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A weekend summit involving US President Barack Obama and the premier of military-ruled Myanmar will be a "breakthrough" in ties between Southeast Asia and the United States, Singapore said Tuesday.
By Timothy Garton Ash In the autumn of 1989, the term 'velvet revolution' was coined to describe a peaceful, theatrical, negotiated regime change in a small Central European state that no longer exists. So far as I have been able to establish, the phrase was first used by Western journalists and subsequently taken up by Václav Havel and other Czech and Slovak opposition leaders. This seductive ...
With this week marking the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, it is clear that the legacies of walls loom large in history.
THANDAIT, 10 November 2009 (IRIN) - Before the devastation of Cyclone Nargis in May 2008, Cho Tuu, 30, never found it hard to make ends meet, but these days he struggles to feed his family.
President Barack Obama will meet leaders of Southeast Asian nations, including Myanmar, in a high-level affirmation of Washington's new policy of engaging the military-ruled country despite its dismal human rights record.
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New Delhi - The Indian government has published a discussion paper which says there is no conclusive evidence to prove that the Himalayan glaciers are melting due to climate change, news reports said Tuesday. The paper, released by the federal Enviro...
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A woman's body was found along a Schuylkill County road on Saturday morning. The body was found about 10:08 a.m. along the Burma Road, near Fire Tower Road in Blythe Township. The road runs from St. Clair north eventually to SR54 near Mahanoy City. The body was transported to the Schuylkill Medical Center-South, Pottsville, where an autopsy was scheduled for Sunday. State police at Frackville ...
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This week's concert preview is being brought to you by Kevin Meenan of Epicsauce , providing detailed concert listings for the Bay Area every week. Follow them on Twitter . Yet another stacked week with San Diego's excellent Crocodiles at Bimbo's tonight, Brooklyn's buzzed duo The Drums at 330 Ritch Thursday and post-punk trailblazers Mission of Burma at The Independent Saturday. And while ...
Photo by Ed Canas, courtesy of Interscope Records Back in May, we asked DC rapper Wale about the song he'd made with TV on the Radio production mastermind Dave Sitek . Here's what Wale said : "It's like futuristic Afrobeat meets like O.G. Pharrell meets an African marching band. It sounds like music from 2025." The track, cleverly titled "TV in the Radio", is out on the internet now. It might ...
In a July story titled "Fiery Furnaces Cover Fiery Furnaces" , we reported that the brother-sister duo were planning to release an album featuring each sibling doing solo version of the songs from their own 2009 album I'm Going Away . Like most Fiery Furnaces stories, it sort of sounded like a goof. And like most Fiery Furnaces stories that sound like goofs, it was not a goof. Take Me Round ...
Photos by Zach Vowell and Scott Melcer ; Above: Les Savy Fav by Scott Melcer In a crowded festival field, Austin's Fun Fun Fun Fest distinguished itself this year by avoiding the rote scheduling and top-heavy lineups of most of American fests. Closer in spirit to the bicontinental ATP, the side stages at Spain's Primavera, the large U.S. fests, or our own Pitchfork Music Festival, Fun Fun Fun ...
Barack Obama this week heads to Asia for the first time as president, seeking to show the region and a rising China the United States is not in decline nor distracted by multiple crises elsewhere.
President Barak Obama is to take his first official trip to Asia this month with stops in Japan, Singapore, China and South Korea. In Singapore Mr. Obama will attend the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum and meets with many Southeast Asia leaders for the first time.
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