Burma economy: Chasing riches? Mind the Karen guerrillas

Eager American investor, meet battle-hardened ethnic rebel.     By Patrick Winn, February 29, 2012 06:23    .... KAREN STATE, Burma — Blessed with fertile soil and deep veins of unearthed gold, this verdant expanse of Burma is, by most measures, well suited for foreign investmen...

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Feb 29, 2012 News Update

- ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ ကိုယ္စားလွယ္ေလာင္း အတည္ျပဳခ်က္ရၿပီ click - ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ကုိ ကန္႔ကြက္ခ်က္ တိုင္းေကာ္မရွင္က ပယ္ခ် click - ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ၿပိဳင္ဘက္ ၾကံ႕ဖြံ႔အမတ္ေလာင္း ေမးျမန္းခန္း click - SNLD ပါတီ တည္ေထာင္လိုသူမ်ား စုစည္း click - ေရြးေကာက္ပဲြနဲ႔ ေလ့လာေစာင့္ၾကည့္ခြင့္ (တိုက္႐ုိက္ေလလိႈင္း) click - ျပည္တြင္းစစ္ ရပ္စဲႏိုင္ဖို႔ စစ္မွန္တဲ့ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရး လုိ click - ႏိုင္ငံေရးျပႆနာမ်ားကုိ ေျဖရွင္းရန္အတြက္ အားလုံးပါ၀င္တဲ့ အစည္းအေ၀းတခု အျမန္လုိ (႐ုပ္သံ) click - တိုင္ရီ ဖိနပ္စက္႐ုံမွာ အလုပ္သမားသမဂၢ ဖဲြ႔စည္း click - ႏိုင္ငံ၀န္ထမ္း အလုပ္ခ်ိန္ေတြ တိုးသင့္ click - ဥေရာပပါလီမန္ကိုယ္စားလွယ္အဖဲြ႔ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ ေရာက္ click - ကရင္ဘာသာေရး ေခါင္းေဆာင္မ်ား ေဆြးေႏြး (႐ုပ္သံ) click - ဘိန္းစိုက္ပ်ဳိးမႈ ပေပ်ာက္ေအာင္ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံကုိ ကူေစလုိ click - ဆီးရီးယားမွာ အပစ္ရပ္ဖို႔ ကုလလူ႔အခြင့္အေရးမဟာမင္းႀကီး...

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Shwe Gas Movement will protest in 20 countries around the world tomorrow

ျမန္မာနိုင္ငံတြင္ ေရႊဂက္စ္သဘာ၀ဓါတ္ေငြ ့ပိုက္လိုင္း တည္ေဆာက္ေရး လုပ္ငန္းမ်ား ရပ္ဆိုင္းေရးအတြက္ နိုင္ငံေပါင္း ၂၀ တြင္ ေရႊဂက္စ္လွဳပ္ရွားမွဳ အဖဲြ ့မွ မနက္ျဖန္တြင္ ဆႏၵျပၾကမည္ဟု သတင္းရရွိပါသ...

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Aung Suu Kyi cleared to contest Burma by-election

28 February 2012 Last updated at 13:36 GMT     .....   Ms Suu Kyi can now begin specifically campaigning for herself to be elected BBC - Burmese pro-democracy campaigner Aung San Suu Kyi has fought off a legal challenge to her candidacy for a seat in a parliamentary by-election...

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Myanmar relaxes grip on media

 Feb 29, 2012  AP, Yangon - It was a newspaper article that just months ago, Myanmar's draconian state censors never would have approve...

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Suu Kyi fights off legal challenge

Feb 29, 2012, Radio New Zealand - Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has survived a legal challenge to her candidacy for Parliament. ...

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A portrait of Myanmar

DOCUMENTARY AIMS TO PUT A HUMAN FACE ON THE COUNTRY    Published: 29/02/2012 at 03:48 AM     Last month at the British Council in Yangon, Robert H. Lieberman showed his 88-minute documentary to a packed auditorium of over 100 viewer...

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How Far Will The Changes In Myanmar Go?

by Anthony Kuhn      Enlarge Altaf Qadri/AP Supporters greet Myanmar's pro-democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, atop her vehicle, as she arrives at an election campaign rally in Thongwa village, Myanmar, on Sunday. The country's new government is holding legislative elections on April 1. February 28, 2012 : Once an international pariah ruled by a repressive military regime, Myanmar has in recent months become one...

