BURMA DEMOCRACY & DEVELOPMENT

tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83621301201173052042011-12-16T12:52:54.621+07:00BURMA DEMOCRACY & DEVELOPMENTBURMA DEMOCRACY & DEVELOPMENThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10671102264752276292noreply@blogger.comBlogger14171100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8362130120117305204.post-45542877197224851072011-12-16T12:52:00.005+07:002011-12-16T12:52:54.636+07:00China confirms its meeting with Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi

BEIJING, Dec.15 (Xinhua) -- China confirmed here on Thursday that its ambassador to Myanmar had met with Aung San Suu Kyi, the leader of the country's opposition party. "The Chinese ambassador met with [Aung San Suu Kyi] in response to her repeated requests to have contact with China, and [the ambassador] listened to her views," Chinese Foreign Ministry Spokesman Liu Weimin told a daily press

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Monday, 21 November 2011 22:42 Phanida E-mail Print PDF Chiang Mai (Mizzzima) – A Burmese government peace-making delegation met with four ethnic armed groups separately on Saturday to seek cease-fires and peace. There were signs that some progress was made, although the talks are in the preliminary stages. Rail Transportation Minister Aung Min led the government team. He met with the

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.fullpost{display:inline;} မဇၥ်ိမသတင္းဌာန | အဂၤါေန႔၊ ႏုိဝင္ဘာလ ၁၅ ရက္ ၂၀၁၁ ခုႏွစ္ ၁၁ နာရီ ၃၀ မိနစ္ .fullpost{display:none;} ခ်င္းမိုင္ (မဇၩိမ) ။ ။ ႏိုင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသားမ်ား လႊတ္ေပးေရးႏွင့္ ျပည္တြင္းစစ္ ရပ္စဲေရးအတြက္ မႏၲေလးၿမိဳ႕ မဟာေအာင္ေျမၿမိဳ႕နယ္ မဟာျမတ္မုနိ ဘုရားႀကီးဝင္းအတြင္း ဆႏၵျ

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.fullpost{display:inline;} .fullpost{display:n Myanmar's new guardian? By NAING KO KO and SIMON SCOTT Special to The Japan Times WELLINGTON / TOKYO — Myanmar's one-time military generals, who have miraculously transformed themselves into benign politicians, really do seem to be taking remarkable steps to restructure both the domestic and foreign policy of that fragile

BURMA DEMOCRACY & DEVELOPMENThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10671102264752276292noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8362130120117305204.post-38188978418009006012011-09-15T18:56:00.002+07:002011-09-15T19:04:16.890+07:00အမ်ိဳးသား ဒီမိုကေရစီ အဖြဲ ့ခ်ဳပ္ ရံုးတြင္ ဒီကေန ့တြင္ အျပည္ျပည္ဆိုင္ရာ ဒီမိုကေရစီေန ့အခမ္းအနားကို က်င္းပ

.fullpost{display:inline;} .fullpost{display:none;} ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုုၾကည္က ယေန႔က်ေရာက္တဲ့ ကမာၻ႔ဒီမိုုကေရစီေန႔အခမ္းအနားကိုု ရန္ကုုန္ျမိဳ႔၊ အင္န္အယ္ဒီဌာနခ်ဴပ္မွာ နံနက္ခင္းက က်င္းပခဲ့ပါတယ္။ ဒီမိုုကေရစီေန႔ေတြ၊ ဒီမိုုကေရစီစိတ္ဓာတ္ေတြကိုု ေန႔စဥ္ ကိုုယ္တိုုင္ ေမြးျမဴ က်င့္ၾကံေနၾကဖိုု႔ပဲ လိုုတယ္လုုိ႔ ေဒၚစုုကေျပာလိုုက္ပါတယ္။ ဒီမိုုကေရစီေတာ္လွ

BURMA DEMOCRACY & DEVELOPMENThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10671102264752276292noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8362130120117305204.post-80919379833498015872011-09-15T18:45:00.000+07:002011-09-15T18:58:17.320+07:009 state-owned factories privatized in Myanmar

.fullpost{display:inline;} .fullpost{display:none;} Source: Xinhua YANGON, Sept. 14 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar government has handed over nine state-owned factories to private enterprises under long-term lease system, aiming to producing more marketable and profitable products in the country, a local weekly reported Wednesday. The factories under the

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BURMA DEMOCRACY & DEVELOPMENThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10671102264752276292noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8362130120117305204.post-52392402162880410942011-09-05T22:42:00.003+07:002011-09-05T22:42:41.534+07:00ေက်ာက္ျဖဴ ေရနက္ဆိပ္ကမ္းနဲ႔ တရုတ္ႏိုင္ငံ၏ အက်ိဳးစီးပြား

