“These are weird times in Asian politics.”
- Marcus Gee writing in The Globe and Mail.
Weird times
September 20th, 2008 by Nicholas Farrelly · 2 Comments
Aung Zaw on cyber-attacks
September 20th, 2008 by Nicholas Farrelly · Add a Comment
In response to the Distributed Denial of Service attacks that have, in the past few days, disabled a number of prominent Burma news websites, Irrawaddy editor Aung Zaw has hit back. His article in The Wall Street Journal will be of great interest to anyone who watches developments in Burma. More details on the current campaign [...]
Tags: Burma · Burma uprising · Online Issues
Too long on the privy
September 20th, 2008 by Andrew Walker · 6 Comments
From The Nation:
Privy councillor Surayud Chulanont yesterday conceded that the 2006 coup had not been able to put politics back on course as anticipated and that two years had lapsed with continuing turmoil.”The political divide persists, and parties concerned should take part in forging reconciliation,” he said, marking the second anniversary of the September 19 [...]
Tags: Coup · Surayud regime · Thailand