2.24.2010

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Breaking News
Nigeria's acting leader will run state affairs while President Umaru Yar'Adua recovers after three months medical treatment abroad.

New Dubai killing suspects named
Dubai police say they have identified 15 more suspects in last month's killing of a senior Hamas militant.

Google bosses convicted in Italy
Google chiefs in Italy are convicted of privacy violations over a bullying video in a case which may have wider repercussions.


SLIDE SHOW

A Circus Comes to a Burmese Migrant School

By ALEX ELLGEE
Burmese migrant children were surprised when volunteers of the Spark Circus invaded their classrooms and put on a performance.

Suu Kyi Happy Tin Oo Is Back

By BA KAUNG
NLD Leader Aung San Suu Kyi is happy Deputy NLD Leader Tin Oo has resumed party duties.

Burmese PM Resumes Media Attacks on Suu Kyi

By BA KAUNG
In a renewed Burmese regime attack on Aung San Suu Kyi, PM Thein Sein says that no citizen can be “a sycophant of any alien nation or a stooge of a foreign country in disguise of a Myanmar.”

DKBA Reportedly Opposes Border Force Plan

By LAWI WENG
Burma's Democratic Karen Buddhist Army has reportedly reversed its original decision to accept the regime's plan for ceasefire groups to become a “border guard force.”

Burmese Election Expected to be Credible: Asean Secretary

By SAW YAN NAING
Asean expects a credible and transparent election in Burma in 2010, but it can not interfere in the details of the election, Surin Pitsuwan said.

‘Halt abuse of migrant workers in Thailand’: HRW
A rights group has made a fervent appeal to the Thai government to halt abuses by ...
Thai authorities clear landmines after soldiers injured
Last week after three Thai soldiers were injured by landmines near the Thai Burma border, ...
NLD leader Tin Oo awarded
tin-oo-awardsTin Oo the Vice-Chairman of the National League for Democracy was awarded for ...

Headless body found near Rangoon suburb Park
A man's body with no head was found near Hlawga Park, east of San Pya village, ...
New flu strain spreading fast in Burma

Feb 24, 2010 (DVB)–A mosquito-borne virus with symptoms similar to dengue fever is spreading rapidly in Burma, according to doctors who asserted however that it has a low fatality rate. - more


Thailand urges Burma to search for migrant murderers

Feb 24, 2010 (DVB)–Thailand has requested assistance from Burma’s ruling junta in finding the murderers of nine Burmese migrants killed on Thai soil last month. - more


Thai police raids spark migrant permit surge

Feb 24, 2010 (DVB)–Raids by Thai police in a border town home to nearly 100,000 Burmese migrants have sparked a surge in the number of people applying for legal permits to live in Thailand. - more


‘Most serious penalties’ for child solider case

Feb 24, 2010 (DVB)–Three army officials in Burma have been imprisoned in what the International Labour Organisation hail as an unprecedented reprimand of child soldier recruiters by the ruling junta. - more


Thai govt puts Burmese migrants ‘particularly at risk’

Feb 23, 2010 (DVB)–A New York-based rights group has again petitioned the Thai government over its demand that migrants in the country register in the scheme by the end of the month. - more


S Korean firm signs $1.4bn Burma gas deal

Feb 23, 2010 (AFP)–Heavy Industries said it signed a US$1.4 billion deal on Tuesday with another South Korean firm to develop a huge natural gasfield in military-ruled Burma. - more


Six on hunger strike in Insein prison

Feb 23, 2010 (DVB)–Six Burmese political inmates in Rangoon’s infamous Insein prison are on hunger strike after complaining that authorities there are refusing to provide for “basic human requirements”. - more


Malaysia may allow refugees to work

Feb 23, 2010 (AFP)–Malaysia is considering allowing refugees to work while awaiting resettlement abroad, a report said Monday, after an industry group said the measure could help to ease a labour shortage. - more


Land dispute farmers get early release

Feb 23, 2010 (DVB)–Eleven Burmese farmers whose controversial sentencing last year after a land dispute with the Burmese junta received widespread attention have been released from prison early. - more


Mass Burmese hunger strike in Malaysian camp

Feb 22, 2010 (DVB)–Up to one thousand detained migrants, mainly Burmese, in a Malaysian camp are on hunger strike and demanding access to the UN refugee agency amidst severe overcrowding. - more


‘Machete victims’ among fleeing Rohingya

Feb 22, 2010 (DVB)–The brutal treatment of ethnic Rohingya living in Bangladesh has intensified in recent months, according to a medical group which has treated victims of rape and machete attacks. - more


