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7 Sep 2020, 10:04 am
As the U.S. begins to see the light at the end of the Trumpian tunnel, it is time to begin thinking about the issue of repair. [read post]
27 Jul 2020, 8:00 am
(Kaldor Centre, July 2020) [text]Left Behind and Destitute: How IDP Communities in Southern Burma/Myanmar are Struggling to Survive during COVID-19 (Human Rights Foundation of Monland, July 2020) [access via APRRN]- Follow link to access report in English and Burmese. [read post]
20 Jul 2020, 11:26 am
Lipton of Oregon State University, whose project is entitled, “Bacteriophages and Antibiotics: How the Soviets and Americans Dealt with a Public Health Crisis when Faced with New Tools”Chao Ren of the University of Michigan, whose project is entitled, “Oily Arguments: Institutional Disputes and Native Property Rights in Colonial Burma”Doris Morgan Rueda of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, whose project is entitled, “Saving The Bad Kids, Caging Los Chicos… [read post]
26 Jun 2020, 8:48 am
The updated list refers to the following: Afghanistan, Bahamas, Barbados, Botswana, Cambodia, Ghana, Iraq, Jamaica, Mauritius, Mongolia, Myanmar/Burma, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Panama, Syria, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, Vanuatu, Yemen, Zimbabwe. [read post]
22 Jun 2020, 1:30 pm
For instance, the British in Burma used a template borrowed from Bengal that used religion to categorize opium consumers, which placed 90% of the population, the Buddhist majority, in a single box, until excise administrators adjusted the uninformative template to separately label Burmese, Chinese, Indian and others. [read post]
14 Jun 2020, 4:34 pm
Empires of Vice explores this reversal—opium’s transformation from fiscal bedrock to banned drug—by comparing British and French experiences across today’s Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Singapore, and Vietnam. [read post]
4 Jun 2020, 6:21 am
In his landmark 1921 book “The Command of the Air,” the Italian military theorist Giulio Douhet argued that the advent of airpower would dramatically alter the nature of war. [read post]
31 May 2020, 9:30 pm
Comparing British and French experiences across today’s Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Malaysia, Singapore, and Vietnam, Kim examines how the everyday work of local administrators delegitimized the taxing of opium, which in turn made major anti-opium reforms possible.Empires of Vice reveals the inner life of colonial bureaucracy, illuminating how European rulers reconfigured their opium-entangled foundations of governance and shaped Southeast Asia’s political economy of illicit drugs… [read post]
13 May 2020, 8:55 pm
The updated list refers to the following: Afghanistan, Bahamas, Barbados, Botswana, Cambodia, Ghana, Iraq, Jamaica, Mauritius, Mongolia, Myanmar/Burma, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Panama, Syria, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, Vanuatu, Yemen, Zimbabwe. [read post]
29 Apr 2020, 4:00 am
” These include nine that the State Department designated as CPCs in December 2019—Burma, China, Eritrea, Iran, North Korea, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan—as well as five others—India, Nigeria, Russia, Syria, and Vietnam.... [read post]
28 Apr 2020, 6:14 am
Since 2017, a handful of countries have been subject to these specific visa sanctions: Burma, Cambodia, Eritrea, Ghana, Guinea, Laos, Pakistan, and Sierra Leone. [read post]
22 Apr 2020, 9:05 pm
National Foreign Trade Council (2000) the Court unanimously struck down a Massachusetts law barring state entities from buying goods or services from companies doing business with Burma (Myanmar) on the grounds that it interfered with the power of Congress and the Executive Branch to make the most of the sanctions power by exerting unified control over it. [read post]
21 Apr 2020, 12:03 pm
While the new executive order is potentially far broader in scope, immigration to the U.S. has been declining and the many temporary limitations on immigration the administration has adopted include: Travel is restricted at the northern and southern borders; Routine visa services have been suspended worldwide; Travel is banned due to COVID-19 from China, Iran, the 26 Schengen Zone countries, the United Kingdom, and Ireland; Travel Ban 3.0 restricts travel from Iran (again), Libya, Syria, North… [read post]
11 Apr 2020, 6:10 pm
These intertwined itineraries of law, that take place against the Japanese occupation of Burma and the Dutch East Indies and the postwar reconstruction efforts in Rangoon, Madras and Batavia, show how jurisdictional claims made by ordinary litigants form an underappreciated archive for histories of international law. [read post]
5 Mar 2020, 4:10 am
The hearing focused on the use of citizenship laws to deny rights to religious minorities, with emphasis on developments in India and past actions in Burma. [read post]
18 Feb 2020, 12:49 pm
The extended ban suspends entry for immigrants of Burma and Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan and Nigeria (except special immigrants who have provided assistance to the U.S. government) and Diversity Visa immigrants of Sudan and Tanzania. [read post]
5 Feb 2020, 9:24 am
Approaching the three-year anniversary of the issuance of President Donald Trump’s “Executive Order Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States,” on January 31, 2020, Trump added six new countries to the list of affected countries: Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan, Myanmar (Burma), Nigeria, Sudan, and Tanzania. [read post]
2 Feb 2020, 9:57 am
For four countries – Burma, Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan, and Nigeria – the President has imposed travel restrictions on immigrant visas.The reason is straightforward – individuals who have entered the U.S. on immigrant visas are challenging to remove even if, after admission into the U.S., the individual is linked to disqualifying information such as terrorist connections, criminal ties, or misrepresented information. [read post]
1 Feb 2020, 1:57 pm
The six new nations on the list have substantial Muslim populations: Burma (Myanmar), Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan, Nigeria, Sudan, and Tanzania. [read post]
31 Jan 2020, 2:43 pm
President Trump has issued a new travel ban that restricts entry into the United States from Burma (Myanmar), Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan, Nigeria, Sudan and Tanzania. [read post]
