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- Tibor Toth
Tibor Tóth is Executive Secretary of the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization.
VIENNA – Much of the world marked the 50th anniversary in early August of the Berlin Wall’s construction. But, while that Cold War abomination has truly been consigned to history’s dustbin, September 1 marks another 50th [...]
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- Naomi Wolf
Naomi Wolf is a political activist and social critic whose most recent book is Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries.
NEW YORK – As I listen to the news coming out of England after the recent wave of urban riots – and as I read Robert Douglas-Fairhurst’s compelling new biography [...]
Posted in Burma News on Aug 31st, 2011 No Comments »
The Columbian – Burmese leader will be topic of museum discussion
The Epoch Times – Burma Authorities Send Mixed Messages to Aung San Suu Kyi
The Huffington Post – Burma’s Tortured Prisoners Can’t Wait
Asian Correspondent – Burma should review its war-game with ethnic groups
Asian Correspondent – Breaking the deadlock: Burma at a [...]
Posted in Articles in Burmese on Aug 30th, 2011 No Comments »
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- Malcolm Fraser
Malcolm Fraser is a former prime minister of Australia.
MELBOURNE – If the broad post-World War II prosperity that has endured for six decades comes to an end, both the United States and Europe will be responsible. With rare exceptions, politics has become a discredited profession throughout the West. Tomorrow is [...]
Posted in Burma News on Aug 30th, 2011 No Comments »
ABC Radio Australia – UN envoy speaks out on Burma’s lack of human rights progress
Asian Correspondent – Burma jails ex-army captain for dissent
New Straits Times – Myanmar folk wary of ‘democracy’ pledges
Calcutta News.Net – India has pacts with 35 nations to combat terrorism
Chicago Tribune – Refugee who abandoned newborn fights [...]
Posted in Old Misellaneous on Aug 30th, 2011 No Comments »
August 30, 2011 02:13 AM EST |
YANGON, Myanmar — A special court inside Myanmar’s Insein prison has sentenced an ex-army captain to 10 years imprisonment for writing and sending critical articles to the Democratic Voice of Burma and other dissident groups.
Lawyer Hla Myo Myint says 35-year-old Nay Myo Zin was sentenced last Friday [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Aug 29th, 2011 No Comments »
- Jeffrey D. Sachs
Jeffrey D. Sachs is Professor of Economics and Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. He is also Special Adviser to United Nations Secretary-General on the Millennium Development Goals.
NEW YORK – We live in a time of high anxiety. Despite the world’s unprecedented total wealth, there is vast [...]
Posted in Burma News on Aug 29th, 2011 No Comments »
AFP – Myanmar MPs propose prisoner amnesty: state media
Asian Correspondent – Will Burma really listen to UN human rights envoy?
Asian Correspondent – Burma’s war in Kachin State continues as bilateral talks unproductive
The Telegraph – Burma’s parliament calls for release of political prisoners
WLKY Louisville – Burmese Tutoring Program Running Low On [...]
Posted in Articles in Burmese on Aug 27th, 2011 No Comments »
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Posted in WORLD Digest on Aug 26th, 2011 No Comments »
- Gareth Evans
Copyright: Project Syndicate, 2011.
CANBERRA – As China gets closer to overtaking the United States as the world’s largest economic power, and its disinclination to accept US military dominance of the Western Pacific grows more obvious, America’s Asia/Pacific allies and friends are becoming increasingly anxious about their longer-term strategic environment. [...]
Posted in Burma News on Aug 26th, 2011 No Comments »
AFP – UN envoy urges Myanmar to probe rights abuses
AP – UN envoy calls on Burma to release prisoners
Reuters – Analysis: Survival steers Myanmar generals towards reform
The New York Times – Burmese Wary of ‘Democracy,’ After Decades of Oppression
Scoop.co.nz – Myanmar: Serious human rights issues remain
New Kerala – Myanmar govt [...]
Posted in Poems in Burmese on Aug 26th, 2011 No Comments »
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Posted in Burma News on Aug 26th, 2011 No Comments »
AP – UN envoy calls on Myanmar to release prisoners
AP – UN launches campaign to end stateless ‘limbo’
Reuters – UN sleuth tells Myanmar to free political prisoners
Reuters – Myanmar wants foreign/local ventures for oil blocks
Monsters and Critics – Myanmar human rights deficits remain, UN envoy says
Asian Correspondent – Burma’s president [...]
Posted in Feature Articles on Aug 25th, 2011 No Comments »
by Henri-André Aye
The Panglong Agreement was an attempt to build a union out of desperate peoples. The agreement was a political marriage, trying to unite the Bamar and the non-Bamar to live together in peace and dignity. It was a marriage of political convenience — but one without love. And the honeymoon was short-lived as [...]
Posted in Articles in English on Aug 25th, 2011 No Comments »
August 25, 2011
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/opinion/can-western-optimism-on-burma-bear-fruit-60773.html
By Nehginpao Kipgen
The past few weeks have given a new hope to Burma’s decades-old political imbroglio, as a number of positive developments have emerged. Some notable ones are: a couple of meetings between the Burmese labor minister Aung Kyi and Aung San Suu Kyi on July 25 and Aug. 12; [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Aug 25th, 2011 No Comments »
- Stephen S. Roach
Stephen S. Roach, a member of the faculty at Yale University, is Non-Executive Chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia and the author of The Next Asia.
NEW HAVEN – The number is 0.2%. It is the average annualized growth of US consumer spending over the past 14 quarters – calculated in inflation-adjusted [...]