Chair Than Shwe (cartoon)
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Burmese)
Posted in Book Club on Feb 6th, 2009 No Comments »
Some memories about Ko Aung San’s student life (Burmese)
Posted in Articles in Burmese on Feb 6th, 2009 No Comments »
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The Jewish Conspiracy in Asia
Posted in WORLD Digest on Feb 5th, 2009 No Comments »
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.
TOKYO – A Chinese bestseller, entitled The Currency War , describes how Jews are planning to rule the world by [...]
Banks, States, and Financial Crises
Posted in WORLD Digest on Feb 5th, 2009 No Comments »
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 most recent phase of the financial crisis, since the collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008, has been characterized by large bank losses and the [...]
The Coming Showdown with Iran
Posted in WORLD Digest on Feb 5th, 2009 No Comments »
By Kenneth Weisbrode
Kenneth Weisbrode is a fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, and the author of Central Eurasia – Prize or Quicksand?
FLORENCE – US President Barack Obama’s administration has lost little time in announcing that it will seek direct talks with the Iranian government. This means, [...]
Davos Man’s Depression
Posted in WORLD Digest on Feb 5th, 2009 No Comments »
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 – For 15 years, I have attended the World Economic Forum in Davos. Typically, the [...]
Obama Across the Pacific
Posted in WORLD Digest on Feb 5th, 2009 No Comments »
By Fidel V. Ramos
Fidel V. Ramos was President of the Philippines from 1992 until 1998.
MANILA – Unlike his predecessor, US President Barack Obama is popular from the Atlantic to the Pacific. He has reached out to the Muslim world and pledged to address the Israeli-Palestinian conflict without delay. The nations of Asia have [...]
Aung San Suu Kyi laid down preliminaries for dialogue
Posted in Burma News on Feb 5th, 2009 No Comments »
Rangoon (AFP news) — Burma’s detained democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has refused to meet with the minister Aung Kyi assigned to organise the junta’s contacts with her, the government announced in state media Tuesday.
Aung Kyi’s appointment to coordinate junta contacts with Aung San Suu Kyi in October 2007 was seen as a major [...]
Myanmar junta says If UN wants stability,drop sanctions
Posted in Burma News on Feb 3rd, 2009 No Comments »
AP
YANGON, Myanmar -A leader of Myanmar’s military regime gave the U.N.’s visiting envoy a cold reception Tuesday, telling him the world body should lift economic sanctions and visa bans if it wants to see political stability, state television reported.
Special envoy Ibrahim Gambari met with Prime Minister Gen. Thein Sein before ending his four-day visit with [...]
Photo: Aung San Suu Kyi meets Gambari & NLD leaders, 02.02.09
Posted in Documentary Photos on Feb 3rd, 2009 No Comments »
NLD’s press conference after the meeting
Revolution (Burmese article)
Posted in Articles in Burmese on Feb 3rd, 2009 No Comments »
Aung San Suu Kyi tells UN envoy she’s frustrated
Posted in Burma News on Feb 2nd, 2009 1 Comment »
AP
YANGON, Myanmar -Detained Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi expressed frustration to a U.N. envoy Monday over the world body’s failure to persuade the country’s hard-line military leaders to give up their monopoly on power, her party said.
The Nobel Peace Prize laureate, who has spent more than 13 of the past 19 years under [...]
UN special envoy & desperate Burmese people
Posted in News in Burmese on Feb 1st, 2009 No Comments »
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U.S.envoy backs UN’s ‘responsibility’ to civilians
Posted in Feature Articles on Feb 1st, 2009 No Comments »
By JOHN HEILPRIN
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AP
UNITED NATIONS -U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice, in her first appearance before the U.N. Security Council, signaled Thursday that the new U.S. administration feels a “responsibility” to sometimes take on nations that abuse their own citizens.
“As agreed to by member states in 2005 and by the Security Council in 2006, the international community has [...]