"The Myanmar military believe there was massive voting fraud in last year's parliamentary elections. And they had demanded postponement of new parliamentary sessions. But the Union Election Commission (UEC) dismissed the allegations last week. That is why they made the move," Song Qingrun, associ...
aUS Defence Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday the US military was stepping up preparations for a relief mission in Myanmar, but he said he could not imagine air dropping aid without permission from the closed regime. [translate] aEarlier this week, Negroponte stopped at Seoul where he was ...
this led to “Canton”, the old English name for the great southern Chinese city, being transliterated as “Guangzhou”4⃞. For the same reason “Pusan” in South Korea became “Busan” in 2000. More politically motivated name swaps:The communist era of the USSR occasioned name changes of...
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The bridge is in the quiet, provincial town of Kanchanaburi, about 30 miles east of the Myanmar border. It was constructed during the War as part of the Thailand-Burma Railway, a transport system that came to be known as the “Death Railway,” its dark history bloodied by the nearly 100...
The excitement over innovation and new technologies seen in 2014 could also be seen as naive, however, considering some of the negative consequences that have emerged, for example social media inspired violence (such as that in Myanmar), election and political interference through the Internet, misi...
A turning point in Myanmar as army suffers big losses – BBC News Anthony Albanese offers Tuvalu residents the right to resettle in Australia, as climate change ‘threatens its existence’ – ABC News (ampproject.org) Is Biden taking climate change seriously? Here’s why ...
Choosing to travel there at this time was, of course, a personal decision since other regions in Myanmar remained separate from this particular conflict. Still, it is good to be well-informed about the situation, political tensions, and the Myanmar government’s actions, which...
their mouths or wearing face masks. It feels as though covid never really happened, and no lessons have been learnt about general hygiene. This may have been the case pre-covid too, and maybe we just didn’t notice then, but we have certainly had a heightened awareness of it this time...
with the Maasai, whitewater rafting the source of the Nile in Uganda, getting up close and personal with the mountain gorillas of Rwanda, making buuz in a yurt in Mongolia, and soaking in the wonders of the immortal Taj Mahal and the truly glorious Shwedagon Pagoda in Myanmar to name only...