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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.
OXFORD – The top and the bottom of the list of countries in Newsweek’s recent cover story, “The 2011 Global Women’s Progress Report,” evoke images of two different worlds.
At the top of [...]
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- 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 an era in which the most important forces affecting every economy are global, not [...]
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- 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 – China’s economy is slowing. This is no surprise for an export-led economy dependent on faltering global demand. But China’s looming slowdown is likely [...]
Posted in Burma News on Sep 30th, 2011 1 Comment »
AP – Myanmar president calls for halt to construction of controversial Chinese-backed dam
AP – FIFA kicks Myanmar out of 2018 WCup qualifying
AFP – Myanmar, US diplomats hold rare talks in Washington
AFP – Myanmar makes exchanging money easier
Asian Correspondent – Burma’s President postpones the Irrawaddy dam project cleverly
BBC News – Burma [...]
Posted in Poems in Burmese on Sep 30th, 2011 No Comments »
PDF – _603_ Face With Coming Danger
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Ko Ko Aung (San Francisco)
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PDF – _602_ Live on Belief
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Ko Ko Aung (San Francisco)
Posted in Campaigns & posters on Sep 29th, 2011 No Comments »
Revealing Burma’s System of Impunity – New Briefer from Burma Lawyers’ Council
September 2011
Burma Lawyers’ Council has released a new briefing paper, “Revealing Burma’s System of Impunity: A Briefer for the Commission of Inquiry Campaign,” analyzing the inability of the domestic judicial system to ensure accountability for atrocities committed in [...]
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Please find attached EBO’s 26th Political Monitor report.
PMNo.26-28-09-11
All Political and Election Monitors as well as other information on the 2010 elections can be found on EBO’s Elections Page.
If you would like to be removed from or added to this list, please email bxl@euro-burma.be.
Euro-Burma Office
Square [...]
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Asian Correspondent – Burma’s FM offers olive-branch while Burma Army shelling on ethnic Kachin
AFP – Japanese tourist killed in Myanmar
Reuters – Uganda sexual rights group wins Norway prize
ASIAONE – Suu Kyi to hold more talks with Myanmar regime
VOA News – Aung San Suu Kyi to Meet Burmese Labor Minister
Asia Times Online [...]
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PDF – _601_ Watch Out for Pick-pocket
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Asian Correspondent – Burma is still reluctant to initiate reform
Asian Correspondent – Poetry reading in front of the Burmese embassy: What difference does one poem make?
AP – Myanmar promises prisoner amnesty
SMH – Sydney Morning Herald – Prisoners to be released as Burma seeks bargain
Time Magazine – Burma: Could a Small, Peaceful Protest [...]
Posted in Statements on Sep 28th, 2011 No Comments »
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PDF – _600_ is It People &Amp; Government Hand to%2
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Ko Ko Aung (San Francisco)
Posted in WORLD Digest on Sep 27th, 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 [...]
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- Jaswant Singh
Jaswant Singh, a former Indian finance minister, foreign minister, and defense minister, is the author of Jinnah: India – Partition – Independence.
NEW DELHI – The September 7 bomb blast at the entrance to the High Court in New Delhi was a macabre finale to a summer of crisis. Previously, weeks of [...]
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IRIN – MYANMAR: Military guilty of rape, activists say
GroundReport – Myanmar will never allow Suu Kyi to come to power
AP – Myanmar police stand by as protesters test limits
Asian Correspondent – Why does Burma want war in Kachin State?
Strategy Page – Deploying The Heroin Weapon
Mainichi Daily News – Japan to [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Sep 26th, 2011 No Comments »
- Ban Ki-moon
Ban Ki-moon is Secretary-General of the United Nations.
NEW YORK – Late next month, a child will be born – the 7th billion citizen of planet Earth. We will never know the circumstances into which he or she was born. We do know that the baby will enter a world of vast [...]
Posted in Old Misellaneous on Sep 26th, 2011 No Comments »
Myanmar police stand by as protesters test limits
September 26, 2011 10:50 AM EST |
YANGON, Myanmar — Democracy activists freshly tested the new Myanmar government’s avowed tolerance for dissent by gathering peacefully Monday at a central landmark in the country’s biggest city in honor of giant protests four years ago.
Four truckloads of riot police [...]