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- Henry I. Miller
Henry I. Miller is a Fellow in Scientific Philosophy and Public Policy at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. He was a US government official from 1977 to 1994.
STANFORD – The earthquake- and tsunami-related problems at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear-power plant have inspired endless commentary and speculation. Unfortunately, much of [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Apr 8th, 2011 No Comments »
- Daoud Kuttab
Daoud Kuttab is General Manager, Community Media Network, Amman, and a former Professor of Journalism at Princeton University.
AMMAN – Without much fanfare, the past few months have seen no anti-American demonstrations and no burning of American flags across the Arab world. Arabs seem increasingly willing to accept – and even [...]
Posted in Burma News on Apr 8th, 2011 No Comments »
AFP – Inflation may threaten global recovery: Indonesia
AFP – ASEAN finance ministers to discuss hot money
AFP – Senator criticizes US anti-trafficking approach
AFP – US highlights pre-uprising rights abuses in Mideast
Channel NewsAsia – ASEAN finance ministers warn of threats to economic growth
Time.com – Humanitarian Intervention: Whom to Protect, Whom to [...]
Posted in Statements on Apr 8th, 2011 No Comments »
Press ReleaseDate: 8 April 2011
The Network for Human Rights Documentation – Burma (ND-Burma) launches its post-election report, “Human Rights Violations in Burma’s 2010 Elections” online. The findings of this report demonstrate the elections-related human rights violations committed by the regime and its proxies during and just after the Election Day.
Despite [...]
Posted in Documentary Report on Apr 8th, 2011 No Comments »
Please find attached EBO’s latest analysis paper No. 1/2011 – The Situation in Karen State after the Elections.
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Posted in Articles in Burmese on Apr 7th, 2011 No Comments »
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- Ian Buruma
Ian Buruma is the author of, among other books, A Japanese Mirror, Inventing Japan, and The Wages of Guilt: Memories of War in Germany and Japan.
NEW YORK – Rarely – indeed, perhaps not since World War II – have the Japanese had such good press abroad. Even South Korean newspapers have [...]
Posted in Burma News on Apr 7th, 2011 No Comments »
AFP – Myanmar ‘likely to deport’ detained Canadian
AFP – Myanmar detains Canadian tourist
AP – Malaysian police recapture 76 detainees after riot
CNN – When rape is a tool of war
Asian Correspondent – Burma’s oil-for-hospitals farce
Asian Correspondent – Why does China deploy its soldiers on the China-Burma border?
The Electric New Paper – Cyber-bullied [...]
Posted in Burma News on Apr 7th, 2011 No Comments »
AFP – US keeps Myanmar sanctions, worry at China arrests
AFP – Malaysia arrests 58 escaped illegal immigrants
The Star Online – 105 escape from detention depot, 25 nabbed
Asian Correspondent – Burma’s Democratic Parties remind the President to keep his words
Asian Correspondent – Burma TV says bomb defused in downtown Yangon
Deccan Herald [...]
Posted in Documentary Report on Apr 7th, 2011 No Comments »
FBR REPORT: Karen State, Burma 30 March, 2011
On February 23, 2011, at 11:00pm, a villager from Mae Tha Raw Ta Village, Kaw Ta Ri Township, Dooplaya District was shot and killed by the Burma Army. Saw Par Ta Thi was 34 years old. The [...]
Posted in Feature Articles on Apr 7th, 2011 No Comments »
http://www.dvb.no/analysis/is-it-a-crime-to-write-a-book/15199
By BENEDICT ROGERS
Published: 7 April 2011
Benedict Rogers reads from his biography of Than Shwe at the FCCT in Bangkok
In the moments before I met Burma’s military intelligence for the first time, I could feel something in the atmosphere. It was intangible, but something did not feel right. When I came downstairs at [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Apr 6th, 2011 No Comments »
- Ian Bremmer
Ian Bremmer is President of Eurasia Group and author of The End of the Free Market: Who Wins the War Between States and Corporations?
NEW YORK – A prediction three months ago that popular protests would soon topple a dictatorship in Tunisia, sweep Hosni Mubarak from power in Egypt, provoke civil war [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Apr 6th, 2011 No Comments »
- Shahid Javed Burki
Shahid Javed Burki, former Finance Minister of Pakistan and Vice President of the World Bank, is currently Chairman of the Institute of Public Policy, Lahore.
LAHORE – In 2005, during a visit to Islamabad, I met Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf and told him of a conversation I had had with [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Apr 6th, 2011 No Comments »
- 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.
DUBAI – The consequences of the Japanese earthquake – especially the ongoing crisis at the Fukushima [...]
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Please find attached EBO’s 12th Political Monitor report.
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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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Posted in WORLD Digest on Apr 5th, 2011 No Comments »
- Harold James
Harold James is Professor of History and International Affairs at Princeton University and Professor of History at the European University Institute, Florence. His most recent book is The Creation and Destruction of Value: The Globalization Cycle.
PRINCETON – Can central banks contain inflation? We once thought they could. Over the past [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Apr 5th, 2011 No Comments »
- Mai Yamani
Mai Yamani’s most recent book is Cradle of Islam.
LONDON – Ali Abdullah Saleh is finished as Yemen’s president. Popular democratic protests that started on a small scale in mid-February outside Sanaa University have widened to encompass the whole country. The continuity and strength of the demonstrations clearly indicate that [...]