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BBC News – Suu Kyi ’sympathy’ for Nobel winner
CNN News – Empty chair will represent imprisoned Nobel Peace Prize winner
AFP – Anger as Philippines says will skip Nobel ceremony
Asian Correspondent – Burmese refugees need Protection and assistance on Thai soil
People’s Daily Online – Myanmar FM meets U.S. high official
Bernama – [...]
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09dec10 FCOB Appeal Letter 6 Dec 2010
09dec10 FCOB Urgent Action Proposal on Refugee Situation 6 Dec 2010
09dec10 FCOB Conflict Backgrounder 6 Dec 2010
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- Gema Martin Munoz
Gema Martín-Muñoz is Director General of Casa Árabe and Professor of Sociology of the Arab and Islamic World at Madrid’s Autonomous University.
MADRID – Arab societies often appear rigid [...]
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- Nahas Angula
Nahas Angula is Prime Minister of the Republic of Namibia.
WINDHOEK – Namibia is a resource-based economy that has embarked on an ambitious development program. Our vision is to turn Namibia [...]
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09dec10 PDF – _391_Democracy Portent
Ko Ko Aung
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For Immediate Release
9 December 2010
DEMONSTRATION AT CHINESE EMBASSY TO MARK INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS DAY
Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW) will join Burmese and North Korean exiled communities on 10 December in a protest outside the Chinese Embassy in London to mark International Human Rights Day.
Burma and North Korea have two of the [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Dec 8th, 2010 No Comments »
- Shashi Tharoor
Shashi Tharoor, a former Indian Minister of State for External Affairs and UN Under- Secretary General, is a member of India’s parliament and the author of several books, including, [...]
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AP – WikiLeaks: Myanmar leader wanted football league
AFP – Suu Kyi urges aid to boost civil society in Europe message
AFP – Myanmar voter turnout 77%: state media
Asian Correspondent – Burmese junta abuses nation’s natural resources to hold on power
Asian Correspondent – Burma’s junta blames on the coming of second Panglong [...]
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08dec10 Venues Protection
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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.
JERUSALEM – Every Friday afternoon for more than a year, hundreds of Israeli Jews have gathered on a dusty little square in the middle of Arab East Jerusalem. There [...]
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Please find attached EBO’s 51st Election Monitor report.
08DEC10 EM_No_51_-_08-12-10
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 Office
Square [...]
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by Yebaw Day, 7 December 2010
*(some pronounce it like “deeper yin” while others say “dee pair yin “, as in a pair of boots.)
In 2003, Daw Suu and her entourage were driving around the country holding political rallies when they were attacked by thousands of thugs hired by government authorities while passing through the town of Depayin.
In the [...]
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FBR REPORT: 2010 Karen State, Burma 7 December, 2010
“I am weaker and not as clever as others, but I am giving my all to help my people be free. As for those of [...]
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- Ban Ki-moon
Ban Ki-moon is Secretary-General of the United Nations.
NEW YORK – Fortune has not been kind to Haiti. The pain and suffering arising from last year’s earthquake was already enormous, and [...]
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AFP – US diplomat in Myanmar for post-election talks
AFP – Myanmar people get Q and A with Suu Kyi
AP – Myanmar democracy icon bids farewell to son
AP – Michelle Yeoh could play Myanmar icon in film role
CNN News – Suu Kyi’s son leaves Myanmar after long-awaited reunion
UN News Centre – [...]
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07dec10 Analysis Paper on the Protests of the Announcenent of the Falsified Election Results by the USDP
Burma Lawyers Council
P.O.Box 144, Mae Sod Post Office, Tak Province 63110, Thailand. Tel/Fax: (66) (055) 542910,
Email: blcsan@ksc.th.com, Website: www.blc-burma.org
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FBR REPORT: Karen State, Burma 4 December, 2010
Dear friends,
We are on a relief mission to help people under attack by the Burma Army in Karen State. The reports we make here in the field are then sent directly to you by satcom.
However, the reports written [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Dec 6th, 2010 No Comments »
- 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, is now [...]