Burma News

Tajikistan News.Net Saturday 31st July, 2010 North Korean diplomats seized translations of a biography on regime leader Kim Jong Il by a local writer prior to a visit of the country's foreign minister, sources said Saturday.

Seventy-seven appears to have been favored as an auspicious number for his visit to India this week by the superstitious leader of the Burmese junta, Snr-Gen Than Shwe.

Several leading members of Burma's disbanded National League for Democracy raised nearly 40 complaints of forced labor, underage recruitment and land confiscation at a meeting with a representative of the International Labour Organization in Rangoon on Thursday.

A number of political parties running in Burma's elections this year have said that extended US sanctions will do little to affect the polls.

" Burma Campaign UK has called on British Prime Minister David Cameron and Foreign Secretary William Hague to raise Burmese issues in meetings with their Indian counterparts during their three-day visit to India, according to the rights group.

The renewed dialogue between the US and the Burmese regime has attracted quite a bit of publicity.

He was received by the President of India, who hosted a banquet in his honour. Shri M. Hamid Ansari, Vice President of India, Shri S. M. Krishna, External Affairs Minister and Smt.

The U.S. said it is carefully watching the budding secretive relationship between Myanmar and North Korea for signs of nuclear cooperation, as official talks between the authoritarian regimes entered a second day Friday.

Nowadays, internal and external antigovernment elements that persist in European democratization process and European democracy norms as the one and only yardstick of democratization are very loud in their opposition against the national political leadership role the Tatmadaw will play in Myanmar's democratization process.

Bangkok a ' Thailand will sign on Friday an agreement to buy natural gas from the Zawtika field at the offshore Block M9 in the Gulf of Martaban in Myanmar from late 2013, Energy Minister Wannarat Charnnukul said.

India graciously hosted the Burmese Dictator Than Shwe this week, raising the question as to why the world's largest democracy would welcome one of the world's worst dictators, a man associated with alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Burmese officials have been assisting the North Korean embassy in Rangoon in seizing and destroying a biography of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, written by a Burmese.

Khet Mar does not look like a revolutionary. She is demure, soft-spoken, unassuming.

Following the Rector Major's call and subsequent acceptance by Fr Maurice Vallence , 24 July was established as the day for installing the new superior of the Myanmar vice province.

Family members of the military regime and their associates have extended their control of Burma's media scene by obtaining permits for the publication of 15 out of 20 news journals in Burma, according to journalist sources.

A strategic pact signed between India and Myanmar has been hailed in the country's northeast as a major step forward in combating terror and boosting trade and commerce between the two neighbouring nations.

North Korea's foreign minister visited Myanmar on Thursday for high-level talks that come on the heels of a U.S. warning against any cooperation between the two nations on nuclear technology.

Than Shwe: The military 'coconut head' Hu Jintao: The smiling despot Kim Jong-il: A leader with a weakness for cognac Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: West's enemy no 1 Robert Mugabe: From hero to hated dictator Myanmar dictator General Than Shwe was recently named as one of the world's worst dictators by an article in the Foreign Policy journal.

Betty Geraghty with her son Peter before she took to the skies. Born in England, raised in Peru, married in Burma and birth to her first child in India - Betty Geraghty has led nothing if not a very interesting life.

The Burmese government has slashed duty tax on locally-produced alcohol and tobacco by a third in a move likely to raise eyebrows among health professionals and planners.