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Period Panties Protest

Charlotte Hilton Andersen | Posted 06.09.2008 | Living


Charlotte Hilton Andersen

I always knew my undies were powerful. In college someone went to the trouble of breaking into my apartment to steal them. (Side story: the perp wa...

Myanmar: Why You Won't Be Going There Anytime Soon

Richard Walden | Posted 05.23.2008 | Politics


Richard Walden

The Generals in charge of Myanmar, isolated from world opinion as they may be, are intent on achieving "Failed State" status with or without a cyclone disaster.

Myanmar Junta Continues To Arrest Scores Of People

Reuters | Aung Hla Tun | Posted 10.04.2007 | Home


Despite gradually easing its iron grip on Myanmar's main city on Thursday, the junta continued to round up scores of people and grill hundreds more ar...

Myanmar's Monks Show the Way

Joe Robinson | Posted 09.26.2007 | Politics


Joe Robinson

Anyone sick of the endless rhetoric about bravery should take a look at the real thing -- the extraordinary uprising by the monks of Myanmar.

Junta Threatens Myanmar Monks

The Guardian (U.K.) | Ian MacKinnon | Posted 09.24.2007 | Home


Burma's military rulers last night threatened to "take action' after up to 100,000 demonstrators protesting against the regime flooded the streets of ...

Myanmar Buddhist Monks Spearhead Largest Protests Against Junta In Two Decades

AP | Posted 09.23.2007 | Home


About 20,000 protesters led by Buddhist monks and nuns on Sunday mounted the largest anti-government protest in Myanmar since a failed 1988 democratic...