A Burmese Christmas: a last-minute gift recommendation
The Independent Weekly - Adam Sobsey - 22 hours agoThe thing is, Burma was already a disaster of epic magnitude when Nargis hit. ... and one that is highly recommended around the Christmas season. ...Christmas with China: Jintao Bells
Financial Times (blog) - Henry Mance - 5 hours agoThat reminds me, we've heard that it's customary to do a Christmas crib. ... North Korea and Burma, you've both been exceedingly naughty this year, ...
Karen family counts its blessings
Langley AdvanceNews - Heather Colpitts - 1 hour agoFor the Karen, Christmas centred around church and family. ... remnant of more than a century of British colonial rule in the country formerly called Burma. ...Chins up at Christmas
Malaysia Star - Cheryl Poo - 1 day agoIt's the year-end Christmas party where six refugee schools have combined ... In Myanmar, where the Burmese – or Bamar – represent the majority race and the ...
New Canadians receive Christmas hampers in Regina
NewsTalk650 - Patrick Book - 1 day agoRefugees from countries like Iraq and Burma are making new homes in Regina, but coming to a new country almost nothing means Christmas can be hard to ...An Angry Anti-Christmas at School
Town Hall - 12 hours agoThe metaphor "the War on Christmas" can be mocked -- as if Santa and his ... In Burma, some Christians will spend the holidays risking their lives to being ...
In defence of monarchy
New Statesman (blog) - Sholto Byrnes - 8 hours agoI, on the other hand, will not be watching the Queen's Christmas Message. ... The fate of neighbouring Burma might well have been different in the decades ...
Christmas Eve services mark faith celebrations this week
Chapel Hill News - 2 days ago... whose members are from a tribal group from Burma. On Christmas Eve, United Church of Chapel Hill, 1321 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., will have a 4 pm ...Sunny Christmas a unique experience for new Logan residents
Quest News - Kate Wilcock - 2 days agoTam Leh said normally they'd be wearing big jackets as it's winter in Burma and usually don traditional garments for Christmas day. ...
Home for Christmas: Burmese refugee family celebrates first ...
PNW Local News - Laura Pierce - 15 Dec 2010This year's Christmas celebration will involve something from both worlds as ... Burma, also known as the Myanmar Republic, is located in Southeast Asia. ...Catholic Charities Holds Annual Holiday Dinner
NewsChannel5.com - 4 days agoThe refugees are from six different countries including Burma and Iraq. And for many, it's their first Christmas celebration in the United States. ...US Embassy: American cemetery closed on Dec 25, Jan 1
GMANews.TV - 13 hours agoIn observance of Christmas Day and New Year's Day, the Manila American Cemetery ... of the American armed forces in the Pacific, China, India, and Burma. ...Seeking the Cold Truth About Burma
The Irrawaddy News Magazine - Yan Naing - 2 days ago... me from the railroad station through streets hung with Christmas decorations to the ... The demonstrations were peaceful—unlike Burma's own uprising the ...
Plan for more refugees rejected
The Australian - Stefanie Balogh - Michael Owen - 1 day ago... from specific hot spots, such as the Thai-Burma border and parts of Africa. ... The Christmas... Island Detention Centre, which has an official capacity ofVery berry Christmas
Tasmania Mercury - Blair Richards - 2 days agoOUR insatiable appetite for fresh berries at Christmas time has Tasmania's ... 25 refugees from Bhutan and Burma have also joined the picking this week. ...
