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Staff of the Presidential Palace, background, hold a prayer in Warsaw, Poland, 10 Apr 2010
Polish President, 95 Others Killed in Plane Crash
Russian news agencies say President Lech Kaczynski was killed when his plane went down as it approached airport near Smolensk
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Burma's Watered Down Festival |
| By YENI |
| Thingyan, Burma's traditional New Year's water festival, starts on Wednesday, and Than Shwe's grandson and his friends look set to flaunt the rules—and their status. |
Landmine Victims Find Solace at Mae La |
| By ALEX ELLGEE |
| The Irrawaddy visits Care Villa, a foundation that looks after Karen landmine victims in Mae La refugee camp. |
Weekly Business Roundup (April 10, 2010) |
| By WILLIAM BOOT |
| The East European country of Belarus is bidding to develop military weapons sales to Burma following a week-long visit by a high-ranking delegation. |
Thai Troops Gear Advance on Protesters |
| By GRANT PECK |
| Thai security forces launched a large-scale crackdown Saturday on anti-government demonstrators who have been staging disruptive protests in the Thai capital for the past month. |
NLD Takes Than Shwe Lawsuit to Chief Justice |
| By KO HTWE |
| The NLD submits a letter to Burma's chief justice requesting that its previous lawsuit against Than Shwe is dealt with. |
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ၾဆာေတ လွ်ာရွည္သည္ဟုေတာ့ မထင္ေစခ်င္ပါ ...။ ဒီလိုအခ်ိန္ေရာက္လာရင္ ၾဆာေတ့စိတ္က ပိုးထၿမဲ … ။ ဝန္ႀကီး ပေဒသရာဇာ၏ ေလအတိုင္း ခိုးခ်ၿပီး “သႀကၤန္ကာလ ပိုးထတည့္လွ်င္” ဟူ၍ ကဗ်ာတပုဒ္ပင္ စပ္လိုက္ခ်င္ေသးသည္။ 
“အဝီစိတြင္းကေန လွည္းနဲ႔တြန္းၿပီး ေရာင္းတာကို ဝယ္သံုးရတယ္။ ေရတစည္ကို ...” 
“ကိုယ္တိုင္ ဘာစည္းကမ္း ဥပေဒမွ မလုိက္နာဘဲ လူေတြကို ဖမ္းခ်င္သလိုဖမ္း၊ ႏွိပ္စက္ခ်င္သလို ႏွိပ္စက္၊ သတ္ခ်င္သလို သတ္၊ လုပ္ခ်င္တိုင္း လုပ္ေနတဲ့ ေကာင္ေတြက စည္းကမ္း ထုတ္ျပန္တယ္ဆိုေတာ့ ရယ္စရာတယ္ေကာင္းေပါ့ဗ်ာ။ ေတာ္ေသးတာေပါ့ မ႑ပ္တိုင္းမွာ ငါတို႔ စစ္ဗိုလ္ အမ်ဳိးအေဆြ (၂၅) ရာခိုင္ႏႈန္း ေရကစားခြင့္ျပဳရမည္လို႔ ...” 
ပိေတာက္ေတြ ပြင့္ၾကၿပီ။ ျမန္မာျပည္သူေတြက ပိေတာက္ကုိ တန္ဖိုးထားၾကသည္။ အမ်ဳိးသမီးမ်ားက ဦးေခါင္းမွာ တယုတယ ပန္ဆင္ၾကသည္။ ျမတ္စြာဘုရားကုိ ျမတ္ျမတ္ႏိုးႏိုး ... 
ဘဂၤလာ-ျမန္မာနယ္စပ္တြင္ ျမန္မာဘက္က စစ္သားအမ်ားအျပားကို ျပန္လည္ ေနရာ ခ်ထားမူေၾကာင့္ ျမန္မာႏွင့္ ဘဂၤလာေဒခ်္႕ အာဏာပိုင္တို႕ နယ္စပ္တေနရာတြင္ ေတြ႕ဆံု ေဆြးေႏြးခဲ့ၾကသည္ဟု သတင္း ရရွိသည္။
စစ္အစုိးရထံလိပ္မူ ေရးသားေပးပို႕ထားသည့္ ေတာင္းဆိုခ်က္ ၈ ခ်က္အေပၚ နအဖ အမွန္တကယ္လက္ခံ အတည္ ျပဳမည္ကို ၀ အရာ႐ွိအခ်ဳိ႕ ျပန္လည္စိုးရိမ္ေနေၾကာင္း စံုစမ္းသိ႐ွိရပါသည္။
ျမန္မာစစ္တပ္ စစ္ယာဥ္တန္းေပၚမွ က်ပ္သိန္းေပါင္း ၂ ေသာင္းေက်ာ္တန္ တရုတ္ေမွာင္ခို ကုန္ပစၥည္းမ်ား မတ္လ ကုန္ပိုင္းက သွ်မ္းျပည္(ေျမာက္ပိုင္း) လားရိႈးၿမိဳ႕တြင္ ဖမ္းဆီးခံရေၾကာင္း ေဒသခံကုန္သည္မ်ား အဆိုအရ သိရသည္။
၀ နယ္ထဲသို႕ အလုပ္ျပန္၀င္သည့္ UN, NGO ၀န္ထမ္းမ်ားအား ၀ ျပည္ေသြးစည္းေရးပါတီ ဒု ဥကၠဌ ေ႐ွာက္ မင္လ်ံက ေတြ႕ဆံု အားေပး၊ ေက်းဇူးတင္စကား ေျပာၾကားခဲ့သည္ဟု စံုစမ္းသိ႐ွိရပါသည္။
သွ်မ္းတိုင္းရင္းသားမ်ား ဒီမိုကေရစီအဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္ အေထြေထြအတြင္းေရးမႉးေဟာင္း ဆားလုပ္ငန္း႐ွင္ဦးစိုင္းအုိက္ေပါင္း က သွ်မ္းအမ်ဳိးသားအခ်ဳိ႕အားဦးေဆာင္ၿပီး ႏိုင္ငံေရးပါတီသစ္ဖြဲ႕စည္း၍ ၂၀၁၀ ေ႐ြးေကာက္ပြဲေကာ္မ႐ွင္ထံယေန႕မွတ္ပံုတင္ လုိက္ေၾကာင္း စံုစမ္းသိ႐ွိရပါသည္။
သွ်မ္းျပည္(ေတာင္ပိုင္း) ရပ္ေစာက္ၿမိဳ႕နယ္ ဗထူးၿမိဳ႕ရိွ ဗိုလ္ေလာင္းသင္တန္းေက်ာင္း အမွတ္စဥ္ ၁၁၃ ဗိုလ္ေလာင္း သင္တန္း ဆင္းပြဲ တက္ရန္အတြက္ နအဖ ဒုဥကၠ႒ ဒု - ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္မႉးႀကီး ေမာင္ေအးသည္ ဗထူး ကေလာ ႏွင့္နမ့္ဇန္ၿမိဳ႕ မ်ားသို႔ ဧၿပီလ ၅ ရက္ေန႔က လာေရာက္ခဲ့ေၾကာင္း နအဖပိုင္မီဒီယာမ်ားတြင္ ေဖၚျပထားသည္။
We are not in a position to punish Myanmar [Burma]. If China and India remain engaged with Myanmar, then we have to.
Every day Burma’s ethnic minority children face forced relocation, forced labour for the army, starvation, ...
