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ABC News – Jailed Australian replaced at Burmese paper
Asian Correspondent – Burmese junta continues to crush free press
Czech Happenings – Vaclav Havel calls for more pressure on Burma
KTRE Lufkin and Nacogdoches - How refugees came from Burma to Nacogdoches
Bernama – PM Flags Off ‘Silaturrahim’ Convoy To Thailand, Myanmar
PTI – Bangladesh [...]
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15feb11 PDF – _446_ Knowledge is Power
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AFP – Myanmar up to ‘old tricks’ with threats to Suu Kyi: US
AFP – Australian newspaper boss arrested in Myanmar
AFP – Myanmar strongman urges protection of ‘democracy’
AP – Myanmar junta warns against disrupting ‘democracy’
Reuters – “Tragic end” for Suu Kyi unless change: commentary
Reuters – U.S. criticizes Myanmar government threat on [...]
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- Timur Kuran
Timur Kuran is Professor of Economics and Political Science at Duke University and the author of The Long Divergence: How Islamic Law Held Back the Middle East.
DURHAM – In setting himself ablaze following a humiliating encounter with the police, the university-educated Tunisian vegetable seller Mohamed Bouazizi triggered a wave of protests [...]
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- Vaclav Havel, Yohei Sasakawa, and Karel Schwarzenberg
H.R.H. El Hassan Bin Talal is Chairman of the West Asia-North Africa Forum; Frederik Willem de Klerk is a Nobel Peace Prize laureate and former President of South Africa; André Glucksmann is a philosopher and essayist; Vartan Gregorian is President of the Carnegie Corporation; [...]
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- Michael Mandelbaum
Michael Mandelbaum is Professor of American Foreign Policy at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington D.C., and the author of Democracy’s Good Name: The Rise and Risks of the World’s Most Popular Form of Government.
WASHINGTON, DC – Hosni Mubarak’s resignation as President of Egypt marks [...]
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14feb11 PDF – _444_Happy Valentine’s Day
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- Jerome C. Wakefield
Jerome C. Wakefield is a professor at New York University’s Silver School of Social Work and Professor of Psychiatry at NYU’s School of Medicine.
NEW YORK – The shootings of United States Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and others in Arizona last month are but the latest in a series of [...]
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13feb11-Only Bogyoke Aung San is Our General
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13feb11 PDF – _443_ Trust Yourself Depend Yourself
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Pang-Long Treaty has reached 64th Anniversary, But no Ethnic Equal Rights as yet
By Zin Linn
Burma’s sixty-four year-long Historic Panglong Agreement has been ignored by the Burmese military regime so far. The said agreement has been disregarded by the generals as they rule the country highhandedly. The Panglong Agreement was signed on Feb. 12, 1947, between [...]
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12feb11 PDF – _442_People and Army Hand to Hand
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RedOrbit – Possible Crimes Against Humanity By Burmese Military In Chin State, Burma
AP – Myanmar’s opposition says sanctions on junta work
AP – Myanmar’s parliament approves all Cabinet nominees
AFP – Ex-military dominate Myanmar’s new cabinet: official
AFP – Suu Kyi party urges talks with West on sanctions
AFP – US senator Webb will [...]
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11feb11 PDF – _441_ Good Chance Are Comming
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Tun Yee, Shan Orphans Video Project
Proposal for video project grant
By Antonio Graceffo
Video Title: From Orphan to Soldier, Monk to Aid Worker
This is part of my grant proposal for a video I would like to do about the story of a Shan orphan, named Tun Yee.
Tun Yee’s life was dictated by war, but instead of driving [...]
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10feb11 PDF – _440_ the Person Who Like Candle Don’t Treat Wrong
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