Wed. 08 Jul 2009 0907 UTC
World Leaders Meet for G8 Summit in Italy
G8 leaders are expected to focus on the global economic recession and at what point the economy is stable enough to stop major stimulus spending
China's President Skips G-8 Summit to Deal with Xinjiang Unrest
State Councilor Dai Bingguo now will represent China at the gathering of the world's leading industrialized nations
Indonesia's Early Count Gives President Yudhoyono Majority Vote 
Sample tallies from polling stations across Indonesia say President Yudhoyono won 52 percent of the vote, which would be enough to prevent a run-off election
US, S. Korean Government Web Sites Targeted in Cyber Attack
Reports are emerging in South Korean media that intelligence officials suspect North Korea may have had a hand in the disruption
Honduran Rivals Agree to Mediation Talks
Announcement comes after Manuel Zelaya met with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Washington
 |  | At least 40 people are killed in a suspected US attack in NW Pakistan, officials say, as it steps up its fight against militants. |
| China's riot-torn city of Urumqi is now under control and those guilty of murder will be executed, local officials say. | | Some 70,000 construction workers in South Africa go on strike, halting work on stadiums for the 2010 World Cup. |
Indonesian President Set for Re-election |
| By NINIEK KARMINI |
| Indonesians voted Wednesday in their country's second direct presidential election, and early ballot counts showed the incumbent would likely win a single-round victory. |
Burmese Refugee Numbers Swell in Thailand |
| By CAROLINE STAUFFER |
| As the 50,000th Burmese refugee to be resettled abroad recently left Thailand for the United States, thousands of others fled their military-ruled homeland to seek shelter under tarps and in temples along the Thai-Burmese border. |
Meeting with Ban “Unsatisfactory”: NLD |
| By SAW YAN NAING |
| NLD leaders had little time to meet with Ban Ki-moon and do not blame him for failure. |
US Expresses Concern over Burma |
| By LALIT K JHA |
| The US Department of State reiterates the call for progress towards democracy in Burma. |
Burma Rebuilding Uneven After Cyclone |
| By JOHN HEILPRIN |
| As the UN helicopter skimmed above the placid Irrawaddy Delta, Burma's military junta was putting the final touches on its showcase village. |
Philippine Bombings Halt UN Food Distribution |
| By OLIVER TEVES |
| A spate of deadly bombings has prompted the United Nations to suspend food distribution to hundreds of thousands of people displaced by fighting in the southern Philippines. |
Suspected North Korean Ship Returns Home |
| By ARKAR MOE |
| Japan aims to tighten sanctions as suspected North Korean vessel is thought to have docked in North Korea on Monday. |
India to repatriate second batch of Rohingya to Bangladesh
India is set to repatriate 150 Rohingya boat people, who have been stranded on the Andaman Island for nearly six months, following a green signal from Bangladesh saying,...Htoo Co. negotiates for mobile services of Myanmar Telecom
The management rights of mobile phone services of the Burmese government operated Myanmar Telecom is being negotiated for transfer to the powerful Htoo company,...Editorial, Opinion and Analysis
‘SOS BURMA,’ time for UN to do the right thing
(Commentary) Unlike in the past visit, this time there was no real expectation that the United Nations General Secretary’s visit to Burma would change anythin...
