International
Campaign for Freedom of DASSK and Burma,
a group of peaceful marchers starting their trip from
Washington D.C. on August 8, has arrived to United Nations
head quarter, NYC today September 7th, 2005 where they get
done their part II schedule as planned. The part III
sitting demonstration will be held in
Daj
Hammarskjold Park
from September 9th to 17th. The
part IV
hunger strike
will be held from September 18th to October 4th. For more
detail schedule please visit
Business
opportunity or pitfalls?
September 03, 2005
By the new SPDC policy, anyone who paid taxes to Burmese
embassy has an opportunity to import anything to Burma. If it
is not too good, there still has an option to put hard earned
dollars to Myanmar Foreign Trade Bank (MFTB) where one can
open US$ account in Burma with his disposable dollars - dollar
earnings after taxes. Since import business is not for
everyone, .....
Crude oil price tops $70, how
is Burma doing? Aug 31, 2005
Burma eases trade restrictions in mid July after cheating
among export earners and top Generals’ relatives realized,
according to a report in
New Era Journal News. Normally export licenses were
allowed to those who have export earnings.
More....
Activists of
International Campaign for Freedom of Aung San Suu Kyi and
Burma keep marching their journey aim to UNHCR head quarter,
NYC. Starting from 8/8/05 in Washington, D.C, they are
currently up to Philadelphia, PA, getting about 150 Miles in
20 days. They will arrive the destination approximately
September 7, 2005, sitting demonstration will be held from
Sep 9th to 17th after that.
See
schedule...... Schedule in English..... http://www.progressiveburma.org/icfab/indexe.html
17th Anniversary of
8888
17th anniversary of well known "8888" was
successfully held at Wind Lake plaza Milwaukee, WI on August
7, 2005. U Aung Kyaw Hlaing, the Buddhist monk, who escaped
from Ruling SPDC persecution delivered a speech to attendees
where he suggested to be in unity among Burmese to secure
Democracy in Burma. Then visitors paid homage to monks and
given good wishes by Buddhist customary ways to those who lost
their lives in Democracy revolution since 1988. After the
ceremony, visitors were enjoying traditional Burmese foods and
ended around 2:00 PM.
In Norway Parliament House, Oslo,
Norway on 8/8/2005
Read more in
Burmese and see Photos
International Campaign for Freedom of
Aung San Suu Kyi and Burma held 8888 anniversary in Washington
D.C. Also kick off the marching campaign to NYC later
that day. See more at
The
recently formed International Campaign for Freedom of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and Burma (USA) also
sends the birthday wishes. They are a group that formed with some
veteran long march and hunger strikers of 2004, marching
from Peace Pagoda, Albany, NY to UN head quarter New York City.
This year actions are going to be a lot wider than that of last
year marching from Washington, DC to NYC and will take them two
and a half months altogether.
See detail schedule..
After
26 years of Burmese Socialist Program Party ruling, once the most
prosperous nation in region, Burma, was turned out to be as a one of
the most poorest countries in the world. When peoples' pent-up emotion
based on general resentments were exploded, in 1988, nationwide
Democracy uprising had been occurred. Thousands of peoples were killed
and ten of thousand of people arrested just for calling to regain our
original rights and Democracy. Numbers of activists including us fled
abroad to avoid being mistreated by Military Government.
As we need to finish what we have
started, wherever we are, have to keep going the way believed in any
form. That is, ODFB was born for Democracy. ODFB believes unity among
Pro-Democracy forces is critical, we are ready to support and
participate any peaceful action that leads Democracy to Burma.