Immigrants mix old and new for first Christmas in America
San Diego Union Tribune - Matthew T. Hall - Morgan Lee - 5 days agoChristmas means many things to many people in many ... Pau Pau, now 29, left Burma as a 5-year-old boy with his family, ...When pixels, bytes and VJs unite
Democratic Voice of Burma - Maung Zarni - 4 days agoHere is a glimpse of how Sen views Burma's sorry state of affairs: “Ninth, there has to be .... at which Daw Suu shouted back, “Merry Christmas from me too! ...Magnum Photos at Christmas: Chris Steele-Perkins
PhotoRadar - 2 days agoBorn in Rangoon, Burma, in 1947, Chris Steele-Perkins moved to London with his ...Christmas images and ... Here he shares with PhotoRadar one of his favourite
Good present for Christmas
The Star - 29 Nov 2010It's an unusual mix of campaigns and Christmas shopping but it works. Even better, Aung San Suu Kyi was released from house arrest in Burma during the fair. ...2010: a quake, a meltdown, a dramatic rescue
Daily Times - Marcus Eliason - 20 hours agoThe year 2009 had closed in the shadow of the so-called Christmas Day bomber, ... Politics: In Myanmar, also called Burma, democracy campaigner and Nobel ...Cyclone Giri Christmas Appeal for Burma
Shan Herald Agency for News - 3 Dec 2010Christmas is a time when families reunite, to share meals together and enjoy ... 2010, cyclone Giri hit Arakan (Rakhine) state in Western Burma (Myanmar). ...Meat supplier locks out workers
Sydney Morning Herald - Ben Schneiders - 1 day ago... many of whom were from Sudan or Burma, wanted to stick it out. ... Mr Kennedy said a strike fund had been established and Christmas presents had been ...Meat supplier locks out workers - Borglobe
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Gingerbread generosity
Manawatu Standard - Judith Lacy - 2 days agoSWEET CHARITY: The Dekker family has made more than 80 gingerbread houses for Christmas to help children in Burma. From left, Monique, 17, Erica 9, ...
A Time for Euphoria and Realism
The Irrawaddy News Magazine - Aung Naing - 11 Dec 2010I was carrying an A4 size Christmas card from Vaclav Havel, the president ... Two weeks earlier, I had visited Prague with leaders of Burma's pro-democracy ...Burmese refugees' Christmas story
Eureka Street - Duncan MacLaren - 12 Dec 2010In the lead-up to Christmas, the contrast is striking. In Ranong, through an open door, I see a Burmese woman in the lotus position meditating and ...
Lily Cole spearheads charity Christmas appeal for Burmese refugees
Small world News Service - 29 Nov 2010Actress and model Lily Cole has spearheaded a charity Christmas appeal by visiting a huge refugee camp on the Burmese border. Lily, 22, spent four days at ...Lily Cole visits Burmese refugees - The Press Association
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Belarus may seem a far away country, but we have to confront ...
The Guardian - 1 day agoHappy Christmas? Not for Belarus. Grandfather Frost, the Russosphere ... I have lamented India's failure to influence things for the better in Burma. ...
Memorial for victims of boat wreck
The Press Association - 5 days agoA memorial service has been held on Australia's Christmas Island for the victims ...Burma. ... many asylum seekers have come from Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq andChristmas Island asylum seeker death toll believed to be 48 - The Guardian
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If I Were A Market-Timer I'd Say "It's Time To Get The Hell Out Of ...
The Business Insider - 15 hours agoWalt was known for sneaking into Myanmar in the bottom of a boat where, if discovered, ... Then they will start in other countries like Burma and Vietnam. ...
POW CHIEF JAILED AS IMPOSTER
Veterans Today Network - Gordon Duff - 23 hours ago... Christmas behind bars after admitting his war service claim was a lie. ... on the notorious Thai-Burma Railway alongside 13000 other Australian POWs. ...What better way to ring in the New Year and reach out to your ...
Syracuse.com (blog) - Dick Case - 1 day ago... Christmas pageant this past Sunday that had about 50 participants, including a number of refugees from Burma (Myanmar) with English-speaking parts. ...
SBI donates Christmas gifts to Sisterhood Network
MorungExpress - 13 Dec 2010... gifted to inmates of Sisterhood Network, Burma Camp, Dimapur on December 2. ... and Christmas gifts to the inmates of Sisterhood Network at Burma Camp, ...Elevenses - The Burmese dictator who wanted to buy United
Football.co.uk (blog) - 7 Dec 2010... leading off with the story linked Burma's dictator to a bid for the club. ... United have planned a James Bond themed party for their Christmas doo. ...
Amari Backs Phuket; 'Death Ode' Halts Tsunami Film; Mice Boost for ...
