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Dhaka Tribune
February 8, 2018
In this spirit, Bill Richardson, one of America's most experienced diplomats — and a man with a remarkable humanitarian history in the Balkans and Iraq — had agreed to join an international panel set up by Aung San Suu Kyi to advise on the Rohingya refugee crisis. But, recently he quit this position,ÃÂ ...
Salt Lake Tribune
January 28, 2018
Malaysian actress Michelle Yeoh, right, distributes blanket to a Rohingya refugee at Balukhali refugee camp near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, Saturday, Jan. 27, 2018. A special delegation led by Michelle Yeoh and Malaysian Armed Forces Chief Gen. Raja Mohamad Affandi Saturday visited RohingyaÃÂ ...
Mizzima News
January 27, 2018
Deputy Information Minister Aung Hla Tun said that Mr. Bill Richardson went beyond his mandate concerning the ongoing case of two Reuters reporters and this amounted to contempt of court. Deputy Minister Aung Hla Tun said that Mr. Bill Richardson, who resigned from the Committee for ImplementingÃÂ ...
The Japan Times
January 26, 2018
LONDON/WASHINGTON – Aung San Suu Kyi remains Myanmar's best hope for change, veteran U.S. mediator Bill Richardson said on Friday, days after he got into an argument with the Nobel laureate and quit an international panel advising her government on the Rohingya crisis. Richardson said SuuÃÂ ...
TRT World
January 26, 2018
Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi is "isolated" and living in a "bubble", according to veteran US politician Bill Richardson, who quit an international panel advising her government on the Rohingya crisis after clashing with the Nobel laureate. Richardson said Suu Kyi - whom he described as a long-timeÃÂ ...
teleSUR English
January 26, 2018
Bill Richardson, the former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and governor of the state of New Mexico, has resigned from his post within an international panel established by the government of Myanmar to help organize the return of Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh. Responding to his departure,ÃÂ ...
NPR
January 26, 2018
Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Bill Richardson is no stranger to tough negotiations in global hot spots, but his frustration with Myanmar and its leaders, especially Aung San Suu Kyi, led him to resign Wednesday from an international advisory board tasked with bringing peace and stability toÃÂ ...
Xinhua
January 26, 2018
YANGON, Jan. 26 (Xinhua) -- The Myanmar government has decided to terminate Bill Richardson, a former U.S. state governor, as a member of the Advisory Board for the Committee for Implementation of the Recommendations on Rakhine state. According to a press release of the Ministry of the StateÃÂ ...
Channel 4 News
January 26, 2018
A major diplomatic row erupted in Myanmar today after the former US Congressman, Governor, and Clinton Cabinet Member Bill Richardson had a spectacular row with the country's political leader Aung San Suu Kyi . Formerly a friend and advisor – Mr Richardson broke with her in a bitter argument,ÃÂ ...
Yahoo News
January 25, 2018
During an interview with the Associated Press, Former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson said he has resigned from an advisory panel trying to tackle the massive Rohingya refugee crisis, Wednesday, Jan. 24, 2018, in Yangon, Myanmar. Richardson said the attempt to repatriate the refugees was aÃÂ ...
ABC Online
January 25, 2018
One of the key members of the international advisory panel to Aung San Suu Kyi has resigned in spectacular fashion. The former New Mexico governor Bill Richardson called the panel a whitewash, and a cheerleading operation for the Myanmar government. His resignation raises serious questions aboutÃÂ ...
TIME
January 25, 2018
Former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson has resigned from an international advisory board on Myanmar's Rakhine state, where recent army operations have been described as ethnic cleansing of the country's Rohingya Muslim minority, calling the effort a “whitewash.” Richardson, also a former U.S.ÃÂ ...
Voice of America
January 24, 2018
In a statement Wednesday, Ambassador Bill Richardson, who also served as governor of New Mexico, described himself as a friend of Aung San Suu Kyi but accused her of an absence of “moral leadership” on the refugee crisis and of disparaging “the media, the United Nations, human rights groups, andÃÂ ...
VICE News
January 24, 2018
As one of America's most experienced diplomats, former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson is known for holding face-to-face negotiations with some of the world's most fearsome regimes, from Saddam Hussein and Slobodan Milosevic to humorless grey bureaucrats from the government of North Korea.
Los Angeles Times
January 24, 2018
A Rohingya refugee boy clings to his father in the no man's land between Myanmar and Bangladesh. (Manish Swarup / Associated Press). Former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson has resigned from an international advisory panel on the massive Rohingya refugee crisis, calling it a "whitewash and aÃÂ ...
