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Iranian Opposition: Security Forces Clash With Protesters in Central Iran
Opposition Web sites say security forces cracked down Wednesday on rallies in memory of Grand Ayatollah Montazeri
- US Jetliner Overshoots Runway in Jamaica, Injuries Reported
- India Says At Least 12 Possible Terror Attacks Thwarted in 2009
- NY Times: Closure of Guantanamo Prison Will Take Longer Than Expected
- Hundreds Attend Public Hearing on Plan to Transfer Guantanamo Detainees to US Prison
- Well Known Chinese Dissident Goes on Trial for Subversion
- Missing Governor Found Dead in Colombia
- Weather Affecting Holiday Plans Worldwide
- White House Warns Iran to Meet Nuclear Deal Deadline
- US Cites 'Fissure' in Iranian Society
- Iran's President Derides Obama and US
- Iran Government Supporters Rally Against Opposition
 |  | Police and opposition supporters clash in Iran during a memorial for a leading dissident cleric, opposition websites say. |
| Colombian governor's body found Colombian President Alvaro Uribe accuses rebels of killing a regional governor, less than a day after they kidnapped him. | | Plane overshoots Jamaica runway More than 40 people are hurt as an American Airlines plane overshoots a runway in Kingston, Jamaica, officials say. |
Russia to Sell 20 MiG-29 Fighters to Burma |
| By THE IRRAWADDY |
| Russia is to supply Burma with a further 20 MiG-29 jet fighters, according to the news agency Agence France-Presse, quoting the Russian daily Kommersant. |
Nyi Nyi Aung Tortured: Feedom Now |
| By LALIT K JHA |
| Freedom Now have accused Burmese authorities of torturing detained US citizen Nyi Nyi Aung. |
Ethnic Media Groups Eye FM Radio |
| By LAWI WENG |
| FM radio is seen as the most effective medium to educate ethnic groups about the 2010 election, say ethnic media groups. |
Villagers Ordered to Attend Kachin Dam Opening |
| By THE IRRAWADDY |
| Kachin villagers whose land will be flooded are pressed to attend the opening ceremony for Myitsone Dam on the Irrawaddy River. |
Report:Weapons Flight Heading to Iran |
| By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS |
| The flight plan for an aircraft seized in Thailand with a load of illicit North Korean arms and ammunition shows that the mysterious plane was headed to Iran, a new report from arms trafficking researchers says. |
Financial crisis hurts garment industry in Burma
Burma’s garment industry in industrial zones is on a downhill slide due to ...Elder brother objects to renovation of Suu Kyi’s home Aung San Oo, elder brother of Aung San Suu Kyi, has objected to the renovation of ...
Foreign tourists prohibited from Naga festival Foreign tourists have been prohibited from attending the Naga New Year ...
| Revival of delta mangroves begins Dec 23, 2009 (DVB)–In a bid to rejuvenate Burma’s cyclone-stricken Irrawaddy delta, a Burmese environmental group is replanting swathes of mangrove forests and boosting the breeding of salt water fish. - more |
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| Suu Kyi’s brother lodges house complaint Dec 23, 2009 (DVB)–Burma opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s proposal to renovate her Rangoon house-cum-prison has been met with resistance from her estranged brother, who claims part-ownership. - more |
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| Russia to deliver 20 fighter jets to Burma Dec 23, 2009 (AFP)–Russia has signed a contract to deliver 20 MiG-29 fighter planes to military-run Burma, the Russian daily Kommersant reported Wednesday. - more |
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| Pro-junta activists hospitalized after attack Dec 23, 2009 (DVB)–Five members of a pro-government political group in Rangoon have been hospitalized after an attack by another proxy government organization, with both sides now pressing charges. - more |
ခ်ိဳကုပ္။ ။ ကဲ … ဆို … ဘာကိစၥ။ ခင္ဗ်ားက က်ဳပ္နဲ႔ ဦးရုကၡစိုးကို ေတြ႕ၿပီး ဘာလုပ္မွာလဲ။
(၁) မာမီ ေဒၚ ျမင့္ျမင့္ခင္တေယာက္ အရင္တပတ္ကဘဲ ၈၅ ႏွစ္ ျပည့္ခဲ့ၿပီ။ ဖ်တ္လတ္ ထက္ျမက္ဆဲ စိတ္ႀကီးဆဲ ေအာ္ဆဲ ဆူျမဲမုိ႔ မာမီ့ကုိ ၇၀ ေလာက္ ထင္ေနမိတုန္းပါပဲ။ မာမီ့အေၾကာင္း တေစ့တေစာင္းေရးဖို႔ 
“ခ်င္းမိုင္ကို ရန္ကုန္က သြားတဲ့သူ ေတြ အမ်ားႀကီး ျဖစ္လာတယ္။ သူတို႔က ...”
“မဲေဆာက္ ရဲမႉးႀကီးေရွ႕မွာ ကတိ ေပးထားတာ ခင္ဗ်။ အလုပ္သမား ေတြ ေတာင္းဆို....”
“တန္ဖိုးေငြအားျဖင့္ ယူ႐ို သန္း (၄၀၀) နီးပါး အေမရိကန္ေဒၚလာ သန္း (၅၇၀) ခန္႔....”
တကယ္တမ္းေျပာရရင္ ဒီအင္အားနဲ႔ စစ္အာဏာသိမ္း အႏွစ္ (၂၀) ေက်ာ္ကာလ တေလွ်ာက္လံုး အင္အားတိုးခ်ဲ႕၊ လက္နက္တပ္ဆင္မႈေတြ အၿမဲမျပတ္လုပ္လာခဲ့တဲ့ နအဖတပ္ကို ေရရွည္ခုခံတိုက္ခိုက္ဖို႔ဆိုတာ လံုေလာက္တဲ့ အင္အားေတာ့ မဟုတ္ပါဘူး။ ဒါေပမယ့္လည္း မိမိနယ္ေျမနဲ႔ ဥစၥာပစၥည္းဓန အဆံုး႐ံႈးမခံရေရးအတြက္ စစ္ပဲြကို မတိုက္လိုေသာ္ျငား .....
ႀကံ့ခိုင္ဖြံ႕ၿဖိဳးေရးအဖြဲ႕၀င္မ်ား ၂၀၁၀ ေ႐ြးေကာက္ပြဲ မတိုင္မွီ ႏိုင္ငံေရးပါတီအျဖစ္ေျပာင္းရန္ ၁၆ ႏွစ္ေျမာက္ ႏွစ္ပတ္လည္ အစည္းအေ၀း၌ သီးသန္႕လွ်ဳိ႕၀ွက္ေဆြးေႏြးခဲ့ေသာ္လည္း တရား၀င္သတင္း ထုတ္ျပန္ျခင္းမ႐ွိဟု ျပည္တြင္းသတင္းရပ္ ကြက္က ေျပာပါ သည္။
