The Best Friend is deeply honored by Shepard Fairey’s generosity in allowing us to distribute his poster “Freedom to Lead” in Thailand, Germany and the Netherlands. All proceeds from this poster, sold by us, will go to The Best Friend and in this way support the monks movement for peace, freedom and democracy in Burma [...]

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 [...]

The Chiang Mai library’s “Arrest Yourself” event for Aung San Suu Kyi’s birthday was a wonderful success. It was the biggest and best event in Chiang Mai run by the Best Friend yet.

By Alinsek This is a wonderful occasion because today we are celebrating the 65th birthday of democracy leader Aung San SuuKyi. At the same time, we pay special respect to the architect of Burma’s independence, our great national leader General Aung San, and to Daw Khin Kyi, for raising our legitimate leader, Aung San Suu [...]

Events are being held all over the world this weekend to mark the 65th birthday of Aung San Suu Kyi, and Chiang Mai, Thailand is absolutely no exception!

Chiang Mai, Thailand — In support of the world’s only imprisoned Nobel Peace Laureate, Aung San Suu Kyi of Burma, The Best Friend Library will host two days of Burma events on 19 and 20 June 2010.