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Marking a major milestone in the world’s largest resettlement operation, a whopping 30,000 Myanmar refugees left Thailand to begin new lives in other countries, a UN agency said on Thursday.
The United Nations refugee agency said on Thursday that the number of Myanmar refugees, who have left Thailand since January 2005, topped 30,000 this week.
Almost all […]
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_ by Chris Patten
[Lord Patten is a former Governor of Hong Kong and European Commissioner for External Affairs. He is currently Chancellor of Oxford University and Co-Chair of the International Crisis Group.]
LONDON – There is a marvelous painting by Brueghel in the Brussels art gallery. The British poet, W.H. Auden, was sufficiently impressed to write […]
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_ by Elizabeth Sidiropoulos and Neuma Grobbelaar
[Elizabeth Sidiropoulos and Neuma Grobbelaar are, respectively, the national director and the director of studies of the South African Institute of International Affairs, based at Witwatersrand University.]
JOHANNESBURG – Morgan Tsvangirai’s withdrawal from the presidential run-off scheduled for June 27, and his decision to seek the protection of the Dutch […]
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_ by Louise Arbour[Louise Arbour is United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.]
On June 18, the United Nations’ intergovernmental Human Rights Council took an important step toward eliminating the artificial divide between freedom from fear and freedom from want that has characterized the human rights system since its inception. By giving the green light to […]
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By Roland Watson (Dictator Watch)
June 26, 2008
We have new, disturbing, and detailed intelligence about the assistance Russia is providing Burma’s dictatorship, the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC), on its nuclear program and more generally its military modernization. This new information both confirms earlier intelligence that we have published, and expands what is known about […]
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_ A Photoessay by Yebaw Day
For years, the similarities between Zimbabwe and Burma have been obvious, but I have yet to read of any article comparing the two. The situations in both countries are coming to critical junctures and deserve a joint discussion, and hence this essay.
To start with, both countries used […]
Posted in Cartoons & Humour on Jun 25th, 2008 2 Comments »
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AP
Posted: 2008-06-25 04:13:34
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - India agreed to provide Myanmar with US$84 million in loans and credits to build power transmission lines and an aluminum plant, state media said Wednesday.
Four agreements related to the loans were signed Tuesday during the visit to Myanmar by India’s Minister of State for Commerce and Power Shri Jairam […]
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