KyiMayKaung (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi with US delegation led by Kurt Campbell. Couple talking -- Giacommetti -- The Queen -- at National Gallery, DC -- photo Kyi May Kaung
Right, Wing-Nut! (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
...because while you and I dutifully pay what we owe, the well-connected and well-off liberal elite are laughing their asses off, as they sip champagne with hookers while rolling around on top of pillowcases full of cocaine.... Maybe Obama should go after his chums and associates before squeezing more ducats out of what remains of the middle class... Anyway, we're talking about the curious case of...
Maggie's Notebook (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Here's another one - the fifth of Obama's nominees with tax problems. Lael Brainard is Obama's nominee for undersecretary of the Treasury for international affairs...and she didn't pay taxes in three tax years. Lael Brainard Brainard "was late" paying real estate taxes in 2005, 2006 and 2007, according NewsMax . The Senate Finance Committee is also questioning a deduction she took for running...
The Observer (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Foreign ministry diplomat says jailed opposition leader will be allowed to organiser her party for next year's elections Burma's opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, may soon be released so she can play a role in next year's election, a senior Burmese diplomat has said. "There is a plan to release her soon ... so she can organise her party," Min Lwin, a director-general in the foreign ministry,...
IntelliBriefs (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
5 Nov 2009 The US sends a high-level delegation to Burma in advance of President Barack Obama's ASEAN summit next week, but little progress is expected any time soon, Simon Roughneen comments for ISN Security Watch. By Simon Roughneen for ISN Security Watch A high-level US delegation visited Burma on Tuesday and Wednesday this week, meeting with Prime Minister General Thein Sein and with opposition...
RealClearPolitics (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
WASHINGTON -- Barack Obama's extended hand was whacked across the knuckles by the leaders of Iran, Syria and assorted other thuggeries last week. But the Obama administration did manage a good demonstration in Burma of how its brand of engagement can and should work. Kurt Campbell, the State Department's top Asia official, traveled to the isolated military dictatorship to talk with its corrupt junta....
PalaungNLD (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Senior United States officials are said to be “in a listening mode” as they head to Rangoon today to meet with detained Burma opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. The US delegation, led by the head of Washington’s East Asia and Pacific Bureau, Kurt Campbell, met yesterday with government ministers in the new capital of Naypyidaw. Campbell however failed to meet with the reclusive junta...
BURMA DEMOCRACY & DEVELOPMENT (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Nov 6, 2009 (DVB)–Burma opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi yesterday rejected a meeting with members of her party on the grounds that the party’s detained chairman would not be present, state media said.Senior United States official Kurt Campbell had reportedly requested the meeting between Suu Kyi and the National League for Democracy (NLD) party prior to him meeting with Suu Kyi on
BURMA DEMOCRACY & DEVELOPMENT (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
YANGON, Nov. 4 (Xinhua) -- The United States is prepared to take steps to improve relationship with Myanmar but the process must be based on reciprocal and concrete efforts by the Myanmar government, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Kurt Campbell told the press Wednesday evening. Campbell made the remarks at the Yangon International Airport at the end of his
KyiMayKaung (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
2 November 2009 To: Kurt M. Campbell Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs CC: 1. Hillary Rodham Clinton, U.S. Secretary of State 2. Scot Marciel, Deputy Assistant Secretary, East Asia and Pacific Bureau and Ambassador for ASEAN Affairs 3. Larry M. Dinger, U.S. Charge d'Affaires in Burma Open Letter from Civil Society from Burma and Asia Concerning U.S. Fact-finding Mission...
Japan Times (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Kurt Campbell, U.S. assistant secretary of state for East Asia and Pacific affairs, made a brief stop Thursday in Tokyo to talk up bilateral ties despite simmering discord over where to move U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma. The senior diplomat, who met with Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada ahead of a meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama in Tokyo next week, said bilateral ties with Japan are...
BURMA DIGEST (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
www.mizzima.com : by Phanida : Thursday, 05 November 2009 16:13 (Interview with Pu Cin Sian Thang and U Aye Thar Aung) Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – During their two-day visit to Burma, US Assistant Secretary of State, Kurt Campbell and Undersecretary Scot Marciel met Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, National League for Democracy (NLD) Party Central Executive Committee [...]
France 24 (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Washington is ready to boost ties with Myanmar but will not lift sanctions until there is progress on democracy, a US diplomat said Thursday after the highest-level talks with the ruling junta in years. US Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Kurt Campbell and his deputy Scot Marciel held rare meetings with opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and premier Thein Sein on a two-day...
Los Angeles Times (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Diplomats meet privately with the Nobel Peace Prize laureate in Yangon, according to local media reports. Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell also talks with top generals in the government. Senior U.S. officials were allowed to meet Wednesday with Aung San Suu Kyi, the leader of Myanmar's pro-democracy movement, in a further sign of thawing relations between Washington and the Asian nation's...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Kurt Campbell met with Japanese Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada in Tokyo on Thursday amid tension about what is to happen to the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) that allows U.S. troops to remain in Okinawa. Since the governing Democratic Party of Japan came to power in September, it has repeatedly said it would like to review the...
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