Obama Holds Key Talks on Sidelines of APEC
Discusses nuclear issues with Medvedev; Burma with ASEAN leaders
APEC Leaders Lower Expectations for Climate Change Agreement
Leaders say not enough time for binding agreement ahead of December Copenhagen meeting
APEC Leaders Agree to Chart New Growth in Asia Pacific
Leaders say regional economies can not return to normal growth
Iran's Parliament Approves Ahmadinejad's New Cabinet Ministers
Iran's state-run media say the country's parliament has approved the remaining three Cabinet nominees proposed by Iranian President
North Korea, Free Trade Likely to Dominate Obama's Korea Visit 
He says U.S. will talk one on one with Pyongyang, but only with aim of bringing North Korea back to six-nation nuclear talks
 |  | The US president "directly" calls on Burma's prime minister to release pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi. |
| Asia-Pacific leaders say it will not be possible to reach a climate change deal ahead of the UN conference in Copenhagen. | | Tens of thousands of fans pay tribute to Germany's goalkeeper Robert Enke, who committed suicide earlier this week. |
| Monks boycott junta chief in Sri Lanka Nov 13, 2009 (DVB)–Burmese monks living in Sri Lanka have said they will enact a boycott of religious services for the visiting Burmese junta chief in protest against mistreatment of monks in Burma. - more |
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| UN ‘considers’ Burmese rebels in India Nov 13, 2009 (DVB)–A United Nations body is to finally ‘consider’ granting refugee status to 34 Burmese men appearing in an Indian court on charges of gun smuggling, 11 years after they were arrested. - more |
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| Activists urge halt to Burma tourism Nov 13, 2009 (DVB)–The debate over whether tourists should travel to Burma or not has reignited in Britain as Burmese activists yesterday demonstrated at the World Travel Market Exhibition in London. - more |
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| Dhaka restarts India-Burma pipeline talks Nov 13, 2009 (DVB)–The Bangladesh government has restarted tri-nation talks over a proposed 950-kilometer gas pipeline to run from western Burma to eastern India, through Bangladesh. - more |
Climate Change and Aung San Suu Kyi |
| By AUNG ZAW |
| The regime in Burma is like climate change—if you don’t contain it now, it could be catastrophic. |
US-Asean Drop Call for Free Suu Kyi and Political Prisoners |
| By SIMON ROUGHNEEN |
| A post-summit statement by members of the US-Asean Summit takes a soft line on Burma, failing to call for the release of Suu Kyi and other political prisoners, despite efforts by the US. |
Obama Tells Thein Sein Release Suu Kyi |
| By SIMON ROUGHNEEN |
| US President Barack Obama made a personal request to the Burmese junta to release Aung San Suu Kyi and all political prisoners, signaling that there is different view between Association of Southeast Asian Nations and US. |
What’s on the Cards When Obama Meets Thein Sein? |
| By SIMON ROUGHNEEN |
| The US president touches upon a number subjects that will be raised at the first US-Asean Summit on Sunday—including calls for democracy in Burma. |
Obama Says Release Suu Kyi, but Rights Whispers Grow |
| By SIMON ROUGHNEEN |
| Despite promises to put human rights on the agenda during his trip to Asia, US President Obama is increasingly seen as soft on the issue. |
Cambodia Raises Stakes, as Ties with Thailand Plummet |
| By MARWAAN MACAN-MARKAR |
| Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen steps up his rhetoric against the current Thai government as he comes under attack for harboring ousted Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra. |
Junta continues suppressing freedom of expression: Media Watchdogs
An international and a Burmese press freedom watchdogs on Friday condemned Burma’s military regime for a recent arrest of journalists and bloggers and reminded the international...Editorial, Opinion and Analysis
Competition and bribery at Burma’s National Defence College
(Commentary) After 1993, the then prevailing situation forced officers to attend the National Defence College (NDC) to be promoted to top echelon posts – defi...
သူတုိ႔ဟာ အေမရိကန္ျပည္ေထာင္စုရဲ႕ အဆင့္အျမင့္မွာရွိတဲ့ ပုဂၢိဳလ္မ်ား ျဖစ္ၾကပါတယ္။ နအဖစစ္အာဏာရွင္အုပ္စုရဲ႕ ထိပ္ပုိင္းေခါင္းေဆာင္မ်ားနဲ႔ ေတြ႔ဆုံခဲ့သလုိ အတုိက္အခံ အမ်ဳိးသားဒီမုိကေရစီအဖြဲ႔ခ်ဳပ္ေခါင္းေဆာင္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ (အက်ယ္ခ်ဳပ္နဲ႔ ေထာင္ဒဏ္က်ခံေနရသူ)၊ အမ်ဳိးသား ဒီမိုကေရစီ အဖြဲ႔ခ်ဳပ္ ဗဟုိအလုပ္အမႈေဆာင္ အဖြဲ႔၀င္မ်ားျဖစ္ၾကတဲ့ ဦး၀င္းတင္၊ ဦးသန္းထြန္း၊ ဦးစုိးျမင့္၊ ဦးၫြန္႔ေ၀၊ ဦးလွေဖ၊ ဦးခင္ေမာင္ေဆြတုိ႔နဲ႔လည္း ေတြ႔ဆုံခဲ့ၾကပါတယ္။ ဒီ့အျပင္ တုိင္းရင္းသားအဖြဲ႔ ေခါင္းေဆာင္မ်ားနဲ႔လည္း ေတြ႔ဆုံခဲ့ၾကပါတယ္။ နအဖစစ္အာဏာရွင္ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္မႉးႀကီး သန္းေရႊကေတာ့ အေမရိကန္ကိုယ္စားလွယ္အဖြဲ႔ကို မေတြ႔ဆုံခ်င္လုိ႔ ဧရာ၀တီတုိင္းဘက္ ခရီး အထြက္ျပ ေရွာင္းတိမ္းေနတာေတြ႔ရပါတယ္။