Phuketwan - 18 hours ago''We will celebrate Christmas Mass in our church,'' Father Bartholomeus Gatot ... first 'Finding George Orwell in Burma' and now 'Everything Is Broken,' are ...2010: A quake, a meltdown, a dramatic rescue
Fox News - 2 days agoThe year 2009 had closed in the shadow of the so-called Christmas Day bomber, ...Myanmar, also called Burma, democracy campaigner and Nobel Peace Prize ... In
Myanmar priest serving in Kansas named bishop of his home diocese
Catholic San Francisco - Doug Weller - 8 Dec 2010The new bishop, 61, will leave his parishes shortly after Christmas to return to Myanmar, also known as Burma. He is among four priests from Myanmar serving ...My Book of the Year: The literati name names
Globe and Mail - 19 hours ago... three decades until the fateful Christmas eve of 2008 when, heartbreakingly, ....Burmese ... On the non-fiction side, Karen Connelly's lush witness in
Christmas on our Island
Sydney Star Observer - 3 days agoLast week a boat crashed onto the razor sharp cliffs off Christmas Island. ... Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Morocco, Mozambique, Burma, Namibia, Niger, ...Lily Cole: My visit to a Burmese refugee camp
The Guardian - 27 Nov 2010The Karenni are from the Karenni state of Burma and have a distinct cultural ....Christmas Appeal highlights the plight of tens of millions ... Christian Aid'sLTTS Photo Gallery: Lily Cole Visits Burmese Refugees - Look To The Stars
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REM Records Christmas Single from Phil Spector's Catalog
RollingStone.com - Jem Aswad - 10 Dec 2010REM have accumulated a number of fan-club-only Christmas ... cover of a non-Christmas song (by artists ranging from Mission of Burma to George ...Fake war veteran sent to jail
Sydney Morning Herald - 3 days agoAN ELDERLY man will spend Christmas behind bars for lying about being a prisoner of ... by the Japanese and sent to work on the Thai-Burma Death Railway. ...POW chief jailed as impostor - The Australian
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Presents for pilgrims
Sydney Morning Herald - Ben Groundwater - 5 days agoSeeking last-minute Christmas present ideas for the traveller in your life? .... Aung San Suu Kyi hopefully means democracy may be on the horizon for Burma. ...The Lady of Rangoon
France24 (blog) - 4 days agoSome angles are upbeat: Brits can bet on a White Christmas, Germans will have ... That, and a biopic to look forward on the life of Burma's pro-democracy ...Christmas brings faiths together in Bendigo
Bendigo Advertiser - Karen Sweeney - 12 Dec 2010“We did prayers and talked about Christmas and I compared the Christmas ideas ... peace in Burma will be said and children will be ordained as novice monks. ...Christmas Books: WAR
Daily Mail - Peter Lewis - 16 Dec 2010Those like him, taken prisoner when Singapore fell, vanished into the jungle as a ghost army of slave labourers on the Burma railway which claimed the lives ...
Teen sisters to help orphans in Myanmar
Lake Zurich Courier - Matt Kiefer - 7 Dec 2010They leave Christmas morning. "I was sad that we're missing Christmas and leaving ... The agency focuses on bringing aid to Myanmar (formerly called Burma), ...NPF youth wing celebrate advent Christmas with children's home
MorungExpress - 11 Dec 2010... Front's Dimapur Division (NPF) celebrated advent Christmas with the children of St. Joseph's Children's Home, Burma Camp on Saturday, December 11. ...Refugees Enjoy A Holiday Celebration
KPHO Phoenix - 12 Dec 2010PHOENIX -- Nearly 600 Burmese refugee children went home with a bicycle as an early Christmas... present. Physicians with the Arizona Pain Foundation hostedGap years: What not to do on your year out
Telegraph.co.uk - Guy Stagg - 15 Dec 2010... London to a jungle jail in Burma for his year out. ... You know it is Christmas when designer shops and department stores are suddenly filled with ...No place like new home for the holidays
San Antonio Express - Vincent T. Davis - 3 Dec 2010Sein Aye and her daughter Eh Doh Paw of Burma pose for a portrait. Min That Lia of BurmaChristmas song with other children. ... performs aRefugee family gets new home
Omaha World-Herald - Jane Palmer - 16 Dec 2010... an ethnic minority in Myanmar (Burma) called Karen (pronounced kuh-REN). ... Church members have already shopped for Christmas presents for the family. ...The real Upstairs Downstairs
Independent - Luxmy Gopalakrishnan - 5 days agoBBC1 has pinned its Christmas hopes on reviving the programme, ... Langton, went on to play Earl Mountbatten of Burma in Charles and Diana: A Royal Love ...Glazers ready to sell Man United?
