Talking to dead people – The Irrawaddy
http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=20323 US Embassy cables released by Wikileaks show that Singapore’s Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew scorned Burma’s “stupid” junta,...
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Amid Calls for ‘Panglong II,’ Ramos-Horta Offers to Mediate – The Irrawaddy
http://www.irrawaddy.org/highlight.php?art_id=20195 As ethnic leaders called for new talks to end Burma’s political standoff, the president of Timor-Leste spoke to...
Hope for dissidents behind bars? – South China Morning Post
http://www.scmp.com/vgn-ext-templating/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=a59173cebca4c210VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD&s=News&ss=Asia+%26+World BANGKOK – On Saturday, artist and former political prisoner Htein Lin opened a new exhibition in Bangkok, with...
Businessman’s Son Takes Sanctions Case to Court of Justice – The Irrawaddy
http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=19591&Submit=Submit Pye Phyo Tay Za, the son of Tay Za, a businessman with close links to Burma’s military government,...
US disengages from Burma – ISN
http://www.isn.ethz.ch/isn/Current-Affairs/Security-Watch/Detail/?lng=en&id=120399 When the US lined up as the fifth country to back a Commission of Inquiry into war crimes...
US’s Burma Policy Seems to be Floundering- The Irrawaddy
http://www.irrawaddy.org/opinion_story.php?art_id=19039 Despite the US Senate vote to renew sanctions, America’s Burma policy seems to be floundering as Washington tries...
Freedom of Association in Burma: Sunlight or False Dawn? – The Irrawaddy
http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=18981 With elections scheduled for later this year, a fierce debate has emerged among those who the polls as...
Evidence Points to Burma’s Nuclear Weapons ‘Intent’ – The Irrawaddy
http://www.irrawaddy.org/highlight.php?art_id=18622 BANGKOK—There are regional and international security implications arising out of fresh evidence that Burma is seeking nuclear weapons...
Makeovers and Takeovers in Burma – ISN
http://www.isn.ethz.ch/isn/Current-Affairs/Security-Watch/Detail/?ots591=4888caa0-b3db-1461-98b9-e20e7b9c13d4&lng=en&id=115893 Burma’s military elites are ditching their uniforms so they can run as civilians in elections scheduled for later...
Post-Nargis Hopes Dashed as Election Looms – The Irrawaddy
http://www.irrawaddy.org/article.php?art_id=18346 The faint promise suggested by the relative freedoms granted to Burmese civil society after Cyclone Nargis is fading,...