers from the
Myanmar Red Cross Society, who run the centre with support from
UNICEF. ...
The Irrawaddy News Magazine
October 10, 2008
The broker, who asked to remain anonymous, said a dealer must pay a total of about 10000 kyat ($8) in bribes to various authorities in Burma. ...
Travel Daily News International
October 10, 2008
Media trips showcasing Myanmar's key tourist destinations appear to be winning over foreign press, with the industry newspaper "Travel Trade Gazette" on ...
Independent-Bangladesh
October 10, 2008
Myanmar's top level delegation have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Chittagong
businessmen to enlarge trade and communications. ...
Democratic Voice of Burma
October 10, 2008
"I would be willing to make a return visit to Myanmar at an appropriate time, but you should also know that without any tangible or very favourable result ...
Voice of America
October 10, 2008
The state-run newspaper New Light of
Myanmar says nine of 16 products tested positive for
melamine. The Health Ministry has destroyed the tainted products, ...
SF Weekly
October 10, 2008
By Lisa Rab By Mike Rowell When Boston quartet Mission of Burma broke up in 1983, the band had a modicum of fans, but its legend didn't snowball until the ...
Scoop.co.nz (press release)
October 10, 2008
Singapore Catholic News
October 9, 2008
Yangon (UCAN)Â -Â Whenever Marie Nilar Myint cooks for her family, she grabs an handful of rice and drops the uncooked grains into a special container. ...
Infoshop News
October 9, 2008
Jailed Burmese labor rights activist Su Su Nway is refusing to accept medical treatment in protest at not being allowed to be treated outside prison, ...
GMA news.tv
October 9, 2008
Yangon,
Myanmar -
Myanmar state media reports say brands of
milk and
infant powder imported into the country have been tainted with the industrial chemical ...
Training Press Releases (press release)
October 9, 2008
BP News
October 9, 2008
"Burma's military junta has presided over a human rights and humanitarian disaster that is deepening, not receding," USCIRF Chair Felice Gaer said in a ...
Voice of America
October 9, 2008
By VOA News The
United Nations human rights envoy for
Burma is calling on that country's government to substantially improve human rights before the 2010 ...
Xinhua
October 9, 2008
DHAKA, Oct. 9 (Xinhua) --
Myanmar's Senior Vice-General Maung Aye Thursday ended his three-day whirlwind but fruitful visit to
Bangladesh as the two ...
Mizzima.com
October 9, 2008
... Chinese manufactured goods were seized by the police in Momauk Towship,
Kachin State on the Lwejie-Bamao trade route along the Sino-
Burma border. ...
Reporters without borders (press release)
October 9, 2008
The Irrawaddy News Magazine
October 9, 2008
"The democracies in places like Asean have to do more on Burma," Rice said in Washington in a speech delivered before a State Department advisory committee ...
The Irrawaddy News Magazine
October 9, 2008
By THE IRRAWADDY Tomás Ojea Quintana, the UN special reporteur on human rights in Burma, outlined "core human rights elements" that should be put in place ...
Orangeburg Times Democrat
October 9, 2008
Many people have said that the article brought back pleasant memories; the people my age recalled the Burma Shave signs, though some grew up in cities and ...
Press Trust of India
October 9, 2008
United Nations, Oct 9 (PTI) Terming the human rights situation in
Myanmar as challenging, a UN envoy has called upon the military junta to conduct the 2010 ...
Earthrights.org
October 8, 2008
This collection of reports is the result of the hard work and dedication of fourteen young men and women from diverse
ethnic groups and regions in
Burma who ...
The New Nation
October 8, 2008
As part of efforts to expand bilateral trade and economic cooperation
Bangladesh and
Myanmar discussed the issue of early construction of a 23-kilometre ...
Fort Mills Times
October 8, 2008
Yangon,
Myanmar -
Myanmar's military rulers have stepped up suppression of political opponents ahead of the country's elections in 2010, an opposition party ...
The New Nation
October 8, 2008
Myanmar may supply natural gas to
Bangladesh to help it produce fertiliser for use in both countries. Bangladesh will have to wait until December when a new ...
ReliefWeb (press release)
October 8, 2008
The mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar was established in 1992 by the Commission on Human Rights resolution ...
Wagoner Tribune
October 8, 2008
Diehl, also editor of the Jenks Journal, learned of the plight in Burma through a story he was working on for the paper. Dr. Chin Do Kham of Jenks is a ...
Xinhua
October 8, 2008
DHAKA, Oct. 8 (Xinhua) -- Visiting
Myanmar high official Wednesday agreed to move forward a
Bangladesh proposal to set up a hydro power plant project in ...
Asia Times Online
October 8, 2008
By Ranjita Biswas GUWAHATI,
Assam - The Stilwell Road, built during
World War II as a strategic link between
India and
Myanmar (then
Burma), ...
Mizzima.com
October 8, 2008
by Phanida Chiang Mai - Incessant rains in the town of Mogoke in upper Burma caused a house to collapse on Wednesday morning, local residents said. ...
Antara
October 8, 2008
Hanoi (ANTARA News/
Asia Pulse) - Two Vietnamese
companies have signed a production sharing contract with
Myanmar Oil and Gas Enterprise (MOGE), ...
Democratic Voice of Burma
October 8, 2008
"It is not known precisely whether he was killed on our territory or Myanmar's. But the corpse was found near the Myanmar border. ...
IRINnews.org
October 8, 2008
KYONEGADU, More than five months after
cyclone Nargis slammed into southern
Myanmar, leaving close to 140000 people dead or missing, survivors continue to ...