ABC News
January 24, 2018
AP interview: Ex-New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson announces resignation from panel on Myanmar's Rohingya refugee crisis. By The Associated Press. YANGON, Myanmar — Jan 24, 2018, 1:37 PM ET. 0 Shares. Email. Star. 0 Shares. Email. AP interview: Ex-New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson announces resignation fromÃÂ ...
KOB 4
January 23, 2018
YANGON, Myanmar (AP) - Former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson met on Monday with Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi to discuss the potential return of Rohingya Muslim refugees chased out of Myanmar by the military in what the United Nations has called "textbook ethnic cleansing." Richardson hasÃÂ ...
The Japan Times
January 23, 2018
Bill Richardson said last week that he would work toward securing the release of the two journalists in his capacity as a member of an international advisory board on the crisis in Rakhine state. He was hoping to raise their case with Minister of Home Affairs, Lieutenant General Kyaw Swe, during a visit toÃÂ ...
NWAOnline
January 23, 2018
RANGOON, Burma -- Former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson met Monday with Burmese leader Aung San Suu Kyi to discuss the potential return of Rohingya Muslim refugees. The Rohingya exodus, and the mass killings and rapes that the refugees say occurred before they fled Burma's Rakhine state,ÃÂ ...
KRQE News 13
January 23, 2018
In 2007, lawmakers passed a bill that became law when Gov. Bill Richardson signed off on it. It required the New Mexico Lottery to give 30 percent of what it makes to the Lottery Scholarship program each year. Critics maintained they needed that money to advertise and increase prizes that would, in return,ÃÂ ...
KRQE News 13
January 22, 2018
Bill Richardson met on Monday with Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi to discuss the potential return of Rohingya Muslim refugees chased out of Myanmar by the military in what the United Nations has called “textbook ethnic cleansing.” Richardson has said he'll also press her government to release twoÃÂ ...
U.S. News & World Report
January 19, 2018
FILE PHOTO: Mexico's Ministry of Energy Pedro Joaquin Coldwell delivers a speech during the opening of a gas station under the franchise G500, created from a distribution partnership by Glencore and Corporacion G500, in Tlalnepantla, state of Mexico, Mexico, August 17, 2017. REUTERS/GinnetteÃÂ ...
New Mexico Political Report
January 19, 2018
Individuals and corporations alike must be afforded the right to appeal to multiple governing bodies lest we artificially inflate superiority of one body over the other. Ned Farquhar, energy/environment advisor during Governor Bill Richardson's first term, later served for five years as deputy assistant secretaryÃÂ ...
Kokomo Perspective
January 19, 2018
Gregory Allen Higgins, 67, Kokomo passed away at 4:33pm on January 17, 2018 at Community Howard Regional Hospital. Greg was born on May 16th, 1950 to Frederick E. and Nelda M. (Gunnell) Higgins in Kokomo, IN. Greg graduated from Lewis Cass high school, Class of 1969. He married Mary FosterÃÂ ...
Santa Fe New Mexican
January 19, 2018
Bill Richardson of Santa Fe. Richardson has accumulated a substantial war chest of unspent campaign money — probably something more than $400,000 — from his congressional races and is considered a possible challenger to King in the 1994 gubernatorial race. If Koch's measure becomes law,ÃÂ ...
Reuters TV
January 16, 2018
... >> Build support for his policy.>> Veteran US diplomat Bill Richardson said he'll work to secure release for two Reuters journalists held in Myanmar. On Monday, Richardson told Reuters he'll travel to Myanmar next week, aiming to meet with the Minister of Home Affairs. He's one of ten members of anÃÂ ...
HuffPost
January 16, 2018
Bill Richardson To Seek Release Of Reuters Reporters Jailed In Myanmar For Covering Rohingya Crisis ... Jan 15 (Reuters) - Former New Mexico governor Bill Richardson said on Monday he would work towards securing the release of two Reuters journalists arrested in Myanmar in his capacity as aÃÂ ...
KOB 4
January 12, 2018
With the growing threat of a nuclear strike from both sides in the back of the public's mind, former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson – also a former ambassador to the U.N. – is calling for silence from President Donald Trump in regards to the ongoing conflict. In an editorial for U.S. News, Richardson said forÃÂ ...
