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စစ္အစိုးရေရးဆြဲထားတဲ့ အေျခခံဥပေဒ မူၾကမ္းကို လက္မခံကန္႔ကြက္တဲ့ ဆႏၵျပပြဲေတြ ထိုင္းႏိုင္ငံနဲ႔ တျခားႏိုင္ငံတခ်ဳိ႕က ျမန္မာသံ႐ံုး ေတြမွာ ျဖစ္ပြားခဲ့ပါတယ္။ |
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ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံ ဒီမုိကေရစီ ရရွိေရးနဲ႔ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရး ကာကြယ္ ေစာင့္ေရွာက္ ရာမွာ စြမ္းစြမ္းတမံ ေဆာင္ရြက္ခဲ့ၾကတဲ့ ျမန္မာအမ်ိဳးသမီးထု ကလည္း ဒီႏွစ္ ဆုခ်ီးျမႇင့္ ခံရသူေတြထဲ ပါ၀င္ပါတယ္။ နန္းခ်န္ေတာင္း နဲ႔ မခင္ဥမၼာတုိ႔ ျဖစ္ၾက ပါတယ္။ |
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ျမန္မာစစ္အစုိးရနဲ႔ အိႏၵိယတုိ႔အၾကား အေမရိကန္ ေဒၚလာ ၁၂၀ သန္းတန္တဲ့ ကုလားတန္ျမစ္ စီမံကိန္းကို ဧၿပီလ ၂ရက္ေန႔မွာ သေဘာတူ လက္မွတ္ထုိး လုိက္ပါတယ္။ |
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ကုန္းနဲ႔ေရ နယ္စပ္ ကီလိုမီတာ ၂၄၀၀ စပ္ေနတဲ့ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံနဲ႔ ဆက္ဆံေရးဟာ ထုိင္းႏုိင္ငံအတြက္ အေရးႀကီးလွပါတယ္။ |
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အိႏၵိယႏုိင္ငံအေနနဲ႔ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံကို လက္နက္ ေထာက္ပံ႔ေနတယ္ဆုိတာ မဟုတ္တဲ့ အေၾကာင္း အိႏိၵိယ ႏုိင္ငံျခားေရး ၀န္ႀကီး ပရာနတ္ဘ္ မူကာဂ်ီးက ျငင္းဆုိ ပါတယ္။ |
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ဆႏၵျပမႈေတြအတြင္း အၾကမ္းဖက္ ဖ်က္စီးမႈ ေတြရွိခဲ့သလို တရုတ္အစိုးရဘက္ကလည္း ျပစ္ခတ္ ႏွိမ္နင္းမႈနဲ႔ ဖမ္းဆီးမႈေတြ ရွိခဲ့ပါတယ္။ |
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အထူးသျဖင့္ ႏုိင္ငံျခား သတင္းဌာနေတြ၊ အဖဲြ႔အစည္းေတြနဲ႔ ဆက္သြယ္ပါတယ္လုိ႔ စြတ္စဲြၿပီး ဖမ္းဆီးတာေတြ၊ အေႏွာက္အယွက္ေပးတာေတြကို သူ႔အေနနဲ႔ ပိုၿပီးစိုးရိမ္မကင္းျဖစ္ရပါတယ္လို႔ မစၥတာ ပင္ညဲရုိးကေျပာဆုိသြားပါတယ္။ |
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ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံကိုေတာ့ အတိုက္အခံေတြကို ဆက္လက္ ႏွိမ္ႏွင္းေနဆဲျဖစ္တယ္၊ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရး ႏိုဘယ္ဆုရွင္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ကိုလည္း ေနအိမ္မွာ အက်ယ္ခ်ဳပ္ခ်ခံထားဆဲျဖစ္တယ္လို႔ အစီရင္ခံစာကဆုိပါတယ္။ |
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ကုလသမဂၢ ဒုကၡသည္မ်ားဆုိင္ရာ မဟာမင္းႀကီးရုံးအေနနဲ႔ အခုလုိ ထုိင္းျမန္မာနယ္ျခားကို ထြက္ေျပးလာတဲ့ သံဃာေတာ္ေတြကို ပိုၿပီး အကူအညီေပးဖုိ႔ ကာကြယ္ေပးဖုိ႔ ဆႏၵျပေနၾကပါတယ္။ |
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ျမန္မာ့အေရး ၾကား၀င္ ေဆာင္ရြက္ေပးေနတဲ့ ကုလသမဂၢရဲ႕ အထူးကိုယ္စားလွယ္ မစၥတာဂမ္ဘာရီ ဟာ မတ္လ၆ရက္ေန႔က ျမန္မာျပည္ကို ေရာက္လာခဲ့ပါတယ္။ |
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မတ္လ (၄)ရက္ အဂၤါေန႔မွာ ယွဥ္ၿပိဳင္ခဲ့တဲ့ အုိဟုိင္းယုိး၊ တကၠဆက္၊ ဗာေမာက္နဲ႔ ရုိဒ့္အုိင္းလန္းျပည္နယ္ (၄)ခုစလံုးမွာ ဂၽြန္မက္ကိန္းက သူ႔ရဲ႕ ၿပိဳင္ဖက္ေတြကို အႏုိင္ရလုိက္ပါတယ္။ |
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အိႏၵိယသမုဒၵရာထဲမွာ စက္ေလွအင္ဂ်င္ပ်က္ ၿပီး သီတင္းပတ္ႏွစ္ပတ္ေလာက္ ပင္လယ္ျပင္ မွာ ေမ်ာေနခဲ့တဲ့ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံသားေတြနဲ႔ ဘဂၤလားေဒ႔ရွ္ႏုိင္ငံသား ၇၀ ေက်ာ္ကို သီရိလကာၤေရတပ္က ကယ္ဆယ္လိုက္ ပါတယ္။ |
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၂၀၀၈ ေဘဂ်င္းအိုလံပစ္ပြဲကိုအခုၾသဂုတ္လမွာက်င္းပေတာ့မွာမို႔ တရုတ္အစိုးရဖက္က အႀကီးအက်ယ္ ျပင္ဆင္ေနခ်ိန္မွာပဲ တဖက္မွာလည္း တရုတ္အိုလံပစ္ကို ဆန္႔က်င္ကန္႔ကြက္မႈေတြ ေပၚေပါက္ေန ပါတယ္။ |
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ျပည္ပမွာ ၁၇ လၾကာ ေနခဲ့ရတဲ့ ထုိင္း၀န္ႀကီးခ်ဳပ္ေဟာင္း သက္ဆင္ရွင္နာ၀ပ္ထ္ ထိုင္းႏုိင္ငံေျမကို ေျခခ်လိုက္တယ္ဆုိရင္ပဲ ထိုင္းႏိိုင္ငံေျမကို ဒူးေထာက္ၿပီး ထိုင္ကန္႔ေတာ့ရင္း ႏုတ္ဆက္လိုက္ပါတယ္။ |
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ႏိုင္ငံျခားသားေက်ာင္းသားေတြဟာ သိပၸံပညာမွာ ထူးခြ်န္ထက္ျမက္ၾကတယ္လို႕
အေမရိကန္ ႏိုင္ငံတကာ ပညာေရးဌာနရဲ႕ အစီရင္ခံစာမွာ ေဖာ္ျပထားပါတယ္။ |
