President of Burma.
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Archive for February, 2011
The Poverty of Dictatorship
Posted in WORLD Digest on Feb 10th, 2011 No Comments »
- Dani Rodrik
Dani Rodrik is Professor of Political Economy at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and the author of One Economics, Many Recipes: Globalization, Institutions, and Economic Growth.
CAMBRIDGE – Perhaps the most striking finding in the United Nations’ recent 20th anniversary Human Development Report is the outstanding performance of the Muslim countries [...]
The Egyptian Endgame
Posted in WORLD Digest on Feb 10th, 2011 No Comments »
- Robert L. Tignor
Robert L. Tignor is Professor of History at Princeton University. His latest book is Egypt: A History.
PRINCETON – Can Egypt’s long history help us to understand the uprising, already labeled a revolution, now underway in Cairo, and how it might turn out? I believe so. After all, the demonstrations by [...]
The Mystery of the Karmapa Lama
Posted in WORLD Digest on Feb 9th, 2011 No Comments »
- Brahma Chellaney
Brahma Chellaney is Professor of Strategic Studies at the privately funded Center for Policy Research in New Delhi and the author, most recently, of Asian Juggernaut: The Rise of China, India and Japan and of Water: Asia’s New Battlefield.
NEW DELHI – The seizure by police of large sums of Chinese [...]
The Health Challenge in Emerging-Market Cities
Posted in WORLD Digest on Feb 9th, 2011 No Comments »
- Shaukat Aziz
Shaukat Aziz was Prime Minister of Pakistan.
OXFORD – Emerging markets – Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Russia, Turkey, and some 15 other countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America – account for a rapidly growing share of the world’s population and economy. But their governments now face one of [...]
Rising Victory Flag together with Daw Suu
Posted in Poems in Burmese on Feb 9th, 2011 No Comments »
09feb11 PDF – _439_Rising Victory Flag With Daw Suu
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Alleged Burmese drug warlord Michael Kyaw Myint Hua Hu also faces allegations of insider trading.
Posted in Burma News on Feb 9th, 2011 No Comments »
Alleged Burmese drug warlord Michael Kyaw Myint Hua Hu also faces allegations of insider trading.
Photograph by: Arlen Redekop, PNG
A former Burmese businessman appeared before a B.C. Securities Commission tribunal on Monday to face allegations of illegal insider trading.
BCSC enforcement staff alleges that Michael Kyaw Myint Hua Hu, who now lives in Surrey, [...]
Burma’s Union Day – 12th Feb 2011
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Suu Kyi’s party seeks sanctions talks with US,EU
Posted in Old Misellaneous on Feb 9th, 2011 No Comments »
YANGON, Myanmar -The party of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi voiced support Tuesday for Western sanctions on Myanmar and requested meetings with the U.S. and EU on whether they should be lifted or modified.
The four-page report from the National League for Democracy said the sanctions primarily affect the authoritarian military regime and not the [...]
AAPP concerned about denial of family visits for sick political prisoners Press release
Posted in Campaigns & posters on Feb 8th, 2011 No Comments »
8 February 2011
The Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (AAPP) is deeply concerned about the ban on family visits for sick political prisoner Daw Htet Htet Oo Wai. She has been placed in solitary confinement and her family have not been allowed to visit her for three months. Daw Htet Htet Oo [...]
Does Egypt Need a Pharoah?
Posted in WORLD Digest on Feb 7th, 2011 No Comments »
- Alfred Stepan , and Juan Linz
Alfred Stepan and [...]
BURMA RELATED NEWS – FEBRUARY 05-07, 2011
Posted in Burma News on Feb 7th, 2011 No Comments »
Reuters – Suu Kyi party urges West to keep Myanmar sanctions
Reuters – Sanctions on Myanmar
AP - Indian navy captures 28 pirates from Thai vessel
AFP – Myanmar state media asserts junta head’s role
Gulf Times – Myanmar strongman ‘lurks behind new politics’
UN News Centre – Burma: Ban hopes election leads to ‘inclusive’ [...]
Don’t Enter To SPDC’s Trap
Posted in Poems in Burmese on Feb 7th, 2011 1 Comment »
07feb11 PDF – _438_Don’t Enter to SPDC’s Trap
Ko Ko Aung
Raw Situation Update from Arakan Free Burma Rangers Relief Teams
Posted in Documentary Report on Feb 7th, 2011 No Comments »
FBR REPORT:
Arakan State, Burma 6 February, 2011
We have previously reported on our Arakan team leader here. In this report, he gives a picture of the situation of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Arakan State. The text is his raw report edited for clarity only.
Notes on Arakan history: Prior to 1784, [...]
Echoes of Soviet collapse in Mideast revolt
Posted in Old Misellaneous on Feb 6th, 2011 No Comments »
AP
LONDON -Tunisia. Egypt. Yemen. The astounding Middle East pro-democracy domino effect evokes the shock waves of 1989 that toppled communism in Eastern Europe and eventually brought down the Soviet Union.
Two figures who helped shape the Soviet collapse — former Czech president Vaclav Havel and former Soviet foreign minister Eduard Shevardnadze — are watching the Middle [...]
Egypt and Burma
Posted in Editorials & Op/Eds on Feb 6th, 2011 No Comments »
05feb11 Egypt and Burma Final
Don’t want to see the scene already seen
Posted in Poems in Burmese on Feb 5th, 2011 No Comments »
05feb11 PDF – _437_ Don’t Want to See the Scene Already Seen
Ko Ko Aung
Than Shwe’s Puppet Show
Posted in Poems in Burmese on Feb 5th, 2011 1 Comment »
05feb11 PDF – _436_ Than Shwe’s Puppet Show
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