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Ukrainian opposition and pro-presidential lawmakers fight against each other during ratification of the Black Sea Fleet deal with Russia, in parliament in Kyiv, Ukraine, 27 Apr 2010
Ukraine Ratifies Russia Naval Base Amid Protest
Parliament session also involved physical confrontations between lawmakers
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Energy Companies in Burma Urged to Disclose Payments |
| By SIMON ROUGHNEEN |
| Backed by 160 NGOs, unions and policy figures, the Earthrights International releases a statement urging energy companies in Burma to publish “all payments made to the Burmese authorities since 1992.” |
Thein Sein to Head Political Party? |
| By WAI MOE |
| Sources say the Burmese PM is retiring from the military to head a new political party—part of Than Shwe's master plan for entrenching military rule. |
Than Shwe's Planes Named 'White Elephant' |
| By AUNG THET WINE |
| Two private planes reserved for Burma's junta chief Snr-Gen Than Shwe and four top generals are named “White Elephants.” |
After Renewing Sanctions, EU Seeks Meeting with Junta |
| By SIMON ROUGHNEEN |
| European Union foreign ministers have renewed the bloc's “Common Position” on Burma, extending existing sanctions until April 2011. |
As They Fold, Indonesia Garment Makers Blame China |
| By CHRIS BLAKE |
| The flood of cheap products has poured into Indonesia under a free-trade agreement between China and Asean countries. Some industries are calling on the government to save their businesses from collapse. |
International pressure is mounting on multinational oil and gas companies operating ...
Senator seeks Burmese perspective on US policy
Burmese activists and community leaders in the United States have urged US Senator ...
Asia World doubles tolls on road to Bassein
Junta crony firm Asia World has without notice, since the Buddhist New Year, ...
Please don't prevent the hearse crossing your ward.
(Interview) Kyaw Thu, actor turned founder of free funeral service, has been honoured with ...
Mass call for Burma gas transparency
Rights groups claim that absense of secrecy clause in contracts for Total and Chevron mean their dealings with the Burmese junta can go public
ဧၿပီ ၂၂ ရက္ေနာက္ဆံုးထား အမည္စာရင္းေပးပို႕၍ ၂၈ ရက္ မနက္ျဖန္အၿပီး အသြင္ေျပာင္းရမည္ဆိုသည့္ နအဖ ၏ ဖိအားေၾကာင့္ ဗဟိုေကာ္မတီအဖြဲ႕႐ုံးစိုက္ရာ ေျမာက္ပိုင္းအပစ္ရပ္ SSA ဌာခ်ဳပ္အား အခမ္းအနားျဖင့္ စိန္ေက်ာ့ ဌာေနျပည္သူ႕စစ္အျဖစ္ တနဂၤေႏြေန႕က အသြင္ေျပာင္းေပးလိုက္ေၾကာင္း စံုစမ္းသိ႐ွိရပါသည္။
နယ္ျခားေစာင့္တပ္အေရး ဧၿပီလ ၂၂ ရက္ေန႔က ႏွစ္ဘက္ေတြ႔ဆံု ေဆြးေႏြးမႈသည္ ေနာက္ဆံုးအႀကိမ္ ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း ကခ်င္ျပည္လြတ္လပ္ေရးအဖြဲ႔ (ေကအိုင္အို) ကို ေျမာက္ပိုင္းတိုင္းမႉး ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္စိုး၀င္းက ေျပာၾကားလိုက္သည္။
“စစ္အစိုးရထိပ္ပိုင္းအရာရိွမ်ားႏွင့္ ၎တို႔ႏွင့္ ဆက္ႏႊယ္ပတ္သက္ သူမ်ားအား ...” 
“နအဖတပ္ေတြက ရြာထဲ၀င္လာၿပီး ရြာသားေတြကို ေသနတ္နဲ႔လာၿပီး ခ်ိန္တာေတြ ...” 
