 |  | International scientists say research in Cambodia shows the first signs of resistance to the world's best anti-malaria drug. |
| President Obama says he is confident Israel will back a two-state solution, in talks with the Palestinian leader. | | Thousands of South Koreans throng Seoul for the funeral of former President Roh Moo-hyun, who killed himself last week. |
Gates: No Need to Increase Troop Numbers in S. Korea After North's Threats
US defense secretary says he is not aware of any unusual troop movements in North Korea
Massive, Tearful South Korean Crowds Attend Former President's Funeral
Several thousand mourners paid their last respects to former South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun, six days after he leaped to his death while being investigated in a corruption probe
Obama Confident of Progress on Mideast Peace
US president is challenging both Israel and Palestinians to work harder toward peace, after he met with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas
Israel Rejects US Call for Total Settlement Freeze 
Netanyahu government says Jewish settlements will continue despite US pressure
Iranian Media: 20 Killed in Blast at Sh'ite Mosque in Iran
Fars news agency says blast result of suicide attack at Shi'ite mosque in Zahedan near Pakistani border
Confusing Testimony, Conflicting Reports Emerge from Yettaw Trial |
| By YENI |
| Why John William Yettaw visited Suu Kyi is clear—God told him to. However, questions about his route, the time frame and the role of security guards have not been answered. |
Asean Parliamentarians Turn Heat on Burma |
| By MARWAAN MACAN-MARKAR |
| In a move reflecting growing anger towards Burma, parliamentarians from across Southeast Asia want the military-ruled country suspended from a 10-member regional bloc for the unjust treatment of Aung San Suu Kyi. |
Suu Kyi Lawyers Optimistic about Trial Outcome |
| By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS |
| Lawyers for Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi expressed optimism about her case after the only witness allowed to testify for the defense addressed the court in her trial on charges of violating house arrest. |
Is Yettaw a Triathlete? |
| By DAVID PAQUETTE |
| Questions loom over whether the American intruder could really have swum across Inya Lake with a backpack containing 60 items. |
Last Witness Speaks at Suu Kyi's Trial |
| By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS |
| The sole witness allowed for pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi defended her innocence Thursday, the last chance to speak before closing arguments Monday in a trial. |
Suu Kyi Protester Arrested |
| By MIN LWIN |
| A man in his early fifties has been arrested near Insein Prison for demanding the release of Aung San Suu Kyi. |
Yettaw's testimony throws a wrench into junta's plans
Yesterday’s state-run media, weary of potential implications, omitted some facts revealed during the court testimony on Wednesday of American John William Yettaw, who disclosed that,...Thai senators call for Suu Kyi’s release
Thirty senators of Thailand on Thursday submitted a petition to the Burmese military junta urging that Daw Aung San Suu Kyi be released and the creation of a favourable ambience...Chevron determined to retain investments in BurmaChevron Corps has made it abundantly clear that it will not pull out of Burma but would retain its investments for compelling business reasons, and even if they do withdraw... | News updates on 9th day of Aung San Suu Kyi's trialDespite the United Nations Security Council urging implementation of an all inclusive political dialogue including Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, and other stake-holders and initiate reconciliation,... |
PHOENIX entertainment journal suspended this weekBurma’s censor board suspended the publishing license of the ‘PHOENIX’, an entertainment journal for this week’s issue after it published some censored news. The censor board under,... | Burmese Army delegates in KolkataA Burmese Army delegation led by Brig Gen Tin Maung Ohn, Deputy Commander of the Northwest Military Command, arrived in Kolkata, West Bengal on Wednesday on a goodwill visit. |
Editorial, Opinion and Analysis
