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  • Myanmar: Achieving India’s Economic Interests
    Asma Masood    ·   16 Jul, 2013    ·    #4037    ·    Commentary    
    Myanmar’s economy has witnessed several landmark transitions recently.  The World Economic Forum held here in June 2013 ushered the country’s re-emergence on the international stage.  A plethora of reforms and prospects wer...
  • Japan: Defense White Paper 2013
    Rajaram Panda    ·   16 Jul, 2013    ·    #4036    ·    Commentary    
    On July 9, 2013, the Ministry of Defence of Japan released its Annual White Paper 2013 (AWP-2013). This is the first Defence White Paper released under the administration of Prime Minister Abe Shinzo. The major highlight of the AWP-2013 is the d...
  • Myanmar: Implications of Suu Kyi’s Realpolitik
    Yves-Marie Rault    ·   15 Jul, 2013    ·    #4035    ·    Commentary    
    "I want to be president and I'm quite frank about it", Aung San Suu Kyi said on 6 June, during the World Economic Forum on East Asia. The rumours about her presidential ambitions thus turned out to be true, which can explain the re...
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    Sri Lanka and the 13th Amendment: What is '13 Plus'?
    Sugeeswara Senadhira    ·   11 Jul, 2013    ·    #4034    ·    Commentary    
    The Parliamentary Select Committee (PSC) on constitutional reform focused on devolution of powers met for the first time on July 9 without the participation of opposition parties including the Tamil National Alliance TNA). On the same day, the I...
  • The New Silk Route: Linking J&K and Central Asia
    D Suba Chandran    ·   11 Jul, 2013    ·    #4033    ·    Commentary    
    Rising Kashmir recently reported the Chief Minister of J&K addressing a conference in Kashmir University speaking on linking J&K and Central Asia. He was also quoted referring to Silk Route 2.0 as a part of this strategy to link Kashmir ...
  • Kashmir falls off the Global Radar
    Shujaat Bukhari    ·   10 Jul, 2013    ·    #4032    ·    Commentary    
    When German Ambassador to India Michael Steiner made his country...
  • China and Russia: The Joint Sea 2013 Exercise
    Vijay Sakhuja    ·   10 Jul, 2013    ·    #4031    ·    Commentary    
    The ongoing China-Russia naval exercises code-named Joint Sea 2013, dubbed by the PLA Navy as the ‘single biggest deployment of military force in any joint foreign exercise’, merits attention. The Chinese flotilla comprising of seven...
  • Myanmar: FDI, Local Economy and the Rohingya Conflict
    Asma Masood    ·   10 Jul, 2013    ·    #4030    ·    Commentary    
    On June 27, Myanmar announced that the government awarded a telecommunications contract to Qatari company Ooredo. It sparked a social media backlash in Myanmar. Citizens threatened boycott of its services. The Buddhist community was surprised by...
  • 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 ...
  • 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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