 |  | US-Iranian reporter Roxana Saberi is to be freed after her sentence for spying for the US is cut on appeal, her lawyer says. |
| Pope Benedict XVI, on a Middle East tour, arrives in Israel amid simmering tensions between the Vatican and the Jewish state. | | The UN says heavy civilian casualties in northern Sri Lanka at the weekend bear out its warnings of a "bloodbath". |
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Migrants seek Mumbai work
Pope Visits Israel
Pope Benedict called anti-Semitism 'totally unacceptable,' and he pledged to 'honor the memory' of the six million victims of the Holocaust
Suicide Bombing Kills 10 in NW Pakistan
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UN Calls Killings in Sri Lanka a 'Bloodbath' 
UN has condemned the killing of hundreds of Sri Lanka's ethnic Tamil civilians in fighting between government and Tamil rebels in recent days
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The carrier is a 30 year old Chinese man, who had returned to China from the United States, where he was pursuing university studies
Top Obama Administration Officials Speak Out On Pakistan, Afghanistan
Head of US Central Command says there is a growing awareness throughout Pakistan that Taliban militants must be stopped
NLD Requests Treatment for Suu Kyi |
| By SAW YAN NAING |
| The condition of Suu Kyi’s health is still unknown after reports that she has difficulty eating and is suffering from low blood pressure and dehydration. |
NEWS ANALYSIS Generals Call the Ceasefire Groups’ Hands |
| By WAI MOE |
| In their longstanding game of political poker with the Burmese junta, the ethnic leaders should think long and hard before they put their cards on the table. |
Political Prisoners Suffering Ill Health: AAPP |
| By MIN LWIN |
| A report by the AAPP says that at least 127 political prisoners in Burma are in poor health and 19 require urgent medical attention. |
Mystery Deepens around ‘Swimmer’s’ Arrest |
| By WAI MOE |
| The Burmese regime detains Aung San Suu Kyi’s doctor, and she receives treatment for dehydration and low blood pressure, following the arrest of an American who secretly entered her house on Sunday night. |
Story of 'Suu Kyi' Swimmer Widely Questioned |
| By WAI MOE |
| Average citizens question the truth of the Burmese regime’s account of a US citizen who was arrested swimming away from Aung San Suu Kyi’s compound. |
Burma's Most Respected Writer Turns 90 |
| By ARKAR MOE |
| Dagon Taya, a writer known for his novels, poems, short stories and social commentary, created an enduring body of literature based on his philosophy of art for the people’s sake. |
KNLA commander lashes out at ‘rumour mongers’
Rumours that two other sons of the late Karen National Union stalwart General Bo Mya, Nerdah and Tu Lu, are about to engage in talks with Burma’s ruling military junta...| US journalists question motives for deportation May 11, 2009 (DVB)–Two American journalists deported from Burma last week after delivering workshops on photography and feature writing say reasons for their arrest may lie in their meeting with a local Burmese business owner. - more |
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| Senior KNU member ‘damages dignity’ of group May 11, 2009 (DVB)–A senior member of Burma’s main armed opposition group has been issued with a warning after he broke rank by giving out false information and damaging the group’s reputation, says a spokesperson. - more |
