 |  | The US military says it has begun a large operation against the Taliban in the southern Afghan province of Helmand. |
| An Indian court rules that homosexual intercourse between consenting adults is not a criminal act, overturning colonial law. | | The world's largest cat is down to an effective wild population of fewer than 35 individuals, new research has found. |
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US Launches Massive Offensive in Afghanistan
About 4,000 US Marines descend on Taliban strongholds in south, in first major operation under President Barack Obama's new strategy to stabilize country
5 Killed in Rawalpindi, Pakistan Suicide Blast
Elsewhere, roadside bomb just outside Peshawar killed two police officers, at least four wounded
At Least 3 Killed in Baghdad Bombings
Authorities say roadside bomb struck Iraqi army patrol killing soldier, eight others wounded
FBI Releases Details of 2004 Talks with Saddam Hussein
Former Iraqi dictator said he allowed the world to believe he had weapons of mass destruction because he did not want to appear weak to Iran
North Korea Fires Short Range Missiles as Talks With South Sputter 
Pyongyang apparently launched several short range missiles into ocean even as South Korean delegates were making their journey back from North's territory
Ban Ki-moon Will Meet NLD Representatives |
| By WAI MOE |
| UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will meet representatives of Burma’s opposition National League for Democracy during his two-day visit to Burma, beginning on Friday. |
ETimor Prime Minister Embroiled in Contract Scandal |
| By MATT CROOK |
| Pressure to resign is mounting on East Timor's Prime Minster, Xanana Gusamo, amid claims that he misused authority when he signed-off on a multi-million dollar government contract last year to a company his daughter has ties with. |
Looking in a Broken Mirror |
| By SAW YAN NAING |
| The recent DKBA campaign to take KNLA Brigade 7 has forced Karens to look at one other face to face in the battlefield, in refugee camps and in hospitals. |
Burmese Injured in Malaysian Camp Riots |
| By LAWI WENG |
| Burmese inmates at a Malaysian immigration camp were beaten and injured after rioting in protest at camp authorities’ treatment of fellow detainees. |
Journalist Quarantined after Interviewing Swine Flu Patient |
| By AUNG THET WINE |
| Burmese Health Ministry officials have quarantined a journalist who interviewed a 13-year-old girl diagnosed with the H1N1 “swine flu” virus at Rangoon General Hospital. |
