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Vietnam Business Finance (Free subscription) | yesterday
At the four-day event, 52 Vietnamese businesses are displaying products such as pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, foodstuffs, garments, footwear, electronics, stationery, household utensils, construction materials, fertilisers, rubber and furniture.Meanwhile, 10 companies from the host country are exhibiting fisheries products, consumer goods, traditional handicrafts and pictures made from gems.Viet Nam...
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PalaungNLD (Free subscription) | yesterday
An activist whose group played a key role in sparking the September 2007 monk-led uprising in Burma has had his 10-year prison sentence extended by eight years, sources close to his family said. Kan Myint, who spent four years in prison in the early 1990’s, was an active member of the commodity protester group, Myanmar Development Committee, whose protests against the sudden hike in fuel prices...
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Perspective Journal: News and Polit (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Filed under: Burma Journal Burma is not a good place to get sick. It’s a bad place for a lot of things — basic freedoms, rule of law, taxis (the fleet in Rangoon is about 30 years old and suffering from some seriously gnarly transmission ailments). Still, the government has an abysmal record when it comes [...]
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Yangon - Myanmar and Laos strengthened relations with the signing of visa-exemption treaty for their respective citizens and a double-taxation avoidance agreement, state media reported Saturday. The two agreements were signed Friday in the military's...
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KyiMayKaung (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
A few months ago I went to a sculpture exhibit by Mark Behme, combined with a poetry reading by JoAnne Growney, at the Friendship Heights Village Center in Chevy Chase, Maryland, where it seemed to me the poetry and the sculpture went together very well, as my father used to say about lyrics that were “wedded” to the music. At the same time both the sculpture and the poetry were strong...
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BURMA DIGEST (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
http://hninyulwin. wordpress. com/books/ http://hninyulwin. wordpress. com/ http://www.livestat ion.com/channels /66-democratic_ voice_of_ burma_burmese http://www.niknayma n-niknayman. co.cc/ http://www.myanmard aily.net/ ????? (??????????????????) Please sign up http://www.avaaz. org/en/jail_ the_generals/ ?cl=293661704&v=3762 Private schools shifted under Ministry of Education Today, November...
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Cave Cibum (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
On Monday night, I met up with my friend Melody and the wonderful Erin of Erin Cooks for a screening of Babette's Feast at the Coolidge Corner Theatre . I felt like a bad food writer for never having seen it before. Of course, we couldn't go into a movie about food without eating something first, so we decided to meet up at the newly opened Regal Beagle just down the street. The Regal Beagle is a warm...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Yangon - The National Geographic Channel is due in Myanmar this month to shoot a documentary on the country's hard-working elephants, sources close to the project said Thursday. They will come here this month to document the state of Myanmar's domes...
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BURMA DIGEST (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
http://hninyulwin. wordpress. com/books/ http://hninyulwin. wordpress. com/ http://www.livestat ion.com/channels /66-democratic_ voice_of_ burma_burmese http://www.niknayma n-niknayman. co.cc/ http://www.myanmard aily.net/ ????? (??????????????????) Please sign up http://www.avaaz. org/en/jail_ the_generals/ ?cl=293661704&v=3762 At least 50 dead in Myanmar ferry crash Today, November 18, 2009,...
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Yangon - Myanmar has opened discussions on building a railway link between its north-eastern Shan State and China's Yunnan province, media reports said Wednesday. The Myanmar-China railway link will connect Lashio, capital of Shan state in the north...
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
YANGON, 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.
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BURMA DIGEST (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
AP – Nyan Win, lawyer for Myanmar’s pro democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, talks to journalists during at … Slideshow:Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi 30 mins ago YANGON, Myanmar – Myanmar’s detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has sent a letter to the head of the country’s junta seeking a [...]
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
YANGON, Myanmar -- A ferry boat has sunk after a collision in a river in Myanmar's Ayeyarwady Delta, killing at least eight passengers and leaving more than three dozen missing.
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Yangon - Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has asked to meet the leader of the ruling military junta in a possible sign of easing political tension. Suu Kyi, who is under house arrest, told General Than Shwe that she would like to meet the s...
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IntelliBriefs (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2009/20091115/edit.htm#1 by Brig Gurmeet Kanwal (retd) Recent developments indicate that the international community has initiated the first steps to gradually open up to Myanmar. Ms Aung San Suu Kyi, perhaps the most famous prisoner in the world after Nelson Mandela, has met Western diplomats in Yangon. Speculation is rife that sanctions may soon be lifted. India’s...
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