Myanmar (Free subscription) | yesterday
New Delhi - The Burmese military junta has sentenced 10 student activists, who were arrested during last year's September protests, to two years in prison with hard labour. They have been sent t...
USA Today (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
A senior figure in Myanmar's military junta has suggested that opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi could be freed from house ...
worldwide-news.net (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
A senior figure in Myanmar’s military junta has suggested that opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi could be freed from house … Go to news source
New York Newsday (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
SINGAPORE (AP) _ Myanmar's military junta has indicated to its Southeast Asian neighbors that opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi could be freed from house arrest in about six months, Singapore's foreign minister said Sunday.
The New York Review of Books (Free subscription) | yesterday
By Joshua Hammer With his ruthless seizure of power in the June 27 runoff election in Zimbabwe, following a well-organized campaign to intimidate and murder members of the opposition, Robert Mugabe joined Myanmar's military junta at the top of the list of the world's most despised dictators. Both the Burmese generals and Mugabe's inner circle have enriched themselves while reducing their...
News: Moldova.org: Politics (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
U.N. officials say the Myanmar government is using its foreign exchange regulations to take a cut of the aid being sent for Cyclone Nargis victims.Exiles say the military junta is, in effect, taking a 20 percent cut off the top from cash assistance, officials told the Financial Times.The government requires that all foreign currency brought into Myanmar be converted into what are called...
Russia News Net (Free subscription) | yesterday
BUENOS AIRES, July 25 (RIA Novosti) - An Argentinean court has sentenced a former army-officer to life imprisonment for his role in the abduction, torture, and murder of four left-wing activists in 1977.Luciano Benjamin Menendez, 81, was commander of the regional Third Army Corps in the northern city of Cordoba during Argentina's 1976-83 military dictatorship. He was in charge of La Parla, one...
Myanmar (Free subscription) | yesterday
... of Student Unions. ABFSU, the largest student organization in Burma, is outlawed by the ruling military junta.He endured physical and psychological torture in the interrogation chambers run by military intelligence and in prisons -- two years in the notorious Insein Prison in Rangoon, and another two years in Thayet Prison in central Burma.In 1989, Amnesty International designated...
Myanmar (Free subscription) | yesterday
WASHINGTON: The US Congress has voted to renew a legislation banning all imports from military-ruled Myanmar and sent it for President George W. Bush's signature, lawmakers said on Thursday. The...
Cry Beloved Zimbabwe (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
I am skeptical about the talks that are set to resume between our MDC and the Zanu PF in South Africa today. My main worry is the motive of the dictator and his military junta? What do they hope to achieve by the talks? Because surely they can not suddenly claim a heartfelt need to solve the political crisis in Zimbabwe that has been going on for over 10 years now. The events in Zimbabwe...
Myanmar (Free subscription) | yesterday
As much as 25 percent of cyclone relief aid in Myanmar is being lost because of the military government's foreign exchange system, a United Nations official said Friday. Dan Baker, the U.N. huma...
Fox News (Free subscription) | yesterday
As much as 25 percent of cyclone relief aid in Myanmar is being lost because of the military government's foreign exchange system, a United Nations official said Friday.
Myanmar (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
BANGKOK, Thailand – As much as 25 percent of cyclone relief aid in Myanmar is being lost because of the military government's foreign exchange system, a United Nations official said Friday. D...
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | yesterday
As much as 25 percent of cyclone relief aid in Myanmar is being lost because of the military government's foreign exchange system, a United Nations official said Friday.
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | yesterday
As much as 25 percent of cyclone relief aid in Myanmar is being lost because of the military government's foreign exchange system, a United Nations official said Friday.
