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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday
Yangon - Myanmar and Laos strengthened relations with the signing of visa-exemption treaty for their respective citizens and a double-taxation avoidance agreement, state media reported Saturday. The two agreements were signed Friday in the military's...
Reuters (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A special committee of the U.N. General Assembly condemned North Korea and Myanmar on Thursday for what it said were widespread human rights violations in the two Asian countries.
BURMA DIGEST (Free subscription) | yesterday
Media Release From Burma Campaign UK For Immediate Release 20th November 2009 The Burma Campaign UK today welcomed the new United Nations General Assembly resolution on Burma, calling on the dictatorship to stop breaking international law. The Burma Campaign UK is campaigning for the United Nations to establish a Commission of Inquiry into war crimes and crimes [...]
Asian Gazette (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
[pba] A special committee of the U.N. General Assembly condemned North Korea and Burma on Thursday for what it said were widespread human rights violations in the two Asian countries. The 192-nation General Assembly's Third Committee, which focuses on human rights issues, approved a resolution on North Korea 97-19 with 65 abstentions. A similar resolution on Burma (Myanmar) passed 92-26 with 65 abstentions....
People Daily (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
by Chen Meihua, Feng Yingqiu The United Nations children's fund has incorporated relief work into its regular program for this year in Myanmar's cyclone-struck delta area, a UNICEF official says. UNICEF said its strategy and response in Myanmar's cyclone-hit area was in line with a recovery and preparedness plan launched byASEAN and the Tripartite Core Group. UNICEF's engagement in Myanmar's relief...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Yangon - The National Geographic Channel is due in Myanmar this month to shoot a documentary on the country's hard-working elephants, sources close to the project said Thursday. They will come here this month to document the state of Myanmar's domes...
PACIFIST PEOPLE POWER (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Calls from the French foreign ministry to release Burma’s Aung San Suu Kyi have been welcomed by campaigners in France who say that Western engagement with the regime is long overdue. A statement released by the foreign ministry yesterday stated that “we hope that this call to the Burmese prime minister to release all political prisoners including Aung San Suu Kyi will be heard”....
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Yangon - Myanmar has opened discussions on building a railway link between its north-eastern Shan State and China's Yunnan province, media reports said Wednesday. The Myanmar-China railway link will connect Lashio, capital of Shan state in the north...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Myanmar official media stressed on Wednesday the need for cooperation among ASEAN members themselves and between the ASEAN nations and their three partners, believing that these cooperation will bring further development to agricultural and forest sectors of the region. The New Light of Myanmar made the emphasis in its editorial following the signing of a memorandum of understanding by leaders of the...
The New Nation (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
UNB, Dhaka Further action by the UN commission concerned on Myanmar's claim on the outer-limits of the continental shelf in the Bay of Bengal has been suspended. An official announcement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs here Tuesday said the Union of Myanmar submitted their outer-continental-shelf claim on December 16, 2008 to the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS). The presentation...
San Diego Union (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
Detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is ready to cooperate with Myanmar's ruling junta in lifting foreign sanctions but it remains uncertain if the reconciliation efforts will yield results.
PalaungNLD (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
United States’ president Barrack Obama made a personal appeal for the release of Burma’s Aung San Suu Kyi during a summit between the US and Southeast Asian leaders last week. Any mention of Suu Kyi was however conspicuously absent from a 27-point statement released following the summit, which expressed only hope for “broad political and economic reforms” in Burma. It was the...
ireland.com (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
At least 50 people are believed to have drowned in Burma when a wooden ferry packed with 178 people collided with a tugboat on a river in the southern Irrawaddy delta region, officials said today.
IOL (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
At least 50 people are believed to have drowned in Myanmar when a wooden ferry packed with 178 people collided with a tugboat on a river in the southern Irrawaddy delta region.
Causecast - Latest News (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
by ERICA LIEPMANN , Causecast Associate Editor For decades, the ruling military junta in Burma (Myanmar) has silenced opposition and pro-democracy voices in the country. The most well-known example - democratically elected leader Aung San Suu Kyi was refused her rightful place in government and has been imprisoned (or under house arrest) for almost 20 years. The U.S. has maintained trade sanctions...
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ssonuagarwal | 10/10/2009
The Nobel Peace Prize committee has decided to award its Prize this year to President Obama. He said he’s “humbled” and the world says it’s stunned. Does Obama deserve the surPRIZE? There are more “no”s than “yes”es, but it is safe to say the Peace Prize – 2009 has divided the world. Ask: Is the Nobel Prize given for achievements? If yes, Obama himself has admitted he hasn’t achieved anything. He doesn’t...
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