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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 …
Tags: business • discount • Nonprofit organization
Finally the Indian Parliament has bowed down to listen to people’s voice on corruption and resolved to frame a strong anti-corruption legislation. Following a massive protest spread across the sub continent led by Gandhian Anna …
Tags: Anna Hazare • corruption • India
As India is uprising against corruption, the Nobel laureate Burmese pro-democracy leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi has extended her support to the movement. The largest democracy in the globe has witnessed a second Freedom …
Tags: Aung San Suu Kyi • India • Mahatma Gandhi
“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 …
Tags: army • child soldiers • Human trafficking
Produced by Al Jazeera and Mizzima about the conflict in Karen State.
John Boorman’s film about the story of Aung San Suu Kyi is available on YouTube. Watch it here.
Tags: Aung San Suu Kyi • film • John Boorman
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 …
Tags: statistics • tourism
The Burmese exiles living in India and their sympathizers had recently come to the street of India’s national capital to lodge a stronger protest against the government for supplying arms and ammunitions to the semi-military …
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, …
Tags: documentary • film • responsible travel • skateboard • traveling
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 …
Tags: animation • documentary • mainstream media • NGO • NLD • third forces
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 …
Tags: responsible travel • tourism • traveling
While the world media reports with the factual supports from various sources inside and outside Burma (Myanmar) that the poverty stricken country is changing, but in realty that exactly is not happening in the so-called …
Tags: Aung San Suu Kyi • Chin • democracy • India • refugees
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 …
Tags: cellphone network • China • communication • India • Libya • media literacy
“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 …
Tags: censorship • Egypt • media literacy • Thailand
The Burmese news outlet Irrawaddy has reported on cuts to the Democratic Voice of Burma’s budget, while DVB itself deplores the end of Irrawaddy’s printed magazine. Will the future of Burmese exile media – or, …
Tags: 2010 Elections • Burmese media • NGO • pro-democracy activities
