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Suu Kyi’s Long Friday

By WAI MOE

Suu Kyi spent over six hours in court while lawyers argued over the legality of the charges.

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Gloom in Rangoon as Suu Kyi Trial Resumes

By JOHN HEILPRIN

The failure of visiting UN Secretary-General to gain a meeting with Suu Kyi seems to have only intensified widespread feelings of gloom and frustration, though only brief interviews were possible without raising suspicions.

Security Tightened as Suu Kyi Trial Resumes

By THE IRRAWADDY

Security was tightened around Rangoon’s Insein Prison on Friday as crowds gathered for the resumption of the trial of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.

Yettaw Admitted to Prison Hospital

By LAWI WENG

John William Yettaw, the American accused of unlawfully seeking refuge in Aung San Suu Kyi’s home, has been admitted to hospital in Rangoon’s Insein Prison after declining food for 49 days, according to his lawyer, Khin Maung Oo.

Khin Nyunt Appears in Public

By THE IRRAWADDY

Burma’s former premier and spy chief Gen Khin Nyunt, who was ousted and placed under house arrest in October 2004, recently appeared in public and appeared to be in good health, according to one Rangoon source.

Earthquake in China's South Kills 1, Injures 324

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

A moderate earthquake rocked southwest China killing one person, injuring at least 324 others and collapsing some 18,000 homes.

Former Canadian PM urged to withdraw from Ivanhoe

The Canadian Friends of Burma (CFOB), a Non-Governmental Organization, has exhorted Jean Chretien, former Canadian Prime Minister to cancel his contract with the Canadian,...

Misinformation circulated on Suu Kyi’s trial

In a bid to disperse the crowd assembled outside the Insein prison in Rangoon, authorities spread false information that the court hearing of a defence witness in the trial of,......

Burmese Gem traders throng Kunming Gem Emporium

Gem traders, who are members of the Burma Gem Traders’ Association, showcased their exhibits at the Gem Emporium in Kunming, Yunnan Province,...

Talktime : Mismanagement Vs the state of Burma's economy

(Video) Talktime : Mismanagement Vs the state of Burma's economy

Editorial, Opinion and Analysis

Foreign Investment in Burma: Analysing the statistics

(Commentary) The article by Solomon in Mizzima on 6 July highlights the latest data about foreign investment in Burma. Perhaps I might try to interpret them fro...

Empty-handed UN Missions to Burma Can’t Succeed

By KYAW ZWA MOE

No one should be frustrated or surprised that UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon left Burma empty-handed after his brief visit there last week. After all, he arrived there empty-handed on a mission he said at the outset would be “tough.”

He must, however, have been expecting to achieve more, for he said he had been “deeply disappointed” by the results of his two-day stay.

The generals in their remote capital, Naypyidaw, were more realistic—they knew that the UN chief was armed with no intimidating weapon, only words. Junta leader Snr-Gen Than Shwe just shook his head when Ban asked for permission to see detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi. His true mission, to persuade Than Shwe to free Suu Kyi and other political prisoners, was doomed from the start.

Than Shwe and his generals acted in the confident knowledge that if they rebuffed Ki-moon the possible repercussions would certainly exclude the one they fear the most—an Iraq-like invasion.

They would have calculated that more economic sanctions would be imposed. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said after Ban returned from Burma that the world was prepared to “respond robustly” to the junta.

“So what?” was undoubtedly their reaction. For all their negative effects, sanctions pose no direct threat to the regime, which can continue to rely on the income from sales of its natural resources to keep it securely in power.

However, critics believe that the junta fears the UN Secretary Council. The Burma issue is sure to be raised before the Security Council in August, when the UK has the chair, and in September, when the US takes over the position.

Ban is expected to brief the UN Security Council about his Burma visit and it’s felt that this time, because of his humiliation at the hands of the generals, he might express himself more forcefully than ever.

