A reluctant refuge for Myanmar folk
Opinion - Commentary Source > Ben Blanchard/Reuters Tuesday, 02 February 2010 23:50
Ask residents of the dusty Chinese border town of Ruili what they think of their neighbor and supposed friend Myanmar (Burma) and one word features prominently -- "luan," or chaotic...
 
ASEAN should not be taken in by unprincipled Burma
Opinion - Commentary Source > Zin Linn/OpEdNews Tuesday, 19 January 2010 10:38
ASEAN is seemingly committed to accelerating economic growth, social progress and cultural development in the South-East Asia region, to strengthen the institution for a thriving ...
 
India Can Move the Needle on Burma
Opinion - Commentary Source > KELLEY CURRIE/Wall Street Journal Tuesday, 19 January 2010 10:27
Delhi should be more clever about using its own values and role as a regional leader to press for political reform. Burma is back in the news amid reports ...
 
Burma's is still a story of freedom denied
Opinion - Commentary Source > Garry Woodard/The Age Tuesday, 11 August 2009 20:55
what if Aung San Suu Kyi, whose sentence of 18 months will keep her incommunicado and out of politics while the junta stage manages ''elections'' in 2010, had taken government after her party won a free election in 1990? ...
 
Burma heroine Aung San Suu Kyi shows true grit
Opinion - Commentary Source > Meghan Cox Gurdon/The San Francisco Examiner Thursday, 30 July 2009 16:47
It takes no courage to praise one of the bravest and most determined women in Asia. It takes a great deal of courage — and unbelievable grit — to be her. On Friday, Aung San Suu Kyi, the elegant face of suppressed Burmese democracy, will hear whether she faces five more years of detention...
 
A chink may yet be appearing in Burma's obstinacy
Opinion - Commentary Source > THANIDA TANSUBHAPOL/Bangkok Post Monday, 27 July 2009 13:55
The Burma and North Korea issues have been in the spotlight at Asean meetings for more than a decade. The "issues" vary from meeting to meeting, depending on what is happening with these countries at the time...
 
Burma and North Korea, Brothers in Arms
Opinion - Commentary Source > AUNG ZAW/Wall Street Journal Asia Friday, 10 July 2009 03:09
The North Korean ship that tried to steam to Burma last month isn't the only problem facing the U.S. and its allies. There's a much broader military relationship growing between the two pariah states -- one that poses a growing threat to stability in Asia-Pacific...
 
Myanmar: The refugee factory
Opinion - Commentary Source > Joe Fleishman/AmericanChronicle Friday, 17 April 2009 12:09
the largest nation in South East Asia and one of the poorest nations in the world. But it was not always like this. It had a bright past which ends up in the darkness of poverty. All the wealth that Myanmar had has swollen by their military lead government...
 
Understanding new Thai policy towards Burma
Opinion - Commentary Source > Kavi Chongkittavorn/The Nation Monday, 05 January 2009 23:03
Thai side allowed the Burmese side greater leeway along the 2004-km border such as issues related to Burmese migrant workers, illegal cross-border activities and harassment of ...
 


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