Happy Merdeka, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, Please use your liberty to promote ours and freedom of Daw Suu

    Happy Merdeka, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad  Please use your liberty to promote ours and freedom of Daw Suu    Merdeka means Independence but we Burmese and especially I have the pleasant memories once we heard the word Merdeka. We even had a “Pavlov” like reaction when we hear this word Merdeka.

ASEAN LEADERS ARE BARKING AT THE WRONG TREE WITH THE WRONG CAUSE AND WRONG OBJECTIVE

ASEAN LEADERS ARE BARKING AT THE WRONG TREE  WITH THE WRONG CAUSE AND WRONG OBJECTIVE   ASEAN leaders are complaining about the convenient way to solve the Rohingya problem. But for the Rohingyas or Burmese Muslims or Christian Chins/Karens/Kachins and Buddhist Mons/Shans/Burmese etc AND the NLDS  and political opponents and armed rebel groups_ Whether the SPDC would accept [...]

Solidarity Day with migrants

1300 deaths in detention centers; Solidarity Day with migrants Posted on December 19th, 2008 by Nathaniel Tan The Star: ABOUT 1,300 illegal foreigners have died during detention in the past six years, Malaysia Nanban quoted Malaysian Human Rights (Suhakam) commissioner Datuk N. Siva Subramaniam as saying. He said many of them died in immigration detention centres, prisons and police [...]

STOP HATRED, STOP TRYING TO DIVIDE; FOR A LONG LASTING PEACE, PROGRESS, AND PROSPERITY

 

Asean’s day dream or nightmare

Asean’s day dream or nightmare Malaysiakini’s article by Josh Hong  Extracts only At an academic conference some years ago in Seoul, South Korea, Chua Beng Huat, a sociology professor at the National University of Singapore, remarked that Asean as a regional grouping had achieved nothing over the last few decades.

Irrawaddy:Junta Orders Major Air Force Base Relocated

By:MINN LWIN The chief Air Force base in Burma, Mingalardon Air Force Base, has been ordered to relocate to Seikpyingone in Meiktila Township in central Burma, according to sources at Mingalardon Air Force Base.  “We got the order in late November to relocate to the new Air Force base from the military office in Naypyidaw,” [...]

AP:Sole Myanmar protester demands activists’ release

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — A lone demonstrator staged a silent protest in front of detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s party headquarters Saturday demanding the military government free all student activists as the country celebrated its National Day. The holiday commemorates a boycott by Yangon University students 88 years ago in defiance of British [...]

Burma Eats Its Young

By : George Packer In a just world, the names Min Ko Naing and Ko Ko Gyi would be as well known as Steve Biko and Adam Michnik. These two leaders of Burma’s 88 Generation students, now in their forties, have spent almost their entire adult lives in prison for organizing pro-democracy demonstrations. After a [...]

WHY NEVER GIVE PRIORITY TO THE BURMESE MUSLIMS ESPECIALLY PROFESSIONALS FOR THE LEGAL MIGRATION TO MALAYSIA?

    World Refugee Survey 2008 – Malaysia  COMMENT: WHY NEVER GIVE PRIORITY TO THE BURMESE MUSLIMS ESPECIALLY PROFESSIONALS TO LEGALLY MIGRATE TO MALAYSIA? Malaysia government should consider the following upgrading process_  Undocumented migrants- to issue IMM13 Documented, WP/EP holders- to issue Red ICs Red IC holders- to issue Blue ICs

Please do not force the refugees in Malaysia to beg for money or to rob

Please do not force the refugees in Malaysia  to beg for money or to rob   The Right to a Basic Standard of Life in ISLAM Regarding the economic rights, the Holy Quran says: And in their wealth there is acknowledged right for the needy and destitute. (51:19) Anyone who needs help, irrespective of the race, religion [...]

Early migrants, “Foreigners the bane of neighbours”

THE POT CALLING THE KETTLE BLACK?   EARLY MIGRANTS HATE THE NEW COMERS? Foreigners the bane of neighbours From ANOTHER WORRIED RESIDENT of Kuala Lumpur: I REFER to Worried Resident’s letter on “Disgusted by behaviour of foreign workers,” (The Star, Nov 9). ….Since then, we have had to put up with workers bathing, brushing teeth and washing [...]

Irrawaddy:88 Generation Activists Given 65 Years

Fourteen leading activists, including five women, from the 88 Generation Students group were each given 65-year sentences on Tuesday morning for their political activities during the monk-led uprising in Burma last year, according to sources close to their families.  The lengthy imprisonments were seen as an indication the Burmese military government was invoking harsher punishments [...]

Irrawaddy:40 Burmese Dissidents Given Prison Terms of up to 65 Years

By SAW YAN NAING About 40 Burmese dissidents, including Buddhist monks, members of the 88 Generation Students group, a prominent labor activist and individual social activists were given prison sentences of up to 65 years by a court in Rangoon’s Insein Prison today, relatives reported. Fourteen members of the 88 Generation Students group, including Min [...]

Mizzima:Court sentenced blogger for over 20 years, poet for two years

By Than Htike Oo Chiang Mai – A court in Rangoon’s notorious Insein prison on Monday has sentenced a popular Blogger Nay Phone Latt to over 20 years in prison. Nay Phone Latt, who was arrested on 29 January, on Monday was sentenced by the Insein prison court on three counts including charges under section [...]