Burma can still, of course, count on the support of China and Russia and the veto power they wield in the Security Council. There is no sign of change in that scenario.

Ban is not the only one to blame for that. The world is deeply divided and the junta exploits this failure to present a united stand in the face of its oppression of the Burmese people.

Only when the international divisions over the Burma issue are overcome will the UN be able to arm its secretary-general and special envoys with the means they need to force the regime to change its ways.

Only then will any UN mission to secure the release of Suu Kyi and other political prisoners have any chance of success. Only then can the first steps be taken towards national reconciliation.

Until that day, Suu Kyi will remain in detention or even behind bars. Political prisoners will continue to die in Burma’s gulags. National reconciliation will remain a day dream.

By their treatment of Ban Ki-moon and other UN envoys, the generals illustrate the truth of the old saying: “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.” In this case, countless times means shame on us.

So the next time the UN undertakes a mission to Burma, expectations should stay low if it goes there with empty hands, for it will surely return again empty-handed.

ျမန္မာ့သတင္း ကမာၻ႔သတင္း

ယူနန္ငလ်င္ အိမ္ ၁၀,၀၀၀ ေက်ာ္ၿပိဳက်

ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံနဲ႔ ကပ္ေနတဲ့ တ႐ုတ္ႏုိင္ငံ အေနာက္ေတာင္ပိုင္းမွာ ၾကာသပေတးေန႔က ျပင္းထန္တဲ့ ေျမငလ်င္ လႈပ္ခတ္ခဲ့လို႔ လူ ၃၀၀ ေက်ာ္ ဒဏ္ရာရသြားပါတယ္။

	အီရန္မွာ မၿငိမ္မသက္ ျပန္ျဖစ္

	ျမန္မာ့ႏုိင္ငံေရး တုိးတက္ေအာင္လုပ္ဖုိ႔ စက္မႈထိပ္သီး ၈ ႏုိင္ငံ တုိက္တြန္း

	ေတာင္ကုိရီးယားႏုိင္ငံ အင္တာနက္ တုိက္ခုိက္မႈ ဆက္လက္ခံေနရ
	ကုလအတြင္းေရးမႉးခ်ဳပ္နဲ႔ အခ်ိန္တုိ ေတြ႕ဆုံရတဲ့အေပၚ NLD ဘ၀င္မက်
	ျမန္မာ့အေရး လံုၿခံဳေရးေကာင္စီ အစည္းအေ၀းေခၚဖို႔ ၿဗိတိန္နဲ႔ အေမရိကန္ေတာင္းဆို
	အီရန္ႏိုင္ငံတြင္း အၾကမ္းဖက္မႈ၊ စက္မႈထိပ္သီး ၈ႏိုင္ငံ ေ၀ဖန္ရႈတ္ခ်

ဆီသည္မလက္သုတ္၀တ္ ျဖစ္ေနရသည့္ လူထုေခါင္းေဆာင္၏ ႏႈတ္ထြက္စကားတခြန္း

ေဒါက္တာလြဏ္းေဆြ / ၁၀ ဇူလိုင္ ၂၀၀၉
“ေခါင္းေဆာင္ႀကီးမ်ားအေနနဲ႔ အခုအခ်ိန္အထိ ဘာျဖစ္လို႔ ညီၫြတ္မႈ မတည္ေဆာက္ႏိုင္ၾကတာလဲ၊ တခုတည္းေသာ တပ္ေပါင္းစု ဘာျဖစ္လို႔ မဖြဲ႔ႏိုင္ၾကတာလဲ၊ ေခါင္းေဆာင္ႀကီး ေတြ ဒိုနာအလိုက် ဗာဟီရေတြမ်ားေနလို႔ ျပည္ပမွာရွိတဲ့ သန္းနဲ႔ခ်ီတဲ့ လူထုထဲဆင္းၿပီး စည္း႐ံုးလုပ္ေဆာင္ဖို႔ မအားမလပ္ ျဖစ္ခဲ့ၾကတာလား...” အျပည့္အစံုသုိ႔
ျမန္မာေငြေစ်းက်သျဖင့္ ျမန္မာဆန္အ၀ယ္လိုက္

