In Burma, “there are two types of lawyers, those who know the judge. And those who know the generals.” Heard about three Asean officials in a train to Mandalay ? “Why did you toss those giant lobsters into the trash bin?” the hungry Burmese asked
Tag : Artists
Zarganar to embark on prison tour
Monday, October 17 2011
Renowned Burmese comedian Zarganar who was released from jail last week says he will soon set off on a trip around the country to visit the nearly 1,700 political prisoners not included in the controversial amnesty. The popular performer said that he
German comedian Michael Mittermeier about Z's release
Monday, October 17 2011
Do you think that public pressure helped Zarganar's release ? Mittermeier: I'm sure, As he is in the first wave, because the Myanmar government has never done anything without calculating in advance what brings it to him. In the case of Zarganar the
Michelle Yeoh and Luc Besson : 'the best news'
Sunday, October 16 2011
"The release of Zarganar is a joyful news and we hope that there will be more people like him because there are too many prisoners, political prisoners still in there," said actress Michelle Yeoh, who plays Aung San Suu Kyi. "We hope
(Jokes & puns) NATO approach = No Action Talk Only
Sunday, October 16 2011
After being released on Wednesday from the remote Myitkyina Prison in northern Burma, the comedian cum activist known as Zarganar was put on a flight back to Rangoon. Within minutes after his arrival at the airport, he was lampooning President Thein
Poets slam in front of Burmese embassies to release of jailed poets
Sunday, September 25 2011
A Washington DC-based collective (known as Split This Rock),will protest in front of Burmese embassies in the US capital tomorrow to demand the release of jailed poets in Burma. “It is precisely because poetry refuses to be packaged and manipulated
Zarganar will welcome our return...
Wednesday, September 14 2011
Comedian Zarganar organized the Thee Lay Thee dance troupe and led the group. How do you think Zarganar, who has been imprisoned, feels about your return ? He is in prison, and we don’t have any contact with him so we can only imagine what he may
အျပင္မွာ ေျပာခဲ့တာေတြ အလုပ္မျဖစ္ဘူးဆိုတဲ့ ေဂၚဇီလာ
Wednesday, September 14 2011
သီးေလးသီး ေဆးရာင္စံု အဖြဲ႔ႀကီးကို ဦးဇာဂနာက ေမြးထုတ္ေပးလိုက္ၿပီး ဦးေဂၚဇီလာကို ဦးေဆာင္ေစခဲ့တယ္။ ဦးေဂၚဇီလာတို႔ အခုလို ျပန္တဲ့အေပၚမွာ ေလာေလာဆယ္ အက်ဥ္းေထာင္ထဲ ေရာက္ေနတဲ့ ဦးဇာဂနာရဲ႕ သေဘာထားက ဘယ္လိုရွိမယ္လို႔ ထင္ထားလဲဗ်။ က်ေနာ္တို႔ကေတာ့ ကိုဇာဂနာက ေထာင္ထဲမွာ
Comedy Troup back in Rangoon, soon visiting Zarganar in Myitkyina prison
Monday, September 12 2011
Four members of an exiled Burmese comedy troupe flew to Rangoon on Sunday, The group, known as Thee Lay Thee, is the brainchild of Burma's most famous comedian, Zarganar, who supported anti-government protests in 2007 and is currently serving a
Luc Besson présente son film "The Lady". Sortie le 30 novembre
Tuesday, September 6 2011
Nikita, Jeanne d’Arc, Adèle Blanc-Sec, maintenant Aung San Suu Kyi, qu’est-ce qui vous fascine tant dans les destins de femmes ? Il est toujours plus intéressant de raconter l’histoire hors norme d’un personnage du sexe dit faible. Aung San Suu Kyi
Bande dessinée. Chroniques birmanes
Thursday, September 1 2011
Peut-on être drôle en dessinant l'une des plus oppressantes dictatures au monde ? Guy Delisle mélange ses petits tracas de père au foyer et l'Histoire. Il montre un pays où la vie continue sous l'oppression. L''humour de l'auteur dénonce l'absurdité
Comic book. Burmese Chronicles
Thursday, September 1 2011
Is it possible to be funny while drawing one of the most oppressive dictatorships in the world ? Guy Delisle shuffles his father worries and The History. His comics shows a country where life goes under oppression. The humor of the author denounces
Censorship on charity concert.
Thursday, August 4 2011
Hip-hop singer Zayar Thaw—who was released from prison in May after serving 3,5 years of a 5-year sentence for his political activities—has been barred by Mingla Taung Nyunt township authorities from singing at a live concert in Rangoon. The live
Livre. "Birmane" de C. Ono-dit-Biot
Monday, July 25 2011
A peine le pied posé à Rangoon, un jeune reporter amateur, français, est invité à une soirée de la jeunesse dorée (à deux pas de la maison où est détenue AASK) où le whisky le dispute aux emphétamines. 1er tableau : miltiaires, drogues, business
Il mondo si mobilita per il Benigni birmano
Saturday, July 23 2011
16 luglio, iniziativa speciale per due prigionieri di coscienza in Myanmar e Turchia, con Matteo Branciamore e Valentina Lodovini La Sezione Italiana di Amnesty International è presente al Giffoni Film Festival per l'ottavo anno consecutivo,
Censorship and traditional dance troupes
Tuesday, July 12 2011
In order to make a video of a performance, all Burmese traditional dance troupes must perform a full-dress rehearsal in front of censorship board officials three days prior to a performance, according to Myint Thein Pe, the chairman of Myanmar Motion
Livre de photos. Rêves sous surveillance
Friday, July 1 2011
La société civile birmane connaît l’oppression de la dictature militaire depuis 40 ans. La survie et la résistance des esprits sont devenues une culture intime et nationale au fil des générations, dans un univers répressif : la pauvreté extrême, le
Cinema star deported from Burma
Wednesday, June 29 2011
Michelle Yeoh, the actor playing the pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi in a Luc Besson forthcoming film, has been refused entry to Burma. Yeoh, who has been filming the biopic in neighbouring Thailand, was detained on arriving at Rangoon's
Star de cinéma expulsée de Birmanie
Wednesday, June 29 2011
La star hollywoodienne Michelle Yeoh, qui incarne la célèbre opposante birmane Aung San Suu Kyi dans le prochain film du réalisateur français Luc Besson, a été expulsée de Birmanie où elle est désormais sur une liste noire. La comédienne d'origine
Une ancienne star de cinéma offre des funérailles aux plus démunis
Monday, June 27 2011
Les cérémonies funèbres sont primordiales dans ce pays asiatique, l'un des plus pauvres du monde, où la majorité bouddhiste considère que le voyage vers la vie suivante se doit d'être fluide et sans délai. Kyaw Thu, un acteur de 51 ans, offre donc
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