.fullpost{display:inline;} .fullpost{display:none;} ကမၻာ့စီးပြားေရးအင္အားၾကီးႏိုင္ငံေတြဟာ တေန႔တျခားၾကီးထြားလာေနတဲ့ သူတို႔ရဲ့စြမ္းအင္ လို အပ္ခ်က္ ျပည့္မွီေအာင္ရရွိေရးအတြက္ နည္းမ်ိဳးစုံနဲ႔ၾကိဳးပမ္းလာတာကို (၂၁)ရာစု အစပိုင္း ႏွစ္ေတြမွာ ေတြ႔လာရတယ္။ အဲဒီလိုအင္အားၾကီးထြားလာေနတဲ့ အထဲမွာ အာရွနဂါး အျဖစ္နာမည္ ၾကီတဲ့ တရုတ္ဟာ ကမၻာ့ စီးပြားေရးေနရာမွာ နံပါတ္ႏွစ္ကို ေရာက္ရွိလာ ခဲ့ပါတယ္။

BURMA DEMOCRACY & DEVELOPMENThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10671102264752276292noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8362130120117305204.post-73063158812279587472011-09-04T19:45:00.001+07:002011-09-04T19:47:29.714+07:00Myanmar airline operates flights to 25 cities

.fullpost{display:inline;} .fullpost{display:none;} Source: Xinhua YANGON, Aug. 27 (Xinhua) -- The state-run domestic Myanma Airways (MA) is operating flights to 25 local destinations in the country with nine aircrafts, according to a latest disclosure of the aviation transport authorities. The aircrafts, which include three F-28,

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.fullpost{display:inline;} .fullpost{display:none;} Myanmar strives for press media development in new gov't era 2011-09-01 21:11:58 by Feng Yingqiu YANGON, Sept. 1 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar is striving for press media development in the new government era, projecting to offer the first-ever five national press awards to outstanding Myanmar media persons starting

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ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ႏွင့္ ေတြ႔ဆုံေမးျမန္းခန္း ျပည္တြင္းဂ်ာနယ္ ေဖာ္ျပခြင့္ ရရွိ 2011-09-04 ျပည္တြင္းထုတ္ သတင္းဂ်ာနယ္ေတြမွာ ပထမဆုံးအႀကိမ္အျဖစ္ ျမန္မာ့ ဒီမိုကေရစီေခါင္းေဆာင္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္နဲ႔ သီးသန္႔ေတြ႔ဆုံေမးျမန္းခန္းကို ေဖာ္ျပဖို႔ စက္တင္ဘာလ ၄ ရက္ေန႔မွာ ျဖန့္ခ်ိမယ့္ Messenger သတင္းဂ်ာနယ္ကို စာေပစိစစ္ေရးအဖြဲ႔က ခြင့္ျပဳလိုက္တယ္လို႔ သိရပါတယ္။

BURMA DEMOCRACY & DEVELOPMENThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10671102264752276292noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8362130120117305204.post-70970719933820489742011-08-20T09:24:00.000+07:002011-08-20T09:25:21.480+07:00Burma’s president meets opposition leader Suu Kyi

Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – Burmese President Thein Sein and opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi met for the first time on Friday in Naypyitaw at an unknown location, according to the local journal 7 Days. Burmese President Thien Sein, shown here in traditional Burmese dress while speaking in Parliament, met with opposition leader Suu Kyi on Friday in Naypyitaw, as relations between her and the

BURMA DEMOCRACY & DEVELOPMENThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10671102264752276292noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8362130120117305204.post-82336488278177045502011-08-19T10:05:00.003+07:002011-08-19T10:08:18.579+07:00DPP delegation meets Daw Aung San Suu Kyi in Rangoon

On August 16, a delegation of women DPP political leaders visited Burma and met with Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi at her lakeside residence in Rangoon. During the one-hour meeting Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and the DPP delegation held a discussion over the current challenges Burma is facing politically and economically. Aung San Suu Kyi explained to the delegation that her party,

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YANGON, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) -- Seven people have been shot dead and another one injured in a gun fire launched by a Myanmar ethnic armed group, the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) in northernmost Kachin state, an official media confirmed Friday.The KIA opened fire at a vehicle carrying the eight victims on its return from Tarpein-1 hydropower plant to Momauk on Tuesday evening.The eight including

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By The NationPublished on August 5, 2011The House on Friday cast a roll-call vote to install Yingluck Shinawatra as prime minister.Of 496 MPs present, Yingluck received 296 votes. The opposition abstained with 197 votes. Three votes were cast against the nomination.Of the 300 coalition votes, four abstained including Yingluck, the House speaker and his two deputies.Three Democrat MPs cast their

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By Feng YingqiuYANGON, July 26 (Xinhua) -- At the invitation of the Myanmar new government, noted political figure Aung San Suu Kyi met with Union Minister of Labor U Aung Kyi at the Sein Lei Kan Tha State Guest House in Yangon Monday, representing the first dialogue between the two sides after the new government came into being.After the meeting, U Aung Kyi and Aung San Suu Kyi issued a joint

