Asian Country: News Organization and Lawi Weng

asian country: It was recorded Tuesday, and it underscores how little has changed in the Southeast Asian country since the party led by Nobel Peace Prize laureate and longtime opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi won elections a year and a half ago, according to The Chronicle Herald. Just look at these chains. But this moment, captured on video by a local news organization, the Democratic Voice of Burma, was not from another era. This is what we get for being journalists, said Lawi Weng, one of three reporters detained by the military on June 26 for covering a drug-burning ceremony organized by an ethnic rebel group in the northeast. The reporters each face three years in prison for violating the nation's Unlawful Associations Act, which was designed to punish people who associate with or assist illegal groups in this case, the Ta'ang National Liberation Army, one of more than a dozen small rebel armies that control patches of territory in the north and east. How can we say this is democracy Weng asked before entering a police van headed back to jail after a brief court hearing in Shan state's Hsipaw township. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.