What is important to do now
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Htun Aung Gyaw
Civil Society for Burma
Archive for February, 2011
article by Khin Ma Ma Myo
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Need Versus Greed
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- Jeffrey D. Sachs
Jeffrey D. Sachs is Professor of Economics and Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. He is also Special Adviser to United Nations Secretary-General on the Millennium Development Goals.
NEW YORK – India’s great moral leader Mohandas Gandhi famously said that there is enough on Earth for everybody’s need, [...]
The Middle East’s Feminist Revolution
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- Naomi Wolf
Naomi Wolf is a political activist and social critic whose most recent book is Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries.
OXFORD – Among the most prevalent Western stereotypes about Muslim countries are those concerning Muslim women: doe-eyed, veiled, and submissive, exotically silent, gauzy inhabitants of imagined harems, closeted behind [...]
The person who bring the hope
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Ko Ko Aung
BURMA RELATED NEWS – FEBRUARY 27-28, 2011
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AFP – Explosive device ‘wounds eight’ in Myanmar
Time Magazine – Why Did Burma’s Leader Appear on TV in Women’s Clothes?
Asian Correspondent – ILO must tackle Burma over forced labour
New Kerala – 12 Myanmarese nationals held
Hindustan Times – India to build roads along Myanmar
Khaleej Times Online – EDITORIAL: Engage Myanmar now
New [...]
Women Clothes and Than Shwe Skirts the Issue
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Why Did Burma’s Leader Appear on TV in Women’s Clothes?
By Robert Horn / Bangkok Thursday, Feb. 24, 2011
General Than Shwe of Burma, the dour and taciturn leader of one of the world’s most repressive military regimes, isn’t known for his feminine side. His contempt for pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is [...]
84,000 Karen Civilians Call on Ban Ki-moon to Help Stop Attacks in Burma
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84,000 Karen Civilians Call on Ban Ki-moon to Help Stop Attacks in Burma
On Monday 28 February 2011, a petition signed by 84,000 Ethnic Karen civilians will be handed in the office of the UN Secretary General [...]
Can not against the cloud of people
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Ko Ko Aung
Bahrain ousts ministers as Shiite figure returns
Posted in Old Misellaneous on Feb 27th, 2011 No Comments »
MANAMA, Bahrain — Bahrain’s king ousted four cabinet members Saturday as a prominent opposition leader returned from exile and urged the country’s rulers to back up reform promises with action. Thousands of demonstrators pressed their demands for change by marching on government buildings in the capital.
Two members of the royal family were among the replaced [...]
BURMA RELATED NEWS – FEBRUARY 26, 2011
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IPS – Global Fund Back With New Hope
New Zealand Herald – Looking to build hope in a troubled Burma
Reuters – Q+A: How U.S. financial sanctions on Libya might work
CNN – 25 years on, Philippines offers lessons for Egypt
E-Commerce Times – Worries Abound Over US Cyber-Emergency Internet Policy
ANN – Uprisings possible without [...]
BURMA RELATED NEWS – FEBRUARY 25, 2011
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UN News Centre – Myanmar’s human rights abuses burden region with exodus of refugees – UN expert
Free Malaysia Today – Suu Kyi feels sorry for Myanmar refugees
AFP – Myanmar jails five dissidents: lawyer
VOA News – Aung San Suu Kyi Notes Parallels Between Middle East and Burma
Radio Australia – Aung San Suu [...]
Libya’s Lord of the Flies
Posted in WORLD Digest on Feb 25th, 2011 No Comments »
- Omar Ashour
Omar Ashour is a Lecturer in Middle East Politics and Director of the Middle East Graduate Studies Program at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter (UK). He is the author of The De-Radicalization of Jihadists: Transforming Armed Islamist Movements.
LONDON – “I am a glory that will [...]
Noble Kind Heart Persons
Posted in Poems in Burmese on Feb 25th, 2011 No Comments »
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Ko Ko Aung
Choosing Right Path and Real Politics (Part 17)
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News on Migrants & Refugees- 25 February, 2011 (English & Burmese)
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Myanmar court denies bail to Australia editor
Posted in Old Misellaneous on Feb 25th, 2011 1 Comment »
YANGON, Myanmar -A Myanmar court has refused to grant bail to the Australian founder and editor of a local English-language newspaper who was charged with violating the immigration law.
Lawyers for Ross Dunkley say the judge did not give a reason for denying bail to their client, who was forced from his job as editor of [...]
The Cultural Contradictions of Multiculturalism
Posted in WORLD Digest on Feb 24th, 2011 No Comments »
- Paulina Neuding
Paulina Neuding is the editor in chief of Neo magazine
STOCKHOLM – State-sponsored multiculturalism has failed. That proclamation by British Prime Minister David Cameron, following hard on the heels of similar renunciations of multiculturalism by German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy, suggests that a page is being [...]