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US officials meet Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi AP
YANGON, Myanmar -The top U.S. diplomat for East Asia met with detained Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Wednesday, becoming the highest-ranking American official to visit the Nobel Peace Prize laureate in 14 years.
Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell greeted Suu Kyi with a handshake [...]
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by Michael Meyer
- Michael Meyer, Newsweek’s bureau chief in Germany and Eastern Europe in 1989, is author of The Year That Changed the World.
NEW YORK – For weeks, the scene has been re-played on TV screens around the world, as if the events were breaking news: joyous Berliners dancing atop the [...]
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US envoy meets Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi
Yangon, Nov 4 (DPA) US Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell – the highest ranking American official to visit military-ruled Myanmar in 14 years – met Wednesday Myanmar Prime Minister Thein Sein and opposition leader Aung San [...]
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Not So Great Expectations for U.S. Diplomats in Burma
US envoy in landmark talks with Suu Kyi
Suu Kyi, Campbell Hold Two-hour Meeting
Burmese-US Relations: ‘Mind the Gap!’
US Envoys Meet Burma’s PM, Aung San Suu Kyi
US officials meet with Burma’s Aung San Suu Kyi
US envoy meets Myanmar pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi
U.S. delegation holds talks with Myanmar’s [...]
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Migrant Worker Dismissed
Tuesday, 03 November 2009 10:22
A migrant worker was dismissed from his job due to the dissemination of educational booklets including information [...]
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US officials to meet Aung San Suu Kyi AP
YANGON, Myanmar -A U.S. State Department official met with Aung San Suu Kyi on Wednesday in a visit that marked the highest-level talks between an American diplomat and Myanmar’s detained opposition leader in 14 years.
Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell, the top U.S. diplomat for East Asia, [...]
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AP – Myanmar’s Suu Kyi supports US policy of engagement
AP – US officials hold talks in Myanmar in policy shift
AP – China oil company starts work on Myanmar pipeline
AFP – US envoys arrive in Myanmar
AFP – US envoys hold rare talks with Myanmar junta
AFP – US envoys in Myanmar ‘unlikely to [...]
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Senior US diplomats in Burma for talks with military junta, Suu Kyi
London, Nov 3 : Two senior Barack Obama Administration officials have arrived in Burma to hold talks with the military junta and detained democratic leader icon Aung San [...]
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Suu Kyi to Meet Campbell in Rangoon Hotel
Drugs, guns and war in Myanmar
China oil company starts work on Myanmar pipeline
U.S. diplomats land in Myanmar for meetings
U.S. Officials Engage Burma in Major Policy Shift
Myanmar, Lao foreign ministries meet in Bagan
US Mission to Burma Heralds Obama’s New Diplomatic Tack
US diplomats seek facts in Burma
Myanmar, Japan economic cooperation [...]
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S.H.A.N. : Tuesday, 03 November 2009 11:13 By: Sai Wansai
Kurt Campbell, the US Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, together with Scot Marciel, the US special envoy to Southeast Asia, will be in Burma from 3rd to 4th November on a fact-finding mission. It is the [...]
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Senior US officials to visit Myanmar AP
YANGON, Myanmar -Two senior U.S. officials made the highest-level visit to Myanmar in more than a decade for talks Tuesday billed as a key pivot in Washington’s longtime stance of shunning the junta, a U.S. Embassy spokesman said.
Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campell, the top U.S. diplomat for East [...]
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Unlike most Burmese exiles, Tun Oo sees next year’s general election as a chance for the NLD to refresh its old mandate. He recently spoke from his home in Fort Wayne, Indiana
Published: 1/11/2009 at 12:00 AM
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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 – Twenty years [...]
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by George Soros and James D. Wolfensohn
- George Soros is Chairman of Soros Fund Management and of the Open Society Institute. His most recent book is The Crash of 2008. James Wolfensohn is Chairman of Wolfensohn & Co and a former President of the World Bank.
BRUSSELS – Hated, alienated, [...]
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by Thitinan Pongsudhirak
- Thitinan Pongsudhirak is Professor and Director of the Institute of Security and International Studies, Faculty of Political Science, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok.
BANGKOK – The hospitalization of King Bhumibol Adulyadej has brought Thailand’s most daunting question to the fore. The country’s wrenching political struggle over the past several years [...]
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by Brahma Chellaney
- Brahma Chellaney is Professor of Strategic Studies at the Center for Policy Research in New Delhi and the author of Asian Juggernaut: The Rise of China, India and Japan.
NEW DELHI – By marking the Cold War’s end and the looming collapse of the Soviet Union, the fall [...]
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By Bertil Lintner
It’s time to consider how to bring the brutal generals to justice
Nothing galvanized the Burmese nation against its colonial masters more than a proclamation in 1917 saying that British officials would not have to remove their shoes when entering Buddhist temples, pagodas and monasteries.
It may sound strange to Westerners that this caused such [...]