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UN News Centre – Myanmar must release all remaining political prisoners by year’s end – UN expert
AlerNet - Floods threaten Thai capital, scores killed in Myanmar
AlerNet – Japan: Press Burma’s Foreign Minister on Rights
AlertNet – Wen says China, Myanmar should stick to their word
Bernama – Strong Wind Causes Damages To Some Regions [...]
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PDF – _621_ Good Model for Dictators
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Ko Ko Aung (San Francisco)
Posted in WORLD Digest on Oct 20th, 2011 No Comments »
- Ahmed Mohamoud Silyano
Ahmed M. Mohamoud Silyano is President of Somaliland.
HARGEISA – Drought, famine, refugees, piracy, and the violence and terrorism endemic to the shattered city of Mogadishu, a capital ruined by civil war: these are the images that flash through peoples’ minds nowadays when they think of the Horn of Africa. [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Oct 20th, 2011 No Comments »
- Jomo Kwame Sundaram
Jomo Kwame Sundaram, United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development, was awarded the Wassily Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought in 2007.
NEW YORK – After the economic disaster of 2008-2009, people are understandably wary of the devastation that yet another financial crisis can wreak. But [...]
Posted in Burma News on Oct 20th, 2011 No Comments »
AFP – ‘Serious’ rights violations persist in Myanmar: UN
UN News Centre – Myanmar’s new Government must tackle continuing rights abuses – UN expert
NECN – UN investigator encouraged by Myanmar leaders
Amnesty International UK – Burma: Government must go further with prisoner release
New Kerala – UN experts ask Myanmar to address rights [...]
Posted in Campaigns & posters on Oct 20th, 2011 No Comments »
AAPP Urges the External Hospitalization for a Critically Ill Political Prisoner
Information Release
October 20, 2011
AAPP Urges the External Hospitalization for the Critically Ill Political Prisoner
AAPP has learned that Nay Myo Zin has been repeatedly denied vital medical care and has been unable to sit or walk without severe pain, causing him to forego [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Oct 19th, 2011 No Comments »
- Mohamed A. El-Erian
Mohamed A. El-Erian is CEO and co-CIO of PIMCO, and author of When Markets Collide.
NEWPORT BEACH – Judging from the skittishness of both markets and “consensus expectations,” the United States’ economic prospects are confusing. One day, the country is on the brink of a double-dip recession; the next, it [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Oct 19th, 2011 No Comments »
- A.B. Yehoshua
A. B. Yehoshua is one of Israel’s pre-eminent novelists. His latest novel is Friendly Fire.
HAIFA – The celebrations in Israel over the release of the kidnapped soldier Gilad Shalit come after the Israeli government concluded that diplomatic rarity, an agreement with Hamas. It is as if the government had brought [...]
Posted in Burma News on Oct 19th, 2011 No Comments »
Reuters – Myanmar may free more political prisoners soon – adviser
AP – Malaysia-Myanmar detainee swap plan raises worries
Aliran Online – Burma must free all prisoners of conscience: AI
AlertNet – FEATURE–Myanmar exiles in India uneasy as countries warm ties
Daily Princetonian – Burmese monks hold meditation session
Washington Post – Malaysian plan for [...]
Posted in Poems in Burmese on Oct 19th, 2011 No Comments »
PDF – _620_ Be Humble, Be Thinking Higher, Be Punctu
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Ko Ko Aung (San Francisco)
Posted in Poems in Burmese on Oct 19th, 2011 No Comments »
PDF – _619_ the Model of the Volition
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Ko Ko Aung (San Francisco)
Posted in Burma News on Oct 19th, 2011 No Comments »
Please find attached EBO’s 29th Political Monitor report.
PMNo.29-17-10-11
All Political and Election Monitors as well as other information on the 2010 elections can be found on EBO’s Elections Page.
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Please find attached the Nationalities Brotherhood Forum’s most recent statement (No.6/2011).
Nationalities Brotherhood Forum’s most recent statement (No.6/2011)
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PDF – _618_ Selfish Can Drive You Craze
Selfish can drive you craze ???????????????????
Ko Ko Aung (San Francisco)
Posted in Poems in Burmese on Oct 18th, 2011 No Comments »
PDF – _617_ the Place Where the Peacock Live in Peace
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Ko Ko Aung (San Francisco)
Posted in Old Misellaneous on Oct 17th, 2011 No Comments »
US urges end to abuses of Myanmar minorities
MATTHEW PENNINGTON | October 17, 2011 04:11 PM EST |
WASHINGTON — Myanmar must release more political prisoners and end abuses against ethnic minorities if it wants to transform its relations with Washington, a U.S. official said Monday.
Special envoy to Myanmar Derek Mitchell noted a trend toward [...]