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BURMA DEMOCRACY & DEVELOPMENT (Free subscription) | yesterday
We apologise for inaccurately stating in Not such a hero after all (page 4, G2, November 11) that Nyo Ohn Myint, foreign affairs spokesman for Burma's National League for Democracy, said the sanctions policy advanced by the NLD's leader Aung San Suu Kyi was "extreme". In fact he was referring to the NLD's position on restraining the military as "extreme" and was not criticising Suu Kyi. Corrections...
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Obnoxio The Clown (Free subscription) | 11/30/2008
... it's perfectly fine to arrest opposition MPs, because: Damian Green is hardly Aung San Suu Kyi . Kerry, I look forward to the day when David Cameron's iteration of the Stasi arrest you for doing your job (if you ever do!) Because you deserve to be chucked in the slammer for a decade for such an arrogant dismissal of a fellow human being, let alone a fellow parliamentarian. And the fact that you...
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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 11/30/2008
... Jean Genet. You think William Burroughs. Perhaps if you have that cast of mind, you think Aung San Suu Kyi or Nelson Mandela. You think... well, you end up thinking that this is a law – or a provision in law – designed to sound good and serious, but whose implementation is so impossible, whose ambition so fuzzy, as to be no more than a calculatedly fatuous electoral gesture.
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Tym Blogs Too! (Free subscription) | 11/28/2008
Thanks to the new friends I made on my travels in Vietnam, I am now: two degrees of separation away from Michael Bolton, via a relation of his I met in Hoi An. three degrees of separation away from Aung San Suu Kyi, via someone who's related to her husband's family, whom I also met in Hoi An. two degrees of separation away from Dustin Nguyen,* via my friend in Ho Chi Minh City. A less upbeat version:...
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Discopop Directory (Free subscription) | 11/27/2008
Here are just some of the piercing insights you will discover in the trailer to Britney's MTV reveal-u-mentary, For The Record, which airs this Sunday (Sky One on Monday if you're in the UK). :: bEING FAMIS IZ hard :: i AM A prisoner in MY OWN HOME, like Ang San Suu Kyi :: "I;M a SMART person" Astonishing! Okay, so those were cheap shots. Britney's life actually looks kinda miserable. I can understand...
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Stabroek News (Free subscription) | 11/27/2008
... after its military rulers suspended the results of an election that should have brought Aung San Suu Kyi to power, the junta is busily preparing itself for “democratic” elections in 2010. Unaccustomed to the exchange of free opinions, yet confident that they can legitimise their government with the semblance of a fair election, the generals have set about tidying the political landscape ahead of...
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Law Blog - WSJ.com (Free subscription) | 11/25/2008
... stay in power, regardless of the popular vote. He needn't worry about the opposition. Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of the National League for Democracy, has been under house arrest for most of the past two decades.
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Memories Of Movement (Free subscription) | 11/25/2008
... government in exile, the National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma (NCGUB). Aung San Suu Kyi’s cousin, Sein Win, has led the NCGUB from the start. Observers say the NCGUB has yet to find a leadership role for the democracy movement in exile. Apart from the NCGUB, there are several umbrella organizations within Burma’s exile movement, such as the National Council of the Union of Burma...
