Obama Reaches Out to Russians in Moscow Speech
Addressing students from Moscow’s New Economic School, Mr. Obama said the issue of nuclear proliferation is the ‘core of the nuclear challenge in the 21st century’
Iran Opposition Calls for Release of Detainees
Call was issued by defeated presidential candidates Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mahdi Karroubi as well as former president Mohammad Khatami following meeting late Monday
China Now Allowing Some Companies to Settle Trade in Yuan 
New program allows some importers, exporters to trade in Chinese currency, beginning this week
South Korea’s President Donates Personal Assets to Charity
President Lee Myung Bak is standing by his 2007 campaign promise to give his wealth to charity after taking office
Chinese Crack Down on Xinjiang Protesters
Hundreds of Uighur protesters clashed with anti-riot police two days after ethnic unrest there left more than 150 people dead and nearly 1,000 others injured
— UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
Ban Warns Junta of Costly Isolation |
| By LALIT K JHA |
| The failure of Ban Ki-moon’s visit to Burma highlights the need to rethink policy. |
NEWS ANALYSIS –> Despite Humiliation, Ban Irked the Generals |
| By WAI MOE |
| Local reporters who covered the fruitless two-day visit to Burma by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon say that although he was humiliated by junta leader Snr-Gen Than Shwe, his candid message to the generals would have irked them. |
Suspected North Korean Ship Returns Home |
| By ARKAR MOE |
| Japan aims to tighten sanctions as suspected North Korean vessel is thought to have docked in North Korea on Monday. |
Burmese Refugee Numbers Swell in Thailand |
| By CAROLINE STAUFFER |
| As the 50,000th Burmese refugee to be resettled abroad recently left Thailand for the United States, thousands of others fled their military-ruled homeland to seek shelter under tarps and in temples along the Thai-Burmese border. |
UN Security Council Condemns NKorea Missiles |
| By RON DePASQUALE |
| The UN Security Council on Monday condemned North Korea’s recent firing of seven ballistic missiles on US Independence Day, the reclusive country’s biggest display of firepower in three years. |
Resolution in Congress to Renew Import Restrictions on Junta |
| By LALIT K JHA |
| Senior US officials are calling for the renewal of the Burmese Freedom and Democreacy Act of 2003. |
Renew import ban on Burma, AAFA tells US
The US Congress has been urged by the American Apparel & Footwear Association (AAFA) on Monday to renew the Burmese Freedom and Democracy Act of 2003, which imposes a ban……
Editorial, Opinion and Analysis
Time to rethink multilateralism?
(Commentary) Much has been made in recent weeks of Burma’s burgeoning relationship with North Korea – illicit arms trafficking, assistance in obtaining “the b…
Foreign investments soar in Burma despite economic sanctions
Economic sanctions imposed by the West – United States and the European Union – notwithstanding, foreign investments in Burma, since 1988, accounts for a total of,…
ေနာက္အေၾကာင္းတခ်က္က ဒီအမႈနဲ႔ပတ္သက္လို႔ ျပည္တြင္းျပည္ပရဲ႕ တု႔ံျပန္မႈပါ။ တုံ႔ျပန္ၾကတာဟာ နအဖေမွ်ာ္လင့္မထားတဲ့ အတိုင္းအတာ ျဖစ္ပါ တယ္။ ဒါကို ေခတ္စကားနဲ႔ ရွင္းေအာင္ ေျပာရရင္ နအဖဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ေတြ အရမ္းဖ်ားသြား ပါတယ္။ လံုးဝ မေက်နပ္ႏိုင္တဲ့ လူေတြဟာ အင္းစိန္ေထာင္ ဘူးဝ မွာ သာမကပဲ ၿမိဳ႕ေပါင္းမ်ားစြာမွာ လမ္းေပါင္း မ်ားစြာမွာ သူတို႔ရဲ႕ဆႏၵေတြကို နည္းလမ္းေပါင္း မ်ားစြာနဲ႔ ေဖာ္ျပခဲ့ၾကပါတယ္။ ဆက္ခ်မယ္လို႔ တာစူေနတာေတြလည္း အေျမာက္ အျမား ေပၚ လာခဲ့ပါတယ္။ ဒီအခါမွာ နအဖစစ္ဗိုလ္ေတြအဖို႔ သူတို႔ဘက္က ေနာက္တဆင့္လွမ္းလိုက္ရင္ ဘာ ျဖစ္မယ္ဆိုတာကို တြက္ဆလို႔ မရႏိုင္ေအာင္ ျဖစ္သြားပါတယ္။ တဖန္တပ္တြင္းမွာလည္း ဒီကိစၥအေပၚ မေက်နပ္သံေတြဟာ မၾကားခ်င္ အဆံုး ၾကားလာရပါတယ္။ ၂ဝ၁ဝ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲအတြက္ ဥပေဒေတာင္ မထုတ္ျပန္ ႏိုင္ေသးဘဲ ေခါင္းေျခာက္ေနရတဲ့အခ်ိန္၊ ၿငိမ္းအဖြဲ႔ေတြကလည္း သူတို႔နဲ႔ ကီးမကိုက္ ျဖစ္ေနလို႔ စိ္တ္ညစ္ေနရတဲ့အခ်ိန္မွာ နအဖစစ္ဗိုလ္ေတြ ၿမိဳ႕ေပၚ၊ လမ္းမေပၚက ျပႆနာ ေတြ မေပၚေစခ်င္ပါဘူး။ ဒါကျပည္တြင္းမွာပါ။
