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Articles 121 through 220 of 500:
- South Block's Lowest Hour (Pioneer, Udayan Namboodiri, Oct 13, 2007)
Some FAQs on Burma that the foreign policy establishment would duck in the 'national interest'
- Burma Quagmire (Pioneer, Bibhu Prasad Routray, Oct 13, 2007)
When starting a car, the driver never has a view of what lies just an inch ahead of the front wheel. India's 'Look East' policy is something like that -- we don't have a clear policy on Burma, but we have plans all the way up to glitzy Singapore.
- Eyes On 2012 As No Leadership Change Likely At China Party Meet (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 13, 2007)
Chinese President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao are set to retain their current jobs after the National Congress of the ruling Communist Party of China, but the world is waiting to see the young leaders who will be groomed as their successors . . . .
- Myanmar Pm Soe Win Dead (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 13, 2007)
Myanmar Prime Minister Soe Win, presumed to have been the architect of an attack on supporters of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi in 2003, died on Friday in a military hospital in Yangon, state media announced.
- Un Envoy To Return To Myanmar (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 13, 2007)
The 15-member Security Council issued its first statement on Myanmar yesterday, a compromise announcement that came as the world body said it would send UN envoy Mr Ibrahim Gambari to Asia next week for consultations with key governments.
- Myanmar Govt Dismisses Un Statement, Opposition Demands Reform (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 13, 2007)
Myanmar's military junta dismissed a UN statement on Friday calling for dialogue with the pro-democracy opposition, insisting that it would follow its own roadmap toward reform - a plan critics say is a ruse aimed at extending the government's grip . . .
- India Needs Burma (Times of India, Swapan Dasgupta, Oct 13, 2007)
At the best of times, unless it emanates from the Anglosphere or Pakistan, foreign news interests only a minusculity; at the worst of times, it is ignored altogether. As such, it was hardly surprising that TV images of Buddhist monks marching . . .
- Un ‘Deplores’ Myanmar Crackdown (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 12, 2007)
The UN Security Council said today it “strongly deplores” the violent crackdown on protesters by Myanmar’s military rulers and called for a “genuine dialogue” between the government and the pro-democracy opposition.
- The Distant Thunder (Pioneer, Kanchan Gupta, Oct 12, 2007)
In Ashani Sanket (Distant Thunder) Satyajit Ray brought alive, with great sensitivity, the misery inflicted by the Bengal famine of 1943.
- Reflections On Burma (Pioneer, Vinayshil Gautam, Oct 12, 2007)
There is something happening in our foreign policy which marks a departure from how it has been conventionally handled. This needs to be understood and assessed.
- Junta Lashes Out At West, Foreign Media For Stoking Protests (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 12, 2007)
Myanmar's ruling military angrily accused Western powers and foreign media today of inciting recent protests that were crushed by soldiers, and China urged the world to back UN mediation efforts to reconcile the junta and the pro-democracy movement.
- Upa Lives (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 12, 2007)
The Urdu press seems to believe that the UPA government is likely to continue for a while longer.
- Myanmar Lashes Out At Western Powers (Hindu, P. S. SURYANARAYANA, Oct 12, 2007)
At least one anti-junta protester, a pro-democracy activist, has “died in custody” in Myanmar, according to dissident sources in neighbouring Thailand.
- Marxists’ Power Magnified In India’S Coalition Math (Daily Times, Somini Sengupta , Oct 12, 2007)
Though the Communists do not have the strength to rule India, they have the power to spoil the plans of those who do
- Failing The Foreign Policy Test (Frontline, Praful Bidwai, Oct 12, 2007)
IF the real test of the short-term success of a nation’s foreign policy lies in its neighbourhood, rather than in distant lands or remote or rarefied international fora, then India’s policy has been something of a failure in recent years . . . .
- India 'Close To Burma Port Deal' (British Broadcasting Corporation, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 11, 2007)
India is close to signing an agreement with the Burmese military junta to develop the port of Sittwe, officials in Delhi have said.
- Don't Sit And Watch (Times of India, Editorial, The Times of India, Oct 11, 2007)
The recent protests in Myanmar by monks against the excesses of the military junta have brought widespread international attention. India, a former champion of demo-cracy in Myanmar, has been conspicuously silent on the developments there.
- 6 Taliban Freed In Exchange For German (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 11, 2007)
A German engineer and four Afghans taken hostage in central Afghanistan in July were freed on Wednesday in exchange for six Taliban fighters, an Afghan official said.
- Democracy Party, Junta Take Steps Toward Talks (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 11, 2007)
Burma’s military authorities arrested dissidents in raids on Wednesday even as they responded to international pressure with apparent moves toward talks with their arch enemy, democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, an exile group said.
