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One of the many road safety messages that line roads in the mountains of northeast India.

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Last year I highlighted “media freedom” in Southeast Asia using the detailed comparative information provided by Freedom House.   Freedom House also reports on the general “freedom” status of countries and divides them into three categories: Free, Partly Free and Not Free.  According to this year’s Freedom House report:�
The major positive development in the region was the improvement of [...]

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The new look Irrawaddy website has a long article by Violet Cho and Shah Paung that goes to the heart of an important issue.  They ask, “Why didn’t the ethnic groups do more to help the September protesters?”
This is obviously an interesting question.  The article relies on a range of ethnic leaders and Burma expert Ashley South to [...]

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New Mandala readers who have been following my current series of posts about the recent Myitkyina Manau Festival will want to check out today’s report from the Kachin News Group:
Brig-Gen San Tun, the Burmese junta’s vice commander in Kachin State attended today’s inauguration of KIO/A’s 47th anniversary of Revolution Day which falls on February 5. It is [...]

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