Date: 12/06/2011
President Thein Sein
President’s Office
Naypyidaw, Republic of the Union of Myanmar
Respected President Thein Sein
First of all Armed for the Quill wants to congratulate you on assuming the office of Myanmar President on 30th March 2011 and being a first civilian President in 50 years of this great nation. Since the inception of your [...]
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Burma Kachin Report Press Release 11.30
http://physiciansforhumanrights.org/library/reports/under-siege-in-kachin-state-burma.html
Burma Kachin Report Exec Summary PHR 11.30
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PDF – _666_ the Bitter Life Of Scaffold
The bitter life of Scaffold ???????????????????
Ko Ko Aung (San Francisco)
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PDF – _665_ Even Own Gold Mountain Still Getting Poor
Even own gold mountain still getting poor ?????????????? ??????????????????????
Ko Ko Aung (San Francisco)
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Date: 12/05/11
Federal Chancellor Dr. Angela Merkel
Office of the Federal Government
Berlin, Germany
Her Excellency Dr. Angela Merkel
AFTQ wants to appreciate your efforts in bringing nations like Afghanistan on the road to democracy and playing a host to a respected International Conference on Afghanistan at Bonn. However with the reference to the last conference [...]
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- Harold James
Harold James is Professor of History and International Affairs at Princeton University and Professor of History at the European University Institute, Florence. He is the author of The Creation and Destruction of Value: The Globalization Cycle.
PRINCETON – The purpose of creating a common currency has been largely and surprisingly forgotten [...]
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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 – Just when it seemed that things couldn’t get worse, it appears that they have. Even some of the ostensibly “responsible” [...]
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Reuters – Map study finds vivax malaria has firm grip in Asia
Reuters – Myanmar’s Suu Kyi eyes constituency near Yangon
AFP – Myanmar state media confirms pact with rebel group
AFP – Myanmar president ’signs protest bill’
AFP – Vatican envoy to meet Suu Kyi in Myanmar this week: report
AFP – Clinton downplays [...]
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PDF – _664_Hay Flame Love and Firewood Flame Love
Hay flame love and firewood flame love ?????????????????????????????
Ko Ko Aung (San Francisco)
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- Pierre Buhler
Pierre Buhler, a French diplomat, is the author of La Puissance au XXIème siècle (Power in the Twenty-First Century).
PARIS – The winner of Sunday’s legislative election in Russia was a foregone conclusion: United Russia, organized by Vladimir Putin. Likewise, there is no doubt that Putin himself will win the presidential [...]
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- Mario I. Blejer and Eduardo Levy Yeyati
Mario I. Blejer is a former governor of the Central Bank of Argentina and former Director of the Center for Central Banking Studies at the Bank of England. Eduardo Levy Yeyati is Professor of Economics at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella and Senior Fellow at The [...]
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PDF – _663_ Goodwill Can’t Be Praised
Goodwill can’t be praised ????? ???????????????
Ko Ko Aung (San Francisco)
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Posted in Burma News on Dec 2nd, 2011 No Comments »
Dear Friends,
Please find attached the November 2011 issue of ALTSEAN Burma Bulletin.
November 2011 Burma Bulletin
The Burma Bulletin is a short month in review of events in Burma, particularly those of interest to the democracy movement and human rights activists.
In the November 2011 issue you will find:
* US steps up engagement
* Crimes, [...]
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Reuters – Myanmar’s Suu Kyi praises U.S. engagement
AP – Reports: Myanmar’s Shan rebels sign cease-fire
AP – Myanmar Gov’t Officials Meet With Kachin Rebels
AFP – Reclusive Myanmar takes a step out of the shadows
AFP – What’s in a name? In Myanmar (Burma), a lot
CNN – Clinton to continue visit with Myanmar’s [...]
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PDF – _662_ From Darkness Open Your Prison Door
From darkness open your prison door ???????????? ???????????????????
Ko Ko Aung (San Francisco)
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AFP – Obama offers Myanmar fresh start in relations
AP – As US-Myanmar ties warm, China stands conflicted
Reuters – Myanmar forms centre of economic love triangle
Reuters – Malaysia’s Petronas says bidding for Myanmar oil field
AlertNet – Flood-affected Myanmar migrants vulnerable to ruthless landlords
CNN – Full text: Obama letter to Aung San Suu Kyi
CNN – Full text: [...]
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- Malcolm Fraser
Malcolm Fraser is a former prime minister of Australia.
MELBOURNE – The Western Pacific is currently facing a difficult problem: how to accommodate China’s rising aspirations in a region where the United States has held primacy since the Cold War’s end. Is the US determined to maintain dominance in the Asia/Pacific [...]
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Yuriko Koike
TOKYO – Historic transformations often happen when least expected. Mikhail Gorbachev’s liberalizing policies of glasnost and perestroika in the Soviet Union emerged at one of the Cold War’s darkest hours, with US President Ronald Reagan pushing for strategic missile defense and the two sides fighting proxy wars in Afghanistan and elsewhere. Deng [...]
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