ESPN STAR Sports - 2 days agoChristmas might have come a little early for Manchester United fans opposed to the ... United have even been a takeover target for Burma's military junta, ...
SA plays Father Christmas to Socialism
Leadership Magazine - 13 Dec 2010... to do with Christmas given Cuba's communist orientation - the government ... the Students Democratic Front of Burma, the Communist Youth League of China ...Christian Aid recruits Lily Cole to highlight treatment of refugees
Ekklesia - 5 Dec 2010They point out that, for over 60 years, the conflict in eastern Burma has ... cause and I'm very proud to be supporting Christian Aid's Christmas appeal.”DORCHESTER: Sending messages of hope this Christmas
View Online - Anita Harries - 16 Dec 2010Christmas is a busy time, but shoppers and visitors alike were encouraged to ... This year they were highlighting people in Burma, China, Greece, Syria, ...
If Jesus was born in September, we celebrate the wrong miracle at ...
Telegraph.co.uk - 15 Dec 2010SIR – Has anyone else noticed that about one in six Christmas cards is coming ... This was a man who during the war, on our behalf, in Burma, had killed 31 ...Books Holiday Gift Guide
Ottawa Citizen - 12 Dec 2010A page from The Night Before Christmas a new version of the poem by Clement C. ..... journeyed extensively in the Sudan, Burma, India and the Far East. ...Feature: Farmers Day: Beyond The Fanfare, What Next?
Myjoyonline.com - 8 Dec 2010The end came when the President of the Republic was enjoying the Christmas/New Year with soldiers at the Burma Camp. Events following that day could best be ...Warm help in a cold climate
Omaha World-Herald - Todd von Kampen - 6 Dec 2010Check out 28 Karen-speaking pupils from Myanmar (formerly Burma) who now have ...Christmas. ... Goodfellows took in a record $575048 during the drive lastThe G2 Quiz of 2010 Answers
The Guardian - 1 day agoMerry Christmas. 8 Zombies (in a bonus stage for the game Call of Duty: ... 26 The leader of Burma's military junta. 27 A member of the Saudi royal family. ...Sailing from hell to heaven: despair for an ivory tower
E-Bangladesh - Rubayat Ahsan - 17 Dec 2010... the rough sea of Christmas island just two weeks before the Christmas event. ... Burma is a well-known place where generals and their relatives should ...Tourists Die in Bus Crash; Heathrow No Winter Wonderland; Phuket ...
Phuketwan - 3 days ago... remain in a state of partial paralysis beyond Christmas, its owner admitted, ... tank. abc.net.au Australia has appointed a new ambassador to Burma. ...Briefly In Religion
Coastline Pilot - 2 Dec 2010... Church will hold its sixth annual Alternative Christmas Market from 11 am to ... solar cookers for Darfur refugees, dolls for refugee children in Burma, ...Five of the best: Holiday activities
New Zealand Herald - 4 days ago... End. Photo / Supplied Everybody's thoughts are on Christmas this week, ... Sometimes Burma... will squirt water over herself and, although I've never seenFrank Kingdon-Ward: British explorer's achievements highlighted
Shan Herald Agency for News - Reinhard Hohler - 6 Dec 2010Later he reached Liuku on his way back to Rangoon in Burma, where the boat ... Laza and the “confluence” he reached Myitkyina just in time for Christmas. ...Katy Joe DeSantis / The State News
MSU State News - Emily Wilkins - 7 Dec 2010A refugee from Burma, Kilo came from a culture where the police were the enemy, ...Christmas or not, the kids don't buy solely for themselves. ... But
Christmas trees galore
Townsville Bulletin - Mary Vernon - 6 Dec 2010It's the grand opening of the Tropical Talent 2010 Christmas exhibition featuring work ... It's a documentary called Burma VJ and is about the 2007 Saffron ...
