Posted in Burma News on Dec 23rd, 2011 No Comments »
AFP – Suu Kyi registers party, visits parliament
AP – Suu Kyi’s party registers to run in Myanmar polls
Reuters – Myanmar scraps taxes on overseas labourers
Asian Correspondent – Burma’s Nobel laureate meets UEC chairman for party registration
Asian Correspondent – After meeting with Zarganar, AIPMC call again release of all political prisoners [...]
Posted in Poems in Burmese on Dec 23rd, 2011 No Comments »
PDF – _679_ Don’t Want to Hear the Word of War
Don’t want to hear the word war
Ko Ko Aung (San Francisco)
Posted in Documentary Report on Dec 23rd, 2011 No Comments »
FBR REPORT: Karen State, Burma 22 December, 2011
Pa’an District,
Central Karen State
On the morning of 29 October 2011, Light Infantry Battalion (LIB) 230, Column #1 commanded by Than Thait Soe, left Kler Day Burma Army Camp and arrived in Htee Ma Kyu Village. There they [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Dec 22nd, 2011 No Comments »
- Barak Barfi
Barak Barfi is a research fellow at the New America Foundation.
TRIPOLI – With the creation of a new government, Libya’s leaders should finally be able to focus on organizing the transition from the authoritarian state that they inherited to the more pluralistic one they envisage. But are they really able [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Dec 22nd, 2011 No Comments »
- Yoon Young-kwan
Yoon Young-kwan, South Korea’s foreign minister in 2003-2004, is currently Professor of International Relations at Seoul National University.
SEOUL – According to North Korean state television, the heart attack that killed Kim Jong-il on December 17 was “due to severe mental and physical stress from overwork.” That report instantly raised [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Dec 22nd, 2011 No Comments »
- Henry Mintzberg
Henry Mintzberg is Cleghorn Professor of Management Studies at McGill University (www.mintzberg.org).
MONTREAL – Much commentary about the American economy nowadays leaves the impression that economists should fix its problems. But Washington is teeming with smart economists, and the problems remain.
An economy is like a cloud: only when inside does one realize how [...]
Posted in Poems in Burmese on Dec 22nd, 2011 No Comments »
PDF – _678_ Sacrifice is Their Investments
Sacrifice is their investments ????????????? ???????????
Ko Ko Aung (San Francisco)
Posted in Documentary Report on Dec 22nd, 2011 No Comments »
FBR REPORT: Kachin State, Burma 16 December, 2011
KEY DEVELOPMENTS
The Burma Army continued attacks against the Kachin people and every day there is shelling from attacking Burma Army units. [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Dec 21st, 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 – A new economic order is taking shape before our eyes, and it is one that includes accelerated convergence between the old Western powers and the emerging world’s major new players. But the [...]
Posted in Burma News on Dec 21st, 2011 No Comments »
PMNo.38-20-12-11
Happy holidays from Euro-Burma Office!
Please find attached EBO’s 38th Political Monitor report and the final one for 2011.
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 [...]
Posted in Burma News on Dec 21st, 2011 No Comments »
AFP – Yangon blast kills one: Myanmar official
AFP – Myanmar to take its refugees back from Bangladesh
AFP – Thai PM backs Suu Kyi in landmark Myanmar talks
AlertNet – Aid agencies need long-term access to Myanmar’s Kachins –HRW
Business Times – Thai firm wins bid for 2 Myanmar oil blocks
Bangkok Post – [...]
Posted in Poems in Burmese on Dec 21st, 2011 No Comments »
PDF – _677_Better to Get the Good Lesson
Better to get the good lesson ???????????????????
Ko Ko Aung (San Francisco)
Posted in Burma News on Dec 20th, 2011 No Comments »
AP – Thai PM meets Myanmar democracy leader Suu Kyi
Reuters – Myanmar opens international airport in new capital
Reuters – China, Myanmar try to improve strained ties
Reuters – Thailand seen buying more natural gas from Myanmar
AFP – Famed Myanmar satirist ’shocked’ by freedom
Asian Correspondent – Burma’s most famous comedian Zarganar [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Dec 20th, 2011 No Comments »
- Javier Santiso
Javier Santiso is Professor of Economics at ESADE Business School and Director of the ESADE Center for Global Economy and Geopolitics (ESADEgeo).
MADRID – Over the past decade, emerging markets have become the global economy’s main growth engine. According to HSBC, 19 of today’s emerging-market countries will be among the [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Dec 20th, 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 world’s greatest shortage is not of oil, clean water, or food, but of moral leadership. With [...]
Posted in Statements on Dec 20th, 2011 No Comments »
FEDERAL SHAN GOVERNMENT
Communique
The Federal Shan Government is pleased to announce that on December 17, 2011, the President of Federal Shan Government His Royal Highness Sao Hso-khan-pha of Yawnghwe had a very productive meeting with General N’ Banla, Chairman of the UNFC who affirmed the unity of the Nationalities in the fight [...]
Posted in Poems in Burmese on Dec 20th, 2011 No Comments »
PDF – _676_ the Voice From the Political Prisoners
The Voice from the political prisoners ???????????????????????????????????
Ko Ko Aung (San Francisco)
Posted in WORLD Digest on Dec 19th, 2011 No Comments »
- Vaclav Havel
Václav Havel was President of the Czech Republic (1993-2003), the last President of Czechoslovakia (1989-1993), and the author of 21 plays, including Largo Desolato and The Garden Party, and the essays The Power of the Powerless, Living in Truth, and The Art of the Impossible.
Václav Havel, who died on December 18, [...]