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Haitian woman is covered in rubble in Port-au-Prince, 12 Jan 2010
Major Earthquake Strikes Near Haitian Capital 
7.0 magnitude quake is largest to hit area in two centuries; President Obama says US ready to help
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Aftermath of Haiti quake| Google 'may close in China' Internet giant Google says it may end operations in China after hackers targeted Chinese human rights activists' e-mail accounts. |  | 'Safe cocaine' a myth, experts say The myth that cocaine is a safe party drug should be dispelled, say UK experts, as a study links the drug to 3% of sudden deaths. |
Rice Price Increases Halt after Ministry Appeal |
| By THE IRRAWADDY |
| Increases in the price of rice in Burma's markets have halted after Ministry of Commerce warned traders to keep prices stable in order to slow inflation. |
NLD Reorganizes For New Challenges |
| By WAI MOE |
| The reorganization of the NLD will help prepare it to meet new challenges in 2010, including the coming national election. |
Burma Ranked ‘Worst of the Worst’ |
| By ARKAR MOE |
| Freedom House, the Washington-based human rights group, says Burma is the "worst of the worst" in providing political rights and civil liberties to its citizens. |
Clinton, Okada Discuss Burma |
| By LALIT K JHA |
| US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Japanese Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada discuss how to influence the Burmese military junta to move toward democracy. |
UN Cuts Back on Investigating Fraud |
| By JOHN HEILPRIN |
| The United Nations has cut back sharply on investigations into corruption and fraud within its ranks, shelving cases involving the possible theft or misuse of millions of dollars. |
Google May Pull Out of China |
| By MICHAEL LIEDTKE |
| Google Inc. will stop censoring its search results in China and may pull out of the country completely after discovering that computer hackers had tricked human rights activists into opening their e-mail accounts to outsiders. |
Burma to see longest solar eclipse of 21st century
Residents of central Burma are poised to witness the longest solar eclipse of the 21st century, ...Aung San Suu Kyi’s lawyers to submit final appeal
Lawyers of detained Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Tuesday ..Detained American’s hearing nears conclusion
With the testimony of a defense witness on Tuesday, Rangoon’s Southern District court ... Burmese artist’s work on exhibit in Singapore
The works of Burmese artist Htein Lin are presently on display as part of a multinational art festival underway ...| Monks slam Burma whistleblower execution Jan 13, 2010 (DVB)–A prominent Burmese monks’ association has criticized as “cruel” and counterproductive the recent sentencing to death of two whistleblowers who leaked sensitive information to exiled media. - more |
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| Burma freedom is ‘worst of the worst’ Jan 13, 2010 (DVB)–A Washington-based NGO has labeled Burma one of the worst countries in the world for ‘freedom’ in an annual report, released yesterday. - more |
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| Suu Kyi to launch final appeal bid Jan 13, 2010 (DVB)–Detained Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi yesterday met with her lawyers to confirm a final statement on the appeal against her house arrest. - more |
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| Army reshuffle focuses on ceasefire areas Jan 13, 2010 (DVB)–Part of a reshuffle within the Burmese army has included the promotion of a number of middle-ranking officials to positions in close proximity to a fragile ceasefire area, according to leaked information. - more |
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| Key trans-Burma trade route to reopen Jan 13, 2010 (DVB)–The Burmese junta has agreed to the reopening of an historic Second World War-era trade corridor linking China to India’s North East states through northern Burma. - more |
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| ‘Third force’ party to reconsider Burma elections Jan 12, 2010 (DVB)–A Burmese political party will reconsider its decision to enter this year’s elections if the announcement date of the electoral laws does not leave sufficient time to campaign, the party chairman said. - more |
