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KUALA LUMPUR (Nikkei Markets) -- Malaysia Friday named Nor Shamsiah Mohd Yunus, who had earlier probed graft allegations at a state-investment fund, as the new governor of the central bank. [1]
Binaifer Nowrojee is regional director for Asia Pacific at Open Society Foundations, the world's largest private funder of independent groups working for justice, democratic governance, and human rights. [2]
This is the ninth installment in the The Dictators series by The Irrawaddy that delves into the lives and careers of Burma’s two most infamous military chiefs and the cohorts that surrounded them. (confirmed by 2 sources) [3]
NAYPYITAW—U Shwe Mann, founder of the Union Betterment Party (UBP) and former ally of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, has said he will not run in the November election. [4]
MUMBAI -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government has named former economic affairs secretary Shaktikanta Das as the Reserve Bank of India's new governor, just one day after the abrupt exit of Urjit Patel. [5]
Saw Mra Raza Lin, a prominent ethnic Arakanese leader who has lived in exile in Bangladesh for 24 years, returned to Burma this week, reports the Narinjara news agency. [6]
NAYPYIDAW — When news of his removal from the top post of the ruling party broke last August, most observers assumed Shwe Mann’s political career was all but over. [7]
NAYPYITAW — “I am not a turncoat,” said Thura Shwe Mann, the former head of the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) and the current chairman of the Legal Affairs and Special Cases Assessment Commission of Myanmar’s Parliament predominated b... [8]
KUALA LUMPUR (Nikkei Markets) -- Malaysia Friday named Nor Shamsiah Mohd Yunus, who had earlier probed graft allegations at a state-investment fund, as the new governor of the central bank.
Binaifer Nowrojee is regional director for Asia Pacific at Open Society Foundations, the world's largest private funder of independent groups working for justice, democratic governance, and human rights.
This is the ninth installment in the The Dictators series by The Irrawaddy that delves into the lives and careers of Burma’s two most infamous military chiefs and the cohorts that surrounded them.
NAYPYITAW—U Shwe Mann, founder of the Union Betterment Party (UBP) and former ally of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, has said he will not run in the November election.
MUMBAI -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government has named former economic affairs secretary Shaktikanta Das as the Reserve Bank of India's new governor, just one day after the abrupt exit of Urjit Patel.
Saw Mra Raza Lin, a prominent ethnic Arakanese leader who has lived in exile in Bangladesh for 24 years, returned to Burma this week, reports the Narinjara news agency.
NAYPYIDAW — When news of his removal from the top post of the ruling party broke last August, most observers assumed Shwe Mann’s political career was all but over.
NAYPYITAW — “I am not a turncoat,” said Thura Shwe Mann, the former head of the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) and the current chairman of the Legal Affairs and Special Cases Assessment Commission of Myanmar’s Parliament predominated b
NAYPYITAW—In an address to an event marking the International Day of Democracy in Naypyitaw on Sunday, a military appointee to the Lower House of Parliament implied that the country’s current democracy is “chaotic.” “Myanmar’s democracy must be a dis
Sheik Salman bin Ibrahim Al Khalifa of Bahrain won a landslide victory to be elected president of the Asian Football Confederation on Thursday, replacing longtime rival Mohamed bin Hammam.