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Saturday, November 6, 2010 |
Either way, the results of Sunday's vote will have consequences and, like it or not, they will go on for years. Good or bad consequences? The best answer is probably a little good and a lot of bad. |
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Friday, October 29, 2010 |
The election is a sham that is not free, fair or inclusive. Will the people of Burma derive any benefit from the polls? |
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Thursday, September 16, 2010 |
The fact that National League for Democracy was disbanded by Burma's ruling junta wasn't unexpected news, and it's just a legal phase of the annihilation that the regime began plotting years ago. |
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Monday, August 16, 2010 |
The announcement of an election date hasn't changed the screwed up nature of the political scene in Burma. |
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Friday, July 9, 2010 |
Burmese democracy champions are doing just what makes the country's ruling generals happy. They're fighting over a bamboo hat. |
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Thursday, July 1, 2010 |
The Burmese people are given a fashion show by their ruthless, ruling generals who looked like traditional stage comedians. |
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Friday, June 18, 2010 |
It's not a happy birthday. Why? Because the battle between the state of Burma and Aung San Suu Kyi goes on. |
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Saturday, May 1, 2010 |
Introducing the USDP—a new political vehicle, powered by a hybrid engine of the SPDC and the USDA. |
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Friday, April 23, 2010 |
Who can argue if I say that Burma is politically stable? I say that only half jokingly. |
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Friday, April 9, 2010 |
Perhaps a new breed of NLD activists can reincarnate the party using new creative strategies to directly engage a whole new range of issues that address the same goals set in the birth of the NLD in 1988. |
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Saturday, April 3, 2010 |
Without inclusiveness, whatever the outcome of the election, it will not be beneficial to the people of Burma. |
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Friday, March 12, 2010 |
All is farce when it comes to Burma’s newly released election laws. However, it wasn't unexpected. If the laws had been even a little fair, it would have been like a fantasy dream come true. |
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Friday, March 5, 2010 |
A former bank employee, Kyi Win now operates a tiny shop selling snacks in a refugee camp to make ends meet for his family. His daily routine now includes selling treats to children for 1 baht (about US 3 cent). |
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Wednesday, February 17, 2010 |
Detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi holds the key to whether her party decides to take part in the upcoming election. |
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Saturday, January 16, 2010 |
The junta's actions in the first two weeks of 2010 leave little reason to believe that this will be the year that Burma finally emerges from its decades-long era of darkness. |
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Wednesday, December 23, 2009 |
Although successive Burmese governments have never followed the advice of outside experts, Snr-Gen Than Shwe and his junta should take the words of Nobel economics laureate Joseph Stiglitz seriously. |
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Wednesday, November 11, 2009 |
Is Than Shwe really ready to release Aung San Suu Kyi, as recent reports suggest, or is he just tiptoeing around the issue? |
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Saturday, October 24, 2009 |
It was a mistake for Asean leaders to take a soft approach toward Burma at the Asean Summit meeting. |
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Thursday, October 22, 2009 |
Asean leaders meeting in Thailand must recognize that their own engagement policy with Burma isn’t working. |
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Friday, October 16, 2009 |
The US engagement policy has created a new political environment, but is it the best game in town? |
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