Campaigners urge UK to investigate firms investing in Burma
A United Kingdom based campaign group has urged the British government to investigate UK registered insurance companies to check whether they have committed financial crimes...Over 20 escaped convicts from Pyapon recaptured
Over 20 convicts who broke out from Pyapon prison when Cyclone Nargis lashed the region have been rearrested, according to the police. The deadly cyclone Nargis, which hit the region...Editorial, Opinion and Analysis
Kachin party - but not KIO - to contest 2010 election
(Interview) The Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) will not be transformed into a political party to contest the planned 2010 ...
Five military trucks, believed to be capable of carrying up to 100 tons in weight, were driven to the Burmese side of the border from China through the Sino-Burmese border...
MP's to elect new NCGUB PM in exile
The 'National Coalition Government of Union of Burma' (NCGUB) in exile will elect its new Prime Minister at a meeting to be held in Ireland this month. Dr. San Aung,...
Burmese Journalists Look Back at 2008—or was it 1984? |
| By SAW YAN NAING |
| Imprisonment and intimidation of journalists in Burma reached new heights in 2008 with the junta cracking down on even the most fundamental reporting. |
| QUOTE OF THE DAY | |
 |  There was no move towards any sort of dialogue between the government and the opposition. There was continued repression.  — Mark Canning, British ambassador to Burma |
OPINION
Abhisit Needs to Set a New Course on Burma |
| By AUNG ZAW |
| Burmese are hopeful that Thailand’s new prime minister will be able to steer his country’s Burma policy in the right direction. |
Clinton Makes No Remarks on Burma |
| By LALIT K JHA |
| The US secretary of state-designate, Hillary Clinton, fails to mention the Burma issue during her US Senate confirmation hearing. |
Mark My Words |
| By THE IRRAWADDY |
| British ambassador to Burma, Mark Canning, talks to The Irrawaddy about the role of the UN and Asean in Burma, the Cyclone Nargis relief effort and his expectations for the election in 2010. |
Burma’s Economy Feeling the Pain |
| By MIN LWIN |
| Rangoon business people say unsold stock is building up as consumers cut back on spending. |
104 Years Given to Political Dissident |
| By MIN LWIN |
| A political dissident in his 20s has been given a prison sentence totaling 104 years by a special prison court that denied him an attorney. |
Food Aid Starting to Reach Chin Villages |
| By LAWI WENG |
| NGO groups are starting to deliver food aid to areas of Chin State that have experienced food shortages for the past two years. |
Thailand Unveils $3.3bn Economic Stimulus Plan |
| By AMBIKA AHUJA |
| Thailand's Cabinet approved a 115 billion baht ($3.3 billion) economic stimulus package Tuesday that it hopes will shore up an economy battered by the global downturn and recent political turmoil. |
The Irrawaddy News Magazine - Chiang Mai,Thailand By MIN LWIN The destruction wrought by Cyclone Nargis, combined with falling world prices, is hitting Burmese rice farmers hard, with many of them ... See all stories on this topic | ||
| Burma, Myanmar: Thank You Google Ashin Mettacara - Colombo,Colombo,Sri Lanka By Ashin Mettacara Today is my happiest day in my life . Because my dream and hope have arrived. Google News starts to include the news from my site for the ... See all stories on this topic | ||
| Singaporean Activists Detained after Protesting Burmese Migrants ... The Irrawaddy News Magazine - Chiang Mai,Thailand Activists Seelan Palay and Chong Kai Xiong said they felt guilty because their government had refused to extend the work permits of two Burmese migrants who ... See all stories on this topic | ||
| Burma ranks among worst nations for civilian freedom: Rights Group Mizzima.com - New Delhi,Delhi,India by Mizzima News New Delhi (Mizzima) - A United States-based Freedom House in its annual global release on freedom in the world, has ranked Burma among the ... See all stories on this topic | ||
The Irrawaddy News Magazine - Chiang Mai,Thailand By LALIT K JHA WASHINGTON — The White House Monday said on supporting the people of Burma and mobilizing world opinion against the military junta was one of ... See all stories on this topic | ||