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| ‘False votes and intimidation’ ratified Burma’s constitution May 11, 2009 (DVB)–Measures taken to ensure ratification of Burma’s constitution last year included intimidation of voters and falsifying results in favour of the military junta, claims a report released to mark the one-year anniversary of the constitution. - more |
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| Firearms stolen from military armoury used in robbery May 11, 2009 (DVB)–An armed robbery on a gold shop in Mandalay division that left one dead and two injured was carried out using firearms stolen from a government armoury, according to Burmese military intelligence. - more |
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| Doctor detained after visiting ill Suu Kyi May 11, 2009 (DVB)–Imprisoned opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s doctor has been detained after visiting Suu Kyi, who is reportedly in poor health following the arrest of an American citizen who broke into her compound last week. - more |
ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲလုပ္မယ္လို႔ နအဖ ေၾကညာထားတဲ့ ၂ဝ၁ဝ ျပည့္ႏွစ္ ထဲဝင္ဖို႔ (၈) လပဲလိုပါေတာ့တယ္။ ဒါေပမယ့္ စစ္အစိုးရဟာ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲဥပေဒ၊ ပါတီ မွတ္ပံုတင္ ဥပေဒေတြ ဘာတခုမွ မထုတ္ျပန္ေသးသလို ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ ေကာ္မရွင္ ဖြဲ႔တာလည္း မရွိေသးပါဘူး။ ၁၉၉ဝ ေမလေရြးေကာက္ပြဲအတြက္ ေကာ္မရွင္ ဥပေဒ၊ ႏိုင္ငံေရးပါတီမ်ား မွတ္ပံုတင္ျခင္း ဥပေဒေတြကို ၁၉၈၈ စက္တင္ဘာမွာ ထုတ္ျပန္ခဲ့ၿပီး ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲဥပေဒကို ၁၉၈၉ ေမလမွာ ထုတ္ခဲ့ပါတယ္။ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲရက္ကို (၇) လအလို ၁၉၈၉ ႏိုဝင္ဘာမွာေၾကညာၿပီး စည္း႐ံုး မဲဆြယ္ခြင့္ကိုေတာ့ (၃) လအလို ၁၉၉ဝ ေဖေဖာ္ဝါရီ လက်မွ ေပးခဲ့ပါတယ္။ ဒါေပမယ့္ ၈ေလးလံုး အေရးေတာ္ပံုႀကီးရဲ႕အရွိန္နဲ႔ ႏိုင္ငံေရး ပါတီေတြ ရပ္တည္လႈပ္ရွားခြင့္ အေတာ္အတန္ ရထားတဲ့အတြက္ ၉ဝ ေဖေဖာ္ဝါရီ မတိုင္ခင္ကတည္းက စည္း႐ံုးထားႏိုင္လို႔ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲက်ေတာ့ အမ်ဳိးသားဒီမိုကေရစီအဖြဲ႔ခ်ဳပ္ ေအာင္ႏိုင္ခဲ့တာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
အဲဒါကေတာ့ တမတ္သားျပႆနာ သို႔မဟုတ္ (၂၅) ရာခုိင္ႏႈန္း ကိစၥျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ အမ်ဳိးသားလႊတ္ေတာ္နဲ႔ ျပည္သူ႔ လႊတ္ေတာ္မွာ ထည့္ရမယ့္ စစ္သား ကိုယ္စားလွယ္ အေရအတြက္က (၁၆၆) ေယာက္ (၅၆ + ၁၁ဝ)၊ ေဒသႀကီး-ျပည္နယ္ လႊတ္ေတာ္ (၁၄) ခုနဲ႔ ကိုယ္ပိုင္အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ခြင့္ရနယ္ေျမဦးစီးအဖြဲ႔ (၆) ခုတို႔မွာ ထည့္ရမယ့္ စစ္သားကိုယ္စားလွယ္ အေရအတြက္ ကလည္း အနည္းဆံုး (၃ဝဝ) ေလာက္၊ ဗဟိုအစိုးရ အဖြဲ႔ထဲမွာ ကာကြယ္ေရး၊ ျပည္ထဲေရးနဲ႔ နယ္စပ္ေရးရာ ဝန္ႀကီးေတြက (၃) ေနရာ၊ ေဒသႀကီး-ျပည္နယ္အစိုးရ (၁၄) ခုနဲ႔ ကိုယ္ပိုင္အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ခြင့္ရ နယ္ေျမဦးစီးအဖြဲ႔ (၆) ခုတို႔မွာ လံုၿခံဳေရးနဲ႔ နယ္စပ္ေရးရာ ဝန္ႀကီး (၂) ေနရာစီက အေယာက္ (၄ဝ) ဆိုေတာ့ စစ္သားအလုပ္မဟုတ္တဲ့ အရပ္သား အလုပ္ကို ယူနီေဖာင္းမခြၽတ္ဘဲ ဝင္လုပ္ရမယ့္ စစ္ဗိုလ္ေတြက အနည္းဆံုး (၅ဝဝ) ေလာက္ရွိေနပါတယ္။ နအဖဟာ ဒီလိုေနရာ ေတြကို အျခားအဆင့္ျဖစ္တဲ့ တပ္သားေတြ အၾကပ္ေတြကို တာဝန္ေပးမွာမဟုတ္ဘဲ အရာရွိေတြကိုသာ ထားမွာ လည္းျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ အျခားအဆင့္ေတြကေတာ့ ထံုးစံအတိုင္း ဖက္တိတ္** နဲ႔ လုပ္အားေပးပဲ ေရြးစရာရွိပါတယ္။
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“လစဥ္ ပထမပတ္ ၾကာသပေတးေန႔ တုိင္း ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္အား ေဆးစစ္ေပးေနရေသာ ေဒါက္တာ တင္မ်ဳိး၀င္းကုိ အာဏာပုိင္မ်ားက ထိန္းသိမ္းလုိက္ၿပီးေနာက္ တြဲဖက္ဆရာ၀န္တဦးျဖစ္သူ ေဒါက္တာေဒၚၿပဳံးမုိအိက....” 
“ဥကၠ႒ကလည္း ေလလံရထား သူဘက္ကဆိုေတာ့ ဒီလိုကြန္ပစ္ ငါးဖမ္းလုပ္မိသူေတြက နစ္နာတာ ခ်ည္းပဲ။ ေထာင္မက်ရင္ေတာ့ ေလ်ာ္ေၾကးေပးရတယ္။ က်ေနာ္ဆို ေလ်ာ္ေၾကး က်ပ္ (၈) ေသာင္းေလာက္ ေပးလုိက္ရဖူး....”