US Ban Related to N Korea-Burma Arms Deal |
| By ARKAR MOE |
| The US has imposed sanctions on a North Korean company, Namchongang Trading Corp, which allegedly supplied Burma with arms technology. |
Editorial, Opinion and Analysis
Will Ban Ki-moon’s trip to Burma be fruitful?
Ban Ki-moon, United Nations Secretary General will visit Burma on Friday. And during his two-day stay, Ban has sought a meeting with Nobel Peace Laureate Aung S...
မ်က္ေမွာက္ဗမာျပည္ႏိုင္ငံေရးရဲ႕ အဓိကဆံုခ်က္ဟာ နအဖစစ္အစိုးရက အတင္းခ်ီတက္ ေနတဲ့ လမ္းျပေျမပံု (၇) ခ်က္ကို ဆန္႔က်င္သူမ်ားနဲ႔ ေထာက္ခံ သူမ်ား အၾကားက ပဋိပကၡဆိုရင္ မမွားပါဘူး။ ဒီဟာကို ထပ္ၿပီး အေသးစိတ္ ေထာက္ျပရရင္ ၂ဝဝ၈ ခုႏွစ္ ဖြဲ႔စည္းပံုအေျခခံဥပေဒနဲ႔ ၂ဝ၁ဝ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲကို အေကာင္းျမင္သူနဲ႔ ဆန္႔က်င္သူေတြရဲ႕ ပဋိပကၡလို႔ ေျပာႏိုင္ပါတယ္။ ေဒၚေအာင္ ဆန္းစုၾကည္ကို ေထာင္ခ်ဖို႔ ႀကိဳးပမ္းတာ၊ ဦးတင္ဦးနဲ႔ ဦးဝင္းတင္ကို သက္ေသ ထြက္ခြင့္မေပးတာတို႔ကအစ လူေတြ တဖမ္းတည္းဖမ္းေနတာ၊ ရယက႐ံုးထဲမွာ ေသေအာင္႐ိုက္တာ စတာေတြဟာ ဒီပဋိပကၡရဲ႕ ေဖာ္ျပခ်က္ေတြျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ တပါတည္းမွာ ေျပာသင့္တာက ဒီတေလာ ေပၚေပါက္လာေနတဲ့ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲနဲ႔ပတ္သက္တဲ့ အယူအဆအမ်ိဳးမ်ိဳးပဲျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ဒါေတြဟာလည္း အဲဒီပဋိပကၡ ပတ္လည္က မုန္တိုင္းမဟုတ္ေတာင္ ေလေပြေလးေတြလို႔ ဆိုႏိုင္ပါတယ္။ 
ဟုတ္ပါတယ္။ ပညာလို-အိုသည္မရွိဆိုသလို လူတိုင္းတသက္လံုးပညာကို ဆည္းပူး ေနရမွာပါ။ ဒါေပမယ့္ ဒီေန႔ဗမာျပည္မွာ ႀကံဳေတြ႔ေနရတဲ့ အေနအထား မွာ ေမးစရာျဖစ္လာတာက ျပည္သူလူထုဟာ ပညာေရခ်ိန္နိမ့္က်ၾကလို႔ ဒီအာဏာရွင္ ေတြကို မင္းေျမႇာက္ထားတာလား။ ၁၉၉ဝ ျပည့္ႏွစ္တုန္းက ျပည္သူလူထုဟာ အသိေရခ်ိန္ နိမ့္က်လို႔ အမ်ိဳးသားဒီမိုကေရစီအဖြဲ႔ခ်ဳပ္ကို မဲေတြ ပံုေအာထည့္ခဲ့ၾကတာလား။ ဒီေန႔အေျခအေနမွာ အမွားအမွန္မခြဲႏိုင္တာ၊ လူဆိုးလူေကာင္းမခြဲႏိုင္တာဟာ ျပည္သူလူထုလား အဲဒီ “ပညာရွင္” လို လူေတြလား ဆိုတာပါပဲ။ ဗမာျပည္လို အင္မတန္ ရက္ရက္စက္စက္ အဖိႏွိပ္ခံ ေနရတဲ့ႏိုင္ငံမွာ ျပည္သူလူထုရဲ႕ အသိဆိုတာ အသည္းႏွလံုး ကတဆင့္ လာတယ္ဆိုတာ မေမ့သင့္ပါဘူး။ ဒါဟာ ပညာရွင္ေတြေပးမယ့္ အသိထက္ အမ်ားႀကီးေလးနက္ပါတယ္။ ေနာက္ေမးစရာတခုကလည္း အင္မတန္ ဒီမိုကေရစီ ထြန္းကားပါတယ္ဆိုဆို၊ လူေနမႈအဆင့္အတန္းျမင့္ပါတယ္ပဲ ေျပာေျပာ အေမရိကန္၊ အဂၤလန္ စတဲ့ ႏိုင္ငံေတြမွာေရာ မဲေပးသူတိုင္းဟာ ေပၚလစီေတြ၊ လုပ္ငန္းစဥ္ေတြကို ဖတ္ၿပီး၊ ေလ့လာၿပီးမွ ေပးတယ္လို႔ ဆိုခ်င္တာလား။ အဲဒီႏိုင္ငံက သာမန္လူေတြမွာ ႏိုင္ငံေရးဗဟုသုတ၊ ႏိုင္ငံေရး ပထဝီအသိ စတာေတြကို စိတ္မဝင္စား၊ မေလ့လာလို႔ ဘာမွမသိသူေတြ အမ်ားႀကီးဆိုတာ မၾကားဖူးေလေရာ့သလား။ အိုဘားမားရရွိခဲ့တဲ့ လူမည္းေတြရဲ႕ မဲေတြထဲမွာ လူမည္းမို႔ေပးတဲ့ မဲဟာ ရာခိုင္ႏႈန္းမနည္းဘူးဆိုတာ မေမ့သင့္ပါဘူး။ 
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