Posted in WORLD Digest on Mar 6th, 2009 No Comments »
By Sally Satel
Sally Satel is a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute and a lecturer at Yale University School of Medicine. She is the editor of When Altruism Isn’t Enough: The Case for Compensating Kidney Donors.
NEW HAVEN – World Kidney Day, to be held on March 12, is part of [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Mar 6th, 2009 No Comments »
By Lowell Schwartz
Lowell Schwartz is a political scientist at the RAND Corporation, a nonprofit think-tank in Washington, DC.
WASHINGTON, DC – The Obama administration’s decision to withdraw the bulk of United Sates troops from Iraq over the next 19 months has sparked fears that Iraq will once again plunge into the wide-scale and debilitating [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Mar 6th, 2009 No Comments »
By Aryeh Neier
Aryeh Neier, the president of the Open Society Institute and a founder of Human Rights Watch, is the author most recently of Taking Liberties: Four Decades in the Struggle for Rights.
NEW YORK – In a way, the stir aroused by the decision by the International Criminal Court (ICC) to indict Sudan’s President Omar [...]
Posted in Burma News on Mar 5th, 2009 No Comments »
AP
YANGON, Myanmar -Myanmar’s military junta angrily dismissed two recent U.S. government reports critical of its human rights record and counter-narcotics efforts as unfounded and politically motivated, state media reported Thursday.
Myanmar’s Foreign Ministry issued two separate statements carried in the English-language New Light of Myanmar saying the country was the victim of a “disinformation campaign.”
The U.S. [...]
Posted in Articles in English on Mar 4th, 2009 2 Comments »
By Prof Kanbawza Win
Kanbawza Win (a) Dr Ba Than Win is a former secretary of foreign affairs to the Burmese prime minister. He is now the Dean of AEIOU program (the Burmese University in Diaspora) at Chiangmai University Thailand, and an adjunct professor of the School of International Studies at Simon Fraser University of British [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Mar 4th, 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 – Everyone now knows that we are in the worst economic crisis since the 1930’s. The protectionist responses are sadly familiar: protests against foreign workers, demands for [...]
Posted in Burma News on Mar 3rd, 2009 1 Comment »
Burmese pro-democracy campaigner Daw Aung San Suu Kyi will be given the Freedom of the City of Glasgow in absentia, at the City Chambers at noon on Wednesday, March 4.
A representative of the iconic politician, Dr Thuang Htun, will accept the award on her behalf. Daw Suu Kyi remains under house arrest imposed by Burma’s [...]
Posted in CULTURE on Mar 3rd, 2009 No Comments »
The sculptures, by Jim McNalis, of the three famous comedians from Mandalay, central Burma, who defiantly dared to crack jokes on Burmese brutal military regime.
Posted in Burma News on Mar 3rd, 2009 1 Comment »
According to an AFP news report:
Southeast Asian leaders urged Myanmar’s junta to move towards democracy at the summit in Thailand.
Thai Prime Minister Thai Premier Abhisit Vejjajiva said Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) leaders made the call during an “open” discussion with Myanmar Prime Minister Thein Sein.
“We had an open discussion on Myanmar where the [...]
Posted in Cartoons & Humour on Mar 3rd, 2009 No Comments »
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AP
YANGON, Myanmar -Witnesses say two explosions hit Myanmar’s largest city, but that no casualties have been reported.
An official says it was not immediately clear what caused the blasts Tuesday night, but that there are no casualties. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized to release information.
Witnesses say the first blast took [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Mar 3rd, 2009 1 Comment »
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– In one week, Michelle Obama sat for a formal White House [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Mar 3rd, 2009 No Comments »
By Tarun Khanna
Tarun Khanna is Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. His latest book is Billions of Entrepreneurs: How China and India are Reshaping their Futures and Yours.
CAMBRIDGE – Don’t look now, but capitalism – maligned in these bailout-ridden recessionary days – is reshaping Africa inexorably. What is different today [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Mar 3rd, 2009 No Comments »
By Yuliya Tymoshenko
Yuliya Tymoshenko is Prime Minister of Ukraine.
KYIV – Since World War II’s end, France has consistently risen to the challenge of restructuring Europe in times of crisis. In doing so, France became the catalyst not only for building European unity, but also for creating the prosperity that marked Europe’s post-war decades – [...]
Posted in Cartoons & Humour on Mar 1st, 2009 No Comments »