hand to hand reach our goal
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PDF – _502_ Hand to Hand Reach Our Goal
Ko Ko Aung
Archive for June, 2011
Good Health Long Life Good Luck to Ammay Suu
Posted in Poems in Burmese on Jun 23rd, 2011 No Comments »
23jun11 PDF – _501_ Good Health Long Life Good Luck to Ammay Suu
Ko Ko Aung
The Economic Governance the EU Needs
Posted in WORLD Digest on Jun 23rd, 2011 No Comments »
- Guy Verhofstadt
Guy Verhofstadt, a former prime minister of Belgium, is the leader of the Liberal and Democrat group in the European Parliament.
BRUSSELS – Two lessons have emerged from Europe’s financial crisis. First, there is no substitute for timely and coordinated action when the single currency is under pressure. Second, all eurozone [...]
The Long and Winding Road to Recovery
Posted in WORLD Digest on Jun 23rd, 2011 No Comments »
- Olivier Blanchard, Jose Vinals, and Carlo Cottarelli
Olivier Blanchard is Chief Economist of the IMF. José Viñals is Financial Counselor and Director of the IMF’s Monetary and Capital Markets Department. Carlo Cottarelli is Director of the IMF’s Fiscal Affairs Department.
SAO PAULO – The global economy has bounced back strongly from the [...]
NATO and the New Turkey
Posted in WORLD Digest on Jun 23rd, 2011 No Comments »
- Sinan Ulgen
Sinan Ülgen, Chairman of the Istanbul-based Center for Economics and Foreign Policy Studies (EDAM), is a visiting scholar at Carnegie Europe.
ISTANBUL – Turkey joined NATO at the beginning of the Cold War to gain United States protection in the event of a Soviet attack. Back then, Turkey was [...]
America’s Dangerous Debt Ceiling Debate
Posted in WORLD Digest on Jun 23rd, 2011 No Comments »
- Mohamed A. El-Erian
Mohamed A. El-Erian is CEO and co-CIO of PIMCO, and author of When Markets Collide.
NEWPORT BEACH – It has been raised more than 70 times in the last 50 years, mostly without commotion. It must be raised again this summer if the United States government is to continue paying its [...]
Are Saudi Women Next?
Posted in WORLD Digest on Jun 23rd, 2011 No Comments »
- Mai Yamani
Mai Yamani’s most recent book is Cradle of Islam.
LONDON – The unexpected visibility and assertiveness of women in the revolutions unfolding across the Arab world – in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Bahrain, Syria, and elsewhere – has helped propel what has become variously known as the “Arab awakening” or “Arab [...]
Erdo?an’s Economic Revolution
Posted in WORLD Digest on Jun 23rd, 2011 No Comments »
- Ibrahim Ozturk
?brahim Öztürk is Professor of Economics at Marmara University in ?stanbul.
ISTANBUL – Since 2002, the Justice and Development Party (AKP) has been governing Turkey with remarkable success in economic terms. Indeed, its record is almost unique in Turkey’s modern history, comparable only with the rule of the Democratic Party (DP), [...]
What is ASEAN?
Posted in Editorials & Op/Eds on Jun 23rd, 2011 No Comments »
Kanbawza Win
The international community who are not so familiar with the acronym of ASEAN may be wondering what it stands for? While the standard joke among the informed, floating around is an Association of Southeast Asia Authoritarian Nations. Perhaps it is partly true now that the Burmese Junta’s representative with its waving Gaung Baung [...]
FBR Relief Team Mission Report – Shan State
Posted in Documentary Photos on Jun 23rd, 2011 No Comments »
FBR REPORT: Shan State, Burma May, 2011
Mission Summary:
Dear All,
On the fourth of May, four newly trained FBR relief teams along with the Shan FBR HQ team went on a seven day mission to southeastern Shan State. The teams visited two villages and the medics treated [...]
People in Karen State Face Attacks, Forced Labor, Land Confiscation and Disastrous Weather; FBR Teams Bring Relief
Posted in Documentary Report on Jun 23rd, 2011 No Comments »
FBR REPORT: Karen State, Burma 22 June, 2011
In This Report:
Here is a compilation of information from Free Burma Ranger teams currently operating in several areas of Northern and Central Karen [...]
Suu Kyi urges Congress to push Burma democracy
Posted in Old Misellaneous on Jun 23rd, 2011 No Comments »
MATTHEW PENNINGTON | June 22, 2011 04:05 PM EST | AP
WASHINGTON — Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi addressed U.S. lawmakers by video on Wednesday, calling for a commission of inquiry into rights abuses in Myanmar and urging lawmakers’ support for steps to open up “the real road to democracy” there.
Suu Kyi, freed from house [...]
Myanmar blames Kachin rebels for fighting
Posted in Old Misellaneous on Jun 18th, 2011 No Comments »
June 18, 2011 01:15 AM EST | AP
YANGON, Myanmar — Myanmar’s government has blamed ethnic Kachin rebels for starting a week of fighting along the country’s northeastern border with China.
The state-run New Light of Myanmar reported Saturday that the army battled rebels only to protect a major Chinese-built hydroelectric power project that had come under [...]
Report: 10,000 flee fighting in northern Burma
Posted in Old Misellaneous on Jun 16th, 2011 No Comments »
June 16, 2011 08:44 AM EST | AP
BANGKOK — As many as 10,000 people have reportedly become refugees from fighting in northern Myanmar between government troops and a militia of the Kachin ethnic minority.
The website of the Kachin News Group, associated with anti-government Kachin exiles, quoted one of the group’s leaders saying that more than [...]
Fight from the bottom of the heart
Posted in Poems in Burmese on Jun 14th, 2011 No Comments »
14jun11 PDF – _500_ Fight From the Bottom of the Heart
Ko Ko Aung
Zarganar in Clay
Posted in Campaigns & posters on Jun 14th, 2011 No Comments »
For those of you who wanted to see the original caricature sculpture of Zarganar in Clay…
The completed sculpture has been delivered to his wife Lwin Mar and their 2 children.
Regards
jim McNalis
The ASEAN Heart of Asia
Posted in WORLD Digest on Jun 13th, 2011 No Comments »
- Sirin Pitsuwan
Surin Pitsuwan is Secretary-General of ASEAN.
JAKARTA – The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) stands at a defining moment. Its member states are constantly being evaluated for their economic potential and desirability as a market for investments, goods, and services. At the same time, their effort to forge a [...]
Reset Turkey/EU Relations
Posted in WORLD Digest on Jun 13th, 2011 No Comments »
- Javier Solana
Javier Solana formerly the European Union’s High Representative for Foreign and Security Policy, and a former Secretary General of NATO, is a Distinguished Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution and President of the ESADE Center for Global Economy and Geopolitics.
MADRID – Just five months ago, Osama [...]