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It is the love of ordinary people, in Burma, in Japan or anywhere else in the world, for justice and peace and freedom that is our surest defense against the forces of unreason and extremism ...
People should be concerned about installing a more sensible, responsible government. What we [the burmese] need is a government that is accountable and transparent, so that the people know what it is doing and can judge for themselves whether or not they like what is being done.
Now we say there's, well, another place in the world-there's India. Wonderful place - except for its people.
I would argue that Asean has been instrumental in driving both economic growth and political development, and that there can be no clearer example than its relations with Myanmar.
Where the hell is Australia anyway?
For many decades, Myanmar was on the receiving end of very public diplomatic scoldings, often backed up by sanctions.
South Africa, it's like the little asshole of the whole world - it's, like, the bottom. It's, like, in the dark depths of the hallway.
I've always liked Southeast Asia a lot. It's a wonderful place, an easy place. People are great, there's a lot of history and culture, and I like the serenity of Buddhism there. It's very beautiful. I find that to be a very nice place to visit.
I want Thailand to be a peaceful country.
The best way to help Burma is to empower the people of Burma, to help us have enough self-confidence to obtain what we want for ourselves.
Singapore is the happiest place in Asia
I don't want to be like, yes, I think the American answer is always stupid, or I think it's always the right answer. So I'm in this weird place there. I'm feeling it out. Cambodia is going through an enormous amount of change right now. Daily.
If I had to name the biggest difference between Bhutan and the rest of the world, I could do it in one word, civility.
I am happy with my Bangladesh.
Millard! Who's the prime minister?"
"Winston Churchill," he said. "Have you gone daft?"
"What's the capital of Burma?"
"Lord, I've no idea. Rangoon?"
"Good! When's your birthday?"
"Will you quit shouting and let me bleed in peace!
That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts.
There are no Rohingya among the races [in Burma]. We only have Bengalis who were brought for farming [during British rule].
I travel to Jakarta, I see what an important country it is. I've been working with them for a year.
Indonesia has vast region with so many islands, comprises so many ethnics, tongues and cultures that make it so hard to be recognized as a single nation.
However, we do recognize it as Bhinneka Tunggal Ika.
The Land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.
Okay Libya ... got all this stuff twirling around in my head
What other country has had the privilege of making the world's heart beat faster?
India I have visited a great many times, though there is a lot about it I will never understand.
The first thing I do whenever I go to Thailand is seek out the closest restaurant or stall selling mango-and-sticky rice: it's a little hillock of glutinous rice drenched in lashings of coconut milk and served with fresh mango.
My mother was born in Burma, but my grandfather on her side was Indian-Spanish. So I have this quite exotic mix, which is reflected in my earliest memories, in our Wiltshire country kitchen, of gran, and aunts, cooking spicy stewy, casseroley curries, a version of Indian food with a Burmese twist.
Asia's governments come in two broad varieties: young, fragile democracies - and older, fragile authoritarian regimes.
I've been repeating ad nauseam that we in Burma, we are weak with regard to the culture of negotiated compromises, that we have to develop the ability to achieve such compromises.
UK - that was Britain.
Africa, your sufferings have been the theme that has arrested & engaged my heart.
I sort of wanted to reveal this other side of Asia: Southeast Asia, where the Chinese have been wealthy for generations and have different ways of relating to money. I wanted to sort of reveal this world to readers.
The struggle for democracy and human rights in Burma is a struggle for life and dignity. It is a struggle that encompasses our political, social and economic aspirations.
Happy the land where the writers are sad, the merchants satisfied, the rich melancholic, and the populace content.
China, you run in there and bust out some crazy Shaolin kung-fu, then I'll easily capture them when they're all tired and beat up. It will mean a fight to the death ... for you!
From Japan to Thailand, I keep discovering amazing talent, cuisine and food markets.
I am in a country which is five hours behind my beloved homeland Pakistan and my home in the Swat Valley.
Bhutan is a beautiful place. High-end tourists love it.
Everyone's so nice in Thailand, and it's a beautiful place - the temples, the culture. But everyone's so nice that it's almost inefficient.
The cause of our difficulties in southeast Asia is not a deficiency of power but an excess of the wrong kind of power which results in a feeling of impotence when it fails to achieve its desired ends.
The land of embarrassment and breakfast.
Upon the civilization of the world. The best one can do is to estimate, as intelligently as possible, the national characteristics of the peoples engaged,
India.. a perfectly wonderful country, may have been motivated by a lack of self-esteem.
Living in China has made me appreciate my own country, with its tiny, ethnically diverse population of unassuming donut-eaters.
America ... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.
There is no country but the heart.
Which country is suffering from too much freedom of speech? Name it, is there one?
The countryside they
When I arrived in Laos and found young Americans living there, out of free choice, I was surprised. After only a week, I began to have a sense of the appeal of the country and its people - along with despair about its future.
The world today is experiencing a profound and rapid socio-cultural transformation. But the changes do not occur at a uniform pace, and the discrepancies in the change process have differentiated the various countries and regions of our planet.
