SAFFRON PEOPLE'S MOVEMENT: Dec 6, 2009

A major car manufacturer has aired a hard-hitting advert in the United States calling for the release of Burmese pro-democracy figure Aung San Suu Kyi, opening a new front in the battle to improve the industry's battered social image among the public.

The Chrysler advert, aired Thursday on several national TV networks, is a bold move from an industry struggling to regain widespread public support after a difficult year of bankruptcies and bailouts. Suu Kyi is the democratically elected leader of Burma but has been held under house arrest by the Burmese military junta for almost 14 of the past 20 years.

"We produced the TV film in honor of all those who put their lives at stake in the hopes of making the world a better place," said Chrysler's president Oliver Francois. "For Chrysler, this is a chance to use our brand image to join with others in the fight for peace."

The movie features four former Nobel laureates stepping out of black Chrysler 300 vehicles at the recent summit of Nobel laureates in Berlin. The final vehicle, a white Chrysler, is empty, symbolizing the absence of Aung San Suu Kyi. Whilst the advert was originally aired in Europe by Chrysler's sister firm Lancia, this is the first time it has been shown in the United States. It also features Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, former Polish President Lech Walesa and Nelson Mandela.

Car manufacturers face an uphill struggle to regain the trust of the public following multimillion dollar bailouts from several governments earlier this year, without appearing cynical. In 2008, Lancia produced a car advert in which Richard Gere drove into Tibet, leaving his handprints in the snow. Despite declaring that the advert did "not promote technical values but human values," Lancia's parent company Fiat later apologized to China when the images appeared in the Chinese press.

Not one auto firm appeared in the Q3 2009 top ten brands published by Covalence, a Swiss firm that that tracks the ethical reputation of multinationals. The first major car brand to be ranked is BMW, appearing at number 25.

"Over the last years automobile manufacturers have communicated a lot about their initiatives to make greener cars," said Antoine Mach, co-founder and director of Covalence. "But they are weaker on the social front. Chrysler's recent announcement reflects a need to improve image in terms of social performance and human rights."

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ရာသီဥတု‌ေျပာင္‌းလဲလာမႈ သိပၸံပညာရွင္ေတြကုိ ကုလ‌ေထာက္‌ခံ

ရုရွား ညကလပ္‌ မီး‌ေလာင္‌မႈ အတြင္း ေသဆုံးသူ တရာ‌ေက်ာ္

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ကုိပင္ေဟဂင္ညီလာခံမွာ ရာသီဥတုဆုိင္ရာ မူ၀ါဒေတြ ခ်မွတ္ေရး ေတာင္းဆုိဆႏၵျပ
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ဒီသီတင္းပတ္ထဲ ကုလသမဂၢက ႀကီးမႉးက်င္းပမယ့္ ကိုပင္ေဟဂင္ၿမိဳ႕က ရာသီဥတု ေျပာင္းလဲမႈဆိုင္ရာ ႏိုင္ငံတကာညီလာခံမွာ မိမိတို႔ရဲ႕ လိုလားခ်က္ေတြ အေရးယူေဆာင္ရြက္ေပးဖို႔ ေထာင္ေသာင္းခ်ီတဲ့ ဆႏၵျပသူေတြဟာ စေနေန႔က လန္ဒန္ၿမိဳ႕လယ္ ပါလီမန္အေဆာက္အဦတ၀ိုက္ စုရံုးခဲ့ၾကပါတယ္။

Emergency doctors carry a victim of a night club fire to a plane at an airport in Perm, about 700 miles (1,200 kilometers) east of Moscow, 05 Dec 2009

