PDF – _546_ Bed Habit Need to Correct
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PDF – _545_ on the Way to Hell Than Shwe
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- Omar Ashour
Omar Ashour is a Lecturer in Politics and Director of the Middle East Graduate Studies Program at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter (UK). He is the author of The De-Radicalization of the Jihadists: Transforming Armed Islamist Movements.
CAIRO – August 3, 2011, will be remembered as a [...]

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- 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 Great Recession of 2008 has morphed into the North Atlantic Recession: it is mainly Europe and the United States, not [...]

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- Michael Mandelbaum
Michael Mandelbaum is Professor of American Foreign Policy at The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and the co-author, with Thomas L. Friedman, of the forthcoming book That Used To Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back.
WASHINGTON, DC – The [...]

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- Ian Buruma
Ian Buruma is Professor of Democracy and Human Rights at Bard College, and the author of Taming the Gods: Religion and Democracy on Three Continents.
NEW YORK – Let us assume, for the sake of argument, that Geert Wilders, the Dutch politician who is convinced that Europe is “in the [...]

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- Edmund S. Phelps and Amar Bhidé
Amar Bhidé, author of A Call for Judgment, is a professor at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. Edmund Phelps, a Nobel laureate, is a professor at Columbia University. Both are founding members of Columbia’s Center on Capitalism and Society.
NEW YORK – The Greek debt crisis [...]

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Washington Post – Myanmar says ethnic Kachin rebels ambush car near hydropower project, killing 7
Bernama – Seven Shot Dead In Gunfire By Myanmar Ethnic Armed Group
Assam Tribune – Myanmar finding it difficult to contain insurgents
Philippine Star – Armed clashes in Myanmar intensify
Gulfnews – A sanctuary across the border
Bangkok Post – Opinion: [...]

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Asian Correspondent – War crimes continue in Kachin state as ceasefire urged
Asia Sentinel – Killing the Irrawaddy
AFP – US confirms key diplomats for Myanmar, Vietnam
Jakarta Globe – Burmese Politics Put Indonesia in a Bind
Bernama – S’wak studying foreign labour suitability in oil palm, timber sectors
IANS – Assam Rifles to continue to [...]

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August 5, 2011 05:19 AM EST | AP
YANGON, Myanmar — Rebels in northern Myanmar ambushed a car carrying workers from a Chinese-backed hydroelectric project, killing seven people, state media reported Friday.
Ethnic Kachin fighters attacked the vehicle as it traveled from the Tarpein power plant to the town of Moemauk on Tuesday, the government-owned Myanma Ahlin [...]

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Asian Correspondent – Why do not Burma’s President and Parliament try to end war with KIO?
Reuters – FEATURE – Refugees in Malaysia see grim future despite Australia swap deal
InterAksyon – Ex-refugees’ confessions raise war crimes issue in Australia
The Huffington Post – Former Burmese Child Soldier to Speak in Congress
IANS – Myanmar, [...]

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Please find attached EBO’s 22nd Political Monitor report, as well as the ENC’s response to the open letter of Aung San Suu Kyi. The Burmese version is available on our website.
PM_No._22_-_03-08-11
ENC Statement on the Open Letter of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi
All Political and Election Monitors as well as other information [...]

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FBR REPORT: Kachin State, Burma 30 July, 2011
Map showing area of report
On 9 June 2011 fighting started between the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) and the Burma Army. The fighting was started by a dispute between the two armies over control of the area [...]

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Burma: Could staggering cost of ethnic conflict lead to a political settlement?
Thursday, 04 August 2011 10:59 Sai Wansai
By: Sai Wansai
Wednesday, 03 August, 2011
Latest news on the ceasefire talks between the KIO/KIA and the Burmese regime and the partial withdrawal of the Burma Army, poised to attack the SSPP/SSA Wanhai [...]

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- Henry I. Miller
Henry I. Miller is Fellow in Scientific Philosophy and Public Policy at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, and was an official at the US National Institutes of Health and the US Food and Drug Administration.
STANFORD – Cancer is sometimes thought of as a disease of wealthier countries, but it [...]

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Cato Institute – Military Rule in Burma
Asia Times Online – New-generation war in Myanmar
AFP – Hong Kong professionals form anti-slavery club
OpEdNews.com  – Burma needs wide-ranging international pressure for political change
Bernama – Myanmar Offers Vast Business, Investment Opportunities
New Kerala – NHPC preparing DPR for hydropower projects in Myanmar
New Kerala – Myanmar [...]

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PDF – _544_ if You Don’t Want to Be in Cycle of Rebirths
Ko Ko Aung

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PDF – _543_ Aung San Suu Kyi Torch Light
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