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NLD and Ethnic Leaders Tour Kachin State |
| By THE IRRAWADDY |
| Senior members of the National League for Democracy and a prominent ethnic leader are traveling in Kachin State to meet with local party members and lobby for a boycott of next month's election. |
New Intelligence Chief Undertakes Major Overhaul |
| By THE IRRAWADDY |
| Maj-Gen Kyaw Swe, the new head of Burma's military intelligence agency, seeks to make it a more efficient tool of the ruling regime. |
Suu Kyi: Reject 'Unfair' Elections |
| By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS |
| Burma's detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has advised people to register their discontent at the upcoming elections, which her disbanded party is boycotting as unfair and undemocratic. |
Farmers Fight for Their Land in Kachin State |
| By KO HTWE |
| 600 farmers in Kachin State, who were displaced when their land was confiscated by the Yuzana Company, have vowed to fight through the courts to win back their farms. |
Junta Calls KIA “Insurgents” |
| By WAI MOE |
| The junta is ratcheting up tension with the Kachin Independent Army by calling them “insurgents” in state-run media. |
Cartoon Campaign Ridicules The Generals |
| By THE IRRAWADDY |
| Cartoons by Irawaddy cartoonist Harn Lay are reaching Burma's electorate through a special distribution campaign. |
Who Cares if the Election is 'Free and Fair'? |
| By AUNG ZAW |
| Burma's rulers certainly don't, and the international community has given them little reason to feel otherwise. |
Special feature series: What is a ‘free and fair’ election?
(Special Report) In one of its opening salvoes against the Burmese junta’s elections this year, the country... Independents on foot after TV, radio access denied
Independent candidates are being forced to settle for distributing leaflets in their campaigning amid a ban ... Kachin armed ceasefire group embarks on drug offensive
(Interview) The main ethnic Kachin ceasefire group is set to crack down on drug users and traffickers after ... Young voters ill-informed of choices for election day
Minimal canvassing and leafleting by political parties, as well as a lack of media coverage on ...
USDP signboards vandalised with red paint in Pegu town
Signboards belonging to Burma’s main junta-backed political party were vandalised with red paint in Pegu ..
New initiative reignites Burma tourism debate
Burma, Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos to join hands in promoting 'Four Countries: One Destination' but the pro-boycott lobby stands strong
Burma has ‘one doctor for every 8000 prisoners’
Prison department official says that only 109 medical staff are assigned to the country's 43 prisons and 100-odd labour camps
Indonesia urged to back war crimes probeSoutheast Asia's largest democracy hailed as model for Burma's transition and possible trend-setter if it backs UN inquiry
ဖိုးရႈပ္။ ။ အဲဒါပဲ။ ဦးရုကၡစိုးက နတ္ျဖစ္ၿပီး ေလာင္းကစားလုပ္တာကိုး။ ဒီ ႏွစ္လံုးထီကို မထိုးပါနဲ႔လို႔ ခဏခဏ ေျပာေနရဲ႕သားနဲ႔။ အခုေတာ့ ကြဲၿပီေပါ့။ ေတာ္ေတာ္မွ ပါသြားရဲ႕လား။
ဆယ္စုႏွစ္ ႏွစ္ခုအၾကာတြင္ ပထမဆံုး ျဖစ္လာမည့္ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲအေပၚ မဲ ... 
မႏၱေလးေတာင္ေျခ အုိးဘုိ အက်ဥ္းေထာင္မွာ အက်ဥ္းက်ခံေနရတဲ့ အက်ဥ္းသား ၅ ေထာင့္ ၅ ရာ နီးပါးကို သီတဂူ ဆရာေတာ္ ဦးဥာဏိႆရ ဦးေဆာင္တဲ့ တပည့္ ဒါယကာ ဒါယိကာမေတြ စုေပါင္းၿပီး အစားအေသာက္နဲ႔ ပစၥည္းေတြ သြားေရာက္ လွဴဒါန္းခဲ့တယ္လို႔ သိရပါတယ္။
ျမန္မာစစ္အစိုးရရဲ့ စစ္ရာဇဝတ္မႈေတြနဲ႔ လူသားမ်ားအေပၚ က်ဴးလြန္တဲ႔ ရာဇဝတ္မႈေတြအေပၚ အေမရိကန္ ဦးေဆာင္ၿပီး ႏိုင္ငံတကာအေနနဲ႔ ကုလသမဂၢက စုံစမ္းေရးေကာ္မရွင္ဖြဲ႕ စစ္ေဆးေရးမွာ ဂ်ပန္ႏိုင္ငံ ပါဝင္ေထာက္ခံဖို႔ စစ္အာဏာရွင္ တိုက္ဖ်က္ေရး လူထုလႈပ္ရွားမႈေကာ္မတီက ဂ်ပန္အစိုးရထံကို ဒီကေန႔ ေအာက္တိုဘာလ ၁၅ ရက္ေန႔မွာ စာတေစာင္ ေပးပို႔ခဲ့တယ္လို႔ သိရပါတယ္။ 
ကခ်င္ျပည္နယ္ မိုးေကာင္းၿမိဳ႕နယ္ ႏြားလပို႔ေတာင္မွာ KIA ကခ်င္ ေသာင္းက်န္းသူေတြ ေထာင္ထားတဲ့ ေျမျမႇဳပ္မိုင္းေၾကာင့္ အျပစ္မဲ့ ျပည္သူ ၂ ဦး ေသဆုံးသြားတယ္ဆိုၿပီး KIO ကခ်င္လြတ္ေျမာက္ေရးအဖြဲ႕ကို ေသာင္းက်န္းသူအဖြဲ႕အျဖစ္ စစ္အစိုးရသတင္းစာက ေအာက္တိုဘာ ၁၅ ရက္ ဒီကေန႔ ျပန္လည္သုံးစြဲ ေဖာ္ျပလိုက္ပါတယ္။
လမ္းျပၾကယ္ ဦးေအးျမင့္လို႔ လူသိမ်ားတဲ့ ပဲခူးၿမိဳ႕မွာ ေနထိုင္သူ ေရွ႕ေနဦးေအးျမင့္က NLD အမ်ဳိးသား ဒီမုိကေရစီအဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္ ေခါင္းေဆာင္ပုိင္းကို ဒီရက္ပိုင္းေတြအတြင္း အဆက္မျပတ္ ေဝဖန္စြပ္စြဲမႈေတြ ျပဳလုပ္ေနၿပီး ၊ ေ႐ြးေကာက္ပြဲ ကိုသပိတ္ေမွာက္ဖို႔ တကယ္ ေျပာတယ္ဆိုရင္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ မွားယြင္းတယ္လို႔လည္း သူက ေျပာပါတယ္။
ျမန္မာစစ္အစိုးရရဲ့ ၂၀၀၈ ခုႏွစ္ အေျခခံဥပေဒတြင္ အတည္ျပဳထားခဲ့ေသာ ႏုိင္ငံေတာ္အလံသစ္ကို ေျပာင္းလဲအသံုးျပဳမယ္ဆိုၿပီး အမွတ္(၁) စက္မႈ ဝန္ႀကီးဌာနက ရန္ကုန္ အထည္ခ်ဳပ္ စက္႐ုံေတြကို ႏိုင္ငံေတာ္ အလံသစ္ေတြကို အျမန္ ခ်ဳပ္ခိုင္းေနတယ္လို႔ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ အထည္ခ်ဳပ္ လုပ္ငန္း႐ွင္မ်ားအသင္း ထံမွ သိရပါတယ္။
