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China returns the Burmese refugees - 0 views

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    Selon un communiqué de l'American Agency, ABC News, la Chine a obligé 1 000 réfugiés Birmans à retourner sur la zone de conflit militaire dans le nord de la Birmanie au cours des semaines passées, et la Chine compte encore renvoyer 4 000 refugiés de plus. Les réfugiés qui se sont enfuis en Chine sont des réfugiés de l'ethnie Kachin, qi ont commencé à se battre contre le gouvernement Birman lorsque l'armée a essayé de fermet une base militaire Kachin proche du barrage hydro-électrique en construction. Le combat a commencé en Juin dernier et mis fin à dix-sept ans de cessez-le feu entre le gouvernement en Birmanie et l'armée Indépendant de Kachin (KIA). Ce combat mobilisa 75 000 personnes. La sauvegarde des droits de l'homme basée à New York a fait appel au gouvernement Chinois pour stopper le renvoi des réfugiés Birmans en Birmanie, et demanda de leur fournir une protection temporaire à la province de Yunnan situé à la frontière Nord de la Birmanie. «La Chine méprise ses obligations légales internationales en forçant les réfugiés Kachin à retourner dans une zone de conflit sous l'abus de l'armée Birmane, » selon Bill Frelick du HRW. De l'autre côté de la Birmanie, les Bouddhistes organisent une protestation contre ce qu'ils appellent l'interférence des Nations Unies dans l'Etat Rahkine Occidental - où des douzaines de personnes sont tuées dans des affrontements entre les Bouddhistes et les Musulmans. Les manifestations viennent après la décision du Président de la Birmanie sur la formation d'une commission indépendante pour enquêter sur cette violence, en même temps que la requête faite par l'envoyé spécial des Nations unies, Thomas Ojea Quintana, qui a visité la région concernée il y a quelques mois. Aux alentours de 100 manifestants se sont rassemblés sous la direction du député du Rahkine Nationalities Development Party au parlement en dehors de la maison du parl
Marge Runkle

AASA :: Harnessing Kids' Tech Fascination - 0 views

  • Executive Perspective Harnessing Kids’ Tech Fascinationby DANIEL A. DOMENECH I am intimidated by people like Alan November whose fingers glide over their computer keys and in the process go to websites that offer the answers to all the questions that would otherwise go unanswered. I do e-mail and an occasional PowerPoint presentation. I am proud of the fact I now can do e-mail on my BlackBerry as well. That’s the extent of my prowess in technology. Daniel A. Domenech Jillian, my 17-year-old high school senior, is another story. She sleeps with her iPhone under her pillow. If it were waterproof, I am sure that she would bathe with it. She does incredible things with her MacBook, from videos to post on YouTube to the content of her Facebook pages. Getting her to do her homework is a challenge, but getting her to turn off her tech tools and go to sleep is an even bigger challenge.This is the message that November, Keith Krueger and other presenters at our AASA Seattle Summit in midsummer conveyed: Education is missing the boat by not taking advantage of the love affair between our kids and technology.Personal PanicI was a young superintendent
  • Executive Perspective Harnessing Kids’ Tech Fascination by DANIEL A. DOMENECH I am intimidated by people like Alan November whose fingers glide over their computer keys and in the process go to websites that offer the answers to all the questions that would otherwise go unanswered. I do e-mail and an occasional PowerPoint presentation. I am proud of the fact I now can do e-mail on my BlackBerry as well. That’s the extent of my prowess in technology. Daniel A. Domenech Jillian, my 17-year-old high school senior, is another story. She sleeps with her iPhone under her pillow. If it were waterproof, I am sure that she would bathe with it. She does incredible things with her MacBook, from videos to post on YouTube to the content of her Facebook pages. Getting her to do her homework is a challenge, but getting her to turn off her tech tools and go to sleep is an even bigger challenge. This is the message that November, Keith Krueger and other presenters at our AASA Seattle Summit in midsummer conveyed: Education is missing the boat by not taking advantage of the love affair between our kids and technology. Personal Panic I was a young superintendent on Long Island, N.Y., when, in 1978, I bought the first set of Commodore PET computers for our schools. You could play Space Invaders on it, but mostly you had to learn to program the darn thing to get it to do anything. High school courses focused primarily on learning programming language. Few could afford to buy a Commodore for home use and the power of the Internet had yet to be unleashed.
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