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June 13, 2011 09:41 AM EST | AP
GENEVA — Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi said Monday her nation hungers for justice and progress and the international community must help lift its workers’ grim conditions.
“Burma must not be allowed to fail and the world must not be allowed to fail Burma,” the 65-year-old Nobel [...]
Posted in Burma News on Jun 13th, 2011 No Comments »
FBR REPORT: Shan State, Burma April 2011
.Report Date: 18 April , 2011
Dear friends,
The following is an update on the fighting between the Burma Army and the Shan State Army-North. We have no FBR teams currently in that area and this report is compiled for your [...]
Posted in Poems in Burmese on Jun 12th, 2011 No Comments »
12jun11 PDF – _499_ Don’t Let Unpolite Kill Your Right
Ko Ko Aung
Posted in WORLD Digest on Jun 12th, 2011 No Comments »
- 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 – Greece has bought some time with a new package of financial support, but the country is not out of the woods yet. It remains to [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Jun 12th, 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 – The recent India-Africa summit in Addis Ababa, [...]
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12jun11 PDF – _498_ All Dictator Never End Good
Ko Ko Aung
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Ko Myoe
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AP – Myanmar blames ethnic rebels for fatal train blast
AP – Myanmar gets record $20B investment pledges
Asian Correspondent – ILO strives to eliminate forced labour in Burma
Asian Correspondent – Aung San Suu Kyi’s road trip: Why she may be safer than ever
Asian Correspondent – War or Dialogue? Burma has to [...]
Posted in Burma News on Jun 12th, 2011 No Comments »
AFP – Myanmar’s Suu Kyi to deliver BBC lectures
Daily Telegraph - Aung San Suu Kyi and Baroness Manningham-Buller to deliver BBC Reith Lectures
The Nation – EDITORIAL: Burma has not earned the right to more respect
The Huffington Post – Gordon Brown: Release the Political Prisoners of Burma
The Huffington Post – Behind the [...]
Posted in Book Club on Jun 9th, 2011 No Comments »
AVAILABLE NOW FROM VOICE OF WITNESS
NOWHERE TO BE HOME: NARRATIVES FROM SURVIVORS OF BURMA’S MILITARY REGIME
Edited by Maggie Lemere and Zoë West
ABOUT THE BOOK:
The seventh volume in the Voice of Witness series presents the narratives of former political prisoners and refugees from Burma. Decades of military oppression in Burma have led [...]
Posted in Feature Articles on Jun 9th, 2011 No Comments »
Written by: Eurasia Review
June 5, 2011
By Nava Thakuria
Burma (Myanmar or Brahmadesh) may have officially transformed into a democracy after the 2010 November general election, but the ground realities for the poor Burmese remain the same. And the outcome is the continuous fleeing of Burmese to neighbouring India, Bangladesh [...]
Posted in Feature Articles on Jun 8th, 2011 No Comments »
DICTATOR WATCH
(www.dictatorwatch.org)
Contact: Roland Watson, roland@dictatorwatch.org
IS IT TIME FOR AN AMNESTY IN BURMA?
June 8, 2011
Please forward.
We have a new post on our conflict blog, a report which describes clashes between the Karen National Liberation Army and the Burma Army during the month of May. (We also have six different KNLA sitreps covering the month of April.)
As [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Jun 8th, 2011 No Comments »
- Barak Barfi
Barak Barfi is a research fellow at the New America Foundation.
CAIRO – In the months since Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s resignation, his successors have signaled a shift in foreign policy by reaching out to former adversaries. Egypt’s government has welcomed Iranian diplomats and embraced the Palestinian group Hamas. Many interpret such [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Jun 8th, 2011 No Comments »
- John C. Bradshaw and Michael A. Newton
John C. Bradshaw is Executive Director of the Enough Project, an anti-genocide group in Washington, D.C. Michael A. Newton teaches law at Vanderbilt University Law School, and is a former Adviser to the US Ambassador at Large for War Crimes.
WASHINGTON, DC – With General Radko [...]
Posted in Burma News on Jun 8th, 2011 No Comments »
AP – Rising Myanmar currency adds to economic hardship
Reuters – BRIEF-Italian-Thai to book revenue from Myanmar’s Dawei in 2012
Daily Pioneer – Army rulers in civilian clothes
Bernama – EU May Consider Possibility Of Allowing Myanmar To Join Asean Peers In FTA Talks
Bernama – Myanmar Calls For Role In Realizing Asean Community
Straits [...]
Posted in Burma News on Jun 7th, 2011 No Comments »
CSM - McCain visits Burma, but will calls for change backfire?
Reuters – U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon is no stranger to criticism
AFP – Forced labour complaints up in Myanmar
AFP – Malaysia to offer amnesty to illegal immigrants
AFP – Food, energy security on table at big Europe-Asia meet
Global Security Newswire – Experts Urge [...]
Posted in Burma News on Jun 7th, 2011 No Comments »
AFP – Fears over Myanmar deep-sea port plan
AFP – Ban to stand for new term as UN chief
AP – UN chief says he is seeking a second term
Asian Correspondent – Burma must allow political space for Aung San Suu Kyi
Louisville Courier-Journal – Mitch McConnell remains staunch advocate for democracy in [...]
Posted in Articles in English on Jun 6th, 2011 No Comments »
Student in Free Enterprise
06jun11 SIFEIITD Press Release Detailed