COMMENTARIES
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Myanmar: Profiling the 969 Movement
Bibhu Prasad Routray · 10 Jul, 2013 · #4029 · Commentary
Is it an economic nationalist movement, an awakening of sorts, a rabid anti-Muslim movement, or a hate revolution that would eventually consume its own children?
Local Myanmarese accounts on the radical 969 Buddhist movement have diverged so ...
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Myanmar: New Challenges of Economic Transition
Yves-Marie Rault · 09 Jul, 2013 · #4028 · Commentary
Until a few years ago, as roaming services were inexistent, a foreign visitor who wanted to use a cell phone in Myanmar had to buy a local SIM card for the sum of USD1500. However, there are now around 500,000 tourists each year - symbol of the ...
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IPCS Review
Pakistan: The Abbottabad Commission of Enquiry
Rana Banerji · 09 Jul, 2013 · #4027 · Commentary
It is hardly surprising that the Abbottabad Commission of Enquiry report on the May 02, 2011 attack successfully eliminating Osama bin Laden (OBL) should finally have surfaced through an Al Jazeera leak, a good six months after it had been submi...
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China's 'Peace Ark':
The Navy and Band-Aid Diplomacy
Kamlesh Kumar Agnihotri · 09 Jul, 2013 · #4026 · Commentary
An article titled “Peace Ark: From China with Love and Care”, in the English version of the popular ‘People’s Daily’ online on June 19, 2013 conveys a lot in addition to the benign and compassionate tone and t...
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IPCS Debate
Sri Lanka and the 13th Amendment: Reconciling Differing Viewpoints
N Manoharan · 08 Jul, 2013 · #4025 · Commentary
Number 13 is generally considered unlucky. In the Sri Lankan case, it is more than true. The 13th Amendment to the 1978 Sri Lankan Constitution, an offshoot of Indo-Sri Lankan Accord of 1987, has got mired into controversy since day one. It has ...
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IPCS Review
Sri Lanka: Trafficking, Child Sex Trade and Human Security
Thiranjala Weerasinghe · 08 Jul, 2013 · #4024 · Commentary
The ‘Trafficking in Persons Report 2013’ published by the Department of State, United States of America, provides a lucid analysis of initiatives on anti-human trafficking around the globe and characterises the slow progress that has...
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IPCS Social Media Analysis
Myanmar: Unveiling ‘The Face of Buddhist Terror’
Roomana Hukil · 08 Jul, 2013 · #4023 · Commentary
TIME magazine’s recent cover story, ‘The Face of Buddhist Terror’, looked into the Buddhist-Muslim conflict in Myanmar. While the government banned the magazine, it unfurled an extensive campaign across several internet channel...
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IPCS Debate
Sri Lanka and the 13th Amendment: Welcome Changes in India’s Policy
Prof. V. Suryanarayan · 06 Jul, 2013 · #4022 · Commentary
India is committed to achieving a bright future for the Sri Lankan Tamil community in a united Sri Lanka, in which all citizens can live in dignity, equality, and self-respect. In furtherance of this objective, India would work for a durable pol...
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Myanmar: The New Tourism Brand
Aparupa Bhattacherjee · 03 Jul, 2013 · #4021 · Commentary
Recently, the Myanmar government revealed a seven-year master plan in collaboration with Asian Development Bank and Norwegian government, worth USD500 million to help the country upgrade its competiveness in tourism. This plan charts 38 developm...
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Iran: What Does Rouhani Bring to the Table?
Somya Chhabra · 03 Jul, 2013 · #4020 · Commentary
Hassan Rouhani’s election as the seventh president of Iran amongst a host of five other conservative candidates, many of them close to the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, has made the 2013 Presidential elections a landmark. Not only has...
