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Burma Insight: 16 Dec 2010

BDC 16 Dec 2010 Yangon, December 16 — Chinese-aided Myanmar’s largest hydropower plant namely Yeywa Hydropower Plant with generating capacity of 790 megawatts together with its RCC embankment was opened yesterday at Pyin Oo Lwin town near Mandalay with pomp and splendour by Prime Minister U Thein Sein. Built on Myitnge ( a ) Dokhtawaddy [...]

VALIDATED BY WIKILEAKS ON BURMA URANIUM SALES

December 16, 2010  Wikileaks is in the process of releasing over 250,000 United States  diplomatic cables. The less than 1% published so far have already changing  the way we think about the world. Hitherto secret information has been  revealed about one country after another. The cables have also made  evident that the U.S. regularly lies [...]

WikiLeaks: Singapore Lee says Myanmar ’stupid’

Alex Kennedy AP Singapore-Singapore statsman Lee Kuan Yew kallas Myanmar juntans ledare “dum” och “tät” i samtal med amerikanska diplomater, enligt utlämnade sekretessbelagda handlingar i veckan av Wikileaks. Singapores ledaren sade att hantera Myanmars militärregim var som “att prata med döda människor”, enligt ett konfidentiellt USA briefing på en 2007 samtal mellan Lee och USA: [...]

Myo Thein on BBC News Channel on Daw Aung San Suu Kyi Released

Radio Free Asia (RFA): Myo Thein’s Perspective on Burma

スー・チーさん「軍事政権との対話望む」（10/11/19）

CNN has now released his interview with pro-democracy activist Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.

Analysis: Suu Kyi release put Myanmar sanctions in spotlight

By Martin Petty BANGKOK | Fri Nov 19, 2010 3:39pm GMT BANGKOK (Reuters) – Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi’s re-emergence from seven years’ incarceration thrusts Western sanctions back onto the agenda in Myanmar, adding a new dimension to the army-ruled country’s fast-changing political landscape. The release of the pro-democracy leader from house arrest on [...]

The Suu Kyi factor

Rangoon (Mizzima) – The most common answer on the streets of Rangoon to the question of how soon the impact of a free Aung San Suu Kyi will be felt is “immediately”. Unfortunately, it is a raesponse likely grounded in a moment of hope and rather irrespective of the current situation inside Burma. Aung San [...]