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November 17, 2010
| Banya Hongsar
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma’s hope and the leader of the National League for Democracy (NLD) has two battles to face in the short time since her...
November 15, 2010
| Dr. Shawn Smith
In a few days’ time – a week or two at most – the junta will have finished cutting and pasting the results of the November 7th Burmese parliamentary...
November 14, 2010
| Banya Hongsar
The shameful Burmese election is over. The nation’s dream to elect a civilian government has been diminished. Armed fighting between government...
November 14, 2010
| Celestine Chenard
Upon arrival in Burma’s former capital three days before the election, the number of campaign trucks roaming the streets playing loud music ...
November 11, 2010
| Dr. Shawn Smith
Despite its boycott of Sunday’s elections, the National League for Democracy wants to do what it can to alleviate the increased ugliness ...
November 11, 2010
| Dr. Shawn Smith
Some indications of the international community’s response to Burmese elections were evident election day as poll-watchers, many unable to get in to...
November 7, 2010
| Fayas
The elections in Burma are going to be held on November 7, 2010. The military- backed Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) is poised to win...
November 6, 2010
| Dr Tint Swe
Like everywhere, in Burma, there are always pros and cons as well as positives and negatives whenever change is attempted....
November 6, 2010
| Kyaw Hla
Rashida, 30, is the mother of six children. She and her family live in the Leda refugee camp,...
November 1, 2010
| Nyo Ohn Myint Chiang Mai (Thailand)
The recent pressure being leveled against the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) by the Burmese junta follows a period....
October 29, 2010
| Mizzima
In a quip-laden keynote address, Indian award-winning economist, Amartya Sen, recently put forth his analysis of the present state of Burmese society...
October 25, 2010
| Banya Hongsar
November 7th is just a few days away. It will be interpreted as a day of either darkness or light in Burmese political history. However,....
October 25, 2010
| Salai Andrew Ngun Cung Lian & Salai Za Ceu Lian
Burma’s ruling military regime, the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC), consistently trumpets its adherence to a “seven-step roadmap....
October 22, 2010
| Jai Wan Mai
On October 13, ASEAN Secretary- General, Dr. Surin Pitsuwan, gave positive, if not fanciful,....
October 16, 2010
| Thea Forbes
In one of its opening salvoes against the Burmese junta’s elections this year, the country’s most powerful opposition party,....