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- Yuriko Koike
Yuriko Koike, Japan’s former Minister of Defense and National Security Adviser, is Chairman of the Executive Council of the Liberal Democratic Party.
TOKYO – Asian manufacturers have always migrated in search of cheaper labor. Until recently, China seemed their ultimate destination, claiming an ever larger share of investment by Asia’s [...]
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- Dani Rodrik
Dani Rodrik, Professor of International Political Economy at Harvard University, is the author of The Globalization Paradox: Democracy and the Future of the World Economy.
CAMBRIDGE – One does not have to spend much time in developing countries to observe how their economies are a mish-mash, combining the productive with the unproductive, [...]
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10mar11 PDF – _467_ Sculptor and Stone Statue
Ko Ko Aung
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Please find attached EBO’s 9th Political Monitor report.
10mar11 PM_No._9_-_09-03-11
All Political and Election Monitors as well as other information on the 2010 elections can be found on EBO’s Elections Page.
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Euro-Burma Office
Square Gutenberg 11/2
1000 Brussels, Belgium [...]
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CP – Earthquake topples buildings in southwestern China near Myanmar, 24 dead, 207 hurt
AP – Myanmar to dredge major river, improve navigation
The Guardian – Aung San Suu Kyi | Top 100 women
ANN – Poppy farmers in Burma a growing problem in China
Chicago Tribune – Myanmar’s dazzling shrines to Buddha
People’s Daily Online [...]
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Photo report for talk given by Nant Bwa Bwa Phan to the Weston-super-Mare Amnesty International UK branch, at the Salvation Army Hall in W-S-M on Wednesday 9th March 2011.
Feraya Nangmone with Nant Bwa Bwa Phan (right).
Nant Bwa Bwa Phan with Audience at display table.
Posted in Old Misellaneous on Mar 9th, 2011 No Comments »
YANGON, Myanmar — Myanmar’s opposition said Wednesday that the country’s president-elect has no right to start appointing ministers to his new government since he has not yet been sworn in.
The charge by Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy was its second attack in less than a week on recent government actions [...]
Posted in Cartoons & Humour on Mar 9th, 2011 No Comments »
Dear All,
Who got dog??
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi or Daw Ma Kyaing??
Please see image(451).
Best
Mr Creator
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09mar11 PDF – _466_ the Thing You Can Not Arrest
Ko Ko Aung
Posted in WORLD Digest on Mar 8th, 2011 No Comments »
- Marwan Muasher
Marwan Muasher, former foreign minister and deputy prime minister of Jordan, is Vice President for Studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a senior fellow at Yale University. He is the author of The Arab Center.
WASHINGTON, DC – With Hosni Mubarak’s ouster in Egypt – widely considered [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Mar 8th, 2011 No Comments »
- 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.
NEW YORK – US President Barack Obama has been much criticized for the way he has handled revolutionary changes in North Africa and the Middle East. Actually, [...]
Posted in Burma News on Mar 8th, 2011 1 Comment »
Oakland Tribune – Burmese Nobel laureate speaks to Berkeley audience by phone
Perth Now – Australian’s bid for bail in Burma stalled
Globe and Mail – Myanmar’s AIDS strategy: treat only the sickest
Xinhua – Japanese film festival to be launched in Myanmar
PTI – Women’’s participation in politics: India ranks 98 in the [...]
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08mar11 PDF – _465_ Put All Our Effort Together
ko Ko Aung
Posted in Burma News on Mar 7th, 2011 No Comments »
IRIN – MYANMAR: Rights abuses lead to health “catastrophe” – report
AFP – Think tank urges overhaul of Myanmar sanctions
Reuters – Myanmar pilots among 6 dead in Russia crash
AP – Myanmar reports progress in opium destruction
Asian Correspondent – Is Burma’s new regime planning a racial war?
GlobalPost – Free Burma Rangers: a [...]
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- 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 available in French, German, Japanese, and Spanish.
NEW YORK – Suppose someone were to describe a small country that provided free education through [...]
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- 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, most recently Nehru: the Invention of India (in German).
NEW DELHI – The recent ouster of the Nobel Prize-winning Bangladeshi economist Mohammed Yunus [...]
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7mar11 PDF – _464_People’s Leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi
Ko Ko Aung