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Reader’s Corner: Forced to flee: voices and visions from the Thai-Burma border, put on paper

December 2, 2011 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Erika Berg For Northwest Asian Weekly In September 2007, the world’s attention was riveted by video footage of never-ending columns of saffron-robed monks streaming through the streets of Burma. Overnight, the government had removed all fuel subsidies, spiking food prices. Moved by the people’s despair, tens of thousands of Buddhist monks took to the […]

Filed Under: Commentaries Tagged With: 2011, Aung San Suu Kyi, Erika Berg, Human Rights, Mae Sot, Metta Sutta, Reader Corner Forced, Seattle, Thai Burma, Thailand, Vol 30 No 49 | December 3 - December 9, attention

In Asia, labor becomes feminized

February 24, 2010 By Northwest Asian Weekly

The Gardner Center for Asian Arts and Ideas concluded its second Saturday University Lectures Series last Saturday. The lectures revolved around issues of health and women’s rights in modern Asia by local experts.

Filed Under: Community News Tagged With: 2009, 2010, Burma Myanmar, Gates Foundation, Limbs Yoga, MOM, Maung Maung Tinn, Mimi Gates, Northwest Asian Weekly, Paula Bock, Saturday University Lectures Series, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Southeast Asia, Stay Healthy, Thai Burma, Thailand Burma, Vol 29 No 9 | February 27 - March 5

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