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 |  We have urged Burma’s senior leadership to abide by its own commitment to fully comply with UN Security Council Resolution 1874... .Without such a process, the United States maintains the right to take independent action within the relevant frameworks established by the international community.  —Kurt Campbell, the assistant secretary of state for East Asia and Pacific Affairs |
Burma's “Umbrella Dialogue” |
| By BA KAUNG |
| The junta remains intransigent as Suu Kyi and Campbell talk under the midday sun. |
Prime Minister, Ministers Set to Resign |
| By THE IRRAWADDY |
| Prime Minister Thein Sein and other government ministers who are leaders of the Union Solidarity and Development Party will resign from their government posts this month, according to sources in Naypyidaw. |
NEWS ANALYSISPolice Chief Trips Up in Bomb Blast Testimony |
| By KHET HTAN |
| An examination of statements made at a press conference by Burma's Police Chief Khin Yi has disclosed factual errors that cast doubt on accusations relating to the fatal bomb explosions. |
Bombing Photographer Accused of Contacting 'Unlawful Associations' |
| By THE IRRAWADDY |
| Rangoon authorities will reportedly charge photographer Sithu Zeya, who was arrested after taking photos of the water festival bombing aftermath, with violating the 1957 Unlawful Associations Act. |
Inequality Gap Stains Thailand’s MDG Achievements |
| By MARWAAN MACAN-MARKAR |
| Thailand may have earned praise for meeting national targets to slash poverty and hunger ahead of a global deadline. |
Sand for Singapore Devastating Cambodia Ecology |
| By DENIS D GRAY |
| Cambodia is devastating its coast by dredging vast quantities of sand to sell to tiny Singapore, with multimillion-dollar profits going to tycoons close to Hun Sen, the Global Witness said. |
SLIDE SHOWCampbell Warns Burma over NKorea Arms |
| By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS |
| A top US official visiting Burma warns that its military regime should abide by UN sanctions that prohibit buying arms from North Korea, and also said the junta's election plans lack legitimacy. |
Poet Saw Wai to be freed on May 26
Well known Burmese poet Saw Wai, sentenced to two years in prison for his acrostic ...
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More than 60 villages in Pegu Division are facing severe water shortages after record high temperatures ... Supreme Court grants leave for Suu Kyi’s special appeal
Rangoon Supreme Court has given Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi special leave to ... US envoy meets Suu Kyi, Ends visit upset at junta pre-poll conduct
US envoy Kurt Campbell met detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi for an hour at a state guest house ...
Suu Kyi makes last bid for freedomSuu Kyi launches final appeal against her house arrest only days after the legal dissolution of her opposition National League for Democracy party
US mulls ‘independent action’ on BurmaUN envoy Kurt Campbell's concerns about 'recent developments' in Burma renew fears of strengthening military ties with North Korea and China
Rangoon photographer ‘was tortured’Mother of Sithu Zeya says that he was beaten and denied food for several days after being arrested for photographing the Rangoon bombing aftermath
ဆႏၵျပမႈ တသီႀကီး ဆက္တုိက္ျဖစ္ပြားၿပီးေနာက္ ေခတၱၿငိမ္သက္ေနခဲ့ရာကေန ၿပီးခဲ့တဲ့ အပတ္အတြင္း ဧၿပီလ (၉) ရက္ေန႔က ေတာင္ဒဂံုၿမိဳ႕နယ္အတြင္းရွိ အုိင္အုိ၀မ္း အီလက္ထေရာနစ္စက္႐ံုမွာ (၂) ႏွစ္ၾကာ မရရွိခဲ့တဲ့ ေဘာနပ္ဆုေၾကးရရွိေရး ဆႏၵျပမႈတခု ထပ္မံျဖစ္ပြားခဲ့ေၾကာင္း သိရပါတယ္။ တျခားအေရးေတြက ထိပ္တန္းတက္ေနခ်ိန္၊ အတာကူးသႀကၤန္ခ်ိန္လည္း နီးၿပီမို႔ အမွတ္မထင္ ျဖစ္ပြားခဲ့တဲ့ ဒီဆႏၵျပမႈဟာ မၾကာခင္ ထပ္ၿပီး ေပၚလာဦးမယ့္....
ပူျပင္းေျခာက္ေသြ႔မႈေၾကာင့္ ေရတြင္း ေရကန္မ်ား ခမ္းေျခာက္လာသည့္အတြက္ ... 
