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An Emarati man talks on his mobile phone at the Dubai Financial Market in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Monday, 30 Nov 2009
Dubai Markets Falter Under Debt Crisis 
Both Dubai's and neighboring Abu Dhabi's stock exchanges slid quickly after markets opened
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Kowtowing Holds Up Political Progress in Burma |
| By KO KO THETT |
| Democracy has no place for the ancient practice of showing obsequious respect for rulers who regard themselves as beyond reproach. |
Media and Medical Ethics Controversy Hits Rangoon |
| By ARKAR MOE |
| The death of a teenage girl at a Rangoon clinic has sparked criticism of medical practices in Burma and of the media when covering such issues |
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| By MIN LWIN |
| Burmese leader Snr-Gen Than Shwe surprised observers by not shuffling anyone at the quarterly military meeting and playing golf instead. |
Veteran Politicians Urge Reconciliation |
| By ARKAR MOE |
| Political veterans and analysts send a letter to junta leader Snr-Gen Than Shwe stressing the need for national reconciliation. |
Thai Navy Vessel Fires on Burmese Soldiers |
| By SAW YAN NAING |
| Five Burmese soldiers are injured in an exchange of naval gunfire in waters off Kawthoung Township in far southern Burma. |
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Parliamentarians from South and Southeast Asia on Friday jointly urged Burma’s military junta to implement genuine democratic reforms, starting with re-drafting of...| NLD proclaims 'positive' Than Shwe speech Nov 30, 2009 (DVB)–Burma’s ruling general last week made a “positive contribution” towards future peace in the country during a speech that touched on elections next year, an opposition party spokesperson said. - more |
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| Singapore firm sign Burma gas deal Nov 30, 2009 (AFP)–A Singaporean marine engineering company has signed a multimillion dollar contract with a Burmese firm, and will lay gas pipelines off the shores of the military-ruled nation next year. - more |
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| EU pushes for Burmese refugee work rights Nov 30, 2009 (DVB)–The European Union is seeking to allow Burmese refugees currently confined to camps along the Thailand-Burma border to work legally in Thailand. - more |
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| EU envoy sees progress in Burma Nov 30, 2009 (AFP)-Opportunities are emerging for a breakthrough in the political stalemate in military-ruled Burma, including the possibility of talks with the junta, and they must not be missed, an EU envoy said Friday. - more |
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| Police dismiss rape of three girls Nov 30, 2009 (DVB)–Police in Burma’s former capital have refused to investigate the rape of three sisters, one aged five, by a known paedophile due to their mother’s inability to pay costs demanded by the police. - more |
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| Burmese VJs risking lives for freedom Khin Maung Win |
ကြယ္လြန္သည္မွာ ၁ လေက်ာ္ခဲ့ၿပီ ျဖစ္ေသာ္လည္း မခိုင္ရႊန္းလဲ့ရည္ႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္သည့္ သတင္း ေနာက္ဆက္တြဲမ်ားကား ေဝဖန္ေဆြးေႏြး စရာမ်ား အျဖစ္ က်န္ရစ္ခဲ့ေပသည္။လြန္ခဲ့သည့္ တလေက်ာ္ ေအာက္တိုဘာ 
“S S C အထူးကုေဆးခန္းတြင္ အူအတက္ေရာင္သည္ကို ခြဲစိတ္ၿပီးေနာက္ ....”
႐ႈပ္ေထြးသည့္ ထိုင္းႏိုင္ငံေရးအၾကား အစိုးရဆန္႕က်င္ဆႏၵျပမႈတိုင္းတြင္ သွ်မ္းေ႐ႊ႕ေျပာင္းအလုပ္သမားမ်ားပါ၀င္ ပတ္သက္ျခင္းမ႐ွိဟု သွ်မ္းအလုပ္သမားေခါင္းေဆာင္မ်ားေျပာၾကားသည္။
