Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Mon, 01/06/2014 - 10:43
Paper No. 5630 Dated 06-Jan-2014
By Dr. Subhash Kapila
Introductory Observations
South China Sea disputes involve five ASEAN nations whose sovereignty in different portions of this strategic sea region stand contested by China adopting a mixed strategy of political coercion, military brinkmanship and use of force to occupy its claimed islands and landforms.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Mon, 11/11/2013 - 09:32
Paper No. 5599 Dated 11-Nov-2013
By C. S. Kuppuswamy
Introduction
A lull in the civil war that has ravaged the country for the last six decades seems to be in sight.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Sat, 03/30/2013 - 06:26
Paper No: 5443 Dated 29-Mar- 2013
By B.Raman
The violent incidents in Central Myanmar, which initially targeted Muslims, their places of worship and properties at Meikhtila on March 20,2013, have since spread to other areas north of Rangoon and there have been reports of Muslims as well as Buddhists now being targeted often by the same mobs which move on motor-bykes.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Thu, 03/28/2013 - 05:19
Paper No. 5439 Dated 28-Mar-2013
By Col. R. Hariharan
[This article formed the basis for Col Hariharan’s presentation “Political and economic change in Myanmar” at the Federation of Indian Export Organisation (FIEO) seminar “Doing Business with Myanmar” at Chennai on March 16, 2013.]
Strategic context of change
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Sat, 03/23/2013 - 14:14
Paper No. 5434 Dated 23-Mar-2013
By B. Raman
Between 20 and 26 persons are reported to have been killed in three days of violent clashes between Buddhists and Burman Muslims (not Rohingyas) in the central Myanmar cantonment town of Meikhtila since March 20, 2013. Official figures have, however, given the death toll as five only till the evening of March 22.
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Thu, 03/14/2013 - 07:31
Paper no. 5424 Dated 14-Mar-2013
By C. S. Kuppuswamy
“Even party members say their National League for Democracy is in disarray — suffering from an array of problems including what one called a “leadership vacuum” in the middle ranks.” - Thomas Fuller (The New York Times)
Introduction
Submitted by asiaadmin2 on Fri, 02/22/2013 - 09:14
Paper No. 5404 Dated 22-Feb-2013
By C. S. Kuppuswamy
In a landmark talks between the government and the United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC) held at Chiang Mai on 20 Feb 2013, the government, perhaps for the first time, officially agreed to initiate a political dialogue with the ethnics after six decades of civil war.
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