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By Shlomo Avineri
Shlomo Avineri, Director-General of Israel’s Foreign Ministry in the first cabinet of Yitzhak Rabin, is Professor of political science at Hebrew University.
JERUSALEM – As President Barack Obama’s special Middle East envoy, former US Senator George Mitchell, learned during his visit to the region, America’s efforts at Israeli-Palestinian peace-making are running up [...]
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By Shashi Tharoor
Shashi Tharoor, an acclaimed novelist and commentator, is a former Under-Secretary- General of the United Nations. He is now the Congress Party candidate for Parliament from Thiruvananthapuram in India’s southwestern state of Kerala.
New Delhi – A month after they first queued to vote in India’s mammoth general election, the country’s voters will learn [...]
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By Ian Buruma
Ian Buruma is the author of 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. His latest book is the novel The China Lover.
New York – Asked in September 2006 whether [...]
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By Joseph E. Stiglitz
Joseph E. Stiglitz, Professor of Economics at Columbia University, chairs a Commission of Experts, appointed by the President of the UN General Assembly, on reforms of the international monetary and financial system. A new global reserve currency system is discussed in his 2006 book, Making Globalization Work.
New York – As spring comes [...]
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AP
posted: 14 MINUTES AGO
YANGON, Myanmar -Myanmar authorities took into custody the doctor of detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi for questioning after an American man allegedly sneaked into her closely guarded home earlier this week, according her political party Saturday.
The detention adds more mystery to the alleged May 3 visit by the man who [...]
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AP
YANGON, Myanmar -The U.S. Embassy said Friday that the Myanmar government has ignored its repeated requests for access to an American arrested for allegedly swimming to the lakeside home of detained Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi and sneaking inside.
The man’s motives remained unclear, and the embassy said so far the only information the military-ruled [...]
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LETTER TO PRIME MINISTER
To/
Mr. Fredrik Reinfeldt
Prime Minister
Royal Government of Sweden
Subject: :Request to lead Swedish government and European Union in order to seek justice and criminal accountability for victims of heinous crimes in Burma/ Myanmar
Dear Your Excellency,
I would like to request your kind attention in regard to heinous crimes being committed by the ruling military regime [...]
Posted in News in Burmese on May 7th, 2009 No Comments »
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By Nava Thakuria
Nava Thakuria is a Guwahati (Northeast India) based independent journalist whose focus area remains the socio-political developments taking place in Northeast as well as its neighbouring Nepal, Bhutan, Tibet, Burma and Bangladesh.
The devastating tropical cyclone that struck Burma (officially known as Myanmar) a year ago had shown the world the real face of [...]
Posted in Burma News on May 7th, 2009 2 Comments »
YANGON (AFP) – Myanmar authorities have arrested a US national after he swam across a lake to meet opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi at the off-limits compound where she is under house arrest, officials said Thursday.
State media said the man, identified as John Willian Yeattaw, spent two days at the house in the main [...]
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AP
YANGON, Myanmar -Myanmar’s junta has rejected an appeal to free pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, whose most recent period of detention will expire May 27, her party spokesman said Tuesday.
National League for Democracy spokesman Nyan Win said the country’s military authorities summoned the assistant to Suu Kyi’s lawyer to the administrative capital of Naypyitaw [...]
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R.A.T. = Regular Army Troops
Thanks to David Law for the idea.
Feraya apologises for any inaccuracy of the Chin national costume.
“Burmese Military Continues To Demand Rations Supplies From Chin Villagers”
Chinland Guardian, 02 May 2009
http://www.chinlandguardian.com/index.php/Home/437
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By Jack P Shonkoff
Julius B. Richmond is a FAMRI Professor of Child Health and Development, and Director of the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University.
Cambridge – What if political leaders around the world could improve school achievement and job readiness, reduce crime, and extend healthy life expectancy – but the results [...]
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Burma is the worst place in the world to be a blogger because of its military government that severely restricts Internet access and imprisons people for posting critical content, according to a new report by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).
CPJ’s “10 Worst Countries to be a Blogger” also ranks a number of countries in [...]
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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; and author of ‘The Roman Predicament’.
PRINCETON – Whenever today’s economic crisis is discussed, analogies to the Great Depression are never far away. In its latest “World Economic [...]
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