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Undated handout photo provided by U.S. Air Force shows MQ-9 Reaper, armed with GBU-12 Paveway II laser guided munitions and AGM-114 Hellfire missiles
Suicide Bomber Strikes in Kashmir as Drones Attack in Northwest Pakistan 
Pakistani intelligence officials say at least 12 people killed in two suspected US drone strikes near border with Afghanistan
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 |  Much of the opposition's leadership remains in prison, there is no space for political dissent or debate, and no freedom of the press.  — Ian Kelly, the US State Department spokesman |
Gold Price Rise Blamed on Regime Members' Inflation Fears |
| By THE IRRAWADDY |
| An apparent rush by members of the Burmese junta and their families to buy gold is being named as the cause of a sudden rise in the price of the precious metal in Burma. |
Freelance Video Reporter Sentenced to 26 Years |
| By LAWI WENG |
| International media groups have condemned a Burmese court in Pakokku Township that sentenced a freelance video reporter to 20 years in prison. |
Australian Senator Criticizes Exports to Burma |
| By ARKAR MOE |
| A senator from the Australian Greens party calls for a halt to exports of high-frequency radio sets to Burma's military junta. |
NEWS ANALYSISWith Hmong Expulsion, Thai Army Asserts Foreign Policy Role |
| By MARWAAN MACAN-MARKAR |
| The recent deportation of Hmong to Laos has shown that Thai military remains the dominant player in shaping the relationship between Thailand and its immediate neighbors. |
AirAsia, Jetstar Form Low Cost Airline Alliance |
| By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS |
| Malaysia's AirAsia and Australia-based Jetstar announced an alliance to help the budget carriers reduce costs including cooperation on passenger handling at airports in Asia and possible joint purchases of aircraft. |
Letter from Kathmandu |
| By AUNG ZAW |
| Sometimes, a look inside another struggling country can help answer questions about your own. |
Than Shwe's surefire hopes for 2010
Burmese government staff unhappy despite pay hike Essential and other commodity prices in Burma are rising after the military junta ...
Army men edit ethnic Kachin newspaper This year the Burmese Army is editing the ‘JingHpaw Mungdaw Nsen’ newspaper ...
Junta buys radio sets from Australian company Perth-based Barrett Communications Company said today that they had sold ...
Census of retired education sector employees in Arakan
The Burmese junta has begun taking a census and collecting personal details of retired government servants in the education sector ...FEC price higher than USD
The price of Foreign Exchange Certificates (FEC) is significantly higher than the US dollar today. It is higher by Kyat 15 in the Rangoon foreign exch...
Fresh misery looms large in New Year in Burma
(Editorial) The New Year should be a time for hope and change, but for the people of Burma it promises to bring more of the same misery, albeit with ....
| Farmers sell livestock to repay loans Jan 6, 2010 (DVB)–Farmers in central Burma forced to repay loans months in advance of their deadline have reportedly been selling off livestock, following threats of arrest. - more |
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| US senator Webb gives election backing Jan 6, 2010 (DVB)–US senator Jim Webb, the only senior-level US official to have met Burmese junta chief Than Shwe, has said that he supports the junta’s controversial planned elections, to be held this year. - more |
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| Burma will struggle for attention in 2010 Francis Wade |
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| Burmese reporter receives 20-year sentence Jan 6, 2010 (DVB)–A Burmese reporter who contributed video material to the Democratic Voice of Burma has been handed a 20-year prison sentence, bringing to 13 the number of imprisoned journalists in Burma. - more |
ခ်ိဳကုပ္။ ။ ဘယ္လိုလဲ ဦးရုကၡစိုးရဲ႕ စဥ္းစားလွခ်ည္လား။
“ဒီလိုင္းက ဒီေန႔မွစၾကားတာ။ သီခ်င္းေကာင္းေတြခ်ည္းပဲ လႊင့္တယ္....”
သွ်မ္းတိုင္းရင္းသားမ်ား ဒီမိုကေရစီအဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္ ဥကၠဌ ဦးခြန္ထြန္းဦး ၊ အေထြေထြအတြင္းေရးမႉး စိုင္းၫြန္႕လြင္တို႕ႏွင့္ ေတြ႕ဆံု ခြင့္ရရန္ အမႈေဆာင္အဖြဲ႕၀င္မ်ားက ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္မႉးႀကီးသန္းေ႐ႊထံစာပို႕ တင္ျပေတာင္းခံထားေၾကာင္း SNLD အသိုင္းအ၀ိုင္း ကဆိုသည္။