NEJ / ၁၀ ဇူလိုင္ ၂၀၀၉ “ျမန္မာဆန္က တေန႔ကို အိတ္ (၃,၀၀၀) လာလည္း ကုန္တာပဲ၊ မဲေဆာက္ခြင္မွာပဲ ...”အျပည့္အစံုသို႔



ယခုႏွစ္ ပညာသင္ႏွစ္ (၇) လသာရိွမည္ဟု နအဖ၀န္ႀကီး ေျပာၾကား
၀ီရ / ၁၀ ဇူလိုင္ ၂၀၀၉ “သူေျပာတာက ႏုိင္ငံေတာ္က ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲႀကီး က်င္းပမွာ ျဖစ္လုိ႔ ဒီႏွစ္အတြက္ ပညာသင္ႏွစ္သက္တမ္းအတြက္က (၇) လပဲ ရွိေတာ့မယ္တဲ့။ ၂၀၀၉ ဒီဇင္ဘာလ.....”အျပည့္အစံုသို႔

ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္အမႈ ေနာက္ဆုံးေလွ်ာက္လဲရက္ သတ္မွတ္

ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္၏ အမႈႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္ၿပီး ေနာက္ဆုံးအႀကိမ္ ၂ ဘက္ေလွ်ာက္လဲၾကားနာရန္အတြက္ တရား႐ုံးက လာမည့္ ဇူလိုင္လ ၂၄ ရက္ေန႔သို႔ ခ်ိန္းဆိုလိုက္ေၾကာင္း

ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ ေရဒီယုိနားေထာင္ခြင့္မရိွ

ေနအိမ္အက်ယ္ခ်ဳပ္ ၆ ႏွစ္ က်ခံရစဥ္က ေန႔စဥ္ ေရဒီယုိ နားေထာင္ႏုိင္ခ့ဲေသာ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္း စုၾကည္သည္ ယခုအခါ အင္းစိန္ေထာင္သုိ႔ ေရာက္ေနသျဖင့္ ေရဒီယုိ အသုံးျပဳခြင့္ မရရိွ

နာဂစ္စတိတ္႐ိႈး လန္ဒန္တြင္ လုပ္မည္

ၿဗိတိန္ႏုိင္ငံ၊ လန္ဒန္ၿမိဳ႕ေတာ္ေရာက္ ျမန္မာျပည္သားမ်ားအတြက္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံမွ နာမည္ေက်ာ္ အဆုိေတာ္မ်ား၏ စင္ျမင့္ ေဖ်ာ္ေျဖပြဲ ကို မနက္ျဖန္ စေနေန႔တြင္ က်င္းပေတာ့မည္ ျဖစ္သည္။

ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕ လုံၿခံဳေရးတင္းက်ပ္

ယေန႔ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္း စုၾကည္အမႈ ျပန္လည္စစ္ေဆးသည့္ ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕ အင္းစိန္ေထာင္ အနီးတဝိုက္ႏွင့္ အင္းစိန္ ၿမိဳ႕မေစ်းေရွ႕တို႔တြင္ သံဆူးႀကဳိး ဘယ္ရီယာမ်ား၊ အခ်ဳပ္ကားမ်ားႏွင့္

ဝက္တုပ္ေကြး ေရာဂါပုိးရိွသူ ၂ ဦးထက္ ပုိႏုိင္

ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံတြင္ A (H1N1) တုပ္ေကြးေရာဂါ ျဖစ္ပြားသူ ၂ ဦးရွိေၾကာင္း အစိုးရက တရားဝင္ ထုတ္ျပန္ ေၾကညာေသာ္လည္း အမွန္တကယ္ အေရအတြက္မွာ ထိုထက္မက ပိုဖြယ္ရိွ

