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President-elect Barack Obama is beginning to create his cabinet and assess roles within the upcoming administration.
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September 30th, 2008 at 10:11 am
Howard Hsu traveled to Burma last spring to report on China’s growing trade with Burma, which is rapidly depleting forests and has created a thriving trade in exotic animals such as tigers, pangolins, and asiatic black bears. Watch video on Frontline/World, and read more about endangered animal poaching throughout Southeast Asia.
June 27th, 2008 at 12:04 pm
In 1942, the Japanese army desperately needed a new supply route to support its front-line troops in Burma. Under backbreaking conditions, Allied P.O.W.s, along with thousands of Asian laborers, were ordered to complete a railway linking Thailand and Burma that would include the infamous “bridge on the River Kwai.”
May 15th, 2008 at 3:17 pm
R&E correspondent Anne-Marie Slaughter analyzes the quandary that the U.N. is in in regards to the Myanmar cyclone, and how the situation may force the R2P doctrine into effect in …
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May 12th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
Dozens of Burmese expatriates rallied in the rain outside the United Nations on Friday, May 9, 2008, calling on the junta to allow aid into cyclone-ravaged Myanmar. Thirteen spoke to three of the protesters, some of whom have family trapped in the disaster zone. Watch the video:
May 9th, 2008 at 5:39 pm
For Buddhists, karma regulates morality: for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. As Myanmar digs out from the devastating Cyclone Nargis–the immediate explanation from some of Myanmar’s …
May 9th, 2008 at 12:35 pm
The first relief shipments arrived in Myanmar Thursday after resistance from the country’s reclusive military government to foreign aid.
“Not only does the United States want to reach out, but …
May 8th, 2008 at 12:40 pm
A senior U.S diplomat in Myanmar said Wednesday that the death toll from Tropical Cyclone Nargis could reach 100,000, as disease outbreaks remain a threat and some aid groups face …
May 6th, 2008 at 9:51 am
As the death toll from the cyclone that struck Myanmar on Saturday continues to climb, it’s important to ask: how do we monitor killer storms? Visit Savage Planet: Storms of the Century for an inside look at the National Hurricane Center in Miami.
April 28th, 2008 at 10:48 am
Religion & Ethics Newsweekly this weekend ran a feature on the population influx to Utica, and the role of churches in settling immigrants from Somalia, Burma, Bosnia and more. GO
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Just two days after the judge declared the trial of three men suspected of involvement in Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya's murder would be open to...
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Jeff Seelbach
Juan Evo Morales Ayma, President of Bolivia, spoke in New York on Tuesday as part of the Columbia University World Leaders Forum. Morales, the...
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