- In India's Coalition Math, Marxists' Power Is Magnified (International Herald Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 11, 2007)
To a stranger, Prakash Karat and the organization he leads, the Communist Party of India (Marxist), would seem like anachronisms in the roaring capitalist economy that is India today.
- Blues In The Backyard (Singapore Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 11, 2007)
So what’s the view in India about Burma? You must all be busy with the big story? From around the last week of September, that is all I am being asked by almost everyone I meet, on both sides of the Atlantic.
- Ulfa Eyes Gem Of An Investment (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 11, 2007)
Stocks and mutual funds are for the taxpaying investor. For the extortionist Ulfa, the ideal investment is a piece of jade worth several crore rupees.
- Myanmar Envoy Quits Over Suppression (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 10, 2007)
A diplomat at the Myanmar Embassy in London has resigned in protest over the violent suppression of pro-democracy protests, the British Broadcasting Corp. reported on Tuesday.
- The Mysterious Burmese Junta (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 10, 2007)
These are supposed to be humbling times for foreign policy analysts – chaos in Iraq having made it harder to cast the United States as omnipotent, omniscient and self-actualising.
- India Not In Favour Of Change Of Guard In Myanmar (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 10, 2007)
India is not in favour of regime change in Myanmar and is in constant touch with both the parties --the military junta led by Senior General Than Shwe as well as the pivotal Opposition figure Aung San Suu Kyi.
- India Calls For Inclusive Approach In Myanmar, Disfavours Sanctions (Hindu, SANDEEP DIKSHIT, Oct 10, 2007)
India is opposed to any sanctions on Myanmar and hopes that the military junta would initiate talks with the jailed pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
- 50 More Killed As Jets Bomb Militant Hideouts (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 10, 2007)
Another 50 people were killed as fighter jets bombed militant hideouts in North Waziristan on Tuesday, taking the total death toll from three days of fighting to around 250.
- Monks & Military (Frontline, P.S. Suryanarayana, Oct 10, 2007)
A SEA of humanity surges through the streets of Yangon. As the new tide of peaceful protest lashes the military dictatorship, video camera-wielding citizen journalists document the story for the world outside.
- India's Guarded Optimism (Frontline, JOHN CHERIAN, Oct 10, 2007)
The Indian government initially made itself conspicuous in the international community by maintaining a discreet silence as monks took to the streets in Myanmar.
- U.S: Myopia As Vision (Frontline, Vijay Prashad, Oct 10, 2007)
Thanks to the Myanmarese protests, Bush returned to his robust message to go after the outposts of tyranny and liberate the world’s peoples.
- Monks, Masses And Military (Frontline, S.D. Muni, Oct 10, 2007)
THE military in Myanmar looks firmly in command, having crushed the democratic protests led by monks.
- Distant Neighbours (Frontline, P.S. Suryanarayana, Oct 10, 2007)
AUNG San Suu Kyi, Nobel Peace Laureate and a celebrated democracy campaigner, is by far the best known face of the spirit of Myanmar and its hapless people.
- Indian Fm Repeats Old Speech: Myanmar Turmoil (Dawn, Simon Denyer, Oct 10, 2007)
By failing to freshen up his speech, critics said Pranab Mukherjee appeared to ignore widespread pro-democracy protests in Myanmar and a deadly military crackdown.
- Desire For Democracy (Hindustan Times, Hari Jaisingh, Oct 10, 2007)
The sage of the Renaissance Age, Erasmus, distinguishes between the "quiet" and "turbulent" periods of history. The turbulent periods may be short but they provide sharp contrasts to historical happenings.
- Stars Are Witness To Lord Ram (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 10, 2007)
By denying the authenticity of the Ramayan, the 'secularists' have not only hurt Hindu sentiments, but also rebuffed history.
- Junta Deputes Official To Help Relations With Suu Kyi (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 10, 2007)
Burma’s ruling junta said on Tuesday that it hoped to achieve "smooth relations" with detained Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, a day after suggesting that her release from house arrest was unlikely to happen anytime soon.
- Suu Kyi's Party Refuses 'Conditional' Talks With Junta (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 10, 2007)
The party of Burma's detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi issued a statement on Tuesday opposing the military junta's preconditions for a meeting with her in the wake of a bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protesters.
- Myanmar Finds New Channel To Suu Kyi (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 10, 2007)
Myanmar's Junta tasked a moderate minister to develop relations with democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi as the regime sought, on Tuesday, to deflect criticism over its bloody crackdown on mass protests.
- Myanmar-India Border Trade Resumes At Moreh (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 10, 2007)
Trading between India and Myanmar resumed in the border town of Moreh in Manipur after the international border was reopened Tuesday after a nine-hour closure.
