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Iraqi security forces and officials inspect the scene after a car bomb exploded near a bus for pilgrims in Najaf, 06 Mar 2010
Car Bomb Kills 3 Ahead of Iraq Election
Blast wounds more than 50 others in Najaf, near Imam Ali shrine, which is heavily visited by Iranian and Iraqi pilgrims
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- US Monthly Unemployment Rate Holds Steady
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UK PM Gordon Brown visits British troops in Afghanistan amid a growing row over his evidence to the Iraq war inquiry.
Canada U-turn on anthem change
Canada's government drops a proposal to change the country's national anthem by making it more gender-inclusive.
For Sex Workers, A Life of Risks |
| By MON MON MYAT |
| Widespread poverty is fueling prostitution in Burma, where a lack of protection for commercial sex workers exposes them and their communities to a host of dangers. |
4,000 Workers Go on Strike in Rangoon |
| By BA KAUNG |
| Around 4,000 factory workers at an industrial estate in Rangoon stage a sit-in to demand better pay, in the latest sign of growing labor unrest in the former Burmese capital. |
Weekly Business Roundup (March 6, 2010) |
| By WILLIAM BOOT |
| India has canceled plans to buy a big consignment of pulse crops from Burma after the Naypyidaw government demanded US $44 million advance cash payment. |
Junta Should Go Before ICC, Nobel Laureates Tell Ban |
| By LAWI WENG |
| In a meeting with the UN secretary-general, two Nobel Peace Prize laureates say that Burma's junta should be tried by the International Criminal Court for its abuses against women. |
Regime May Outlaw UWSA |
| By THE IRRAWADDY |
| The Burmese junta is reportedly considering the option of outlawing the United Wa State Army if they fail soon to agree to join the Border Guard Force. |
Thai government in visa trouble again
Friday, March 5, 2010
Amid Hardships and Unchanged Behaviors |
| By PHYU PHYU THIN |
| There is nothing easy about helping HIV/AIDS patients, but one of the most difficult things to deal with is the behavior of some who carelessly spread the disease to others. |
Freed NLD leader back into thick of party work
National League for Democracy’s vice-chairman Tin Oo, freed recently, ...New Indian magazine focuses on regional security issues
The launch of the monthly periodical Look East seeks to highlight security...Civilians flee forced recruitment into militia groups
At least 100 people in southern Burma’s Mon State have fled to regions controlled ...Lawyer arrested for defending labour activist freed
A lawyer, arrested for defending a labour rights activist in Burma’s Pegu division, ...| Rangoon strike ends but unrest prevails Mar 5, 2010 (DVB)–A 1500-strong strike at a major Burmese brewery has ended peacefully but signs remain of a growing unrest among Rangoon workers. - more |
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| 850,000 migrants register in Thailand Mar 5, 2010 (AFP)–Around 850,000 migrant workers in Thailand have met a deadline to start a registration process, the labour ministry said Thursday, as rights groups made renewed calls for a halt to the policy. - more |
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| Suu Kyi ‘house hearing’ begins Mar 5, 2010 (DVB)–Lawyers for Burma opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi yesterday issued their first statements in a hearing regarding an intra-familial dispute over her Rangoon house. - more |
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| Opposition party central committee announced Mar 5, 2010 (DVB)–Burma’s main opposition party has announced the formation of its new Central Committee, now under the leadership of party chairman Aung Shwe. - more |
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ၿဗိတိန္ႏုိင္ငံ အေျခစိုက္ ျမန္မာ့အေရး လႈပ္ရွားမႈအဖြဲ႕ (Burma Campaign UK) တြင္ ႏုိင္ငံတကာ ဆက္ဆံေရး တာ၀န္ခံအျဖစ္ ေဆာင္႐ြက္ေနသူ ဇုိယာဖန္းကို မၾကာေသးခင္က World Economic ForumကYoung Global leader 
“က်မတုိ႔ဆုိင္မွာ ေစ်းလာ၀ယ္တဲ့ အဂၤလိပ္ေတြ၊ အျခားနယ္ကလာတဲ့ ထုိင္းေတြကို ...” 
“ဦးသုေ၀နဲ႔ ေဒါက္တာ ခင္ေဇာ္၀င္းတို႔ႏွစ္ေယာက္ သန္းေရႊတို႔ရဲ႕ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ အတြက္ ႏြားပြဲစား (အဲ …) ေလာ္ဘီလာလုပ္တာကို ကိုသန္းလြင္ထြန္းတို႔ ဗီြအိုေအက အကုန္အက်ခံ ေခၚတာတဲ့ဗ်။ ဒါေပမယ့္ သတင္းဌာန (၂) ခုက လူေတြဆိုလား၊ ကိုသန္းလြင္ထြန္းတို႔ ဗီြအိုေအ ၀ိုင္းေတာ္သားေတြကို အသိမေပးဘဲ ဦးသုေ၀တို႔ ႏွစ္ေယာက္ကို ျဖတ္ခုတ္၊ ဟိုတယ္အခန္းေတြငွားၿပီး အင္တာဗ်ဴးေတြ တိတ္တိတ္ပုန္းလုပ္ ... ” 
အမ်ဳိးသား ဒီမိုကေရစီ အဖဲြ႔ခ်ဳပ္ ဒုဥကၠ႒ ဦးတင္ဦးသည္ ပါတီ ဗဟိုဥပေဒ ... 
ကြန္ျပဴတာစက္ျဖင့္ ဖတ္၍ စစ္ေဆးႏိုင္ေသာ ဘားကုဒ္စနစ္ပါ ႏိုင္ငံကူး လက္မွတ္သစ္ ...
ေအးရွားေ၀ါကုမၸဏီပိုင္ သတၱဳစက္ရံုတည္ေဆာက္ေရး စီမံကိန္းေၾကာင့္ တစ္ႏွစ္အတြင္း သွ်မ္းျပည္(ေျမာက္ပိုင္း) နမၼတူၿမိဳ႕နယ္ ဆိုက္ေခါင္ေက်းရြာအုပ္စုမွ ေတာင္သူမ်ား၏ ၿခံေျမ ဧက၂၀၀ ခန္႔ လက္လႊတ္ဆံုးရႈံးရေၾကာင္းသိရသည္။
မဲေခါင္ျမစ္ေရခန္းေျခာက္သျဖင့္ တ႐ုတ္ျပည္ ၀င္ထြက္သည့္ကုန္စည္မ်ား ကုန္းလမ္းခရီး ျပန္လည္အားထားလာျခင္း ေၾကာင့္ မုိင္းလားၿမိဳ႕တေက်ာ့ ျပန္လည္စည္ကားလာသည္ဟု ခရီးသြားမ်ားက ေျပာျပပါသည္။
