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Towards 2014: challenges for Pakistan Reply

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Towards 2014: challenges for Pakistan

Reposted from The Nation
By Tariq Osman Hyder

The imminent US/Nato drawdown in Afghanistan poses major challenges for Pakistan and the region: how best to work towards the peace and stability desired by all?

Clearly, America acknowledges its failure to fulfil neither Bush’s transformative ambitions, nor Obama’s lowered expectations, though the US/Nato occupation has attained some objectives. President Hamid Karzai’s government remains, urban areas are largely controlled, and some development has resulted; the Afghan National Army and Police have been established for post-Nato national security. More…

Bangladesh-US effort in shaping the future Reply

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Bangladesh-USA

Bangladesh-USA

Reposted from e-Bangladesh
By Sheikh Shahriar Zaman

The importance of Dhaka is growing in the eyes of Washington as Bangladesh-US relationship has entered a new era when it is trying to shape up its future relationship through a partnership dialogue that has ended in the Washington. The growing relationship manifested as Dhaka is the partner of all four global initiatives of President Obama. More…

Haiti: Where Has All the Money Gone? Reply

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Reposted from The Center for Global Development

By Vijaya Ramachandran and Julie Walz

Since the 2010 earthquake, almost $6 billion has been disbursed in official aid to Haiti, a country with a population of just under 10 million. An estimated $3 billion has been donated to NGOs in private contributions in addition to official aid. The United States Government alone has disbursed almost $2 billion of this total amount and has pledged over $3 billion for relief and reconstruction. More…

The growing importance of Bangladesh Reply

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Reposted from e-Bangladesh
By Sheikh Shahriar Zaman

Bangladesh and US engagement is intensifying in line with the growing Washington’s interest in the moderate Muslim country. The visit of Bangladesh foreign minister, Dipu Moni, in Washington last September and her US counterpart, Hilary Rodham Clinton, counter visit in Dhaka in May and subsequent signing of a Partnership Dialogue are manifestation of the growing relation. More…

U.S.-Sized Market in China’s Shadow Gets Reboot Reply

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Reposted from Bloomberg
By William Pesek

Myanmar’s conversion to democracy is breathing new life into a project with a terminally boring name: Greater Mekong Subregion.

This name was bestowed on an investment bloc that the Asian Development Bank put together in 1992. It was made up of Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam and China’s Yunnan Province. Talk about odd bedfellows. It mixes constitutional monarchies, immature multiparty democracies, communist states and military regimes suddenly mulling elections with one thing in common — a waterway that’s central to the livelihood of 330 million people. More…

Promise of jobs spurs development debate in Haiti Reply

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Reposted from the News Observer
By JACQUELINE CHARLES

CARACOL, Haiti — It’s precisely the kind of development that just about everyone has been saying Haiti needs: foreign governments pooling dollars to build housing, create jobs and foster hope.

But a $300 million investment to help create tens of thousands of textile jobs in this rural northern village has reignited debate over whether banking on Haiti’s past as a garment assembly capital will bring the kind of social and economic development needed to lift the country out of abject poverty. Some argue the funds are better invested in agricultural projects to feed the country and boost farmers. More…

Clinton Says Will Attend ASEAN Meet in Cambodia Reply

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Reposted from the Strait Times

WASHINGTON (AFP) – United States (US) Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Tuesday that she will take part in next month’s meeting of South-east Asian nations and regional powers in Cambodia.

Mrs Clinton met in Washington with Cambodia’s foreign minister, Mr Hor Namhong, as the developing nation prepares to host this year’s meetings of the Association of South-east Asian Nations (Asean).

‘We are looking forward to coming for the Asean Regional Forum to Cambodia in July,’ Mrs Clinton told reporters. More…

Myanmar Monthly Wrap-up: May Reply

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An office staff writes on a white board at the Myanmar Securities Exchange Centre in Yangon

An office staff writes on a white board at the Myanmar Securities Exchange Centre in Yangon

By John Conway Boyd

Political reforms implemented by the Myanmar government are beginning to pay off. Many nations are beginning to ease and/or suspend sanctions against Myanmar after decades of severely stunted economic growth within the Southeast Asian nation. Following the suspension of major prohibitions against conducting business in Myanmar by the European Union, Australia and Canada last month, the United States quickly followed suit in mid-May. International investors are now lining up to capitalize on the country’s large labor force, abundant natural resources, competitive wages and strategic location. More…