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Delegates from Ireland confer prior to a plenary session at the climate summit in Copenhagen, Denmark, 16 Dec 2009
No Climate Deal as World Leaders Meet for Two More Days 
Aim to work out agreement or at least viable framework to curb global warming
French, African Leaders Promote Fight Against Deforestation
Heads of state, who met in Paris before heading to Copenhagen say they would push to make summit a success
U.S. health care
US House Adjourns as Democrats, Republicans Feud Over Health Care, Other Measures 
Senate Republicans used procedural tactics to delay Democrat's efforts to move toward a vote on health care reform
Iran Test Fires Improved Long-Range Missile
State television shows video of Sejil 2 missile launch, calling test a success
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 |  | Talks remain deadlocked at the protest-hit climate summit in Copenhagen as world leaders join efforts to seal a deal. |
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 |  2010 is a risky year for the Karen people because the Burmese regime—a government that doesn't want to recognize the fundamental rights of ethnic peoples—is trying to complete its plan to legitimize its Constitution by eliminating the ethnic minority groups.  —Gen Tamla Baw, chairman of Karen National Union |
Stiglitz Advises Regime to Use Oil and Gas Revenues Wisely |
| By BA KAUNG |
| Nobel Economics Laureate Joesph Stiglitz has told a forum in the Burmese capital, Naypyidaw, that revenues from oil and gas, if well used, could open up a new era for the country. |
US Welcomes Suu Kyi Meeting with NLD Leaders |
| By LALIT K JHA |
| The US has welcomed the Burmese regime's decision to allow opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi to meet three senior members of her National League for Democracy and has urged the junta to enter “genuine dialogue” with all the country's stakeholders. |
Vietnam Orders Russian Submarines, Fighter Jets |
| By THE ASSOCITED PRESS |
| In a move to beef up its modest navy, Vietnam orders six “Kilo” submarines and 12 Sukhoi Su-30MK2 fighter jets from Russia. |
Tribunal Charges 2 Khmer Rouge Leaders with Genocide |
| By THE ASSOCITED PRESS |
| The UN-assisted tribunal in Cambodia charges ideological leader Nuon Chea and former Foreign Minister Ieng Sary with genocide. |
Will 2749 Be a Happy New Year for the Karen? |
| By SAW YAN NAING |
| According to legend, the Karen people first settled in Burma in 739 BC. But they still face discrimination and thousands live in fear. |
Workers demonstrate in Rangoon
Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – Workers of a textile factory in the Industrial Zone (3) in Rangoon’s suburban Township of Hlaing Tharyar demonstrated outside the factory on Thursday morning, sources said.
Ethnic Karens celebrate New Year
Ethnic Karen in Rangoon and Karen State on Wednesday celebrated their New Year in ...Suu Kyi allowed to pay respects to party elders
In a development, rare in military ruled Burma, detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi..Sincere response expected from Than Shwe to Suu Kyi
The Burmese junta has partially granted detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s ...
Seized fishing vessel owners reach Rangoon
An Indonesian and a Taiwanese, who are owners of recently seized fishing boats, arrived in Rangoon this week to ...
| ‘Enthusiastic’ Suu Kyi calls for party reform Dec 17, 2009 (DVB)–The detained leader of Burma’s largest political party has called for it to be reorganised for the first time in the party’s 21-year history, following rare talks with three senior party members. - more |
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| Sex workers on the rise in Rangoon Dec 17, 2009 (DVB)–More women and young men are resorting to prostitution in order to scrape a living in Burma’s former capital of Rangoon, local residents and social workers have said. - more |
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| China to air Burma border concerns Dec 16, 2009 (DVB)–Chinese vice-president Xi Jinping will arrive in Burma this week where he is expected to meet Burma’s reclusive leader and discuss Beijing’s concerns over border security. - more |
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| Suu Kyi holds rare party meeting Dec 16, 2009 (AFP)–Burma's junta allowed detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi to meet with three elderly senior members of her party Wednesday in a rare concession by the military regime. - more |
ဖိုးရႈပ္တေယာက္ ခ်င္းမိုင္ၿမိဳ႕က ဝါဝီေကာ္ဖီဆိုင္တြင္ ထိုင္ရင္း ေခါင္းကို တဗ်င္းဗ်င္း ကုတ္ေနသည္။ ႂကြက္စုတ္။ ။ ေအးေအး ေဆးေဆး ေကာ္ဖီ ေသာက္မလားလို႔ လာပါတယ္၊ မင္းက ဘာျဖစ္ေနတာလဲ။ 
“ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံမွာ ဘာေတြ ျပဳျပင္ ေျပာင္းလဲဖို႔ လိုအပ္တယ္ ဆိုတဲ့ဟာေတာ့ ...”
