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Image provided by ACT Alliance shows earthquake victim Anna Zizi being carried alive from rubble of Haiti's devastating earthquake, 19 Jan 2010
Strong Earthquake Shakes Haiti Again
No immediate reports of damage or injuries from magnitude 6.1 quake, which hit early Wednesday
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 |  We are not unendingly patient [to Burmese regime]. We will need to see some clear steps in due course.  — Kurt Campbell, assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs |
NLD Plans to Form New Central Committee |
| By WAI MOE |
| Burma's main opposition party continues its push to revitalize itself ahead of this year's election, but remains silent on whether it will take part in the vote. |
New Anti-Terrorism Law a Threat to the Opposition? |
| By SAW YAN NAING |
| Burmese lawyers and observers claim a new anti-terrorism law will be used to stifle opposition to military rule. |
Tak Gov. Issues Warning to Humanitarian Workers |
| By LAWI WENG |
| The governor of Tak Province warns Burmese humanitarian workers in Mae Sot that if they become involved in Burmese political affairs they could be deported. |
Refugees Protest at Nu Po Camp |
| By ALEX ELGEE |
| Almost 80 refugees stage a sit-down protest outside the UN office in Nu Po camp calling for speedier action in resettlement cases. |
100th Anniversary of Writer Ludu U Hla Celebrated |
| By ARKAR MOE |
| The 100th anniversary of the birth of the popular Burmese journalist and writer Ludu U Hla (1910-1982) was celebrated in Myataung Monastery in Mandalay and in Mae Sot, Thailand, on Tuesday. |
Uneasy calm prevails between junta and ceasefire groups
Despite the refusal of armed ceasefire groups to favorably respond to the junta’s proposal ...Ludu U Hla’s birth centenary observed in Mandalay
The birth centenary celebrations and a paper reading session in honour of late people’s ...Journals in Burma forced to publish pro–junta articles
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Sluggish sales reported from Yangon Expo 2010
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| ILO extends forced labour ‘understanding’ Jan 20, 2010 (DVB)–The International Labour Organisation has agreed the extension of a ‘supplementary understanding’ with the Burmese government regarding illegal use of forced labour in the country. - more |
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| Election ‘preparation’ barred from media Jan 20, 2010 (DVB)–Burmese media has been banned from publishing material covering political groups’ preparations for the elections this year, while news of the elections themselves is allowed. - more |
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| India urges Burma to hunt for rebels Jan 20, 2010 (DVB)–India’s ongoing problem with its Northeastern rebels will likely dominate talks between the Burmese junta and India’s home secretary, who is currently in Naypyidaw. - more |
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| US citizen reportedly in solitary confinement Jan 20, 2010 (DVB)–The Burmese-born US citizen detained in a Rangoon prison has been placed in solitary confinement, along with two other inmates, prison sources say. - more |
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| US ‘needs clear steps’ on Burma reform Jan 20, 2010 (DVB)–The US yesterday signaled a growing impatience with the Burmese regime after complaining that it had received a “mixed bag” of results following its decision to engage with the pariah state. - more |
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| Punk's not dead in military-ruled Burma Jan 20, 2010 (AFP)–The singer smashes his guitar to pieces on the stage as thousands of spiky-haired punk fans cheer loudly - a rare display of countercultural exuberance in military-ruled Burma. - more |
အဘြားႀကီးလည္း ဖက္ xxx အဘြားႀကီးလည္း ဖက္ xxx ေမြးကင္းစ အာၿဗဲေလးလည္း ဖက္ေခြးကုိက္လည္း ဖက္ xxx ေၾကာင္ကုတ္လည္း ဖက္အိမ္ေျမာင္ ၾကြက္ က်ီးကန္း ေအာ္လည္း ဖက္ xxx 
“ဒီေနရာမွာ စိတ္ရွည္ဖုိ႔ လိုအပ္တယ္ ဆိုေပမယ့္ က်ေနာ္တို႔ဟာ အဆုံးမရွိ စိတ္ရွည္သည္းခံ ....” 
“အုိင္အယ္လ္အိုနဲ႔ နအဖ နားလည္ မႈစာခၽြန္လႊာမွာ အိုင္အယ္လ္အိုက ျမန္မာျပည္မွာ ....”
“ဘယ္ေလာက္စပါး ညံ့ညံ့ က်ေနာ့္ လယ္ (၆) ဧကမွာ စပါးတင္း (၂၀၀) ႏွစ္စဥ္ ....”
ၿငိမ္းအဖြဲ႔မ်ားကို နယ္ျခားေစာင့္တပ္ဖြဲ႔မ်ားအျဖစ္ အသြင္ေျပာင္းရန္ စစ္အစိုးရ၏ ကမ္းလွမ္း ...
အင္းစိန္ေထာင္တြင္းမွ အမႈရင္ဆုိင္ေနရေသာ အေမရိကန္ ႏိုင္ငံသား ကိုညီညီေအာင္သည္ ...
သွ်မ္းျပည္ျပန္လည္ထူေထာင္ေရးေကာင္စီ ၁၀ ႀကိမ္ေျမာက္ ညီလာခံ၌ ‘အမ်ဳိးသားေရးအတြက္၊ တန္းတူအခြင့္အေရး လြတ္လပ္ေရးအတြက္ တိုက္ပြဲ၀င္ျခင္းသည္ ခြဲထြက္ေရးသမားမဟုတ္’ ဟု သွ်မ္းျပည္တပ္မေတာ္ေခါင္းေဆာင္ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ႀကီးယြက္စစ္ကေျပာသည္။
