April 17, The Burmese military junta is further isolating itself in the international arena by not responding to the National League for Democracy’s national reconciliation offer, said the Asia Pacific Solidarity Coalition (APSOC) and Free Burma Coalition-Philippines in a join statement today.
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The number of internet users in Myanmar reached 63,700 as of the end of 2005, up from merely a few thousands in 2000, registering the highest rate of increase in five years in Southeast Asia region, a local press reported in its latest issue.
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A Buddhist abbot was killed by two drunken youths during the Burmese water festival Thingyan at Chauk, Magwe Division in central Burma, after the motorcycle ridden by the latter ploughed with great speed into the motorcycle ridden by the monk.
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April 17, National League for Democracy (NLD) members and leaders today held a traditional Burmese ceremony at its HQs in Rangoon, giving obeisance to elders on the Burmese New Year.
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Demonstrators gathered at South Korean embassies and offices of Daewoo International Corp around the world on Tuesday to demand the country stop all investment in the proposed project in military-ruled Burma’s Shwe gas fields.
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Malaysian police on Tuesday arrested 82 activists, mostly from Myanmar but including one Australian, who demonstrated against South Korea’s Daewoo International which is exploring gasfields off Myanmar’s coast.
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A two-day seminar at the Gandhi Peace Foundation began today with over 45-participants including Indian geo politics experts, legal experts, civil societies group, environmentalists, Indian women activists, Indian North East gas campaign activists and Burmese democracy activists.
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Bangkok: Southeast Asian governments are caught between tackling bird flu and Burma’s secretive junta, which is keener on strengthening its iron grip on power than addressing a possible global pandemic.
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Myanmar will once again cast a long shadow when Southeast Asian foreign ministers hold their annual retreat this week hoping to find a way to bring the junta in Yangon into line, analysts say.
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Putrajaya: Asean must be firm with Myanmar as the feeling is that the grouping has been held hostage by that country’s military junta, said Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar.
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Manila: ASEAN’s Special Envoy to Myanmar Syed Hamid Albar will be briefing his counterparts this week at a retreat in Ubud on his recent visit to Yangon.
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When the foreign ministers of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) open their two-day meeting Thursday in Ubud, Bali, they should consider that like a living organism, the organization will cease to exist if it fails to adapt to its environment and implement the fundamental principles of democracy.
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