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Special Features

	Airlines condemn 'European mess'
	The body representing the world's airlines criticises governments in Europe for the way they close air space because of volcanic ash.

	Army secures key Bangkok area			Australia plans tough reef laws
The Thai army moves into the business district of Bangkok to prevent anti-government protesters entering the area.			Australia plans tough new laws to prevent shipping from entering areas around the delicate Great Barrier Reef.
	Iraqi al-Qaeda leaders 'killed'			Space shuttle to return Tuesday
The Iraqi prime minister says two leaders of al-Qaeda in Iraq have been killed, but there is no US confirmation.			Low cloud and rain in Florida delay the return to Earth of the space shuttle Discovery.
	Western demand 'hogging water'			World 'more positive about US'
The amount of water used to make food and goods exported to the West is worsening global shortages, a report argues.			Views of the US around the world have improved sharply over the past year, a BBC World Service poll suggests.
	Fulham Europa tie given go-ahead			IPL semis switched after blasts
Fulham's Europa League semi-final against Hamburg, which had been in doubt because of the disruption caused by the volcanic ash cloud, will go ahead on Thursday.			The Indian Premier League semi-finals are moved from Bangalore to Mumbai amid security fears following two explosions outside the Chinnaswamy Stadium.
	Day in pictures			Powerful tale
Some striking images from around the world			The hold of Bolivar (and his dog) on modern Venezuela
	Boxing clever			BA seeks compensation for chaos
German sports firm Puma unveils new green packaging			British Airways asks the EU and UK government for compensation for the closure of airspace.
	Citigroup posts profit of $4.4bn			Ash chaos costing TUI £5m a day
Wall Street banking giant Citigroup reports a profit of $4.4bn for the first three months of the year.			TUI Travel, Europe's biggest travel operator, says the disruption caused by the volcanic ash has cost it about £20m.
	Robot 'helps arms after stroke'			Philips profits continue rebound
Intensive therapy using a robot has helped patients improve arm movement years after they had a stroke.			Global electronics giant Philips has reported profitable quarter as it continues to recover from the recession.
	Awards first for singer Underwood			Role in Neighbours up for grabs
Carrie Underwood becomes the first female artist to win entertainer of the year at the Academy of Country Music Awards for a second time.			British fans of Neighbours are given the chance to win a part in the Australian soap to celebrate its 25th anniversary.
	Study logs oceans' tiniest life			Toxic ash threatens Iceland herds
An unprecedented number of tiny, ocean dwelling organisms is catalogued by a survey of the world's oceans.			Icelandic farmers race to protect their animals from being poisoned as rural areas become caked in dust.
	Rewards 'work like drugs' in ADHD			Kenya farmers hit by flight ban
Behavioural rewards for children with attention-deficit disorders work on the brain in the same way as drugs, a study suggests.			Thousands of farm workers in Kenya are temporarily laid off because of the volcanic ash that has grounded flights over Europe.
	Somali rebels 'improved security'			Bolivia hosts Mother Earth talks
Hardline Islamists have brought greater stability to parts Somalia, but at a huge cost, Human Rights Watch says.			Delegates gather in Cochabamba for a "people's conference" on climate change called by Bolivian President Evo Morales.
	Venezuelan boxer Valero is dead			Two China quake survivors rescued
Champion Venezuelan boxer Edwin Valero is found dead in a police cell after being arrested for killing his wife.			Two survivors are pulled from the rubble in Qinghai, as the death toll from last week's quake rises to nearly 2,000.
	Australia mobster killed in jail			Fatal track faster than planned
Infamous Australian gangland boss Carl Williams dies after a beating at a high security jail in Melbourne.			Officials admit the track on which a Georgian luger died at the 2010 Winter Olympics was faster than it should have been.
	Deutsche Bahn 'nears Arriva deal'			Barak: Palestinian state certain
German national rail company Deutsche Bahn is close to a £1.6bn takeover of UK transport group Arriva, reports say.			Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak says Israel must eventually give Palestinians their independence.
	UN begins Gulf human rights tour			India cricket row minister quits
The UN high commissioner for Human rights says more needs to be done to improve rights for migrant workers and women.			An Indian junior government minister resigns over allegations of corruption in the country's premier cricket league.
	Deadly quake in north Afghanistan			Navy ships to aid in ash response
Seven people are reported dead as a magnitude 5.3 earthquake hits Afghanistan and is felt in neighbouring states			Royal Navy ships are drafted into the efforts to return stranded travellers to the UK as airspace restrictions are extended.
	Tweed 'rape victim did not speak'			Government intervenes at council
A jury hears that a woman allegedly raped by Jack Tweed, widower of Jade Goody, and his friend, "did not protest".			An independent watchdog recommends government intervention after a series of crises at Doncaster Council.
	Burglar murder charge is dropped			Girl dies in island hit-and-run
A 23-year-old man who stabbed a teenage burglar to death has a murder charge against him dropped.			A 12-year-old girl from Dewsbury dies and a boy is injured in a hit-and-run car accident on Gran Canaria.

