April 1, 2012
Supporters of the National League for Democracy cheer holding a portrait of Aung San Suu Kyias they watch a screen in Rangoon. Photograph: Reuters Esmer Golluoglu in Rangoon guardian.co.uk, Sunday 1 April 2012 13.20 BST Article history Aung San Suu Kyi supporters claim victory in Burma byelection Burmese Nobel laureate and pro-democracy linchpin said to have won 65% [...]
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March 11, 2012
Aung San Suu Kyi has complained that her party has been censored while promoting its policies. Photograph: Khin Maung Win/AP Burma‘s opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has said that government censors are not allowing her party to criticise the previous military-run governments when it promotes its policies on state-run radio and television before next month’s elections. [...]
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March 2, 2012
As Myanmar opens up, it must be careful to impose proper policy and oversight on foreign companies [GALLO/GETTY] Some of the many causes ascribed to the financial crisis in the United States are improper regulation, deregulation and inadequate enforcement by regulatory agencies. More recently, this regulatory tale has been supplemented with a structural economic narrative. [...]
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December 26, 2011
Aung San Suu Kyi arrives to register her political party in Naypyidaw Photo: AFP/GETTY By Dean Nelson, South Asia Editor 3:04PM GMT 23 Dec 2011 Aung San Suu Kyi registers political party Aung San Suu Kyi, the leader of Burma’s democracy movement met the speakers of the country’s parliament and registered her political party to contest [...]
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December 19, 2011
A Kachin Independence Army soldier with rocket launcher shops for a mobile phone. Kachin civilians have reported human rights abuses by government troops. Photograph: Hitoshi Katanoda/Polaris / eyevine The villagers scattered as machine guns raked the darkness, fleeing from the Burmese troops into the thick of the jungle. When day came they crept from their [...]
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December 17, 2011
Kachin people in Myanmar face food shortages A civil war for more than sixty years has left the Kachin people in northern Myanmar facing much problems. Video at http://www.aljazeera.com/video/asia-pacific/2011/12/201112161151277450.html Aid agencies in northern Myanmar say tens of thousands of ethnic Kachin people are facing food shortages and health problems. The Kachin, one [...]
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November 21, 2011
Democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi commands considerable influence in Myanmar [Reuters] Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar’s most prominent dissident, will run in an upcoming parliamentary election, a senior official in her party said, three days after her National League for Democracy (NLD) ended its boycott of the country’s political system. “Some people are worried that taking [...]
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November 20, 2011
Aung San Suu Kyi will compete for a seat in parliament at the election. Photograph: Soe Than Win/AFP/Getty Images Burma poised to free jailed activists as it edges closer to democracy As the pace of the ‘Burmese Spring’ accelerates, release of political prisoners will be crucial to lifting EU and US sanctions reddit this Comments [...]
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November 17, 2011
Burma’s generals inch towards reform Regime shows signs of embracing progress with the right to strike and release of prisoners, but many remain sceptical A year ago, it was a banned symbol of resistance. Now Burma‘s most famous face is becoming ubiquitous in the capital: on trinkets, posters and newspaper front pages, the serene features [...]
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November 14, 2011
Aung San Suu Kyi. Photograph: Soe Than Win/AFP/Getty Images Aung San Suu Kyi braced for return to Burmese politics Change in constitution allows National League for Democracy to contest parliamentary seats in December byelections reddit this Joseph Allchin in Rangoon guardian.co.uk, Sunday 13 November 2011 16.59 GMT Article history Aung San Suu Kyi appears on the [...]
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October 9, 2011
Beijing has already contributed $3.6bn to the construction of the Myitsone hydropower dam, a project which would displace as many as 20,000 people from their homes [EPA] Have protests succeeded in Myanmar? The building of the China-backed Myitsone Dam has been stopped after popular protests, causing worry in Beijing. The volley of scepticism fired [...]
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October 4, 2011
Aung San Suu Kyi voices concern over Burma violence Burmese democracy leader was speaking in video link to University of Johannesburg Aung San Suu Kyi repeatedly called on the international community to closely follow events in Burma. Photograph: Nyein Chan Naing/EPA Recent violence in Burma shows how difficult it will be to achieve unity and [...]
