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Myanmar Regime ‘Murdering the Hopeful Future of the Country in the Streets’: Ex-US Ambassador Derek Mitchell in 2011 / The Irrawaddy 20.3k By The Irrawaddy 15 March 2021 The Irrawaddy spoke to Derek Mitchell, the US ambassador to Myanmar from 2012-16, on the unfolding crisis in the country. Mitchell also served as the US State Department’s first Special Representative and Policy Coordinator for Myanmar, with the rank of ambassador. During his tenure, which coincided with the opening up ...

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Date Time Imaging helps understand empathy loss in dementia A patient with frontotemporal dementia discovers his grandson’s birthday cake in the fridge. He doesn’t think twice before getting out a knife and fork and eating every last piece an hour before the birthday party is set to begin. For patients with this early-onset neurodegenerative disease, some of the first symptoms are a profound loss of inhibition and empathy, which leads to a change in social behaviour that is completely out o...

IN-DEPTH / IN-DEPTH By GT staff reporters Published: Mar 09, 2021 04:16 AM NEDs spending on anti-China institutes and projects in 2020 Source: NED website Graphic: GT The National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a veteran anti-China foundation financed by the US government, has been discovered to have spent more than $10 million to fund secessionist organizations and subversive activities in China in 2020. In the financial statements published on NEDs website in February, at least 69 progra...

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China and Myanmar after the 2021 Myanmar Coup: A Conversation with Derek Mitchell In this episode of the ChinaPower Podcast, Ambassador Derek Mitchell joins us to discuss the implications of the 2021 Myanmar coup for China-Myanmar relations. Ambassador Mitchell analyzes the current state of China-Myanmar relations, describes its historical development, and outlines China’s interests within the region after the coup. Ambassador Mitchell also examines which areas the United States and China can...

A LIFELINE community group which has been working away behind the scenes during lockdown is gearing up to re-open.

At least 18 protesters were killed amid intensifying pro-democracy demonstrations in Myanmar Vox.com 2/28/2021 Sean Collins © Ye Aung Thu/AFP/Getty Images Protesters honor those who were killed during the February 28 protests in Yangon, Myanmar. Myanmar’s military government intensified its crackdown on the country’s pro-democracy protest movement on Sunday, firing at demonstrators gathered in Myanmar’s largest cities, and killing at least 18 people, according to the ...

Ye Aung Thu/AFP/Getty Images Myanmar’s military government intensified its crackdown on the country’s pro-democracy protest movement on Sunday, firing at demonstrators gathered in Myanmar’s largest cities, and killing at least 18 people, according to the United Nations. For nearly a month, a growing coalition of protesters has demanded the end of military rule in Myanmar, following a coup that led to the arrest of the nation’s civilian leaders on February 1. Demonstrations have taken pl...

Why Taiwan matters With only nine deaths from Covid-19, the islands handling of the pandemic is a testament to the success of its democracy.  Taiwan’s successful handling of the Covid-19 pandemic is a model for the world,” announced the outgoing US ambassador to the United Nations, Kelly Craft, in a statement on 19 January. With a population of nearly 24 million, the self-styled Republic of China (a de facto independent democracy, but claimed by the People’s Republic of China, which ha...