Posted in Campaigns & posters on Jun 6th, 2011 No Comments »
When I look back over the last year, I do so with a crying and one laughing eye. It was for me, and I think also for many others from our team, a difficult year that has shown me my limits and forced me to have some time out. Much has happened [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Jun 6th, 2011 No Comments »
- Justin Yifu Lin and Mansoor Dailami
Justin Yifu Lin is Chief Economist of the World Bank. Mansoor Dailami is lead author of Global Development Horizons, and Manager of the Emerging Global Trends Team of the Development Prospects Group at the World Bank.
WASHINGTON, DC – At a time when the global economy is suffering from [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Jun 6th, 2011 No Comments »
- George Soros
George Soros is Chairman of Soros Fund Management.
NEW YORK – The campaign to ensure that companies engaged in extractive activities disclose all of their payments in their host countries is gaining momentum – and France is leading the effort. President Nicolas Sarkozy should be applauded for supporting a new [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Jun 6th, 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 [...]
Posted in Poems in Burmese on Jun 6th, 2011 No Comments »
06jun11 PDF – _497_ Fight to the Last Breath
Ko Ko Aung
Posted in Documentary Report on Jun 6th, 2011 No Comments »
FBR REPORT: Nyaunglebin District, Western Karen State, Burma 5, June, 2011
KEY DEVELOPMENTS
The Burma Army has continued to use forced labor [...]
Posted in Editorials & Op/Eds on Jun 5th, 2011 2 Comments »
Kanbawza Win
Now that John McCain, the highest ranking US official, has paid a visit to the pariah state of Burma in the heels of Joseph Yun, the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia and Pacific Affairs, we construe that it is logical for Sarah Palin, the former Alaska Governor and Vice Presidential [...]
Posted in Burma News on Jun 5th, 2011 No Comments »
UPI – McCain tells Myanmar to make changes
Gulf Today – McCain backs Myanmar curbs
Bangkok Post – Minor quakes hit Burma, Laos
Straits Times – Jury still out on Myanmar regime change
Xinhua – China’s COMAC signs agreement to sell two ARJ21 planes to Myanmar Airways
Xinhua – Senior Chinese official attends China-Myanmar “Brightness Action” [...]
Posted in Poems in Burmese on Jun 4th, 2011 No Comments »
04jun11 PDF – _496_ Chance is Still Giving to You for Change
Ko Ko Aung
Posted in Feature Articles on Jun 3rd, 2011 No Comments »
BLOG: BURMA CONFLICT SITUATION REPORT
(www.dictatorwatch.org/burmaconflictblog.html)
1. Burma is in a state of war, and has been since January 1949. This is when Ne Win, who became the first modern dictator of the country, had his private army commit atrocities against the Karen people (Burma’s second largest ethnic group), and attack their political organizations [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Jun 3rd, 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 – Sooner than expected, the International Monetary Fund will have a new managing director. For more than a decade, I have [...]
Posted in Poems in Burmese on Jun 3rd, 2011 No Comments »
03jun11 PDF – _495_ Real Rubby Never Sink in the Mud
Ko Ko Aung
Posted in Burma News on Jun 3rd, 2011 No Comments »
AIUK – Burma: prisoners kept in ‘dog cages’ after protests
AFP – McCain warns Myanmar risks Arab-style uprising
AP – US Sen. McCain says Myanmar must free prisoners
AP – US Sen. McCain says Myanmar sanctions should stay
Reuters – McCain says Myanmar seeking better ties with U.S.
New York Times – Ending Myanmar Visit, [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Jun 2nd, 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. He is the author of The Creation and Destruction of Value: The Globalization Cycle.
PRINCETON – Summits are defined by their location. It is quaint that the 1933 World [...]
Posted in Burma News on Jun 2nd, 2011 No Comments »
AFP – US senator McCain meets Myanmar’s Suu Kyi
Straits Times – Merkel urges Asean to discuss Myanmar problems
Asian Correspondent – Germany’s Merkel concerns ASEAN’s chair to Burma
RTT News – Merkel Calls Upon Myanmar To Respect Human Rights
IRIN – MYANMAR: Bride trafficking to China unveiled
WXOW 19 La Crosse – Myanmar prisoners’ [...]
Posted in Documentary Report on Jun 2nd, 2011 No Comments »
FBR REPORT: Burma Army Attacks and Forced Labor in Western Burma Arakan State, Burma 31 May, 2011
Since the first week of January 2011, the Burma Army has been operating near the Indian border against the ALA (Arakan [...]
Posted in Burma News on Jun 2nd, 2011 No Comments »
Please find attached the May 2011 issue of ALTSEAN Burma Bulletin.
02jun11 May 2011 Burma Bulletin
The Burma Bulletin is a short month in review of events in Burma, particularly those of interest to the democracy movement and human rights activists.
In the May 2011 issue you will find:
* Regime’s bogus amnesty program
* Ojea [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Jun 1st, 2011 No Comments »
- Ana Palacio
Ana Palacio, a former Spanish foreign minister and a former senior vice president of the World Bank, is a senior fellow and lecturer at Yale University.
NEW HAVEN – Until now, and with few exceptions, the West has nurtured two distinct communities of foreign-policy specialists: the development community and the [...]