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U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, left, speaks with 1st Battalion, 17th Infantry Regiment, troops at Forward Operating Base (FOB) Frontenac, 30 miles (48 kilometers) north of Kandahar, Afghanistan, 09 Mar 2010
Gates Rallies US Troops in Afghan South
Secretary of defense tells troops they will soon be part of 'decisive phase' in war
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Biden commitmentIrish 'plot to kill cartoonist' Seven people are arrested in the Irish Republic over an alleged plot to kill a Swedish cartoonist for depicting the Prophet Muhammad. | | Indian MPs approve women's bill India's upper house sees a second day of uproar as it backs a bill to reserve a third of all parliamentary seats for women. |
Party Registration Laws Set NLD a Deadline |
| By BA KAUNG |
| The National League for Democracy has 60 days from the enactment of the regime's election laws in which to decide whether or not to accept the terms of the party registration laws set by the regime. |
Burmese Battalions Breach NMSP Area |
| By LAWI WENG |
| Two Burmese government battalions have set up bases in areas under the control of the New Mon State Party in contravention of the 1995 cease-fire agreement. |
Border Conflict Could Last 'Many More Years,' TBBC Warns |
| By SAW YAN NAING |
| The Burmese Constitution's failure to address “ethnic aspirations” could mean that conflict in the border areas would continue for “many more years to come,” according to the Thailand Burma Border Consortium. |
Migrant Children Shooting Unacceptable: HRW |
| By THE IRRAWADDY |
| Human Rights Watch urges the Thai government to make a thorough investigation and prevent a repeat of the fatal shooting of three children of migrant workers by Thai soldiers. |
Thein Sein Visits Sino-Burmese Border Town |
| By WAI MOE |
| The Burmese prime minister was scheduled to visit Muse on the Sino-Burmese border on Tuesday amid the junta's increased pressure on ethnic cease-fire groups to transform into border guard forces. |
Win Tin, senior leader of Burma's main opposition party the National League for Democracy told ... Suu Kyi to file case against relative
Nobel Laureate and Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi will file ... Motorcycles to be back on Rangoon roads
Policemen, intelligence agency personnel and Union Solidarity and Development ...
Burma bans imprisoned dissidents from up-coming elections
In preparation for the upcoming national election set to take place this year, ... 
Burma to call time on Wa army
Burma's largest ethnic army is 'prepared for the worst' as the ruling junta threatens to declare them 'unlawful'
Acute malnutrition among Rohingya ‘critical’
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“အဓိကေတာ့ ႏိုင္ငံေတာ္က က်င္းပတဲ့ ေရြးေကာက္ပဲြကို ေထာက္ခံ ...” 
“သက္ဆိုင္ရာကေန ဘာအေၾကာင္း ျပခ်က္မွ မေပးဘဲ ဆိုင္ခန္းေတြ အားလံုး ...” 
က်င္းပမည့္ ယခုႏွစ္ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲအတြက္ ျပင္ဆင္သည့္ အေနျဖင့္ စစ္အစိုးရက ႏိုင္ငံေရးပါတီ ... 
