from the current issue of Far Eastern Economic Review...
March 2008
Silencing the 'Saffron Revolution'
by Min Zin
On Feb. 15, the military stormed the offices of the Myanmar Nation and took my brother, the weekly journal's editor in chief, to jail. His crime? Possession of a United Nation?s report on the ruling junta?s brutal crackdown on last September?s demonstrations by monks and democracy activists?the so-called Saffron Revolution.
My brother's name is Thet Zin, and he is one of hundr
How To Give A Cat A Pill
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I have a friend in real need of a visa for Thailand and I have been led to believe that a student visa may be an option for him. Can anyone advise me as to the process on student visa application?
Can I ask if anyone has any experience here in Thailand of dealing with Burmese citizens here in bangkok and looking for refugee status or thai visa. I have a friend who is in URGENT need of assistance and I really am not sure how to help.
This is a very desperate situation and a return to Burma would most likely result in my friend coming to harm.
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1. In the company of females, intercourse should be referred to as:
A. Lovemaking.
B. Screwing.
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both shared:
A. Your views about what you expect from a sexual relationship.
B. Your blood-test results.
C. Five tequila slammers.
3. You time your orgasm so that:
A. Your partner climaxes first.
B. You both climax simultaneously.
C. You do
Nothing is sacred, least of all government. To be sure in more than a few lands it tends to take itself seriously, but not by the populace which has to endure foibles, doublt-talk and nonsensical pronouncements of the powers-that-be. The following observations, sent by a reader, are applicable the world-over:
``A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.'' _ George Bernard Shaw
``A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to his fellow man, which debt
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By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
Published: December 5, 2007
There are two intelligence analyses that are relevant to the balance of power between the U.S. and Iran — one is the latest U.S. assessment of Iran, which certainly gave a much more complex view of what is happening there. The other is the Iranian National Intelligence Estimate of America, which — my guess — would read something like this:
Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times
Thomas L. Friedman
To: President Ahmadinejad
From: The Iranian Min
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Defusing Pakistan’s Tribal Rebellion November 2007
by Shaukat Qadir
Since September 2007 the Pakistan army’s troop build-up in the country’s tribal belt has reached unprecedented levels. In the last month, the military has deployed an additional 2,500 security personnel armed with heavy artillery, armed helicopters and air support to re-establish state control in the face of increasing defiance.
In Swat, an area not bordering Afghanistan, Maulana Fazlullah, a rebel cleric, is intent on
How Stress Harms Your Heart
Thursday, Nov. 01, 2007 By KRISTA MAHR
Illustration for TIME by Jon Krause
The human heart does not like surprises. In the month after 9/11, incidents of dangerous heart rhythms in cardiac patients around New York City more than doubled. After a major earthquake in Taiwan in 1999, hospitalization for heart attacks skyrocketed around the epicenter. Even an isolated, private event — the sudden death of a spouse, for instance — can bring on grief so severe that so
Turks vs. Kurds
Where the Kurds are, according to the CIA
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Kurdish rebels attacked Turkish soldiers near the Iraq-Turkey border this weekend, in an ambush that left 12 Turkish soldiers dead and eight missing. The Turkish military quickly responded with its own attacks. And now, Turkish reinforcements are reportedly heading for the border region.The attacks represent the latest battle in an ongoing fight between Kurdish separatists and the Turkish government that has
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From the current issue if Far Eastern Economic Review...
The Burmese Way to Fascism
October 2007
by Bertil Lintner
If Karl Marx was right that history repeats itself first as tragedy and then as farce, Burma is still stuck in the tragedy phase. The protests and crackdown in Rangoon in recent days are reprising the doomed democracy movement of 1988. As time passes and the security forces succeed in cowing the population, the world’s outrage gives way to ineffectual responses and then resi
Burma: General Command
Thursday, Oct. 04, 2007 By HANNAH BEECH
Burmese soldiers wait aboard a truck before quelling last week's protests in Rangoon
Reuters
The rulers of the world's pariah states are usually recognizable personalities. Kim Jong Il with his electrified hairdo, Muammar Gaddafi with his aviator sunglasses, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with his penchant for windbreakers. But Burma? No one dictator comes to mind, only a coterie of faceless generals — 12, if one wants to be exact. Las
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