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- George Soros
George Soros is Chairman of Soros Fund Management and of the Open Society Institute.
NEW YORK – The dire economic situation in which most of the rich world found itself in 2011 was not merely the result of impersonal economic forces, but was largely created by the policies pursued, or not [...]
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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 – Someone recently quipped that the best thing about 2011 was that it was likely better than 2012. By the same token, [...]
Posted in Poems in Burmese on Dec 31st, 2011 No Comments »
PDF – _688_ Fire is Talking About the Government
Fire is talking about the Government ??????????? ??????
Ko Ko Aung (San Francisco)
Posted in WORLD Digest on Dec 30th, 2011 1 Comment »
- Naomi Wolf
Naomi Wolf is a political activist and social critic whose most recent book is Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries.
NEW YORK – What does the New Year hold for the global wave of protest that erupted in 2011? Did the surge of anger that began in Tunisia crest in [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Dec 30th, 2011 No Comments »
- Zeljko Jovanovic
Zeljko Jovanovic is Director of the Open Society Roma Initiatives.
BUDAPEST – Today, millions of Europeans are afraid and frustrated as they face unemployment, loss of savings and pensions, radically reduced social benefits, and other economic hardships. Their fears are warranted, because the current financial crisis is undermining the very [...]
Posted in Poems in Burmese on Dec 30th, 2011 No Comments »
PDF – _687_ New Blossom in New Year 2012
New blossom in New year 2012 ???????? ??????????
Ko Ko Aung (San Francisco)
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PDF – _686_ Who Will Give Help
Who will give help ??????????????
Ko Ko Aung (San Francisco)
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PDF – _685_ Hard to Control for Fear
Hard to control for Fear ??????????????????????????
Ko Ko Aung (San Francisco)
Posted in WORLD Digest on Dec 29th, 2011 No Comments »
- Kemal Dervi?
Kemal Dervi? is Vice-President of the Brookings Institution in Washington and Advisor to the Istanbul Policy Center at Sabanci University. He was Turkey’s Minister of Economic Affairs and is a former Executive Head of the United Nations Development Program.
WASHINGTON, DC/ISTANBUL – Almost a year has passed since revolution in [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Dec 29th, 2011 No Comments »
- Laura Tyson
Laura Tyson, a former chair of the US President’s Council of Economic Advisers, is a professor at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.
BERKELEY – As 2011 draws to a close, there are growing signs that Asia is becoming caught up in the global slowdown, dashing [...]
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- 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 – At a time when China’s economic, diplomatic, and military rise casts the shadow of a power disequilibrium over Asia, the just-concluded visit of Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda to [...]
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- Zhaoxing Li
Li Zhaoxing was China’s foreign minister from 2003-2007, and is currently Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National People’s Congress.
BEIJING – With economic globalization and the advent of a multi-polar world, China and other emerging countries are clearly set to play much more important roles not only [...]
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Jim McNalis jmcnalis@hotmail.com
Some Risks Are Worth Taking.
December 28, 2011. 54 University Avenue. Rangoon. Burma.
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Reuters – Gunpowder warehouse blast kills 17 in Myanmar: police
AP – Fire kills 17 in Myanmar’s main city of Yangon
AFP – Myanmar warehouse blast kills 17
UPI – Death toll in Myanmar blast rises
The Jakarta Post – RI helps Myanmar stay on course ahead of ASEAN Community
Nasdaq – Tata Motors will sell cars [...]
Posted in Burma News on Dec 28th, 2011 No Comments »
Channel NewsAsia – Indonesian foreign minister meets Suu Kyi in Myanmar
The Japan Times – Despite Korean tensions, Genba focused on changing Myanmar
Mainichi Daily News – FOCUS: Japan trying to keep up with rapidly changing Myanmar
Asian Correspondent – Why does Burma Army disobey the president’s order?
Bangkok Post – Burma projects could strengthen [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Dec 28th, 2011 No Comments »
- Bob Diamond
Bob Diamond is Chief Executive of Barclays.
LONDON – Soon after the financial crisis began in 2008, I was at a meeting in the United States where a senior White House economic adviser put a question to me: “Do you think banks can be good citizens?”
As I started to answer “Yes,” he [...]
Posted in Documentary Report on Dec 28th, 2011 No Comments »
FBR REPORT:
Kachin State, Burma 27 December, 2011
The Burma Army continues to attack people in three townships of Ba Maw District, Kachin State: Mun Si Township, Shwegu Township and Ba Maw Township. On 16 December 2011, Burma Army soldiers killed a woman from Prang Kawng Village. The woman, [...]
Posted in Burma News on Dec 27th, 2011 No Comments »
AP – Japan steps toward better relations with Myanmar
AFP – Japan prods Myanmar to continue with reforms: report
Reuters – Japan, Myanmar to start investment pact talks -Kyodo
Reuters – BRIEF-Myanmar Yetagun gas field to be closed for 9 days – PTT
VOA News – Japanese FM Assures Burmese Icon of Full Support
New [...]