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| Suu Kyi to meet with senior party colleagues Dec 15, 2009 (DVB)–Burma’s ruling junta has granted detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi permission to hold a rare meeting with senior party members, according to a party spokesperson. - more |
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| Burma opium cultivation up, but yield down Dec 14, 2009 (DVB)–Opium cultivation in Burma has doubled since 2006, despite production of the narcotic falling, the United Nations drugs office has said. - more |
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| Burma handed economic bloc chair Dec 14, 2009 (DVB)–Burma has formally received the rotating chair of a regional seven-member technical and economic bloc from India, following an annual conference in the Burmese capital Naypyidaw. - more |
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| Junta chief ‘used child soldiers for bodyguards’ Dec 14, 2009 (DVB)–Burma’s junta strongman Than Shwe has surrounded himself with a special bodyguard unit that took root 15 years ago and reportedly included child soldiers, sources close to the army have said. - more |
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| Activists say Than Shwe’s future still uncertain Dec 14, 2009 (AFP)–As Burma gears up for rare elections due next year, eyes are turning to the fate of the country's ageing military strongman, Than Shwe, and a possible succession, exiled activists say. - more |
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ဒီလပုိင္းေတြအတြင္းမွာ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံေရးေလာကကုိ ဂယက္ထသြားေစတဲ့ လႈပ္ရွားမႈေလးေတြ အဆက္မျပတ္ ျဖစ္ေပၚေနခဲ့တယ္လုိ႔ ဆုိရမလုိပါပဲ။ အေမရိကန္ အထက္လႊတ္ေတာ္အမတ္ ဂ်င္မ္၀က္ဘ္ကေန လက္ေထာက္ ႏုိင္ငံျခားေရး၀န္ႀကီး ကာ့တ္ကမ္ဘဲလ္ ခရီးစဥ္အထိေပါ့။ တခ်ိန္တည္းမွာ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ရဲ႕ Sanction နဲ႔ ပတ္သက္တဲ့ ဗိုလ္သန္းေရႊထံေပးစာ၊ ဆက္သြယ္ေရး၀န္ႀကီး ဦးေအာင္ၾကည္နဲ႔ ေဆြးေႏြးမႈ၊ စီအီးစီအဖြဲ႔နဲ႔ ေတြ႔ဆုံခြင့္၊ ကာ့တ္ကမ္ဘဲလ္အဖြဲ႔နဲ႔ ေဆြးေႏြးမႈ … စတဲ့လႈပ္ရွားမႈ ေတြဟာလည္း ရွိေနခဲ့တယ္။ ခုေနာက္ဆုံး တုိင္းျပည္ရဲ႕ ေကာင္းရာေကာင္းေၾကာင္း အတြက္ နအဖနဲ႔ ပူးေဆာင္ရြက္ႏုိင္ေရးအတြက္ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္မႉးႀကီးသန္းေရႊနဲ႔ ေတြ႔ဆုံေဆြးေႏြး ခြင့္ေပးဖုိ႔ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္က ေမတၱာရပ္ခံစာ ေပးပုိ႔လုိက္တယ္လုိ႔ မီဒီယာေတြက ဆုိျပန္ပါတယ္။ ဒီသတင္း မီဒီယာေတြထဲ ပါလာခ်ိန္က ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ရဲ႕ ေပးစာမိတၱဴကုိ စီအီးစီအေနနဲ႔ လက္ခံေဆြးေႏြးရျခင္း မရွိၾကေသးပါဘူး။ 
Dialogue လုပ္ၾကၿပီဆုိရင္ အျပန္အလွန္ နားလည္မႈ၊ စိတ္ရွည္သည္းခံမႈနဲ႔ ေပ်ာ့ေပ်ာင္းအေပးအယူရွိမႈ စတဲ့ အေျခခံသေဘာထားေတြ ႏွစ္ဦးႏွစ္ဘက္မွာ ရွိၾကဖုိ႔လုိပါလိမ့္မယ္။ ဒီသေဘာထားအေျခခံေပၚမွာ အျပန္အလွန္ ေဆြးေႏြးညႇိႏႈိင္းၾကရမွာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ဒီအခါမွာ ဘာေတြေတာင္းဆုိၿပီး ဘာေတြ လုိက္ေလ်ာမွာလဲဆုိတဲ့ အေပးအယူကိစၥဟာ အခရာက်သလုိ ဘယ္ေလာက္ေတာင္းဆုိၿပီး ဘယ္ေလာက္ လုိက္ေလ်ာမွာလဲဆုိတဲ့ အတုိင္းအတာကိစၥကလည္း အေရးပါႏုိင္ပါတယ္။ Dialogue မလုပ္ခင္မွာ ဒီကိစၥနဲ႔ပတ္သက္တဲ့ အျမင္သေဘာထားေတြ ရွင္းလင္းထားဖုိ႔လည္း လုိအပ္ပါလိမ့္မယ္။ ဒါေၾကာင့္လည္း ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္အေနျဖင့္ စီအီးစီအဖြဲ႔နဲ႔ ေတြ႔ဆုံညႇိႏႈိင္းခြင့္ကုိ ေတာင္းဆုိခဲ့တာ ျဖစ္ပါလိမ့္မယ္။