Burma opposition downcast over UN visit

Feb 22, 2010 (DVB)–Opposition activists and politicians yesterday lamented last week’s “fruitless” visit to Burma by the UN rapporteur on human rights, Tomas Ojea Quintana. - more

ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္က မစၥတာ ကင္တားနား၏ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ ခရီးစဥ္ ထုတ္ျပန္ခ်က္ကို သေဘာတူဟုေျပာ

ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ႏွင့္ ယေန႔ ႏွစ္နာရီၾကာ ေတြ႕ဆံုခဲ့သူ သူမ၏ေရွ႕ေနႏွင့္ NLD ေျပာေရးဆိုခြင့္ရွိသူ ဦးဥာဏ္ဝင္းက ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္အေနႏွင့္ ၿပီးေသာေသာၾကာေန႔က ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံသို႔ ၅ရက္ ခရီးစဥ္ အၿပီးတြင္ မစၥတာ ကင္တာနား၏ ထုတ္ျပန္ခဲ့ေသာ ထုတ္ျပန္ခ်က္ကို အျပည့္အဝ သေဘာတူသည္ဟု ေျပာျပခဲ့ ပါသည္။
ထိုထုတ္ျပန္ခ်က္တြင္ မစၥတာ ကင္တားနားက ႏိုင္ငံေရးယံုၾကည္ခ်က္ေတြေၾကာင့္ အက်ဥ္းက်ခံေနရတဲ့ ႏိုင္ငံေရး အက်ဥ္းသား ၂၂၀၀ တို႔ ပါဝင္ပါတ္သက္ခြင့္မရွိပဲ၊ ႏိုင္ငံေရးပါတီေတြအေနနဲ႔ ပါတီရဲ႕ စည္းရုံးလႈပ္ရွားခြင့္ေတြ ျပုလုပ္ခြင့္ ေပးျခင္းမရွိပဲ က်င္းပမယ္ဆိုရင္ စစ္အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္သူေတြ က်င္းပမယ့္ အဲဒီေရြးေကာက္ပြဲဟာ ဘယ္လိုမွ တရားမွ်တမႈ ရွိမွာ မဟုတ္ဘူးလို႔ ထုတ္ျပန္ခဲ့ပါတယ္။
ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္နဲ႔ ကိုယ္တိုင္ေတြ႕ဆံုခဲ့သူ ဦးဥာဏ္ဝင္းက “ကၽြန္ေတာ္တို႔ရဲ႕ ပါတီေခါင္းေဆာင္က ျမန္မာ ႏိုင္ငံမွာ ၅ရက္ခရီးစဥ္ၿပီးဆံုးတဲ့ ေသာၾကာေန႔က မစၥတာ ကင္တားနားရဲ႕ စစ္အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္သူေတြကို ေဝဖန္ေျပာဆို ခဲ့တာဟာ မွန္ကန္ၿပီး ဆီေလွ်ာ္မႈ ရွိတယ္လို႔ ေျပာခဲ့ပါတယ္” ဟု ျပန္လည္ ေျပာျပခဲ့ေၾကာင္း သိရပါသည္။
ဥိးဥာဏ္ဝင္းကပဲ ဆက္လက္ၿပီး ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ အေနနဲ႔ ေဖေဖၚဝါရီလါ ၁၃ ရက္ေန႔က လြတ္ေျမာက္ လာတဲ့ NLD ဒုဥကၠဌ ဦးတင္ဦးဟာ သူရဲ႕ တာဝန္ ဝတၱရားေတြကို ေနာက္ရက္မွာပဲ စတင္ထမ္းေဆာင္ခဲ့တာနဲ႔ ၊ NLD ရဲ႕ အီးစီ ၁၁ ဦးကေန ၂၀ဦးအထိ တိုးခ်ဲ႕မယ့္ အစီအစဥ္ကိုလဲ အေပၚ ေက်နပ္အားရမိတယ္လို႔ သူ႔ကို ေျပာျပ ခဲ့တယ္လို႔ ဆိုပါတယ္။
ဦးဥာဏ္ဝင္းကပဲ NLD ပါတီဟာ အလုပ္အမႈေဆာင္ ၁၀၀နဲ႔ ဗဟိုေကာ္မတီ ၂၀ ရွိမယ့္ အလုပ္အမႈေဆာင္ ေကာ္မတီ တိုးခ်ဲ႕ဖြဲစည္းေရးအတြက္ ေဆာင္ရြက္ေနတယ္လို႔ ေျပာပါတယ္။
ျပည္တြင္း သတင္းေထာက္ (ေရႊဝါေရာင္ သတင္းလႊာ)