Eight hundred people, possibly, are murdered every year in Burma, they matter nothing; but the murder of a white man is a monstrosity, a sacrilege.
Toronto Sydney New Delhi
I found there a country with thirty-two religions and only one sauce.
Malacca fascinates me more and more daily. There is, among other things, a mediaevalism about it. The noise of the modern world reaches it only in the faintest echoes; its sleep is almost dreamless. Its sensations seem to come out of books read in childhood.
Laos is a country where everything is eaten. When I came back, I would find myself chopping parsley and thinking: 'Why am I throwing these stems away? They're perfectly edible.'
China, slavishly dedicated to ancient scholars, incapable of generating within herself sufficient rulers to continue, without bloodshed, a nation.
It is essential to institute a legal framework that would ensure justice and improve the quality of life in Burma immediately, because the greatest suffering among the people at the moment is caused by lack of justice and lack of the rule of law.
Southeast Asia is an area in which there is a form of Islam which is both devout and progressive, and therefore to be supported. It's an area in which I see a congruence of American interests and local interests: to have tolerant societies and become more prosperous.
Southeast Asia is now a region full of hope because of the freedoms America has helped foster.
My Invented Country; it resembles a heart-shaped paradise.
The home of the homeless all over the earth.
China, hidden and mysterious, has always interested me.
A country should be judged by how it treats its minorities. To the extent it protect them, it stands for the ennobling values of empathy and compassion, for justice rooted, not in might, but in human equality, and for civilization instead of savagery.
There is no madder nation than Japan ... And that nation has the highest rate of suicide, has the highest rate of thick-lens glasses and did the most suicidal trick a few years ago. It's the doggonedest country.
Japan appears to be the birthplace of the soup and the home of the stew.
The judiciary in Burma is not independent. It's widely known, everybody knows that.
There are big countries and small countries, rich and poor, those with long democratic traditions and those still finding their way to democracy.
Wales! Where the men are men and the sheep are scared!
America, I am a strong believer that how we treat each other matters.
India Lima Yankee
Have concern about where you're from, where you live, and where you may travel. The village is global.
So this is why I'm always say happy that somebody mentions Rwanda, because behind Rwanda, we have Africa.
No country is so peaceful as the one that leads into death. Life arches above one's head like a bridgespan, and below it flows the water, carries the boat, takes it further.
Afghanistan - where empires go to die.
Orang Indonesia memang tak pernah siap, We started fighting first and thinking later
We need peace and stability in the Asia-Pacific region. It is important to have political and security stability to build up our economic growth.
Many instances of persecution and killing have occurred in countries with atrocious human rights records such as Sri Lanka, Guatemala and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Let us together commence a journey of peace, harmony and progress in South Asia.
Many other countries in this world are in a difficult situation, and all the Thai people are probably worried about the fate of Thailand: whether the country would survive or not.
The attainment of the present status of Thailand has to depend on the ability or the actions of all the inhabitants of the country.
Every country-or at least every country that is fit for habitation-has its own rivers; and every river has its own quality; and it is the part of wisdom to know and love as many as you can, seeing each in the fairest possible light, and receiving from each the best that it has to give.
England, where nobody ever says what they mean: and by denying feeling, kill it off stone-cold at the roots ...
If you look at satellite photographs of the Far East by night, you'll see a large splotch curiously lacking in light. This area of darkness is the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
mind, this poor child must be from
My writing has been shaped by the three countries - Sri Lanka, the Philippines and England - I have lived in.
I believe the Thai people are patient, and the people at least give me a chance to prove my ability to help them.
This Heart at Peace is My Homeland. (Su Shih)
The Philippines, it has a politics of patronage. Family and favors, in addition to the old cliche of guns, goons and gold, really do still hold a lot of sway.
I don't believe in that country any longer. I'm not interested. I'm writing in the language, and I like the language.
We love and lose in China,
we weep on England's moors,
and laugh and moan in Guinea,
and thrive on Spanish shores.
We seek success in Finland,
are born and die in Maine.
In minor ways we differ,
in major we're the same.
Waban-aki: People from where the sun rises.
I've spent quite a bit of time in East Africa.
I cannot forget the place that I come from. The Congo is much in need.
It's good to know that the people of different countries are really concerned and involved in the movement to help Burma. I think in some ways it's better to have the people of the world on your side than the governments of the world, even if governments can be more effective in certain directions.
I'm not the only one working for democracy in Burma - there are so many people who have worked for it because they believe that this is the only way we can maintain the dignity of our people.
Every country has their problems.
Which country in the world has the kind of talent India has in numbers?
If I would be given a chance to rewrite the dictionary, I would flip through the pages so quick and would replace India with, the land where beauty is redefined in itself, kindness has been touched, warmth has been spread and emotions has been felt.
As long as there is no law in Burma, any individual here can be arrested at any time.
my country is the world
Ireland. Great for the spirit - very bad for the body.
I flew north to Chiang Mai, near the Burmese border, and went for a walk round town and within thirty seconds a young man appeared in front of me. 'You wanna fuck my sister?' he asked. I said no. 'You wanna fuck me?' I said no, but