Interim Honduran Leader Accepts Deal to End Crisis
Honduran interim leader Roberto Micheletti says he is ready to sign a deal that could reinstate ousted President Manuel Zelaya
Clinton Justifies US Policy to Pakistani Tribal Leaders
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton spoke in Islamabad Friday to a group of tribal leaders from the troubled northwest region
Obama Consults Military Leaders, Nears Afghan Troop Decision
US President Barack Obama has been reviewing strategy options for the war in Afghanistan, including a request for an additional 40,000 troops
Iran Adds Caveat to Nuclear Cooperation Deal 
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says his country is ready to work with West on UN plan for processing nuclear fuel but will never give up 'its nuclear rights'
Accused Al-Qaida Sleeper Agent sentenced to 8 Years in Prison 
Ali al-Marri sentenced for role in months surrounding 9/11 attacks in New York, Washington
 |  | EU leaders agree levels of funding to help other countries fight global warming, ahead of the Copenhagen climate summit. |
Barroso: EU will pay fair share| Honduras' interim leader says he is ready to sign an accord that could see ousted President Manuel Zelaya return to power. | | The internet regulator approves plans to allow non-Latin-script web addresses, in a move set to transform the online world. |
FFSS Founder Defies Court Summons |
| By THE IRRAWADDY |
| The founder of the Rangoon-based Free Funeral Services Society has defied an order to appear before a court to answer a charge that the organization is continuing to operate its clinic despite an official order to close. |
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 | A United, Collective VoiceThe new Canadian ambassador to Thailand wants to see an unambiguous Western policy on Burma leading up to the 2010 election. |
A Debate Worth Having? |
| By ANDY HALL |
| Whatever its flaws, the nationality verification policy of the Thai government for Burmese migrants has to be encouraged. It has started a meaningful debate. |
INGO Office Attacked after Arakanese Nurse Harassed |
| By WAI MOE |
| Arakanese youths attacked a French INGO office in Arakan State in western Burma on Wednesday following a dispute between a male Rohingya and a female Arakanese nurse. |
KNU, DKBA Hold Armistice Talks |
| By SAW YAN NAING |
| The KNU and the DKBA have held their first high-level meeting since they split 15 years ago. |
Include NLD, Ethnic Minorities in Dialogue: US Sen |
| By LALIT K JHA |
| US Sen. Mitch McConnell calls for the NLD and ethnic groups to be included in the US-Burma talks. |
INTERVIEWA United, Collective Voice |
| By THE IRRAWADDY |
| The new Canadian ambassador to Thailand wants to see an unambiguous Western policy on Burma leading up to the 2010 election. |
Nationality verification of Burmese migrants: A meaningful debate
(Commentary) The Thai Government recently reiterated its policy to formalise the status of around two million migrants from Burma working here - nationality verification (NV)...Municipality files case against free funeral service association
The Rangoon Division, North Dagon Township City Development Committee (Municipal) has filed a case against the Free Funeral Service Association yesterday for using a building...Nationality verification of Burmese migrants: A meaningful debate
(Commentary) The Thai Government recently reiterated its policy to formalise the status of around two million migrants from Burma working here - nationality ver...
Suu Kyi monitors US-junta direct engagement: NLD
Even as detained Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi continues with her fact-finding mission on the consequences of western sanctions, she is also observing the process of...Nobel Laureates call for action on Burma
Two Nobel Peace Laureates, Jody Williams and Mairead Maguire, on Thursday reiterated their call for the immediate release of fellow Burmese Nobel Peace Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi,...| Arrests of Burmese journalists on the rise Oct 30, 2009 (DVB)–Around 20 journalists and entertainers have been arrested in the past month while many more have gone into hiding, a reporter at a Rangoon-based news journal said. - more |
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| Refugee swell sparks clinic funding crisis Oct 30, 2009 (DVB)–Increasing numbers of refugees crossing from Burma into Thailand have placed extra strain on a border clinic that treats thousands of Burmese each year, the director of the clinic said. - more |
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| Security threats in eastern Burma ‘increasing’ Oct 30, 2009 (DVB)–The fallout from conflict in eastern Burma is likely to deteriorate in the coming year as greater militarization causes further unrest in the region, an aid agency said. - more |
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| Burmese satirists could face death sentence Oct 30, 2009 (DVB)–Comedians and performers who poke fun at Burma’s ruling junta could face the death sentence, an article written by Burmese police has warned. - more |
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| Japan ‘should protect’ Burmese Rohingya Oct 29, 2009 (DVB)–The Japanese government’s lack of protection for Burmese Rohingya seeking asylum in Japan is sending the wrong message to the Burmese regime, human rights organisations have warned Tokyo. - more |
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| China denounced by anti-pipeline protesters Oct 29, 2009 (DVB)–Protesters yesterday expressed “grave concern” about China’s multi-billion dollar gas and oil pipeline project in Burma that they claim poses serious risks both to Burmese citizens and regional security. - more |
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| Torture used on ‘ordinary criminals’ in Burma Oct 29, 2009 (DVB)–Victims of state-sanctioned torture in Burma range from the elderly to teenage girls who lack any sort of institutional measures to tackle the problem, an investigation has found. - more |
North Koreans Held in Thailand
2009-10-29
Thai authorities detain a group of would-be North Korean defectors.
