Pakistani soldiers take up position outside a besieged mosque in Pakistan's garrison city Rawalpindi, 04 Dec 2009
Gunmen Attack Rawalpindi Mosque in Pakistan
Police reported gunfire and at least one explosion at the mosque soon after prayers on Friday morning
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (file photo)
Clinton Encouraged By Allied Response to Afghan Buildup 
Clinton is in Brussels for meetings Friday with foreign ministers of NATO and other contributors the military force in Afghanistan
Photo: AFP
Myanmar democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi smiles following meeting with US Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Kurt Campbell (not pictured) 4 Nov 2009
Burmese High Court to Hear Aung San Suu Kyi's Appeal
High court scheduled to hear Nobel Peace laureate's appeal December 21
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Editorial: Goodbye, Gambari, and Good Luck |
| The years that Ibrahim Gambari served as the UN special envoy to Burma were memorable, but the part he played during this period was not. |
Than Shwe Confounds His Peers |
| By WAI MOE |
| Burma's senior general ignores political concerns and instead enthuses about the country's 'booming' economy at a recent meeting in Naypyidaw. |
EBO Funds to Target Migrants and IDPs |
| By SAW YAN NAING |
| The Euro-Burma Office will strengthen its focus on Burmese migrant workers and internal displaced persons in conflict areas. |
In Policy Change, EU Ministers May Meet Burma's PM |
| By LAWI WENG |
| Burmese Prime Minister Thein Sein will probably meet with some EU ministers during a UN climate conference in Copenhagen next week, signaling a potential shift in its policy towards Burma. |
Indonesian Journalists Plan to Screen Banned Film |
| By ROD MCGUIRK |
| A banned movie depicting the murder of five Australian journalists in the 1975 invasion of East Timor will be shown by journalists in Jakarta. |
Burmese Respond to News of Gambari's Departure |
| By ARKAR MOE |
| Opposition leaders await the appointment of a new UN special envoy to Burma to replace Ibrahim Gambari, who has been named a special representative to work on the Darfur issue. |
Tatmadaw Founder Calls on Soldiers to Work for People's Sake |
| By WAI MOE |
| Former Brig-Gen Kyaw Zaw, a founding member Burma's armed forces, calls on the country's military to work for the sake of the people. |
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Burma’s High court on Friday agreed to hear the appeal request against the sentencing of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi on December 21, her lawyer said. Nyan Win, one...Aung San Suu Kyi’s colonial-era home under repair
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Every child loves their family. But what are the consequences of a child being neglected by their parents or siblings or both within the family? If a child has their..| EU to begin political dialogue with Burma Dec 4, 2009 (AFP)–The European Union will begin "sustained political dialogue" with Burma following the thawing of relations between the junta-led nation and the US, the regional bloc's ambassador said Thursday. - more |
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| Indian rebels admit to Burmese hideouts Dec 4, 2009 (DVB)–Members of the banned Indian separatist group, the United Liberation Front of Assam, have alleged that they hold strategic bases across the border in Burmese territory. - more |
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| Court agrees to hear Suu Kyi appeal Dec 4, 2009 (AFP)–Military-ruled Burma's supreme court has agreed to hear an appeal against the extended house arrest of pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, an official said Friday. - more |
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| Imprisoned foreign fishermen lacking food Dec 4, 2009 (DVB)–Nearly 130 men on board foreign fishing boats who were captured and detained in Rangoon’s Insein prison last month are lacking food and basic amenities, sources close to prison inmates said. - more |
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| Maligned UN envoy to Burma reassigned Dec 4, 2009 (DVB)–The United Nations envoy to Burma, Ibrahim Gambari, has been assigned head of the UN-African Union peacekeeping mission in Darfur, following criticism of his former posting. - more |
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| Detained cyclone aid workers released Dec 4, 2009 (DVB)–Seventeen cyclone relief workers and journalists associated with a Burmese aid organization who were arrested in October have been released from a Rangoon interrogation centre, their families said. - more |
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| Burmese junta 'spies' could face execution Dec 4, 2009 (DVB)–Three men who allegedly leaked information on Burma’s secret tunnel project appeared in a Rangoon court yesterday on charges of espionage, which could be punishable by death. - more |
“လူ (၁၀၀) မွာ (၈၀) ေလာက္က ဆိုင္ကယ္စီးတာကို ႀကိဳက္တဲ့ လူေတြခ်ည္းပဲေလ...”
“တိုင္းရင္းသားအဖြဲ႔ေတြဟာ မူးယစ္ေဆး၀ါးတခုတည္း အေပၚမွာပဲ မီခို....”
ဒီလို အခ်ိန္မ်ဳိးမွာ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးမေျပာနဲ႔ ေတာေတြမွာဆုိ တိရစာၦန္အခြင့္အေရးေတာင္ ခ်ဳိးေဖာက္ခံေနရတယ္လုိ႔ ေျပာရမယ္။ ဘာျဖစ္လုိ႔လဲဆုိေတာ့ လူစားဖုိ႔ေတာင္အႏုိင္ႏုိင္ ႐ုန္းကန္ေနၾကရေတာ့ ေခြးစာ ေၾကာင္စာ ဆုိတာေတာင္......
တ႐ုတ္ျပည္အေပၚထားတဲ့ အေမရိကန္နဲ႔ မဟာမိတ္မ်ားရဲ႕ ေပၚလစီက သိပ္မတည္ၿငိမ္ဘူး။ သူ႔ေပၚလစီက မတည္ၿငိမ္သလို နအဖ ေပၚလစီကလည္း မတည္ၿငိမ္လွဘူး။ အက်ဳိးဆက္ ကေတာ့ အခုဆိုရင္ လူထုထဲမွာ 'တ႐ုတ္ေၾကာက္ စိတ္' က ... 
