I've come across some good new blogs in the last couple of months, and have just updated my blog links, so I thought I'd do a little link round-up for your interwebbing pleasure.

There are a few new Burma blogs that have popped up lately, The Crooked Line is written by a PhD student working on the Thai-Burma border. His thesis is "looking at how issues around displacement and identity are explored through the cultural expression of [the Karen]."

Fifty Viss has been around a couple months already, and is written by Aung Htin Kyaw, a high school student from southern California.

Karen Refugee is a new blog set up for students of the engineering study program in the Mae La refugee camp in Thailand. It's not likely to be updated as frequently as some blogs, but it already has posts up and it's a rare chance to read blogs from residents inside the refugee camps.

There are a few blogs that aren't new, but are either new to me, or have recently been updated. Unconventional Thoughts and Commentaries has moved to a new url, so if you read it before, update your bookmarks. It features some great essays by Karen students and academics living abroad, addressing such issues as cultural identity and national survival, and returning home. Saw Kapi also writes some great political analysis.

On the other side of the border, Zoram.org features news from the Indian regions bordering Burma. According to the site, it "was developed in early 2005 by a group of friends who had a firm belief that they can play an active role in 'bridging the divide' between the diasporic Zo indigenous peoples in India and its neighbouring countries through sharing and distributing their information." The posts are frequent and offer some insight into a region you don't hear much about.

Richard is definitely not a newcomer, but he has a good post up linking to a video of the new Burmese capital.

For non-English speakers, there is the Kachin blog Jinghpaw Prat and the Karen site Kwe Ka Lu. I can't describe them because I can't read them, but if you can, go visit them.

Last for the Burma links, Dang Ngo has some heartbreaking photos from the Thai border.

A few other non-Burma sites worth a visit:

Insurgelicious covers a broad range of globalization and social justice issues, while IntelligentaIndigena is a great resource for news and analysis of indigenous issues worldwide. For anyone with an interest or involvement in Burma, knowledge of indigenous and transnational movements can be invaluable.

Immigration Orange focuses on migration and immigration in America.

Afghan Lord is an award winning Afghani blog, again, offering a rare first-hand glimpse of an area that is too little understood.

And on an unrelated note, there's a new reference blog on feminism - Finally Feminism 101. Because women's rights should be recognized more than once a year.