Tue. 30 Jun 2009 0906 UTC
Yemeni Airliner Crashes Near Comoros
Police official says child rescued alive from sea, no other known survivors; eyewitness says meteorological conditions were bad around time of crash
US Hands Over Control of Iraqi Cities 
Iraqi government declares Tuesday, June 30 a 'Day of National Sovereignty'
Iraq Opens Bids for Oil Fields
Among more than 30 international firms vying for chance to secure service contracts: US giant Exxon Mobil, China's CNPC
Pakistani Militants Abandon Peace Pact
Taliban spokesman says US missile strikes, army operations in North Waziristan prompted decision
Coalition Air Strikes in Afghanistan Kill 12 Militants
Official statement says overnight strikes hit pair of bunkers in eastern Khost province
 |  | A child survives as a Yemeni airline with 150 people aboard crashes into the Indian Ocean, prompting EU safety concerns. |
| China delays a plan requiring all new computers to be equipped with internet filtering software, state media says. | | The most complete terrain map, covering 99% of the Earth's surface, has been published and will be free to use. |
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Jackson 'was a superstar'
4,000 Burmese Migrants Arrested in June |
| By LAWI WENG |
| Some 4,000 illegal Burmese migrants were arrested in Thailand in June, many of whom were forcibly repatriated. |
Discounts Abound as Tourism to Thailand Drops |
| By CAROLINE STAUFFER |
| Thai Airways is trying to lure passengers from outside Asia with free domestic flights. Hotels on the resort island of Phuket are offering a fourth night free. And mountain lodges up north are offering free golf and spa pampering. |
Burmese Internet Users Share Video, Documents about North Korea |
| By MIN LWIN |
| A video of a deadly attack in Rangoon 26 years ago and documents detailing relations between Burma and North Korea are spreading fast among Burmese Internet users. |
No Hope for Suu Kyi from Ban’s Trip: NLD Leader |
| By WAI MOE |
| Win Tin, a prominent NLD leader, sees no chance of Aung San Suu Kyi being released as a result of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s two-day trip to Burma. |
Japanese Police Block Suspected Missile Technology Exports for Burma |
| By ARKAR MOE |
| Japanese police have arrested three top businessmen on suspicion of attempting to export to Burma a measuring instrument that could be used to develop long-range ballistic missile systems. |
Late onset of monsoons hampers paddy cultivation in Central Burma
Farmers in Central Burma are worried over the late monsoons, which are hampering the cultivation of monsoon paddy. According to a local farmer in Pegu Town, farmers in Daik Oo...Piracy hits Burmese music industry hard
With the increase in music piracy and ineffective laws governing the illegal reproduction of music, Burma's music industry has witnessed an 80 percent reduction in the release of new albums...U.N. chief to arrive in Burma Friday
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will arrive in Burma on Friday for a short two-day visit to the country, according to an announcement made yesterday in New York...Thailand raises surveillance near Moei River
Security officials in Thailand have beefed up surveillance on Moei River, in the wake of clashes with ethnic Karen armed men, who were trying to cross over to Thailand......U2DASSK Mask For All
ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံရဲ႕ ရွစ္ေလးလုံး ဒီမုိကေရစီအေရးေတာ္ပုံႀကီးဟာ စက္မႈတကၠသုိလ္ ေက်ာင္းသား ကုိဘုန္းေမာ္နဲ႔ ကုိစုိးႏုိင္တုိ႔ ေသဆုံးခဲ့ၾကရတဲ့ ကိစၥနဲ႔ပတ္သက္ၿပီး မွန္မွန္ကန္ကန္ စုံစမ္းစစ္ေဆးေပးဖုိ႔နဲ႔ တာဝန္ရွိသူေတြကုိ တရားဥပေဒ ေၾကာင္းအရ အေရးယူေပးဖုိ႔ဆုိတဲ့ ေက်ာင္းသားေတြရဲ႕ ေတာင္းဆုိမႈတခုနဲ႔ စတင္ခဲ့တယ္။ ဒါေပမယ့္ မဆလ အမည္ကို ယူထားတဲ့ စစ္အာဏာရွင္အစုိးရက ထုံးစံအတုိင္း ဉာဏ္နီဉာဏ္နက္ေတြသုံး ကလိမ္ကက်စ္ေတြလုပ္ရင္း အခ်ိန္ ေတြ တေရြ႕ေရြ႕ ၾကာေညာင္းလာတဲ့အခါ ဒီမုိကေရစီေတာင္းဆုိတဲ့ ျပည္သူလူ ထု အမ်ားစုႀကီးရဲ႕ ေတာင္းဆုိမႈက ၾကားျဖတ္အစုိးရ ျဖစ္လာခဲ့တယ္။ 
တဘက္မွာ ျပည္သူေတြအပ္ႏွင္းထားတဲ့ အခြင့္အာဏာ၊ တဘက္မွာ တကမာၻ လုံးကို ဆန္႔က်င္အန္တုၿပီး ငါတေကာေကာေနတဲ့ စစ္အုပ္စု။ နံရံႏွစ္ခုၾကား က်ဥ္းေျမာင္းတဲ့ လမ္းေျမႇာင္ကေလးေပၚမွာ ယိမ္းယုိင္ၿပဳိလဲ မသြားရေလေအာင္ ခက္ခက္ခဲခဲ ႀကဳိးစားေလွ်ာက္လွမ္းေနရတဲ့ အန္အယ္လ္ဒီ ေခါင္းေဆာင္မ်ား အေနနဲ႔ ေနာက္ဆုံးမွာ မိမိတုိ႔တေလွ်ာက္လုံး ကုိင္စြဲလာခဲ့တဲ့ “ရွဥ့္လည္း ေလွ်ာက္သာ ပ်ားလည္းစြဲသာ” မူဝါဒရဲ႕ အေပ်ာ့ေပ်ာင္းဆုံး နည္းလမ္းကုိ လူသိ ရွင္ၾကား ေဖာ္ထုတ္ေၾကညာခဲ့ေတာ့ တယ္။ အဲဒါကေတာ့ နအဖ က ၉ဝ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲရဲ႕ ရလဒ္ကို အေကာင္အထည္ေဖာ္တဲ့အေနနဲ႔ ျပည္သူ႔လႊတ္ ေတာ္ကို ေခၚယူဖြဲ႔စည္းေပးပါ။ အဲဒီလႊတ္ေတာ္က နအဖကုိ ျမန္မာျပည္သူ ေတြကေရာ၊ ႏုိင္ငံတကာ အသုိင္းအဝုိင္းကပါ အသိအမွတ္ျပဳလာၾကေစမယ့္ ‘တရားဝင္’ အစုိးရ တခုအျဖစ္ ေၾကညာေပးမယ္ဆုိတဲ့ ကမ္းလွမ္းမႈျဖစ္တယ္။ ဒါက အ႒မအႀကိမ္ေျမာက္ အေလွ်ာ့ ေပးခဲ့မႈ ျဖစ္တယ္။ 
“ဒီေကဘီေအကလူေတြ အေတာ့္
