Posted in Feature Articles on Oct 17th, 2011 No Comments »
BURMA: Change of acquired military mindset needed to push for genuine reform
Monday, 17 October 2011 18:06 Sai Wansai
By: Sai Wansai
Monday, 17 October 2011
If President Thein Sein government is angling or aiming at full fledged legitimacy and lifting of sanctions, imposed by the West, by releasing barely some [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Oct 17th, 2011 No Comments »
- Jeffrey Frankel
Jeffrey Frankel is Professor of Capital Formation and Growth at Harvard University.
CAMBRIDGE – The prices of hydrocarbons, minerals, and agricultural commodities have been on a veritable roller coaster. While commodity prices are always more variable than those for manufactured goods and services, commodity markets over the last five years have [...]
Posted in Poems in Burmese on Oct 17th, 2011 No Comments »
PDF – _616_ if You Want to Show Really Democracy
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Posted in Poems in Burmese on Oct 17th, 2011 No Comments »
PDF – _615_ Need a Society Medical Treatment O’ Our
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Posted in Poems in Burmese on Oct 16th, 2011 No Comments »
PDF – _614_ Abuse Agricultural Loan for Farmers
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Ko Ko Aung (San Francisco)
Posted in Editorials & Op/Eds on Oct 15th, 2011 1 Comment »
(Sino-Burma Relations)
Kanbawza Win
In May, Osama bin-Laden was shot dead that sent the relations between Pakistan and US into a tailspin and obviously Pakistan, still depending on billions of dollars in civilian and military aid from Washington began to look Beijing as an alternative for a strategic counter weight to India. This was confirmed when Pakistan’s [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Oct 14th, 2011 No Comments »
- Brahma Chellaney
Brahma Chellaney, Professor of Strategic Studies at the Center for Policy Research, is the author of Water: Asia’s New Battleground.
NEW DELHI – International discussion about China’s rise has focused on its increasing trade muscle, growing maritime ambitions, and expanding capacity to project military power. One critical issue, however, usually escapes [...]
Posted in Burma News on Oct 14th, 2011 No Comments »
AP – Call for All Myanmar Political Inmates to Be Freed
AP – Indian, Myanmar leaders agree to expand cooperation in oil and gas exploration
Reuters – Investment prospects luring Myanmar in from cold
AFP – India fetes Myanmar leader on state visit
AFP – Myanmar workers win right to strike
BBC News – Burma law [...]
Posted in Poems in Burmese on Oct 14th, 2011 No Comments »
PDF – _613_ Are You Going to Die in the Hot Water Pot
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Posted in Burma News on Oct 14th, 2011 No Comments »
UN News Centre – After latest release, UN expert urges Myanmar to free all political prisoners
AFP – Myanmar opposition frustrated by prisoner amnesty
AFP – Top US senators welcome Myanmar prisoner release
AP – Luc Besson’s “The Lady” opens Rome Film Festival
BBC News – Burma political prisoner releases ‘not enough’
IOL – Release [...]
Posted in Campaigns & posters on Oct 14th, 2011 No Comments »
Dear Friends,
ALTSEAN-Burma has released a one-page briefer titled “Burma’s regime does it again: Political prisoners remain in jail.”
Burmas Regime Does It Again – Political Prisoners Remain in Jail
On 12 October, Burma’s regime released 6,359 prisoners from jails across the country. However, only 220 political prisoners were among those released.
The regime’s routine mass releases of [...]
Posted in Old Misellaneous on Oct 13th, 2011 No Comments »
Call for all Myanmar political inmates to be freed
October 13, 2011 03:07 PM EST |
YANGON, Myanmar — A human rights group and prominent activist on Thursday called for Myanmar to free all of its political prisoners after only about 10 percent of an estimated 2,000 were released under a presidential amnesty.
The Thailand-based Assistance [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Oct 13th, 2011 No Comments »
- David Miliband
David Miliband was British Foreign Secretary from 2007 to 2010, and is currently a member of parliament for the Labour Party.
LONDON – Government is all about statistics, but life is about people. That disjunction explains a lot about the cynicism and disaffection with politics that characterizes much of the world [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Oct 13th, 2011 No Comments »
- Efraim Chalamish
Efraim Chalamish is an international economic law scholar and adviser, and the founder of the Global Center for Economic Development and Security.
NEW YORK – As Libya’s citizens rebuild their lives and economy, undoing the corruption in the Libyan Investment Authority (LIA), the sovereign wealth fund in which Muammar el-Qaddafi’s [...]
Posted in Poems in Burmese on Oct 13th, 2011 No Comments »
PDF – _612_ Iron Minded People
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Ko Ko Aung (San Francisco)
Posted in Documentary Report on Oct 13th, 2011 No Comments »
Dear Friends,
ALTSEAN-Burma has released a briefer titled “Serious international crimes continue in Burma under ‘new’ regime”
Serious International Crimes Continue in Burma Under New Regime
Since Thein Sein took office as Burma’s President on 30 March, the regime has continued to perpetrate crimes against humanity and war crimes with total impunity. Reports of [...]
Posted in Statements on Oct 12th, 2011 1 Comment »
Media Release From Burma Campaign UK
For Immediate Release 12th October 2011
Political Prisoner Release Too Small, Senior Leaders Still in Jail
Small number of prisoners released a reality check for those believing promises of reform.
Burma Campaign UK today expressed disappointment at how few political prisoners have so far been released [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Oct 12th, 2011 No Comments »
- Richard K. Sherwin
Richard K. Sherwin, Professor of Law and Director of the Visual Persuasion Project at New York Law School, is the author of Visualizing Law in the Age of the Digital Baroque: Arabesques & Entanglements and When Law Goes Pop: The Vanishing Line between Law and Popular Culture.
NEW YORK – On October 3, [...]