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| QUOTE OF THE DAY | |
 |  I'm afraid the verdict will be painfully obvious  —Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma’s detained opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. |
Burmese PM Vows Green, Secure Energy |
| By WAI MOE |
| In an address to Asian energy ministers, Burmese Prime Minister Gen Thein Sein said that Burma is doing its best to ensure energy security and the development of green energy. |
Security Increased for Suu Kyi Verdict |
| By SAW YAN NAING |
| Police reinforcements are stationed around Rangoon’s Insein Prison in preparation for the verdict on Friday |
Doctors Criticize Burmese Junta Flu Policy |
| By ARKAR MOE |
| Burmese doctors are warning H1N1 flu is dangerous and greater public awareness is needed to combat the pandemic. |
Landslide Leads to Relocation of Homes |
| By LAWI WENG |
| An estimated 100 residents in Hpakant Township have been ordered to relocate following a landslide on July 5, according to local residents. |
Is China Playing Safe with its Burma Pipeline Plan? |
| By WILLIAM BOOT |
| BANGKOK—China appears to be making alternative plans in case its Middle East oil transshipment port and pipeline project in Burma fails because of regime change. |
World Wants Suu Kyi Free: Ban |
| By LALIT K JHA |
| The UN secretary-general says that the Burmese junta will miss another opportunity to engage the international community if it sentences Suu Kyi to prison. |
Editorial, Opinion and Analysis
Suffering and hope in a Burmese refugee camp
(Commentary) Rays of sun pierce the clouds, bathing the entire mountain range and forest. At other times during monsoon season, drizzle and mist veil the mounta...
တကယ္ေတာ့ (ဘံုစနစ္က်င့္သံုးေနတဲ့ ေရွးေဟာင္းလူ႔အဖြဲ႔အစည္းအဆင့္ လူ႔အဖြဲ႔အစည္းေတြကလြဲရင္) လူ႔အဖြဲ႔အစည္းမွာ လူတန္းစားေတြ တည္ရွိေန တယ္ ဆိုတာ ကို အသိအမွတ္ျပဳၾကတာခ်ည္းပါပဲ။ လူတန္းစားေတြတည္ရွိေနတဲ့ လူ႔အဖြဲ႔အစည္းမွာ လူမႈအျခင္းအရာေတြမွန္သမွ်ဟာ လူတန္းစားနဲ႔ ကင္းလြတ္ တာရယ္လို႔ ဘာတခုမွ မရွိပါဘူး။ ယဥ္ေက်းမႈမွာေတာင္မွ အခြင့္ထူးခံ လူတန္းစား ရဲ႕ ယဥ္ေက်းမႈ (elite culture) နဲ႔ အမ်ားျပည္သူ႔ယဥ္ေက်းမႈ (popular culture) ရယ္လို႔ ကြဲျပားျခားနားပါတယ္။ အက်ဳိးစီးပြားခ်င္း အျပန္အလွန္ ပဋိပကၡ ေတြျဖစ္ေနၿပီး အက်ိဳးစီးပြားခ်င္း လုေန သို႔မဟုတ္ ထိန္းညိႇေနရတဲ့ ႏိုင္ငံေရး နယ္ပယ္မွာ လူတန္းစားတည္ရွိမႈကို အသိအမွတ္မျပဳတာဟာ ပကတိ အျဖစ္မွန္ကို မျမင္တာ သို႔မဟုတ္ တမင္ျငင္းကြယ္တာသာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ႏိုင္ငံေရးပါတီတရပ္ဟာ မိမိဘယ္လူ တန္းစားရဲ႕ ပါတီလဲဆိုတာကို အသိအမွတ္ျပဳရမွန္း မသိ သို႔မဟုတ္ အသိအမွတ္မျပဳေပမယ့္ အဲဒီပါတီဟာ လူတန္းစားတရပ္ရပ္ရဲ႕ ပါတီျဖစ္ေနတယ္ ဆိုတာကေတာ့ ေသခ်ာပါတယ္။
