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Pakistani PM Pledges Aid After Touring Flood-Ravaged Region
Yousuf Raza Gilani flew Thursday to the southwestern Baluchistan region where he surveyed the flood damage
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Pakistani president in flood zone
Pakistan's President Zardari has visited a flood relief camp, his spokesman says, in his first tour of areas hit by the country's worst ever humanitarian crisis since it began two weeks ago. Burma Designates Constituencies for “Parliament” |
| By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS |
| Election Commission has designated constituencies for the national and regional parliaments, state media announces, while political parties face myriad legal restrictions. |
Mekong Dams Could Destabilize Region |
| By SIMON ROUGHNEEN |
| Uncoordinated decision-making and unilateral initiatives not only threaten the Mekong River area environment and livelihoods, but could affect security in Southeast Asia. |
Asian Shares Slide on Signs of Slowing Growth |
| By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS |
| Asian markets tumbled Thursday as investors dumped riskier assets like stocks amid growing evidence the world economic recovery is stumbling. |
'Sandwich Reporting' Keeps the Censors Guessing |
| By SAW YAN NAING |
| A new term, "Sandwich Reporting," has crept into the vocabulary of Burmese journalists looking for ways to bypass the government censors. |
Democratic Party Complains of Intimidation |
| By KO HTWE |
| Burma's opposition Democratic Party has written to the Election Commission complaining of official intimidation after the EC passed the list of its members to the police Special Branch. |
Talking about my generation
On the 10th International Day of Youth DVB reflects on a generation with the constraint of coming of age under the SPDC and trying to live with hope in the lonely wilderness of military rule
Na Kham Mwe: “we will pay with our lives”
On Karen Martyrs day, 60 years since Saw Ba U Gyi was martyred, DVB caught up with the leading dissenting voice against the Burmese military government’s Border Guard Force (BGF), DKBA commander Na Kham Mwe.
Election Commission ‘designates’ constituencies
Government mouth-piece announces that the Election Commission has designated constituencies for this year's elections, as the bumpy road to the elections moves slowly forward Special Branch harass party members on UEC tip-off
Burmese junta intelligence staff have called at the homes of Democracy Party members uninvited and ... Row at ethnic Karen party over ‘sacking’ of chairman
Fire officials suspect a blaze that broke out in municipal staff housing blocks in Insein Township, Rangoon, ...Arson suspected in blaze at municipal staff homes
Fire officials suspect a blaze that broke out in municipal staff housing blocks in Insein Township, Rangoon, ...Fresh DKBA troops reject junta Border Guard Force
A wave of officers and soldiers from battalions of the junta-allied Democratic Karen Buddhist Army ...Canada urged to support UN inquiry into crimes in Burma
12 August 2010: Canada is under pressure from domestic and international rights groups to add its voice to ongoing international calls for possible institution of a UN Commission of Inquiry into alleged international crimes committed by the ruling military regime of Burma.Read more
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