Afghans gather at the site of a blast in the city of Khost, 20 Nov 2009
Motorcycle Blast Kills 16 in Afghanistan
Separately, police officials said a roadside bomb killed three civilians in eastern Khost province.
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 |  One of the best steps that they (Burmese generals) could take to show that they are willing to open up their system is to release political prisoners.  — Ian Kelly, spokesman for US State Department |
UN Passes Resolutions on Burma Human Rights |
| By ARKAR MOE |
| Expressing deep concern over the human rights situations in Burma, the UN General Assembly's Third Committee adopts tough resolutions. |
Children’s Rights Celebrated in Naypyidaw |
| By WAI MOE |
| The Burmese junta celebrates the Universal Convention on Children’s Rights, in a move that surprised many observers. |
US Calls for Dialogue between Suu Kyi and Junta |
| By LALIT K JHA |
| The US calls for a dialogue between the Burmese junta and Suu Kyi that will lead to her release from house arrest. |
Myint Swe: The Tatmadaw’s Next Top Dog? |
| By MIN LWIN |
| Lt-Gen Myint Swe is being widely tipped to succeed Than Shwe as the Burmese army's next commander in chief. |
Handcuffed Statue Has the Experts Talking |
| By ARKAR MOE |
| A handcuffed statue of a revered woman who exists only in Burma’s spirit world is at the center of debate and speculation among even the country’s intellectual elite. |
Obama leaves Asia empty-handed but raises hopes
(Analysis) The United States President, Barack Obama’s has left Asia empty-handed on all the key issues facing the White House. There was little movement on the intractable...Spirit of Panglong in Kolkata Court
(Commentary) For the lawyers practicing at the city sessions court in Kolkata, the capital of West Bengal Thursday, November 12th, 2009 was just another busy day. They passed by......Three year tax holiday for Burmese soccer players, coaches and clubs
Burma’s Ministry of Finance and Revenue has exempted players, coaches and clubs of the Myanmar National League (MNL), the first ever professional soccer league of the country,...| Burma to open private schools and hospitals Nov 20, 2009 (DVB)–Private schools and hospitals abolished under the former Ne Win regime in Burma are to reopen in an attempt to generate more revenue in the country and improve the struggling sectors. - more |
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| Special UN committee condemns Burma Nov 20, 2009 (DVB)–A special committee of the United Nations General Assembly yesterday received a sharp rebuke from the Burmese government after passing a resolution condemning its human rights record. - more |
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| Jailed cameraman wins top media award Nov 20, 2009 (DVB)–Two Burmese cameramen who filmed an acclaimed documentary on the aftermath of Burma’s cyclone Nargis have received a top media award, although it is revealed that one of them is now in prison. - more |
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| Burmese migrants to remit half of salaries Nov 20, 2009 (DVB)–Burmese nationals working abroad have been instructed by the ruling junta to send up to 50 percent of their salary home in remittances, via a state-owned bank. - more |
ဒုတိယကမာၻစစ္နဲ႔ ပထမကမာၻစစ္တို႔ဆက္ေနပံုကို မွတ္မိၾကလိမ့္အုန္းမယ္လို႔ ထင္ပါတယ္။ ကမာၻစစ္ႀကီးတခုၿပီးလို႔ အႏွစ္ (၂ဝ) မရွိခင္မွာဘဲ ေနာက္ကမာၻ စစ္ႀကီးတခုအတြက္ ျပင္ဆင္ၾကတာ၊ ေျခပုန္းခုတ္ၾကတာ၊ တကယ္လည္း ေပါက္ကြဲ ထြက္လာတာ စတဲ့ကိစၥေတြဟာ မေတာ္တဆ တိုက္ဆိုင္မႈေတြ မဟုတ္ပါဘူး။ အထူးသျဖင့္ ဒုတိယကမာၻစစ္ႀကီးမွာ စတင္စစ္ခင္းသူဟာ ပထမ ကမာၻစစ္ႀကီးတုန္းက စစ္႐ံႈးခဲ့သူျဖစ္တယ္ ဆိုတဲ့အခ်က္ဟာ သတိမျပဳဘဲ မေနသင့္ ပါဘူး။ 
“ျပည္တြင္း Bandwith ဆိုရင္ေတာ့ အင္ထရာနက္ သေဘာမ်ဳိးလုပ္တာပဲ။ အင္ထရာလုိ႔ပဲ ...”
“ကခ်င္ ကာကြယ္ေရးတပ္မေတာ္ တို႔က်ေတာ့ ျပည္သူ႔စစ္အဖဲြ႔ႀကီးေတြ ဖဲြ႔ခိုင္းေနတာေပါ့....”