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2011-07-25 15:03:21 Noted political figure Aung San Suu Kyi (L) and Myanmar Union Minister of Labor U Aung Kyi (R) come to speak to the media after they met for talks in Yangon on July 25, 2011. The meeting between U Aung Kyi and Aung San Suu Kyi, which signified the first dialogue between the new government and Aung San Suu Kyi, lasted for over an hour. U Aung Kyi told a press briefing shortly

BURMA DEMOCRACY & DEVELOPMENThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10671102264752276292noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8362130120117305204.post-45561072284294074672011-07-13T22:38:00.001+07:002011-07-13T22:38:48.001+07:00ျမန္မာသံ႐ုံး ေနာက္ထပ္ အရာရွိတဦး အေမရိကားမွာ ခိုလႈံ

ျမန္မာသံရုံး ပထမအတြင္း၀န္ ဦးစိုးေအာင္က အေမရိကန္ႏုိင္ငံမွာ ခိႈလႈံခြင့္ေတာင္းခံဖုိ႔ ဆုံးျဖတ္လိုက္ေၾကာင္း အေမရိကန္ႏုိင္ငံျခားေရး ၀န္ႀကီးဌာနကို ဇူလိုင္လ ၁၃ ရက္ေန႔မွာ အေၾကာင္းၾကားလိုက္ပါတယ္။ Source: VOA Burmese

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By Deutsche Presse AgenturHuman Rights Watch on Wednesday called for an international investigation into the Burmese army's practice of forcing convicts to work as porters under inhumane conditions.In a report dated Tuesday, the New York-based human rights group said prisoners were forced to work for the military in their fight against rebel groups, and tortured and executed if they resisted."

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Tokyo - A magnitude-7.1 earthquake struck north-eastern Japan Sunday morning and a tsunami warning was issued, the Meteorological Agency said.No casualties or damage were reported.The quake occurred at 9:57 am (0057 GMT) with an epicentre off Ojika Peninsula at a depth of 10 kilometres, the agency said.The same region was struck by a magnitude-9.0 quake and tsunami on March 11 that caused the

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By မသင္းသီရိကခ်င္လြတ္လပ္ေရးတပ္ဖြဲ႔ (KIA) ရဲ႕ ေရွ႕တန္းဗဟိုဌာနခ်ဳပ္ေနရာကို အစိုးရ စစ္တပ္ဘက္က ဒီကေန႔ ညေနပိုင္းက လက္နက္ႀကီးေတြနဲ႔ ပစ္ခတ္ခဲ့ပါတယ္။ အခု အစိုးရ စစ္တပ္ဘက္က ပစ္လိုက္တဲ့ လက္နက္ႀကီးေတြဟာ KIA ဗဟိုဌာနခ်ဳပ္ စခန္းအတြင္းထဲ က်လာတာမရွိဘဲ တဖက္ တရုတ္နယ္စပ္ထဲကိုသာ က်ေရာက္ေပါက္ကြဲတာေတြ ျဖစ္ခဲ့တယ္လို႔ KIA အဖြဲ႔ တာ၀န္ရွိသူက ေျပာပါတယ္။ ကခ်င္ျပည္နယ္တြင္းက ေနာက္ဆံုးအေျခအေနကို မသင္းသီရိက တင္ျပထားပါတယ္။Source

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By Pongpat TraipipatThe Nation on SundayThe Thai military has vowed to fight to protect the country's sovereignty if they are pressured to withdraw from the border areas following reports that the Cambodian army has reinforced troops and heavy weapons along the border.Reports doing the rounds say there are Cambodian troops fully equipped with tanks and cannons pointing at the Thai borders not far

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Prime minister-in-waiting Yingluck Shinawatra said on Saturday that her brother, former prime minister Thaksin, and members of the No.111 House group had not involved in her party.She was responding the move by head of legal team of the Democrat Wirat Kalayasiri who had on Friday filed a petition with the Election Commission asking the agency to dissolve the Pheu Thai Party for allowing Thaksin

Malaysian police fired tear gas and water cannon and made over 1,600 arrests on Saturday during clashes with protesters who defied government warnings to rally in the capital for electoral reform.Leaders of opposition parties were among those detained during a massive security operation but it failed to thwart the outlawed demonstration which saw 50,000 people take to the streets of Kuala Lumpur,

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YANGON, July 5 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar has cut commercial tax for exporters to five percent from eight percent previously, with income tax of two percent remaining unchanged starting this month, local media reported Tuesday.The measure was taken after depreciation of the U.S. dollar, which has caused loss among exporters, the Pyi Myanmar News quoted the Ministry of Finance and Revenue as saying.The

