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AFP/File – Photo taken in 2009 shows Myanmar democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi (C) smiling following a meeting with US envoy Kurt Campbell (not pictured) at a hotel in Yangon. Campbell will visit Myanmar if the ruling military junta allows him to meet with opposition icon Aung [...]
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07May10 News on Migrants & Refugees- 7 May, 2010 (English & Burmese)
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YANGON, Myanmar -A faction of Aung San Suu Kyi’s opposition declared Friday it will form its own political party to contest Myanmar’s first elections in two decades, a day after the democracy icon’s party disbanded to boycott the vote it says will be flawed.
Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy, which won Myanmar’s last election in [...]
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- Ian Buruma
Ian Buruma is Professor of Democracy and Human Rights at Bard College. His latest book is Taming the Gods: Religion and Democracy on Three Continents.
NEW YORK – Elites are [...]
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07May10 PDF – _323_They Gather Army This Way
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07May10 Burma Opposition Party Looks Beyond Its Closure (Burmese Version)
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06May10 News on Migrants & Refugees- 6 May, 2010 (English & Burmese)
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AP – Myanmar opposition party looks beyond its closure
AFP – Aung San Suu Kyi’s party to be abolished
AFP – Myanmar’s Suu Kyi fails to prevent party dissolution
AFP – Myanmar police accuse exile group over Yangon blasts
VOA News – Burma’s Supreme Court Refuses Democracy Party’s Petition
VOA News [...]
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06May10 EM_No_21_-_05-05-10
Please find attached EBO’s 21st Election Monitor report. All previous Election Monitors as well as other information on this year’s elections can be found on EBO’s Elections Page.
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Euro-Burma [...]
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YANGON, Myanmar -Leaders of democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi’s opposition party said Thursday they would continue working as a social movement after Myanmar’s new election law forces its dissolution as a political party at midnight.
Officials at the National League for Democracy tidied their desks, locked their files in cupboards and padlocked the gate to [...]
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- Ban Ki-moon
Ban Ki-moon is Secretary-General of the United Nations.
Mothers’ Day is upon us in many countries around the world. Children of all ages will give flowers, make breakfast, call home.
This is [...]
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06May10 PDF – _322_Who Wish to See Can See
Ko Ko Aung
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AFP/File – File photo of one of the main streets in downtown Yangon. Police in Myanmar said Thursday they had arrested …
NAYPYIDAW (AFP) – Police in Myanmar said Thursday they had arrested a man in connection with deadly blasts in a Yangon park last month, blaming the attacks [...]
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- Daoud Kuttab
Daoud Kuttab is Director of the Community Media Network in Amman, Jordan and a former Professor of Journalism at Princeton University.
RAMALLAH – Something is happening with the Middle East conflict, [...]
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- Joseph E. Stiglitz
Joseph E. Stiglitz is University Professor at Columbia University and a Nobel laureate in Economics. His latest book, Freefall: Free Markets and the Sinking of the Global Economy, [...]
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AFP – Top US Senator pushes Myanmar sanctions
AFP – US envoy looks at Myanmar trip: officials
AFP – US reacts cautiously to Myanmar political changes
AFP – Myanmar cyclone victims struggle two years on
AP – Myanmar opposition holds last event as legal party
AP – Landslides kills 15 near China-Myanmar [...]
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YANGON, Myanmar -The party of detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, founded more than 20 years ago to challenge military rule in Myanmar, held a final gathering Wednesday at its headquarters before its forced dissolution.
The National League for Democracy, which won a 1990 election but was denied power by the army, held an early [...]
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05May10 PDF – 321 Difference
Ko Ko Aung