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BURMA: Despite Loss at Oscars, Film A Testament to Courage
By Marwaan Macan-Markar
BANGKOK - It may have not won an Oscar, but its having been a final contender for the prestigious statue at the U.S. Academy Awards on Mar. 7 has taken ‘Burma VJ’ to heights never achieved by previous films depicting the oppression and courage in military-ruled Burma.
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THAILAND: Migrant Worker Law Hits Hurdle as 500,000 ‘Disappear’
By Marwaan Macan-Markar
BANGKOK - Thailand’s labour ministry is on the hunt for half a million migrant workers from neighbouring Burma who have gone underground rather than join a new foreign workers’ programme, one that some critics have described as a "confusing" initiative.
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BURMA: Amid Threats, Women Dissidents Stick to Political Beliefs
By Marwaan Macan-Markar
BANGKOK - While Aung San Suu Kyi remains the most widely-known woman suppressed for her political views in Burma, the jails in that military-ruled country continue to be filled by lesser-known women dissidents being held on a range of questionable charges.
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RIGHTS-THAILAND: Fears of Mass Deportation of Migrants Rise
By Sutthida Malikaew
BANGKOK - Dao, a migrant worker from Burma, is struggling to make a decision that could affect not only her but her family as well. "There are many things to worry about," sighed the Shan state native who works in the northern Thai city of Chiang Mai.
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RIGHTS-BURMA: When Hard Times Hit, Some Children Go to Factories
By Mon Mon Myat
RANGOON - Fifteen-year-old Cho Cho Thet knows little about the world outside of the garments factory where she works.
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RIGHTS: This Time Around, Thailand Targets Karen Refugees
By Marwaan Macan-Markar
BANGKOK - Thailand’s attempt to repatriate over 3,000 ethnic Karens who fled the conflict in military-ruled Burma last year has triggered strong local and international objections, including from 27 members of the United States Congress.
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BURMA: Ethnic Women Expose Opium Fields in Junta Strongholds
By Marwaan Macan-Markar
BANGKOK - A report exposing the spreading opium fields in the north-eastern corner of the military-ruled Burma has brought to light an equally revealing story. It was produced by a team of ethnic women who risked their lives to document the heroin-filled world they inhabit.
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BURMA: Junta Turns to Draconian Electronics Law to Silence Critics
By Marwaan Macan-Markar
BANGKOK - A court ruling in military-ruled Burma has brought into sharp focus a law the junta widely uses to go after civilians it wants to silence.
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POLITICS: Nobel Laureate’s Burma Visit: ‘Moment of Hope’?
By Stanislaus Jude Chan
SINGAPORE - To activists more accustomed to working against Burma’s military junta than with it, any engagement with the recalcitrant regime will amount to nothing. But to 2001 Nobel Prize winner Josepth Stiglitz, it is a window of opportunity for a country that has known only poverty and repression.
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BURMA: A Celebration of Life through the Arts under the Junta
Analysis by Marwaan Macan-Markar
CHIANG MAI, Thailand - The Burmese military spares nothing with its iron grip on power – not even art.
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Q&A: ‘Cartoons Are My Way of Protesting against Burmese Junta’
Marwaan Macan-Markar interviews HARN LAY, political cartoonist in exile
CHIANG MAI, Thailand - He talks with his hands. They are in constant motion as he expresses a view, makes a joke, mumbles.
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SOUTH-EAST ASIA: Thai Media Trade Fairness for National Security
By Marwaan Macan-Markar*
CHIANG MAI, Thailand - When it comes to reporting about their neighbouring countries, journalists in Thailand’s mainstream media display a national security bias, often presenting a distorted view of reality and reflecting some prejudices against them.
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BURMA: Exiled Media Brace for 2010 Election Challenge
By Marwaan Macan-Markar*
CHIANG MAI, Thailand - A promised election in military-ruled Burma next year will be held in a vastly different media culture compared to the last general election in 1990, Burmese journalists said at a regional media forum currently underway in this northern Thai city.
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Labour in RSSTwenty years after the uprising, Burma's isolationist military regime continues to brutally stifle the opposition and restrict fundamental rights. The anniversary fell during the Olympic Games in Beijing -- the Chinese government maintains its support for the Burmese Junta. Meanwhile, the long-term effects of the devastating Cyclone Nargis and the bloody crackdown in September on Buddhist monks continue to plague this tormented nation.

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