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By a WSJ Staff ReporterMyanmar's government warned pro-democracy dissident Aung San Suu Kyi to curb her political activities, raising the odds of a hostile showdown in the weeks ahead as she plans a highly anticipated tour across the country as early as next month.A commentary published Wednesday in the New Light of Myanmar newspaper, a government mouthpiece, accused her followers of planning to

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29 Jun 2011Burma Campaign UK today condemned threats made by Burma’s dictatorship against Aung San Suu Kyi and her party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), and called on UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to abandon his ‘wait and see’ policy on Burma.The state-owned New Light of Myanmar today published two articles attacking the NLD. While the main thrust of the attacks are that the NLD is

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Associated PressYANGON, Myanmar – Officials in Myanmar say the military-backed government has deported Hollywood actress Michelle Yeoh, who stars as pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi in an upcoming movie.Actress Michelle Yeoh plays Aung San Suu Kyi in the upcoming film, "The Lady."A government official said Tuesday that the Malaysian actress arrived in the capital Yangon on June 22 and was

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NLD Replying letter to Minister Ko Ko, Home Affairs Minister (function() { var scribd = document.createElement("script"); scribd.type = "text/javascript"; scribd.async = true; scribd.src = "http://www.scribd.com/javascripts/embed_code/inject.js"; var s = document.getElementsByTagName("script")[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(scribd, s); })();

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Foreign dignitaries make a beeline to Myanmar. Some meet Aung San Suu Kyi, some don’t, depending on the diplomatic double standard they practise. At the same time, a series of bomb blasts rattles the country, symptomatic of a civil war threatening to spill over to cities from ethnic conflicts. There are more political and diplomatic intricacies than meets the eye in the recent spurt of activity

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BDDChinese authorities denied that Chinese government has allowed the Burmese-KDA joint forces to cross the Chinese border and attack the KIA forces from behind, sources close to Chinese authorities in Yunnan.KIO leaders worried after KNG reported that KIO stronghold was tended to attack by Burmese troops from Chinese soil. Sino-Burma border has no fence nor natural fence but just making border

BURMA DEMOCRACY & DEVELOPMENThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10671102264752276292noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8362130120117305204.post-45429504549627828142011-06-28T08:48:00.000+07:002011-06-28T08:49:32.139+07:00The International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant on Monday for Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi.

The court also approved warrants for Gadhafi's son Saif al-Islam and Libyan intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senussi on charges of crimes against humanity. ICC prosecutors allege they were involved in the killing of protesters who rose up in February against Gadhafi's 41-year rule.The dictator has "absolute, ultimate and unquestioned control" over Libya's state apparatus and its security forces,

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Australian Foreign Minister, Kevin Rudd is scheduled to visit Burma from 30 June to 2 July.He will travel to both Rangoon and Nay Phi Daw to meet members of the new Burmese Government and leaders across the political spectrum, including Aung San Suu Kyi.During the meetings, he will reiterate Australia's long-standing calls for genuine progress towards national reconciliation and democratic reform

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Dr Zarni Word is that there was a clash between the Burmese and Chinese (notsure local-born Chinese) or Yunnanese Chinese who bought theircitizenship from the regime at Mandalay's gem market - known as kyaukwai today.Dr Zarni "According to DVB reporter, as many as 1,000 people got involved inthe fighting. The voice journal in Rgn and Mizzima reporter inThailand have confirmed independently. No

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Li Jinhua (1st R), vice chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC), meets with a delegation of Myanmar's Union Solidarity and Development Party led by U Soe Naing (1st L) in Beijing, capital of China, June 20, 2011. (Xinhua/Ding Lin)

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YANGON, June 24 (Xinhua) -- No casualties were claimed for bomb blasts which rocked two main cities of Myanmar -- Mandalay and Nay Pyi Taw respectively on Friday noon, according to eyewitnesses and official sources.The authorities are investigating the cause of the incidents.The two bomb blasts took place at some intervals of time at a jeep parking near the Zay Cho Market in Mandalay city and in

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ၿပင္ဦးလြင္ၿမိဳ႕ ရပ္ကြက္ၾကီး ၃ အကြက္အမွတ္ ၄ရွိ ေနအိမ္တစ္ခုတြင္ ဗံုးေပါက္ကြဲမႈ ျဖစ္ပြားျပီးေနာက္ ျမင္ကြင္းအား ေတြ႕ရစဥ္မႏၱေလးေစ်းခိ်ဳဟိုတယ္ေရွ႕တြင္ ျဖစ္ပြားခဲ့ေသာ ေပါက္ကြဲမႈျဖစ္စဥ္ကို ေတြ႕ရစဥ္ေနျပည္ေတာ္ သေျပကုန္းရပ္ကြက္ ငုဝါလမ္းရွိ အိမ္တစ္အိမ္၌ ျဖစ္ပြားခဲ့ေသာ ေပါက္ကြဲမႈျဖစ္စဥ္ကို ေတြ႕ရစဥ္Source: Eleven Media Group

