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Iran's military displayed the drone at a ceremony attended by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
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| By WAI MOE |
| The Burmese regime has reaffirmed that it will not recognize the United Wa State Army's claims to three townships that it wants to be part of its self-administered territory. |
Mangrove Forest Under Threat in Post-Nargis Delta |
| By THE IRRAWADDY |
| Still deprived of their livelihoods more than two years after Cyclone Nargis, many in the Irrawaddy delta are turning to the region's mangrove forests for a readily exploitable resource. |
Weekly Business Roundup (August 21, 2010) |
| By WILLIAM BOOT |
| The privatization of Burma’s state-owned assets ahead of the election is a hurried asset-stripping exercise reminiscent of Russia disposing of communism, says The Economist. |
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| By GRANT PECK |
| A group of anonymous Internet activists has set up a website to display information about Thailand that comes from the whistle-blower site Wikileaks. |
NEWS ANALYSISA Big Break for US in Case of Reputed Arms Dealer |
| By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS |
| Victor Bout, the man accused of supplying the weapons for civil wars on three continents, could raise the roof in both Moscow and Washington. |
(Interview) In a social atmosphere often held hostage to competing political agendas, Burma’s ... Political prisoner denied surgery for 1½ years
Political prisoner Myo Win Wai, who voluntarily worked to collect the dead after ...
Burmese at Thai prawn plant strike against overtime change
Burmese migrant workers held a demonstration this morning at a prawn-processing ...
Burmese cuisine popular but ‘envoys lacked junta support’
Burmese traditional foods were a hit at a recent world food festival held by the Vietnamese government ... USDP conducts nationwide office-opening ceremonies
The main junta-backed political party conducted an office-opening ceremony at party headquarters ... NLD officially boycotts polls after strategic talks
နအဖဘက္မွ ထပ္မံဆင့္ေခၚခ်က္အရ UWSA ၀ တပ္ဖြဲ႕ႏွင့္ မိုင္းလားတပ္ဖြဲ႕မွ အရာရွိမ်ား ယေန႔နံနက္၌ သြားေရာက္ ေတြ႕ဆံုေၾကာင္း စံုစမ္းသိရွိရပါသည္။
ဝါရင့္ ရွမ္းႏိုင္ငံေရး ေခါင္းေဆာင္တဦး ျဖစ္သူ ဦးေရႊအံုး ယမန္ေန႔ ညေန ၆ နာရီေက်ာ္ ...
ႏိုင္ငံအဝွမ္း ႀကံ့ခိုင္ဖြံ႔ၿဖိဳးေရး ပါတီရံုးမ်ား ယေန႔ တၿပိဳင္နက္ ဖြင့္ခ်ိန္တြင္ ပါတီ႐ုံးခ်ဳပ္ကုိ ...
ၾသစေၾတးလ်သို႔ လြန္ခဲ့သည့္ ၄ ႏွစ္က အေျခခ် ေနထိုင္ခဲ့သူ ၁၂ အရြယ္ ခ်င္းအမ်ဳိးသား ...
