Leading saffron monk’s memoir

Leading saffron monk’s memoir
Burmese monks are known to have played an important role in their nation’s politics throughout its history. While they did not partake in mundane political processes, they traditionally held positions of moral authority, and dispensed wisdom and guidance to past kings, rulers and governments in Burma. On some occasions, emissaries from the [...]

A Sane Voice from Israel

A Sane Voice from Israel

Haaretz (Hebrew: הארץ‎) (lit. “The Land”, originally Hadashot Ha’aretz - “News of the Land”) isIsrael’s oldest daily newspaper. It was founded in 1918 and is now published in both Hebrew andEnglish in Berliner format. The English edition is published and sold together with theInternational Herald Tribune. Both Hebrew and English editions can be read on the Internet. InNorth America, it comes out [...]

Acting police chief of Tawau, east Malaysia, stabbed in his home

 Acting police chief of Tawau, east Malaysia, 
stabbed in his home 
TAWAU, Jan 3 — Tawau acting OCPD Supt Ramli Ali Mat was seriously injured after being stabbed in his house in Taman Ria 5 at about 2am today.

Occupation 101

Occupation 101 Part 1

Israel-Palestine conflict

History of Palestine

History of Palestine Part I

Freedom from Fear: Daw Aung San Suu Kyi

Freedom from Fear: Daw Aung San Suu Kyi 
We live in interesting times. A climate of fear allows the corrupt and the cruel to continue with their ways of repression and oppression. Myanmar/Burmese need to take up our cudgels, rise up and break the chains of fear which bind us. Revolutionise our minds! Free the spirit!
 

Formerly beleaguered past President [...]

Cyber hunters in China would he hunted down

   Cyber hunters in China would he hunted down
 
BEIJING, Jan 3 — The cyber hunters who roam China’s online space could soon become the hunted themselves. The Chinese legislature is deliberating a new law to curb the excesses of a growing trend here — the awkwardly-named “human flesh search engine”.
 
In the last month alone, a [...]

Burma’s Independence Day

Press Statement
Sean McCormack, Spokesman
Washington, DC
January 2, 2009

Burma’s Independence Day
Sunday, January 4, 2009 marks the 61st anniversary of Burma’s independence from British rule. We wish to express our warmest wishes to the people of Burma on this occasion. As we reflect on Burma’s independence struggle, led by General Aung San, we are reminded of our own history. [...]

AP:John Travolta’s 16-year-old son dies in Bahamas

AP Photo
By JUAN McCARTNEY
NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) — John Travolta’s teenage son, Jett, died in the Bahamas after falling ill and hitting his head at his family’s vacation home, police said Friday. A house caretaker found Jett, 16, unconscious in a bathroom late Friday morning. He was taken by ambulance to a Freeport hospital, where he [...]