News - Inactive Burma news sites and discussion groups

Burma archives of news sites or groups which are no longer active but still retain material on their sites
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Title: "Asiaweek" Burma Search
Description: THE LINK LEADS TO THE "TIME MAGAZINE" SITE. NO APPARENT ARCHIVE FOR "AW"....Archive of the defunct weekly. 2096 hits for Burma Myanmar in Advanced Search (October 2002), but it had dropped to 1833 by Feb 2005, and the results were a bit weird.
Source/publisher: Asiaweek
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
Grouping: Websites/Multiple Documents
Language: English
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Title: "Burma Alert" Archive (1993-1997)
Description: Useful news summaries, incl. info on companies investing in Burma, though the tables are scrambled. This newsletter began in 1990, ended in 1997 and was re-started in March 2003. The archive is gradually being scanned and put in the Library in pdf format (see below under individual documents)
Source/publisher: Associates to Develop Democratic Burma (ADDB)
Date of entry/update: 2003-04-30
Grouping: Websites/Multiple Documents
Language: English
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Title: "Burma Press Summary" (1987 - 1996)
Description: NOW TRANSFERRED TO THE MAIN DATABASE "The Burma Press Summary" contains full texts of many of the laws and decrees pronounced between April 1987 and December 1996, speeches by the BSPP and SLORC leaders as well as other documents and summaries of reports from "The Working People?s Daily", "The New Light of Myanmar" and "The Guardian".
Creator/author: Hugh MacDougall, compiler
Source/publisher: SLORC/SPDC publications
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
Grouping: Websites/Multiple Documents
Language: English
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Title: "Burma Report" (Deutsch) - 2007-2012
Description: "Für Frieden, Freiheit, Demokratie und Menschenrechte in Burma"... Monthly collection of news items on Burma in German. Archive from January 2007 to May 2012
Source/publisher: Burma Büro Germany
Date of entry/update: 2009-12-03
Grouping: Websites/Multiple Documents
Language: Deutsch, German
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Title: "Burma Report" (English) -2007-2012
Description: "FOR PEACE, FREEDOM, DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN BURMA" ... Monthly collection of news items on Burma in English. Archive from January 2007...German version at Alternate URL
Source/publisher: Burma Büro Germany
Date of entry/update: 2009-12-03
Grouping: Websites/Multiple Documents
Language: English, German, Deutsch
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Title: "Burma Research Electronic Discussion Group" (BuRe) - closed 2012
Description: "This list is intended for discussion related to research on Burma/Myanmar. We do not include political discussions per se, only insofar as they relate to the state of research in the field. You must be signed in and a member of this group to read its archive."
Source/publisher: SOAS
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
Grouping: Websites/Multiple Documents
Language: English
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Title: "Burma-related News" July 2000-October 2013
Description: Very useful archive with articles and wires from international and regional media...Searchable on OBL from 2000-2003
Creator/author: Compiler, Tin Kyi
Source/publisher: Various wires and newspapers
Date of entry/update: 2003-10-25
Grouping: Websites/Multiple Documents
Language: English
Size: 4 KB
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Title: "MAN News" (2003-2005)
Description: "This is the Muslim News Agency providing news on Burma including the events concerning with Muslim community inside and outside of Burma"...Archive from September 2003
Source/publisher: Muslim News Agency
Date of entry/update: 2005-12-28
Grouping: Websites/Multiple Documents
Language: Burmese
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Title: "Maykha" Listserv Archive
Description: The biggest searchable Burma archive on the Internet, I would think - probably more than 100,000 items. One can also link to individual articles, since each has a unique address. From September 1995 to early 2014
Source/publisher: Maykha
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
Grouping: Websites/Multiple Documents
Language: English and Burmese
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Title: "Mergui-Tavoy Monthly Human Rights Situation Reports" (2000-2004)
Description: Reports from 2000 to 2004
Source/publisher: Mergui-Tavoy District Information Department, Karen National Union
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
Grouping: Websites/Multiple Documents
Language: English
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Title: "Mojo" - The Lightning - (1999-2010)
Source/publisher: BINA (Burma Independent News Agency)
Date of entry/update: 2006-03-06
Grouping: Websites/Multiple Documents
Language: Burmese (occasionally some English pages)
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