Here are a few more stories to read, courtesy of the U.S. Campaign for Burma:
The San Francisco Chronicle reports on the Chevron Corporation’s Burma dilemma: “The San Ramon-based energy giant has a 28 percent stake in the Yadana natural gas field and pipeline, which feeds Asia’s growing energy appetite but also helps prop up the Burmese junta.” Chevron is the U.S.’s largest investor in Burma, and an impending bill may excuse them from being forced to divest from the country.
UPI Asia Online profiles U Win Tin, a veteran Burmese journalist who is also the world’s longest serving prisoner of conscience.
The Agence France-Presse reports that fourteen activists arrested on Aung San Suu Kyi’s 63rd birthday have been charged with “causing public unrest.” Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy party is working to have the activists released and the unjust and unlawful charges dropped.
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Here are a few more stories to read, courtesy of the U.S. Campaign for Burma:
