Mae Sot Commemorates 8.8.88 Anniversary

By VIOLET CHO
Friday, August 8, 2008

US first lady Laura Bush, left, is escorted by founder of the Mae Tao clinic Dr. Cynthia Maung, 2nd left, during her visit on August 7 to the clinic which provide free treatment for the sick and wounded Burmese migrant workers in Mae Sot town near the Thai-Burmese border.(Photo: AP)
MAE [...]

Why do SPDC Generals never resign?

Why do SPDC Generals never resign?
Adapted and Burmanized from Star Online article by HUZIR SULAIMAN
 
By global standards of ministerial responsibility, SPDC General’s performance leaves much to be desired.
THE Westminster Parliamentary system, for better or for worse, is our former colonial masters’ gift to us, and to many Commonwealth countries.
According to its conventions, Cabinet ministers are bound [...]

Big bully Russia cowardly invaded a small nation, Georgia

Big bully Russia cowardly invaded a small nation, Georgia
The Star Online news by By Nikolai Pavlov 
 
GORI, Georgia (Reuters) – Russian forces battled Georgian troops in a breakaway part of Georgia in intensified fighting that sparked alarm in the West and heated exchanges at the United Nations reminiscent of the Cold War.

An armoured vehicle on fire in [...]

No man is an island

No man is an island
Self-sufficiency is just day-dreaming/chasing the rainbow only
Malaysia Insider article by John Lee
 
UG 9 — Every so often, a prominent politician or social activist will take the stage and bemoan our dependence on some other party — whether they be another country, another ethnic group — for food, clothes, or any other [...]

Arrests on 8-8-88 anniversary in Burma

48 activists were arrested for a protest march marking 20 years since the army crushed an “8-8-88″ democracy uprising with the loss of an estimated 3,000 lives
The group of mainly young men in t-shirts bearing the numbers 8-8-88 a reference to the Aug. 8, 1988 nationwide revolt staged a silent walk through the northwest town [...]