Obama Calls on N. Korea to Return to Talks
After meeting with South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, the US president ended his Asian tour with a visit to American troops at the Osan air base
Karzai Sworn in for Second Term as Afghan President
Addressing hundreds of foreign dignitaries and Afghan leaders at the ceremony, Hamid Karzai vowed to tackle government corruption, calling it a 'dangerous enemy of the state'
" width="60" border="0" height="60"> At Least 19 Reported Dead in Pakistan Blast
Officials say the attacker blew himself up when guards were trying to search him outside a court building in Peshawar
Climate Change, Political Experts Say Obama Made Progress on China Trip
China agreed to work with the United States on a technology called carbon capture and sequestration
Iraq January Election on Hold
Tariq al-Hashemi says he wants more representation for Iraqis living abroad, many of whom are Sunni Arabs
 |  | Hamid Karzai says he wants Afghan forces in charge within five years, as he is sworn in for a second term as president. |
Hamid Karzai on force levels| Growth and recovery are expected in 2010 in most world regions, but the upturn will be modest, the OECD says. | | Drinking alcohol every day cuts the risk of coronary heart disease in men sharply, a study suggests, but experts remain critical. |
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 |  These prosecutions fly in the face of Indonesia's commitments to free expression  — Elaine Pearson, the deputy Asia director of Human Rights Watch, commenting on three men imprisoned for three years in Indonesia for raising a banned separatist flag |
Rice Shortage Scares: Would The Real Culprits Please Step Forward? |
| By WILLIAM BOOT |
| Alarms about a possible new Asian rice crisis may be nothing more than scaremongering, while key producers are hoarding. |
NEWS ANALYSISAssessing the US-Asean Summit |
| By SIMON ROUGHNEEN |
| The US-Asean Summit was generally well received, and US President's public demand for Suu Kyi’s release was a dramatic repudiation of the regime's oppressive ways. |
Coco Islands to Open for Tourism |
| By WAI MOE |
| A former penal colony and a secretive naval base, the Coco islanders will host their first official tourists this weekend. |
Global Fund Returns to Burma with Large Grant |
| By LAWI WENG |
| The Global Fund, after a four-year absence, donates US $110 million to Burma to fight HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis. |
Mystery of the Handcuffed Statues |
| By KYI WAI |
| Rangoon’s rumor mill is at work again over reports that statues of a well known nat, or spirit, in two local temples are being handcuffed at night. |
‘Burma VJ’ shortlisted for 2009 Oscars
A documentary film on the brutal crackdown on Buddhist monk-led protests in September 2007 by Burma’s ruling military junta, has been shortlisted among the nominations...Private schools shifted under Ministry of Education
For the first time, the Burmese ministry of Education has allowed a school in Rangoon to operate as a private school on November 9, a Deputy Director of the Basic...NLD-LA to uphold Shwegondaing Declaration
At its recently held conference on the Thai-Burma border, the National League for Democracy (Liberated Area) (NLD-LA) adopted a resolution to uphold the Shwegondaing...| Jail term extended for 2007 activist Nov 19, 2009 (DVB)–An activist whose group played a key role in sparking the September 2007 monk-led uprising in Burma has had his 10-year prison sentence extended by eight years, sources close to his family said. - more |
