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BurmaNet
| over 2 years ago
Rangoon (Cover Story) The special branch had chased us across the city for hours, through the haunted, betel-nut-stained streets of old Rangoon, past street-side tailors hunched over ancient sewing machines and open-air bookstalls selling worm-eaten...
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BurmaNet
| over 2 years ago
Yangon It is time the West ended it sanctions against Myanmar, whether or not the opposition leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and Burmese exile groups agree. This is not to imply that the recent elections were anything other than rigged, or deny that the...
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BurmaNet
| over 2 years ago
Suu Kyi will prevail because her cause is just and she is on the right side of history...Nearly a year ago, in this very space, your columnist took his leave. Left hanging was a threat to return occasionally a la Douglas MacArthur, trudging through...
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BurmaNet
| over 2 years ago
Minister for Foreign Affairs Micheal Martin has restated Ireland's support for the struggle of pro-democracy groups inside Burma during a telephone conversation with recently released Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. We wanted to...
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Myanmar News
| over 2 years ago
The National League for Democracy (NLD) has raised 11 million kyat (approx. $11,000 USD) from sales at a trade fair organized to commemorate Burmese Independence Day.Independence Day, which falls on January 4, this year marks 63 years since Burma...
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Myanmar News
| over 2 years ago
Mizzima Photo News Myanmar News.Net Monday 3rd January, 2011 (Source: Mizzima News ) Aung San Suu Kyi, upon release from house arrest, greets throngs of cheering, happy crowds in front of her house on University Avenue in Rangoon, this evening,...
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Myanmar News
| over 2 years ago
Myanmar Myanmar's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has called for assistance from the international community to help victims of Cyclone Giri that struck northwestern Myanmar in October. A spokesman for Suu Kyi's political party said Wednesday...
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The independent
| over 2 years ago
This collection of Aung San Suu Kyi's writings, edited by her late husband Michael Aris, begins with an essay on her father, a soldier and politician who fought for Burmese independence, first against the British, then against the Japanese, then...
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The Courier-Mail
| over 2 years ago
S democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi called for citizens of her country to rejuvenate their struggle for national reconciliation in 2011 in a New Year's message. She asked the people of Burma "to struggle together with new strengths, new force and...
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Myanmar News
| over 2 years ago
Burmese dissidents are Irish of the East' Myanmar News.Net Friday 31st December, 2010 (Source: Belfast Telegraph ) The world's most prominent political dissident joked yesterday how her people had been referred to as the Irish of the East. Burma's...
