Although known for decades for its oppressive behavior, Myanmar’s government is capable of very little when it comes to conserving natural resources, promoting development, and protecting citizens. By Billy Tea On May 20, 2013, former general Thein Sein became the first Burmese president to visit the White House in almost 50 years. From a pariah [...]
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By Alexandra Wiktorek Sarlo and Maia Otarashvili The European Union always takes steps to ensure that a prospective member state meets certain criteria[1] regarding democratic practices. But what happens when a state that meets those criteria is accepted into the EU, only to regress later on? That is the question that the EU faces with [...]
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Over 1,000 illegal Vietnamese migrants have been detained in a large-scale police operation in the Russian capital, the Interior Ministry’s Moscow department reported. “Today police officers detained 1,200 citizens of Vietnam who stayed in Russia illegally at a storage site in the city’s east,” the department said in a statement Wednesday. The ministry added that [...]
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The man who blew the lid off America’s dragnet web spying program, Edward Snowden, is going to release an important statement today on the case of WikiLeak’s chief informant, Bradley Manning, the whistle-blowing website has said in Twitter. “Edward Snowden will release an important statement later today in light of the Manning trial verdict,” the [...]
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By Stuart Littlewood Why, after 65 years, is the Palestinian homeland still under foreign military occupation and total blockade when international law and the United Nations say it shouldn’t be? And why have the Palestinians been pressured – yet again – to submit to ‘direct negotiations’, lamb versus voracious wolf, to haggle and plead for [...]
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By Monia Ghanmi Tunisians fear an imminent terror attack, now that al-Qaeda-allied extremists have military gear in their possession. On Tuesday (July 30th) morning, the defence ministry issued a statement warning of major terrorist operations involving the use of military uniforms and equipment stolen from the eight Tunisian soldiers murdered and mutilated in Jebel Chaambi. [...]
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By H.K. Tzanis A manhunt over the past four months for a gang of escaped inmates from a prison in central Greece has highlighted the problem of prison overcrowding and security, exacerbated by the government’s steep budget cuts. Speaking a day after police commandos fatally shot the alleged escapees’ ringleader, Marjan Kola, Public Order Minister [...]
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Members of Uruguay’s House of Representatives have passed a bill to legalize marijuana, according to BBC News. If it goes on to be approved by the Senate, Uruguay will become the first country to regulate the production, distribution and sale of marijuana. The law is backed by the government of President Jose Mujica, which says [...]
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Google launched a new responsive AdSense unit in beta that is specifically designed to run on sites that automatically adapt to different screen sizes. Now that responsive design has moved from being just a buzzword to something many web designers are actually putting into practice, being able to control how ads appear on these sites [...]
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Disgraced Chinese politician Bo Xilai has agreed to plead guilty to corruption charges that may be confined to an earlier stage of his career in an apparent bid to limit political fallout from China’s biggest political scandal in decades, according to reports this week. The trial could be held within weeks, the reports said, six [...]
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By Mohammad Ali Mohtadi The author of this article believes that a recent measure by the US Secretary of State John Kerry in announcing the new agreement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority for the resumption of peace talks is only a prelude to new adventurism by the United States in the region. The following [...]
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Thousands of Rohingyas from Myanmar are fleeing persecution to countries elsewhere in the region, underscoring the need for a stronger regional solution, activists and experts say. “A coordinated and immediate regional response will put pressure on the government to do more to ease the plight of the Rohingya people and prevent the situation from spiralling [...]
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U.S. Senator John McCain is furious about whistleblower Edward Snowden’s newly-acquired asylum, and is demanding that Washington re-examine its relations with Moscow and “strip away the illusions that many Americans have had about Russia.” Following the news of Snowden’s one-year asylum status in Russia, McCain released an angry statement in which he condemns the “disgraceful” [...]
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A new European Commission study has found that people are flocking to use Wi-Fi internet and the trend is set to continue. 71% of all EU wireless data traffic in 2012 was delivered to smartphones and tablets using Wi-Fi, possibly rising to 78% by 2016. The surprising results show how the cheaper cost to consumers [...]
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European Central Bank (ECB) president Mario Draghi has said there are some tentative signs of an economic recovery in the eurozone, according to BBC News. He said there may be “gradual recovery in economic activity in the remaining part of the year and in 2014″. It comes as the ECB once again kept interest rates [...]
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By Clothilde Le Coz In what is now a contested election, the preliminary results announced Sunday night after the vote are attributing 68 seats to the Cambodian People’s Party (CPP) and 55 to the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP). On Wednesday morning, The Cambodia Daily published an article in which it stated the opposition party issued [...]
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he ruling Chinese Communist Party has announced a serious of measures aimed at combating pollution, particular northern China’s now intractable smog problem, known colloquially as “airpocalypse,” but experts say it would take a long time to contain the extensive damage that have been incurred on the environment. The country’s cabinet, or State Council, said earlier [...]
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By Dieter Ernst In recent years, fears have become widespread in the U.S. that China’s rise in industrial manufacturing and innovation will challenge America’s leadership in advanced manufacturing. An important concern is that China’s indigenous innovation policy gives rise to a model of state capitalism that unfairly favors domestic producers at the expense of foreign [...]
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By R. S. Kalha It is said that when political leaderships are in domestic disarray they often look for salvation by deftly turning public attention towards contentious foreign policy issues. The victory of Japanese PM Abe’s party [LDP] in the recent upper house elections in Japan has demonstrated emphatically that nationalism is indeed one of [...]
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By Anand Kumar The nascent multi-party democracy in Maldives had suffered a setback on 7 February 2012 when the democratically elected president Mohamed Nasheed had to step down under tumultuous circumstances. Though he was succeeded by the then vice president Mohamed Waheed Hassan, the legitimacy of his government was questioned by many. Nasheed and his [...]
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