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Dear Friends and Colleagues,

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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In Solidarity,

Burma Partnership Secretariat

Thursday, February 28, 2008

Burma Update: February 28, 2008

News from Burmese Media

Democratic Voice of Burma: Boy Killed as Thai Police Open Fire on Smuggler's Truck
Democratic Voice of Burma: Fire at South Dagon Rubbish Dump
Mizzima News: Myanmar Nation Editor-in-Chief Charged
Narinjara News: Gas Found During Tube Well Drilling in Arakan
Narinjara News: Democratic Activist Attacked by Miscreants in Arakan
Independent Mon News Agency: Regime Continues Its Assault on the Mon Cultural Museum in Moulmein
Kaladan Press Network: Natala Villagers Turn Gangsters in Northern Arakan
Kaladan Press Network: Burmese Security Force Pushes Back Five Women to Bangladesh
Kaladan Press Network: Twelve Sentenced to Seven Years in Jail for Renovation of Mosque
Kachin News Group: Authorities under Pressure to Collect Family List for Referendum
Kaowao News Group: Destruction of More Farmland by Burma Army
Irrawaddy News Magazine: Govt Issues Temporary Citizen Cards for Referendum
Irrawaddy News Magazine: HR Group Urges Samak to Investigate Mahn Sha Murder
Irrawaddy News Magazine: Asian Financial Centers Spotlighted in US Sanctions
Irrawaddy News Magazine: Fires Continue to Plague Mandalay



News from Global Media

The Straits Times: Myanmar Voters 'Cannot Accept' Junta's Charter: Suu Kyi's Party
ABS-CBN News: UN Envoy to Press Myanmar on Credibility: Japan
Borneo Bulletin: Myanmar Outlaws Speeches, Leaflets about Referendum



Opinion/Other

Irrawaddy News Magazine: No Way, Than Shwe [Commentary] - Aung Zaw
San Francisco Chronicle: Burma's faux democracy [Editorial]
Asia Times: In Myanmar, a resistance hero on the run [Feature] - Marwaan Macan-Markar



Fun

Cartoon: Voting on the Draft Constitution - Harn Lay
Source: Irrawaddy News Magazine


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