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 |  It's not an easy job to find institutions or individuals to solve the [current political] crisis, since it has reached the point where people in Thai society no longer trust each other.  — Charnvit Kasetsiri, one of Thailand's most distinguished historians |
Than Shwe's Election Dilemma |
| By BAMARGYI |
| Everyone is asking why no election date has been set? One explanation might be Snr-Gen. Than Shwe is still not sure how to negotiate his way into a safe future. |
Burmese Women Not Allowed to Marry Foreigners |
| By THAE THAE |
| Burmese authorities have been instructed by the government to block marriage ceremonies between Burmese women and foreign men, according to legal sources. |
Five Years Added to Student Leader's Sentence |
| By BA KAUNG |
| With activist and student leader Kyaw Ko Ko's initial three-year jail sentence set to expire next year, the junta tacks on an additional five years. |
Election Witness in Mindanao |
| By SAW YAN NAING |
| A reporter for The Irrawaddy observes the recent election in the southern Philippines. |
KIO Leaders Meet with Burmese Commander |
| By KYAW THEIN KHA |
| The Kachin Independence Organization meets with the commander of the Northern Military Regional Command to discuss the border guard force (BGF) issue and the bomb blasts at Myintsone Dam. |
EU to Send Mission to Burma |
| By WAI MOE |
| The European Union plans to send a mission to military-ruled Burma following the passage of a resolution by the Council of the European Union to undertake a dialogue with the junta. |
Engineer held over bomb attack denied legal aid
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Top-ranking military officers gathered in the secluded Burmese capital of Naypyidaw ...
Mingala Market fire restarts after gas blasts
Firemen at 9:30 p.m. were still battling a blaze at Mingala Market that started ...
Journals suspended over Htet Htet Moe Oo alleged assault
The Burmese junta’s state censor has temporarily suspended the publishing licences ...
Bean prices reach record high
The prices of exportable beans in the Burmese market reached record highs mid-May, ...
UN slams ‘persistent’ child soldier useReport by UN expert criticises use of child soldiers by both armed ethnic groups and the Burmese army but falls short on wider state-sanctioned crimes
“ဒီေန႔ေတာ့ ထမင္းငတ္ၿပီေဟ့၊ ဒီလို ေလာင္ေနပံုမ်ိုဳးနဲ႔ ဘယ္ႏွလ အလုပ္္လက္မဲ့ ျဖစ္ေနဦး မလဲကြာ” ဟု မီးခိုး လံုးႀကီးမ်ား အူထြက္ ေနေသာ မဂၤလာေစ်းႀကီးကို ေမာ့ၾကည့္ရင္း စိတ္မေကာင္း ႀကီးစြာျဖင့္ 
