Posted in Burma News on Aug 4th, 2010 No Comments »
Dear Friends,
Below are the “2010 Election Watch” highlights for Week 21, covering 27 July – 2 August:
Developments
The SPDC Election Commission told four leaders of the National Democratic Force that they must seek pardons for their past political activities if they want to participate in the upcoming elections. Meanwhile, about 40 plainclothes police monitored the opening [...]
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Posted in Burma News on Aug 3rd, 2010 No Comments »
AFP – Fears for refugees as Myanmar election looms
AP – Suu Kyi party renegades open new headquarters
AP – Malaysia tightens visa requirements to curb abuse
AP – Fabled Burmese fighters forgotten but forgiving
Reuters – China Taiyuan says to invest in CNMC’s Myanmar nickel project
Asia Sentinel – Burma Turns a Cold Shoulder [...]
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Kanbawza Win
Nobody knows where the little Shan village of Wan Hsa La is or else the battle was ever fought there. It was in 1948 when a pitch battle was fought between the Burmese army (at that time it was not yet the pocket army of the dictators but under the able leadership of Brigadier [...]
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Posted in WORLD Digest on Aug 3rd, 2010 No Comments »
- Jonathan Small
Jonathan Small is a Queen’s Counsel in London.
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LONDON – The budget-cutting austerity program of Britain’s new coalition government has been claiming all the headlines, but David Cameron’s cabinet is [...]
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Posted in WORLD Digest on Aug 3rd, 2010 No Comments »
- Gareth Evans
Gareth Evans, a former Foreign Minister of Australia and President Emeritus of the International Crisis Group, is Co-Chair of the International Commission on Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament and [...]
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Posted in WORLD Digest on Aug 2nd, 2010 No Comments »
- Eswar Prasad
Eswar Prasad is Professor of Economics at Cornell University and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. He is the former head of the IMF’s Financial Studies Division.
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ITHACA, NEW [...]
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Posted in Burma News on Aug 2nd, 2010 No Comments »
Sittwe (2/8/2010): Ashion Pyinya Sara, an Arakanese historian monk who was arrested by military authorities on allegations of impropriety, has refused to eat since 27 July, when authorities detained him in Sittwe, the capital of Arakan State, reported a town elder.
He said, “I heard through an inside police source that Ashion Pyinya [...]
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Posted in Burma News on Aug 2nd, 2010 No Comments »
02Aug10 July 2010 Burma Bulletin
Dear Friends,
Please find attached the July 2010 issue of ALTSEAN Burma Bulletin.
The Burma Bulletin is a short month in review of events in Burma, particularly those of interest to the democracy movement and human rights activists.
In the July 2010 issue you will find:
* 2010 elections: double standards, [...]
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Anne Gearan AP
WASHINGTON (Aug. 1) — The U.S. military has a plan to attack Iran, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Sunday, although he thinks a military strike is probably a bad idea.
Not long after Adm. Mike Mullen’s aired on a Sunday talk show, the deputy chief of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard was [...]
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Dear All,
She is always winner of Crazy Of Burma Award.
Best
Mr Creator
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By Hannah Beech / Pyin U Lwin Monday, Jul. 26, 2010
TIME: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2003999,00.html
Ruling class Army cadets at ease in a juice bar in Pyin U Lwin, home to top military academies for training officers
Reportage / Getty Images for TIME
The weekend invasion begins with the click-clack of thumbtack-adorned shoes. For four hours, senior cadets [...]
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