Feed: The Guardian | Search phrase: aung san suu kyi | Than Shwe and other generals quit military to apparently ensure they stay in charge as civilians after November electionsBurma's reclusive and ailing dictator, Than Shwe, has resigned his military post, exiled Burmese media have reported, paving the way for him to become president in Burma's government after the elections.Shwe, the despot who has brutally ruled south-east Asia's poorest country as commander-in-chief of the armed forces since 1992, yesterday handed control of the army to his adjutant general. However, the 77-year-old will remain head of the Burmese government.More than a dozen other senior military officers also resigned, in an ominous sign for the country's forthcoming elections.
Feed: The Guardian | Search phrase: aung san suu kyi | Volunteers detained after Amnesty and Greenpeace invite U2 fans to sign petitions at band's first gig in RussiaIt had seemed like a relationship that was destined to be long and even meaningful, but now it appears to have gone wrong very quickly.Against a balmy Black Sea backdrop, U2's frontman, Bono, and Russia's president, Dmitry Medvedev, had swapped views on poverty, ecology and music on Tuesday.Bono even made fun of Medvedev's devotion to Deep Purple. "I come here to cross the great divide between me, a Led Zeppelin fan and you, the Deep Purple fan," Bono joked, strolling next to Russia's leader at his summer residence.A day later, U2's first concert in Russia ended in political controversy.
Feed: WAPO | Search phrase: aung san suu kyi | BURMA The Burmese government will hold the country's first elections in 20 years on Nov. 7 despite growing international criticism.
Feed: Independent | Search phrase: aung san suu kyi | Burma's ruling junta set Sunday 7 November as the date for the country's first election in two decades yesterday, but made no concessions to critics who say the rules favour the army and its allies and bar the democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi from taking part.
Feed: WAPO | Search phrase: aung san suu kyi | BANGKOK -- The Burmese government will hold the country's first elections in 20 years on Nov. 7 despite an increasingly vocal chorus of international criticism.
Feed: The Guardian | Search phrase: aung san suu kyi | Military junta announces date of first election in Burma in 20 years amid international criticism that poll will be not be fairBurma will hold its first elections in two decades on 7 November, the ruling military junta has announced, amid growing international criticism that the poll will be neither free nor fair.In a brief statement, the regime announced on national television only that "multi-party general elections for the country's parliament will be held on Sunday, 7 November".The poll presents a massive logistical challenge for authorities who have less than three months to organise nationwide polls for a country of more than 50 million people, separated by mountains, poor roads, and resistance armies, during Burma's wet season.
Feed: The Guardian | Search phrase: aung san suu kyi | Burma is soon to hold its first election since 1990, but it looks set to be a farce that will embarrass the regionBy the end of this year, Burma will be holding its first election in two decades. This southeast Asian nation has been in the grip of the military government since 1962.The military government has yet to announce the exact date, while there are rumours that the election could be held on 10 October, in conformity with the Burmese generals' superstitious beliefs about numbers, that if it is held on 10/10/10 it could bring them victory.In the last election witnessed by the country in May 1990, the now-dissolved National League for Democracy (NLD) – a party led by the Nobel peace prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi – won a landslide majority of 392 seats out of 492 seats.
Feed: The Guardian | Search phrase: aung san suu kyi | Perhaps Birmingham wasn't such a bad place for the postponed debut of the latest member of the Bhutto clan to enter politicsIt was always an unlikely location for the crown prince of Pakistan to be formally presented to his nation. Birmingham is a long way from the bustle of Karachi, the bazaars of Peshawar or the barracks of Rawalpindi.But it was in the Midlands city that President Asif Ali Zardari, the current leader of Pakistan, was supposed to watch over the political coming out of his son Bilawal today.In the event, the investiture of the 21-year-old scion of the Bhutto dynasty was postponed – due to the humanitarian crisis back home in Pakistan. But that it will one day take place seems inevitable. The south Asian dynasties remain strong.
