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EU finance ministers meet in Brussels, with the issue of a possible bail-out of the Irish Republic top of the agenda.Election Day in Karenni State |
| By ALEX ELLGEE |
| An Irrawaddy reporter speaks to rural people in Karenni State and discovers the general election is the last thing on their minds. |
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| By YENI |
| In the seven years that she has been under house arrest, Aung San Suu Kyi has missed many developments in modern communications. Now she's eagerly catching up with the rest of the world. |
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| By KO HTWE |
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| By SAW YAN NAING and BA KAUNG |
| While the US and European nations welcome the Nobel laureate's release from house arrest, Beijing maintains a pragmatic silence. |
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| By LAWI WENG |
| The Election Commission refuses to investigate claims of fraudulent advance voting. |
Election complainants risk jail term
State media issues warning to candidates unhappy with the election process as Aung San Suu Kyi fights the dissolution of her party
Suu Kyi reignites push for ethnic autonomy
Released opposition leader picking up where her father left off as momentum grows over covening of 'Panglong 2' discussion
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Complaints continue over illegal favouring of the junta-backed victors by election officials as one party calls for results to be nullified NDF chief ‘ready to work with Aung San Suu Kyi’
Khin Maung Swe, leader of the National Democratic Force, told Mizzima he was delighted pro-democracy ... 70pc of Cyclone Giri’s victims still lack basics
Cyclone-Giri-2sBasic food and shelter is lacking for 70 per cent of residents in areas of Arakan State ...A new programme needed for long term benefit
(Editorial) The release of democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi from house arrest was an auspicious moment. While her release may...
Parties decry cost to lay electoral fraud charges
Political parties are making efforts to expose the junta’s electoral fraud since its watchdog, ... The Lady meets the press, ‘release is unconditional’
(Interview) Aung San Suu Kyi confirmed yesterday that her release from house arrest on Saturday ... ‘Work in unison’
(Commentary)“People must work in unison. Only then can we achieve our goals,” the BBC quoted ...
ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ မိန္႔ခြန္းေျပာေနရာ NLD ရံုးခ်ဳပ္ေရွ႕တြင္ လူစုလူေဝးႀကီး အံုခဲေနသည္။ ထိုေနရာ အေနာက္နားတြင္ ခ်ိဳကုပ္ဒူးႀကီးက မ်က္ႏွာဖံုးစြပ္ႏွင့္ ရုပ္ဖ်က္ၿပီး ေရာက္ေနသည္၊ ဦးရုကၡစိုးလည္း 
ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ကို တိုင္းရင္းသားေခါင္းေဆာင္ေတြ ပထမဆံုးအႀကိမ္ ႏိုဝင္ဘာ ၁၆ ရက္ ဒီကေန႔ ေတြ႕ဆံုႏႈတ္ဆက္ၿပီး ဒုတိယအႀကိမ္ ပင္လံုညီလာခံ က်င္းပျပဳလုပ္ႏုိင္ေရး တင္ျပခဲ့တယ္လို႔ သိရပါတယ္။ 
ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ဟာ ေနအိမ္အက်ယ္ခ်ဳပ္က လြတ္ေျမာက္လာၿပီးေနာက္ ႏုိင္ငံတကာ သံတမန္ေတြနဲ႔ ႏိုဝင္ဘာ ၁၅ ရက္ မေန႔က တႀကိမ္၊ ဒီကေန႔ တႀကိမ္ ေတြ႕ဆံုေနရာမွာ ဒီကေန႔ အေမရိကန္ ျပည္ေထာင္စုနဲ႔ ဥေရာပသမဂၢ ႏုိင္ငံမ်ားအဖြဲ႕က သံတမန္ေတြနဲ႔ သီးသန္႔စီ ေတြ႕ဆံုခဲ့တယ္လို႔ သိရပါတယ္။ 
အမ်ိဳးသားဒီမိုကေရစီအဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္ NLD ပါတီရဲ့ တရားဝင္ ရပ္တည္ခြင့္နဲ႔ ပတ္သက္လို႔ တရား႐ံုးကို တိုက္႐ိုက္ တင္ျပ တိုင္ၾကားထားတဲ့ အမႈအတြက္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ ကိုယ္တိုင္ ရန္ကုန္ တရား႐ံုးခ်ဳပ္ကို ဒီကေန႔ ႏိုဝင္ဘာ ၁၆ ရက္ မြန္းလြဲပိုင္းက သြားေရာက္ၿပီး က်မ္းက်ိန္လႊာ လက္မွတ္ေရးထိုးတယ္လို႔ စံုစမ္း သိရွိရပါတယ္။ 
ျမန္မာစစ္အစုိးရက ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ကုိ ေနအိမ္အက်ယ္ခ်ဳပ္က လႊတ္ေပးလုိက္သလုိ က်န္ရွိေနေသးတဲ့ ႏုိင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသား ၂၁၀၀ ေက်ာ္ကုိပါ လႊတ္ေပးဖုိ႔ လုိအပ္ေၾကာင္း ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံဆုိင္ရာ ကုလသမဂၢ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရး အထူးကုိယ္စားလွယ္ မစၥတာ ကင္တားနားက ႏိုဝင္ဘာ ၁၆ ရက္ ဒီကေန႔ ေတာင္းဆုိလုိက္ပါတယ္။ 
ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ လြတ္ေျမာက္တဲ့ အထိမ္းအမွတ္အျဖစ္ AI- Amnesty International နိုင္ငံတကာ လြတ္ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းသာခြင့္အဖြဲ႕က ျမန္မာျပည္တြင္းကို ေရဒီယို အလံုးေရ တေသာင္း အခမဲ့ ထပ္မံ ေပးပို႔ေနပါတယ္။
အာဆီယံအဖြဲ႕ရဲ့ အနာဂတ္ ဥကၠ႒ ႏုိင္ငံအေနနဲ႔ ျမန္မာစစ္အစိုးရရဲ့ ႏိုဝင္ဘာ ၇ ရက္ေန႔ ေ႐ြးေကာက္ ပြဲ အေပၚ ဦးေဆာင္ စစ္ေဆးသံုးသပ္ဖို႔ အင္ဒိုနီးရွား လႊတ္ေတာ္အမတ္တဦးက ႏိုဝင္ဘာ ၁၅ ရက္ ဒီကေန႔ တိုက္တြန္း လိုက္ပါတယ္။
