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Poverty Budget

Date: Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Although the United States is a developed country, poverty is still one of the major social problems....Full Story

A Life of Factory Worker

Date: Sunday, February 03, 2008

When I was a factory worker, it was hard to have a decent life. It was hard to have a single room with the income of US$ 11 an hour. If I were lucky, I got around US$ 1200 a month after taxes...Full Story

I''m Serving Than Shwe Because I I Got Degree from Abroad

Date: Saturday, January 12, 2008

The military Junta in Burma’s announcement of conscription of national services for foreign-studied students is untimely and irrational. Though I support a mandatory national service for Burmese citizens, targeting specific group of students is a plan to destroy the dreams of many students, and it can also hamper the development of the country’s infrastructure or development of human resources in Burma....Full Story

A Life Without a Life

Date: Monday, November 05, 2007

The sky above her was dark and the strong tropical wind was brushing through the forest, yet Lamin, a girl of fifteen year old, paid no attention to them. She kept digging the ground by herself in the Indo-Burma tropical rain forest without showing any fear of rain or any wild animals....Full Story

Letting the Colonial Relics Rot

Date: Monday, November 05, 2007

After reading an article about Rangoon’s Secretariat building (alternatively called the Prime Ministers’ Office or Ministers’ Office) in shambles in the New Era Journal (Burmese article here, but I cannot find an English translation), I felt compelled to write about the situation of preserving colonial buildings in Burma....Full Story

Are Rakhaings suffering from delusional disorder?

Date: Monday, November 05, 2007

I would not find a single Rakhaing soul who would say "I am not patriotic, I hate Arakan." It seems that we all Rakhaings are very patriotic, ready to dedicate our lives for Arakan, and some of us might even be ready to shed our blood for Arakan....Full Story

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