What's the perfect Christmas present?
Bay Post/Moruya Examiner (blog) - Sally Foy - 14 Dec 2010On the topic of Christmas presents my editor had a brainwave last year (it ... hang up and make similar calls to the leaders of Burma and North Korea for ...Independent Appeal: The children who hunger for food and knowledge
Independent - Andrew Buncombe - 7 Dec 2010In Burma, where they have lived in the western state of Arakan for hundreds ... the beneficiaries of this year's Independent Christmas Appeal – is hoping to ...Winter Romance
Bangkok Post - 14 Dec 2010... Golden Triangle for the obligatory photo-op of you pointing at Laos and Burma. ...Christmas approaches (and you may have noticed the optimistic ... And as
GAFFNEY: Just say no to New START
Washington Times - Frank J. Gaffney Jr. - 3 days ago... right before Christmas a dangerous New START nuclear arms treaty with Russia. ... China, North Korea, Iran, Syria, Burma and Venezuela are among those ...
Wednesday, December 22
eTaiwan News - 14 Dec 2010... raid Japanese-occupied Rangoon, Burma _ now Myanmar, in World War II. ... 1995 - As thousands cheer, Yasser Arafat's wife lights the Christmas tree in ...Yo La Tengo's Hanukkah shows power ahead despite minor injury
Patch - Mark Maurer - 6 Dec 2010Mission of Burma, The Daily Show's Wyatt Cenac and an audience member from ... at a maximum-security prison on Christmas, as per his mother's request. ...Smile! It's that time of year
Lansdale Reporter - Suzanne Stanley - 2 Dec 2010F The 52nd annual Souderton Christmas Parade starts at 11 am ..... lucite, furnace glass, Czech glass, Burma Jade, jewelry and more. ...People and events
Sunday Times.lk - 4 days agoWhile her parents are from Sri Lanka, Meera was born in Burma and currently ... in keeping with tradition, on Christmas Eve, Friday, December 24 at 6 pm The ...A big day for Jacki Weaver
Sydney Morning Herald - Matt Buchanan - Leesha McKenny - 13 Dec 2010... Korea curled up in a nuclear bed with the Burmese junta - and a story that was ...Christmas drinks. ... equally unwelcome sobriquet: the Grinch who stopped
Handel's Messiah welcomes singers for charity
Network Norwich - 30 Nov 2010The concert is supporting Christian Aid's Christmas appeal, which is focussed on Burmese refugees, sheltering far from home along the Thai border. ...
Ice, Snow Strand Many; 'The Lady' Filmed in Secret in Thailand ...
Phuketwan - 4 days ago... which is forging closer relations with Burma's generals. ... afp A luxury hotel in Abu Dhabi which unveiled a Christmas tree decorated with jewels ...
Flint remembers past Christmases
Albany Herald On-line - Jim Hendricks - 4 Dec 2010I was over in New Dehli and Burma — I tried to get the supply sergeant to get me 100 Christmas... tree lights. You know, the old colored bulbs.Nobel Peace Prize Is Bittersweet for Jailed Dissident
TIME - Ishaan Tharoor - Austin Ramzy - 10 Dec 2010Nineteen years later — with military rule still entrenched in Burma — Sejersted ... Liu was sentenced last Christmas to an 11-year prison term for "inciting ...China's Nobel Winner: A No-Show That Speaks Volumes - TIME
Chinese dissident awarded Nobel Peace Prize - The New American
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Phuketwan - 11 Dec 2010... Stockholm district full of Christmas shoppers could have been catastrophic, ... his reported claims that: Burma's neighbors, including China and India, ...
