Charles Tilly’s Framework – by Khin Ma Ma Myo
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18dec10 Charles Tilly’s Framework
Archive for December, 2010
BURMA RELATED NEWS – DECEMBER 17, 2010
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AP – NewsBreak: Laura Bush speaks by phone to Suu Kyi
AFP – Myanmar’s Suu Kyi rules out party overhaul
Asian Correspondent – Misplaced US optimism on Burma
Asian Correspondent – Battles seem to continue on Thai-Burma border
Rediff.com – WikiLeaks: Suu Kyi’s time has come and gone, said India in 2004
AsiaOne – Myanmar [...]
Laura Bush speaks by phone to Suu Kyi
Posted in Old Misellaneous on Dec 17th, 2010 No Comments »
Jamie Stengle
AP
DALLAS -Former first lady Laura Bush, a longtime advocate for free elections in Myanmar, spoke for the first time Friday with the isolated Asian country’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who was released last month after more than seven years of house arrest.
Bush told The Associated Press that “it was thrilling” to finally [...]
Validated by Wikileaks on Burma uranium sales
Posted in Feature Articles on Dec 17th, 2010 No Comments »
DICTATOR WATCH
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Contact: Roland Watson, roland@dictatorwatch.org
VALIDATED BY WIKILEAKS ON BURMA URANIUM SALES
December 16, 2010
Please forward.
Wikileaks is in the process of releasing over 250,000 United States diplomatic cables. The less than 1% published so far have already changing the way we think about the world. Hitherto secret information has been revealed about one country [...]
Poem Hobby
Posted in Poems in Burmese on Dec 17th, 2010 No Comments »
17dec10 PDF – _397_Poem Hobby
Ko Ko Aung
Be see the Truth
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17dec10 PDF – _396_Be See the Truth
Ko Ko Aung
Reviving the West
Posted in WORLD Digest on Dec 16th, 2010 No Comments »
- Gordon Brown
Gordon Brown is a former prime minister of the United Kingdom.
LONDON – In 2008, at a time of financial peril, the world united to restructure the global banking system.
In 2009, as [...]
EBO’s 52nd Election Monitor report
Posted in Burma News on Dec 16th, 2010 No Comments »
Please find attached EBO’s 52nd Election Monitor report.
16dec10 EM_No_52_-_15-12-10
All previous Election Monitors as well as other information on this year’s elections can be found on EBO’s Elections Page.
If you would like to be removed from or added to this list, please email bxl@euro-burma.be.
Euro-Burma Office
Square [...]
BURMA RELATED NEWS – DECEMBER 16, 2010
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The Temasek Review – Lee Kuan Yew: ASEAN should not have admitted Burma, Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam
Bernama – Myanmar Launches Largest Hydropower Plant To Fulfil Electricity
Asian Correspondent – Burma’s Largest Hydropower Plant inaugurated for stronger military rule
Asia News Network – Burma needs ‘less obtuse’ leaders
AsiaOne – Dealing with Myanmar junta like [...]
SPDC is training sharp gun shooters
Posted in Poems in Burmese on Dec 16th, 2010 No Comments »
16dec10 PDF – _395_SPDC is Training Sharp Gun Shooters
Ko Ko Aung
That all they have
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16dec10 PDF – _394_That All They Have
Ko Ko Aung
The Berlusconi Paradox
Posted in WORLD Digest on Dec 16th, 2010 No Comments »
- Paolo Messa
Paolo Messa is Editor-in-Chief of the monthly magazine Formiche, and was spokesman for the Catholic party UDC and communication adviser to the Vice Presidency of the Council of Ministers [...]
Out of House Arrest, Into the Fire
Posted in Feature Articles on Dec 16th, 2010 No Comments »
Out of House Arrest, Into the Fire
Aung San Suu Kyi’s release is great news for the dissident and her supporters — but it’s not going to mean anything for democracy in Burma.
BY STEVE FINCH | DECEMBER 15, 2010 : Foreign Policy Magazine
Speaking after her release from more than seven years of house arrest in Rangoon, [...]
Difference Value
Posted in Poems in Burmese on Dec 15th, 2010 No Comments »
15dec10 PDF – _393_Difference Value
Ko Ko Aung
Time for Politics in Kabul
Posted in WORLD Digest on Dec 15th, 2010 No Comments »
- Fatima Ayub
Fatima Ayub is Senior Policy and Advocacy Officer at the Open Society Institute.
LONDON – As US and NATO soldiers prepare for their tenth Christmas in Afghanistan, a new buzzword is [...]
Asia’s Fragile Special Relationship
Posted in WORLD Digest on Dec 15th, 2010 No Comments »
- Jaswant Singh
Jaswant Singh, a former Indian finance minister, foreign minister, and defense minister, is the author of Jinnah: India – Partition – Independence.
NEW DELHI – “Tzu-Ch’in said to Tzu-Kung: …Our Master gets [...]
‘The Good, Bad and the Ugly’.
Posted in Articles in English on Dec 15th, 2010 1 Comment »
As in the film bearing the same title, three individuals, each of a different character, all wanting the same thing, but each having their own method of obtaining it. Burma is the reward for today’s bounty hunters, with a subtle but somewhat, dastardly, conniving attachment, stretching back many years, possibly [...]
BURMA RELATED NEWS – DECEMBER 15, 2010
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AP – WikiLeaks: Singapore Lee says Myanmar ’stupid’
AP – EU human rights laureate calls for change in Cuba
AP – A dozen nations added to child, forced labor list
Reuters – Major push could end malaria deaths by 2015: WHO
Bangkok Post – Burmese villagers question China over impact of dam
EarthTimes – Indonesia [...]