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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
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 …
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
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 …
Tags: America • refugees • resettlement • United States
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
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 …
Tags: censorship • Internet • iPhone • mobile phone • Privacy • social media • Surveillance
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
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 …
“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
It has been pointed out that foreign investments in Burma are no magic potion by which we can simply “switch on” better times, and it is indeed misleading when this form of engagement is presented …
Tags: Aung San Suu Kyi • foreign investments • sanctions • tourism
While academic research should be done in a way that is unbiased and transparent and that enables others to reproduce the results, it is old news that academia, just like jurisdiction, is no Garden of …
Tags: academia • China • Germany • idealism • philosophy
At a recent seminar that tried to explore the relationship between charities and journalism in the Czech Republic and sought to identify strategies for improving this relationship, participants from NGOs were invited to share their …
Tags: Czech Republic • NGO • social media
