Naypyidaw’s Version of Shwedagon Pagoda Nears Completion |
| By THE IRRAWADDY |
| Preparations are reported to be under way to consecrate and complete a replica in Naypyidaw of Burma's famous Shwedagon Pagoda. |
INTERVIEW Washington’s Man in Thailand Discusses Obama’s Asia Policies |
| By THE IRRAWADDY |
| In a wide ranging interview with The Irrawaddy, US Ambassador to Thailand Eric G John spoke about what Asia and the countries of Asean in particular can expect from the foreign policy program of Barack Obama’s presidency. |
Hundreds of Thousands Still Displaced in Burma: Watchdog |
| By WAI MOE |
| A new report reveals that the internal displacement of local populations remains a serious problem in many parts of Burma. |
UNHCHR Calls for Investigation on Mistreatment of Rohingya |
| By WAI MOE |
| The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has called for an investigation into alleged mistreatment of Rohingya boatpeople. |
NEWS ANALYSISSleepless in Mae Sot |
| By THE IRRAWADDY |
| Alarm bells must be ringing in the upper echelons of the KNU after being told they are no longer welcome on Thai soil. |
Mae Sot Bridge Closed by Taxi Drivers |
| By LAWI WENG |
| Thai taxi drivers block Friendship Bridge in Mae Sot, protesting Burmese taxi drivers who carry passengers into Mae Sot. |
Experiences in pre-saffron revolution period (Part 2)The 'Seintaungdan' teashop was crowded with customers while we were conversing with Ko Hlaing Bwa. Seven monks including me were having breakfast then. Five of them came from... |
UNHCHR calls for probe into abuse of Rohingya boatpeopleNavanethem Pillay, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, on Thursday called on Burma’s neighboring countries to treat Rohingya, members of Burma’s minority Muslim community,... |
Thai truck drivers block Mae Sot bridgeThai truck drivers on Thursday blocked the Friendship Bridge connecting Thailand with Burma in protest against Burmese vehicles entering the Thai border town of Mae Sot... | Plans to contest 2010 election begin to take formA Rangoon-based political group comprised of those who support the Burmese junta's seven-step roadmap will hold a meeting on the 15th of this month to form a 'Joint Action Committee'... |
Voice of America - USA By VOA News Burma has released two lawyers who were convicted of contempt of court last year and sentenced to four months in prison. ... See all stories on this topic | ||
| Award winning Burma VJ picked up by Oscilloscope and Dogwoof Screendaily.com - UK Zurich-based sales agent First Hand Films has concluded deals for the UK and US for Anders Ostergaard's award-winning festival favourite Burma VJ ... See all stories on this topic | ||
| Burmese Writers Offered Asylum in Maldives The Irrawaddy News Magazine - Chiang Mai,Thailand By MIN LWIN The president of the Republic of Maldives, Mohamed Nasheed, has offered asylum for Burmese writers and opposition journalists from other ... See all stories on this topic | ||
| Hundreds of Thousands Still Displaced in Burma: Watchdog The Irrawaddy News Magazine - Chiang Mai,Thailand By WAI MOE Burma’s problem of internal displacement continued in 2008 due to ongoing conflict and human rights violations, according to a report released by ... See all stories on this topic | ||
| Over 451000 IDPs in Burma in 2008: Report Mizzima.com - New Delhi,Delhi,India by Solomon New Delhi (Mizzima) - At least 451000 people have been internally displaced as a fall out of the continuous conflicts between the Burmese Army ... See all stories on this topic | ||