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မစၥတာ ဂမ္ဘာရီဟာ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံအတြင္း ဒီမုိကေရစီ ျပဳျပင္ေျပာင္းလဲေရး စနစ္တရပ္ ျဖစ္ထြန္း ေပၚေပါက္လာေစဖုိ႔အတြက္ ျမန္မာ့ အိမ္နီးခ်င္း တုိင္းျပည္က ေခါင္းေဆာင္ေတြနဲ႔ လွည့္လည္ ေတြ႔ဆံုၿပီး ေဆြးေႏြးမႈေတြ ျပဳလုပ္ေနတာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ |
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ျမန္မာစစ္အစိုးရက လက္ရွိ ေရးဆြဲေနတဲ့ ဖြဲ႕စည္း အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ပုံ အေျခခံဥပေဒမူၾကမ္းကို ဥပေဒမႈၾကမ္းေရးဆြဲေရး ေကာ္မရွင္က အတည္ျပဳလိုက္ၿပီလို႔ ေၾကညာလိုက္ပါတယ္။ |
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ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံအပါအ၀င္ ကမာၻေပၚမွာ ၾကဳံေတြ႔ ရင္ဆုိင္ေနရတဲ့ အေရးကိစၥေတြကို ဆက္ၿပီး ေဆာင္ရြက္ဖုိ႔ အခိုင္အမာ သႏၷိဌာန္ခ်ထားတဲ့ အေၾကာင္း ကုလသမဂၢ အတြင္းေရးမႉးခ်ဳပ္ ဘန္ကီမြန္းက ေျပာဆုိပါတယ္။ |
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ေကအန္ယူ ကရင္အမ်ဳိးသားအစည္းအ႐ုံးရဲ႕ အေထြေထြအတြင္းေရးမႉး ပဒိုမန္းရွာလားဖန္းကို လုပ္ႀကံသတ္ျဖတ္ သြားခဲ့တဲ့ သူေတြ အသံုးျပဳခဲ့တဲ့ ပစ္ကပ္ ကား ကို ထုိင္းျမန္မာ နယ္စပ္အနီးမွာ ရွာေဖြ ေတြ႔ရွိ ခဲ့ပါၿပီ။ |
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လူထုဆႏၵခံယူပြဲနဲ႔ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ က်င္းပမယ္လုိ႔ ျမန္မာစစ္အစိုးရဖက္က ေၾကညာလိုက္တာဟာ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္နဲ႔ ေတြ႔ဆုံမႈေတြေရးကို ပစ္ပယ္လုိက္သလို ျဖစ္ေနတယ္ဆုိၿပီး ျမန္မာ့ဒီမုိကေရစီေရး လႈပ္ရွားသူေတြက ေ၀ဖန္ ေျပာဆုိပါတယ္။ |
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ကယ္လီဖုိးနီးယားျပည္နယ္ အေမရိကန္ ေအာက္ လႊတ္ေတာ္အမတ္ တြမ္လန္းတို႔စ္ (Tom Lantos) ဟာ အသက္ ၈၀ အရြယ္မွာ ဒီကေန႔ ကြယ္လြန္ သြားပါၿပီ။ |
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၂၀၀၈ရဲ႕ အေမရိကန္ သမၼတ ေရြးေကာက္ပဲြမွာ လူငယ္မဲဆႏၵရွင္ေတြ သိသိသာသာမ်ားလာတယ္လုိ႔ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲေတြနဲ႔ ပတ္သက္ၿပီး သုတသနျပဳစုသူမ်ားကဆုိပါတယ္။ |
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ထုိင္းအစုိးရရဲ႕ ႏုိင္ငံျခားေရးမူ၀ါဒနဲ႔ ပတ္သက္ၿပီး ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံ ဒီမုိကေရစီရရွိေရး ၆ႏုိင္ငံေဆြးေႏြးပဲြအေၾကာင္း ၀န္ႀကီးခ်ဳပ္သစ္ စမက္က အခုလုိ ေျပာပါတယ္။ |
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ၿပီးခဲ့တဲ့ရက္ပိုင္းအတြင္းကပဲ ျမန္မာစစ္အစိုးရက အင္တာနက္မွာ ဘေလာ့ဂ္စာမ်က္ႏွာ ဖြင့္ထားတဲ့ ဘေလာ့ဂ္ဂါတစ္ဦးျဖစ္တဲ့ ကိုေနဘုန္းလတ္ကို ဖမ္းဆီးခဲ့ပါတယ္။ |
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အာဏာရွင္ေတြဟာ ဒီမုိကေရစီအေရၿခံဳေနတဲ့ ရက္စက္တဲ့သူေတြလုိ႔ လူအခြင့္အေရး ေစာင့္ၾကည့္သူမ်ား အဖဲြ႔က စီမံခန္႔ခဲြေရး ဒါရုိက္တာ Kenneth Roth ကဆုိပါတယ္။ |
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ေတြ႔ဆံုေဆြးေႏြးေရး အရွိန္ျမင္႔ဖုိ႔ အီးယူ အထူးကိုယ္စားလွယ္ ျမန္မာစစ္အစုိးရအားတုိက္တြန္း |
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စာေပ ေရးသားထုတ္ေ၀ခြင့္ေတြကို တင္းတင္းၾကပ္ၾကပ္ခ်ဳပ္ကိုင္ထားတဲ့ၾကားကပဲ စစ္အစိုးရ ေခါင္းေဆာင္ ဗုိလ္ခ်ဳပ္မႈးၾကီး သန္းေရႊကို ပစ္မွတ္ထားၿပီး လ်ဳိ႕၀ွက္ ေ၀ဖန္ေရးသားတဲ့ ကဗ်ာတပုဒ္ ဒီတပတ္ထဲမွာ ေပၚလာခဲ့ပါတယ္။ |
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ငါးႏွစ္ေအာက္ ကေလးသူငယ္ေသဆံုးမႈ အာရွတုိက္မွာ ျမန္မာအမ်ားဆံုး |
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ျမန္မာ့ေက်ာက္မ်က္မ်ား တင္ပို႕မႈ အေမရိကန္၊အီးယူ ဥေရာပသမဂၢနဲ႕ ကေနဒါ ႏိုင္ငံေတြက တားဆီးအေရးယူမႈအသစ္ေတြ ျပဌာန္းလာေပမဲ့ ျမန္မာေက်ာက္စိမ္းမ်ား တရုတ္နယ္စပ္မွ တဆင့္ ႏိုင္ငံတကာကို တင္ပို႕ေရာင္း၀ယ္မႈမ်ား ရွိေန၊ |
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ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံမွာ စစ္အစုိးရက အတုိက္အခံ ေတြနဲ႔ ေဆြးေႏြးဖုိ႔ လုပ္ေနတဲ့ လုပ္ငန္းစဥ္ဟာ ေႏွးေကြးလြန္းလို႔ ကုလသမဂၢ လံုၿခံဳေရးေကာင္စီက စိတ္ပ်က္မိေၾကာင္း ၾကာသပေတးေန႔က ေျပာၾကားလုိက္ပါတယ္။ |
