myanmar
Podcast: Visa run to Mae Sai & Tachileik, Burma
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] [Download MP3 | Add to iTunes | Subscribe to Podcasts] If you are a foreigner living in Thailand, you’ll probably be familiar with the concept of a ‘visa run’. Depending on what visa you enter Thailand with, you may be required to leave Thailand after 30, 60 or [...]
Podcast: Peace in Burma protest, Chiang Mai
[Audio clip: view full post to listen] [Download MP3 | Add to iTunes | Subscribe to Podcasts] Last Friday evening, straight after putting the Givetoburma.org website live, I raced down to the Three Kings Monument in Chiang Mai to meet Tina and attend the Peace in Burma protest. You can listen to the podcast we [...]
Launch of a new donations website for Burma
Last Wednesday evening I received an appeal email from a Burmese friend, Su Su, in Chiang Mai. Following this, between 5pm Thursday and 5pm Friday I worked with Su Su to design, build and register a PayPal account and domain for the website www.givetoburma.org. We got it up online, and then raced to a Burmese [...]
Protests by Buddhist monks in Rangoon, Burma
As some of you may know, I originally came to Thailand (2 years ago) to volunteer with a Human Rights group based on the Thailand/Burma border in Mae Sot. During my time there, I developed a much better understanding of the situation in Burma (also known as Myanmar), as well as becoming good friends with [...]
Website design – Karen Human Rights Group
Karen Human Rights Group (KHRG) are a small grass-roots organisation documenting the human rights situation of people in rural Burma. KHRG is the organisation I volunteered with when I arrived in Thailand in 2005. I undertook a redesign and redevelopment of the KHRG website whilst working for KHRG, which began with an assessment of the [...]