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The endless blame game
Friday, May 7, 2010
Game Over? No, Not Yet |
| By AUNG ZAW |
| Even if Burma's upcoming election produces a less oppressive and more sophisticated government, the country's basic challenges will remain the same. |
Feathers Fly Over Use of Fighting Peacock Image |
| By KO HTWE |
| Feathers are flying in Burma over the use of the fighting peacock emblem by two newly registered political parties in their election campaigns. |
NDF Party to Ally with Pro-democracy, Ethnic Groups |
| By WAI MOE |
| A former NLD leader who plans to form a new political party to contest in the coming election said the party will ally with other pro-democracy and ethnic parties to shape the pro-democracy movement. |
INTERVIEWPeople Need a Political Party |
| By THE IRRAWADDY |
| The Irrawaddy recently interviewed Dr. Than Nyein, a former leader of the now-defunct NLD who will lead a small group of other former NLD leaders to found a new political party and contest the election. |
Forced Relocation Underway for New Town in Delta |
| By THE IRRAWADDY |
| Burmese authorities have ordered residents of Kyauk Chaung village and others to be relocated as part of a plan to expand Three-Mile Myo-Thit in Nargis-hit delta region.. |
Poll: Many Believe USDP Candidates Will Win |
| By THE IRRAWADDY |
| Many people believe candidates of the Union Solidarity and Development party will win a majority of seats in the upcoming elections, according to an Irrawaddy survey. That belief was supported by 418 out of 450 people who responded to the informal poll. |
Former National League for Democracy party central committee members and ...
Army expands outposts near Indian border
The Burmese junta’s Western Command is building 15 army outposts using forced labour ...
Gale lashes Monywa
A fierce gale lashed villages in Monywa yesterday damaging homes, monasteries, and ...
Cosmetic change alone can’t fix Burma’s problems
(Editorial) When Prime Minister Thein Sein and 26 other military officers quietly retired ...
Burma to enact anti-terror laws
New laws follow in the wake of a series of bombings across Burma that the government has pinned on exiledopposition groups
New opposition says Suu Kyi ‘is still leader’
National Democratic Force party, formed from the ashes of the National League for Democracy, will soon register for controversial elections in Burma
ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕တေနရာရိွ အႏိွပ္ခန္းတခုသုိ႔ သတင္းေထာက္ ဖုိးရႈပ္ ေရာက္လာသည္။ အသံဂ်ာနယ္ ထုတ္ေ၀သူ ဦးေန၀င္းေျပာင္ႏွင့္ ခ်ိန္းထားေသာေၾကာင့္ ျဖစ္သည္။ ဖုိးရႈပ္ကုိေတြ႔သည္ႏွင့္ ဦးေန၀င္းေျပာင္က ၀မ္းသာအားရ ႏႈတ္ဆက္လုိက္သည္။ 
“ပါတီအမည္က အမ်ဳိးသား ဒီမိုကေရစီအင္အားစုပါ။ အဂၤလိပ္လိုေတာ့...” 
“ဒါ ျမန္မာျပည္မွာ ပထမဆံုး လုပ္တာပဲေပါ့။ လစဥ္ေၾကး တလ (၅) ေသာင္းက်ပ္ ...” 
“ျပည္ပမွာ အစိုးရဖြဲ႔လို႔ ရယ္စရာႀကီး ျဖစ္မွာေပါ့ဗ်။ ျပည္ပမွာ အစိုးရအဖြဲ႔ေတြ ဘယ္ႏွဖြဲ႔ေတာင္ ရွိေနၿပီလဲ။ ဟိုတခါ သိၾကားမင္းေရးသလို စကၠဴက်ားစီမံကိန္းျဖစ္ၿပီး ျပည္ပႏိုင္ငံေရးသမားေတြ သိကၡာက်ၿပီးရင္း က်ကုန္ ပါ့မယ္ဗ်ာ။ တကယ္ဖြဲ႔ရမွာက ျပည္တြင္းက စီအာပီပီ၊ အန္အယ္လ္ဒီနဲ႔ လႊတ္ေတာ္ကိုယ္စားလွယ္ေတြက ဖြဲ႔ရမွာဗ်။ ဒုကၡပါပဲဗ်ာ ...” 
အသြင္ေျပာင္းေရး လံုး၀လက္မခံသည့္ ေျမာက္ပိုင္း အပစ္ရပ္ SSA တပ္မဟာ ၁ အား ဆက္လက္နားခ် စည္း ႐ုံးရန္ လား႐ႈိးအေျခစိုက္ အေ႐ွ႕ေျမာက္ပိုင္းတိုင္း တုိင္းမႉးက အပစ္ရပ္ SSA ဥကၠဌတို႕အေပၚေခ်ာ့/ေျခာက္ ဖိအား ေပးခဲ့သည္ဟု စံုစမ္းသိ႐ွိရပါသည္။
ေရြးေကာက္္ပြဲေနာက္ပိုင္းဖ်က္သိမ္းရဖြယ္ရွိမည့္ ေကာဠာဟဠသတင္းေၾကာင့္ ယခုရက္ပိုင္းအတြင္းလားရႈိးၿမိဳ႕ နအဖပိုင္ ျမန္မာ့စီးပြါးေရးဘဏ္တြင္ ၿမိဳ႕သူၿမိဳ႕သားမ်ား အလုအယက္ေငြထုတ္ယူေနၾကေၾကာင္း စံုစမ္းသိရွိရသည္။
