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Fatalities, Destruction Litter Japan's Tsunami-hit Northeast Coast 
Japanese military troops survey damage, search for survivors in Myiagi Prefecture amid threats of aftershocks, tsunami warnings
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Meltdown alert at Japan reactor
Engineers race to cool down a third reactor at a quake-stricken Japanese nuclear plant, after a second blast rocks the facility.- Short-term pain for economy
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Tsunami sweeps away all in its path
EU Wants Burmese Refugees to Stand on Own Feet |
| By THE IRRAWADDY |
| Empowerment training will help displaced people support themselves as traditional aid is cut back. |
Burmese in Japan Prepare for Further Disasters |
| By BA KAUNG |
| The threat of aftershocks and nuclear radiation in the coming days remains strong in the wake of Friday's 8.9 magnitude earthquake. |
The Irrawaddy Hacked |
| By KO HTWE |
| Hackers break into the English-language website and post two fake articles. |
Maung Aye: Not Just Standing in the Shadows |
| By THE IRRAWADDY |
| Known to most only as Snr-Gen Than Shwe's sidekick, Burma's No 2 general actually commands considerable influence within the military, and has even been known to use it to defy his boss. |
Jealousies Divide 'United' Junta |
| By WAI MOE |
| Internal rifts within Burma's military hierarchy over business interests have left some high-ranking officers out in the cold. |
SLIDE SHOWSurvivors of 2004 Tsunami Shaken by Japan Disaster |
| By FAKHRURRADZIE GADE |
| Survivors of the 2004 tsunami that started off Indonesia sat glued to their TV sets, stroking each other's hands, as images of last Friday's disaster in northern Japan flashed repeatedly across the screen. |
Thai 'Red Shirts' Rally in Show of Strength |
| By GRANT PECK |
| Tens of thousands of anti-government "Red Shirt" protesters rallied Saturday in Thailand's capital in a show of strength as the country prepares for an electoral battle. |
Burmese MPs Question, Get Stonewalled by Ministers |
| By HTET AUNG |
| Members of Burma's new parliament are finally able to question government ministers and discuss legislative proposals, but in almost all instances are met with a mound of data and firm 'No.' |
Burma’s Inle Lake in Shan State might dry up again for a second year because of little progress on ... Denmark, Latvia support UN commission of inquiry
London-based Burma Campaign UK announced on Thursday that Denmark and Latvia have joined 10 other ... For the second time, Moulmein students protest electricity cuts
After students protested over electrical power cuts at night in Moulmein, the authorities have begun ... Truck overturns in Chin State, five die
Failed breaks on a dangerous stretch of road caused a fatal accident when a truck carrying passengers ... Who will benefit from the Dawei industrial zone?
(Business commentary) The Burmese people have heard it all before. Back during the era of ... Storm in Rangoon damages homes in three townships
An estimated 150 houses were damaged by strong winds in three townships in Rangoon on Friday, ... 80 refugees left homeless after fire in Karenni camp
Nineteen houses were damaged and 80 people left homeless when a fire swept through the No.1 Karenni ...
Cyber war breaks new ground
Editor of Irrawaddy news group suspicious of hacker with 'intelligence on the ground' after organisation's website is broken into
Parties lobby EU for end to sanctions
National Democratic Force puts name to letter calling on EU to recognise post-election Burma 'evolution' as justifying an end to embargo
ထုိင္းႏုိင္ငံ မဲေဆာက္ ၿမိဳ႕အစြန္ရွိ ေက်ာင္းသားေဆးခန္းလုိ႔ နာမည္ႀကီးတဲ့ ေဒါက္တာ စင္သီယာေမာင္ရဲ႕ မယ္ေတာ္ေဆးခန္း ပရ၀ုဏ္မွာ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံသားေတြဟာ ပူျပင္းတဲ့ေနေရာင္ကုိ ေရွာင္တိမ္ရင္း 
ဦးရုကၡစိုး၊ ဖိုးရႈပ္ႏွင့္ ႂကြက္စုတ္တုိ႔ ျမန္မာျပည့္အႏွံ႔ ဘုရားဖူးရန္ ခရီးထြက္လာၾကသည္။ရုကၡစိုး။ ။ ငါလည္း မင္းတို႔နဲ႔ ေပါင္းၿပီး ေပါက္ကရ ရွစ္ဆယ္ လိုက္လုပ္ေနရတာနဲ႔ တရားထုိင္တဲ့ အလုပ္လည္း ပ်က္တာ ၾကာၿပီ။ 
အမိ စစ္တကၠသိုလ္ႀကီးကို ေရာက္ၿပီး သိပ္မၾကာခင္မွာပဲ က်ေနာ္တို႔ ဗိုလ္ေလာင္းအသစ္ေတြကို ႀကိဳဆိုပြဲဆိုၿပီး စီနီယာ ဗိုလ္ေလာင္းေတြက စီစဥ္ေပးမယ္လို႔ က်ေနာ္တို႔ကို ေျပာၾကပါတယ္။ ႀကိဳဆိုပြဲ 
ရန္ကုန္တိုင္း ၿမိဳ႕နယ္ ၃ ခုတြင္ ေသာၾကာေန႔ မြန္းလြဲပိုင္းတြင္ ေလျပင္းတိုက္ခဲ့ရာ ... 
လႊတ္ေတာ္မ်ားသို႔ အမတ္မ်ား တင္ျပသည့္ ေမးခြန္းႏွင့္ အဆိုမ်ားသည္ အေၾကာင္းအရာ ... 
ကခ်င္ျပည္နယ္ေျမာက္ဖ်ားစြန္း ေျမာက္ပုိင္းတုိင္းစစ္ဌာနခ်ဳပ္ လက္ေအာက္ခံ ပူတာအုိဘက္သုိ႔ ... 
ထိုင္းႏိုင္ငံအေျခစိုက္ ဧရာဝတီ အင္တာနက္ သတင္းမဂၢဇင္း ဝက္ဆိုက္ ကို ဘယ္သူဘယ္ဝါ မသိရသူေတြက ဝင္ေရာက္တိုက္ခိုက္ခဲ့တယ္လို႔ သိရပါတယ္။
စစ္အစိုးရ စာေပစိစစ္ေရးဟာသူတို႔ စိတ္ႀကိဳက္ ေပၚလစီေဆာင္းပါး ေရးေပးမယ့္ လူငယ္ေတြ လိုက္လံ စုေဆာင္းေနတယ္လို႔ ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕ စာေပအသိုင္းအဝိုင္း အဆိုအရ သိရပါတယ္။
