Posted in Burma News on Apr 30th, 2011 1 Comment »
AFP – Myanmar woos aid groups, but wariness remains
AFP – China to foster cooperation with ASEAN
ANN – Chine Premier: China to speed up transport links with SE Asia
The Guardian – My hero: Aung San
Leader Community Newspapers – Warrandyte activists to share their Burmese insights
Gulf Times – Myanmar seeks help in military [...]
Posted in Burma News on Apr 29th, 2011 No Comments »
AP – US report puts Egypt with worst religion violators
AFP – Myanmar president picks Suu Kyi friend as adviser
Reuters – Myanmar, China agree cross-border rail project
Reuters – Thai PTTEP to end exploration in Myanmar’s Block M4
The Huffington Post – Green by Gunpoint: The Environmental Dictatorship?
The Nation – Burmese workers protest [...]
Posted in Documentary Report on Apr 29th, 2011 No Comments »
When Evan Williams reported for Dateline on the Burmese elections last year, there were low expectations of the poll delivering a credible government to the people of Burma.
Now, Evan returns to the story to see the reality, uncovering new evidence that votes were rigged in an elaborate system of election fraud.
In an exclusive [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Apr 28th, 2011 No Comments »
- Yoon Young-kwan
Yoon Young-kwan, South Korea’s foreign minister in 2003-2004, is currently Professor of International Relations at Seoul National University.
SEOUL – As China continues its unremitting rise, people throughout East Asia are wondering whether their states will ever be able to achieve the peaceful, stable relations that now characterize Europe. Given [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Apr 28th, 2011 No Comments »
- Jaswant Singh
Jaswant Singh, a former Indian finance minister, foreign minister, and defense minister, is the author of Jinnah: India – Partition – Independence.
NEW DELHI – Japan’s nuclear disaster has fueled fear and uncertainty among all of the world’s producers of nuclear power. For India, an energy-starved country, much is at stake.
That fear [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Apr 28th, 2011 1 Comment »
- Naomi Wolf
Naomi Wolf is a political activist and social critic whose most recent book is Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries.
NEW YORK – In October 2010, the current brothers of George W. Bush’s former fraternity at Yale, Delta Kappa Epsilon, marched through the first-year quad chanting, “No means yes! Yes [...]
Posted in Old Misellaneous on Apr 28th, 2011 No Comments »
AP – Myanmar, China agree to build rail link to seaport
The Nation – Burmese workers seize plant, take security officer hostage
The Malay Mail – Myanmar stabs wife over alleged affair
People’s Daily Online – Myanmarese killed by countrymen in Malaysia
PTI – UN to chart out future devp agenda for 49 most [...]
Posted in Cartoons & Humour on Apr 27th, 2011 2 Comments »
When I am bombarded by images of politicians, world leaders, egomaniacal dictators and bona fide nut cases, rather than being annoyed I fire back with a salvo of caricatures.
With Libya and Gaddafi headlining the news now and with Gaddafi currently leading the coo coo parade I can’t resist.
Here is a shot of crazy underway.
Jim McNalis
Posted in WORLD Digest on Apr 27th, 2011 No Comments »
- Peter Sutherland
Peter Sutherland is Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Migration, former Director General of the WTO and a former EU Commissioner.
LONDON – Europe’s reaction to the historic revolutions in North Africa has vacillated between exhilaration and fear. The natural instinct to celebrate and support democratization across the [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Apr 27th, 2011 No Comments »
- Gareth Evans
Gareth Evans, Australia’s former foreign minister, is President Emeritus of the International Crisis Group and Chancellor, Australian National University. He is the author of The Responsibility to Protect.
MELBOURNE – All the world hates a hypocrite. When states preach virtues they do not practice, or set lower hurdles for allies, trading [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Apr 27th, 2011 No Comments »
- Christopher Hill
Christopher R. Hill, a former US Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia, was US Ambassador to Iraq, South Korea, Macedonia, and Poland, US special envoy for Kosovo, a negotiator of the Dayton Peace Accords, and chief US negotiator with North Korea from 2005-2009. He is now Dean of the [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Apr 27th, 2011 No Comments »
- Sergei Karaganov
Sergei Karaganov is Dean of the School of World Economics and International Affairs, National Research University-Higher School of Economics.
MOSCOW – Two years ago this month in Prague, US President Barack Obama put forward his visionary idea of the world free of nuclear weapons. A year ago, a new strategic [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Apr 27th, 2011 No Comments »
- Stephen S. Roach
Stephen S. Roach, a member of the faculty at Yale University, is Non-Executive Chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia and author of The Next Asia (Wiley 2009).
NEW HAVEN – Asia needs a new model consumer. A post-crisis generation of “zombie consumers” in the United States is likely to hobble growth in [...]
Posted in Burma News on Apr 27th, 2011 No Comments »
AP – Myanmar urged to engage with US
AP – Myanmar leader enlists Suu Kyi friend as adviser
AFP – Myanmar’s main city bans plastic bags: state media
AFP – Ex-soldier shines light on hidden Myanmar war
IRIN – MYANMAR: Early warning system needed for fishermen
Sydney Morning Herald – Aust publisher’s Burma case again [...]
Posted in Cartoons & Humour on Apr 26th, 2011 No Comments »
Posted in Poems in Burmese on Apr 26th, 2011 No Comments »
PDF – _483_ Always remain in our memory
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Posted in Feature Articles on Apr 26th, 2011 No Comments »
By Antonio Graceffo
For seven days, they were locked in a container, traveling in the back of a truck, with no idea where they were going, they may just as well have been sold into slavery or prostitution at the end. But their situation in Burma was so dire that even taking such a risk seemed [...]
Posted in Documentary Report on Apr 26th, 2011 No Comments »
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