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Jun 25th 2009
From The Economist print edition
Carrots, sticks and now a bullhorn fail to deter North Korea
ONE is an ageing North Korean cargo tub with more than one previous owner and a record of weapons trafficking. The other, shadowing the Kang Nam 1 as it chugs slowly round China’s coast on its way, it is [...]
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Jun 25th 2009 | BANGKOK
From The Economist print edition
A brutal offensive brings Asia’s longest civil war closer to its end
AFP
GOVERNMENT troops advance. Terrorised villagers flee. Rebels fight back. For six decades this has been the rhythm of warfare in eastern Myanmar, where ethnic-Karen insurgents fight the ruling junta. The latest offensive by Myanmar’s army began [...]
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Thai education reform to benefit Burmese migrants
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UNHCR Registered Burmese Refugees In Malaysia
85 Percent of Chins in Debt
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Thai education reform to benefit Burmese migrants
June 26, 2009 (DVB)
Burmese migrants and refugees living on the periphery of Thai society could benefit from the Thai government’s new plans to [...]
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AP
YANGON, Myanmar -A U.N. special envoy arrived Friday in Myanmar to pave the way for a possible visit by the U.N. secretary-general that would be politically delicate because of the continuing trial of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
Human Rights Watch and some governments have urged U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon not [...]
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AP – Myanmar says American main culprit in Suu Kyi caseAP – N. Koreans mass at rally in capital to denounce US
Reuters – U.N. special envoy Gambari to visit Myanmar on Friday
AFP – McCain: US needs tougher China message on Iran, NKorea
AFP – Iconic Obama artist unveils Suu Kyi image
AFP [...]
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Thursday, 25 June 2009 14:06 S.H.A.N.
The National Democratic Alliance Army-Eastern Shan State (NDAA) begins 5-day celebrations of the 20th anniversary of its ceasefire agreement with Burma’s military government tomorrow, according to sources from Mongla, 240 km north of Chiangrai’s Maesai district.
The group, hitherto part of the Communist Party of Burma’s armed forces, joined the mutineers [...]
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U.N. special envoy Gambari to visit Myanmar on Friday
Myanmar says American main culprit in Suu Kyi case
Myanmar says UN envoy due on June 26
Myanmar’s ’secret tunnels’ revealed
China executes two for trafficking heroin from Myanmar
Suu Kyi gets an Obama touch
N.Korea ‘Helping Burma with WMD’
Myanmar official media deny of DPRK Kang Nam cargo vessel
Pentagon: No decision yet [...]
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YANGON (AFP) – Myanmar’s junta said Thursday that a US man on trial for swimming to the house of Aung San Suu Kyi had links with exile groups in Thailand, apparently toughening its stance ahead of a visit by a UN envoy.
This Myanmar News Agency photo released in May 2009 shows John William Yettaw [...]
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Thu Jun 25, 6:04 am ET
YANGON (AFP) – United Nations troubleshooter Ibrahim Gambari is due in Myanmar on Friday, a local official said, to lay the groundwork for a planned visit by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.
Gambari would confer with members of the ruling junta and politicians including members of the party of [...]
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YANGON, Myanmar – Myanmar’s national police chief said Thursday that the American man who swam uninvited to the home of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi was the “main culprit” in the case filed against her.
The comment that could signal a less aggressive stance against the Nobel Peace laureate, who is being tried for violating [...]
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Groups Fear Malaysia to Deport Burmese Protesters
By JULIA ZAPPEI / AP WRITER Wednesday, June 24, 2009
KUALA LUMPUR — Malaysian authorities might deport up to [...]
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China executes two for smuggling drugs from Myanmar
Shenyang (China), June 25 (Xinhua) A court in China’s northeastern Liaoning province said Thursday that it had executed two men convicted of heading a gang that smuggled drugs from Myanmar.
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Dhaka to protest Yangon’s maritime stand in Bay of Bengal
Bangladesh is set to protest [...]
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Asia Times Online : By Brian McCartan
MAE SOT, Thailand – Fighting between government forces and ethnic rebel groups in Myanmar’s Karen State has in recent weeks pushed thousands of refugees into neighboring Thailand. The upsurge in hostilities stems from the military regime’s drive to transform the ethnic ceasefire armies into government-controlled [...]
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Asia Times Online : By Donald Kirk
LONDON – The magical mystery tour of a decrepit North Korean tub named the Kang Nam I around the rim of China and Southeast Asia exposes one of the more curious alliances of convenience in the international arms trade.
Whatever the Kang Nam [...]
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See Shepard Fairey’s latest campaign poster
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2009/06/shepard-fairey-new-post.html
5:26 PM, June 23, 2009
These days, every political movement needs a logo, and who better to supply the hip revolutionary imagery than street artist Shepard Fairey, whose poster of Obama (”Hope”) became a cultural phenomenon unto itself — a Warholian meta-event that combined fashion, hipsterism and a political call [...]