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NOV 17, 2010
Why was Aung San Suu Kyi released?
BBC News
It is possible that the generals knew that the election would cause such outrage that the only way to mask it was to present the world with a different and more compelling story, the release of the most famous political prisoner in the world.
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NOV 17, 2010
ABC chief tells how to win funds and influence people
The Sydney Morning Herald
"When you look at the expansion of international broadcasting as an arm of soft diplomacy, governments are using their public broadcasters to do this work," [ABC managing director, Mark Scott] said. "We need to continue to put Australia on display, using the most powerful tools available - the tools of modern communication..."
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NOV 17, 2010
Tourism industry unimpressed with new DOT slogan
The Philippine Star
The local tourism industry appeared unimpressed with the new Philippine tourism slogan “Pilipinas Kay Ganda,” which the government launched Monday in a bid to lure more foreign visitors to the country.
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NOV 17, 2010
U.S. Courts Afghans Through Television
The Wall Street Journal
They are the fictional police unit of "Eagle Four," the first of several television shows funded by the U.S. government as part of a strategy to galvanize Afghans behind their security forces. The show's first episodes debuted in recent weeks on Tolo TV, one of Afghanistan's largest stations.
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NOV 16, 2010
The American-Kurdish Information Network
CPD Blog
...I conducted some fascinating interviews with various representatives of the Kurdish and Palestinian movements on how national movements conduct public diplomacy and cultural diplomacy. This is the first article of a series based on my interviews, and deals with the public diplomacy of the Kurdish people as conducted by the American-Kurdish Information Network.
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NOV 15, 2010
Death by a 1000 Cut: Is the Government Trying to Kill VOA Radio Transmissions?
The Heritage Foundation (Blog)
Does radio still play a role in a world where that is increasingly cyber-connected and populated by smart phone users? The answer, according to Google’s Director of Policy and Planning Bob Boorstin, is very much a “yes.”
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NOV 15, 2010
A Role for Science Diplomacy? Soft Power and Global Challenges – Part I
Guerrilla Diplomacy
Science diplomacy (SD), a term which encompasses both the use of international scientific cooperation to advance foreign policy objectives and the use of diplomacy to achieve scientific ends, represents a critical component within the broader public diplomacy ambit. Science diplomacy is an expression of soft power.
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NOV 15, 2010
British Council in Beijing
Global Times
Following British Prime Minister David Cameron and his country's biggest-ever delegation to China last week, Vernon Ellis, chair of the British Council, shared his vision towards cooperation with China in terms of culture and education with the Global Times Thursday in Beijing.
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NOV 11, 2010
American Bigshots Doing the Country Proud Overseas
The Atlantic
Hillary Clinton, genuinely funny and admiration-generating in a stint this week with two of Australia's broadcast comics, Hamish and Andy...Barack Obama, at the University of Indonesia in Jakarta, making a speech about democracy in Indonesia, and a reprise on last year's appeal to Islam -- but also daring to talk a little bit in the Bahasa Indonesia ("language of Indonesia") he heard around him as a child.
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NOV 11, 2010
Obama Finds His Footing
The Daily Beast
It’s a colossal shame that presidential life has no magic rewind button, for if it did—and we could whirr ourselves back to June 2009—we’d have had Barack Hussein Obama skip Pharaonic old Cairo, city of the ghastly Hosni Mubarak and a tightly coiled hatred of the West, and deliver his first major speech to a Muslim nation in Indonesia...
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