What did Yettaw discuss with Bo Kyi?
In a testimony given in the special court hearing of the case in Insein prison yesterday, the American John William Yettaw who swam across the Innya Lake and sn...
| Singapore says ASEAN expulsion will not change Burma May 29, 2009 (AFP)–Expelling Burma from ASEAN isn't the way to bring about reform in the military-ruled nation even if it tarnishes the group's credibility, the Singapore government said yesterday. - more |
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| Italy backs $5 million food aid package to Burma May 29, 2009 (DVB)–The families of fishermen affected by Burma’s cyclone Nargis last year will be the recipients of a multi-million dollar food aid programme organized by the Italian government and the United Nations. - more |
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| Watchdog slams Burma’s trial reporting May 29, 2009 (DVB)–The Burmese government’s media coverage of the trial of Aung San Suu Kyi has been one-sided, with gestures of openness toward media “inconsistent”, said a media watchdog yesterday. - more |
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 Solo protestor arrested outside InseinMay 28, 2009 (DVB)–An elderly solo protestor demonstrating today outside of the prison courtroom where Burma’s Aung San Suu Kyi is on trial was arrested by plain-clothed security officials and taken away. - more |
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| Burma rejects foreign 'interference' over Suu Kyi May 28, 2009 (AFP)–Burma angrily rejected foreign "pressure and interference" over the trial of Aung San Suu Kyi, denying that the trial was a political ploy to keep her locked up for elections in 2010. - more |
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| India criticised for silence on Burma May 28, 2009 (DVB)–The Indian government has been lambasted by celebrities and former senior ministers for failing to condemn Burma’s ruling junta, amidst international outcry over the trial of Aung San Suu Kyi. - more |
အာဏာရွင္ နအဖေခါင္းေဆာင္ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္မႉးႀကီးသန္းေရႊ၊ ျမန္မာ့ဒီမိုကေရစီေခါင္းေဆာင္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္၊ ျပည္ပေရာက္ အစိုးရ၀န္ႀကီးခ်ဳပ္ ေဒါက္တာစိန္၀င္း စသည္ တို႔သည္ ျမန္မာျပည္ ဒီမိုကေရစီစနစ္သို႔ ေျပာင္းလဲေရး အတြက္ အျပန္အလွန္ ႏိုင္ငံေရးတိုက္ပြဲ ဆင္ႏႊဲေနၾကေသာ ေရွ႕တန္းမွ ေခါင္းေဆာင္မ်ား ျဖစ္ၾက သည္။ ရန္သူစစ္အုပ္စုအား ျပည္တြင္းျပည္ပမွ ညႇပ္ပူး ညႇပ္ပိတ္ တုိက္ပြဲ၀င္ရန္အတြက္ ျပည္တြင္းမွ မတုိက္ႏိုင္ ေသာ ႏုိင္ငံေရးတုိက္ကြက္မ်ားကို ျပည္ပ အတိုက္အခံ အဖြဲ႔မ်ားမွ တိုက္ပြဲ၀င္ရန္ လိုအပ္ပါသည္။
အိုင္ယာလန္ႏိုင္ငံ၊ ဒဗၺလင္ၿမိဳ႕တြင္ MPU ကြန္ဖရင့္ကို ၂၀၀၉၊ ဇန္န၀ါရီလ (၂၀) ရက္ေန႔မွ (၂၇) ရက္ေန႔အထိ က်င္းပခဲ့ရာတြင္ NCGUB ႏွင့္ တိုင္းရင္းသားမ်ား၊ ဒီမိုကေရစီေခါင္းေဆာင္မ်ားတို႔ႏွင့္ တိုးခ်ဲ႕ဖြဲ႔စည္းရန္ ထပ္မံအတည္ျပဳခဲ့ျပန္သည္။ NCGUB အစိုးရ တိုးခ်ဲ႕ေရးအတြက္ လုပ္ငန္းေကာ္မတီအဖြဲ႔ ဖြဲ႔စည္းခဲ့ရာ တြင္ အေနာက္ဘက္ေဒသအတြက္ MPU မွ ေဒါက္တာ တင့္ေဆြ၊ ဦးထန္လ်န္းေပါင္တို႔ကို တာ၀န္ယူေစၿပီး အေရွ႕ ဘက္ျခမ္းတြင္ ဦးခြန္ျမင့္ထြန္း၊ ဦးေမာင္ေမာင္ ေအး၊ ဦးပီတာလင္းပင္တို႔ကို တာ၀န္ယူေစခဲ့သည္။ လုပ္ငန္းျမန္ဆန္ေရးအတြက္ MPU မွ တာ၀န္ခံ (၅) ဦးႏွင့္ NCUB အဖြဲ႔၀င္ (၅) ဦးတို႔ကို တာ၀န္ေပးအပ္ခဲ့သျဖင့္ လုပ္ငန္းေကာ္မတီတြင္ စုစုေပါင္း (၁၀) ဦးျဖစ္သည္။ ယေန႔တြင္ ယင္းလုပ္ငန္းေကာ္မတီသည္ NCGUB ႏွင့္ တိုင္းရင္းသား တိုးခ်ဲ႕ေရးအတြက္ အစြမ္းကုန္ ႀကိဳးပမ္းေနသည္ကို ေတြ႔ရသျဖင့္ ကြၽႏ္ုပ္တို႔ မ်ားစြာအားရမိပါသည္။
၂၀၀၉ ခုႏွစ္အတြင္းတြင္ စစ္အစိုးရအား CC ႏွင့္ တိုက္ပြဲ၀င္ရန္ ၂၀၀၉ ခုႏွစ္၊ ဧၿပီလ (၁) ရက္ေန႔မွ (၂) ရက္ေန႔အထိ ထုိင္း-ျမန္မာ နယ္စပ္တေနရာတြင္ က်င္းပေသာ SCC အစည္းအေ၀းတြင္လည္း ေခါင္းေဆာင္မ်ား တို႔က တင္ျပေဆြးေႏြးၾကပါသည္။ CC တိုက္ပြဲႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္၍ တိုက္ပြဲ၀င္ႏိုင္ေရးအတြက္ NCUB မွ ကမကထျပဳၿပီး Campaign ျပဳလုပ္ေပးပါရန္ အားလံုးသေဘာတူၾကသည္။ ထို႔ေၾကာင့္ NCUB ဦးေဆာင္ၿပီး အဖြဲ႔ေပါင္းစံုပါ၀င္ေသာ CC Campaign ကို (၂၇၊ ၄၊ ၂၀၀၉) ရက္ေန႔တြင္ ျပဳလုပ္ ႏိုင္ခဲ့သည္။ သို႔ျဖစ္၍ NCGUB အေနျဖင့္ CC သည္ အမ်ားဆႏၵျဖစ္၍ မွားသည္ျဖစ္ေစ၊ မွန္သည္ ျဖစ္ေစ တာ၀န္မရွိပါ။ CC ကို မေဆာင္ရြက္ျခင္းသာလွ်င္ NCGUB တြင္ တာ၀န္ရွိသည္။
“ဒီနယ္စပ္မွာ ဝယ္ေနတဲ့ တ႐ုတ္ေတြက အထဲဝင္ၿပီး ေက်ာက္ဝယ္ေနတာၾကာၿပီ။ ဒီနယ္စပ္ ...” 
ျမန္မာ့ဒီမိုကေရစီ ေခါင္းေဆာင္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ကို စစ္အစိုးရက တရားရံုးတင္၍ ေထာင္ဒဏ္ အျပစ္ေပးရန္ ႀကိဳးစားေနျခင္းႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္ၿပီး အေမရိကန္ႏိုင္ငံ ၀ါရွင္တန္အေျခစိုက္