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September 18, 2011
Suu Kyi says an Arab Spring-style uprising is not the answer to Myanmar‘s problems [AFP] Democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi has said there are finally signs of political change in Myanmar after decades of military rule, but its long-suffering people are still far from real freedom. The Nobel Peace Prize winner told the AFP news [...]
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August 14, 2011
Aung San Suu Kyi opens a library in Bago, north of Rangoon. Photograph: Str/EPA Thousands of well-wishers lined roadsides in Burma to welcome the opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi as she tested the limits of her freedom on Sunday by taking her first political trip into the countryside since being released from house arrest. The military-dominated [...]
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August 14, 2011
Workers in Burma‘s Kachin state wait for river transport on the Irrawaddy, where China plans to build up to eight dams. The project will displace thousands, devastate ecosystems and stoke conflict. Photograph: STR/AFP/Getty Images Aung San Suu Kyi, the leader of Burma‘s pro-democracy opposition, has called for a halt to a massive Chinese hydropower project [...]
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June 27, 2011
Aung San Suu Kyi‘s idea of freedom offers a radical message for the west The Burmese heroine’s Reith lectures expose our patronising attitudes to Buddhism, and injects fresh meaning into a concept we have abused Share reddit this Comments (81) Madeleine Bunting guardian.co.uk, Sunday 26 June 2011 21.00 BST Article history On the wall by [...]
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June 20, 2011
Aung San Suu Kyi tells of Burma’s struggle for freedom and its cost Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi speaks movingly of price of resistance in first of BBC’s Reith lectures Share126 Comments (3) Simon Tisdall guardian.co.uk, Monday 20 June 2011 14.02 BST Article history Aung San Suu Kyi will deliver two of this [...]
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May 18, 2011
Obama Faces Mounting Arab Disillusionment by David Elkins, May 18, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum On the eve of a much-anticipated address by President Barack Obama on U.S. policy in the Middle East, a new survey suggests that disillusionment with both Obama and Washington’s approaches to the region are once again on [...]
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May 12, 2011
Tomgram: William Astore, A New Age of “Enlightened” War Posted by William Astore at 10:00am, May 12, 2011. In case you hadn’t noticed, they are — no kidding around — absolutely the niftiest non-humans on Earth. I’m speaking about the special operations force of Navy SEALs that took out Osama bin Laden. They and their special ops [...]
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May 9, 2011
Nato units left 61 African migrants to die of hunger and thirst Exclusive: Boat trying to reach Lampedusa was left to drift in Mediterranean for 16 days, despite alarm being raised Share1587 Jack Shenker in Lampedusa guardian.co.uk, Sunday 8 May 2011 21.30 BST Article history Refugees from Libya reach Lampedusa. A Nato ship failed to [...]
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May 8, 2011
Tomgram: Andy Kroll, Welcome to the McJobs Recovery Posted by Andy Kroll at 5:50pm, May 8, 2011. [Note for TomDispatch Readers: For those of you who created a wavelet of contributions in response to our offer on Tuesday of a personalized, signed copy of Adam Hochschild’s remarkable new history of World War I, To End All Wars: [...]
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May 8, 2011
An email from Noam Chomsky Noam Chomsky University of Leeds (UCU) – Blog, November 30, 2009 I had a startling experience a few weeks ago. I travelled to Mexico City for talks at the National University, an enormous and very impressive institution with high standards of achievement and scholarship. Entrance is selective, but the university [...]
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April 16, 2011
Saturday interview: Aung San Suu Kyi Burma‘s tireless political campaigner talks about rebuilding the National League for Democracy, the revolutionary power of social media and her love of The Grateful Dead Share78 Comments (11) Polly Toynbee The Guardian, Saturday 16 April 2011 Article history ‘More people are realising that if they want change, they’ve got to [...]
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Is there a lesson here for the unelected Australian government?
Obama Faces Mounting Arab Disillusionment by David Elkins, May 18, 2011 Email This | Print This | Share This | Antiwar Forum On the eve of a much-anticipated address by President Barack Obama on U.S. policy in the Middle East, a new survey suggests that disillusionment with both Obama and Washington’s approaches to the region are once again on [...]
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