December 2007

Monthly Archive

Meri News: Monks exhorted to relaunch stir against Myanmar junta - Kumar Sarkar
Mon 31 Dec 2007 
Filed under: News, Inside Burma

In the aftermath of the bloody ‘Saffron Revolution’ in September there is fresh unrest among the Buddhist clergy in Myanmar. Posters have begun to appear in central Myanmar exhorting monks to rise in revolt once again against the military regime. (more…)

 
Democratic Voice of Burma: Government seizes farmland from locals
Mon 31 Dec 2007 
Filed under: News, Inside Burma

The Burmese government has seized over 1000 acres of privately-owned farmlands near Meikhtila airbase for an upcoming factory project, according to locals. (more…)

 
Mizzima News: Thelaythee on Asia tour
Mon 31 Dec 2007 
Filed under: News, Inside Burma

One of the famous ‘Ahnyeint’ (variety dance show) troupes in Burma, ‘Colourful Ahnyeint’ by Thelaythee will perform on December 30 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia to commemorate the 60th Independence Day. (more…)

 
Jakarta Post: Myanmar reports bird flu outbreak in chickens near Myanmar-Thai border town
Mon 31 Dec 2007 
Filed under: News, On The Border

Myanmar has reported an outbreak of the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus among domestic chickens in a village near the Myanmar-Thai border, state-run media reported Saturday. (more…)

 
Khonumthung News: Bangladesh authorities arrest 14 Chins from Burma
Mon 31 Dec 2007 
Filed under: News, On The Border

Bangladesh authorities arrested 14 Chins from Burma in Rumana village in Bandarban district of Chittagong hill tracts in Bangladesh for distributing Bible tracks (booklet) on November 28, 2007. (more…)

 
Narinjara News: Burmese man arrested in Bangladesh with 800 Yaba tablets
Mon 31 Dec 2007 
Filed under: News, Drugs

A Burmese yaba smuggler was arrested in Bangladesh on Saturday along with 800 yaba tablets that had been smuggled from the town of Maungdaw on the Burmese side, said a Bangladesh official. (more…)

 
AFP via thepeninsulaqatar.com: Myanmar’s economy fuels fears of unrest
Mon 31 Dec 2007 
Filed under: News, Business / Trade

Myanmar’s already battered economy is groaning under the weight of new sanctions following a crackdown on dissent, business leaders say, fueling concerns that the hardships could spark more protests. (more…)

 
Democratic Voice of Burma: State cooperatives evict local businesses
Mon 31 Dec 2007 
Filed under: News, Business / Trade

Private stores opened on space rented from the Burmese government’s cooperatives office in Pakokku have been ordered by the cooperatives headquarters to move out before the end of 2007. (more…)

 
Ame Info: Airways out of Myanmar
Mon 31 Dec 2007 
Filed under: News, Business / Trade

Qatar Airways has announced it is to cease its four times a week service to Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, from January 9 for ‘commercial’ reasons, reported Reuters. (more…)

 
The Nation: Press freedom in Southeast Asia deteriorates - Seapa
Mon 31 Dec 2007 
Filed under: News, Regional

Press freedom in Southeast Asian countries has been weakened in 2007, the Southeast Asia Press Alliance (Seapa) said Friday. (more…)

 
Wall Street Journal Online: China: New Dam Builder for the World - Shai Oster
Mon 31 Dec 2007 
Filed under: News, Regional

Home to almost half of the world’s 45,000 biggest dams, China has embarked on a push to export its hydropower know-how to developing countries — even as it contends with environmental damage and social upheaval at home from the massive Three Gorges Dam. (more…)

 
Washington Post: India’s halt to Burma arms sales may pressure Junta - Glenn Kessler
Mon 31 Dec 2007 
Filed under: News, Regional

India has halted all arms sales and transfers to Burma, a development that could increase international pressure on the military junta that brutally crushed the pro-democracy “Saffron Revolution” led by monks this fall. (more…)

 
BBC Burmese Service: Rome shows support to Daw Aung San Suu Kyi
Mon 31 Dec 2007 
Filed under: News, International

Rome City Hall decorated its facade with posters of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and French-Colombian hostage, Ingrid Betancourt. (more…)

 
The Asia Age: Global gas lines remain pipedream - Pawan Bali
Mon 31 Dec 2007 
Filed under: News, International

India’s plan to bring gas through international pipelines was reduced to mere pipe dreams in 2007. This year India lost Burma-India pipeline to China, is on the verge of being thrown out of Iran-Pakistan-India (IPI) pipeline and no one knows whether Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) pipeline project is actually feasible. (more…)

 
Billings Gazette: Wyoming ministry comes to aid of young Myanmar girl - Susan Olp
Mon 31 Dec 2007 
Filed under: News, International

The contrast in photos of young Shwe Yee Myin before and after her recent surgery is striking. (more…)

 
Burma Digest: U Gambira of Saffron Revolution: Burma’s Person of the Year
Mon 31 Dec 2007 
Filed under: News, Opinion, Other

In Burma Digest poll for Person of the Year 2007 (Burma), we got hundreds of direct votings on the website, and many more thousands of votes sent via email. U Gambira, and his fellow monks, who led Burma’s Saffron Revolution in 2007 got highest number of votes; and accordingly, named here as “The Person of the Year 2007 in Burma”. (more…)

 
Mizzima News: Burma Military Institution: Turning into a major power equation of National Reconciliation - Nyo Ohn Myint
Mon 31 Dec 2007 
Filed under: News, Opinion, Other

Burma’s State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) have used Burma military forces as their core political element to face escalation pressures and awareness from international community including community of world body; United Nations. But, regime top leader senior general Than Shwe tended to save military institution from the political storm. He instead, sacrificed civil militia groups including USDA in this September people power movement led by Buddhist monks. (more…)

 
Mizzima News: After Killings of the Burmese Monks; The Writing is on the Wall - May Ng
Mon 31 Dec 2007 
Filed under: News, Opinion, Other

“Since too, murders have been performed — too terrible for the ear: (more…)

 
Democratic Voice of Burma: Monk group demands apology from junta
Fri 28 Dec 2007 
Filed under: News, Inside Burma

The All-Burmese Monks’ Alliance has said it will continue its boycott of the Burmese regime unless the government apologises for its brutal crackdowns on monks. (more…)

 
Democratic Voice of Burma: NLD member to be tried in January
Fri 28 Dec 2007 
Filed under: News, Inside Burma

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