Two new FM radio channels soonTwo new FM radio channels will begin broadcasting in Burma as of August, according to sources from the Music Association and FM stations. The FM radio stations in operation now... | Die Hard’ spirit of 7-July; Burmese activists vow to march aheadBurmese activists and Indian supporters on Tuesday reiterated their call to the Indian government to stop supporting Burma’s military regime and instead support the movement for,... |
Air Mandalay to resume Int’l flight in AugustAir Mandalay, one of Burma’s private airlines, is set to resume international flights between Burma’s former capital Rangoon and Thailand’s northern city Chiang Mai in August,... | India urged to stop helping Burmese juntaThe Indian government has been exhorted to stop helping the Burmese military regime by student leaders and journalists from Northeast Indian states, who in a show of solidarity,... |
ဒါေၾကာင့္လည္း ‘ေဘးလြယ္အိတ္’ ဆိုတဲ့ အသံုးအႏႈန္းဟာ လူထုၾကားထဲမွာ နာမည္ပ်က္ေနရတာပါ။ ေရွ႕ကလည္း မသြားရဲ၊ ေနာက္မွာလည္း မေနခ်င္၊ ေဘးတိုက္ကေန ေပကပ္လိုက္ကာ အေႏွာင့္အယွက္ေပး အဟန္႔အတား ျပဳတတ္ၾကသူမ်ိဳးေတြကို ‘ေဘးလြယ္အိတ္’ လို႔ ေခၚတတ္ၾကပါတယ္။ ဘယ္လိုပဲ ျဖစ္ျဖစ္ သာမန္လူမႈေရးကိစၥေတြမွာ ‘ေဘးလြယ္အိတ္’ လုပ္ေနတာ ထိခိုက္နစ္နာ မႈ သိပ္မႀကီးမားလွပါဘူး။ ဒါေပမယ့္ ‘ႏိုင္ငံေရးေဘးလြယ္အိတ္’ ေတြ လုပ္ေနၾကၿပီ ဆိုရင္ေတာ့ တိုင္းျပည္နဲ႔ လူထုသာမက အေရးေတာ္ပါ ထိခိုက္နစ္နာမႈ ႀကီးမားတတ္တာျဖစ္လို႔ သတိထားဖို႔ လိုပါလိမ့္မယ္။ ဒီလိုအျဖစ္မ်ိဳးေတြ သမိုင္းမွာ အႀကိမ္ႀကိမ္ ႀကံဳေတြ႔ခဲ့ရၿပီး ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
ဒါေၾကာင့္လည္း ၿပီးခဲ့တဲ့ ဧၿပီလ ေရႊဂံုတိုင္အစည္းအေ၀းမွာ ကိုယ္စားလွယ္ တခ်ဳိ႕ဆီက လက္ရွိ CEC ကို ျဖဳတ္ခ်ေပးဖို႔ ေတာင္းဆိုသံတခ်ဳိ႕ သဲ့သဲ့မွ် ထြက္လာ တာ ၾကားလိုက္ရပါတယ္။ ဒီေလသံမ်ိဳးကို နအဖကပဲ ႀကိဳက္မွာပဲ။ လူထုေတြက ႀကိဳက္မွာ မဟုတ္ပါဘူး။ ဒီေန႔လို အခ်ိန္အခါမ်ဳိးမွာ ျပည္တြင္းမွာျဖစ္ျဖစ္ ျပည္ပမွာ ျဖစ္ျဖစ္ ကြဲသံခြဲသံေတြ ထြက္လာတာဟာ ဒီမိုကေရစီအင္အားစုေတြအတြက္ အားပ်က္စရာ ခ်ည္းပါပဲ။ အခုခ်ိန္မွာ ပါတီကို ကြဲေအာင္ ခြဲရမွာ မဟုတ္ပါဘူး။ စည္းစည္းလံုးလံုးျဖစ္ေအာင္ အားျဖည့္တည္ေဆာက္ၾကရမွာပါ။ အေၾကာင္းအမ်ဳိး မ်ဳိးနဲ႔ ပါတီျပင္ပေရာက္ေနတဲ့ ပုဂၢိဳလ္ေတြကို နည္းမ်ိဳးစံုနဲ႔ ျပန္လည္စုစည္း သိမ္းသြင္းဖို႔လိုပါတယ္။ ပါတီစည္းကမ္းအရ အေရးယူမႈမ်ဳိး ရွိရမွာျဖစ္ေပမယ့္ ပါတီက ထုတ္ပစ္တဲ့အထိ ျပင္းထန္တဲ့ အေရးယူမႈမ်ိဳးေတြ ဆင္ျခင္သင့္ပါတယ္။
“လံုၿခံဳေရးကိုအေၾကာင္းျပၿပီး ေျပာတယ္။ က်ေနာ္ထင္တယ္၊ ထိုင္းနယ္စပ္မွာ ..”