Feed: The Guardian | Search phrase: aung san suu kyi | Than Shwe aims to deepen nations' ties with visit starting at Buddhist pilgrimage site of Bodh GayaBurma's military leader, Than Shwe, arrived in India today for a controversial five-day visit aimed at deepening ties between the neighbouring countries and gaining international legitimacy for elections he is expected to call in less than three months.Shwe, who heads the military junta that has ruled Burma for nearly five decades, began his tour at Bodh Gaya, in Bihar, east India, one of the world's most important sites of Buddhist pilgrimage. He then went to several Buddhist temples in Kushinagar.Burmese government sources were quoted by Indian media as describing the trip as "religious in nature".
Feed: The Guardian | Search phrase: aung san suu kyi | - Former leaders' daughters join new political party - Credible democratic system 'a decade away'A lifetime of frustration in Burmese politics has not wearied Cho Cho Kyaw Nyein. Her years as a political prisoner have not blunted her sense of humour."Some people call us the 'three princesses of Burma', but to the government, we are the three witches," she laughs as, free now, she walks through the gardens of her once stately, now crumbling colonial home on a hilltop in the Burmese capital.The "princesses" – she, Nay Ye Ba Swe, and Mya Than Than Nu – are too old for fairytales, she says, and the appellation she still finds faintly humorous.
Feed: CNN Top Stories | Search phrase: aung san suu kyi | A former aide to detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been released from a prison in northern Myanmar after spending more than 20 years behind bars, officials said Friday.
Feed: Independent | Search phrase: aung san suu kyi | The party of the detained Burmese democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is in dispute with a breakaway faction over the use of a bamboo hat symbol in an election due this year.
Feed: CNN Top Stories | Search phrase: aung san suu kyi | Demonstrators worldwide plan to show their support for Aung San Suu Kyi at rallies celebrating the pro-democracy leader's 65th birthday. Suu Kyi has spent 14 of the past 20 years under house arrest in Myanmar.
Feed: BBC World | Search phrase: aung san suu kyi | Supporters of Burma's detained opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, are set to mark her 65th birthday.
Feed: CNN Top Stories | Search phrase: aung san suu kyi | On the eve of her 65th birthday, British Foreign Office ministers call for the immediate and unconditional release of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
Feed: Independent | Search phrase: aung san suu kyi | One thing is certain about Aung San Suu Kyi's 65th birthday tomorrow – it will rain. This is the monsoon season in Burma and each day brings a torrential downpour. After years of decline, her dilapidated lakeside villa in Rangoon – where she has spent 15 of the last 21 years under house arrest – is finally being renovated.
Feed: Independent | Search phrase: aung san suu kyi | As Aung San Suu Kyi prepares to celebrate her 65th birthday tomorrow, confined in the house in which she has spent most of the past two decades, a confidante of the Burmese opposition leader has made a simple but passionate appeal to those in the West to use their freedom to help his country achieve the same.
Feed: The Guardian | Search phrase: aung san suu kyi | Burmese pro-democracy leader and Nobel laureate's family life in Britain is depicted in photographs released for her 65th birthday - View all the previously unseen Aung San Suu Kyi photographsShe is known to the world as a human rights activist who has spent 14 of the last 20 years under house arrest as punishment for demanding democracy in her home country. But in these photographs Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi is shown not as the fearless campaigner who has given up her liberty for the sake of her nation, but as a young woman in love and a doting mother.Many of these pictures come from the private collection of her late husband, the Oxford academic Michael Aris, who died from prostate cancer in 1999.