| Thailand Should Not Repatriate Rohingyas: US Ambassador The Irrawaddy News Magazine - Chiang Mai,Thailand By THE IRRAWADDY The United States Ambassador to Thailand has urged the Thai government to not forcibly repatriate Rohingya boat people to Burma without ... See all stories on this topic | ||
| Burma, Buddhism: Myanmar Student Monks in Sri Lanka to celebrate ... Ashin Mettacara - Colombo,Sri Lanka Myanmar Student Monks Association, also known as Lanka-MSMA, founded on 27 September 2007 in Colombo, Sri Lanka, aims to unite the Burmese people and strive ... See all stories on this topic | ||
UN News Centre 5 March 2009 – An independent United Nations expert today welcomed measures taken by the new Government of the Maldives to establish democratic reforms, ... See all stories on this topic | ||
| Govt. must consult public more: special rapporteur Minivan News - Scottsdale,AZ,USA The government needs to establish a system of “communication and consultation” in order to make the public more aware of the reforms that are taking place, ... See all stories on this topic | ||
| Truckers block Thai-Burma Friendship Bridge in protest Democratic Voice of Burma - Oslo,Norway A leader 0f the passenger truck drivers union in Mae Sot, who led the blockade of the Thai-Burma Friendship Bridge, said the protest was to prevent Burmese ... See all stories on this topic |
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| Burma, Buddhism: Myanmar Student Monks in Sri Lanka to celebrate ... By ISNissanka Burma, Buddhism: Myanmar Student Monks in Sri Lanka to celebrate the recitation of Patthana texts · Sri Lanka state bank unit in talk to manage Ceylinco Savings Bank · Sri Lanka invites lifesaving driver · Defence News ... Syberviduliya - Closer to home - http://www.syberviduliya.com/ |
| Stabroek News - Rice farmers briefed on six-point high yield ... By Stabroek staff Meanwhile, Leroy Small, Chief Scientist of the Burma Rice Research Station, also agreed that the six-point technique was essential to rice cultivation. According to the release, he said that the six-point system is a stable approach to ... Stabroek News - http://www.stabroeknews.com/ |
| US Campaign for Burma » Speaking out on the future of Burma By Gracan Two Bomb Blasts In Burma · SEE ALL NEWS >. Press Releases. » Activists Condemn Burmese Regime’s Treatment of Rohingya Peoples, Call for UN to Act · » Activists Welcome Call by 112 Former Presidents and Prime Ministers for UN to Achieve ... US Campaign for Burma - http://uscampaignforburma.org/ |
| Two desert to SSA « democracy for burma By peacerunning A lesser known organization, the 'Whole Burma United Revolutionary Front' (WBURF), has claimed responsibility for yesterday's bomb blasts in Rangoon, according to a statement issued today. Join Going Home 2009 Kwekalu News ... democracy for burma - http://democracyforburma. |
ဒီအပိုင္းမွာေတာ့ နအဖဟာ အပစ္ရပ္တုိင္းရင္းသား လက္နက္ကိုင္ေတြ အေပၚမွာ ကိုယ္က်ိဳးအသံုးခ်ဖို႔အတြက္ ဘယ္လုိပံုစံမ်ိဳးနဲ႔ ႏွမ္းျဖဴးကာ ပ့ံပုိးမႈ ေဆာင္ရြက္ေပးခဲ့တယ္။ ေရရွည္မွာ နအဖဟာ တုိင္းရင္းသားေတြအေပၚ ပံ့ပိုးမႈ မေပးႏုိင္ပံု၊ နအဖက UWSA ကို အသံုးခ်ပံု စတာေတြကို တင္ျပပါအံုးမယ္။ နအဖက နယ္စပ္ေဒသ တိုင္းရင္းသားလူမ်ိဳးမ်ား ဖြံ႔ၿဖိဳးတိုးတက္ေရးနဲ႔ စည္ပင္သာယာေရး ၀န္ႀကီးဌာန မဖြင့္လွစ္ခင္ စစ္႐ံုးမွ နတလ G1 ဒု-ဗုိလ္မႉးႀကီး သိန္းဟန္ကို တာ၀န္ေပးၿပီး “နယ္စပ္ေဒသ ဖြံ႔ၿဖိဳးေရး ဗဟိုအဖြဲ႔ ဥကၠ႒” အျဖစ္ ဗိုလ္သန္းေရႊ ဦးစီးကာ ပထမေတာ့ နယ္စပ္ေဒသ ဖြံ႔ၿဖိဳးေရးကို ေယာင္ျပ စတင္လုပ္ေပးပါတယ္။
န၀တ တက္ခါစမွာ ႏုိင္ငံျခားေငြအပါအ၀င္ သံုးစြဲေငြ အလံုအေလာက္ မရွိတာမို႔ ဘိန္းစိုက္ပ်ိဳးၿပီး ေရာင္း၀ယ္ခြင့္ေတြကို မသိခ်င္ေယာင္ေဆာင္ ေပးလိုက္သလို အပစ္ရပ္အဖြဲ႔ အခ်ိဳ႕ရဲ ႔ တရားမ၀င္ ေငြမဲမ်ားကို ေငြျဖဴ အျဖစ္ ဖန္တီးေပးကာ ပတ္သက္ရာ ပတ္သက္ေၾကာင္း ရွိေနခဲ့ျပန္တယ္။