႐ုရွား ည ကပြဲ႐ံု မီးေလာင္မႈ လူ ၁၀၀ ေက်ာ္ ေသဆံုး Audio Clip Available

ေနတိုးနဲ႔ အာဖဂန္တပ္ဖြဲ႔ တာလီဘန္အေပၚ ထိုးစစ္သစ္ ဆင္ႏႊဲ Audio Clip Available

လႊတ္ရက္ေစ့ ျမန္မာ့ အက်ဥ္းသား ၄၇ ဦး ျပည္ေတာ္ မျပန္နိုင္

၁၂၊၆၊၂၀၀၉

ဘဂၤလာေဒခ္်႕ေထာင္ထဲတြင္ လႊတ္ရက္ေစ့ေသာ္လည္း ျမန္မာ စစ္အစိုးရမွ လက္မခံသျဖင့္ ျပည္ေတာ္မျပန္နိုင္ဘဲ ျဖစ္ေနသည့္ ျမန္မာ့ အက်ဥ္းသား ၄၇ ဦးရွိေၾကာင္း သတင္း ရရွိသည္။ အျပည့္အစံုသို႔

ေျပာျပစရာေတြလဲ တပုံႀကီးရိွေသးတယ္ အမွတ္ ၂၉၇

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ဒီဇင္ဘာ ၅၊ ၂ဝဝ၉

“ - - မိသားစု အိမ္ေထာင္ရွင္ေတြမွာ ကေတာက္ကဆ ေဘာက္က်တာေတြ၊ လင္နဲ႔မယား လွ်ာနဲ႔သြား အျဖစ္ေတြ ရိွၾကသလုိ မင္းတရားႀကီးတုိ႔ မင္းမ်ဳိးမင္းေဆြ နန္းတြင္းေနတုိ႔မွာလည္း ရိွတ့ဲအေၾကာင္း - -”

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စာေပအႏုပညာရွင္ေတြရဲ႔ ႏိုင္ငံေရးစာေပေတြဟာ ႏိုင္ငံေရးဗဟုသုတေတြ၊ ေခတ္ပံုရိပ္ေတြကို ထင္ဟပ္ေစသလို ႏိုင္ငံေရးသမားမ်ား ေရးသားတဲ့ စာေပေတြမွာလည္း သူတို႔ရဲ႕ အေတြးအေခၚ အယူအဆေတြကို ေတြ႔ရွိႏိုင္ပါတယ္။ အထူးသျဖင့္ သက္ဆိုင္ရာေခတ္ကို မမီလိုက္လို႔ ႏိုင္ငံေရးနယ္ပယ္က လူပုဂၢဳိလ္ေတြရဲ႕ ပံုရိပ္ေတြကို မမွန္းဆႏိုင္သူေတြအတြက္ အဲဒီပုဂၢဳိလ္ေတြ ေရးသားခဲ့တဲ့ ႏိုင္ငံေရးစာေပေတြကတဆင့္ မွန္းဆ ပံုေဖာ္ႏိုင္ပါလိမ့္မယ္။

အျပည့္အစုံသိုႛ ...

တမာေလညွင္း၏ ခြန္းဆိုေသာ ရင္မွစကား

ေလာအယ္စိုး

ဒီဇင္ဘာ ၆၊ ၂၀၀၉

က်ေနာ္သည္ ကရင္ျပည္နယ္ ေက်းလက္ေဒသ တခု၌ ႀကီးျပင္းလာခဲ့ေသာ သူ တေယာက္ျဖစ္သည္။ မြန္၊ ရွမ္း၊ ဗမာ၊ ပအိုး၀္ နွင့္ ကရင္လူမ်ိဳးတို႔ ေရာေနွာ ေနထိုင္ေသာ ကရင္ျပည္နယ္၏ ေရ၊ ေျမ ၊ ေတာေတာင္၊ ဓေလ့ထံုးစံ ၊ ဘာသာေရးပြဲေတာ္မ်ား အၾကား၊ ျပည္တြင္း မၿငိမ္မသက္ မႈေၾကာင့္ ကရင္ျပည္နယ္အတြင္း ေက်းလက္ျပည္သူမ်ားတို႔ ရင္နင္ဖြယ္ ခံစားရေသာ နာက်င္သည့္ အျဖစ္အပ်က္ အနိ႒ာရုံတို႔ကို မ်က္၀ါးထင္ထင္ေတြ႔ျမင္ ခံစားခဲ့ရသည္။

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ကာတြန္း ေစာငို - ၂၀၀၉ မွ ၂၀၁၀ သို႔ ေဖာက္ထြက္ေတြးၾကျပန္ျခင္း ဒီဇင္ဘာ ၅၊ ၂၀၀၉

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