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ေရႊ ့ေျပာင္းျမန္မာကေလးမ်ား၏ ပညာေရး ရန္ပုံေငြ အတြက္ သီးေလးသီးအၿငိမ့္ျဖင့္ ေဖ်ာ္ေျဖတင္ဆက္ |
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စား၀တ္ေနေရး အက်ပ္အတည္းၾကား ရရာအလုပ္လုပ္ရသည့္ လူငယ္ေတြ ပိုမ်ားလာေန |
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ဒီမုိကေရစီေရး အကဲခတ္ေနသူေတြကေတာ့ စစ္အစုိးရဟာ ႏွိပ္ကြပ္မႈေတြ၊ ေျခာက္လန္႔မႈေတြကို အသံုးျပဳၿပီး အာဏာကို ၿမဲေအာင္လုပ္ေနပါတယ္တဲ့။ အတိုက္အခံေတြကိုလည္း ဘယ္ေတာ့မွာ မ်က္ႏွာသာ မေပးပါဘူး။ |
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ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ အေျပာင္းအလဲအတြက္ အတိုက္အခံမ်ား ညီၫြတ္ဖို႔လိုတယ္လို႔ ဗမာျပည္ကြန္ျမဴနစ္ပါတီက ေဒၚလွေက်ာ္ေဇာကေျပာပါတယ္။ |
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အေမရိကန္ သမၼဆေရြးေကာက္ပဲြအတြက္ အေရးပါေသာ ပဏာမ အဆင့္မ်ား |
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ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံထဲမွာ အသုံးျပဳေနၾကတဲ့ ၿဂိဳဟ္တုစေလာင္း မွတ္ပုံတင္ေၾကးေတြကုိ စစ္အစိုးရက မၾကာေသးခင္ကပဲ အဆမတန္ တိုးျမႇင့္ေကာက္ခံခဲ့ပါတယ္။ တကယ္တမ္း တုိးျမႇင့္ေကာက္ခံတဲ့အတိုင္း ရုပ္ျမင္သံၾကားၾကည့္တဲ့သူေတြက အခြန္ေပးတဲ့အခါမွာလည္း အာဏာပုိင္ေတြဘက္က လက္မခံပါဘူး။ |
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ေငြေၾကးေဖာင္းပြမႈ၊ လုပ္ခနည္းပါးမႈ၊ အတုိင္းအဆမရွိ ခ်စားမႈေတြဟာ သန္းနဲ႔ခ်ည္တဲ့ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံသားေတြကို ဆင္းရဲတြင္းနက္နက္ထဲ ကို ပို႔ေနပါတယ္။ |
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ျမန္မာ့လြတ္လပ္ေရး အႏွစ္ေျခာက္ဆယ္ျပည့္ အခမ္းအနားေတြကို ျမန္မာစစ္အစုိးရ ဘက္ကေရာ အမ်ိဳးသားဒီမုိကေရစီ အဖဲြ႔ခ်ဳပ္ NLDပါတီဘက္ကေရာ သီးျခားစီ က်င္းပခဲ့ ၾကပါတယ္။ |
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ျမန္မာ့ဒီမုိကေရစီ ေခါင္းေဆာင္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္နဲ႔ ကုိလံဘီယာ ႏုိင္ငံက ကြန္ျမဴနစ္ သူပုန္ေတြက ျပန္ေပးဆဲြတာကို ခံခဲ့ရတဲ့ အင္းဒရစ္ ဘန္တန္ေကာ့တုိ႔ရဲ႕ ဂရုဏာသက္ဖြယ္ ေကာင္းတဲ့ ဓာတ္ပံုပုိစတာႀကီး တခုကို ဒီဇင္ဘာ ၃၀ရက္ တနဂၤေႏြေန႔မွာ ခ်ိတ္ဆဲြထားပါတယ္။ |
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စက္တင္ဘာလအတြင္း သံဃာေတာ္ေတြဦးေဆာင္တဲ့ ဆႏၵျပမႈေတြမွာ အဓိကေက်ာင္းတုိက္ တတိုက္ျဖစ္ခဲ့တဲ့ မဂၢင္ေက်ာင္းတုိက္ကို အာဏာပိုင္ေတြက ပိတ္ခဲ့ပါတယ္။ |
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ျမန္မာျပည္အတြင္း ဘာသာေရးဖိႏွိပ္မႈ၊ လူ ့အခြင့္အေရးခ်ဳိးေဖာက္မႈမ်ား ၾကားနား |
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ျမန္မာ့ဒီမုိကေရစီေရးလႈပ္ရွားသူမ်ားအား စစ္အစုိးရက ႏွိပ္ကြပ္ခဲ့ျခင္းအေပၚ ႏုိင္ငံတကာ အသုိင္းအ၀ုိင္းအေနနဲ ့ ၀ုိင္း၀န္း တုန္ ့ျပန္ေပးရန္ တာ၀န္ရွိေနေသးသည္ဟု ကုလသမဂၢ လူ ့အခြင့္အေရးကုိယ္စလွယ္ ေပၚလုိဆာဂ်ီယုိပင္ညဲရုိးက ေျပာၾကားလုိက္ပါတယ္။ |
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United Nations special envoy to Burma Ibrahim Gambari said on Tuesday he witnessed positive changes in the country, but also stressed there is much work to do there |
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United Nations special envoy on human rights in Burma, Paulo Sergio Pinheiro, has arrived in the country at the invitation of the military government |
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A top United Nations' envoy is encouraging Vietnam to aid international efforts to resolve Burma's political crisis |
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Burma's detained opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, says she is ready to cooperate with the country's military government in a process of dialogue |
