Double Suicide Bombing in Western Iraq Kills 23 People
Police say the attack began with a suicide car bombing on a road near the offices of Anbar's governor, Qassim Mohammed al-Fahdawi
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Living Poor on Soldiers' Pay |
| By KYI WAI |
| Soldiers selling their army equipment and working in illegal businesses to make ends meet: it's all part of life in the Burmese military. |
No Border Guard Force Deadline for KIO |
| By SAW YAN NAING |
| The Kachin Independence Organization and the Burmese junta will continue talks over the border guard force issue. |
Bangladesh, Burma Agree on Repatriation of Some Rohingya |
| By LAWI WENG |
| Burma has agreed to accept 9,000 of the 28,000 Rohingya refugees living in camps in Bangladesh. |
IT Exhibition Flops in Mandalay |
| By MIN LWIN |
| Despite the participation of several main players from Burma's IT sector, a recent exhibition failed to attract many browsers. |
Burma Very High Risk: The Economist |
| By WAI MOE |
| Military-ruled Burma is one of 22 countries in the world that is at very high risk of social unrest in the coming year, according to The Economist. |
Court Postpones Jailed US Citizen's Trial |
| By THE IRRAWADDY |
| A Burmese court has postponed the case against Nyi Nyi Aung, the detained Burmese-born American citizen, to Jan.1 |
Thai cabinet permits PTT to purchase gas from Zawtika
The Thai cabinet has permitted the country's largest state-owned energy provider, ...Democratic Party starts poll work Women members of the Democratic Party (DP) have begun organizational work for ...
Fresh attack on KNU likely
A bomb blast at Karen New Year celebrations in Papun town on December 16 was ...
NLD keen on holding CEC plenary meet
The National League for Democracy party is keen on holding its CEC plenary meeting with ...
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| Authorities demand data on opposition party Dec 30, 2009 (DVB)–Opposition party members in Burma are being forced to divulge personal details about their families and jobs to intelligence officers, reportedly on instruction from senior government. - more |
ပုဂၢဳိလ္ထူး ေရြးခ်ယ္ပဲြႀကီးကုိ ခ်ဳိကုပ္ဒူးႀကီးကုိယ္တုိင္ အခမ္းအနား အႀကီးအက်ယ္ ျပဳလုပ္ၿပီး စီစဥ္ျခင္း ျဖစ္သည္။
“ျပပဲြမွာ ျပခန္းက နည္းနည္းေလးပဲ။ ၾကည့္စရာလည္း ဘာမွမရွိဘူး။ ဒီရတနာပံု ....” 
