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Stephen Fry, Nelson Mandela and Mahatma Gandhi would be the guests of honour and chocolate Hobnobs the biscuit of choice at people’s ‘Dream tea party’, according to a new online survey to mark the launch of AMNESTEA, Amnesty...
Obama Blunders Through Asia Undoing Bush's years of deft diplomacy. by Ross Terrill 11/30/2009, Volume 015, Issue 11 Much dire rhetoric has been unleashed in liberal quarters about the damage done by George W. Bush's foreign...
US President Barack Obama wisely used the Suntory Hall in downtown Tokyo on November 14 to beam his central message to Beijing, some 2103km away. “No one nation can meet the challenges of the 21st century on its own. read more
John Feffer | November 20, 2009 Editor: Jen Doak Critics of the Obama administration were delighted at the images from the president's recent trip to Asia. In China, "Obama was deferential to the point of looking weak," USA...
I've been putting off writing about Malalai Joya's talk in Toronto. You can read my initial impressions here, but anything further is eluding me. Hearing Joya was such an intense experience that I am struggling to articulate...
Diplomatic Dispatch: A Mixed Record But So Far, So Good President Barack Obama, accompanied by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. In a surprise move the new president asked his political rival, Hillary Rodham Clinton,...
Major General Khattiya Sawatdiphol appears remarkably dynamic for someone supposedly consigned to an “inactive“ post, hopping over border fences and, not so long ago, performing as a fitness and aerobics specialist.
Spokesman Kelly (Nov. 19): "...We, of course, have started a new, very focused dialogue with the Government of Burma. This has been a dialogue that, as I say, is focused on the need for Burma to open up its political system to...
A key United Nations committee is strongly condemning human rights violations in Myanmar and urging the government to release of all political prisoners including Aung San Suu Kyi. The General Asse...
Nota de los usuarios: - ( 0 votos ) UN committee condemns N.Korea, Myanmar over rights (00:11) By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A special committee of the U.N. General Assembly condemned North Korea and Myanmar...
