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EXCLUSIVE Interview: DVB Chief Returns to Burma After 24 Years of Exile

Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel Prize-winning US economist, recently wrote an article on Burma that has widely been syndicated around the world. In it he says it is time for the […]

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Help Burma

Here is a good place to donate for Burmese victims of Cyclone Nargis. Friends have been streaming in with various reports from Burma. Most of us have been denied visas. […]

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News Direct from Burma to My Doorstep

I received a telephone call Wednesday morning, from a friend, who shall remain annonymous for obvious reasons. He was franticly trying to find a Machintosh computer. “I’ve just arrived from […]

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AllJazeera: Inside Myanmar: The Crackdown

UNPRECEDENTED FOOTAGE: UNPRECEDENTED FOOTAGE:

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Media Blackout = Mass Murder?

An assassinated monk floating in a river. As far as we can tell Burma is not issuing any visas at the moment. The junta has shut down communication with the […]

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Video of Japanese Journalist Shows Deliberately Shot

New footage has emerged of Kenji Nagai being what appears to be quite deliberately gunned down by Burmese forces at near point blank range, contradicting the junta’s official statement that […]

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Burmese Kill 2 Foreign Journalists

Purported to be the Japanese journalist shot dead by Burmese troops….doesn’t look like much of an accident. Although not yet confirmed by the Embassy of Japan, the Japanese video journalist […]

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Saffron Revolution: Burma on the Brink of Change?

Sign the petition Several people have contacted me asking if I am plan to go to Burma. The answer is no. I know that even going down to the embassy […]

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