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Archive for September, 2008
Russia blasts US dominant role in world affairs
Posted in WORLD Digest on Sep 27th, 2008 No Comments »
By EDITH M. LEDERER
AP
UNITED NATIONS -Russia called Saturday for a revival of the global anti-terrorism coalition that formed after Sept. 11, 2001 but started to unravel with what it called the subsequent domination by a single power — a veiled reference to the United States.
“The solidarity of the international community fostered on the wave of [...]
The American Anti-Intellectual Threat
Posted in WORLD Digest on Sep 26th, 2008 1 Comment »
By Jeffrey D. Sachs
Professor of Economics and Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. He is also a Special Adviser to United Nations Secretary-General on the Millennium Development Goals.
NEW YORK – In recent years, the United States has been more a source of global instability than a source of global problem-solving. Examples include the [...]
The State of the World
Posted in WORLD Digest on Sep 26th, 2008 No Comments »
By Ban Ki-Moon
Ban Ki-moon is Secretary-General of the United Nations.
NEW YORK – We all recognize today’s perils. A global financial crisis. A global energy crisis. A global food crisis. Trade talks have collapsed, yet again.
There are new outbreaks of war and violence. Climate change ever more clearly threatens our planet. We say that global problems [...]
Marginalizing Malaria
Posted in WORLD Digest on Sep 26th, 2008 No Comments »
By Richard Feachem
Sir Richard Feachem is Professor of Global Health, University of California, San Francisco.
SAN FRANCISCO – Last fall, Bill and Melinda Gates sent shock waves through the global health community when they announced the audacious goal of eradicating human malaria from the face of the planet. Nothing less, they urged, would be enough.
Heated [...]
The Palin Non-Factor
Posted in WORLD Digest on Sep 26th, 2008 No Comments »
By Chris Patten
Chris Patten is a former EU Commissioner for External Relations, Chairman of the British Conservative Party, and was the last British Governor of Hong Kong. He is currently Chancellor of Oxford University and a member of the British House of Lords.
LONDON – Senator John McCain is a genuine American hero. He was a [...]
No Blank Check for Paulson
Posted in WORLD Digest on Sep 26th, 2008 No Comments »
By George Soros
George Soros is chairman of Soros Fund Management.
NEW YORK – US Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson’s $700billion rescue package has run into difficulty on Capitol Hill. Rightly so: it is ill-conceived. Congress would be abdicating its responsibility if it gave the Treasury secretary a blank cheque. The bill submitted to Congress even had language [...]
Junta Threatens Action Against Opposition
Posted in Burma News on Sep 26th, 2008 No Comments »
AP news
YANGON, MYANMAR: Myanmar’s military government has threatened the party of detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi with legal action unless it retracts a statement criticizing the country’s new constitution.
A spokesman for Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy party, Nyan Win, said police chief Maj. Gen. Khin Yi and two other officials delivered [...]
Lessons In Democracy
Posted in Campaigns & posters on Sep 26th, 2008 No Comments »
Announcing a new resource for civics education. Lessons in Democracy is a straightforward, short, yet comprehensive guide to the democratic system.
Lessons in Democracy was conceived as an initiative to teach the people of Burma about democracy. Our goal is to broadcast a series of ten minute radio lessons into the country. This will enable the [...]
Generals’ Stuffy Noses (Humour)
Posted in Articles in Burmese, Cartoons & Humour on Sep 26th, 2008 3 Comments »
Twenty Years Old Creature
Posted in Cartoons & Humour on Sep 26th, 2008 No Comments »
Tight security prevents repeat of Myanmar protests
Posted in Burma News on Sep 26th, 2008 No Comments »
AFP news
On the first anniversary of the junta’s suppression of mass demonstrations led by Buddhist monks, Nyan Win of the National League for Democracy said tight security measures prevented any new protests taking place.
“My feeling on the anniversary is that I have seen people completely show their desire last year but because of the tight [...]
Burmese dissident re-arrested shortly after released
Posted in Burma News on Sep 26th, 2008 No Comments »
AP
YANGON, Myanmar -A former aide to Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi was re-arrested less than 24 hours after being freed by the military government in a mass amnesty, an opposition spokesman said Friday.
Win Htein, 64, who had been in prison since 1996, was among seven members of Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy [...]
Food crisis in Western Burma, Chin state results in school drop outs
Posted in Burma News on Sep 25th, 2008 No Comments »
Khonumthung news
September 25, 2008 – Many students have dropped out of schools in remote areas of Chin state, western Burma because of acute food shortage from rat infestation in the region.
Food crisis in Chin state results in school drop outs
A school in Sabawngpi village in Matupi Township in Chin state is closed because students are [...]
Myanmar junta rules roost 1 year after crackdown on Saffron Revolution
Posted in Burma News on Sep 25th, 2008 1 Comment »
By GRANT PECK, AP news
BANGKOK, Thailand -As the crowd marching through the streets of Myanmar’s biggest city swelled to 100,000, the question wasn’t what did they want, but when would the government crack down.
The answer came days later, on Sept. 26, 2007, when truckloads of heavily armed soldiers and riot police flooded Yangon’s streets, hurling [...]
Yangon bomb wounds 7
Posted in Burma News on Sep 25th, 2008 No Comments »
By Aung Hla Tun
YANGON (Reuters) – A bomb exploded outside City Hall in Myanmar’s main city Thursday, wounding four people the day before the anniversary of a bloody military crackdown on anti-government protests.
“It seems to have been a small bomb but we are still carrying out investigations,” a policeman, who did not want to be [...]
1st Anniversary Burma’s saffron revolution
Posted in Campaigns & posters on Sep 23rd, 2008 No Comments »
Time is of the Essence
Posted in Articles in English on Sep 23rd, 2008 No Comments »
Gambari’s UN hasn’t come up with anything substantial for the people of Burma other than tabling some points for the military rulers in Burma to ponder upon. There is nothing substantial to back them up or follow. Hence and likely also, they are not giving a damn about it as evidenced today. And Ban Ki-moon’s [...]