Posted in Articles in English on Jul 20th, 2008 No Comments »
_ by Aminputu (India/Burma)
According to our contacts in Burma, MOE (Ministry of Energy) met with UNOCAL in July 2008 and some delegation groups are going to Japan on Energy matters.
The SPDC military government of Burma will continue the last pending project called 3 in 1 gas line project. Which is connecting from Total Platform to […]
Posted in Articles in English on Jul 16th, 2008 No Comments »
_ by Aryeh Neier
[Aryeh Neier, the president of the Open Society Institute and a founder of Human Rights Watch, is the author most recently of Taking Liberties: Four Decades in the Struggle for Rights.]
It is only a little more than fifteen years ago that the first of the contemporary international courts was created to prosecute […]
Posted in Articles in English on Jul 14th, 2008 No Comments »
_ by Raluca Enescu
For its most traditional definition, a government’s authority over its citizens is to be considered legitimate if and only if the people consent to it. Legitimacy is the foundation of such governmental power as is exercised both with a consciousness on the government’s part that it has a right to govern […]
Posted in Articles in English on Jul 12th, 2008 No Comments »
_ by Yebaw Day
Sudan ’s President Omar Hassan al-Bashir speaks during a news conference in Tokyo in this May 30, 2008 file photo. The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court is likely to seek the arrest of al-Bashir in a new war crimes case he will open on Darfur on Monday, a senior European diplomat said […]
Posted in Articles in English on Jul 7th, 2008 No Comments »
_ by Nehginpao Kipgen
When invited to write an article for the ‘The Chin Student Journal’ on the topic I am passionate about, varying thoughts begirded my mind. Of the umpteen important issues, the impact of nomenclatures on the Chin-Kuki-Mizo people was one unparalleled subject.
Historically, our people were independent from foreign domination. In the evolving process […]
Posted in Articles in English on Jul 6th, 2008 3 Comments »
_ by Prof Kanbawza Win
“Gone are the days when my heart was young and gay, Gone are my friends from the Rangoon University (substituting cotton fields away)” is the song I used to hum, whenever I recollect the unforgettable 7th July, a stigma of my life. It seems to me that 7th July has many […]
Posted in Articles in English on Jul 5th, 2008 No Comments »
_ translation & commentary by Yebaw Day
This is a translation and commentary on “Deeperinga,” a Poem on Depeyin by Kyi Maung Than, published in Cherry magazine, June 2008 issue, page 7, as reported in an article of the Burmese section of Khit Pyaing e-zine, dated 1 July.
In the Free World, poets can write whatever […]
Posted in Articles in English on Jul 5th, 2008 3 Comments »
_ by Ye Wai
It is now the 46th Anniversary of the occasion of 7th July when Gen.Ne Win ordered his brutal troops to shoot and kill over one hundred Rangoon University students, who were asking for their student rights. Among those who were killed included male and female students of young ages, who were still […]
Posted in Articles in English on Jun 29th, 2008 1 Comment »
_ by Yebaw Day
China is on its way to becoming a World-Class Super Power Nation and the 8-8-08 Olympics is one of the many ways it is showing off. As downtrodden people from Burma, we need to be aware of the dangers of living next to this awakening Super Giant.
Below is a rewritten version of […]
Posted in Articles in English on Jun 26th, 2008 3 Comments »
By Roland Watson (Dictator Watch)
June 26, 2008
We have new, disturbing, and detailed intelligence about the assistance Russia is providing Burma’s dictatorship, the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC), on its nuclear program and more generally its military modernization. This new information both confirms earlier intelligence that we have published, and expands what is known about […]
Posted in Articles in English on Jun 24th, 2008 No Comments »
_ by Marc van Ameringen
[Marc van Ameringen is Executive Director of the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition.]
GENEVA – Every year, 3.5 million mothers and children below the age of five die in poor countries because they do not have the nutrition they need to fight common diseases. Three-quarters of them could have survived diarrhea or […]
Posted in Articles in English on Jun 21st, 2008 No Comments »
_ by Antonio Graceffo
On a bamboo bed in a dark clinic at LoiTailang, a woman sits with her three children. One has a severe foot burn, which is all infected and ugly looking. It is very common for children in the rural villages to be burned when cooking pots overturn on the fire at the […]
Posted in Articles in English on Jun 21st, 2008 No Comments »
_ by Jeffrey D. Sachs
[Professor of Economics and Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. He is also a Special Adviser to United Nations Secretary-General on the Millennium Development Goals.]
Reconciling global economic growth, especially in developing countries, with the intensifying constraints on global supplies of energy, food, land, and water is the great question […]
Posted in Articles in English on Jun 20th, 2008 No Comments »
_ by Walden Bello
Biofuel production is certainly one of the culprits in the current global food crisis. But while the diversion of corn from food to biofuel feedstock has been a factor in food prices shooting up, the more primordial problem has been the conversion of economies that are largely food-self-sufficient into chronic food importers. […]
Posted in Articles in English on Jun 18th, 2008 No Comments »
_ by Prof. Kanbawza Win
It is rather sad but true to read “The Economic Intelligence Unit”, one of the most influential think tanks of the world, wrote in its Country Report said that there is no prospect for any outside intervention. As the ruling generals continued to enjoy the tacit support of China, a veto-wielding […]
Posted in Articles in English on Jun 7th, 2008 1 Comment »
_ by Ian Buruma
[Ian Buruma’s most recent book is Murder in Amsterdam: The Death of Theo van Gogh and the Limits of Tolerance. He is a professor of democracy, human rights and journalism at Bard College.]
Why are French, British, and American warships, but not Chinese or Malaysian warships, sitting near the Burmese coast loaded with […]
Posted in Articles in English on Jun 7th, 2008 No Comments »
_ by Joseph E. Stiglitz
[Joseph E. Stiglitz is professor of economics at Columbia University. His most recent book, co-authored with Linda Bilmes, is The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Costs of the Iraq Conflict. He was the recipient of the 2001 Nobel Prize in economics.]
Around the world, protests against soaring food and fuel prices […]
Posted in Articles in English on Jun 5th, 2008 No Comments »
_ by Jomo Kwame Sundaram
[Jomo Kwame Sundaram, the United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Economic Development, was awarded the 2007 Wassily Leontief Prize for Advancing the Frontiers of Economic Thought. ]
New York – Lack of food is rarely the reason people go hungry. Even now, there is enough food in the world, with a bumper harvest […]