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| Burmese hit by Japan job ‘scam’ Nov 19, 2009 (DVB)–A Rangoon-based Japanese employment agency is facing charges after more than 100 customers failed to receive job offers or visas to Japan a year after first paying for its services. - more |
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| Burma to ‘double output’ of gas by 2020 Nov 19, 2009 (DVB)–Burma is to double its output of natural gas in the next 10 years, the country’s sole operator of oil and gas production told a regional trade fair in Bangkok yesterday. - more |
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| Nearly 200 drug cases in past month Nov 19, 2009 (DVB)–More than 270 people were arrested in Burma in October on drugs charges while police exposed 199 drug-related cases, state-media said today. - more |
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| Private oil wells seized for Chinese company Nov 19, 2009 (DVB)–Private oil wells and farmland in western Burma have been seized by government authorities to ready for exploration by a Chinese oil company, locals said. - more |
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| Suu Kyi’s letter goes public Nov 18, 2009 (DVB)–Burma’s main opposition party has released the contents of a letter sent last week by Aung San Suu Kyi to the country’s ruling general in which she requests a meeting between the two. - more |
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| Newspaper typo leads to journalist arrest Nov 18, 2009 (DVB)–A glaring typo in one of Burma’s leading newspapers has landed a journalist in detention and temporarily delayed the printing run of the publication. - more |
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| Burma among world’s ‘most corrupt’ states Nov 18, 2009 (DVB)–Burma has been ranked third from bottom in an international report examining corruption in 180 countries around the world, with only the war-ravaged Somalia and Afghanistan ranking lower. - more |
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| 50 percent rise in Burma forced labour Nov 18, 2009 (DVB)–Complaints of forced labour in Burma have risen by nearly 50 percent in the past five months, with more than half of these stemming from the recruitment of youths into the army. - more |
ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံအေၾကာင္း စဥ္းစားလိုက္တိုင္း ကိုယ္ ကိုယ္တိုင္ အပါအ၀င္ျဖစ္တဲ့ ျပည္သူလူထုႀကီး တရပ္လံုးဟာ တျခားဒီ ထက္ပိုၿပီး အေျခအေန ဆိုး၀ါးတဲ့ ႏိုင္ငံအနည္းအက်ဥ္းက လြဲရင္ အေတာ္ ႀကီး ကံအေၾကာင္းမလွခဲ့ျဖစ္ခဲ့ရ၊ ျဖစ္ေနရ တယ္ လို႔ ေျပာရမွာပါပဲ။ လြတ္လပ္ေရးဆိုတဲ့အရသာကို အ ျမည္းသေဘာေလာက္ပဲ ခံစားခြင့္ ရခဲ့ၾက သူေတြ ျဖစ္ခဲ့ၾက ပါတယ္။ တကယ္တန္းေျပာရရင္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံရဲ႕ အင္အာ အမ်ားဆံုး လူတန္းစား ျဖစ္တဲ့ လယ္သမားနဲ႔ အလုပ္သမား လူတန္းစား ဆင္းရဲသားေက်ာမြဲ ျပည္သူလူထုအမ်ားစုဟာ ဘယ္တံုးကမွ လြတ္လပ္ေရးအရသာကို မခံစားၾကရေသးပါဘူး။ နယ္ခ်ဲ႕အဂၤလိပ္ ဖက္ဆစ္ဂ်ပန္ နယ္ခ်ဲ႕အဂၤလိပ္ အုပ္စိုးမင္းမူမႈေတြက လြတ္ေျမာက္ၿပီး ဒီမိုကေရစီ အေညႇာက္ ကေလး ထြက္ေပါက္လာကာစမွာပဲ စစ္အာဏာရွင္ေတြရဲ႕ ေက်းကၽြန္ျပန္ျဖစ္ခဲ့ၾကရတာပါ။ စကားလံုး ေရြးခ်ယ္ သံုးႏႈန္းရရင္ေတာ့ အမ်ဳိးသား စစ္လက္၀ါးႀကီးအုပ္ အရင္းရွင္စနစ္ေအာက္မွာ ကၽြန္သေဘာက္ေတြ ျဖစ္ခဲ့ႀက ရတာပါ။ ခုခ်ိန္မထိလည္း စစ္အာဏာ ရွင္စနစ္ေအာက္က ေက်းကၽြန္ေတြျဖစ္ေနဆဲပါပဲ။ ႏွစ္နဲ႔ တြက္ခ်က္ ရရင္ေတာ့ ဗိုလ္ေန၀င္းရဲ႕ အိမ္ေစာင့္အစိုးရသက္တမ္းကိုပါ ထည့္ၿပီး ေရတြက္မယ္ဆိုရင္ ရာစုႏွစ္၀က္ အႏွစ္ ၅၀ ျပည့္လုလု ျဖစ္ေနပါၿပီ။
“ဗဟိုဘဏ္က အရာရိွေတြဆီကေန တဆင့္သိရတာက လာမယ့္ ၂၀၁၀ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲက်ရင္ ...”
နအဖ ဟာ ျပည္သူေတြရဲ႕ဘဝကို အစီအစဥ္တက် ဖ်က္ဆီးေနတာပါ။ ျပည္သူေတြ ဆင္း ရဲမြဲေတေလ၊ ျပည္သူေတြရဲ႕ က်န္းမာေရး အဖက္ဖက္က ပ်က္စီးေနေလ၊ သူတု႔ိရဲ႕ အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ ေရးမ႑ိဳင္္ခိုင္ၿမဲေစဖို႔ က်က်နန လုပ္ေဆာင္ေနတာက ေသခ်ာပါတယ္ ... 