Feed: The Guardian | Search phrase: aung san suu kyi | Previously unseen photographs of the Burmese human rights activist, who turns 65 on Saturday and remains under house arrest in Rangoon
Feed: The Guardian | Search phrase: aung san suu kyi | The two declared an armistice in 1953 but signed no treaty – so the assassinations, firefights and tough diplomacy go onNorth and South Korea are still in a state of war technically because they never signed a peace treaty after an armistice ended the 1950-53 conflict.Since the war in which hundreds of thousands died – the exact number remains unclear – relations between the two countries have been jolted by violent incidents. The latest – the alleged sinking of a South Korean warship by a North Korean submarine – is by no means the most blatant act of aggression from Pyongyang.In January 1968, a team of North Korean commandos crossed the demilitarised zone – one of the world's most heavily militarised areas – in an attempt to kill Park Chung-hee, the South Korean president.
Feed: Independent | Search phrase: aung san suu kyi | The Burmese opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, has reacted with surprising anger to the decision of her former colleagues to form a breakaway party and contest the upcoming polls.
Feed: NYT | Search phrase: aung san suu kyi | A senior U.S. diplomat met with Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, three days after her party disbanded in defiance of election laws established by the ruling military junta.
Feed: BBC World | Search phrase: aung san suu kyi | A senior US diplomat meets Burma's detained democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, amid concern over planned elections.
Feed: Independent | Search phrase: aung san suu kyi | A faction of Aung San Suu Kyi's opposition declared yesterday it will form its own political party to contest Myanmar's first elections in two decades, a day after the democracy icon's party disbanded to boycott the vote it says will be flawed.
Feed: The Guardian | Search phrase: aung san suu kyi | Faction of dissolved National League for Democracy that disagreed with boycott says it will register candidacy this monthA faction of Burma's pro-democracy opposition movement said today that it will form a new political party to contest this year's elections.The announcement came a day after the forced dissolution of the National League for Democracy, which won Burma's last election in 1990 but was prevented from taking power by the army.The League declined to register for this year's vote, claiming that new election laws were unfair and undemocratic. Its non-registration was tantamount to an election boycott.However, a group of League members who disagreed with the boycott said they would form their own party, the National Democratic Force.
Feed: WAPO | Search phrase: aung san suu kyi | BANGKOK -- The Burmese pro-democracy party of Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi chose to disband Thursday rather than recognize a government edict formally nullifying the party's victory in 1990 elections.
Feed: NYT | Search phrase: aung san suu kyi | The party of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the imprisoned opposition leader, dissolved itself in an act of defiance in advance of a Parliamentary election which it deems undemocratic.
Feed: BBC World | Search phrase: aung san suu kyi | The pro-democracy party of Aung San Suu Kyi is to disband when a registration deadline for Burma's elections expires at midnight.
Feed: Independent | Search phrase: aung san suu kyi | In a small but significant legal victory, detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has won the right to repair the crumbling house in which she is held – overcoming opposition from her brother.
Feed: Independent | Search phrase: aung san suu kyi | This week, more than 21 years after Burma's National League for Democracy sprang to life on a wave of opposition to military rule, it will cease to exist, the dreams of its founders still unrealised, and its leader Aung San Suu Kyi in long-term detention.
Feed: The Guardian | Search phrase: aung san suu kyi | Aung San Suu Kyi does not stand alone. Let's show our support for Zarganar and the thousands persecuted by a brutal juntaNext Monday afternoon a small demonstration in Trafalgar Square will draw attention to the desperate situation of a talented writer with a wicked sense of humour lying sick and isolated in a cell in the northern part of his country, imprisoned solely for questioning and satirising his country's regime.Not tempted to read on? Briefly imagine the prosecution and long-term imprisonment of the cartoonist Steve Bell or the comedy writer Armando Iannucci for satirical works, or the singer Billy Bragg for inappropriate activism, and you begin to grasp both the significance and madness of this situation.
Feed: The Guardian | Search phrase: aung san suu kyi | Head of the armed forces to remain most powerful figure with key ministries still under military controlMore than 20 members of Burma's ruling junta have resigned from the army in what is widely seen as a bid to run as civilians in forthcoming elections and thereby prolong military control.The prime minister, General Thein Sein, and 22 other cabinet ministers were reported to have given up their uniforms on Monday. No official reason was given, but observers said the move was a precursor to running for election.No date has been given for the vote, which will be the country's first in two decades, but it is generally expected to take place in October or November.