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NLD statement towards recent armed conflict with KIO(function() { var scribd = document.createElement("script"); scribd.type = "text/javascript"; scribd.async = true; scribd.src = "http://www.scribd.com/javascripts/embed_code/inject.js"; var s = document.getElementsByTagName("script")[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(scribd, s); })();

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NLD Women Wing to DASSK(function() { var scribd = document.createElement("script"); scribd.type = "text/javascript"; scribd.async = true; scribd.src = "http://www.scribd.com/javascripts/embed_code/inject.js"; var s = document.getElementsByTagName("script")[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(scribd, s); })();

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YANGON, June 18 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar official media Saturday said the government would open door of peace to dissidents, referring to a recent armed clashes between the government forces and the ethnic armed group of Kachin Independence Army (KIA) based in northernmost Kachin state bordering China.The New Light of Myanmar cited the attitude of the government as saying that "It would open the door

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စစ္ေဘးကုိ လြတ္ရာသုို႕ မေရွာင္သိမ္းႏုိင္းေသာ ဒြန္ဘုံုးေက်းရြာရွိ မိသားစု (၃) စု ကုိ နအဖ စစ္တပ္က ဖမ္းဆီးနွိပ္စက္ျပီး သတ္ျဖတ္ခဲ့တဲ့ အေၾကာင္း သတင္းရရွိ။ ကေလးသူငယ္မ်ားကုိ အရင္ပစ္သတ္လုိက္ျပီး မိန္းမသားမ်ားကုိ မဒိန္းက်င့္ သတ္ျဖတ္ခဲ့ေၾကာင္း ႏွင့္ ေယာက်ၤားမ်ားကုိ ေပၚတာ ထမ္းရမ္းေခၚေဆာင္သြားေၾကာင္း သတင္းရရွိပါသည္။

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YANGON, June 12 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar is implementing a plan to extend and upgrade Yangon International Airport to one capable of handling 3.8 million passengers a year and providing full service necessary to be an international airport, official media reported Sunday.The plan is partly aimed at promoting international relations and the economic sector, said the New Light of Myanmar."Yangon

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By John Heilprin, The Associated Press GENEVA - Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi said Monday her nation yearns for justice and progress, and the international community must help lift its workers' grim conditions."Burma must not be allowed to fail and the world must not be allowed to fail Burma," the 65-year-old Nobel laureate told a U.N. labour conference by videolink, using the

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By Nophakhun Limsamarnphunnophakhun@nationgroup.comPublished on June 11, 2011The next government will have to lay down a more consistent policy on migrant workers in Thailand, while preparing Thai professionals for new job opportunities in other Asean countries.On migrant workers, the registration policy has been on and off over the past 12 years. It will be re-instated again this month after

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YANGON, June 8 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar has reformed its Investment Commission as part of its efforts to draw more foreign investment into the country, local media reported Wednesday.The 16-member Myanmar Investment Commission (MIC) was re- established in response to the call of President U Thein Sein for facilitating foreign investors to come to Myanmar for the purpose, said the Myanmar Newsweek.To

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အားလံုးမဂၤလာပါ။ ဒီပြဲကို လာေရာက္ခ်ီးျမႇင့္တဲ့အတြက္ အားလံုးကိုေက်းဇူး အထူးတင္ပါတယ္။ ဒီႏွစ္ ၂၀၁၁ ခုႏွစ္ဟာ ၁ ဂဏန္းေတြအတြက္ ထူးျခားတဲ့ ႏွစ္တစ္ႏွစ္ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ၁-၁-၁၁၊ ၁၁-၁-၁၁၊ ၁-၁၁-၁၁၊ ၁၁-၁၁-၁၁ ၁ ဂဏန္းေတြ ႀကီးစိုးတဲ့ႏွစ္မွာ Eleven Media Group ရဲ႕ ၁၁ ႏွစ္ျပည့္ အခမ္းအနား လုပ္ခြင့္ရတဲ့အတြက္ ကြၽန္ေတာ့္အေနနဲ႔မ်ားစြာ ဂုဏ္ယူမိပါတယ္။ ဒီပြဲကိုတက္ေရာက္လာၾကတဲ့သူေတြဟာ Eleven Media Group ရဲ႕မိသားစုေတြ၊ ခင္မင္ရင္းႏ

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Burma democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi will deliver two BBC lectures on the struggle against authoritarian regimes, eight months after her release from house arrest, the broadcaster said Friday.Myanmar's democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi speaks in 2010. She will deliver two BBC lectures on the struggle against authoritarian regimes, eight months after her release from house arrest, the broadcaster