The plight of migrant workers

Uncertain of their rights, many are being subjected to harassment and extortion by the police, even if they are legally employed

Bangkok Post , Published: 11/04/2010 at 12:00 AM

Mya and her sister, Burmese migrants who work the night shift at a Samut Sakhon textile factory, were asleep in their home late one morning when there was a knock on the door.

UNPOPULAR: Two children take part in a demonstration against the nationality verification process earlier this year. PHOTO: PATTANAPONG HIRUNARD

Burma's shadow of death

Monday, April 19, 2010

HARN LAY/THE IRRAWADDY |

Leading Parties Stay Away from Election

By KO HTWE

Nineteen political parties to date have registered for this year's general election in Burma; however, the leading parties say they will not compete.

Rangoon Blasts Target Junta Chief's Grandson?

By NAYEE LIN LET

Explosions in Rangoon appear to have targeted the grandson of junta chief Sr-Gen Than Shwe, say army and police sources.

KIO Meets Junta Officials after Dam Bombings

By WAI MOE

Kachin Independence Organization officials meet with their junta counterparts in Myitkyina, following a series of bomb blasts at the Myitsone dam site.

Newspaper Blames Rangoon Bombs on Exiled Groups

By KYAW THEIN KHA

Exiled Burmese opposition groups were responsible for the bombing of a pavilion in Rangoon, according to a commentary in a state-run newspaper on Sunday, which said the groups gave terrorist training to migrant workers.

Volcano-stranded Europeans Seek Alternate Routes

By KAY JOHNSON

Frustrated European travelers stranded overseas struggled to find alternate routes home, desperate for information on flights into the continent's few airports not closed by a dangerous cloud of ash from an Icelandic volcano.

Poor turnout for festival finalé in Rangoon
Very few people attended the Thingyan traditional water festival at pavilions along Kandawgyi Road, ...

Kachin dam bombing kills four

Three bombs explode close to controversial dam days after a similar attack in Rangoon left nine dead and hundreds injured

Is drug policy a human rights abuser?

Prohibition on the global drugs industry is born of a moralistic, not pragmatic, viewpoint and has had a devastating impact on poor countries such as Burma

ျမန္မာ့သတင္း ကမာၻ႕သတင္း

ထုိင္းႏုိင္ငံ ရွပ္နီ ဆႏၵျပသူေတြကို တားဆီးဖုိ႔ ထုိင္းစစ္တပ္ ႀကိဳးစားေန
 

ထိုင္းႏိုင္ငံ ဘန္ေကာက္ၿမိဳ႕လယ္ေခါင္ စီးပြားေရး အခ်က္အခ်ာ ေနရာေတြကို ပိတ္ၿပီး ဆႏၵျပေနၾကသူေတြ သူတို႔ရဲ႕ အစီအစဥ္အတိုင္း ဒီ့ထက္ ေနရာခ်ဲ႕ထြင္ ဆႏၵျပမယ္ဆိုရင္ အေရးယူ ေဆာင္ရြက္မႈေတြ လုပ္သြားမယ္လို႔ ထိုင္းစစ္တပ္က ေျပာလိုက္ပါတယ္။

