Here are the Burma-related headlines for today:
The Associated Press reports that the U.N.’s High Commissioner for Refugees will “increase its focus on areas of [Burma] from which Muslim migrants have recently fled.”
Voice of America tells us that Reporters Without Borders has named Burma among its list of “Enemies of the Internet”–twelve nations that have “systematically restricted their populations from accessing online news and information deemed ‘undesirable.’” These include China, North Korea, Vietnam, Egypt, Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Cuba and Tunisia.
Time Magazine reports on the jatropha crop in Burma. The plant “produces a green nut that is pressed and processed into a biofuel catching on in entrepreneurial green pockets of the world from Florida to Brazil to India, which has already earmarked 100 million acres for the plant and expects the oil to account for one-fifth its diesel consumption by 2011.”
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