‘Wave of Arrests’ in Burma
2009-10-29
The ruling junta is again rounding up critics and activists, but the reasons are unclear.
ဘာေၾကာင့္လဲဆုိရင္ နအဖကလည္း သူ႔ Road Map လမ္းျပေျမပုံအရ ၂၀၀၈ ခုႏွစ္ အေျခခံဥပေဒမူၾကမ္းႀကီးကုိ ဆုပ္ကုိင္ၿပီး ၂၀၁၀ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲကုိ က်င္းပသြားဖုိ႔အတြက္ ၂၀၀၉ ခုႏွစ္ မတ္လ (၂၇) ရက္ ေတာ္လွန္ေရးေန႔ မွာေကာ၊ ေအာက္တုိဘာလမွာ က်င္းပခဲ့တဲ့ စစ္ျပန္စစ္မႈထမ္းေဟာင္း ညီလာခံ မွာပါ စစ္ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္မႉးႀကီးသန္းေရႊက အခုိင္အမာ ေျပာၾကားခဲ့ၿပီးျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ဒါကုိၾကည့္ရင္ နအဖအစုိးရက သူ႔လမ္းေၾကာင္းကုိ သူ ေျဖာင့္ေျဖာင့္တန္းတန္း ေခါင္းမာမာနဲ႔ သြားမယ္ဆုိတာ ထင္ရွားေနပါတယ္။ 
တၿပိဳင္နက္တည္းမွာပဲ အန္အယ္လ္ဒီေခါင္းေဆာင္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္နဲ႔ နအဖဆက္သြယ္ေရး၀န္ႀကီး ဦးေအာင္ၾကည္တုိ႔ ေအာက္တုိဘာလဆန္းပုိင္းမွာ (၂) ႀကိမ္ ေတြ႔ဆုံတဲ့ အေျခအေန၊ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္နဲ႔ အေမရိကန္၊ ၿဗိတိန္၊ ၾသစေၾတးလ် သံအရာရွိ (၃) ဦး ေတြ႔ဆုံေဆြးေႏြးတဲ့ အေျခအေန၊ ၉.၁၀.၀၉ ေန႔မွာ ၎သံအရာရွိ (၃) ဦးနဲ႔ အန္အယ္လ္ဒီ ဗဟုိအလုပ္အမႈေဆာင္ေတြ အန္အယ္လ္ဒီ႐ုံးခ်ဳပ္မွာ ေတြ႔ဆုံေဆြးေႏြးတဲ့ အေျခအေန (ဥကၠ႒ ဦးေအာင္ေရႊနဲ႔ စီအီးစီ ဦး၀င္းတင္တုိ႔မပါ) … စသည့္အေျခအေနေတြဟာ နအဖအစုိးရက ပကတိ ႐ုိးသားျဖဴစင္ မြန္ျမတ္တဲ့ စိတ္ရင္း၊ ေစတနာရင္းတုိ႔နဲ႔ ေတြ႔ဆုံခြင့္လုိက္ေလ်ာျခင္း၊ တုိင္းျပည္နဲ႔ လူမ်ဳိးအက်ဳိး တုိးတက္ဖြံ႔ၿဖိဳးဖို႔အတြက္ ရည္ရြယ္ျခင္းအေပၚ အဓိကထားတယ္ဆုိရင္ အေကာင္းျမင္ သေဘာနဲ႔ ႀကိဳဆုိပါတယ္။ သာဓု … သာဓု (၂) ႀကိမ္ေလာက္ေတာ့ ႀကိဳေခၚထားပါမယ္ (နအဖရဲ႕ စိတ္ရင္း အမွန္ကုိ စိတ္မခ် မယုံၾကည္ရေသးလုိ႔ပါ)။ 
တရုတ္ျပည္သို႔ ဆံပင္ ပိႆာခ်ိန္ မ်ားစြာ တင္ပို႔ေနရေသာေၾကာင့္ ဆံပင္ အေရာင္းအ၀ယ္ လုပ္ငန္း ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံတြင္ တျဖည္းျဖည္း ႀကီးထြားေနသည္။ ဆံပင္ အ၀ယ္ဒိုင္ လုပ္ငန္းမ်ား အလုပ္ျဖစ္လ်က္ရွိၿပီး ဆံပင္ ဖုန္ခါ သန္႔စင္ျခင္း
“အရင္မူအတိုင္းပဲ ႏိုင္ငံတႏိုင္ငံမွာ တပ္မေတာ္တခုတည္း ရိွရမွာကို လက္ခံတယ္....”
