On 27 March Ambassador Joan Boer presented the 2012 Prince Claus Award to Zarganar during a historic Anyeint performance by Zarganar in the People's Square in Yangon. The exciting theatrical performance lasted 5 and a half hours and was attended by
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How humour has an existential register
Sunday, December 30 2012
Artists Htein Lin, Sitt Nyein Aye and Zarganar have been using the medium of art to convey their angst against the injustice occurring in their country since August 8, 1988. Titled ‘ICU Jest’ — an anagram of the word ‘justice’ — the exhibition sees a
Preparing the Human Rights Film Festival of Rangoon
Sunday, December 2 2012
International human rights documentary films were introduced amid last weekend’s film festival to the local audience at the Mahasantisukha Buddha Sasan Centre in Yangon. The film festival covers five documentaries from Malaysia, China, Czech
Prizes and Awards
Saturday, December 1 2012
Myat Kaung, Zarganar's son (right) and artist Htein Lin - Bremen BURMESE laureates 2012.12.07 Myanmar filmmakers win awards at Asean-Rok workshop 2012.11.30 President Thein Sein - "In Pursuit of Peace" Award from International Crisis Group
Help to close Burma’s dark chapter of political prisoners
Sunday, November 18 2012
It has been over one year since the government of Burma ordered the release of 6,359 prisoners. Among the thousands were 247 political prisoners, including respected leaders like female labor activist Su Su Nway and famed satirist Zagarnar. It was
Zarganar : I knew I would be criticized
Saturday, October 20 2012
Zarganar, a popular comedian and former political prisoner who is part of the commission, said that months after the violence, community members “from all sides” in Rakhine had been refusing to cooperate, and that the inquiry might not be completed
Artist Win Pe back to Myanmar : I asked for his help (Zarganar)
Sunday, October 7 2012
The literary and acting communities in Myanmar rejoiced at the homecoming on September 8 of well-known cartoonist, artist, writer and film director U Win Pe. U Win Pe, now 78 years old, left Myanmar in 1994 when he was invited to attend the
The Rakhine Investigation Commission
Monday, September 10 2012
The Rakhine Investigation Commission will make their first official visit to Rakhine State later this week for nine days, an official said this week. Following the trip, the commission will recruit and train people to collect data that will aid its
Nargis—When Time Stopped Breathing
Friday, September 7 2012
“Nargis—When Time Stopped Breathing” is Burma’s first ever feature-length documentary made by native filmmakers who captured the aftermath of the 2008 Cyclone Nargis disaster in the Irrawaddy delta which killed nearly 140,000 people. Fearing that
Testimony : visiting Burma 38 years later
Thursday, August 30 2012
A visitor to Burma coming back for the first time in 38 years sees much that has changed, but also much that endures. A country that seemed frozen in time now speaks in many voices—some of them voices that were once silenced. Talking with a dissident
Nay Phone Latt et Zarganar contre l'islamophobie
Sunday, August 19 2012
Il y a peu, Nay Phone Latt était un combattant de la liberté face à l'ancien régime militaire birman. Mais le blogueur est désormais la cible de virulentes critiques : il ose s'élever contre l'islamophobie qui s'exprime ouvertement dans son pays. La
Zarganar : all my hopes are on 2020
Wednesday, June 27 2012
Zarganar said: It is very important that we go abroad to get exposure. I noticed it myself when you meet Burmese people abroad you see self-confidence, security and freedom. You don’t see that in Burma, all you see is worry. “So we are coming here to
ASSK and Zarganar in Europe
Tuesday, June 26 2012
Aung San Suu Kyi tour in Europe Media coverage in Burma Paris. 2012.06.24 Elysee. France President François Hollande receiving ASSK ; 2012.06.27 The Lady at the Paris City Hall, receiving her Citizen of Honor diploma ; 2012.06.27 Meeting NGOs ;
VIDEOS and PICTURES
Monday, June 25 2012
2012.Zarganar Photo Album : in Burma and abroad Photo Album, 2012.06.06 With Free Z Campaigners in London (video). 2012.03.04 Zarganar at Amnesty International 50th (in New York) Zarganar at Amnesty International 50th 2012.02.21 Free Funeral
Zarganar collects his RSF Prize in Paris
Wednesday, June 13 2012
Reporters Without Borders today finally had the pleasure of presenting Burmese blogger, comedian and actor Zarganar with the press freedom prize in the “Cyber-dissident” category that it awarded to him in December 2008, when he was in prison.
Zarganar to perform in UK
Friday, June 8 2012
Zarganar will be a guest performer on the popular UK comedy show “No Pressure to be Funny” this weekend. He will appear on the podcast panel show, which is recorded in front of a live audience at London’s Soho Theatre, according to Chortle, a comedy
အစည္းအ႐ံုးအသစ္ကေန ရလဒ္ေကာင္းေတြ ေပၚထြက္ဖို႔ ႐ုပ္ရွင္ေလာကသားေတြ ေမွ်ာ္လင့္ေနၾက
Saturday, March 31 2012
႐ုပ္ရွင္နဲ႔ ဗီဒီယိုေလာကအတြက္ မွတ္ တမ္းတင္ထားရမယ့္ ေျခလွမ္းသစ္တစ္ခု ျဖစ္တဲ့ ႐ုပ္ရွင္အစည္းအ႐ံုးျပန္လည္ ဖြဲ႕စည္း ေရးအတြက္ ေလာကသားေတြ အားလံုး တက္ညီလက္ညီနဲ႔ မဲေပးေရြး ခ်ယ္ၾကရာမွာ ရလဒ္ေတြအသီးသီးနဲ႔ ေအာင္ျမင္စြာ ၿပီးစီးခဲ့ပါၿပီ။ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲႀကီးကို မတ္လ ၂၃
Free election... in the Film industry
Saturday, March 31 2012
A Planned restructure of the Myanmar Motion Picture Organisation took an important step forward last week, with the election through secret ballot of members to represent different segments of the industry. More than 1900 members voted in the
Standing ovation for Zarganar in New York
Monday, March 5 2012
Burmese comedian Zarganar received a standing ovation on Sunday night at Radio City Music Hall in New York when he joined a star-studded line-up in a fundraiser for Amnesty International. Known for his scything jokes about Burma's military generals,
A Kachin female leader receives U.S. award
Monday, February 27 2012
A National Democratic Force (NDF) candidate in Kachin state, Bauk Ja was honoured on February 17 by the Mid-Atlantic Kachin Christian Fellowship, according to an article on the Kachin News website. As a spokesperson for a group of farmers who sued
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