- Indian Envoy Met Suu Kyi, Delhi Backs Talks With Junta (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 10, 2007)
While underlining that it was against imposing sanctions on Myanmar even as efforts were underway in the United Nations, India is looking to step up engagement with Aung San Suu Kyi with the Indian Ambassador in Myanmar having met her a couple of . . . .
- Junta Names Pointsman For Talks With Suu Kyi (Statesman, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 09, 2007)
Myanmar's deputy labour minister has been appointed as a liaison official for contacts with detained opposition leader Mrs Aung San Suu Kyi, state media announced tonight.
- The Art Market In India Reframes Itself For The 21st Century (International Herald Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 09, 2007)
For an uninitiated Westerner, making your way to one of this city's new art galleries can be a disorienting study in contrasts.
- Reconciliation By Fiat (Dawn, Editorial, Dawn, Oct 09, 2007)
SOME years ago, one of the information wallahs of the junta that continues to lord it over us, fawningly said that Pakistan had become a unique country under the able command of General Musharraf.
- Unsc To Decide Action On Burma (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 09, 2007)
Faced with mounting world outrage over violence in Burma, the UN Security Council was to meet on Monday, under pressure to quickly condemn the military regime for crushing pro-democracy protests.
- Return Of The Sanction (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 09, 2007)
The burmese government’s grotesque crackdown on pro-democracy protests will have one certain effect.
- Suu Kyi’S Release Looks A Long Way Off (Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 09, 2007)
Myanmar’s military junta suggested on Monday that opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi will remain under house arrest until a new constitution is approved — a dim and distant prospect, according to most analysts.
- Failure, Raw & Hurting (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 08, 2007)
All Intelligence agencies are paranoid about secrecy. Retired spooks are actively discouraged from writing colourful memoirs and speaking to the media. In 1977, the British Government deported Philip Agee, an American writer with . . . . .
- Look Immediate East (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 08, 2007)
For the past weeks, many of us who have travelled to Burma and respect the history and culture of that country and its wonderfully sensitive people, have been deeply concerned by the rush of tragic news of shootings and indiscriminate . . . .
- Project To Link North-East And South-East Asia (Hindu, Sushanta Talukdar, Oct 08, 2007)
External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee on Sunday said the Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited had started working on an optical fibre project to establish telecommunication network between India’s north-east region and south-east Asia.
- A Tale Of Two Dictatorships (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Oct 08, 2007)
Myanmar should be made to engage more with the outside world like Pakistan.
- India, China Should Help In Bringing Peace In Myanmar: Malaysia (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 08, 2007)
India and China, which have close ties with Yangon, should play their roles in bringing peace and stability to Myanmar, Malaysia has said.
- India's Silence And The Junta (Deccan Herald, D Ravi Kanth, Oct 08, 2007)
It seems economic and military ties score over the suppression of human rights in Myanmar.
- Arms Seized From Monks: Myanmar (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 08, 2007)
Myanmar's military leaders on Sunday stepped up pressure on monks who spearheaded pro-democracy rallies, saying weapons had been seized from Buddhist monasteries and all violators of the law would be punished.
- India For Better Ties With Myanmar: Pranab (Tribune, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 08, 2007)
Notwithstanding the call of the pro-democracy group to take a tough posture against the Military Junta in Myanmar, India today reiterated its intention to have better regional cooperation with Myanmar now embroiled in internal conflicts.
- Withdraw Support From Anti-People Govt: Jd(u) To Left (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 08, 2007)
As a mid-term poll seems imminent, Janata Dal(U) has dubbed the UPA Government at the Centre as "anti people" and urged the Left parties to withdraw their support from the Government.
- Ruled By The Gun (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 08, 2007)
Empty monasteries, severed telecommunications, and a sullen, beaten silence that seems to envelop the whole country.
- Burma Junta Detains 78 More Activists (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 08, 2007)
A relentless crackdown on Burma’s pro-democracy activists showed no sign of easing, with the junta announcing on Sunday that 78 more people have been detained in spite of global outrage and new sanctions.
- The Burmese Junta: India's Responsibility (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 06, 2007)
Humanitarian aid should pour into crisis-ridden Myanmar to relieve the suffering population.
- What's Next For Myanmar's Generals (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 06, 2007)
Soldiers are taught that anyone who opposes them is an enemy bent on returning the country to civil war.
- Suu Kyi Likely To Meet Junta Chief (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 06, 2007)
Myanmar's democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi will consider positively a heavily conditioned offer to meet the junta leader, her party said on Friday, as a US envoy headed to meet leaders of the isolated regime.
- Seven Rebels Killed In Northeast India (Daily Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 06, 2007)
Security forces have shot dead seven separatists in three clashes in India’s restive northeastern state of Manipur, authorities said Friday.
- Two Women (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 06, 2007)
There is a tide in the affairs of women in south Asia. But one doubts if all of it, taken at the flood, will lead on to fortune.
