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BurmaNet News is an online newspaper that offers general coverage of news and opinion on Burma from around the world.

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Special Features

Burma Project/Southeast Asia Initiative Web features available online at different locations:

Burma: Country in Crisis

Voices of '88

Impressions from a Burma in Exile

Former World Leaders Rally for Burma’s Political Prisoners, Call for UN Action
December 3, 2008
The Soros foundations network partnered with the Oslo Center for Peace and Human Rights and Freedom and others to garner presidential signatures calling for the release of Aung San Suu Kyi and all political prisoners currently being held by Burma’s junta. more

About This Initiative
The Burma Project/Southeast Asia Initiative focuses on open society issues throughout Southeast Asia, particularly in Burma but also in other countries where essential freedoms are threatened.  more

Reading Burma: A Benefit for Cyclone Relief and Freedom of Expression in Burma/Myanmar
New York City
September 23, 2008
 SLIDESHOW    AUDIO
PEN, the OSI Burma Project, and The New York Review of Books honored Burmese writers whose work has been suppressed by the military regime and to support the victims of the recent cyclone.  more

Burma's Agony: The International Humanitarian Response
Asia Society
June 9, 2008
 AUDIO
The Open Society Institute along with the Asia Society convened a panel discussion to assess the situation in Burma after Cyclone Nargis.  more

The Crisis in Burma: In Search of a Unified International Response
New York City
March 25, 2008
 AUDIO
Asia Society and the Open Society Institute convened a panel discussion to revisit the situation in Burma in light of the military government's recently announced "roadmap to democracy."  more

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Learning to Listen: A Manual for Oral History Projects
May 2008
Learning to Listen, produced by OSI grantee The Green Centre, for Non-Western Art is a manual to develop oral history and oral testimony projects with people in or from Burma. more

Disaster: Six Days After Nargis, Burma's Junta Continues to Block International Aid
May 9, 2008
This report on Cyclone Nargis by Burma Project/Southeast Asia Initiative grantee the Alternative Asean Network on Burma explores the chronology of the worst cyclone disaster to hit Asia since 1991. more

more publications & articles

Nargis Victims Continue to Suffer Under Burma's Military Regime
May 29, 2008
After almost a month since Cyclone Nargis slammed into southern Burma, the UN says that less than 25 percent of the survivors have had access to relief aid. more

OSI Grantee Captures Star-Power to Raise Awareness of the Human Rights Crisis in Burma
May 1, 2008
The U.S. Campaign for Burma is participating in the public service campaign, Burma: It Can't Wait, which uses Hollywood stars in a new web vignette each day to garner public attention and support for Burma’s democracy movement. more

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