မေလးရွားအခ်ဳပ္ခန္းမွ ျမန္မာမ်ား စုိးရိမ္ရ

မေလးရွားႏိုင္ငံ ထိန္းသိမ္းေရး စခန္းတခုမွ ျမန္မာျပည္သားမ်ားကုိ ေနရာသစ္သုိ႔ ေျပာင္းေရႊ႕မည္ဟု သတင္းထြက္ေန ေသာေၾကာင့္ ထိန္းသိမ္းခံေနရ သူမ်ားအတြက္ စိုးရိမ္ရသည္

ေဟာင္သေရာ ေခါင္းေဆာင္ကို ဖမ္းဆီးတာ မဟုတ္ဟု KNU ျငင္းဆို အပစ္အခတ္ရပ္ ကရင္အဖြဲ႔တခုျဖစ္ေသာ ေဟာင္သေရာအဖြဲ႔ (KPF) မွ တပ္ရင္း (၃) တပ္ရင္းမႉး ဒု ဗိုလ္မႉးၾကီး မန္းေလးဝါးႏွင့္ အဖြဲ႔ဝင္မ်ား အား ဖမ္းဆီးျခင္းမဟုတ္ဘဲ ၎တို႔၏...

ဒုတိယေျမာက္ A (H1N1) ကူးစက္ခံရသူ ျမန္မာျပည္တြင္ ေတြ႔ရွိ ဒုတိယေျမာက္ ကမၻာ့လူတုပ္ေကြး A (H1N1) ေရာဂါ ကူးစက္ခံရသူ အသက္ ၂၀ ႏွစ္အရြယ္ အမ်ဳိးသားတဦးကို ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕တြင္ ထပ္မံေတြ႔ရွိျပန္ၿပီ ျဖစ္သည္။ အဆိုပါ အမ်ဳိးသားမွာ...

ေက်ာက္ကုန္သည္မ်ား ကူမင္းသို႔ သြားေရာင္း ယူနန္ျပည္နယ္ ကူမင္းၿမိဳ႕တြင္ ယေန႔မွစ၍ က်င္းပသည့္ ေက်ာက္မ်က္ပြဲေတာ္သို႔ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ ေက်ာက္မ်က္လုပ္ငန္းရွင္မ်ား အသင္းမွ ေက်ာက္ကုန္သည္မ်ား လာေရာက္ျပသၾက ...

၄၇ ႏွစ္အၾကာက လူသတ္ပြဲ ျပန္ေျပာင္း သတိရၾက (ဗီဒီယုိ) ၄၇ ႏွစ္အၾကာက လူသတ္ပြဲ ျပန္ေျပာင္း သတိရၾက (ဗီဒီယုိ)

ေဟာင္သေရာ ေခါင္းေဆာင္ကို ဖမ္းဆီးတာ မဟုတ္ဟု KNU ျငင္းဆို ဒုတိယေျမာက္ A (H1N1) ကူးစက္ခံရသူ ျမန္မာျပည္တြင္ ေတြ႔ရွိ ေက်ာက္ကုန္သည္မ်ား ကူမင္းသို႔ သြားေရာင္း ၄၇ ႏွစ္အၾကာက လူသတ္ပြဲ ျပန္ေျပာင္း သတိရၾက (ဗီဒီယုိ)

ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ကို ဇူလိုင္ ၂၄ ႐ုံးခ်ိန္း
အင္းစိန္ေထာင္တြင္း အထူးတရား႐ုံးတြင္ ေသာၾကာေန႔က ျပဳလုပ္ေသာ ဒီမိုကေရစီ ေခါင္းေဆာင္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္ေသာ တရားခြင္က ေနာက္ထပ္ ႐ုံးခ်ိန္းကို...

