News from Myanmar (Burma): How to Follow the Events Online

Bangkok, 3 p.m. — Things are heating up next door in Myanmar, the country formerly known as Burma. AP/CNN says that police have now begun cracking down on protesters.

Here are a few online news resources for those of you who’d like to follow the events:

— A Google news search for Burma or Myanmar is a good way to find up-to-date news. You can choose to filter results by date in order to find the most recent stories. (For all of the following, you can search for either “Myanmar” or “Burma.” For the sake of speed, I’ll simply use Myanmar here.)

— The Irrawaddy magazine is posting continuous updates on their Web site.

— Mizzima News (“Specialising in Burma-Related News and Multimedia”) and BurmaNet News are providing news round-ups.

— A YouTube search for Myanmar — with results sorted by date — yields some footage from inside the country.

— You can search Flickr for images labeled Myanmar — again, sorted by date — although there doesn’t seem to be much there at this point.

— A Wikipedia page called “2007 Burmese anti-government protests” is tracking the situation.

— You can search Google for blogs mentioning Myanmar.

— A search on NPR.org for Myanmar returns print news, blog posts, and radio stories.

— You can search Technorati — a blog search engine — for posts tagged “Myanmar.”

— I can’t vouch for its accuracy, but this Myanmar blog directory lists a large number of Web sites.