| 83-Year-Old Man Bicycles to 146 Burmese Towns Narinjara News - Dhaka,Bangladesh Sittwe: An 83-year-old Arakanese man has already traveled to 146 towns in Burma by bicycle and is currently visiting southern Shan State near the Thai ... See all stories on this topic | ||
| Censored Burmese magazine faces delay in publication Southeast Asian Press Alliance - Bangkok,Thailand The "Myanmar Thit" monthly magazine's latest issue has been delayed as it was forced to submit another cover design after the Burmese censor board rejected ... See all stories on this topic | ||
| Burma: Myanmar Blog Academy Award 2008 Winners Announce Ashin Mettacara - Colombo,Colombo,Sri Lanka By Ashin Mettacara The first ever Myanmar Blog Award have arrived! Myanmar Blog Academy Award 2008 Programme site mmblogpress.com has announced the winners ... See all stories on this topic | ||
| News in Brief: Mission of Burma, Gorillaz, Pipettes, Truckasauras Pitchforkmedia.com - Chicago,IL,USA Boston post-punk legends Mission of Burma have just released the Rhapsody Originals EP, a five-song live EP that they recorded last October in Brooklyn. ... See all stories on this topic | ||
| Thailand will not use sanctions to push for change in Burma: Abhisit Mizzima.com - New Delhi,Delhi,India by Mizzima News Despite wanting to witness changes in neighbouring Burma, Thailand's new premier Abhisit Vejajjiva on Monday said, his government will not ... See all stories on this topic |
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| To solve the Palestine refugees, Burmese refugees and various ... With the present situation in Burma, we have to think whether we really can or need to clearly differentiate them. We should consider and see this from a holistic viewpoint, not only in Burma but also in other countries where similar ... San Oo Aung's Weblog - http://sanooaung.wordpress. |
| DIPLOMACY - Thailand backs ‘Burma reform’ « democracy for burma Newspaper section: News Thailand supports a change in the way Burma is governed but it advocates a different means of achieving this than that promoted by Western nations, Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva said yesterday. ... democracy for burma - http://democracyforburma. |
| Local activists arrested for supporting Burmese cause Singapore is home to an estimated 30000 Myanmar nationals, many of them drawn by jobs as labourers that pay far above what they could earn in their poverty-stricken homeland. http://news.sg.msn.com/ Welcome to the Singapore Democrats - http://yoursdp.org/index.php/ |
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အန္အယ္လ္ဒီပါတီ ဗဟုိအလုပ္ အမႈေဆာင္ ဦး၀င္းတင္အား အင္တာဗ်ဴးၿပီး ေရးသားခဲ့သည္ ဆုိေသာ ဒီပီေအ သတင္းပါ သတင္းေရးသားခ်က္မ်ား မွန္ကန္မႈမရွိေၾကာင္း ဦး၀င္းတင္က ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံ 
ထိုင္းႏိုင္ငံ ခ်င္းမိုင္ၿမိဳ႕ရွိ ေဟာလီးေဒး ဂါးဒင္း စားေသာက္ဆိုင္ ထဲတြင္ ျပည္တြင္း၊ ျပည္ပမွ ဂ်ာနယ္ လစ္မ်ား၏ မိတ္ဆံုစားပြဲ က်င္းပလ်က္ ရွိသည္။ ထိုအထဲတြင္ ဖိုး႐ႈပ္၊ ႂကြက္စုတ္ႏွင့္ 
ဒီလိုပဲ ၁၉၉ဝ ျပည့္ႏွစ္ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲရလဒ္ ပ်က္သြားသလား၊ ပ်က္မသြားဘူးလား ဆိုတာဟာလည္း နအဖေျပာတာကတမ်ိဳး၊ ျပည္သူေတြ ေျပာတာကတမ်ိဳးပဲျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ တကယ္က ၁၉၉ဝ ျပည့္ႏွစ္ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲနဲ႔ အဲဒီကရလဒ္ေတြ တည္ရွိမႈကို ဘယ္သူမွ ဖ်က္လို႔မရပါဘူး။ သမိုင္းရဲ႕ တကယ့္ျဖစ္ရပ္တိုင္းလိုပဲ ဒီကိစၥကို နအဖလည္း မဖ်က္ႏိုင္၊ ဒီခ်ဳပ္လည္း မဖ်က္ႏိုင္ပါဘူး။ လူ႔ဆႏၵနဲ႔ကင္းစြာ တည္ရွိေနတာေတြပါ။ ဒါေပမယ့္ ဒီ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲရဲ႕ ရလဒ္ေတြကို အသိအမွတ္ျပဳတယ္၊ အေကာင္အထည္ေဖာ္တယ္ဆိုတာ ကေတာ့ ကိုယ့္သေဘာနဲ႔႔ကိုယ္၊ ဆႏၵအရပဲျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ဒီႏွစ္ခ်က္ရဲ႕ မတူျခားနားခ်က္ကို ရွင္းရွင္းလင္းလင္းသိထားဖို႔ လိုပါတယ္။ တိုင္းျပည္မွာ အာဏာရထားတဲ့ နအဖ အစိုးရက အသိအမွတ္မျပဳဘူး၊ အေကာင္အထည္မေဖာ္ဘူးဆိုတာနဲ႔ ကိစၥေတြအားလံုးၿပီးျပတ္၊ ေပ်ာက္ ကြယ္သြားတာ မဟုတ္ဘူးဆိုတာကိုလည္း သတိျပဳသင့္ပါတယ္။ ဟုတ္တယ္၊ အေကာင္အထည္ေဖာ္လို႔ မရတာရွိပါတယ္။ ဒါေပမယ့္ ဒါဟာ ထာဝရအေကာင္အထည္ ေဖာ္မရေတာ့ဘူးဆိုတဲ့ အဓိပၸာယ္မဟုတ္ပါဘူး။ အေကာင္အထည္ ေဖာ္မယ့္လူေတြရွိေန သေရြ႕ အလားအလာဟာတည္ရွိၿမဲ တည္ရွိေနတာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
သမိုင္းလကၡဏာေဆာင္တဲ့ အေရးေတာ္ပံုတရပ္ဟာ လူတဦး၊ အဖြဲ႕တဖြဲ႕၊ အစိုးရတရပ္က ေပ်ာက္ေစ၊ ဒါမွမဟုတ္ ေပ်ာက္သြားၿပီလို႔ဆိုတာနဲ႔ ေပ်ာက္ပ်က္သြားတာ မဟုတ္သလို အေရးေတာ္ပံုရဲ႕သမိုင္း၊ အသီးအပြင့္နဲ႔ရလဒ္ေတြကိုလည္း ဘယ္သူ႔အမိန္႔၊ ဘယ္သူ႔ အာဏာနဲ႔မွ ေပ်ာက္ကြယ္ေအာင္ လုပ္လို႔မရပါဘူး။ သမိုင္းအရ ဒီအေရးေတာ္ပံု ႀကီးရဲ႕ အခန္းၿပီးဆံုးသြားမွသာ အားလံုးၿပီး၊ ေပ်ာက္၊ ျပယ္သြားမွာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ 
