Real Human Power
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Ko Ko Aung (San Francisco)
Archive for October, 2011
BURMA RELATED NEWS – OCTOBER 15- 17, 2011
Posted in Burma News on Oct 31st, 2011 No Comments »
AP – US urges end to abuses of Myanmar minorities
AFP – Myanmar’s Suu Kyi vows fight to free dissidents
Independent – ‘They were screaming: Die, die, die!’: The dramatic inside story of Aung San Suu Kyi’s darkest hour
U.S. Department of State – Special Briefing on Burma
Washington Post – US envoy sees greater [...]
Harn Yawnghwe winds up “fruitful” tour of home country
Posted in Burma News on Oct 31st, 2011 No Comments »
Harn Yawnghwe winds up “fruitful” tour of home country
Monday, 31 October 2011 13:35 Khio Fah
He regarded his 8-day visit to Burma, 20-28 October, as a fruitful eye-opener, said Harn Yawnghwe, director of Brussels-based Euro-Burma Office (EBO) and youngest son of the late first President of Burma who [...]
The G-20’s Helpful Silence on Capital Controls
Posted in WORLD Digest on Oct 30th, 2011 No Comments »
- Jose Antonio Ocampo, Stephany Griffith-Jones, and Kevin P. Gallagher
José Antonio Ocampo is a professor at Columbia University and former Minister of Finance of Colombia. Stephany Griffith-Jones is Financial Programs Director of the Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia University. Kevin Gallagher is a professor of international relations at Boston University.
NEW [...]
The End of Population Growth
Posted in WORLD Digest on Oct 30th, 2011 No Comments »
- Sanjeev Sanyal
Sanjeev Sanyal is Deutsche Bank’s Global Strategist.
NEW DELHI – According to the United Nations’ Population Division, the world’s human population hit seven billion on October 31. As always happens whenever we approach such a milestone, this one has produced a spike in conferences, seminars, and learned articles, including the [...]
Burmese Army resorts to chemical weapons warfare against Kachin rebels
Posted in Feature Articles on Oct 30th, 2011 No Comments »
Breaking News: Burmese Army resorts to chemical weapons warfare against Kachin rebels
October 30, 2011
by peacerunning
In a war that is becoming increasing vengeful, there is concrete evidence for the first time that a belligerent Burmese Army is using an unidentified chemical weapon in the unabated offensive against Kachin rebels in Northern Burma, lamented victims.
For [...]
Suu Kyi holds talks with Myanmar gov’t minister
Posted in Old Misellaneous on Oct 30th, 2011 No Comments »
Suu Kyi holds talks with Myanmar gov’t minister
October 30, 2011 09:14 AM EST |
YANGON, Myanmar — Myanmar democracy movement leader Aung San Suu Kyi met Sunday with a Cabinet minister to discuss issues whose resolution could lead to a breakthrough in the country’s long-running political deadlock.
Labor Minister Aung Kyi read a joint statement after their [...]
Europe’s Dying Bank Model
Posted in WORLD Digest on Oct 28th, 2011 No Comments »
- Gene Frieda
Gene Frieda is a global strategist for Moore Europe Capital Management.
LONDON – The good news for Europe is that it will not reenact the dramatic collapse of Lehman Brothers. The European Central Bank’s unlimited ability to provide liquidity ensures that. But European leaders have yet to recognize that old bank [...]
Europeanizing Europe
Posted in WORLD Digest on Oct 28th, 2011 No Comments »
- Joschka Fischer
Joschka Fischer, Germany’s foreign minister and vice-chancellor from 1998 to 2005, was a leader in the German Green Party for almost 20 years.
BERLIN – The eurozone is at the center of the global financial crisis, because only there, in the realm of the second most important currency after the [...]
A Nation of Vidiots
Posted in WORLD Digest on Oct 28th, 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 – The past half-century has been the age of electronic mass media. Television has reshaped society in every [...]
America’s Other 87 Deficits
Posted in WORLD Digest on Oct 28th, 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 United States has a classic multilateral trade imbalance. While it runs a large trade deficit with China, it also runs [...]
BURMA RELATED NEWS – OCTOBER 28, 2011
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AP – Myanmar Police Charge 7 for Staging Land Protest
AP – Film on Myanmar activist opens festival
Washington Post – Myanmar Nobel winner praises truth, justice as biopic about her screens at Rome festival
Washington Post – United Nations: Leaded gasoline to be eliminated worldwide in two years after long fight
AsiaNews.it – MYANMAR: [...]
Compare Wild and Polite on the two army
Posted in Poems in Burmese on Oct 28th, 2011 No Comments »
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Ko Ko Aung (San Francisco)
All Dictators afraid of it
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The Personal Ties that Bind
Posted in WORLD Digest on Oct 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 [...]
BURMA RELATED NEWS – OCTOBER 27, 2011
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Reuters - Myanmar police shut down rare protest
Los Angeles Times – Myanmar’s release of prisoners leaves U.S. cautiously optimistic
Bernama – Myanmar Strives To Revitalize Traditional Arts
Asian Correspondent – Burma’s bid for ASEAN chair hangs in the balance
FOX Business – Exclusive: China eyes creation of ASEAN Bank
Korea Times – Seoul beefs up [...]
Photo Essay- Burma Army Uses Civilians as Shields in Karen State
Posted in Documentary Photos on Oct 27th, 2011 No Comments »
FBR REPORT: Karen State, Burma 23 October, 2011
On 5 June 2011, gunfire broke out between the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA — pro-democracy ethnic resistance) Battalion 16 and Burma Army Light Infantry Battalion (LIB) 373 between Jauke Ku Village and Myine Tha Ya Village [...]
Strengthening the Stabilizers
Posted in WORLD Digest on Oct 26th, 2011 No Comments »
- Olin L. Wethington
Olin Wethington, a former US assistant secretary of the Treasury, is a member and director of the Council on Global Financial Regulation (http://www.c-gfr.org).
PARIS – The G-20 summit in Cannes in early November is a major opportunity to address the mandate, governance, and institutional capacity of the Financial Stability [...]