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YANGON, Myanmar -Two journalists have been jailed for seven years each on charges of undermining Myanmar’s military junta after they were caught with a U.N. human rights report.
A court in a northeastern suburb of Yangon on Friday sentenced Thet Zin, editor of the local Myanmar-language journal News Watch, and Sein Win Maung, the paper’s manager, [...]
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Burma’s main pro-deocracy party, founded by Aung San Suu Kyi and landslide winner of 1990 elections in Burma, the National League for Burma, organized a political meeting last week in Rangoon, Burma, to mark 88th Anniversary of Burma’s National Day.
(Read the full story, in Burmese language, on http://nldlajb.blogspot.com/ )
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By Nick Witney
Nick Witney, former Chief Executive of the European Defense Agency, is a senior policy fellow with the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR).
LONDON – NATO, whose foreign ministers will meet next week, is dying. Death, of course, comes to all living things. And, as NATO approaches its 60th birthday next [...]
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By Naomi Wolf
Naomi Wolf, the author, most recently, of The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot and the forthcoming Give me Liberty: How to Become an American Revolutionary, is co-founder of the American Freedom Campaign, a US democracy movement.
NEW YORK – So, why did he do it? What led Barack Obama [...]
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By M J Akbar
- M.J. Akbar, a former member of India’s parliament and advisor to the late Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, was the founding editor of The Asian Age and is an Asia Society Associate Fellow.
MUMBAI – In most cities of South Asia, hidden beneath the grime and neglect of extreme [...]
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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 – I recently took part in a public debate with Paul Keating, [...]
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By Mark Zimmerman
Mark Zimmerman is Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Brown Medical School.
PROVIDENCE, RI – During the past few years, many experts have suggested that bipolar disorder – a serious illness resulting in significant psychosocial morbidity and excess mortality – is under-recognized, particularly in patients with major depression. Even patients [...]
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The Union Solidarity and Development Association (USDA) was formed on September 15, 1993, as a political support base for the military.
The association now claims to have 24 million members out of Myanmar’s 56 million population, and has been cultivated to become the military’s political arm for contesting elections.
“We will form two political parties for the [...]
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Yangon- A visiting European diplomat urged the opposition National League for Democracy (NLD) to participate in the upcoming 2010 elections, political sources said Saturday. Attilio Massimo Iannucci, Asia-Pacific chief of Italy’s foreign ministry, met Friday with senior NLD party members including veteran journalist Win Tin at the ambassador’s residence in Yangon.
During the two-hour discussion, Iannucci [...]
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- reported by Aung Myint Htun
Burma’s exile pro-deocracy activists in Fort Wayne, USA, organized a political meeting last week in Fort Wayne to mark 88th Anniversary of Burma’s National Day.
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- reported by Kay Thi
Burma’s National League for Democracy in exile Japan branch, known as National League for Democracy (Liberated Area-Japan), organized a ceremony last week in Tokyo to celebrate 88th Anniversary of Burma’s National Day.
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Burma’s National League for Democracy in exile, known as National League for Democracy (Liberated Area) NLD-LA, organized a ceremony last week in Tak District (near Thai-Burma border) to celebrate 88th Anniversary of Burma’s National Day.
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