Posted in Documentary Report on Mar 22nd, 2011 No Comments »
FBR REPORT: Karen State, Burma 21 March, 2011
A report from January 17 documented events in Nyaunglebin District of Northwestern Karen State, including the completion of the Shwe Gyin Dam which has flooded several villages and displaced people in the area. Ethnic [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Mar 21st, 2011 No Comments »
- Vaclav Havel, Desmond Tutu, and Richard von Weizsäcker
H.R.H. El Hassan Bin Talal is Chairman of the West Asia-North Africa Forum; H.H. the Dalai Lama; 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 [...]
Posted in Burma News on Mar 21st, 2011 No Comments »
AP – Myanmar cracks down on massage parlors in capital
AP – Myanmar salt prices soar amid China panic buying
Reuters – China intensifies condemnation of Libya air strikes
Reuters – Saudi Aramco to supply crude to new PetroChina refinery
Asian Correspondent – Who is Commander-in-Chief of the Burmese army?
The Hindu – Nine Myanmarese [...]
Posted in Burma News on Mar 21st, 2011 No Comments »
Please find attached EBO’s 10th Political Monitor report.
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Apologies for the lack of a political monitor last week – this edition combines the past two weeks.
All Political [...]
Posted in Poems in Burmese on Mar 21st, 2011 No Comments »
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Ko Ko Aung
Posted in Old Misellaneous on Mar 21st, 2011 No Comments »
The no-fly zone is denying the Libyan people their right to self determination. That may seem like the oddest statement, but watching the grass roots, home cooked and home grown revolutions over the past weeks and months, it has become obvious that now is the time for the Arab Spring.
Throughout the Mid East people have [...]
Posted in Articles in English on Mar 20th, 2011 No Comments »
More than 50 years of Shan Struggle
Friday, 18 March 2011 13:15 Jai Wan Mai
(News Analysis) – Twenty armed groups are now operating in Shan State, 53 years after the Shan started an armed resistance movement against the Burmese regime.
A SSA soldier stands guard duty at Loi Tai Leng [...]
Posted in Cartoons & Humour on Mar 19th, 2011 No Comments »
Posted in Poems in Burmese on Mar 19th, 2011 No Comments »
19mar11 PDF – _472_ All the Dictators Will Clear From This World// < ![CDATA[
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Ko Ko Aung
Posted in Documentary Report on Mar 19th, 2011 No Comments »
FBR REPORT: Karen State, Burma 8 March, 2011
On February 25, 2011, at 3:10am, Burma Army troops from Pla Ko Camp shot 7 mortar rounds at Teh Boh Plaw village, Luthaw Township, Muthraw District. From 7:30 to 9:30am, they fired more mortar rounds and also used an [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Mar 18th, 2011 No Comments »
- Sanjeev Sanyal
Sanjeev Sanyal is the author of The Indian Renaissance: India’s Rise after a Thousand Years of Decline.
NEW DELHI – It is exactly 40 years since the Pakistani military regime of Yahya Khan initiated “Operation Searchlight” in March 1971. That military expedition was but the latest in a series of pogroms [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Mar 18th, 2011 No Comments »
- Thitinan Pongsudhirak
Thitinan Pongsudhirak is Professor and Director of Chulalongkorn University’s Institute of Security and International Studies in Bangkok. He is also a visiting professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC.
BANGKOK – After three consecutive years of deadly street protests, Thailand has arrived at the [...]
Posted in Burma News on Mar 18th, 2011 1 Comment »
IMF – Statement on the Conclusion of the 2010 Article IV Consultation with Myanmar
EarthTimes – Myanmar military to launch new newspaper
EarthTimes – Myanmar donates cash to Japan for quake, tsunami victims
People’s Daily Online – Myanmar experts dismiss allegations about acid rainfall
Strategy Page – Myanmar Hooray For Heroin
ReliefWeb – Myanmar: Cyclone Giri [...]
Posted in Poems in Burmese on Mar 18th, 2011 No Comments »
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Ko Ko Aung
Posted in Old Misellaneous on Mar 18th, 2011 No Comments »
TUNIS, Tunisia — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Thursday that a U.N. no-fly zone over Libya would require bombing targets inside the country to reduce the threat posed by Moammar Gadhafi’s forces.
Her assessment made clear the risk of possible military intervention as world powers consider broader steps to protect civilians and pressure [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Mar 17th, 2011 No Comments »
- Benjamin J. Sovacool
Benjamin K. Sovacool, a professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore, is the author of Contesting the Future of Nuclear Power and co-author of the forthcoming The International Politics of Nuclear Power.
SINGAPORE – Japan’s nuclear crisis is a nightmare, but it is not [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Mar 17th, 2011 No Comments »
- Stephen S. Roach
Stephen S. Roach, a member of the faculty at Yale University, is also Non-Executive Chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia and author of The Next Asia (Wiley 2009).
NEW HAVEN – The devastation – both human and physical – from the earthquake and tsunami in Japan is unfathomable. It is impossible at [...]
Posted in Burma News on Mar 17th, 2011 1 Comment »
AFP – Tourists could see S-E.Asia on single visa
AFP – Blatter hints at future retirement plans
Asian Correspondent – Burma’s junta starts war on ethnic rebels
Straits Times – Myanmar judge denies bail to Australian publisher
Asia Times Online – Counterpoint on Myanmar’s transition
St. Charles Republican – Local volunteers help arriving refugees [...]