The U.S. Navy shadowing a North Korean cargo ship suspected of carrying weapons bound for Burma is the stuff of potboiler thrillers. Yet for two of the world’s most reclusive and repressive states, the only unique feature of these events is the fact that anyone is taking notice. For several years, Burma’s ruling State Peace [...]
Burma-North Korea double team
July 3rd, 2009 by Nicholas Farrelly · 5 Comments
Tags: Burma · Trans-Border Issues
The Secretary-General and the generals
July 3rd, 2009 by Dylan Grey, Guest Contributor · 11 Comments
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is arriving in Myanmar today. He will be here for 24 hours. He will land in Yangon with his entourage of about thirty people at around the same time that the court will reconvene for Aung San Suu Kyi and John Yettaw’s trials. Details of the UN Chief’s jam-packed schedule [...]
Tags: Aung San Suu Kyi · Burma · Than Shwe · Trans-Border Issues
Two ways to love Thailand
July 3rd, 2009 by Andrew Walker · 6 Comments
The Nation online provides two ways to love Thailand.