TNI in the news

TNI fellows, staff and consultants who are quoted, interviewed, featured or published in other media outlets. Please note that as many of our network also work for other organisations, we do not assume to take credit for all of these media "hits."

Eurasia review

In his address at the Chatham House, UK on 15 July 2013, President Thein Sein categorically asserted that the armed fighting in Myanmar since 1948 will end soon.

August 2013
Euronews

"There is a disbelief in the political structures that are in place because they don’t represent the real needs of the population."

August 2013
Vatican Radio Uruguay

'It is "definitely not the same as liberalising the market." This," he continued, "is a very strictly controlled regulation model, it doesn't increase access to cannabis, but instead restricts it."

August 2013
Blouin News

Military spending in France and Spain grabbed the spotlight this week in the latest act of the euro crisis.

August 2013
Christian Science Monitor

Marijuana legalization: Uruguay's lower house of parliament set a global first last night by voting to give the state control of marijuana production, distribution, and sales.

August 2013
Voice of Russia

Uruguay's House of Representatives has passed a bill to legalize marijuana by 50 of the 96 MPs following 13 hours of tough debates.

August 2013
NOS op 3

Wij hebben het er al jaren over, Uruguay doet 't gewoon: wiet wordt er legaal.

August 2013
Karen News

In an effort to protect lands that were confiscated or stolen for recent development projects and business development in Karen State, the Karen National Union is working on a land policy that will then be proposed to the Burma government.

July 2013
KAren News

Villagers in Htantabin Township witnessed the Burma Army putting up placards claiming their land that was confiscated under the former military regime.

July 2013
Political Affairs

The Transnational Institute, an Amsterdam-based scholar-activist organization, observed that the response of the Bolivian press is understandable because there have been previous suspicions of outside forces wanting to exercise military control over the natural resources of the Chaco (Tarija) region.

July 2013
BNR

In het noorden van Mexico is Miguel Angel Treviño Morales, het hoofd van het beruchte Zetas drugskartel, opgepakt. In zijn auto zijn acht wapens en 2 miljoen dollar aan contanten gevonden.

July 2013
Eyes onTrade

The Trans-Atlantic Free Trade Agreement (TAFTA) is in trouble. Report after report has indicated that the massive U.S.-EU deal is on shaky ground now that the NSA spying scandal has fueled European privacy concerns and botched the hopes of U.S. telecommunications firms to use the deal to downsize data privacy protections.

July 2013
Aliran

The grounding of a Bolivian presidential jet in an attempt to 'render' whistleblower Edward Snowden has shamed the European Union, say three European organisations.

July 2013
Bloomberg Business Week

When Swiss law professor Gabrielle Kaufmann-Kohler joined the board of UBS AG, she was sitting on international tribunals judging whether Vivendi Universal SA and another company whose shares UBS held were entitled to damages from Argentina in investment disputes.

July 2013
Asia Times

A grand ceremony is expected to be held next month in the Myanmar capital of Naypyidaw, where a nationwide ceasefire with various ethnic resistance armies will be announced to an audience of United Nations representatives and other foreign dignitaries.

June 2013
Morning Star

A recent front-page headline in the London Evening Standard declared: "Cameron: We must act over Syria gas attacks."

June 2013
De Telegraaf

"Al met al is dit een historische omslag", zegt Martin Jelsma van de denktank TNI uit Amsterdam en medeauteur van het OAS-rapport.

June 2013
Wiener Zeitung

Die Regierung Orbán betont, sie wolle die großflächigen Agrarstrukturen aufbrechen und lokalen Landwirten Ackerbesitz ermöglichen - auch nach der Liberalisierung.

June 2013
The Wall Street Journal

缅甸总统的高级顾问格格莱(Ko Ko Hlaing)说,现在我们不仅考虑经济增长的问题,还考虑自然保护以及社会和环境问题。

June 2013
The Myanmar Times

Activists have raised concerns about continued growth in large-scale land concessions to agribusinesses, warning that small-scale landholders are being left without a source of income.

June 2013