Burma Update: September 16, 2008

Highlight

• Burma Partnership Secretariat: Weekly Briefer (September 8 - 14, 2008)
• Human Rights Watch: Five Activists Win Human Rights Watch Awards - Honored for Courage in Exposing Abuse and Seeking Justice
  

News from Burmese Media

• Democratic Voice of Burma: Activists and member states discuss ASEAN rights body
• Narinjara News: Plainclothes Informers Planted in Sittwe
• Independent Mon News Agency: Burmese battalion collects money to buy arms
• Independent Mon News Agency: Maj-Gen Htain Maung's Peace Council wants gate on Zemi Riverine route
  
• Kachin News Group: University students investigated after military truck kills two women
• Kaladan Press Network: Waterborne diseases rising in Maungdaw
• Mizzima News: Burmese activist gets Human Rights award
  
• Mizzima News: KNU denies causing mine blasts
  
• Mizzima News: Impractical trade policy hits Burmese manufacturers hard
  
• Mizzima News: Censor Board tightens screws
  
• Mizzima News: 70-year-old woman arrested and missing
• The Irrawaddy: Suu Kyi to Receive Monthly Medical Check-ups: Lawyer
• The Irrawaddy: Junta Warns Soldiers against Demonstrations
• The Irrawaddy: Fourteen Activists Arrested
• The Irrawaddy: Clean Drinking Water Scarce in Delta
• The Irrawaddy: Burmese Groups Condemn Arrest of Malaysian MP
  

News from Regional/International Media

• UNIC Yangon: ECHO Donates Critical Funds for WFP's protracted Relief Operations in Myanmar
• The New York Times: Myanmar’s Junta Eases Restrictions on Opposition Leader Under House Arrest
• ABC: Burma seeks help to revive cyclone-affected rice region
  
• Guardian: Burma: Aung San Suu Kyi halts food rations boycott
• ABC: Australian parliament discusses Burma, Aung San Suu Kyi
• The Earth Times: WFP faces 11.2-million-dollar shortfall in Myanmar
  
• Nasdaq: Myanmar Arrests Rebel Over Deadly Bombing - State Media
• Xinhua News: Myanmar warns against more bomb attacks in Yangon
  

Multimedia



Karen Human Rights Group: Photo Gallery 2008
KHRG's gallery of photos documents the human rights situation in Karen State so far this year

Opinion/Other

• The Irrawaddy: Doctor WHO? [Editorial]
• Democratic Voice of Burma: After 10 years, what next for the CRPP? - Htet Aung Kyaw
• Mizzima News: Undeterred: The People's Desire [Analysis] - Maungpi
  

Report/Briefer

• UNIC Yangon: OCHA Situation Report No. 48
  

Special Feature

• The Irrawaddy: A Conflict of Interest - U Shwe Yoe

"A new customer is letting off steam in the barber?s chair today. He wants McCain to win the US election, because he thinks he will bomb Naypyidaw."