ကြယ္လြန္သူ ပိုလန္သမၼတနဲ႔ ဇနီး ႏိုင္ငံေတာ္ စ်ာပနနဲ႔ သၿဂဳႋဟ္

အိုက္စ္လန္မီးေတာင္ ျမဴမႈိင္းေၾကာင့္ ဥေရာပ ေလေၾကာင္းခရီးစဥ္ေတြ ဖ်က္ၾကရ

ဖိုးလျပည့္ကို ရည္ရြယ္ဗံုးခြဲခဲ့ဟုဆို

သႀကၤန္ အၾကတ္ေန႔ ဗုံးေပါက္ကြဲမႈမွာ ဖုိးလျပည့္ႏွင့္ အာဏာပိုင္မ်ားကုိ ရည္ရြယ္ဟန္ ရွိေၾကာင္း သတင္းမ်ား ထြက္ေပၚ ေနသည္ဟု သိရသည္။ ဗုံးေပါက္ကြဲမႈ မျဖစ္ခင္ သႀကၤန္အက်ေန႔က

ျပည္ပအဖြဲ႔မ်ား ဗံုးေဖာက္ခြဲဟု ေၾကးမံု စြပ္စြဲ

သႀကၤန္တြင္း ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕ ဗံုးေပါက္ကြဲမႈႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္၍ ျပည္ပအေျခစိုက္ အမ်ဳိးသား ဒီမိုကေရစီ အဖြဲ႔ခ်ဳပ္ (လြတ္ေျမာက္နယ္ေျမ) (NLD -LA) ႏွင့္ ျမန္မာ ႏိုင္ငံလံုးဆိုင္ရာ ေက်ာင္းသားမ်ား

၉၀ အႏိုင္ရ ပါတီအမ်ားစု ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ မဝင္

ယေန႔အထိ ျပည္ေထာင္စု ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ ေကာ္မရွင္တြင္ မွတ္ပံုတင္ေသာ ပါတီ ၁၉ ခု ရွိၿပီ ျဖစ္ေသာ္လည္း ၁၉၉၀ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲတြင္ အမ်ားဆံုး အႏိုင္ရခဲ့သည့္ ပါတီအမ်ားစု

ျမစ္ဆံု ဗံုးေပါက္ကြဲမႈ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္စိုးဝင္းႏွင့္ KIO ေဆြးေႏြး

ကခ်င္ျပည္နယ္ ျမစ္ဆုံ ေရကာတာ စီမံကိန္းအနီး ဗုံေပါက္ကြဲမႈႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္၍ စစ္အစုိးရ၏ ေျမာက္ပုိင္းတုိင္း တုိင္းမႉး ဗုိလ္ခ်ဳပ္ စုိး၀င္းႏွင့္ ကခ်င္ လြတ္လပ္ေရး အဖြဲ႕ (KIO) တုိ႔ ျမစ္ႀကီးနား

နယ္ျခားေစာင့္တပ္ လက္မခံရသည့္အေၾကာင္း ေကအိုင္အို လူထုအား အသိေပးေျပာၾကား

ခိုင္လင္း/ ၁၉ ဧၿပီ ၂၀၁၀ “ကခ်င္လိုေကာ၊ ျမန္မာလိုေကာ အက်ယ္တဝင့္ ရွင္းသြားတယ္။ ၿပီးေတာ့ နံရံကပ္စာေစာင္မွာလည္း သူတို႔ရွင္းလင္းေျပာျပတာေတြကို ထုတ္ျပ ထားတယ္။ နယ္ျခားေစာင့္တပ္ကို ဘယ္လို ဖဲြ႔စည္းမယ္၊ လစာနဲ႔ရိကၡာ ဘယ္လိုထုတ္ေပးမယ္ ဆိုတာကအစ ေရးထားတယ္။ အခုလို ရွင္းျပ လိုက္ေတာ့ လူထုေတြအေနနဲ႔ ေကအိုင္အိုက နယ္ျခားေစာင့္တပ္ အသြင္ေျပာင္းေရးကို ဘာေၾကာင့္ .... ” အျပည့္အစံုသို႔