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Ban said, "lack of progress" in UN special envoy Ibrahim Gambari's trip to Burma, where he is attempting to end the country's political crisis and promote democratic reform |
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NCUB Burmese exiled political group urges US Congress to pursue tougher sanctions against Burmese military regime as brutal crackdown continues on peaceful protesters |
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Southeast Asian leaders have canceled a planned briefing by United Nations envoy Ibrahim Gambari, who was to address a regional summit this week about the situation in Burma. |
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Southeast Asian leaders have adopted a landmark charter that seeks to integrate the region even as a contentious debate about human rights in Burma poisoned the atmosphere of the meeting |
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Children as young as 10 years old are being forced into the Burmese army, according to a report released today by New York-based group, US rights group, Human Rights Watch |
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French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner is calling for a fresh approach to the way the international community works to
bring democracy to Burma. |
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UN envoy hailed talks between detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and a newly appointed official of Burma's military junta, but said Friday that the meeting was just the beginning |
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Burma activists have rallied outside the Chinese embassy in Bangkok, as part of a day of worldwide protests to demand the release of Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi |
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UN envoy calls for incentives to induce democratic change |
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Burma's military government says it has appointed a committee tasked with drafting the country's constitution |
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The UN World Food Program said today that millions are going hungry in Burma despite its vast natural agricultural potential |
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UN envoy Ibrahim Gambari is demanding Burma's military government stop arresting pro-democracy activists, and release all political detainees |
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Japan has canceled nearly five million dollars in aid to Burma over the military government's crackdown that resulted in the shooting death of a Japanese journalist |
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As world attention continues to focus on the recent protests and crackdown in Burma, former US President Jimmy Carter says he is closely watching events in the region |
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VOA Burmese Service Exclusive Interview with Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, California Democrat Congressman Tom Lantos |
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Security forces in Burma have used gunfire to disperse demonstrators in the main city, Rangoon, as hundreds, perhaps thousands defy the security forces of the ruling junta. |
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US First Lady Laura Bush is speaking out on the situation in Burma - urging the military government to show restraint and refrain from further violence against pro-democracy protesters |
