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CNN – In Myanmar, what a difference an oath makes
AFP – Myanmar changes bring new ASEAN-EU chapter
AFP – Britain relaxes Myanmar trade policy
AFP – World Bank to return to Myanmar
Reuters – World Bank looks anew at Myanmar, debt and data key
Fox News – EU working toward diplomatic mission in Myanmar
Bernama – [...]

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FBR REPORT: Shan State, Burma April 2012

Dear friends,
With your help, encouragement and prayers, the FBR medical team conducted a one-month medical training for the Shan FBR relief teams. This training focused on commonly encountered illnesses such as malaria, pneumonia, dehydration, diarrhea, and [...]

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- 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 – The most widely held theory of politics is also the simplest: the powerful get what they want. Financial regulation is driven by the interests of [...]

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Reuters – Myanmar parliament stand-off a “technical matter:” Suu Kyi
Reuters – Analysis: Myanmar sanctions lifting a boon and a test for China firms
AP – US ‘careful’ on easing investment ban in Myanmar
AP – Suu Kyi hopes Myanmar oath dispute is settled soon
AFP – World Bank to reopen Myanmar office in [...]

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- Stephen S. Roach
Stephen S. Roach, a member of the faculty at Yale University, was formerly Chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia, and is the author of The Next Asia.
NEW YORK – For seven years, the United States has allowed its fixation on the renminbi’s exchange rate to deflect attention from far more [...]

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- Alieto Guadagni
Alieto Guadagni was Argentina’s Energy Secretary in 2002, and subsequently was its representative at the World Bank.
BUENOS AIRES – The expropriation of nearly all of the Spanish company Repsol’s stake in Argentina’s energy producer YPF, announced in a vehement speech by President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, has raised legal alarms worldwide. [...]

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PDF – _830_ Burma’s Paliman Without Aung San Suu Kyi
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PDF – _829_ Hero Never Die
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PDF – _828_ Hate the War
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PDF – _826_ Just Like Re-born Burma’s President
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- Gareth Evans
Gareth Evans was Australian Foreign Minister from 1988 to 1996, and President of the International Crisis Group from 2000 to 2009.
CANBERRA – Perhaps it is going too far to say, as someone did after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill two years ago, that most Americans want a president who [...]

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- John Allen Paulos
John Allen Paulos is Professor of Mathematics at Temple University and the author of Innumeracy and A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper.
PHILADELPHIA – It is difficult to communicate medical risk to a large audience, especially when official recommendations conflict with emotional narratives. That is why, when the United States Preventive [...]

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- Shlomo Avineri
Shlomo Avineri is Professor of Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and was Director-General of Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs under Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin.
JERUSALEM – Two things stand out in the Middle East since the Arab Spring began – one that happened, and one that did not. [...]

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- Kemal Dervi?
Kemal Dervi? is Vice-President of the Global Economy and Development program at the Brookings Institution, and was formerly Minister of Economic Affairs in Turkey and Executive Head of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP).
WASHINGTON, DC – For almost two centuries, starting around 1800, the history of the global economy [...]

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- 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 annual spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank have provided a window [...]

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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 – Over the past two years, financial markets have turned the spotlight on a [...]

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FBR REPORT:
Kachin State, Burma 24 April, 2012
KEY DEVELOPMENTS Burma Army fighting continues in Kachin State since the original outbreak of violence on 9 June 2011, when [...]

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