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 |  Human trafficking is not someone else's problem. Involuntary servitude is not something we can ignore or hope doesn't exist in our own communities. — US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton |
Burmese Bikini Model Criticized |
| By NAYEE LIN LATT |
| Criticism has spread on the Internet whether the sexy swimsuit photographs of Honey Oo are culturally appropriate. |
Junta's Eyes Focused on Election |
| By WAI MOE |
| Burma's top generals have issued instructions to set aside border guard force negotiations and focus on ensuring that the USDP obtains a landslide victory in the upcoming election. |
Regime-friendly Party Actively Campaigns |
| By BA KAUNG |
| A convoy of cars and motorbikes flying their political flags started their regime-friendly campaign in Rangoon, Mandalay and other cities last week. |
Thai PM Green Lights Crackdown on Illegal Migrants |
| By SAW YAN NAING |
| Thailand’s Prime Minister has ordered the establishment of a “special center to suppress, arrest and prosecute” illegal alien workers. |
Dozens Die in Monsoon Flooding in Arakan State |
| By KO HTWE |
| At least 28 people die in landslides and flash floods in Maungdaw and Buthidaung townships in northern Arakan State. |
Suu Kyi ‘happy with party unity’
Burma’s pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is glad her National League for ...
Burmese workers killed on Malaysian highway
Two young Burmese migrant workers riding a motorcycle to buy phone cards ...
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Sons of top generals handed fuel-station permits
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Scores die in Bangladesh and Burma floods
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“ဟုတ္တာေပါ့ … ခ်စ္ကိုႀကီးရယ္ … ခ်စ္ကိုႀကီးပဲ စဥ္းစားၾကည့္ပါဦး။ ခ်စ္ကိုႀကီးတို႔ဘက္က ဒီေလာက္ အားႀကိဳးမာန္တက္ ကန္တာေတာင္ သူတို႔က နည္းနည္း ေလွ်ာ့မေပးဘူး။ ေတာ္ေတာ္ ယုတ္မာတဲ့ေကာင္ေတြ”
မႏၲေလးၿမိဳ႕ အပူဒဏ္ ကာကြယ္ေရး ေရရွည္ အေထာက္ အကူျပဳ ႏုိင္ရန္ အတြက္ ' စိမ္းေရာင္စို Activity ' အမည္ျဖင့္ အရိပ္ရ သစ္ပင္ စိုက္ပ်ိဳးေရး အစီအစဥ္ တစ္ရပ္ကို ဇြန္လဆန္း တြင္ စတင္ အေကာင္ အထည္ေဖာ္ ဖြဲ႕စည္း လုိက္ေၾကာင္း အဆိုပါ အဖြဲ႕ထံမွ သိရွိ ရသည္။ ယင္း အစီအစဥ္ ကို ဇြန္လ ၅ ရက္ေန႔ ကမၻာ့ သဘာဝ ပတ္ဝန္းက်င္ ထိန္းသိမ္း ကာကြယ္ေရး ေန႔တြင္ ၆၂ လမ္းေပၚရွိ အနီဃာ သီလရွင္ ေက်ာင္းတိုက္ ၌ စုိက္ပ်ိဳး၍ စတင္ လုိက္သည္ဟု အဆိုပါ အဖြဲ႕တြင္ ပါဝင္သည့္ မႏၲေလးၿမိဳ႕ခံ စာေရးဆရာ တစ္ဦးက ေျပာၾကား သည္ ... 
ျပည္ေထာင္စုေရြးေကာက္ပြဲေကာ္မရွင္ သို႔ တည္ေထာင္ခြင့္ ေလွ်ာက္ထား ေသာ ႏိုင္ငံေရး ပါတီသစ္ ၃၇ ပါတီတြင္ တည္ေထာင္ခြင့္ ခ်ေပးရန္ ႏိုင္ငံေရး ပါတီ ေလးခုသာ က်န္ရွိ ေတာ့ေၾကာင္း ျပည္ေထာင္စု ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ ေကာ္မရွင္က ဇြန္လ ၈ ရက္ေန႔ အထိ ထုတ္ျပန္ ထားေသာ စာရင္းမ်ား အရ သိရသည္။ ျပည္ေထာင္စု ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ ေကာ္မရွင္ သို႔ ၁၉၉ဝ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲဝင္ တည္ဆဲ ႏိုင္ငံေရး ပါတီ ငါးခု က မွတ္ပံု တင္ခြင့္ ျပန္လည္ ေလွ်ာက္ထား ခဲ့ၿပီး၊ ႏိုင္ငံေရး ပါတီသစ္ ၃၇ ပါတီ ကလည္း တည္ေထာင္ခြင့္ ေလွ်ာက္ထား ခဲ့ရာ ဇြန္လ ၈ ရက္ေန႔ ... 
၂ဝ၁ဝ ေရြးေကာက္ ပဲြတြင္ ဝင္ေရာက္ ယွဥ္ၿပိဳင္မည့္ ပါတီသစ္ တစ္ခု ျဖစ္ေသာ ညီညြတ္ေသာ ဒီမုိကရက္တစ္ ပါတီ (UDP) သည္ စစ္ကုိင္းတုိင္း၊ ဒီပဲယင္းၿမိဳ႕နယ္ ေတာင္ျပင္ ရပ္ကြက္တြင္ အေျချပဳကာ မႏၲေလးတုိင္း ႐ုံးခဲြ ႏွင့္ ရန္ကုန္တုိင္း ႐ုံးခဲြ မ်ားကုိ ဇြန္လ အတြင္း ဖြင့္လွစ္ သြားမည္ ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း ယင္းပါတီ ဥကၠ႒ ဦးဘုိေမာင္က ေျပာၾကားသည္။''႐ုံးခ်ဳပ္ကုိ ဒီပဲယင္း မွာပဲ ထားမယ္။ ဒီလ ၈ ရက္ေန႔က ပါတီ ဆုိင္းဘုတ္ တင္ၿပီးၿပီ။ အဲဒီေန႔မွာပဲ ပါတီဝင္ေၾကး မယူဘဲ အဖဲြ႕ဝင္ ေလွ်ာက္လႊာကုိ လက္ခံ ရရွိပါတယ္။ တစ္ျပည္လုံး အတုိင္း အတာနဲ႔ လုပ္ဖုိ႔ ရွိပါတယ္'' ဟု ၄င္းက ... 
