Ashin Issariya – aka King Zero – is one of the founders of The Best Friend. He is well-known for his political activities and played a major role in the 2007 Saffron revolution. He fled the country and has been in Mae Sot since 2008. Apart from these political activities, King Zero has also been [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 30 June 2010 The Burma Refugee Organization (BRO) based in Malaysia, has just published Protecting Refugees and Their Rights by Alinsek, a Burmese human rights and social activist on 30 June 2010, as first ever handbook for refugees in Burmese language.

From June 16th till June 20th Ashin Sopaka attended the Birthday Celebrations for Daw Aung San Suu Kyi in Barcelona. The program included a photographic exhibition- “Burma Delivery Room” by Irene Laxmi, a screening of the movie “Beyond Rangoon” by John Boorman, a meeting of Friends of l’Office of Viure. Words of PEACE, a speech [...]

Around 40 people attended our Burma VJ screening and discussion with Ashin Kovida and Ashin Sopaka on Friday in Berlin. People were very moved and it arouse a very interesting discussion about the situation in Burma afterwards. The evening was rounded off with delicious Burmese food.

Ashin Sopaka visited the JFK Friendship center Hort today to give the children and teacher a update on the Relocation Project and thank all for their effort to support the project.