Shane’s Tweets for 2008-09-23

just got off the phone with an old friend! # finally got to see The Dark Knight, and on the big screen. So glad I didn’t try going to Bangkok for the day just to see a film! # got soaked earlier coming up the hill # Powered by Twitter Tools. Sphere: Related Content

Burma’s longest serving political prisoner released

U Win Tin has been released after over 19 years in detention as part of a general amnesty. He is Burma’s longest serving political prisoner. The journalist was among 9,002 prisoners released today, in what the junta says was a gesture of “loving kindness and goodwill. Win Tin was one of the founders of the [...]

Running out of clean water in the Delta

The coming of the dry season is raising concerns about a shortage of clean water in the Irrawaddy Delta, which bore the brunt of Cyclone Nargis in May. According to the Irrawaddy magazine’s web site, relief workers are concerned that the storm surge created by Nargis has filled many ponds and wells with salt water, [...]

Shane’s Tweets for 2008-09-22

got an outpatient’s appointment with the neurosurgeon this afternoon. Hoping for good news. Well, nobody actually wants bad news do they. # got the results of my MRI. Apparently the AVM has shrunk to half its original size! I guess the radiation therapy worked. # Powered by Twitter Tools. Sphere: Related Content

Shane’s Tweets for 2008-09-20

getting bored with all this sunshine. I came to HK expecting some cooler weather – which I’d been missing in Mae Sot! # off to the wilds of DB for dinner with an old friend. # had lamb for dinner. Very nice. Can’t remember the last time I had lamb! # Powered by Twitter Tools. [...]

Shane’s Tweets for 2008-09-19

having an MRI at Queen Mary’s this afternoon. -hope I won’t have to wait too long! # was surprised to see they’ve opened a Starbucks at Queen Mary’s. Things sure have changed since I was a patient there! # :New blog post: Five years http://tinyurl.com/4ypagp # Powered by Twitter Tools. Sphere: Related Content

Five years

A lot can change in five years. It was almost five years ago that I was admitted to Queen Mary’s Hospital in Hong Kong. I ended up being hospitalised for several months. During that time, I underwent brain surgery. And, after a few weeks, I found I had developed a craving for a good cup [...]

Shane’s Tweets for 2008-09-18

got to work out a budget today. # Powered by Twitter Tools.

Villagers struggling to meet demands of troops in areas under SPDC control

Villagers in Dta Greh township in Karen State’s Pa’an District are struggling to meet their own livelihood needs as they face regular exploitation from Burmese government troops and pro-junta militia. According to a new report by the Karen Human Rights Group (KHRG), villagers are subjected to regular demands for forced labour and extortion. The report [...]

Burmese dissidents come under cyber attack

The web sites of three Burmese news groups run by Burmese exiles have been targeted by distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. A message on the website of the Irrawaddy news magazine says, “We regret to inform you that the Irrawaddy Web site has been disabled since yesterday due to an attack that has also targeted a [...]

Shane’s Tweets for 2008-09-17

Burmese thanaka face makeup still in use by Burmese in Singapore: http://tinyurl.com/6jrtze # Powered by Twitter Tools.

Suu Kyi accepts food deliveries

A month after she began refusing deliveries of food to her home, Burma’s detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has accepted two baskets of groceries says her party the National League for Democracy (NLD). The Democratic Voice of Burma reports an NLD spokesman says one basket was given to her on Monday evening and [...]

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