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By Harold James
Harold James is Professor of history and international affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University and professor of history at the European University Institute, Florence.
PRINCETON – The history of finance is partly the history of a struggle for a stable, secure way to measure value. And, like any quest for certainty in [...]
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By Shashi Tharoor
Shashi Tharoor, an acclaimed novelist and commentator, is a former Under-Secretary- General of the United Nations.
NEW DELHI – As Israeli planes and tanks exact a heavy toll on Gaza, India’s leaders and strategic thinkers have been watching with an unusual degree of interest – and some empathy.India’s government has, no surprise, joined the [...]
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By A.B. Yehoshua
A. B. Yehoshua is one of Israel’s most acclaimed novelists and essayists. His most recent novel, A Woman in Jerusalem, was awarded the Los Angeles Times book prize for 2006.
TEL AVIV – During the military operations in Gaza, code-named “Fused Lead” (after a Hanukkah song about a small spinning top – one of [...]
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By Dani Rodrik
Dani Rodrik, Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, is the first recipient of the Social Science Research Council’s Albert O. Hirschman Prize. His latest book is One Economics, Many Recipes: Globalization, Institutions, and Economic Growth.
CAMBRIDGE – The world economy enters 2009 with more uncertainty (and anxiety) [...]
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Thailand’s new Democratic Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said on Monday:
“The goals of Western countries and the countries in this region for Myanmar are not different – we all want to see some changes.
But our measures may be different because of two main reasons: cultural differences and the distance of the countries. Those who are far [...]
Posted in Burma News on Jan 11th, 2009 No Comments »
According to news coming from Rangoon, the Myanmar military regime has been lately targetting its attacks in the government controlled media on U Win Tin.
U Win Tin until late last year was the longest serving political prisoner in Burma/Myanmar’s notorious prisons. His sentence was repeatedly lenghtened because he tried to send information to the United [...]
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Participation can take two forms :
a party fields candidates
people vote
People can be forced to vote.
They can be dragooned. (an appropriate word for military coercion)
Or they can be intimidated by threat of job loss.
Starvation is a powerful weapon in the regime’s armoury.
If people can, nonetheless, show they voted against their will, this will say something about [...]
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- reported by Kay Thi
Human rights activists in Japan this week made demonstrations in front of United Nations Office in Tokyo, to call for more help from the UN to pressure Burmese military regime to free political prisoners.
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- reported by Naing Naing (Sittwe)
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Dr Saw Mara Aung, the leader of Arakan Democracy League ALD, and former Chairman of Committee Representing People’s Parliament CRPP (the committee representing elected people’s representatives of 1990 elections) had passed away on 06.01.2009 Monday.
Dr Saw Mara Aung was one of the most prominent and most respected pro-democracy leaders of Rakhine (Arakan) ethnic people of [...]
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Dr Saw Mara Aung, the leader of Arakan Democracy League ALD, and former Chairman of Committee Representing People’s Parliament CRPP (the committee representing elected people’s representatives of 1990 elections) had passed away on 06.01.2009 Monday. The funeral had been duly carried out, according to the traditions, in Burma on Wednesday.
Dr Saw Mara Aung was one [...]
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