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Pakistani officials visit the bombing site in Lower Dir, Pakistan, 03 Feb 2010
Blast in NW Pakistan Kills 7, Including 3 US Troops
Bomb exploded in a village in the Lower Dir district near Swat Valley
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 |  “We really hope to see the kind of progress that would demonstrate that Burma is ready to emerge from a period of authoritarian rule and some level of isolation and violation of human rights.”  —US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton |
How to Select a UN Special Envoy? |
| By AUNG ZAW |
| As UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon looks for a successor to his special envoy on Burma, it might be useful to consider some do's and don'ts to guide him through the task. |
Drugs Influx Expected in Thailand |
| By LAWI WENG and SAW YAN NAING |
| Anti-drugs bureaus in Thailand say more and more drugs are being trafficked into the country, especially from Burma. |
Western-sanctioned Kanbawza Bank Buys Airline |
| By WAI MOE |
| Burma continues to privatize businesses as Myanmar Airways International is sold to Kanbawza Bank, owned by a close business associate of the junta. |
NEWS ANALYSISAssessing Thai Coup Rumors |
| By SIMON ROUGHNEEN |
| With political tension mounting in Bangkok, coup rumors are growing, but who in the army has enough reason to mount a coup? |
Burma Absent from UN Security Council's February Agenda |
| By BA KAUNG |
| Burma is not on the February agenda of the United Nations Security Council because no member has raised the issue, according to Ambassador Gérard Araud of France, the country holding the council’s rotating presidency this month. |
Burmese Activist Awarded US Fellowship |
| By LALIT K. JHA |
| A New York-based Burmese activist, Myra Dahgaypaw, has been awarded a prestigious Carl Wilkens Fellowship by the Genocide Intervention Network. |
| Landmines and food crisis await Karen refugees Feb 3, 2010 (DVB)–Around 3000 refugees who fled conflict in Burma last year have been told by Thai authorities that they must return to Karen state, despite dire warnings of conditions there. - more |
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| Burma VJ Nominated for Best Documentary Oscar The Documentary film, directed by Anders Østergaard, follows the story of video journalists (VJs) working inside Burma, for Norway based media outlet Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB). - more |
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| Monks sentenced for 2007 uprising Feb 3, 2010 (DVB)–Three monks and two civilians in Burma have been handed lengthy prison sentences, some as much as nine years, for their role in the September 2007 uprising, lawyers say. - more |
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| Karen army says ‘2010 will be different’ Joseph Allchin |
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| Pro-junta group drops charges against USDA Feb 02, 2010 (DVB)–Union of Myanmar Federation of National Politics said it has dropped charges against members of another pro-junta group, the Union Solidarity and Development Association, who attacked them last year. - more |
ADB has no new lending plan for Burma
The Asian Development Bank has no immediate plans to provide fresh assistance to ...Four women activists awaits court verdict
District Court in Rangoon’s notorious Insein prison has set February 15 for pronouncing ...Obama proposes $ 34. 8 million for Burma
