Asia Cast for Sunday 30th September
Thousands of demonstrators have taken to the streets across Asia in protest against the military junta¡¯s crackdown on protesters in Burma.
Protestors in Malaysia, Indonesia, Japan, Australia and other parts of Asia voiced their support of the protestors in Burma, and condemned the violent actions of the military junta.
The Burmese government is under constant and increasing [...]
Asia Cast for Saturday 29th September
Crowds taunted and cursed security forces barricading central Yangon on Friday to try to prevent more mass protests against Myanmar’s fourty-five years of military rule and deepening economic hardship.
Potentially deadly games of cat and mouse went on for hours around the barbed-wire barriers in a city terrified of a repeat of 1988, when the army [...]
Asia Cast for Friday 28th September
With nine people now reported dead as protests in Burma continue, the UN has announced it will send in a humanitarian force to try and quell the violence.
The dead included eight protesters and a Japanese man, identified as a video journalist working for APF News – with 11 demonstrators and 31 soldiers hurt.
The deaths came [...]
Asia Cast Thursday 27th September
Crowds of Buddhist monks and civilians filled the streets of Myanmar’s main city on Wednesday, defying warning shots, tear gas and baton charges meant to quell the biggest anti-junta protests in 20 years.
Two Buddhist monks and a civilian were killed, hospital and monastery sources said, as decades of pent-up frustration at 45 years of unbroken [...]
Asia Cast For Wednesday 26th September
The international community must urgently intervene in Myanmar before there is widespread bloodshed, warns a Myanmar democracy activist.
Henry Soe Win, spokesperson for the Democracy for Burma network, said the stand-off between the ruling Burmese military junta and thousands of protesters, including Buddhist monks and nuns who have filled the streets of the former capital Rangoon, [...]
Asia Cast for Tuesday 25th September
Vilified as a Holocaust denier, a supporter of terrorism and a backer of Iraqi insurgents, the president of Iran was actually able to make New Yorkers burst into laughter¡ªbut not at a joke.
Loud laughs and boos broke from the audience of about seven-hundred people, mostly students at the Ivy League school whose garb included “Stop [...]
Asia Cast Monday 24th September
Thousands of monks and civilians are marching through Burma’s former capital in what appears to be the biggest anti-government protest so far.
Eyewitnesses said the number of people demonstrating on Monday was as high as thirty thousand.
It follows Sunday’s march in Rangoon by twenty thousand monks and nuns.
Events are now moving unpredictably, analysts say. So far [...]
Asia Cast for Saturday 22nd September
Nearly ten-thousand Buddhist monks marched through Myanmar’s second largest city, Mandalay, on Saturday, their biggest demonstration since launching a street campaign against the ruling military junta five days ago.
A group calling itself the All Burma Monks Alliance also, for the first time, urged ordinary people to join the monks “to struggle peacefully against the evil [...]
Asia Cast for Friday 21st September
New Zealand police have confirmed that the body they found in a car in Auckland is that of missing woman An An Liu, mother of the abandoned toddler nicknamed Pumpkin.
Police have issued an arrest warrant for the girl’s father, 54 year-old magazine publisher Nai Yin Xue, in connection with the death.
After abandoning his daughter at [...]
Asia Cast Thursday 20th September
In several Burmese cities, thousands of Buddhist monks have joined a series of escalating protests against the military government.
In the western port city of Sittwe, nearly 2,000 monks demanded the release of four monks arrested on Tuesday.
About 1,000 monks marched through Mandalay, and several hundred more in Rangoon, the former capital.
They want a government apology [...]
