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Burma Partnership is pleased to announce that we have launched our new website. We hope it will be a useful tool for governments, journalists, researchers, and especially activists from Burma and all over the world.

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Sunday, February 24, 2008

Burma Update: February 24, 2008


News from Burmese Media


Narinjara News: Immigration Checks List of Monks on Western Border
Narinjara News: Arakanese Extorted for Castor Oil Plantations



News from Global Media

Bangkok Post: Cash Help for Burmese Urged after Accident
Xinhua Online: Myanmar to Hold Furniture Show to Boost Timber Export
The New Nation: Govt Considering Gas Import from Myanmar
Associated Press: Stallone Now a Folk Hero to Some in Myanmar



Opinion/Other

Bangkok Post: UN Chief Must Now Do His Best [Perspective] - Min Zin
Washington Post: Burma's Charade [Editorial]
Inter Press Service News Agency: Politics-Burma: UN Envoy's Next Visit May Turn Farcical [Analysis] - Marwaan Macan-Markar
International Herald Tribune: The Burmese Junta and the World's Conscience [Opinion]



Report/Briefer

Shan Herald Agency for News: SHRF Monthly Report - February 2008

Shan Herald Agency for News
: Weekly Diary, No. 289 (16–21 February 2008)

- Cuban Leader Gone After 49 Years in Power!
- Draft Constitution Finished!
- Bombs on the Golden Triangle!

Irrawaddy News Magazine: Weekly Business Roundup - William Boot

- Japan to Shift China Manufacturing to Burma
- Gold Prospectors Linked to Moscow, Singapore
- India’s Essar Takes Up Old Gas Option



Special Feature

Irrawaddy News Magazine: Nom De Guerre [Beyond 1988 - Reflections VII] - Aung Naing Oo

"1988: We began trekking from Moe Wah, the first camp in the Karen rebel-held area, to the Thai border the next day, the name of our precise destination unknown. We had been told the journey would take three days.

The Karen officials told us to just follow the road, heading east. They said it was safe and not to worry about our security. They instructed us to seek out Karen officials in charge of a checkpoint or village each evening; they would provide us with food and shelter for the night..."


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