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Amnesty International: Myanmar: End arrests of activists and continue aid after Cyclone Nargis
Yangon :: Myanmar | about 3 hours ago
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International donors meeting in Bangkok this week should pressure the Myanmar authorities to end harassment of activists trying to help survivors of Cyclone Nargis, and ensure sufficient aid reaches those affected, Amnesty International said today. In...
Tags: Cyclone Nargis, Myanmar Researcher, Amnesty International, Benjamin Zawacki, Myanmar, Yangon, Than Shwe, North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Burma
Associated Press: UN slams Burma over forced labor practices
Geneva :: Switzerland | about 11 hours ago
Credibility Geneva — The UN labor agency has criticized Burma for failing to abolish forced labor more than a decade after the global body first took up the issue with the Southeast Asian country, officials said Friday. The International Labor Organization adopted...
Tags: Burma UN, Australian, forced labor, Switzerland, Geneva, Year of birth missing, Politics of Burma, Aung Kyi, Human rights in Burma, Politics, Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma, Aung San, State Peace and Development Council, Foreign relations of Burma, Burma Campaign UK, Military dictatorship, Cyclone Nargis, Outline of Burma, ASEAN, Nargis, International Development and Relief Foundation, North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Disaster Accident
Australia's $20 Million Aid to Pakistan, Burma
Peshawar :: Pakistan | 2 days ago
Credibility Australia has responded to an urgent call for support from the World Food Program (WFP) with $5 million for people suffering due to conflict in northwest Pakistan. More than one million people remain displaced by fighting between militants and government...
Tags: Australia, Pakistan, Peshawar, Internally displaced person, World Food Programme, Taliban, War in North-West Pakistan, Waziristan, Cyclone Nargis, North Indian Ocean cyclone season, War Conflict, Politics
C4 Dispatches films win Peck awards
Lagos :: Nigeria | 3 days ago
Credibility Two Channel 4 Dispatches films honoured at Rory Peck awards Orphans of Burma's Cyclone and Saving Africa's Witch Children honoured at awards for freelance cameramen 'A third of Burmese children were malnourished even before the cyclone hit' .....Photograph:...
Tags: Rory Peck, peck awards, Nigeria, Lagos, Shamil Basayev, Reuters, Freelancer, Martin Adler, CNN, Entertainment Culture, Human Interest, Saving Africa's Witch Children, Burma, Nargis, Cyclone Nargis, North Indian Ocean cyclone season, Dispatches
Burma to ‘double output’ of gas by 2020 – Joseph Allchin
Ascope :: Peru | 3 days ago
Credibility Burma is to double its output of natural gas in the next 10 years, the country’s sole operator of oil and gas production told a regional trade fair in Bangkok yesterday. Energy experts believe Burma’s offshore Bay of Bengal gas fields could house Southeast...
Tags: Burma, Peru, Ascope, Cyclone Nargis, Politics of Burma, Burmese diaspora, Economy of Burma, Myanma kyat, Myanma Oil and Gas Enterprise, Sino￢ﾀﾓBurma pipelines, Business Finance, Politics, Military dictatorship, Than Shwe
First climate change info center to be opened in Myanmar
Yangon :: Myanmar | 4 days ago
Credibility The information center, set up at the Kyogone Forestry Directorate in Insein Township, will provide update news about global warming, climate change and the country's weather condition for government departments, researchers, environmental conservation...
Tags: Myanmar, Yangon, Insein Township, Cyclone Nargis, Burma, Disaster Accident, Environment, UNICEF Ireland, Entertainment Culture, UNICEF, David Beckham, UNICEF UK, Human Interest
Chinese Dissidents Barred From Meeting With Obama
Shanghai :: China | 5 days ago
Credibility Burma and call for the release of all political prisoners, including the democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, as well as for an inclusive political process ahead of the 2010 elections...Thein Sein to free Suu Kyi and other political prisoners while in Singapore,...
Tags: Burma, U.S, China, Shanghai, Shi Tao, Liu Xiaobo, Human rights in the People's Republic of China, ASEAN, Aung San Suu Kyi, Barack Obama, Huang Qi, Aung San, State Peace and Development Council, Cyclone Nargis, International reaction to the 2007 Burmese anti-government protests, Burmese anti-government protests, Politics, Politics of Burma, John Yettaw, Than Shwe, National League for Democracy
Democratic Voice of Burma: 50 percent rise in Burma forced labour – Francis Wade
Yangon :: Myanmar | 6 days ago
Credibility Complaints of forced labour in Burma have risen by nearly 50 percent in the past five months, with more than half of these stemming from the recruitment of youths into the army. The statistics, published in a report by the International Labour Organisation...
Tags: Democratic Voice of Burma, Burma Considers Private Education, Burmese, forced labour, Myanmar, Yangon, New Light of Myanmar, Burma, Politics, The Yadanabon, Mandalay, Media of Burma, Human rights in Burma, Islam in Burma, Richard Horsey, International Labour Organization, Year of birth missing, Pyin U Lwin, Education in Burma, Kyaw Zaw, Military dictatorship, Ne Win, Education, State Peace and Development Council, Shan, Military use of children, Human Rights Defenders and Promoters, Politics of Burma, War Conflict, Social Issues, Protests, Burmese anti-government protests, Cyclone Nargis, Insein Prison, Massacres
Democratic Voice of Burma: Shan culture in Burma being ‘erased’ – Naw Noreen
Colombo :: Sri Lanka | 7 days ago
Credibility The volatile Shan state in northeastern Burma is the country’s largest state and home to an estimated six million people. Low-intensity conflict has eaten away at the region for more than half a century as armed ethnic groups fight for autonomy against...
Tags: Burma, Aung San Suu Kyi, Sri Lanka, Burmese, Colombo, Aung San, Burmese general election, Burma Campaign UK, Politics of Burma, Shan Herald News Agency, Panglong Conference, War Conflict, Shan, Kokang, Politics, Than Shwe, Cyclone Nargis, Human Rights Defenders and Promoters, Human rights in Burma, Social Issues, Mahinda Rajapaksa, U Ottama, Sri Lankan people, Sinhalese people
Death toll passes 30 in Myanmar ferry sinking
Yangon :: Myanmar | 7 days ago
Credibility Myanmar— Searchers have recovered more bodies from a ferry accident in Myanmar, bringing the confirmed death toll to 31, with about a dozen people still unaccounted for. An official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to...
Tags: Myanmar, Ngawun River, Pathein, Burma, ferry crashed, feared dead, myanmar ferry, oil barge, Yangon, Disaster Accident, Irrawaddy Delta, Cyclone Nargis, Geography of Burma, Ayeyarwady Division, Ayeyarwady River
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