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AP – Myanmar to chair ASEAN chair despite rights record
AP – Thai, Cambodian PMs fail to end border dispute
AFP – Myanmar row, Thai-Cambodia spat cloud ASEAN summit
Reuters – EU expects to agree Singapore FTA this year, more in 2012
Reuters AlertNet – Libraries for Myanmar’s Monastic Schools
The Jakarta Post – EU [...]
Posted in Poems in Burmese on May 7th, 2011 No Comments »
07may11 PDF – _487_ Picture Talk More Than Thousand Words
07may11 PDF – _487_ Picture Talk More Than Thousand Words
Ko Ko Aung
Posted in WORLD Digest on May 6th, 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 Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, DC.
BANGKOK – The military skirmishes between Thailand and Cambodia that have claimed more than [...]
Posted in Campaigns & posters on May 6th, 2011 No Comments »
Dear friend
Out of site in the ethnic states of Burma, where journalists and diplomats are banned from visiting, the dictatorship has stepped up attacks against ethnic minorities. Last month we received reports from local organisations in Shan State, Eastern Burma, telling us how the Burmese Army has been gang-raping women, torturing villagers, executing them, and [...]
Posted in Poems in Burmese on May 6th, 2011 No Comments »
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06may11 PDF – _486_ Don’t Let History Dirty
Ko Ko Aung
Posted in WORLD Digest on May 5th, 2011 No Comments »
- Omar Ashour
Omar Ashour is Lecturer in Politics and Director of the Middle East Studies Program at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter (UK), and the author of The De-Radicalization of Jihadists: Transforming Armed Islamist Movements.
LONDON – “He lived a hero, he died a martyr…if they killed one [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on May 5th, 2011 No Comments »
- Joseph E. Stiglitz
Joseph E. Stiglitz is University Professor at Columbia University, a Nobel laureate in Economics, and the author of Freefall: Free Markets and the Sinking of the Global Economy.
NEW YORK – The annual spring meeting of the International Monetary Fund was notable in marking the Fund’s effort to distance itself from [...]
Posted in Burma News on May 5th, 2011 No Comments »
AFP – Malaysia starts fingerprinting visitors
AFP – Appeal for release of jailed Myanmar reporters
AFP – Crew of hijacked Singaporean tanker ’safe’: report
Reuters – Financial integration a complex task for Asia
Asian Correspondent – Burma cannot preach democracy until journalists are freed
Asian Correspondent – To build a clean government, Burma must [...]
Posted in Poems in Burmese on May 5th, 2011 No Comments »
05may11 PDF – _485_Mother’s Loving Kindness Flower// < ![CDATA[
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Ko Ko Aung
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Ko Ko Aung
Posted in Campaigns & posters on May 5th, 2011 No Comments »
Media Release From Burma Campaign UK
Burma Regime Attacks Civilians In Shan State – UK Must Act
Embargoed 00.01 Thursday 5th May 2011
Burma Campaign UK today called on the British government to publicly condemn the dictatorship in Burma for breaking ceasefire agreements with ethnic organisations in Burma, including breaking the ceasefire with the Shan [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on May 4th, 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 – There are historical precedents for sovereign-debt defaults by the countries of Europe’s southern [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on May 4th, 2011 No Comments »
- Richard N. Haass
Richard N. Haass, formerly Director of Policy Planning in the US State Department, is President of The Council on Foreign Relations.
NEW YORK – The killing of Osama bin Laden by United States special forces constitutes a significant victory over global terrorism. But it is a milestone, not a turning point, [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on May 4th, 2011 No Comments »
- Shlomo Avineri
Shlomo Avineri, Director-General of Israel’s Foreign Ministry under Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, is Professor of Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
JERUSALEM – During the turmoil of the French Revolution, a popular saying arose: “How beautiful was the republic – under the monarchy.” The Revolution aimed at achieving Liberty, Equality, [...]
Posted in Burma News on May 4th, 2011 No Comments »
AP – Broadcaster urges Myanmar to free 17 journalists
AFP – Laos villages struggle with life after opium
Channel NewsAsia – Myanmar war crime probe urged
TAN Network – Burmese Karens Flee Battle into Thailand
The Cornell Daily Sun – Prof. Robert Lieberman Releases Film on Myanmar
Scoop.co.nz – An interview with a Burmese lawyer [...]
Posted in Burma News on May 4th, 2011 No Comments »
AFP – US lawmakers want urgent UN probe on Myanmar
AFP – Myanmar to grant amnesty to prisoners: official
AP – Germany launches quest for human rights logo
The Jakarta Post – Suu Kyi calls for ASEAN countries to push Burma’s democracy
Kompas – Suu Kyi Impressed with Political Transition in Indonesia
Asia Times Online [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on May 3rd, 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.
ISLAMABAD – Osama bin Laden’s death in a firefight with United States special forces will profoundly affect Pakistan’s relations with America. The death of [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on May 3rd, 2011 No Comments »
- 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 a dozen books, including India from Midnight to the Millennium and Nehru: the Invention of India.
NEW DELHI – India’s recent decision not to purchase American [...]