Feed: The Guardian | Search phrase: aung san suu kyi | Thxa Soe's music gives country's youth a focus for dissatisfaction with the junta despite strict censorshipThey know every word. Boys, bare-chested and sweating in the April heat. Girls clutching digital cameras, their faces streaked with paste to protect them from the sun. They answer the call-and-response lines with increasing excitement. By the time Thxa Soe reaches the chorus, the crowd have taken over. With fists pumping the air, they roar his words back at him.This is a summer music festival, soaked in alcohol and drenched in sweat, the same as anywhere. But this is Burma, and nothing is the same here.The barricades keeping the audience from the stage are ordinarily used to control rioters. They are ringed with razor wire.
Feed: Asia Times | Search phrase: aung san suu kyi | Aung San Suu KyiÂ's National League for Democracy's decision to boycott MyanmarÂ's planned general elections deprives some 27 million people of the chance to vote for the political party that has come to symbolize democratic hopes. ItÂ's a damning indictment of MyanmarÂ's first parliamentary poll in two decades, but could be playing right into the generalsÂ' hands.
Feed: NYT | Search phrase: aung san suu kyi | Members of the party of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the long-detained pro-democracy leader, announced Monday they would boycott the country's first elections in two decades.
Feed: CNN Top Stories | Search phrase: aung san suu kyi | The political party of democracy advocate Aung San Suu Kyi has decided not to participate in elections this year in Myanmar, which is formerly known as Burma.
Feed: The Guardian | Search phrase: aung san suu kyi | Aung San Suu Kyi's opposition refuses to take first legal step on path to contesting promised national pollThe main Burmese opposition party has decided not to register, meaning it will be unable to contest the country's first election in two decades, it was reported today.Hla Thein, a delegate at today's meeting of the National League for Democracy, said its members had decided against registration.Registration would have been the first legal step needed to take part in the polls, which the country's ruling junta has promised to hold this year. No date has been set.The detained National League for Democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, was quoted last week by her lawyer as saying she opposed registering her party because the junta's restrictions on the vote were "unjust".
I wrote this tool some months ago while developing on the xPresso publishing system (NO), and has done some rewriting this week to implement further functionality.
The Codificator now provides: - automatic code wrapping in DC board format - conversion of regular HTML-formatted text to DC board formatted text - link extraction from HTML to DC board format - auto fetch of webpages, with on-select conversion of content to DC board format.
It won't boil your coffee or knit you a warm sweater for the winter, but it may help you to be more efficient when you're online discussing politics.
AnoBBS is a opensource 3DES-encrypted Bulletin Board where users encrypt their messages before submit with a common known phrase, using javascript. The server does not know the key, so this is end-to-end encryption where the key is never submitted. The technology used is Ajax and PHP, the forum files are stored as XML. Below is a list of the basic functionality: - user authentication - topic list and topic view - three userlevels; admin, moderator and user - post threads - post and edit replies - print or save threads - edit, delete and lock threads (mod) - edit forumdata and users (admin) - save BBS (admin) - delete BBS (admin)
The BBS is very simple to install and even simpler to use. It requires only a standard php distro on the server and a javascript enable browser to function.
AnoChat is an opensource 3DES-encrypted chat where users encrypt their messages before submit with a common known phrase, using javascript. The server does not know the key, so this is end-to-end encryption where the key is never submitted. The technology used is JX, similar to Ajax. The chat is very simple to install and even simpler to use. It requires only a standard php distro on the server and a javascript enabled browser to function.
Large number of US citizens demonstrated against the war in Iraq (and the possible war in Iran) during this October weekend. Massive turnout in Boston and San Fransisco, and also in Chicago, LA and DC people took to the streets. The message was: NO more war in Iraq! NO to a war with Iran!
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