Associated Press: Myanmar-American to get Suu Kyi lawyers

American ministers visits Aung San Suu kyi

By: jonnalagadda3

Yaangan: Mianmar democracy movement leader and Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi was visited by the American Minister Kurtz Campbell here. The two met in a hotel here and held discussions for two hours. It is for the first time that Suu Kii met a foreign dignitary after 1995. The visit of an American minister and his scheduled meeting with the ...

about 1 month ago

Nobel Spotlights Need for Obama to Act on Rights

By: chnarendra

The award of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize to US President Barack Obama should encourage him to apply his stated principles to both foreign and domestic human rights policy, Human Rights Watch said today. The Nobel committee awarded the prize for "extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples," and ...

about 1 month ago

East Asia Lead or Asia Pacific Century?

By: WisdomMountain

East Asia should aspire to lead the world in economic revival. This is the vision of new Japanese Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama. But Australia's Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has proposed a grander idea of an Asia Pacific Century by 2020. The two visions were presented at the three-day East Asia Summit in Hua Hin,Thailand,which ended yesterday(Oct.26,...

about 1 month ago

Gandhi a 'Man of all Times and Places': US Congress

By: MohammadHassan

The US Congress has passed a resolution congratulating the visionary leadership of Mahatma Gandhi, which enhanced the rapidly deepening friendship between the United States and India. Unanimously passed by the US House of Representatives Thursday, the resolution also acknowledges and commends the Indian leader's "unique and lasting role in the ...

about 1 month ago