ကခ်င္ျပည္နယ္ တိုးတက္ေရးပါတီ စည္း႐ံုးေရး အရွိန္တုိးျမႇင့္
လင္းႏိုင္ဦး/ ၁၉ ဧၿပီ ၂၀၁၀ “သူတို႔ေျပာတာက ဒီေရြးေကာက္ပဲြႀကီး လုပ္လို႔လည္း ဒီမိုကေရစီ ရလာမယ္လို႔ သူတို႔ အာမ မခံဘူး။ တိုင္းျပည္ရဲ႕ ေပၚလစီ ေျပာင္းလာမယ္လို႔လည္း ...” အျပည့္အစံုသို႔
ေနျပည္ေတာ္၌ ဆုိင္ကယ္တုိက္မႈေၾကာင့္ ေသဆုံးသူမ်ား
NEJ/ ၁၉ ဧၿပီ ၂၀၁၀ “သေျပရိပ္မွာ ဆုိင္ကယ္ခ်င္း တုိက္မိတာ (၁၄) ႏွစ္အရြယ္ မိန္းကေလး ...” အျပည့္အစံုသို႔
နာေရးကူညီမႈအသင္းတြင္ စာနယ္ဇင္းသမားမ်ား ပါ၀င္ကုသိုလ္ျပဳ

မ်ဳိးခ်စ္သူ/ ၁၉ ဧၿပီ ၂ဝ၁ဝ “နာေရးကူညီမႈအသင္းရဲ႕ေဆာင္ရြက္ခ်က္ေတြကို ကိုယ္ေတြ႔ သိေစလိုတာေၾကာင့္ရယ္နဲ႔ နာေရးျဖစ္သူေတြရဲ႕ မိသားစု ေတြရဲ႕ခံစားမႈေတြကို သိေစလိုတာေၾကာင့္ ...” အျပည့္အစံုသို႔
ဗံုးခြဲတရားခံမ်ားအား သတင္းေပးႏိုင္က ဆုေငြခ်ီးျမႇင့္မည္ဟု တယက ေၾကညာ

ေအာင္ထက္/ ၁၉ ဧၿပီ ၂၀၁၀ “ပထမအလံုးနဲ႔ မိနစ္၀က္ေလာက္ အၾကာမွာ ေနာက္ထပ္ ဗံုး (၂) လံုး ဆက္ေပါက္တယ္...” အျပည့္အစံုသို႔

လမ္းပိတ္ဆုိ႔ဖုိ႔ ရွပ္နီေတြ စီးလုံ ဆီ ခ်ီတက္
Monday, April 19, 2010 ... အျပည့္အစံုသို႔

မေလးရွားနိုင္ငံတြင္ သူေတာင္းစားအျဖစ္ လုပ္ကိုင္ခဲ့ရသည့္ ျမန္မာကေလးငယ္ ၆ဦး အကူအညီေတာင္းခံ

ဧျပီ ၁၉

ေတာင္းစားသူအျဖစ္ အလုပ္လုပ္ကုိင္ေနရာမွ ဖမ္းဆီးခံရသျဖင့္ မေလးရွားနိုင္ငံ ေျမာက္ပိုင္း ကလန္တန္းျပည္နယ္၊ တႏၷာေမရကမ့္ kelantan ျပည္နယ္၊ tanah merah Camp ထဲတြင္ ကယ္ဆယ္သူမရွိပဲ ဒုကၡေရာက္ေနသည့္ ျမန္မာကေလးငယ္၆ဦၤးတို႔က ဘန္ေကာက္အေျခစိုက္ ထိုင္းနိုင္ငံေရာက္ ျမန္မာနိုင္ငံသားမ်ားအသင္းသို့ ဆက္သြယ္ အကူအညီ ေတာင္းခံလာခဲ့ေၾကာင္း သိရသည္။