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By The NationPublished on June 10, 2011The generals continue to rule with a puppet parliament, and the world is uncoordinated in its application of pressure for genuine reformUS Senator John McCain went to Burma recently and made headlines for several days. That was good for him, and he highlighted what needs to be done in the recalcitrant, pariah state. He was succinct in reiterating that Burma

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Burmese newspapers and media did not carry President meeting NAY PYI TAW, June 2 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar President U Thein Sein on Thursday met with visiting Chinese leader Li Yuanchao, who is a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China ( CPC) Central Committee, at the President's Office in Nay Pyi Taw.Myanmar president U Thein Sein shakes hands with visiting Li Yuanchao, head of

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The Office of the Attorney-General says it will act strictly according to law if it finds enough evidence to proceed in a perjury case against Pheu Thai party list candidate Yingluck Shinawatra.Deputy Attorney-General Waiyawut Lortrakul said yesterday it was not the duty of the public prosecution to handle the case immediately.He was speaking after Kaewsun Atibhodhi, a former member of the

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World Briefing | AsiaBy KEVIN DREWHONG KONG — Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the most high-profile dissident in Myanmar, signaled on Monday that she would be seeking to broaden her audience in her country since being released from house arrest.Speaking from Myanmar via a live video link to an audience at the University of Hong Kong, she confirmed that she would begin traveling outside of Yangon, the

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PHNOM PENH, June 6 (Xinhua) -- Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said Monday he has never agreed with Gen. Wichit Yathip, the former Thai deputy army chief, on troop withdrawal from the disputed border area next to the 11th century Preah Vihear temple.Thai media reported that Gen. Wichit Yathip said that before the border clashes between the two countries broke out in February, he had talked with

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BEIJING, June 6 (Xinhua) -- Trade value between China and ASEAN nations is expected to top 300 billion U.S. dollars this year as the Free Trade Area (FTA) continues to offer boosts, said Xu Ningning, the executive secretary general of China-ASEAN Business Council.The FTA, which started operation since the beginning of last year, has boosted economic exchanges between China and the ASEAN (

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Opposition wins Portugal election - Europe - Al Jazeera English

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Syrian security forces fire on mourners - Middle East - Al Jazeera English

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Yemen's president Ali Abdullah Saleh is in Riyadh for medical treatment, after he was injured in an attack on his compound on Friday, the Saudi royal court said in a statement."The Yemeni president has arrived along with officials and citizens who had received different injuries for treatment in Saudi Arabia," the royal court said on Sunday.Friday's rocket attack on Saleh's presidential palace in

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The latest Abac Poll revealed that Yingluck Shinawatra, the No 1 Pheu Thai paty list candidate, has won more support from the people in many aspects in the third survey, compared to the first survey.However, when compared to Abhisit Vejjajiva, the Democrat Party leader, Ms Yingluck was still behind the caretaker prime minister on several aspects, said Abac Poll director Noppadol Kannikar.The poll

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YANGON, June 3 (Xinhua) -- Visiting senior Chinese official Li Yuanchao, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, attended a China-Myanmar " Brightness Action" program here Friday, which is aimed to offer free surgical treatment for cataract patients in Myanmar.Li, also a member of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee and head of the

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BEIJING, June 4 (Xinhua) -- The Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China (COMAC), a state-owned aircraft manufacturer, has signed an agreement to sell two ARJ21-700 aircraft to the Myanmar Airways, a statement from the country's state-assets supervisor said.The value of the deal was not revealed in the statement posted Friday on the website of country's State-Owned Assets Supervision and

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Cambodia is failing to address concerns about a worsening climate for freedom of expression, the UN special rapporteur for human rights in the country said on Friday.UN special rapporteur Surya Subedi has warned that Cambodia is failing to address concerns about a worsening climate for freedom of expression."The situation I'm afraid has not changed much with regards to freedom of speech. That's

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400 officers deployed to provide securityNearly 200 party-list and constituency MP candidates have asked for police protection during the election campaign, Royal Thai Police spokesman Prawut Thavornsiri said yesterday."The Royal Thai Police Office has assigned more than 400 officers to provide security for the candidates as requested," he said.He insisted at this stage, there were enough police

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Block Burmese JADE Act and recent policy developments Testimony of Joseph YunDeputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, U.S. Department of StateTestimony before the House Committee on Foreign AffairsWashington, DCJune 2, 2011Chairman Ros-Lehtinen, Mr. Berman, and Members of the Committee, thank you for inviting me to testify today. I am pleased to have the opportunity

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By Vincent Y. Chao / Staff ReporterA new opinion poll suggests that Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) candidate Tsai Ing-wen (蔡英文) is maintaining a small but steady lead over President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) in the race for the nation’s top post.A survey in yesterday’s -Chinese-language Liberty Times (the Taipei Times’ sister newspaper) suggested that record low approval ratings for Ma and

