Posted in WORLD Digest on Dec 19th, 2011 No Comments »
- Ji?í Pehe
Ji?í Pehe was Vaclav Havel’s political adviser from September 1997 to May 1999. He is currently Director of New York University in Prague.
PRAGUE – Long before Czechoslovakia’s communist regime collapsed in 1989, Václav Havel was one of the most remarkable figures in Czech history – already a successful playwright [...]
Posted in Burma News on Dec 19th, 2011 No Comments »
UN News Centre – Myanmar leads rise in opium poppy cultivation in South-East Asia – UN survey
AFP – Opium cultivation rises in Myanmar, Laos: UN
AFP – Thai PM to meet Myanmar’s Suu Kyi next week
Reuters – UN nuclear watchdog wants to visit Myanmar-source
AlertNet – Displaced Myanmar Kachins lack food, rejected [...]
Posted in Feature Articles on Dec 19th, 2011 No Comments »
Burmese Perspective
The Regime War against Humanitarianism
Kanbawza Win
The international community was shock and aghast when the Burmese military regime turned down the humanitarian aid offered by the international community after the Nargis Cyclone hit the country in May 2008 killing some 200,000 people and making millions homeless. The United Nations practically had to [...]
Posted in Poems in Burmese on Dec 16th, 2011 No Comments »
PDF – _675_.Request to State Sangha Committee
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Ko Ko Aung (San Francisco)
Posted in Cartoons & Humour on Dec 16th, 2011 No Comments »
Mr. Creator
Posted in Burma News on Dec 16th, 2011 No Comments »
Please find attached EBO’s 37th Political Monitor report.
PMNo.37-14-12-11
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 be removed from or added to this list, please email bxl@euro-burma.be.
Euro-Burma Office
Square [...]
Posted in Poems in Burmese on Dec 15th, 2011 No Comments »
PDF – _674_ if You Know Nothing You Don’t Know Lieing
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Ko Ko Aung (San Francisco)
Posted in WORLD Digest on Dec 14th, 2011 No Comments »
- David William Haslam
David Haslam is a researcher at the UK’s National Obesity Forum.
LONDON – The classic 1981 horror movie The Monster Club, starring Vincent Price, Donald Pleasance, and John Carradine as monsters, included a cast of cannibals, vampires, werewolves, ghouls, and a hybrid creature called a “shadmock.” Among this group of misfits, [...]
Posted in Burma News on Dec 14th, 2011 No Comments »
Reuters – Thailand seeks Myanmar petroleum exploration rights
International Herald Tribune – Surrounded by Poverty, a Lifeless Capital Stands Aloof
Bangkok Post – PM to visit Burma Dec 19-20
Sin Chew Jit Poh – Myanmar rights commission warns of conflict trauma
Asia News Network – Clinton’s Myanmar trip ‘won’t hurt ties’
The Irish Times – Burma [...]
Posted in Editorials & Op/Eds on Dec 14th, 2011 No Comments »
Kanbawza Win
Sanctions and other punitive actions on Burma should be maintained by the US and Western nations for the simple reason that the current regime is not interested in political solutions and is mounting an all out war against the Kachin ethnic nationalities, practicing ethnic cleansing and committing gross human rights violations on all other [...]
Posted in Campaigns & posters on Dec 13th, 2011 No Comments »
Media Release From Burma Campaign UK
For Immediate Release 13th December 2011
Hague Burma Visit – Prioritise Ending Burmese Army’s Use of Rape and Sexual Violence
Burma Campaign UK today called on Foreign Secretary William Hague to make ending the use of rape and sexual violence by the Burmese Army a top priority when he [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Dec 13th, 2011 No Comments »
- Carl Bildt and Patricia Espinosa Cantellano
Carl Bildt is Foreign Minister of Sweden. Patricia Espinosa Cantellano is Foreign Minister of Mexico.
STOCKHOLM/MEXICO CITY – Indonesia’s parliament has just taken a historic step, one that makes the planet safer from the threat of nuclear weapons. The importance of Indonesia’s decision to ratify the Comprehensive [...]
Posted in Burma News on Dec 13th, 2011 No Comments »
AFP – Myanmar recognises Suu Kyi’s political party
AFP – Myanmar’s muted press strives for a louder voice
AFP – Japan foreign minister to visit Myanmar
AFP – Britain’s Hague announces trip to Myanmar in January
Reuters – Chinese premier Wen to visit Myanmar, sources say
Reuters – U.S. says does not want to undermine [...]
Posted in Poems in Burmese on Dec 12th, 2011 No Comments »
PDF – _673_ Keep Away From This Kind of Person
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Ko Ko Aung (San Francisco)
Posted in WORLD Digest on Dec 12th, 2011 No Comments »
by Harold James
LONDON – At the just-concluded European Union summit, British Prime Minister David Cameron vented decades of accumulated resentment stemming from his country’s relationship with Europe. Europeans were appalled at how the last-minute injection of finicky points about bank regulation could stymie what was supposed to be a breakthrough [...]
Posted in WORLD Digest on Dec 12th, 2011 No Comments »
- Dani Rodrik
Dani Rodrik, Professor of International Political Economy at Harvard University, is the author of The Globalization Paradox: Democracy and the Future of the World Economy.
CAMBRIDGE – Early last month, a group of students staged a walkout in Harvard’s popular introductory economics course, Economics 10, taught by my colleague Greg Mankiw. Their [...]
Posted in Feature Articles on Dec 12th, 2011 1 Comment »
Myanmar Times
The head of the Euro-Burma Office, Mr Harn Yawnghwe, on his role in last month’s negotiations on the Thai-Myanmar border, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s role in peacebuilding and the need to achieve a ‘political solution’ with ethnic groups
By Shwe Yinn Mar Oo
Volume 31, No. 605
December 12 – 18, [...]
Posted in Burma News on Dec 12th, 2011 No Comments »
AFP – Myanmar icon Suu Kyi’s party unveils new logo
AFP – Myanmar eases censorship for some: local media
AFP – Species, threats grow in Mekong region: WWF
Canada.com – Myanmar tells army to stop attacks on rebels
Bangkok Post – Burmese soldiers killed on Mekong
Asian Correspondent – Burma needs more to relax [...]