မႏၱေလးတိုင္း မတၱရာျမိဳ ့မွ အဖဦးေဇာ္လင္းႏွင့္ ေဒၚေအးျမစိန္တို ႔၏ သားျဖစ္သူ အသက္ ၁၂ႏွစ္အရြယ္ ေမာင္ေက်ာ္သူလင္းက ေျပာျပရာတြင္ “မႏၱေလးကမူဆလင္ပဲ၊ ဦးမဲလံုးတဲ ့၊ သားကုိ လဘက္ရည္ဆိုင္မွာ လုပ္ရမယ္ဆိုျပီး ေခၚလာတာ။ မေလးရွားကို ေရာက္လာခဲ့တယ္။ ကားမွတ္တိုင္ေတြ၊ မီးပိြဳင္ေတြမွာ ပိုက္ဆံေတာင္းရပါတယ္၊ တစ္ေန ့ ကို ရင္းဂစ္ ၁၀၀ ရေအာင္ ေတာင္းရပါတယ္၊ အနည္းဆံုး၇၀/၈၀ ေလာက္ ရတတ္ပါတယ္။ မရတဲ့ေန႔ေတြမွာ သားတို႔ကုိ ရိုက္တယ္၊ ထုတယ္။ ထမင္းလည္း ၀၀လင္လင္ မစားရဘူး၊ သား၃လေက်ာ္ေက်ာ္ ပိုက္ဆံေတာင္းတဲ့ အလုပ္ကို လုပ္ခဲ့ရပါတယ္။ ပုလိပ္ဖမ္းေတာ့ ခု ကမ့္ထဲမွာ ေရာက္ေနတာ ၉လရွိပါျပီ။ ဒီမွာလည္း ထမင္း၀ေအာင္မေကၽြးဘူး။ ငါးေျခာက္ ေရျပဳတ္တာနဲ႔ပဲ ေကၽြးပါတယ္၊ သားတို႔ကို ျမန္ျမန္လာကယ္ၾကပါ၊ အေမ့ကိုလည္း ေျပာေပးပါခင္ဗ်ာ”ဟု ေျပာသည္။

 

ကခ်င္ တရုတ္ နယ္စပ္က KIA ထိန္းခ်ဳပ္နယ္ေျမ လုိင္ဇာ လင္းခုိင္ ဧၿပီ ၁၉၊ ၂၀၁၀ လုိင္ဇာၿမိဳ႕လယ္ တေနရာ။ (ဓာတ္ပုံမ်ား - လင္းခုိင္) လုိင္ဇာ မေရာက္ခင္ လမ္းေပၚက ရြာတရြာမွ ခရီးတေထာက္နားတယ္။ အဲဒီတုန္းက ေဆာင္းမကုန္ေသး။ ဧည့္ခန္း အလယ္ မီးဖုိေဘးမွာ ေနရာခ်ေပးတယ္။ ရြာလူႀကီးနဲ႔ ရြာသူ ရြာသားေတြရဲ႕ ဧည့္၀တ္ေက်မႈ၊ သေဘာေကာင္းမႈက အ့ံမခန္း။ သူတုိ႔ သေဘာေကာင္းတဲ့ အထဲမွာ ဧည့္သည္ကုိ ေပးအိပ္ဖုိ႔ အစီအစဥ္ေတာ့ ပါပုံမေပၚ။ ဟုိဘက္ညက မက္ထားေသာ အိပ္မက္မွန္ေနၿပီလုိ႔ ျဖတ္ခနဲ သိလုိက္၏။ ေခါင္းကုိ ဆင္နင္းတယ္လုိ႔ေလ၊ အိပ္မက္က။

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