SHWEDAGON PAGODA SHINING GOLDEN IN THE HEART OF YANGON IN ANCIENT MYANMAR IS THE BEAUTIFUL SHWEDAGON PAGODA. LEGEND SAYS IT TOOK A MIRACLE TO CONSECRATE THE LAND UPON WHICH IT GREW. EIGHT HAIRS OF AN ANCIENT BUDDHA WERE BROUGHT TO THE...

Bangkok, Thailand - 11 May 2008

1. Newspapers with headlines referring to the Myanmar refere
ndum
2. Close-up of newspaper headline reading: (English) "The Unravelling of the Burm
ese...

Burmese economy is taking off

Ethnic Karen rebels dug in Friday to face a fresh assault from

Burmese troops on their positions near the Thai border as hun
dreds
of fresh refugees slipped into Thai territory. A few mor
tar...

Thailand/Burma Eng Comm Duration: 1.05

Amnesty International has called on Burmese authorities to re
lease
immediately all people who have been "arbitrarily seized" for forced portering. "In...

US Secretary of State, Madeleine Albright, on Monday (27/07) slammed Burma's ruling military Junta over its treatment of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Speaking at the ASEAN summit in Manila, Albright said that she deplored...

English/Nat

United States Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has chastised the military government of Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, saying the U-S would hold it "directly responsible"...

Civilians look at destruction from recent Japanese bombing in their city, Rangoon (AKA Yangon) / natives building shelter / sign 'Rangoon must not burn' / pan of waterfront / boat at pier / p-40 airplane with flying tiger paint refueling...

Animated map with line from Japan to Rangoon and Burma Road / trolley moving through street / montage of battle aftermath, wreckage / aerial view of Burma Road / supplies and automobiles.

A group of mothers and their children pose for camera as American Refugees from Singapore and Rangoon / close up of a young girl in a white cap / camera moves to close up of another young girl wearing a cap / close up of a different...

Burma deported 18 foreign pro-democracy activists Saturday (15/8) who a day earlier had been sentenced to five years of hard labour for handing out leaflets in the capital Rangoon last week.

00.00 CU Australian detainee...

Naypyitaw, Myanmar - 26 March 2007

1. Line of Buddhist monks crossing a
road
2. Clo
se-up feet
3. Monks receiving daily alms...

Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Sunday (15/12) indicated she will not accept restrictions on her movements. Sunday was the ninth consecutive day she had spent inside her Rangoon residence, following the most...

1. Wide of tarmac with boxes containing water cleaning system on cargo puller in foreground, waiting to be loaded onto transport plane

2. Wide of cargo puller carrying first aid
boxes
3....