- Myanmar: India Must Suspend Military Support (Hindu, MUKUL SHARMA, Oct 06, 2007)
The military cracks down on protesters and takes an increasingly prominent position on the streets of Yangon. Hundreds of arrests are made and there are worrying reports of a rising death toll.
- Suu Kyi Mulls Over Junta Offer (Hindu, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 06, 2007)
Raising hopes of a negotiated settlement of the crisis in Myanmar, Than Shwe, leader of the ruling junta, has spelt out a conditional offer to hold talks with Aung San Suu Kyi, the iconic democracy campaigner and Nobel Peace Laureate in . . . . . .
- Un Warns Yangon, Suu Kyi No To Talks (Telegraph, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 06, 2007)
Detained Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s party dismissed the Myanmar junta’s offer of talks as a surrender demand today and a UN envoy warned of international consequences from its brutal suppression of pro-democracy protesters.
- Former Myanmar Political Prisoners Blame Military For Torture (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 06, 2007)
Thet Oo says his military interrogators in Myanmar kicked him in the head until he blacked out, shackled his polio-ridden legs, and then threw him in a tiny, dark cell where he spent much of the next 12 years.
- Un Envoy Warns Of Serious Consequences Over Myanmar Crisis (Times of India, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 06, 2007)
UN envoy Ibrahim Gambari warned on Friday that turmoil in Myanmar could have "serious international repercussions" and urged the military regime to release all political detainees.
- Myanmar Opposition Dismisses Junta Offer To Talk (Hindustan Times, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 06, 2007)
Detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi's party dismissed the Myanmar junta's offer of talks as surreal on Friday, while China said the ruthless suppression of pro-democracy protests did not require international action.
- Shwe Ready To Meet Suu Kyi (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 06, 2007)
The top US diplomat in Burma was summoned for rare talks on Friday with Burma’s hardline government a day after its leader announced a conditional offer to meet with detained democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi.
- World Leaders Urge China To Pressure Burma (Asian Age, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 06, 2007)
Twenty former world leaders, including Lionel Jospin of France and Mary Robinson of Ireland, on Friday urged China to use its influence to press Burma’s junta to hold talks with the Opposition.
- Ulfa Trains New Cadres In Bhutan Border Area (Asian Age, Manoj Anand, Oct 05, 2007)
The outlawed United Liberation Front of Asom is using the border areas of Bhutan to train its new recruits in Western Assam’s Nalbari and Baska districts.
- Us Obsession With Iran (Tribune, Inder Malhotra, Oct 05, 2007)
Until the incredibly rude and crude treatment meted out to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, during his three-day stay in New York, primarily to address the UN General Assembly, one didn’t have an adequate idea of the depth of America’s. . .
- Junta Ready To Meet Suu Kyi (Deccan Herald, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 05, 2007)
Senior Gen Than Shwe told UN Special Envoy Ibrahim Gambari during their talks on Tuesday that he is willing to meet Suu Kyi if she gives up her calls for confronting the government and for imposing sanctions on it.
- Shameful Silence (Deccan Herald, Editorial, The Deccan Herald, Oct 05, 2007)
It is time India speak up against Myanmar's junta.
- Religion As A Force For Good (Deccan Herald, A N Sudarsan Rao , Oct 05, 2007)
The Burmese monks' protests against the military junta prove the merit in religion.
- India Seeks Freedom For Aung Suu Kyi (New Indian Express, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 05, 2007)
India has sought release of Myanmarese leader Aung San Suu Kyi and backed a UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) resolution calling for democratisation and dialogue in the country while registering its dissent with the "unhelpful tone" in the document.
- Envoy Visit Not 'A Success', Says Un Chief (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 05, 2007)
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday said in New York that his special envoy, Ibrahim Gambari, had delivered "the strongest possible message" to Burma's military leaders about their bloody crackdown on democracy activists, but added that . . . .
- India Seeks Release Of Suu Kyi (Hindu, SANDEEP DIKSHIT, Oct 05, 2007)
For the first time in many years, India has joined the West in seeking release of the pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi but insisted that the tone of a resolution on Myanmar by a United Nations body should have been less minatory.
- Junta Chief Says Ready To Meet Suu Kyi, But With Pre-Conditions (Pioneer, Correspondent or Reporter, Oct 05, 2007)
Burma junta leader Senior Gen Than Shwe told a UN envoy this week that he will "personally" meet with opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, but with preconditions, the State media reported Thursday.
- A Shameful Anachronism (Hindu, Editorial, The Hindu, Oct 05, 2007)
The eyes of the world are on Burma. Over the past week, we have seen monks and ordinary people alike unite in peaceful protest at a failed and illegitimate government and the hardship it has created.
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