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Tunisia Moves to Form New Coalition Government
Fouad Mebazza, who was sworn in as interim president , asked the country's prime minister to form a unity government
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Egyptian to die for Copt murders
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Military draft ‘could spark exodus’
New law may trigger brain drain as prospect of mandatory military service could potentially cause young Burmese to flee the country
Mon ethnic armies reunite
Two ceasefire groups join together in another show of unity amongst Burma's multiple ethnic armies as pressure from the junta intensifies
Suu Kyi fights for party’s existence
Opposition leader takes appeal over dissolution of National League for Democracy to Burma's top court in Naypyidaw Than Shwe Chooses Next President—Himself |
| By THE IRRAWADDY |
| Snr-Gen Than Shwe has reportedly drawn up a draft outlining his lineup for the new Parliament—with himself as president. |
NGOs, INGOs in Burma to Pay Withholding Tax |
| By THE IRRAWADDY |
| NGOs and INGOs must first report to the Internal Revenue Dept and pay tax each time they wish to distribute aid to victims. |
NEWS ANALYSISWill Tavoy be Burma’s Shenzhen? |
| By HTET AUNG |
| Burma's rulers think they can replicate China's economic success by creating a special economic zone in Tavoy, but there are many reasons to doubt that they can pull it off. |
US Seeks Positive US-China Ties |
| By JIM KUHNHENN and MATTHEW PENNINGTON |
| Declaring that US-China relations are at a "critical juncture," the Obama administration challengeS Beijing to adopt political reforms to guarantee human rights while holding out hope that the Asian power will grow to be a top trade and security partner. |
People Power Succeeds Without Western Backing |
| By EMAD MEKAY |
| Most of the reaction from other Western powers has been that they are "concerned" about the events and that they want their citizens there pulled out, and others warned against travel to Tunisia. |
Ethnics Seek Vice-President Nomination |
| By KO HTWE |
| Six ethnic political parties are meeting to discuss a unified approach in calling for equality and self-determination, as well as nominating a candidate for vice-president in the new Parliament. |
Burmese Bank Rumored on Verge of Bankruptcy |
| By YENI |
| Cooperative Bank, Burma's second-largest privately owned financial institution, appears to be close to collapse due to a business dispute involving a top general and a regime crony. |
The chairman of the Chin National Party, Pu Zozam, said that its first parliamentary bills have been ...No bias in privatisation please: NUP
The National Unity Party (NUP) said that there should be no bias in the privatisation of state-owned ...Burmese Music festival planned for Malaysia, Singapore
Malaysia-based Maha Nan Restaurant will present a ‘Stars of the Century’ music festival in Malaysia and ...Supreme Court agrees to hear NLD dissolution appeal
Burma’s Supreme Court in Naypyidaw on Thursday agreed to hear the National League for ...NUP seeks political alliances in Parliament
The National Unity Party (NUP), winner of the second highest number of parliamentary seats in ...
အမ်ဳိးသား ဒီမိုကေရစီ အဖြဲ႔ခ်ဳပ္ NLD ကုိ တရားဝင္ပါတီတခုအျဖစ္ တည္ရွိေနေၾကာင္း ...
ျပည္သူ႔ အက်ဳိးစီးပြားအတြက္ မည္သူႏွင့္မဆို မဟာမိတ္အျဖစ္ ပူးေပါင္း ေဆာင္ရြက္ ...
ဒုတိယအေက်ာ့ မိုးသည္းထန္စြာ ရြာသြန္းသျဖင့္ မြန္ျပည္နယ္ရွိ ဧကတေသာင္းခန္႔႔ရွိ ...
တိုးတက္ေသာ ဗုဒၶဘာသာကရင္ အမ်ဳိးသား တပ္မေတာ္၏ ဆြဲမိုင္းေၾကာင့္ နယ္ျခားေစာင့္ ...
ႏိုင္ငံပိုင္လုပ္ငန္းမ်ား ပုဂၢလိကပိုင္ လႊဲေျပာင္း ျခင္းကို ေထာက္ခံေသာ္လည္း လႊဲေျပာင္း ...
ျမန္မာအဆုိေတာ္ ၅၂ ဦး ပါဝင္မည့္ ရာစုႏွစ္၏ ၾကယ္ပြင့္မ်ား ဂီတပြဲေတာ္ကို လာမည့္လ ...
ဒီတပတ္ ဇန္နဝါရီလ ၁၄ ရက္ေန႔ `လူထုနဲ႔ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္`အစီအစဥ္မွာ အစီအစဥ္မွာ ဦးခုိင္ျမတ္သိန္း (အေမရိကန္ ျပည္ေထာင္စု)၊ ဦးသန္းဝင္း (ABSDF အေထြေထြ အတြင္းေရးမႉးေဟာင္း)၊ ဓညဝတီသား ( ထုိင္းႏုိင္ငံ ဘန္ကြင္းအက်ဥ္းေထာင္)၊ မမူဘန္း (ဗန္ေကာက္)၊ ကိုသီရိစု (ရန္ကုန္) နဲ႔ ကိုေဇာ္ေပါက္ (အေမရိကန္ျပည္ေထာင္စု) တို႔ရဲ့ ေမးခြန္းေတြကို ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္က ေျဖၾကားထားပါတယ္။