စီမံခန္႔ခြဲမႈ ည့ံဖ်င္းျခင္း အေမြ၊ ျမန္မာ့ စီးပြားေရး အေျခအေန - (အပိုင္း ၂)

စစ္အစိုးရလက္ေအာက္၌ ဆယ္စုႏွစ္ေပါင္းမ်ားစြာ စီးပြားေရးစီမံခန္႔ခြဲမႈ ညံ့ဖ်င္းျခင္းကို ၾကံဳခဲ့ရၿပီး၊ ေနာက္တဖန္ ကမၻာလံုးဆိုင္ရာ စီးပြားေရးအက်ပ္အတည္းက တပူေပၚႏွစ္ပူဆင့္လိုက္ျပန္သျဖင့္ ျမန္မာ့စီးပြားေရးမွာ အတိုင္းအတာတခု...

စီမံခန္႔ခြဲမႈ ည့ံဖ်င္းျခင္း အေမြ၊ ျမန္မာ့စီးပြားေရး အေျခအေန - (အပိုင္း ၁)

စစ္အစိုးရလက္ေအာက္၌ ဆယ္စုႏွစ္ေပါင္းမ်ားစြာ စီးပြားေရးစီမံခန္႔ခြဲမႈ ညံ့ဖ်င္းျခင္းကို ၾကံဳခဲ့ရၿပီး၊ ေနာက္တဖန္ ကမၻာလံုးဆိုင္ရာ စီးပြားေရးအက်ပ္အတည္းက တပူေပၚႏွစ္ပူဆင့္လိုက္ျပန္သျဖင့္ ျမန္မာ့စီးပြားေရးမွာ .....

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ပြင့္လင္းမွ်တေသာ ဒီမိုကေရစီ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ စက္မႈထိပ္သီး ၈ ႏိုင္ငံ ေတာင္းဆုိ

ဆရာေတာ္ ဦးဂမႝီရ စကားေကာင္းစြာ မေျပာႏိုင္ပဲျဖစ္ေန

ေပၞတာဆြဲခံရ႓ပီး ထြက္ေျပးသူကို စစ္သားမ်ား ဝိုင္းရိုက္ၾက၍ ေသဆံုး

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Thu. 09 Jul 2009 1307 UTC

G8, Developing Countries Discuss Trade, Climate

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China's Urumqi Returning to Normal, Following Bloody Violence

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Bomb in Afghanistan Kills 25

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Ghana Police Say Security Ready for Obama Visit

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NEWS ANALYSIS The Junta Hit Men

By SAW YAN NAING

The Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA) is killing their own people for junta money.

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UN Chief Says He's a Man of Results not Rhetoric

By EDITH M LEDERER

Midway through his five-year term, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says he isn't concerned that he's not a household name.

Suu Kyi Denied Access to News

By WAI MOE

Burma's detained pro-democracy leader is denied access to keep a radio—only way to keep in touch with national and world events—during her time in Rangoon’s Insein Prison.

Many Die as Landslide Sweeps through Jade-mining Area

By LAWI WENG

At least 30 people have died in a massive landslide that swept away homes, blocked roads and cut communications in Burma’s northern Kachin State.

North Korea Suspected in Cyber Attacks in US

By KELLY OLSEN

North Korea has been identified by South Korea's main spy agency as a suspect in the cyber attacks targeting government and other Web sites in the US and South Korea.

Did Foreign Pressure Make Ship Turn Back?

By LALIT K JHA

Did pressure from Burma’s neighbors play a role in making the Kang Nam 1 return to North Korea?

Aung San Suu Kyi meets legal team refuses comment on Ban visit

Burma’s detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has refused to comment on the just concluded visit of United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, after she was briefed by...

Ban lifted on some tea products

Some tea products, which were banned earlier, were given clearance certificate by Burma’s Food and Drug Administration (FDA), it was learnt on Thursday. “We have given clearance certificates,...

Thai PM proposes visit to Burma

Thailand’s Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjejiva proposes to visit neighbouring military-ruled Burma later this month, sources in the Thai Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. The PM, according to...