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By YAN PAI

A popular two-digit Burmese lottery based on the Stock Exchange of Thailand Index is the latest casualty of latest week's unrest in Bangkok.

INTERVIEW “Donors Have their Limits”

By THE IRRAWADDY

Irrawaddy correspondent Aye Chan Myate recently spoke with Kyaw Thu about the challenges now facing aid workers trying to bring relief to areas hit by severe water shortages.

Writer Combines Love, Criticism of Dictatorship

By CARL HARTMAN

A generous dollop of poetic chick lit combines surprisingly well with criticism of Burma's half-century of bloody dictatorship in Canadian Karen Connelly's "Burmese Lessons."

Weekly Business Roundup (May 22, 2010)

By WILLIAM BOOT

Indian engineering firm Essar has won a contract to renovate the Burmese port of Sittwe on the Arakan west coast.

Counsel summoned over Suu Kyi home repairs
Burma’s High Court has summoned lawyers for pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi ...Engineer held over bomb attack denied legal aid
The electrical engineer in Insein prison linked by police to last month’s Buddhist ...
Junta’s laws make free polls impossible: EU parliament
The European Parliament on Thursday passed a resolution condemning the Burmese regime’s ...
Reporter sues Htet Htet Moe Oo over slap
A reporter from the 7 Day News journal has lodged an assault complaint against ...
Thai soldier shot dead by Burmese corporal
Private based close to Thailand's northeastern Mae Sariang had reportedly refused to transport injured Burmese troops to hospital



How to run a country like a business
Cronies of the ruling junta in Burma have been richly rewarded by recent privatisation measures which look set to further blur the line between business and politics Veteran NLD politician dies

Soe Myint, a member of the opposition party's central executive committee, has died from heart disease aged 87 at his house in Rangoon