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Singapore DemocratsThe SDP had written to the Elections Department and queried the inconsistencies regarding the rules and regulations of polling procedures. Different presiding officers seemed to apply the rules differently during the course of Polling Day.The Elections Department (ELD) replied to clarify the rules which, in effect, only made matters more confusing. It asked for more information

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Photo taken on May 26, 2011 shows a border area between China and Myanmar in Ruili, southwest China's Yunnan Province. Sharing a 4,061-km borderline with Vietnam, Laos and Myanmar, Yunnan is a gateway to south and southeast Asia. The province is now on its way to greater integration with neighbouring countries in terms of traffic, trade, power grid and border control. Twelve civil airports have

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San Francisco - A group claimed Thursday to have hacked into several Sony websites using a rudimentary program and stolen the data of 1 million account holders.The attack on Sonypictures.com and two Sony websites in the Netherlands and Belgium represented a new embarrassment for the Japanese electronics giant, which is still struggling to cope with a massive breach of its online entertainment

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NAY PYI TAW, June 1 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar Vice President U Tin Aung Myint Oo met with visiting U.S. Senator John McCain in Nay Pyi Taw Wednesday shortly after the latter arrived in the new capital on a two-day visit, according to a report of the Myanmar Radio and Television Wednesday night.The two sides held discussions on enhancing bilateral relations and cooperation.McCain also met with speakers

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YANGON, June 2 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar has lifted a suspension of visa-on-arrival arranged through travel agencies for visitors from regions where no Myanmar embassy is set up, the local Biweekly Eleven News reported Thursday.Myanmar re-granted the visa-on-arrival of its kind, which was halted in last September ahead of Myanmar's general election in November the same year.At present, as a special

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CHIANG MAI : A bag of ice thrown by a protester failed to hit Democrat Party leader Abhisit Vejjajiva as he visited a school on the last leg of his two-day election campaign in the North.Caretaker Prime Minister and Democrat leader Abhisit Vejjajiva takes part in a northern-style sueb chata (life prolonging) ritual during an election campaign in Lamphun’s Pa Sang district. The prime minister has

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By Pravit RojanaphrukUS Republican Senator John McCain said in Bangkok yesterday he was "disappointed" with China's "lack of progress" as an emerging superpower in failing to push neighbours such as Burma and North Korea to be more democratic."Many of us have been disappointed in China's lack of progress as a world power," said McCain, who was visiting Bangkok for two nights.He is due to fly for

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By The NationPublished on June 2, 2011Two brothers were sentenced to life in jail yesterday for running nearly half a million ya ba pills for a dealer last year. Sakchai and Thongsuk Luengsrithong were initially sentenced to death, but the penalty was commuted due to their confessions.Police are hunting for Thidawan Jimek, the wife of Surasit Khamtai, who is serving time in Ratchaburi over

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NLD Policy Statement towards Tourism (function() { var scribd = document.createElement("script"); scribd.type = "text/javascript"; scribd.async = true; scribd.src = "http://www.scribd.com/javascripts/embed_code/inject.js"; var s = document.getElementsByTagName("script")[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(scribd, s); })();

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YANGON, May 25 (Xinhua) -- The upcoming state visit of Myanmar President U Thein Sein to China would certainly push the two countries' strategic and mutually beneficial cooperation towards a new high, Chinese Ambassador to Myanmar Li Junhua told Xinhua in an exclusive interview on the eve of the president's visit.At the invitation his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao, President U Thein Sein is to

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A senior US diplomat met Burma's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi Thursday for talks about the country's new political landscape following the recent dissolution of the junta.Joseph Yun, the deputy US assistant secretary for East Asia and Pacific affairs, described the meeting as "very good" but did not reveal details of his discussion with the Nobel Peace Prize winner.US President Barack

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No Name Sex Prison Org:1 Aung Aung Oo(a)Aung Gyi M Insein NLD2 Aung Myint(a)Pasein M Myitkyina NLD3 Aung Naing(a)War Phaw M Pa-An 4 Aung Win M Nyaung-U NLD5 Aye Lwin M Prome 6 Aye Myint M Thayet NLD7 Cho Cho Aye F Yemathin NLD8 Cho Cho Lwin F Prome NLD9 Htwe Thein M Insein NLD10 Khin Hla M Buthidaung NLD11 Khwar Linn M Pakokku 12 Ko Ko Latt M Pa-An 13 Kyaw Kyaw(a)Zeya Thaw M Kawthaung 14

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A BOMB blast on a train near Burma's capital left at least two people dead today during a visit by a US envoy for talks with the new government, a Burmese official said."It was a time bomb. We assume KNU insurgents plotted it," said the government official, referring to the Karen National Union whose armed wing has been fighting the government in a decades-old ethnic insurgency."Two people