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The United States Wednesday condemned Burma's arrest of at least 13 activists who staged rare public demonstrations this week against government-mandated fuel price increases |
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Foreign ministers from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations have agreed during their annual meeting in Manila to create a human rights body in the draft of ASEAN's first ever charter |
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A group of human rights activists met in Washington Tuesday to celebrate the 62nd birthday of Burmese pro-democracy leader and Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, who has been under house arrest in Rangoon for the past 17 years |
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Gallery plan b, in cooperation with River Gallery from Rangoon, Burma presented an exhibition of paintings from Myanmar’s leading contemporary artists including Kyee Myint Saw, Nann Nann, Khin Zaw Latt, Maung Aw, Soe Soe, and Than Kyaw Htay. |
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Burma held its annual Armed Forces Day in the country's new capital, Nay Pyi Taw, or Royal City, on Tuesday |
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Prototype and patent for revolutionary vehicle could make flying cars available by 2010: A company called Urban Aeronautics has developed a prototype of a flying car that company officials say could one day make traffic jams a thing of the past |
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Czech president and writer Vaclav Havel spoke this week at the U.S. Library of Congress at an event in support of dissidents fighting for freedom in several countries |
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Burma's foreign minister U Nyan Win met with the Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Thursday in Jakarta |
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About 50 protesters celebrated St Valentine's Day in Manila by demonstrating outside the Burmese Embassy to demand the release of Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi |
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EXCEL is like a bridge for better future of children: It prepares them to go back to school one day when their families financial situation improves |
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Two Nobel peace laureates joined dozens of activists Friday in front of Burmese Embassy to protest the detention of political prisoners and to push for a U.N. Security Council resolution condemning the generals who run the Asian country |
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Thousands of people have paid their last respects to Burma's Bo Mya, a long-time leader of the country's largest rebel group |
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Burma's government is about to restart its on-again, off-again constitutional convention, which it says will eventually lead to democratic elections |
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Pro-democracy activists in Burma say a petition campaign calling for political dialogue in the military-ruled nation has garnered more than 200,000 signatures so far |
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Officials in Thailand say at least 47 Burmese refugees have left a camp on the Thai-Burma border this week to begin life in the United States |
