2009 Year End Message

New FNF publication on project work in Southern Thailand PDF Print E-mail




Thailands troubled Deep South


In October last year, Friedrich Naumann Foundation and its partners Think Centre Asia (TCA) and the Prince of Songkhla University (PSU) finalised an 18-month project dedicated to supporting reconciliation in Thailand’s Deep South. So far, the conflict has cost the lives of more than 3700 persons and leaves the local population living in an atmosphere of mistrust, fear and mutual suspicion.


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FNF reports enjoy rising popularity PDF Print E-mail



The reports produced by the International Department of the Friedrich Naumann Foundation for Liberty (FNF) are enjoyed by an increasing number of avid readers. On 28 January 2009, FNF counted 28.490 website downloads for its Current Affairs Reports (in German: “Bericht aus aktuellem Anlass” or “BaaA”) only. By 1 January 2010, this number had risen to 964.781 downloads (see below).


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Shimon Peres receives Walther-Rathenau-Prize PDF Print E-mail


Shimon Peres and Guido Westerwelle


The Israeli President and Nobel laureate Shimon Peres received the Walther-Rathenau-Prize on Wednesday evening (28 January) in Berlin. Mr. Guido Westerwelle, German Foreign Minister and leader of the FDP, acknowledged Mr. Peres as one of the most influential foreign policymakers of the 20. century and as a friend of Germany. After that Mr. Peres declared that Berlin does not only remind him of the Shoa but also makes him feel at home.


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Democracy News

The World Movement’s Sixth Assembly will take place on April 11-14, 2010, in Jakarta, Indonesia.  The Assembly, under the theme of “Solidarity across Cultures: Working Together for Democracy,” will bring together more than 500 democracy activists, practitioners, and scholars from all global regions, and will build upon the democracy-promotion strategies developed at previous assemblies held in New Delhi, India; São Paulo, Brazil; Durban, South Africa; Istanbul, Turkey; and Kyiv, Ukraine.  For information about the World Movement for Democracy, including full-text reports on previous assemblies, please visit the Web site at: www.wmd.org.

WSJ Asia Fellowship at NYU

The Wall Street Journal Asia Fellowship at NYU, a program funded by The Wall Street Journal, in association with New York University, for one or two promising journalists from Asia to enroll in the three-semester masters program in business and economic reporting at the NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute.

The Fellowship covers tuition expenses and fees for two of the three semesters of the program, as well as providing a stipend of US$22,000. The Fellowship also covers travel to New York as well as some incidental costs, such as textbooks.

It’s a great opportunity for journalists working in Asia to develop their business and economic reporting skills at one of the world’s best universities.

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