PAY HOMAGE TO THE PAGODA OF THE TIGER YEAR 22 – 28 FEBRUARY 2010. Phrae Province, Phrae Provincial Administration Organization, Cho Hae Municipality, Cho Hae Temple in cooperate with related organizations will organize the remarkable religious festival “Wai Phrathat Cho Hae Mueng Phrae Hae Tungluang” during 22 – 28 February, 2010. The festival aims at … Read more
China Worried Over Losing Investments In Burma In Event Of Civil War Wednesday, 17 February 2010 KNG http://kachinnews.com/News/China-worried-over-losing-investments-in-Burma-in-event-of-civil-war.html China is overtly anxious of losing its huge investments in neighbouring military-ruled Burma with civil war clouds looming between the regime and ethnic armed groups, said sources close to Chinese officials. Chinese state-owned China Power Investment Corporation … Read more
Motorbike’s market in South East Asia is growing rapidly and continuously. This section of market has not much received an impact from the world economic crisis. The Bangkok Motorbike Festival 2010 is the biggest Motorbike, Part & Accessory, Apparel and Protection Gear trade fair with Motorbike activities for Thai and Foreign bikers in this region. … Read more
Swords Into Teacups. A Doi Mae Salong news story. October 1949 and deep in the hills of Chinese Yunnan, a battle had been raging for days. The 93rd Division of the Kuomintang (KMT) Army, cut off from defeated Chinese Nationalist Chiang Kai-shek’s main force, is fighting a fierce rearguard action against Chairman Mao’s all conquering … Read more
China in Laos: Counting the cost of progress Asia Times By Daniel Allen 12 September 2009 BEIJING – At Kunming’s long-distance bus station, a sleeper bus crammed with Chinese laborers edges toward the exit, en-route to the Laotian capital of Vientiane. Despite the prospect of an uncomfortable 40-hour journey ahead, this group of wiry, chain-smoking … Read more
Crackdown Spurs a Heroin Clearance Sale in Southeast Asia New York Times By THOMAS FULLER September 30, 2009 DOI CHANG MOOB, Thailand — For more than half a century heroin has been carried over the jungle-shrouded hills here, the first leg of a journey that delivers the drugs to cities as far off as Sydney … Read more
PEACE IN NAME ONLY By David Scott Mathieson The Irrawaddy War and refugees will remain a fact of life in Burma as long as the root causes of conflict in the country’s borderlands remain unaddressed. The rout of the ethnic Kokang militia, the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army, in northern Burma in late August has … Read more