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| ‘Prayer’ activists appear in court Jan 12, 2010 (DVB)–The detained organizer of weekly prayer ceremonies that called for the release of political prisoners in Burma yesterday complained about prison conditions in a court appearance. - more |
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| NLD senior-level expansion ‘undemocratic’ Jan 12, 2010 (DVB)–Members of Burma’s main opposition party have said that the recent expansion of the party’s central committee did not involve democratic decision-making. - more |
Junta commander: No more Mr Nice Guy
| Politics Source > S.H.A.N. Tuesday, 12 January 2010 22:18 | |
| Gentle ways are not working when it comes to dealing with the ceasefire groups, according to Maj- Gen Kyaw Phyoe, Commander of Kengtung-based Triangle Region Command, ... | |
| Manau festival reveals human rights violation on ethnic people |
| Human Rights Source > Kachin News Group Tuesday, 12 January 2010 22:15 | |
| Human rights abuse on the ethnic Kachin people in Northern Burma have been in evidence by the Burmese junta at the recently concluded 62nd anniversary of the State Day ... | |
| New hopes rising in Indo-Myanmar relations |
| Regional Source > Dayanath Singh/Assam Times Tuesday, 12 January 2010 22:12 | |
| Although delayed, a ray of hope has been seen in better Indo-Myanmar relations with accepting the Indian proposal by Junta government of that country to open Stilwell Road ... | |
| Myanmar boosts civil service salaries |
| National Source > AFP Tuesday, 12 January 2010 22:04 | |
| Military-ruled Myanmar has increased basic salaries for low-paid civil servants, a government order said Tuesday, in an apparent attempt to stave off the effect of rising prices... | |
| Some parts of Myanmar to see solar eclipse on Jan. 15 |
| National Source > People's Daily Online Tuesday, 12 January 2010 22:01 | |
| An annular solar eclipse with the longest duration in the 21st century will occur on Friday (Jan. 15) and will be visible in some parts of Myanmar, according to the Meteorology and Hydrology Department Tuesday... | |
| India-Myanmar Home Secy talks begins on Jan 19 |
| Regional Source > Press Trust of India Tuesday, 12 January 2010 22:00 | |
| Cross-border movement of militants and cooperation in other security matters will figure in the three-day home secretary level talks beginning January 19 between India and Myanmar in Nay Pay Taw... | |
| Myanmar, Vietnam to enhance trade, investment to boost economic ties |
| Business Source > BusinessGhana Tuesday, 12 January 2010 21:56 | |
| A strong Vietnamese entrepreneurs delegation, made up of 60 members,will visit Myanmar starting Thursday to meet its Myanmar counterparts for discussions on enhancing trade and investment ... | |
လွ်ပ္စစ္မီး ပ်က္လိုက္၊ လာလိုက္ႏွင့္ ၅ မိနစ္တခါ “ဟာ” “ေဟး” “ဟာ” “ေဟး” ဟု ေအာ္ေနရ ေသာေၾကာင့္ အေမာဆို႔လွ်က္ ရွိေသာ ရန္ကုန္ လူထုႀကီးမွာ ညသန္းေခါင္ပင္ ျဖစ္ေသာ္ ျငားလည္း ႏိုးၾကားလ်က္ ရွိေနသည္ 
“ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္မႉးႀကီးသန္းေရႊ မိသားစုပိုင္ ႀကိဳင္အင္တာေနရွင္နယ္ ကုမၸဏီ လီမိတက္ ....” 
က်မတို႔က လာမယ့္ စက္တင္ဘာ၊ ေအာက္တိုဘာ ေလာက္မွာ ကေမၻာဒီယားႏိုင္ငံ ဆီရမ္ရိဒ္... 
လက္ခံေသာ ႏိုင္ငံမ်ား၏ ေမတၱာရပ္ခံခ်က္အရ IOM အေနျဖင့္ ဒုကၡသည္မ်ား မထြက္ခြာမွီ ... 
ေနၾကတ္၊ လၾကတ္ၿပီးရင္ နိမိတ္ေတြ ေစာင့္ၾကည့္ ရတယ္။ ငလ်င္ေတြ လႈပ္သလား၊ ေတာ္လဲ ...
ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ႏွင့္ ႏုိင္ေရးအက်ဥ္းသားမ်ား လြတ္ေျမာက္ေရးအတြက္ ဂ်ပန္ႏုိင္ငံ တိုက်ဳိၿမိဳ႕တြင္ ျမန္မာ့ဒီမိုကေရစီအင္အားစုမ်ားႏွင့္ အဖြဲ႕အစည္းအသီးသီးမွ ပူးေပါင္းကာ အင္ အား ၅၀၀ ခန္႔ ၂၀၁၀ ခုႏွစ္ ဇန္နဝါရီလ ၁၁ ရက္ေန႔က ၂ နာရီၾကာ... 
ဒါေၾကာင့္ ေတာ္လွန္ေရးတခုမွာ ေတာ္လွန္ေရးသမားေတြဟာ ကိုယ္ဘာလဲ၊ ကိုယ္ဘယ္လဲ၊ ေတာ္လွန္ေရး အေျခအေနက ဘယ္အဆင့္ကို ေရာက္ေနၿပီလဲဆိုတာကို ဆန္းစစ္ဖို႔ လိုအပ္ ပါတယ္။ ဆန္းစစ္ခ်က္ေတြကေန... 
၀ ျပည္ေသြးစည္းေရးတပ္မေတာ္ ပန္ဆန္းဌာနခ်ဳပ္တြင္ မူးယစ္ေဆး၀ါးေရာင္း၀ယ္မႈ တားျမစ္ႏွိမ္နင္းေရးအတြက္ ၀ အာဏာ ပိုင္မ်ားက လူေနအိမ္မ်ားအား အထူးတင္းၾကပ္စစ္ေဆးမႈျပဳလုပ္ေၾကာင္း တ႐ုတ္နယ္စပ္ သတင္းရပ္ကြက္ ဆိုသည္။
ဒီဇင္ဘာ ၂၀၀၉ ေနာက္ဆံုးထား၍ နယ္ျခားေစာင့္တပ္/ေဒသေစာင့္တပ္ အသြင္ေျပာင္းရန္ လူသူလက္နက္စာရင္းေပးပို႕ ရမည္ဆုိသည့္ နအဖေပးသည့္ ဒက္လိုင္းကို ဖီဆန္ကာ ‘အသက္႐ွင္ေနသေ႐ြ႕ သမိုင္း၀င္တပ္နာမည္ေျပာင္းတာ အျဖစ္မခံ ႏိုင္ဘူး’ - ဟု SSA တပ္မႉးတဦးက သွ်မ္းသံေတာ္ဆင့္သို႕ေျပာ၏။
