Yangon: Myanmar’s junta has appointed new ambassadors in Australia, France, South Korea and Japan, state-run newspapers said Thursday.
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Since the 7 May bombblasts that had reportedly killed, according to the Norway-based Democratic Voice of Burma, more than 70 and injured hundreds, civil servants in Rangoon have received directives to be on the lookout for more explosive devices yet to be detonated once an explosion has taken place, said sources coming to the border:
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Yangon: A Chinese photo and painting exhibition was opened at the National Museum here Thursday as part of a series of activities of the China Culture Month in celebration of the 55th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Myanmar.
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The Ministry of Public Health has moved in to control an outbreak of malaria in Thailand’s southern province of Chumphon, which it is blaming on the presence of unregistered immigrants.
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Hong Kong: South-east Asian leaders believe they have finally persuaded military-ruled Burma to forgo its turn at the head of the regional organisation Asean next year, defusing a serious dispute with the US and the European Union over human rights.
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Bangkok: The support given Myanmar’s hardline military regime by Thailand, India and China undermines other countries’ efforts to promote democratic reforms there, a leading human rights advocate said Thursday.
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Singapore: Military-ruled Myanmar will remain blacklisted by the global authority combating money laundering and terrorist financing unless its laws meet international standards and are implemented effectively, a senior U.S. treasury official said on Thursday.
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Bangkok: Myanmar’s army continues to target civilians while fighting ethnic Karen rebels, with extrajudicial killings and forcible displacements of some people up to 100 times in their lives, Human Rights Watch said Thursday.
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Washington: When top Irish musician Damien Rice learned that Myanmar’s democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi has been deprived of one of her few passions — playing the piano — while under house arrest, he decided to write a song to highlight her plight.
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The re-emergence of China and India as regional powers has left the 10 member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations with little choice but to move closer together.
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The City of Edinburgh has awarded the Freedom of the City to Burmese Democracy activist, Aung San Suu Kyi. Daughter of Aung San, who led his country’s fight for independence from Great Britain in the 1940s, Suu Kyi has been held under house arrest for many of the past 10 years by a military government who snatched power from the elected National League for Democracy of which she is the leader.

Married to Michael Aris and mother of two sons, she sacrificed her family life to lead her people, who call her, affectionately, The Lady. Amnesty International campaigns on her behalf and on behalf of the more than 1,300 political prisoners held in Burma (Myanmar) today. Sacrifice demonstrates one aspect of life in Burma today, where the rights of women and young girls are ignored. Poverty and the denial of education means that girls can be destined to a life of degradation and disease.

Sacrifice

Fri 17 Jun @ 6.15

Ellen Bruno | USA 1998 | 1h19m | 15 | Subtitles

An unusual and impressive documentary on the plight of girls from the Burmese hill tribes, seduced away from their villages in alarming numbers to the fleshpots of Thailand. Most have no conception of what awaits them. Bruno gets remarkably frank, moving interviews from the girls, and frames the film as a poetic, impressionistic essay – video images seldom look this evocative. (Time Out) Filmhouse Ltd, 88 Lothian Road, Edinburgh, EH3 9ND Box Office: +44 (0) 131 228 2688
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