Oprah house
The Australian (blog) - James Jeffrey - 14 Dec 2010... curled up in a nuclear bed with the Burmese junta - and a story that was told in ... especially now her Christmas cards are heading out into the world. ...US Senate To Begin Formal Debate On New START Treaty
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty - 15 Dec 2010... through the Christmas holiday to deal with New START and other legislation. ...Burma," Lugar said. ... be greeted with delight in Iran, North Korea, Syria,
Independent Appeal: The school giving beach beggars a ray of hope
Independent - Andrew Buncombe - 15 Dec 2010Stretching more than 100 miles south to the border with Burma, ... For our Christmas Appeal this year we have chosen three charities which support ...The Irish Times - Friday, December 10, 2010
Irish Times - Laura Slattery - 9 Dec 2010... a sluggish start to Christmas trading and a bigger-than-expected 6 per ... Political football: The ruler of Burma, Than Shwe, considered making a $1 ...
There's The Rub : Rebels / Conrado De Quiros
Inquirer.net - Conrado de Quiros - 13 Dec 2010We have become only next to Burma in sheer backwardness, ... badgering cars for attention, cajoling with threat or Christmas song for coins, ...Expat Scamster Held on Phuket; Phuket-India Direct On the Way ...
Phuketwan - 27 Nov 2010... told she had to cancel a luxury Christmas break in Thailand, it was claimed. ...Burma ... Associated Press Freedom of speech for MPs in military controlled
Chill gives way to warmth
The Spokesman Review - 11 Dec 2010The Christmas Bureau is paid for with donations by newspaper readers. It's organized by Catholic ...Burma and Rick Williams, of Spokane, donated $300. ...Human Rights Around the Globe Still Uneven
Voice of America - Selah Hennessy - 9 Dec 2010In Asia, Pakistan, Myanmar [Burma], Afghanistan, North Korea and China get the ... but most importantly I want him back for Christmas - that's all I ask for."Sale – Up to 30 % Off on Princess Daphne's First Asia Cruises this ...
e-Travel Blackboard (press release) - 30 Nov 2010Princess Daphne's nine-night, round-trip Christmas cruise sailing from ... 2011, to the Andaman Islands in India, Yangon in Myanmar (Burma), Phuket, ...The Long Journey Home
American Spectator - John R. Coyne, Jr. - 16 Dec 2010Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, a few days later, were always an ... as a foreign correspondent in North Korea, Burma, the Congo, China, Eastern Europe, ...China exports post strong growth in Q3 2010
Global Sources - 30 Nov 2010Seasonal orders for Halloween and Christmas have been shipped earlier than in ... for motorcycles during the period were Nigeria, Argentina and Burma. ...
Progress in cure for Alzheimer's
Herald.ie - 29 Nov 2010The model and actress visited a camp on the Thailand-Burma border, ... (22) made the trip as part of her role fronting Christian Aid's Christmas appeal, ...Michigan mail-order gifts
Detroit Free Press - 2 Dec 2010... baklava, Burma circles, royal twisted finger bites and half moon crunch. ... You could splurge on the Christmas Goodies gift box for $100. ...Secondary Sources: Crisis Causes, Charity, Facebook's Iron Curtain
Wall Street Journal (blog) - Phil Izzo - 16 Dec 2010... and family for Christmas, this column asks why we bother to give anything at all. ... along with other adjacent autocracies like Burma and North Korea, ...Quit work to help your man? So says a controversial new book..
Sydney Morning Herald (blog) - 4 days agoI'm on the plane to Burma tomorrow folks, and it will be my 6th overseas trip this year. .... Oh well, Merry Christmas to all that is stuffed.
Marcos told this reporter he had a mission from God
Inquirer.net - Fernando del Mundo - 15 Dec 2010... country among the breadbasket cases of Asia, along with Bangladesh and Burma. .... The traditional Christmas party in Malacañang was called off for the ...Don't quote me on that
The Lawyer - 13 Dec 2010De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek's Christmas murder mystery weekend was a real ... Bill Perlstein after being asked what his law firm has in common with Burma. ...Emmaus Church Reaches Around the World from Albany
The Chronicle - 7 Dec 2010... its multicultural flair Saturday when it celebrated Christmas Around the World. ... from Burma, Haiti, Rwanda, Pakistan, Congo, Iraq, India, and China. ...
Dec 24, 2010
MYANMAR (BURMA) CHRISTMAS
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