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KyiMayKaung (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
2 November 2009 To: Kurt M. Campbell Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs CC: 1. Hillary Rodham Clinton, U.S. Secretary of State 2. Scot Marciel, Deputy Assistant Secretary, East Asia and Pacific Bureau and Ambassador for ASEAN Affairs 3. Larry M. Dinger, U.S. Charge d'Affaires in Burma Open Letter from Civil Society from Burma and Asia Concerning U.S. Fact-finding...
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Japan Times (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Kurt Campbell, U.S. assistant secretary of state for East Asia and Pacific affairs, made a brief stop Thursday in Tokyo to talk up bilateral ties despite simmering discord over where to move U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma. The senior diplomat, who met with Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada ahead of a meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama in Tokyo next week, said bilateral ties...
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Bloomberg (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Nov. 4 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. envoy Kurt Campbell met for two hours today at a hotel in Myanmar with detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, the State Department said.
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BURMA DIGEST (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
S.H.A.N. : Tuesday, 03 November 2009 11:13 By: Sai Wansai Kurt Campbell, the US Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, together with Scot Marciel, the US special envoy to Southeast Asia, will be in Burma from 3rd to 4th November on a fact-finding mission. It is the [...]
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BURMA DEMOCRACY & DEVELOPMENT (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Wednesday, November 4, 2009 Posted by BURMA DEMOCRACY & DEVELOPMENT at 0 comments: Subscribe to: "????????????? ??????? ??????????? ??????????? ???????????????????? ????????????????????? ???? ?????? ???????.............." - ???????????????Thaksin Vs Suu KyiHun Sen should not compare Thaksin with Suu Kyi, as nobody would agree with such a comparison. It was the common stance of Asean to...
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Bloomberg (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Nov. 2 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. State Department official Kurt Campbell will become the most senior American emissary to visit Myanmar in 14 years today as the Obama administration aims to improve ties with the military junta.
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BURMA DIGEST (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
Kanbawza Win “The Washington Post” of the 7th instant decries, “Results of US-Burma Meeting is Unclear.” How can it be clear when the two sides, the Burmese Junta and the American representatives Kurt Campbell, Assistant Secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs, together with Scot Marciel, Deputy Assistant Secretary witted against each other [...]
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KyiMayKaung (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi with US delegation led by Kurt Campbell. Couple talking -- Giacommetti -- The Queen -- at National Gallery, DC -- photo Kyi May Kaung
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Hot Air (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
The White House might try to blame the State Department (such an easy and delicious target) for the missteps. But State’s role in the conceptual planning of the trip was not central, and the department’s senior Asia hand, Kurt Campbell, surely knew better. It’s also hard to tar the National Security Council’s own senior Asia expert, Jeff Bader, another pro like Campbell. Perhaps...
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Right, Wing-Nut! (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
... government employees and private sector citizens, huh? No nepotism either: Brainard is married to Kurt Campbell, the current Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs. Not even a hint of a conflict of interest! Most ethical administration evah! As Glenn Reynolds would say, the country's in the best of hands.... Miss Lael: Champagne-slurping tax cheat, or cocaine-snorting...
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Maggie's Notebook (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
... Sperling. She also advised Obama during his 2008 presidential campaign. Brainard is married to Kurt Campbell, President Obama's assistant secretary of state for East Asia and Pacific Affairs. Is there anyone in the Obama adminstration without a tax problem - who pays taxes on time and correctly - like the rest of us out here?
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Don't Mess With Taxes (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
... the Wall Street Journal's Washington Wire blog, Brainard's husband is Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell. His nomination went through the Senate Foreign Relations Committee without a hitch. That tidbit about Brainard's husband and his easy sailing into his high-level federal job bothers me bit. I know Brainard's position, if she's confirmed, would be with Treasury. Folks who...
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ABC News (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
"There is nothing in the record that in any way could call into question her qualifications or ability to carry out the duties of this position," Treasury spokesman Andrew Williams told ABC News, noting that Brainard and her husband Kurt Campbell filed joint tax returns -- and Campbell faced little opposition from the Senate when lawmakers confirmed him as the State Department's...
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BURMA DIGEST (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
... talks instead of simply applying sanctions. Earlier this month, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell and another State Department official made the highest-level visit to Myanmar in 14 years. At a meeting with Asian leaders last week in Singapore, President Barack Obama told the gathering — Myanmar Prime Minister Gen. Thein Sein included — that the junta must free Suu Kyi...
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Sify (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
... talks instead of simply applying sanctions.Earlier this month, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell and another State Department official made the highest-level visit to Myanmar in 14 years.At a meeting with Asian leaders last week in Singapore, President Barack Obama told the gathering — Myanmar Prime Minister Gen. Thein Sein included — that the junta must free Suu Kyi...