FOX 29 News Philadelphia
December 22, 2017
FOX 29's Lucy Noland had reported on 87-year-old Bill Richardson some months ago. Richardson was fighting with his apartment building over his desire to feed and care for stray cats around the complex. When Lucy discovered a bigger and potentially more dangerous problem facing Bill she called FOXÃÂ ...
Lewis Herald
December 31, 1999
William Ben “Bill” Richardson, Sr., age 89, of Hohenwald, passed on Tuesday, January 16, 2018, at the Lewis County Manor Nursing Center. Funeral service was held at the Harpeth Hills Funeral Home Saturday, January 20 at 11 a.m. with Bro. Clifford Dobbs officiating the service. Interment followed atÃÂ ...
Voice of America
December 31, 1999
VOA contributor Greta Van Susteren interviewed former New Mexico governor Bill Richardson about Myanmar, the Rohingya crisis and his resignation from an advisory committee to give recommendations on a report on refugees in Bangladesh. Van Susteren: Governor, nice to see you, sir. Richardson:ÃÂ ...
Santa Fe New Mexican
December 31, 1999
The governor's predecessor, Democrat Bill Richardson, might have courted controversy with projects like Spaceport America and the Rail Runner Express commuter train and, perhaps, scandal with his handling of the State Investment Council. But at least you knew what his legacy would be. The questionÃÂ ...
Albuquerque Journal
August 23, 2017
Martinez said the ethics code is especially important, given the investment scandal under the administration of her predecessor, Bill RichardsonÃÂ ...
Santa Fe New Mexican
August 23, 2017
Former state Senate Republican leader Billy McKibben, a colorful conservative from Hobbs who was nicknamed “Chainsaw” for his efforts toÃÂ ...
Las Cruces Sun-News
August 22, 2017
Susana Martinez took office in 2011 with suspicion about Spaceport America, which was championed by her predecessor Bill Richardson,ÃÂ ...
U.S. News & World Report
August 21, 2017
Brothers Forrest and Bill Richardson traveled from Owensboro, Kentucky. The two spun around, dazed, as darkness fell on the field where theyÃÂ ...
CBS News
August 9, 2017
CBS News' Anthony Mason spoke with Bill Richardson, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and an expert on North Korea, about theÃÂ ...
CNBC
August 9, 2017
The North Korean leader's concern about being overthrown complicates any dealings with the isolated nation, Bill Richardson warns. PresidentÃÂ ...
KRQE News 13
August 9, 2017
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Diplomat and former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson weighed in after North Korea issued yet another threatÃÂ ...
NPR
August 8, 2017
Rachel Martin talks to former U.N. ambassador and diplomatic negotiator Bill Richardson about the limits of diplomacy and international lawÃÂ ...
New Mexico In Depth
August 5, 2017
Bill Richardson and the Legislature in 2003, Stewart and Soules said. Reversing changes made to the corporate income tax rate by MartinezÃÂ ...
Olney Daily Mail
August 5, 2017
Karen Adams, a correctional officer at the Lawrence County Sheriff's Department, wheels Keith D. "Skinny" McKinney into court on Thursday,ÃÂ ...
E&E News
August 5, 2017
I met my husband through Bill [Richardson], they went to Tufts. He's an environmental engineer. He just retired. He worked doing groundwaterÃÂ ...
Summit Daily News
August 5, 2017
... Nevada; grandfather Bill Richardson of Denver; grandparents Mary and Cecil Matlock of Burley, Idaho; uncle Wayne Matlock of Burley, IdahoÃÂ ...
Santa Fe New Mexican
August 5, 2017
Bill Richardson, too, portrayed as “distracted and dissociative.” But other characters are lesser known figures in the state bureaucracy, likeÃÂ ...
The Hill
August 4, 2017
Former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson (D) is also getting involved in the Vassilev case through his nonprofit organization, the RichardsonÃÂ ...
Worcester News
August 4, 2017
A dedicated supporter of St Richard's Hospice has walked the Birmingham to Worcester canal path for the third time, in memory of his late wife.
Mediate.com
July 27, 2017
"The blame is theirs. The lesson for us is that America's hostage negotiation strategy is broken." The following op-ed from Bill Richardson,ÃÂ ...
YubaNet
July 14, 2017
July 14, 2017 – Return to Freedom Wild Horse Conservation and former New Mexico governor and United States ambassador Bill RichardsonÃÂ ...
Zip06.com
December 31, 1999
The news that Amazon.com is taking over the former Pratt & Whitney site has had the town talking since it was revealed. Recently, former PrattÃÂ ...
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