Politics
Finally the Indian Parliament has bowed down to listen to people’s voice on corruption and resolved to frame a strong anti-corruption legislation. Following a massive protest spread across the sub continent led by Gandhian Anna …
Tags: Anna Hazare • corruption • India
As India is uprising against corruption, the Nobel laureate Burmese pro-democracy leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi has extended her support to the movement. The largest democracy in the globe has witnessed a second Freedom …
Tags: Aung San Suu Kyi • India • Mahatma Gandhi
The Burmese exiles living in India and their sympathizers had recently come to the street of India’s national capital to lodge a stronger protest against the government for supplying arms and ammunitions to the semi-military …
Today I was pointed to a French website with much interesting material about Burma.
One item caught my attention first (since my knowledge of French is shamefully underdeveloped): A graphical animation of the political landscape in …
Tags: animation • documentary • mainstream media • NGO • NLD • third forces
While the world media reports with the factual supports from various sources inside and outside Burma (Myanmar) that the poverty stricken country is changing, but in realty that exactly is not happening in the so-called …
Tags: Aung San Suu Kyi • Chin • democracy • India • refugees
I am not going to write about the real Asian values, the values of the people of Asia. I figure it is impossible even to grasp their variety. What I rather have in mind to …
Tags: ASEAN • Asian values • Burma • China • democracy • human rights
In Burma there are still over 2,200 political prisoners. As long as they are not free, no change to democracy in Burma can be credible. Similarly, as Zinn Linn pointed out, there is no democracy …
Tags: Burmese media • human rights • political prisoner
I just came across an article in the Irrawaddy, published yesterday, where one paragraph caught my attention:
“Sources inside Burma said that rumors are spreading that the new government will in fact release a large …
Tags: defiance • Naypyidaw • regime • Švejk • thein sein
“The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.”
John Gilmore
This famous quote draws its confidence from a rather idealist view on a technique that is employed for the Internet to work the way we …
Tags: censorship • Egypt • media literacy • Thailand
The Burmese news outlet Irrawaddy has reported on cuts to the Democratic Voice of Burma’s budget, while DVB itself deplores the end of Irrawaddy’s printed magazine. Will the future of Burmese exile media – or, …
Tags: 2010 Elections • Burmese media • NGO • pro-democracy activities
In her article, “Now is Not the Time to Lift Sanctions”, Sina Schüssler highlights some aspects of sanction politics that are only too often being overlooked. While sanctions are commonly considered a merely economic tool …
Tags: communication • sanctions
While academic research should be done in a way that is unbiased and transparent and that enables others to reproduce the results, it is old news that academia, just like jurisdiction, is no Garden of …
Tags: academia • China • Germany • idealism • philosophy
Interview with Burmese dissident Dr Zarni – Interviewer Khun Kavi Chongkittavorn, Assistant Group Editor of The Nation, The Nation TV On Burma-Thailand relations, the Burmese Regime’s alleged nuclear and missile programs, etc
Tags: nuclear weapons • Thailand
Interview with Burmese dissident Dr Zarni – Interviewer Khun Kavi Chongkittavorn, Assistant Group Editor of The Nation, The Nation TV On Burma-Thailand relations, the Burmese Regime’s alleged nuclear and missile programs, etc
Tags: 2010 Elections • Thailand