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Talks on drafting a new constitution for Burma will resume as early as October, the country's ambassador to the Philippines has said |
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Bribery, nepotism and other forms of corruption exist to a greater or lesser extent in all countries: But their corrosive effects hurt poor nations the most |
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Southeast Asian countries Tuesday signed an agreement allowing their citizens to travel within the region for up to two weeks without a visa |
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Southeast Asia foreign ministers conveyed their dissatisfaction over the slow pace of political reforms in Burma but stopped short of taking any tough action against Rangoon |
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Researchers are working on developing vaccines for bird flu before it becomes a worldwide epidemic |
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The global image of the United States has declined, and fewer people support the US-led war on terror: That's the assessment of a worldwide poll released last month by a Washington DC-based research group |
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UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has criticized Burma for extending the house arrest of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, after hinting she would be freed |
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Voice of America celebrates Fifth Anniversary of the Diversity day on May 17 to bring together the uniqueness of its Diverse Nature |
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Pro-democracy activists have held protests outside Burmese embassies in several nations to call on the international community to pressure Burma to end its human rights abuses |
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Under-nutrition contributes to the deaths of some 5.6 million children every year, and the world has made little progress towards its target of reducing hunger by half before 2015, the UN Children's Fund said on Tiesday May second |
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Protestors call on Daewoo International to halt its multimillion dollar exploration and production of natural gas in Burma saying that the revenue would be funnelled to the ruling military junta instead of to the impoverished people |
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Women's League of Burma efforts to push at least 30% of women participation in political decision making role suspends for further discussion at recent MPU meeting |
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She is branded an enemy by Burmese Military regime, but to the thousands
who flock to her clinic she is the gentle healer in a world of torched villages, refugee camps and sweatshops |
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French President Jacques Chirac has called on Burma to release political prisoners such as pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi and move its government closer to democracy |
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Burmese Prime Minister Soe Win has met with Chinese President Hu Jintao in Beijing today-Wednesday, on the second day of his visit to one of Burma's few remaining allies |
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