..in Thailand
THAILAND – IOM Resettles 50,000 Myanmar Refugees Since 2004 – A 23-year old primary school teacher with a 20-year old wife and two-year old daughter will this weekend become the 50,000th refugee from Myanmar resettled by IOM from remote camps on the Thai-Myanmar border to a third country.
The ethnic Karenni family, who have been accepted [...]
Set on the border of Thailand and Eastern Burma, CROSSING MIDNIGHT tells the story of a remarkable community of refugees from Burma working against incredible odds to help their own.
Today, one million internally displaced persons are living in the jungles of Eastern Burma in the midst of on-going armed conflict. There, they live on [...]
June 23, 2009 (DVB)–Weighed down by state corruption, economic decline and vastly uneven development, Burma has ranked at the tail-end of this year’s Failed States Index, published by US-based Foreign Policy magazine.
The current economic recession has sparked conflict and instability across the world, and has pulled many struggling countries further toward the brink of collapse.
In [...]
Location: Chiang Mai, Date: Friday, 19th June 2009
“Burma’s Road to Democracy: Trans-border Environmental
And Human Rights Problems”
Time : 1.00-4.30 PM
Venue : Conference Room, Faculty of Social Sciences, Chiang Mai University
1:00 – 1:30 Opening remarks by Dr. Chayan Vaddhanaphuti, Director of the Regional Center for Social Science and Sustainable Development (RCSD) Chiang Mai University, Center for Ethnic [...]
As of June 13th 2009, attacks by joint State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) and Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA) forces against a Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) camp located near to Ler Per Her camp for internally displaced people (IDPs) in Pa’an District of Karen State, continue. The attacks began on Friday, June 5th, with mortar fire followed by a ground assault. [...]
No pictures allowed inside, which really is a shame because I looked radiant in the bows, ruffles and 6 inch 3D roses, if I do say so myself. Sadly, I left the store without a dress in hand, but the evening was not a waste. 2 things I learned: traditional western wedding dresses are really [...]
I decided to treat myself to a nice Hazel Cacao Cake at the classy coffee shop in town tonight, hoping that the chocolate frosting would coat my throat which has now been sore for 2.5 weeks. Hazel coffee shop is at the end of the “Mae Sod Mall,” the only mall in town, which is [...]
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