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An Iraqi army soldier inspects at the site of a car bomb attack near the Iranian Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, 4 April 2010
Three Massive Bombs Rock Baghdad, at Least 30 Killed
Iraqi officials say two of the explosions were near the Iranian and Egyptian embassies
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Protests and Counter-protests Continue in Bangkok |
| By KINAN SUCHAOVANICH |
| As anti-government protesters launch their fourth weekend demonstration in Bangkok, counter-protesters rally to demand an end to the gridlock in the Thai capital. |
'The Regime is a Political Rapist': Win Tin |
| By THE IRRAWADDY |
| Win Tin, a leading member of the National League for Democracy, says Burma's ruling regime is like “a political rapist” intent on stripping the party of its 1990 election victory. |
Weekly Business Roundup (April 3, 2010) |
| By WILLIAM BOOT |
| The cost of building a road linking the northeastern Indian state of Mizoram with the Burmese Bay of Bengal port of Sittwe has risen more than 40 percent to US $134 million. |
Uncertain Future for NLD in Wake of Election Decision |
| By WAI MOE |
| Senior leaders of the National League for Democracy will meet on Monday to discuss the way forward after deciding not to run in this year's planned election. |
Vietnam PM Visits Burma |
| By LAWI WENG |
| Vietnam's Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung visits Burma with bilateral trade on the agenda. |
National Political Alliance Applies for Registration |
| By SAW YAN NAING |
| Another Rangoon-based political party, the National Political Alliance, applies for party registration to contest in the upcoming election. |
Defiance, Oppression to Come |
| By KYAW ZWA MOE |
Without inclusiveness, whatever the outcome of the election, it will not be beneficial to the people of Burma.Than Shwe's difficult, lonely road ahead |
NLD to plunge itself headlong into social work
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Commander Col. Saw Chit Thu head of the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA) ...
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Thai foreign minister will raise the issue of controversial elections in Burma at ASEAN summit next week after slating 'amnesty' that election laws give to junta
Burma state television goes global
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ရန္ကုန္ ဆင္ေျခဖုံး ရပ္ကြက္တခုမွာ ေနတဲ့ အသက္ ၅၀ ေက်ာ္အ႐ြယ္ ဦးေလးၾကည္လို႔ ေခၚတဲ့ ဦးၾကည္နဲ႔ အသက္ ၃၀ ေလာက္ ရွိတဲ့ သက္ႏုိင္ ဆိုတဲ့ တူအရီး ႏွစ္ေယာက္ ရွိတယ္။ 
“ေဒၚစုကိုယ္တိုင္က ပါတီ မွတ္ပံုတင္တာကို သေဘာမတူ ဘူးလို႔ အစည္းအေ၀းမတိုင္ခင္ သူ႔သေဘာထားကို ရွင္းရွင္း လင္းလင္း ေျပာလိုက္ေတာ့ နဂိုက နအဖအႀကိဳက္ လုပ္ခ်င္ (အဲ …) မွတ္ပံုတင္ခ်င္ေနတဲ့ ကိုယ္ေတာ္ေတြ သူတို႔အေျခအေန သူတို႔သိသြားၿပီး ...” 
က်မ ေတြ႔ဆံုခဲ့တဲ့ လယ္သမား ယာသမားေတြဆိုရင္ သူတို႔ဆႏၵအတိုင္း စိုက္ပ်ဳိးထြန္ယက္ခ်င္ၾကတယ္။ မေတာ္မတ ရားေစ်းႏိွမ္ခံရၿပီး အစိုးရကို မေရာင္းမေနရ ၿခိမ္းေျခာက္ခံရတာမ်ဳိးေတြက... 
