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Myanmar helps cyclone-affected farmers resume farming
Today, June 22, 2008, 4 hours ago
Myanmar has provided a total of 2,000 power tillers for farmers in two cyclone-hardest- hit townships in the Ayeyawaddy delta to enable them to resume farming in the time of the cultivation season whic...

Private relief efforts for cyclone survivors fill a gap in Myanmar
Today, June 22, 2008, 7 hours ago
LABUTTA, MYANMAR -- Bloggers may find their messages blocked by Myanmar’s military regime, but that hasn’t stopped Nyi Lynn Seck from raising tens of thousands of dollars for cyclone survivors throug...

Burmese saved by survival instincts
Today, June 22, 2008, 13 hours ago
obtained despite heavy media restrictions which don’t allow this journalist to give their name, find relief workers continuing to criticise the government’s secretive posture. They say the main proble...

UN Appeals for Funding to Keep Burma Aid Helicopters Flying
Yesterday, June 21, 2008, 9:53:22 PM
The United Nations warned Friday that it will be forced to ground helicopters that have been ferrying critical aid to Burma's cyclone survivors unless the international community urgently provides...

Thousands of Thai Protesters Besiege Government Compound
Yesterday, June 21, 2008, 9:53:07 PM
Several thousand protesters pushed through a heavy police cordon around Thailand's seat of government Friday, vowing to peacefully besiege it until the prime minister resigns. After initially scuf...

Cindy McCain has harsh words for Myanmar
Yesterday, June 21, 2008, 3:33:46 PM
John McCain said Myanmar leaders don’t value human life."It’s just a terrible group of people that rule the country, and the frightening part is that their own people are dying of disease and starvati...

Police visit detained NLD members
Yesterday, June 21, 2008, 5:48:39 AM
Police officers and members of the Union Solidarity and Development Association warned the families of National League for Democracy members detained yesterday not to talk to anyone about the arrests.

The thugs are back in action - Wai Moe
Yesterday, June 21, 2008, 5:48:39 AM
After a welcome absence from the public scene in the past few months, the ugly thugs of Burma’s two pro-government militia movements, the Union Solidarity and Development Association (USDA) and its si...

Change of guard in Burmese junta
Yesterday, June 21, 2008, 5:48:38 AM
While the junta officially announced the reshuffle of its cabinet ministers, the change of guard in its military command and Bureau of Special Operations was not disclosed, as usual. The junta’.. .

Suu Kyi in good health after cyclone: party official
Yesterday, June 21, 2008, 5:48:38 AM
Myanmar’s detained democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi was in good health when her personal doctor visited her after last month’s deadly cyclone, a senior official with her party told AFP on...

Foreign monks help reconstruct school, after junta’s cronies refuse - Lyeh Mon
Yesterday, June 21, 2008, 5:48:37 AM
With a firm belonging to a henchman of the Burmese military junta refusing to rebuild a middle school in Rangoon devastated by Cyclone Nargis, a group of foreign monks have come forward to do the need...

Thai PTTEP, Myanmar to sign deal on M9 gas field
Yesterday, June 21, 2008, 5:48:36 AM
Thailand’s PTT Exploration & Production PCL PTTE.BK will sign a heads of agreement on Monday with the Myanmar government to develop the offshore Block M9 natural gas project, a Thai ministr...

Refugees observe International Refugee Day - Saw Yan Naing
Yesterday, June 21, 2008, 5:48:36 AM
Myint Swe, a Burmese refugee, and his family have lived in the Mae La refugee camp near Mae Sot, Thailand, for 12 years “We can’t go out when we want,” he said. “If we go outside th...

Women’s League of Burma demonstrates for Daw Suu Kyi in Bangladesh
Yesterday, June 21, 2008, 5:48:34 AM
The Women’s League of Burma in Bangladesh staged a demonstration in Dhaka on the occasion of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s 63rd birthday, calling for her immediate release from house arrest.

UN issues urgent plea for Myanmar
Yesterday, June 21, 2008, 5:48:33 AM
The U.N.’s World Food Program said it was facing a critical shortage of funds for its logistical operation in the country, including 10 helicopters that have so far delivered lifesaving material...

Rice discusses Burma with Ban - Lalit K Jha
Yesterday, June 21, 2008, 5:48:32 AM
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday to discuss the current humanitarian crisis in Burma and the UN-led international efforts for restora...

Business as usual with the Burmese generals - Elliot Wilson
Yesterday, June 21, 2008, 5:48:31 AM
Elliot Wilson explains why international condemnation of Burma’s brutal military leaders is so ineffectual: because many other countries are eager to do deals with them.

Firsthand tale of Burma relief frustrations - Tyche Hendricks
Yesterday, June 21, 2008, 5:48:30 AM
Nearly two months after Cyclone Nargis slammed into Burma’s Irrawaddy Delta, humanitarian relief groups are still struggling to get government permission to deliver life-saving aid to 2 million ...

Birthday present for Daw Suu: Waves of ‘Saffron Revolution’ - Nay Than Maung
Yesterday, June 21, 2008, 5:48:29 AM
At that time, hundreds of monks were marching in procession by reciting Metta sutra in Rangoon’s monsoon rain and wind. The monk-led protest, tirelessly and assiduously striving for sweeping com...

fund crisis may halt airlifting relief supplies in Burma
Yesterday, June 21, 2008, 2:21:28 AM
New Delhi - The use of helicopters for airlifting relief materials into Burma’s Irrawaddy delta could come to a halt by next week, unless more funds come in, the United Nations World Food Program sp...

Junta plans to launch new lottery
Yesterday, June 21, 2008, 2:21:26 AM
Rangoon: The junta plans to launch a new lottery. The highest prize in the lottery will be Kyat 100 million. The launch is in August, said an official of the State Lottery Department on Friday. "Pl...

NLD meeting monitored by authorities
Yesterday, June 21, 2008, 2:21:25 AM
Chiang Mai, New Delhi - The Burmese military junta authorities have been closely watching the National League for Democracy (NLD) youth wing meeting. Security personnel kept an eye while the meeting...

Understanding the SPDC General
Yesterday, June 21, 2008, 2:21:21 AM
This paper was written for Western audience to help understand the Burmese way of Thinking especially the street-smart raw thinking of the Burmese generals in contrast to western ways of intellectual ...

Burmese refugees could be heading for P.E.I.
Yesterday, June 21, 2008, 1:10:56 AM
The federal government announced Thursday it will allow 1,300 more Karen refugees from Burma into Canada, and some of them may be bound for Charlottetown. Charlottetown is one of only a few Canadian ...

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