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Rangoon - A senior US State Department official arrived in Burma Wednesday for a two-day visit that was expected to include talks with opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, officials said.Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia and the Pacific Joseph Yun was scheduled to fly from Rangoon to the country's capital Naypyitaw Wednesday afternoon for talks with Foreign Minister Wanna Maung

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Yingluck Shinwatra, No.1 party list candidate of the Pheu Thai Party, said she has no plan to take up the Democrat Party challenge for an election debate with Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva at this time.“I have just entered politics and I need time for meeting people and launching a nationwide election campaign. I will accept the challenge when the time is right,” said Ms Yingluck, youngest

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၁ မသႏၱာ၂ ထက္ထက္ဦးေ၀၃ ျမျ...မသိန္း ပူတာအုိ၄ စိုင္းမင္းသိမ္း ခႏၱီးေထာင္၅ ခ်ိဳခ်ိဳလြင္ ျပည္ေထာင္၆ ကိုေအးလြင္ ျပည္ေထာင္၇ မ်ိဳးသန္႔ ျမင္းျခံ၈ ရဲမင္းဦး ျမင္းျခံ၉ ညီညီေအာင္ အင္းစိန္ေထာင္၁၀ မီးမီးေလး အင္းစိန္ေထာင္၁၁ မာမာေအး ေပါင္းတည္၁၂ ဇင္လင္းေအာင္ ေပါင္းတည္၁၃ ေက်ာ္ဆန္း မုိင္းဆတ္ေထာင္၁၄ မခ်ိဳ၁၅ စိန္လႈိင္၁၆ ေရႊဂိ်ဳး၁၇ ကိုေထြးသိန္း အင္းစိန္ေထာင္၁၈ ျမသန္းထိုက္ ေတာင္ငူ၁၉ ေဇယ်ာေသာ္၂၀ ေနာ္အုန္းလွ

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Los Angeles - Former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has admitted he fathered a child some 10 years ago with a member of his household staff and only told his wife about it a few months ago.The Austrian-born movie star revealed the bombshell after being confronted with the story by the Los Angeles Times, which reported the news in its Tuesday edition."After leaving the governor's office

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About 17,000 prisoners were due to be released nationwide in Burma, an official said Tuesday, after the president announced a limited jail-term reduction that was greeted with disappointment by critics.A Myanmar soldier stands alert during a military event in the country's administrative capital Naypyidaw. About 17,000 prisoners were due to be released nationwide in the country, an official said

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Dear Friends, IMF Chief and prospective French Presidential candidate attempted torape a hotel maid from Africa in his $3,000 per night suite inmid-town New York. Here is yet another sordid but all too familiar tale of men inpositions of power acting dangerously and harmfully. There have beena number of serious studies dissecting comparatively behavioralpatterns of those in power-wealth (

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By Kavi ChongkittavornPublished on May 16, 2011One day before the 18th Asean summit began in Jakarta, the US sent an urgent message to Indonesia - the Asean chair - Thailand, Singapore and the Philippines simultaneously saying now was the time to push for real progress in Burma otherwise it would be difficult to envisage any US president attending the East Asia Summit there in 2014. The message

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By The NationPublished on May 17, 2011The ruling Democrat Party should win the upcoming election as several opinion polls conducted by the party showed strong backing from voters, Deputy Prime Minister Suthep Thaugsuban said yesterday.Suthep said the Democrats should win some 20 seats in the Northeast, which is a traditional stronghold of the opposition Pheu Thai Party.His comments are in

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The Pheu Thai Party has voted Yingluck Shinawatra as its No.1 candidate on the party list system to compete against the Democrat Party's Abhisit Vejjajiva for the next premiership in the July 3 election.Ousted prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra’s younger sister Yingluck is surrounded by local and international media after she was chosen as the Pheu Thai Party’s top candidate on the party list and

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The junta's new generation: Same as the old generation.By BERTIL LINTNERSome in Asia have looked to recent events in the Middle East for clues about whether similar uprisings against unpopular authoritarian regimes could happen in places like China or Burma. But that's not the only point to consider from Asia's perspective. Those stories also offer a warning about the nature of change within such

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Wednesday, 11 May 2011 15:02 Meas Sokchea A HEARING in Sam Rainsy’s appeal against a 10-year jail term handed down against him last year for falsifying public documents and spreading disinformation was delayed yesterday, as the opposition leader was judged not to have legal representation.Although Sam Rainsy’s lawyer, Choung Choungy, attended the hearing at the invitation of the court, he said he

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Monday, 16 May 2011 21:09 PhanidaChiang Mai (Mizzima) – High hopes that all political prisoners would be granted amnesty by the new Burmese government were dashed on Monday, when it announced that it would subtract one year from the sentences of all prisoners.During an evening broadcast, the army-run Myawaddy TV station announced that the reduction of prison sentences and a commutation of all

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