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Only a Handful of Women to Run in Election |
| By KO HTWE |
| A survey by The Irrawaddy finds that women will make up less than a tenth of the total number of candidates in Burma's upcoming election. |
Parties Say Polling Station Increase Makes Fraud More Likely |
| By BA KAUNG |
| Burma's cash-strapped opposition parties say they will be unable to monitor vote-counting in many parts of the country, making it easier for better-financed parties to cheat. |
NEWS ANALYSISTwilight of the DKBA? |
| By SAW YAN NAING |
| Since it acceded to the junta's BGF plan, the DKBA has been derided by Burma observers for wilting under pressure. But others say the group has options. |
Thai Red Shirts Begin Coup Anniversary Protests |
| By GRANT PECK |
| Anti-government activists in Thailand begin a series of protests marking the fourth anniversary of a military coup with a show of support for their jailed leaders. |
Weekly Business Roundup (September 18, 2010) |
| By WILLIAM BOOT |
| India is committed to building a railway line up to the border with Burma at Moreh at a cost of almost US $650 million, the New Delhi minister for railways said. |
NEWS ANALYSISQuestioning the EC Definition of 'Free and Fair' |
| By HTET AUNG |
| Burma's Election Commission announces “areas where elections will not be held,” saying the areas are “in no position to host free and fair elections.” But where's the evidence? |
The editor of a weekly news journal based in Rangoon yesterday condemned the arrest of a cadet ... Freedom fighter and mentor to Suu Kyi dies at 93
Freedom fighter and leftist, Ohn Myint, a close colleague of Aung San and his family who took part in ... Britain condemns closure of NLD and ethnic parties
British Foreign Secretary William Hague has condemned the November 7 Burmese election, calling it ... Editors secure release of cadet held for Magway flood photos
A cadet reporter for the Weekly Eleven Journal was released on Friday morning after two days’ detention ... Shan and Burmese Army units clash in state’s north
An armed clash took place between an ethnic ceasefire group that had rejected the junta’s Border Guard Force ... 
Jail threat for Suu Kyi’s party
State media warns National League for Democracy that continued protesting against 7 November elections could result in one-year jail term
US ‘thoroughly disappointed’: Kurt Campbell
US official, Kurt Campbell has said the US is disappointed with the results of the Obama administration's policy of engagement, but stands by the approach
ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံမွ ရန္ကုန္ အပါအ၀င္ ျမိဳ႕ၾကီး တခ်ိဳ႕တြင္ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ နီးလာသျဖင့္ အင္တာနက္ဆိုင္မ်ား၌ အင္တာနက္သံုးစြဲသူမ်ားကို ေစာင့္ၾကည္မူမ်ား ပိုမိုမ်ားျပားလာသျဖင့္ မိဖမ်ားက သားသမီးမ်ားကို အင္တာနက္္ဆိုင္မ်ားသို႕ သြားေရာက္မူကို တားျမစ္ ပိတ္ပင္မူမ်ား ရွိလာသည္ဟု သတင္း ရရွိသည္။
ကြယ္လြန္သြားၿပီျဖစ္တဲ့ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ႀကီးေနဝင္းက ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံကို ျမန္မာ့ ဆိုရွယ္လစ္လမ္းစဥ္နဲ႔ အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ခဲ့ၿပီး ၂၆ ႏွစ္တာ ၾကာလာၿပီးေနာက္ပိုင္း တိုင္းျပည္ရဲ႕ စီးပြားေရး၊ ႏိုင္ငံေရး၊ လူမႈေရး အဖက္ဖက္က က်ဆင္းေနခ်ိန္မွာ တကၠသိုလ္ေက်ာင္းသားေတြ ဦးေဆာင္တဲ့ ၈၈၈၈ လူထုအံုႂကြမႈႀကီး ေပၚေပါက္လာခဲ့ပါတယ္။
လႊတ္ေတာ္ ကိုယ္စားလွယ္ေလာင္းေတြ အေနနဲ ့ ေရြးေကာက္ပဲြ ရေငြ၊ သံုးေငြစာရင္း စနစ္တက် ျပဳစုထားဖို႔ ေရြးေကာက္ပဲြ ေကာ္မရွင္က ဒီကေန႔ ေၾကညာခ်က္ ထုတ္ျပန္ပါတယ္။