United States President Barack Obama in his budget proposal for 2011 has earmarked ... Five more model villages coming up in Buthidaung
In the ongoing process of settling the homeless from across Burma, five more model villages are being set up with over 500 houses ...Monks declared 'Boycott' against Suu Kyi's brother
CAMPBELL TO PRESS SOUTH KOREA TO ADDRESS MYANMAR HUMAN RIGHTS
| Regional Source > NAM NEWS NETWORK Tuesday, 02 February 2010 23:59 | |
| U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell is expected to press South Korea to speak up about human rights abuses in Myanmar when he meets top South Korean officials this week ... | |
| S. Korea Seeks Investment in Myanmar Fishery Sector |
| Business Source > Xinhua Tuesday, 02 February 2010 23:58 | |
| A South Korean company based in Seoul is seeking investment in Myanmar's fishery sector, planning to set up a joint venture company with local fishery entrepreneurs, sources with the Myanmar ... | |
| Myanmar Offshore Oil Field Discovered |
| National Source > Xinhua Tuesday, 02 February 2010 23:57 | |
| An assessing oil well in Myanmar's Mottama offshore oil field is estimated to be able to start commercial production in the dry season this year after test-fire of gas was successfully done on Monday ... | |
| Asian tour secures Myanmar |
| Sports Source > James Mason/SkySports Tuesday, 02 February 2010 23:54 | |
| The 2010 Asian Tour has been boosted after the Myanmar Open was confirmed on the schedule. After a four-year hiatus, it has been confirmed that the tournament secured a slot in April ... | |
| Asian Tour Comes Back To Burma After 4 Years |
| Sports Source > Jakarta Globe Tuesday, 02 February 2010 23:52 | |
| The Myanmar Open will return to this season’s Asian Tour schedule in April following a four-year absence, officials said on Tuesday. The tournament will take place from April 8-11 at Pun Hlaing Golf Club ... | |
| A reluctant refuge for Myanmar folk |
| Commentary Source > Ben Blanchard/Reuters Tuesday, 02 February 2010 23:50 | |
| Ask residents of the dusty Chinese border town of Ruili what they think of their neighbor and supposed friend Myanmar (Burma) and one word features prominently -- "luan," or chaotic... | |
| Thailand: Japan selecting first Myanmar refugees for resettlement |
| Regional Source > UNHCR Tuesday, 02 February 2010 23:48 | |
| Japanese government officials are visiting Mae La refugee camp in northern Thailand today (Tuesday, 02 Feb.) to begin interviewing refugees from Myanmar who have applied for resettlement to Japan... | |
| Myanmar official media calls for producing world standard film |
| Entertainment Source > Xinhua Tuesday, 02 February 2010 23:45 | |
| A Myanmar official daily Tuesday called on artists in the country to produce good Myanmar films of international standard to make sure that international film market can be penetrated... | |
အေၾကာင္း မညီညြတ္သျဖင့္ ခ်င္းမုိင္ဟု ေခၚသည့္ ဇင္းမယ္ၿမိဳ႕သုိ႔ ေရာက္ေန ေသာ္လည္း ဦး႐ုကၡစုိးက ဇာတိေျမ ျမန္မာျပည္ အေရး အတြက္ ပူပန္သူ ျဖစ္သည္။ ထုိ႔ေၾကာင့္လည္း ခ်ဳိကုပ္ဒူးႀကီးက သူ႔ထံ အေရာက္လာၿပီး ျမန္မာျပည္ အေၾကာင္း ေလေၾကာ ရွည္ေနမႈကုိ သည္းခံေနရ ေလသည္။
“ဒီျမစ္ႀကီးနားကလည္း သြားၾက တယ္။ နီးစပ္ နီးစပ္ရာေတြေပါ့။ ယဥ္ေက်းမႈအဖဲြ႔ြ....” 
အေမရိကန္ သမၼတ ဘားရတ္ အိုဘားမား၏ ၂ဝ၁၁ ခုႏွစ္အတြက္ ဘတ္ဂ်တ္ အဆို ...
က်ေနာ္တို႔ အခုလိုေနတာကေတာ့၊ “ေသနတ္ေတြ၊ က်ည္ဆံေတြပဲဗ်” ေက်ာင္းသား၊ ျပည္သူေတြကို လမ္းမေတြေပၚမွာ ရက္ရက္စက္စက္ ပစ္ခတ္သတ္ျဖတ္ခဲ့တဲ့ ဒီစစ္တပ္ ကိုျပန္ပစ္ဖို႔... 
အန္အယ္ဒီ ေခါင္းေဆာင္တဦးျဖစ္တဲ့ ဒုတိယ ဥကၠဌ ဦးတင္ဦးဟာ လာမယ့္ ေရွ႕လ ေဖေဖၚ၀ါရီ (၁၃)ရက္ေန႔ဆို ေနအိမ္အက်ယ္ခ်ဳပ္ သက္တမ္း(၆)ႏွစ္ျပည့္မွာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
