The headline “VOA and BBC, sky-full of liars” says it all.
Sorry I’ve been unable to update this blog for the past few weeks. I’ve been overloaded with school.
Today, I noticed a new addition to the Myanmar.com website, the official Burmese government portal. Titled “Photo @ Myanmar.com,” the page contains a series of images that [...]
“Free Burma” to me stands for freedom to speak, think, and act on one’s accordance and the freedom to live and work as one pleases. As in the words of Aung San Suu Kyi,
“The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.”
Japanese journalist Kenji Nagai laying dead on a street in Rangoon.
A reader has just e-mailed me the following post from LAist, a blog specializing on Los Angeles, my hometown. The post “U.S. Media Blames Santa Monica College Professor for Burma Web Blackout,” describes the unfair sensationalizing of an innocent professor at a local community college [...]
Yesterday was my mother’s birthday. When I called her to tell her “Happy Birthday,” she had totally forgotten about her birthday. She was frantic and had been following news in Burma online at work. My mother has many relatives and friends in Rangoon, especially in Lanmadaw, where she was raised. She couldn’t reach them through [...]
Headline from the Financial Times (July 12, 2007) reporting about a leaked UN report on Burma.
How interesting. Several important developments regarding Burma today: (1) Burma celebrates its 10th anniversary in ASEAN, (2) The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill to renew sanctions against Burma, and (3) UN Envoy to Burma, Gambari has begun a [...]
A reader e-mailed me about The Myanmar Times article about the National Convention just now. The journalist, Thet Khaing euphemizes the National Convention. He writes:
The Secretary-1 of the State Peace and Development Council, Lieutenant-General Thein Sein, said last week that the successful completion of the National Convention would be a victory for the first step [...]
Praying for a better life: At the Maha Wizaya Pagoda in Rangoon.
When I went to Burma in 2006, one of my father’s friend, who I’ll call U Myint Aung picked us up at the Rangoon airport, in a old Toyota saloon car. A short and stout man, he was very talkative. U Myint Aung works [...]
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