This spot entitled The Magic Pool was produced in Burma by the director Moe Thorn, featuring in the main role Adam Fraser as tourist. Please watch and share!

My work for a nonprofit organization included to spend considerable time browsing the Internet for special discounts and send numerous inquiries to companies whether they would be able to make a special offer. Every money …

“In this new series on human trafficking and modern slavery, our reporters speak to young survivors of forced and brutal military service inside Burma. For these lucky few who escape, the ordeal is not over.”
RFA …

Produced by Al Jazeera and Mizzima about the conflict in Karen State.

Never trust any statistics that you didn’t forge yourself, as the saying goes. Usually, you can do some nice tweaks by switching between absolute or relative numbers.
These thoughts came to my mind when I saw …

Filmed in 2009 and released in May 2011, Altered Focus is a short film about three skateboarders going to Burma. Not surprisingly, people’s attention in Rangoon and Mandalay is captured by this unseen activity.
Of course, …

Today I was pointed to a French website with much interesting material about Burma.
One item caught my attention first (since my knowledge of French is shamefully underdeveloped): A graphical animation of the political landscape in …

In a recent post I wrote about some aspects of the question of whether one should travel to Burma or not. Now it’s time to introduce our latest project, which continues our organization’s activities in …

The film Nickel City Smiler chronicles a Burmese refugee’s fight for survival and hope in the American Rust Belt.
When you talk to refugees who have managed to leave Burma and struggle for survival in one …

Two years, two positions: In 1999, Aung San Suu Kyi said: “Burma will be here for many years, so visit us later. Visiting now is tantamount to condoning the regime.” Eleven years later, U Win …

I am not going to write about the real Asian values, the values of the people of Asia. I figure it is impossible even to grasp their variety. What I rather have in mind to …

In Burma there are still over 2,200 political prisoners. As long as they are not free, no change to democracy in Burma can be credible. Similarly, as Zinn Linn pointed out, there is no democracy …

Two programmers, Alasdair Allan and Pete Warden, have recently discovered a hidden file on the Apple iPhone 4 and iPad 3G that stores detailed location information at least for a period of several months. While …

I just came across an article in the Irrawaddy, published yesterday, where one paragraph caught my attention:
“Sources inside Burma said that rumors are spreading that the new government will in fact release a large …

While hijacking aircrafts is nothing particularly fancy in the history of the Burmese democracy movement, a new form of hijacking might prove more effective – albeit less dramatic – than taking the plane. As The …

This post is very off-topic but I hope my readers will nevertheless forgive me. It has to do with the numerous technical experiments I am doing behind the scenes for this website. Since our funding …

With their elections in last year’s November, the Burmese junta has poured out upon us a cornucopia full of shiny new arguments – or merely revamped ones. All kinds of policy makers and advocacy groups …

Great news: The team of Flattr has approved the activities of Burma Center Prague as charitable and granted us therefore a special status, as announced on their blog. This, of course, affects also the project …

“The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.”
John Gilmore

This famous quote draws its confidence from a rather idealist view on a technique that is employed for the Internet to work the way we …

If we want to monitor and analyze blogs with a focus on issues around Burma and Burmese, we can resort to a basic set of tools that was mainly introduced for business (identifying trends and …