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A Russian police officer guards a damaged coach at the site of a train derailment near the town of Uglovka, some 400 km (250 miles) north-east of Moscow, Russia, 28 Nov 2009
Attack Suspected in Russian Train Crash that Killed 25
Investigators are looking for clues into what caused deadly incident on the high-speed luxury train
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 |  The critical role that civil society groups played providing critically needed assistance after Nargis has been done by many by maintaining a low profile.  —Benjamin Zawacki, the Burma researcher for Amnesty International |
Cambodian Ex-prison Chief Pleads for Release |
| By SOPHENG CHEANG and LUKE HUNT |
| After claiming to feel great remorse for his part in Khmer Rouge atrocities, the defendant in Cambodia's first genocide trial makes a last-minute plea for his freedom. |
Dubai Debt Problems Cast Shadow Over Region |
| By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS |
| An unfolding financial crisis in the UAE's glitzy, debt-ridden emirate has alarmed investors throughout the Middle East and beyond. |
HIV Infection Rates Still High Among Injecting Drug Users |
| By THE IRRAWADDY |
| Despite efforts by local and international agencies, a growing number of intravenous drug users in Burma are being infected with HIV. |
Weekly Business Roundup (November 28, 2009) |
| By WILLIAM BOOT |
| An infestation of rats caused by Cyclone Nargis is threatening to devastate rice crops in the Irrawaddy delta—in contradiction of government claims that Burma is set to produce a one million tons surplus for export. |
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| By THAN HTIKE OO |
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| British MPs allege war crimes in Burma Nov 27, 2009 (DVB)–A group of high profile MPs in Britain have submitted a parliamentary petition calling for the United Nations to investigate possible crimes against humanity and war crimes in Burma. - more |
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| Obama saddles up to ‘rogue states’ Joseph Allchin |
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| Teenage girl’s death sparks media frenzy Nov 27, 2009 (DVB)–The death of a 15-year-old girl from a misdiagnosis has sparked a plethora of revelations about Burma’s healthcare system, with doctors admitting that they often assess patients in less than a minute. - more |
အန္အယ္လ္ဒီဟာ မၾကာေသးခင္ကာလမွာ ေရႊဂုံတုိင္ေၾကညာခ်က္အျဖစ္နဲ႔ ႏိုင္ငံေရး သေဘာထား၊ ႏုိင္ငံေရးရပ္တည္ခ်က္ကို ထုတ္ျပန္ခဲ့ပါတယ္။ အဲဒီမွာ အဓိက ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္နဲ႔ ႏုိင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသားေတြ လႊတ္ေပးဖုိ႔၊ ၂၀၀၈ ခုႏွစ္မွာ တဖက္သတ္ ျပ႒ာန္းလုိက္တဲ့ ဖြဲ႔စည္းအုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ပုံအေျခခံဥပေဒကုိ ျပန္လည္ သုံးသပ္ ျပင္ဆင္ဖုိ႔၊ ေနာက္ ၂၀၁၀ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲကုိ တရားမွ်တၿပီး လြတ္လပ္တဲ့ ႏုိင္ငံတကာ ၾကပ္မတ္မႈေတြေအာက္မွာက်င္းပဖုိ႔ ဆုိတဲ့အခ်က္ေတြ ေတာင္းဆုိၿပီးေတာ့ ေၾကညာခ်က္ထုတ္ျပန္ခဲ့ပါတယ္။ 
ဒီေနရာမွာ ဘာသာေရးယုံၾကည္ခ်က္အျမင္နဲ႔ ဆက္စပ္ေနတဲ့ ဆုိး႐ုိးစကားတခုကို တင္ျပခ်င္ပါတယ္။ အခုကာလဟာ သိၾကားသာသနာ ျဖစ္တဲ့အတြက္ေၾကာင့္ ကပ္ဆုိးေဘးဆုိးႀကီးေတြနဲ႔ ႀကံဳေတြ႔ၾကေတာ့မယ္။ အဲဒီကာလဆုိးနဲ႔ ပတ္သက္ၿပီး “ယက္သဲ့ၾကား ငါးတင္၊ တင္တဲ့ငါး ေၾကာင္စား၊ က်န္တဲ့ငါးမွ လြတ္” ဆုိတဲ့ ဆုိ႐ုိးစကားပါ။ ထုိ႔အတူပဲ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ၀င္မယ့္ လႊတ္ေတာ္ကုိယ္စားလွယ္ ေလာင္းမ်ား အေနနဲ႔လည္း ေစာေစာက ေထာင္ေခ်ာက္ေတြ ခလုတ္တံသင္းေတြ ေက်ာ္ျဖတ္ၿပီး ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲမွာ အႏုိင္ရရင္ေတာင္ အနည္းစုေသာ အဲဒီ လႊတ္ေတာ္ ကုိယ္စားလွယ္ေတြဟာ ဒီမုိကေရစီေရး၊ လူ႔အခြင့္ေရးနဲ႔၊ တုိင္းရင္းသား ေတြရဲ႕ အခြင့္အေရးေတြအတြက္ ဘယ္ေလာက္မ်ား ေဆာင္ရြက္ႏုိင္မွာလဲ ဆုိတာကို အေလးအနက္စဥ္းစားဖုိ႔ လုိပါတယ္။ 
“Shopping Center အားလုံးကုိ ႐ုံးပိတ္ရက္ သတ္မွတ္ဖုိ႔ ၫႊန္ၾကား ထားၿပီးၿပီ။ က်န္တဲ့..”
႐ႈပ္ေထြးသည့္ ထိုင္းႏိုင္ငံေရးအၾကား အစိုးရဆန္႕က်င္ဆႏၵျပမႈတိုင္းတြင္ သွ်မ္းေ႐ႊ႕ေျပာင္းအလုပ္သမားမ်ားပါ၀င္ ပတ္သက္ျခင္းမ႐ွိဟု သွ်မ္းအလုပ္သမားေခါင္းေဆာင္မ်ားေျပာၾကားသည္။
