Intrigue and illness in Myanmar’s junta

Intrigue and illness in Myanmar’s junta

 
 BANGKOK – This month’s surprise announcement in Myanmar of a planned national referendum on a new constitution in May and multi-party democratic elections by 2010 are all part of Senior General Than Shwe’s game plan to hold onto power and ensure his family’s interests are secured. The question now is [...]

Myanmar democracy activists urge Olympics boycott

Myanmar democracy activists urge
Olympics boycott
BANGKOK (AFP) -
Myanmar democracy activists called Monday on people across the world to boycott televised coverage of this summer’s Olympics in Beijing, in protest at China’s support for the ruling military junta.

The 88 Generation Students group, which includes some of the country’s top pro-democracy leaders, also urged viewers against buying [...]

Singaporean, 10 firms under US Myanmar sanctions

Singaporean, 10 firms
under US Myanmar sanctions
SINGAPORE (AFP) – A Singaporean citizen and 10 of her companies have been targeted under fresh US sanctions aimed at the Myanmar junta, adding to a list of city-state firms hit by US sanctions.
Cecilia Ng is the wife of Steven Law, whose father Lo Hsing Han is “known as [...]

Barring Daw Suu is against the existing local laws and UN Human Rights Decleration

Barring Daw Suu  is against the existing local Laws
and UN Human Rights Decleration
 
NLD reacts to barring Daw Suu from contesting elections

Nay Thwin, Mizzima News, February 25, 2008
The National League for Democracy (NLD) reacted strongly today to the ban on Aung San Suu Kyi contesting the 2010 elections saying that it was a ‘personal attack’ against her [...]

My two cents’ advise to Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama

My two cents’ advise to
Hillary Clinton  and Barack Obama

Dear presidential hopefuls:
Mrs Hillary Clinton and Mr Barak Obama,
Please stop fighting the almost useless, unnecessary and self destructive infighting in your party. You two should combined force to fight the Senator John McCain. 
It will be a great force if Hillary Clinton could be offered Vice President [...]

Dear John Letter to the Dear Nan letters and Burma Digest

 Dear John Letter to the Dear Nan letters and Burma Digest
Dear Nan @ Burma Digest, 
We  first met and fall in love in April 2006, National Day of Burma and Shan National day. You even proudly published my first letter.
Since then, I started and continue to write my compassionate letters to you, followed by more than  300 letters. [...]

Differences between Muhammad and Jesus

Differences between Muhammad and Jesus
Read at Comparative Religion:
Although some similarities exist between Muhammad and Jesus, their differences are far greater. Let’s look at a few of the most important.
Different Claims
Muhammad said he was just a man; Jesus claimed to be God. In fact, Muhammad never claimed to be more than a man, a prophet of [...]

Similarities between Jesus and Muhammad

  

Similarities between Jesus and Muhammad
Comparative Religion: 
Read all
Before we look at the differences between Jesus and Muhammad, let’s identify a few of their similarities.
Great religious leaders
Jesus and Muhammad established the world’s two largest religions, Christianity with 2.1 billion, and Islam with 1.8 billion people, together half of the world’s population.
Monotheism
Although their views of God’s nature were [...]

Don’t cry for me grandpa, Minister Mentor

Don’t cry for me grandpa, Minister Mentor
  

There is a Burmese saying_
“Kyaw poo dar_khan naing thee
Naar poo dar_ma khan naing”.

Most of the peaple could bear the heat on the back of the body (prefer to work hard even under the sun)

but could not stand the (heat/ pressure) in the ears (read: brain / stress / [...]

Don’t be afraid of open debate

Don’t be afraid of open debate
BRAVE NEW WORLD
Read all in AZMI SHAROM’s original posting in the Star Newspaper.
Ideas are meant to be put through the crucible of debate; otherwise,

they will never develop

and never change.

Freedom, ultimately, is about the ability to make choices. It boils down to what is basically the tyranny of thought: we [...]

Future leaders of Burma should earn our trust

 Future leaders of Burma
should earn our trust
How could we trust future opposition leaders if they even refuse to listen or read the atrocities unfairly committed on the Burmese Muslim Minorities.
I am not blamming them or any other Burmans or Monks or Journalists but at least they should listen to us, and to give us [...]

Burmese Muslims requested the future leaders including the opposition leaders to grant the following Basic Human Rights

Burmese Muslims requested
the future leaders of Burma
including the opposition leaders
to grant the following Basic Human Rights
The following basic Human Rights should be granted to all the citizens including all the Muslims of Burma/Myanmar:

Rights of unrestricted internal travel in the whole of Myanmar/Burma.

Rights to travel abroad must be accepted by the government and to relax the [...]

Look Burmese Democrats, are UK Politicians really secular?

Look Burmese Democrats!
are UK Politicians really secular?
Burmese opposition used not very secular UK Politicians to shutup Burmese Muslim grieviences. Burmese opposition activists and journalists pointed at the so called democratic SECULAR UK government and politicians but they failed to see or are blinded that although British  Politicians claimed to be secular,  they used this LAME EXCUSE [...]

A Letter from Barack Hussein Obama and half-past-six Burma

A Letter from Barack Hussein Obama
and half-past-six Burma 

Originally by_ Dr Azly Rahman

I copied from the website of_ DYMM Raja Petra   

Based on that core, I have added alot of my remarks and facts about Burma.

This is what I will bring to the office of the Presidency of the United States . I will deal with [...]