Analyzing the 2010 election (Burmese)
Posted in Feature Articles on Mar 18th, 2010 No Comments »
by Htun Gyaw
18Mar10 Analyzing the 2010 Election (Burmese)
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2010 and My View
Posted in Feature Articles on Mar 18th, 2010 No Comments »
by Htun Gyaw
18Mar10 2010 and My View
Burma’s political, economic, health and education
Posted in Feature Articles on Mar 18th, 2010 No Comments »
18Mar10 Burma’s political, economic, health and education
Can the tiger change its nature?
Posted in Feature Articles on Mar 18th, 2010 No Comments »
Zaw Naing Wynn
Australia, u4097123@alumni.anu.edu.au 18 March 2010
The military dictators have announced most anticipated election laws. Now it looks more certain that elections will be held in 2010 according to the terms and conditions carefully dictated by the regime.
The time has arrived for all Burmese oppositions to decide. It will be the crucial time that will [...]
National Interests
Posted in Feature Articles on Feb 25th, 2010 1 Comment »
by Khin Ma Ma Myo
25Feb10 National Interests by Khin Ma Ma Myo
Is It A Real Progress ?
Posted in Feature Articles on Feb 23rd, 2010 No Comments »
NLD Vice Chairman U Tin Oo was released from house arrest but releasing him from house arrest does not mean progress toward democracy and it is a progress toward positive change. But his college Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is still under house arrest that she never committed a single crime.
On 30 May, 2003 leaders [...]
Current Labor strike in Hlaing Tharyar Rangoon Burma
Posted in Feature Articles on Feb 12th, 2010 No Comments »
12Feb10 Current Labor strike in Hlaing Tharyar Rangoon Burma
The Use of “Democracy” as an Adjective in Myanmar Newspaper
Posted in Feature Articles on Feb 1st, 2010 No Comments »
01Feb10 The Use of Democracy as and Adj
Higher Education to Control the County
Posted in Feature Articles on Jan 20th, 2010 1 Comment »
Kanbawza Win
Sanskrit says that: ‘Education leads to liberation’ – Liberation from ignorance which shrouds the mind, Liberation from superstitions, which paralyze efforts, liberation from prejudice, which blind the vision of truth”. However successive military regime believes that universities are the birth place of dissent against autocratic rule. And so since the military coup in [...]
State Secrets in Burma are no secret for 2010 election
Posted in Feature Articles on Jan 10th, 2010 1 Comment »
More or less every day, there are reports of peoples’ defiance in Burma. On Friday three more Burmese have to be added to the list. They are guilty of leaking the State secrets.
“State” is the favorite terminology of the regime and it stands for the regime. Whatever the mandatory public works is done it [...]
WHERE LAW ENDS, TYRANNY BEGINS
Posted in Feature Articles on Jan 6th, 2010 No Comments »
By Ethan Bourne
Burma is a country ruled by successive generals who were not elected by the Burmese. Burma’s generals often quote the selected laws from the constitution when they want to protect their actions of arbitrary arrests, imprisonment and many other human rights violations. Whenever the term of house arrest for Aung San Suu Kyi, [...]
(2010) election in Burma: New version of Diarchy
Posted in Feature Articles on Dec 3rd, 2009 3 Comments »
To answer the frequently asked query of is democracy possible in Burma is yes. But what democracy is the following question. The officially dubbed “disciplined democracy” is coming soon if everything goes smoothly. Thesaurus plainly tells that disciplined means restricted or closely controlled.
For external observers, an election can be seen as a routine and standard [...]
Political Stance (U Aye Thar Aung)
Posted in Feature Articles on Nov 28th, 2009 3 Comments »
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Is America a Paper Tiger?
Posted in Feature Articles on Nov 23rd, 2009 1 Comment »
A Burmese Perspective
Kanbawza Win
It seems that President Barack Obama’s first trip to Asia has signaled a turning point in relations between a weakened American eagle and the fiery Chinese Dragon that senses its time has come to ignore on human rights and restrict it to economics only. In other words business overrules the [...]
The Battle of the Ulterior Motives
Posted in Feature Articles on Nov 23rd, 2009 No Comments »
Kanbawza Win
“The Washington Post” of the 7th instant decries, “Results of US-Burma Meeting is Unclear.” How can it be clear when the two sides, the Burmese Junta and the American representatives Kurt Campbell, Assistant Secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, together with Scot Marciel, Deputy Assistant Secretary witted against each other [...]
Burma UN Resolution 2009: A paper punch
Posted in Feature Articles on Nov 23rd, 2009 No Comments »
Passing a resolution on Burma in an international forum is an annual routine practice which can embarrasses the ruling military junta but as that cannot make a change in the country it is not impressed by the severely oppressed people of Burma. There have been over 30 resolutions already passed by unanimously and later by [...]
Magic of Tooth Relic
Posted in Feature Articles on Nov 16th, 2009 No Comments »
Burma and Sri Lanka has some shared facts such as colonialism, Theravada Buddhism, Non-allied Movement, and protracted armed resistance by minority.
Apart from that Than Shwe’s trip to Venerable Island is not significant like General Aung San’s visit to Kandy to sign an agreement with Lord Mountbatten in September 1945.
His visit is somewhat noteworthy. Burmese military [...]
2010 Election: Legitimacy and Credibility
Posted in Feature Articles on Nov 16th, 2009 No Comments »
by: Htun Aung Gyaw
The ruling Junta SLORC/SPDC has no legitimacy and credibility after it lost the election in 1990. Burma’s last election on May 27, 1990 turned out a huge victory for the opposition political party National League for Democracy (NLD), which won 82% of the parliamentary seats. The junta has no legitimacy to rule [...]