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Pakistani volunteers carry an injured person after an explosion in Karachi, Pakistan, 08 Jan 2010
Pakistan Blames Militants for Karachi Blast
Officials say militants accidentally detonated explosives, flattening their safehouse, killing at least 7 people
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Letter from Kathmandu |
| By AUNG ZAW |
| Sometimes, a look inside another struggling country can help answer questions about your own. |
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| By LAWI WENG |
| Burma would “disintegrate” if the demands by ethnic groups for a federal system of government were granted, says the No 2 ranking general. |
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| By WAI MOE |
| One of Japan's leading dailies, citing a Burmese military source, says this year's election is slated take place on October 10. |
Another Medical Malpractice Death in Rangoon |
| By ARKAR MOE |
| A 59-year-old woman, Kyi Lay, dies while undergoing a hip operation at Aung Yadana Medical Center in Rangoon. |
100 Factory Workers Strike in Rangoon |
| By THE IRRAWADDY |
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Malaysian Churches Attacked in 'Allah' Dispute |
| By EILEEN NG |
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| By THE IRRAWADDY |
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| Trade unions attack Burma wage rise Jan 8, 2010 (DVB)–A salary increase for civil service workers in Burma is necessary but will severely strain the country’s budget and “damage the public”, a Burmese trade union coalition has said. - more |
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| UN defends hiatus on Burma envoy Jan 8, 2010 (DVB)–The United Nations has said that it continues to be closely engaged with Burma after accusations that it has been lax in appointing a successor to former envoy Ibrahim Gambari. - more |
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| Death sentence for Burmese whistleblowers Jan 8, 2010 (DVB)–Two Burmese government officials accused of leaking sensitive information about secretive diplomatic trips to Russia and North Korea are to be executed, a Rangoon court has announced. - more |
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| Women selling hair ‘to restore livelihoods’ Jan 7, 2010 (DVB)–Trade in women’s hair in Burma has boomed in the last five years as people look for a new way to make ends meet, particularly in the wake of the devastation wrought by cyclone Nargis. - more |
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| Shan party eye 2010 elections Jan 7, 2009 (DVB)–A Shan political party that came second in the 1990 elections in Burma has requested a meeting with its imprisoned party leaders prior to elections this year, apparently with an eye to participating. - more |
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| ILO to be ‘more proactive, not reactive’ in Burma Jan 7, 2010 (DVB)–The International Labour Organisation is looking to change its approach to dealing with issues of child soldiers and forced labour in Burma, with a top-level ILO official to visit the country next week. - more |
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| 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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“လိုအပ္သည္မ်ားကို မွာၾကား၊ အစည္းအေ၀းကို ႐ုပ္သိမ္းသည္ ဆိုတာေလာက္နဲ႔ ....” 
“စီအီးစီ (၇) ဦး၊ ဒါမွမဟုတ္ (၉) ဦး ထပ္တိုးဖြဲ႔စည္းမွာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ လာမယ့္ တနလၤာ...”
“မႏွစ္ကေကာ၊ ၿပီးခဲ့တဲ့ႏွစ္ေတြက ေကာ ယူနီေဖာင္းနဲ႔ ဒီကို လာလို႔ ရတယ္။ လက္နက္..”
သွ်မ္းျပည္အေ႐ွ႕ပိုင္းထြက္ ေက်ာက္မီးေသြးစြမ္းအင္သံုး လွ်ပ္စစ္မီးထုတ္လုပ္ေရးစက္႐ုံတည္ေဆာက္ရန္ ျမန္မာ့ စီးပြားေရးဦး ပိုင္က ထိုင္းအမ်ဳိးသားမ်ားႏွင့္အတူ ဒီဇင္ဘာလေႏွာင္းပိုင္း၌ ကြင္းဆင္းၾကည့္႐ႈခဲ့သည္ဟုထိုင္းနယ္စပ္ သတင္းရပ္ကြက္ က ဆိုသည္။
