Daw Suu Started Poster Campaign for her Party Leaders
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Archive for January, 2009
R2P (Burmese)
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To Reproduce Bogyoke Aung San (Burmese)
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Burmese Book: Free Burma Poems
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Reviving Muslim Democracy
Posted in WORLD Digest on Jan 9th, 2009 No Comments »
By Charles Tannock
Charles Tannock is a member of the European Parliament, where he is spokesman on foreign affairs for the British Conservative Party. Charles Tannock is the British Conservative Party’s foreign affairs spokesman and the European Parliament’s Rapporteur on the eastern dimension of the ENP.
DAKKA – As fears about the Islamization of politics in the [...]
China’s Best Hope
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By Ian Buruma
Ian Buruma’s most recent book is Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance. He is a professor of democracy, human rights and journalism at Bard College.
NEW YORK – 2008 will not be remembered chiefly for noble or heroic acts. Yet, amidst the news reports over the [...]
South Asia at War
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By Hassan Abbas
Hassan Abbas, a Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard, is author of Pakistan’s Drift into Extremism: Allah, the Army and America’s War on Terror.
CAMBRIDGE – Last month’s terrorist assault in Mumbai targeted not only India’s economy and sense of security. Its broader goal was to smash [...]
The Rocky Road to Recovery
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By Joseph E. Stiglitz
Joseph E. Stiglitz, professor of economics at Columbia University, and recipient of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics, is co-author, with Linda Bilmes, of The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Costs of the Iraq Conflict.
NEW YORK – A consensus now exists that America’s recession – already a year old – is likely [...]
Is that Independence? (Burmese Poem)
Posted in Poems in Burmese on Jan 6th, 2009 No Comments »
Photo: Karen New Year Celebration in Fort Wayne
Posted in Documentary Photos on Jan 6th, 2009 4 Comments »
- reported by Aung Myint Htun
Karen and other ethnic people from Myanmar/Burma, now residing in Fort Wayne of the USA as expatriates and refugees, this week held celebrations to mark Karen traditional New Year.
Students from Sittwe University Protest
Posted in Burma News on Jan 6th, 2009 No Comments »
About 500 students from Sittwe University protested against shortage of school ferries on Monday, by walking home from the University, according to a student from Sittwe.
“We are facing problems while going to school because of shortage of ferries in our university, which is located 8 miles away from downtown Sittwe. Everyday we have to wait [...]
2009 Ox Year (Burmese)
Posted in Articles in Burmese on Jan 5th, 2009 No Comments »
Questions and Answers from “Can you asnwer?” (Burmese language)
Posted in Articles in Burmese on Jan 5th, 2009 No Comments »
New Exile Government with Action (Burmese)
Posted in Articles in Burmese on Jan 4th, 2009 9 Comments »
Photo: NLD Express NO HOPE for Burma at 61st Independence Day
Posted in Documentary Photos on Jan 4th, 2009 No Comments »
At a ceremony inside the headquarters of Burma’s main pro-democracy party National League for Democracy, to mark the 61st anniversary of the country’s independence, its chairman U Aung Shwe expressed his views that national unity is in disarray and that there is no harmony between the government and the governed, and that hope for the [...]
Opposition declared NO HOPE for Burma
Posted in Burma News on Jan 4th, 2009 No Comments »
According to AP news
Today, at a ceremony inside the dilapidated headquarters of the opposition National League for Democracy, to mark the 61st anniversary of the country’s independence, its chairman Aung Shwe, in a speech to about 250 party members and diplomats, said that national unity is in disarray and that there is “no harmony [...]
Encouraging or Discouraging News in the New Year (Burmese)
Posted in Articles in Burmese on Jan 4th, 2009 No Comments »