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Thai 'Red Shirt' anti-government protest leader Natthawut Saikua (Center), flanked by other protest leaders, makes an announcement on the latest proposal by Thai prime minister, 04 May 2010
Thai Protests Leaders Welcome PM's Reconciliation Plan 
Abhisit Vejjajiva offered a plan that includes elections in November and an investigation into violence during the protests
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The True Meaning of Shanghai's World Expo |
| By KAVI CHONGKITTAVORN |
| Billed as the first developing country to host the event in its 159-year history, the Chinese government is making sure that the "Greatest Show on Earth" projects the correct image of China. |
Donors View Civil Society in New Light after Nargis |
| By MARWAAN MACAN-MARKAR |
| Civil society organizations who rushed to help victims after the powerful Cyclone Nargis two years ago are reaping rewards for their risky and tireless labor. |
Campbell Back to Burma |
| By THE IRRAWADDY |
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Than Shwe a Predator, Says Media Watchdog |
| By KO HTWE |
| Snr-Gen Than Shwe has made the Top 40—on an annual list of the world's “Predators of Press Freedom,” released by Reporters Without Borders. |
Thai Protesters Welcome PM's Compromise |
| By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS |
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| By SIMON ROUGHNEEN |
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Nargis, two years on
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China’s fears over Wa fighting grow
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၂ဝ၁ဝ ေရြးေကာက္ ပဲြတြင္ ပဲခူးတုိင္းမွ ဝင္ေရာက္ ယွဥ္ၿပိဳင္ မည့္သူ အမ်ား စုသည္ ႏုိင္ငံေရး ပါတီမ်ား ထူေထာင္ ကာ ဝင္ၿပိဳင္မည္ မဟုတ္ဘဲ တစ္သီး ပုဂၢလ လႊတ္ေတာ္ ကုိယ္စား လွယ္မ်ား အျဖစ္ ဝင္ေရာက္ ယွဥ္ၿပိဳင္ ၾကဖြယ္ ရွိေၾကာင္း ပဲခူးၿမိဳ႕ရွိ ေဒသခံ မ်ားထံမွ သိရသည္။''လြန္ခဲ့တဲ့ႏွစ္ ၂ဝ တုန္းက ဒီမွာ ပါတီ ေတြ ရွိတယ္။ တစညတုိ႔ ၊ NLD တုိ႔လုိ ပါတီ ေတြမွာ ပါတီဝင္ အျဖစ္ ဝင္ၾကတယ္။ အခုေတာ့ တစ္ဦး ခ်င္းစီ ဝင္ၿပိဳင္ ၾကဖုိ႔ ရွိၾက ပါတယ္'' ဟု ႐ုံးႀကီး ရပ္ကြက္တြင္ ေနထုိင္သူ ယခင္က ပါတီ တစ္ခုမွ ပါတီဝင္ေဟာင္း တစ္ဦးက ေျပာၾကားသည္။ 
“အမည္တို႔ဘာတို႔ကေတာ့ အေရး မႀကီးပါဘူး။ အေရးႀကီးတာက စိတ္ဓာတ္နဲ႔ ...” 
ျပည္သူ႕စစ္တပ္ဖြဲ႕ အသြင္ေျပာင္းရန္ စည္း႐ုံးသိမ္းသြင္းခံလိုက္ရၿပီဟု အမ်ားထင္မွတ္သည့္ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္လြယ္ေမာ၀္း ႏွင့္အဖြဲ႕ ေသာင္မတင္ေရမက် အေျခအေန၌ ေရာက္ေနေၾကာင္း စံုစမ္းသိ႐ွိရပါသည္။
(အင္တာဗ်ဴး) လူေပါင္း ၁ သိန္း ၄ ေသာင္းနီးပါး ေသဆံုးခဲ့ရေသာ ေၾကကြဲ ... 