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Opium production rises in the region

Thasong Avasena, The Nation     Publication Date : 29-02-2012      Thailand and Southeast Asia face increasing drug problems following a boost in methamphetamine abuse and the expansion of poppy plantations in Burma and Laos, according to the 2011 report released yesterday by the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB)...

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New Players in Myanmar's Markets

Local Entrepreneurs Gain Ground, Help Drive Reform; A Prawn Exporter Thinks of Running for Office         By a WSJ Staff Reporter         A strengthening entrepreneur class is helping to drive economic reforms in Myanmar, paving the way for growth in the poverty-mired nation. The WSJ's Deborah Kan discusses with Alex Frangos. YANGON—For decades, much of Myanmar's wealth was tied up in the hands of the country's military and its cronies. Now, entrepreneurs like Yan Aung Kyaw have emerged as beneficiaries as well as drivers of refor...

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၂၀၁၂-၂၀၁၃ ဘ႑ာေရးႏွစ္တြင္ က်န္းမာေရးက႑၊ ပညာေရးက႑မ်ား အတြက္ စုစုေပါင္း အသံုးစရိတ္၏ ၃ ရာခိုင္ႏႈန္းႏွင့္ ၅ ဒသမ ၀၄ ရာခိုင္ႏႈန္း တိုးျမွင့္ထားၿပီး ေနာင္လာမည့္ႏွစ္မ်ားတြင္ ဆက္လက္ တိုးျမွင့္ လ်ာထားမည္ဟုဆို

Sunday, 26 February 2012 16:10 ၂၀၁၂-၂၀၁၃ ဘ႑ာေရးႏွစ္ တြင္ က်န္းမာေရးက႑၊ ပညာေရး က႑မ်ားအတြက္ စုစုေပါင္း အသံုးစရိတ္၏ ၃ ရာခိုင္ႏႈန္းႏွင့္ ၅ ဒသမ ၀၄ ရာခိုင္ႏႈန္း တိုးျမႇင့္ထားၿပီး ေနာင္လာမည့္ ႏွစ္မ်ားတြင္လည္း ဆက္လက္ တိုးျမႇင့္ လ်ာထားေပးသြားမည္ဟု ေဖေဖၚ၀ါရီလ ၂၂ ရက္ေန႔က က်င္းပသည့္ ျပည္ေထာင္စု လႊတ္ေတာ္ အစည္းအေ၀းတြင္ ဘ႑ာေရးႏွင့္အခြန္ ၀န္ႀကီးဌာန ျပည္ေထာင္စု၀န္ႀကီး ဦးလွထြန္းက ေျပာၾကားခဲ့သ...

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Feb 28, 2012 News Update

- လႊတ္ေတာ္ႏွစ္ရပ္ ႐ုတ္တရက္ ဆိုင္းငံ့ click - ျပည္သူ႔လႊတ္ေတာ္ဥကၠဌ မိန္႔ခြန္း ဆင္ဆာထိ click - ALD နဲ႔ SNLD မွတ္ပံုတင္ေရး စတင္ၿပီ click - ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ ကိုယ္စားလွယ္ေလာင္း ေလွ်ာက္ထားမႈ ကန္႔ကြက္ခ်က္ NLD ေခ်ပ click - ျမစ္ႀကီးနားၿမိဳ႕ မေနာကြင္းမွ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္၏ စည္း႐ုံးေရးေဟာေျပာပြဲ click - NLD မဲဆြယ္ပြဲ အႏုပညာရွင္မ်ား လိုက္ပါကူညီမည္ click - စစ္ေဘးသင့္ ျပည္သူေတြအတြက္ ရန္ပုံေငြ အႏုပညာျပပဲြ (႐ုပ္သံ) click - ျမန္မာ့လူ႔အခြင့္အေရး Amnesty ေထာက္ျပၿပီ click - ထား၀ယ္မွာ ျခံေျမေတြ ေစ်းႏွိမ္ အ၀ယ္ခံေနရဟု ေဒသခံေတြ ေျပာ click - ျပည္ေတာ္ျပန္ ၃ ဦး၏ အကူးအေျပာင္းဆိုင္ရာ ႏိုင္ငံတကာ အေတြ႔အၾကံဳမ်ား ေဆြးေႏြးပြဲ (႐ုပ္သံ) click - အာဆီယံစီးပြားေရး၀န္ႀကီးမ်ား အစည္းအေ၀း ၿပီးဆံုး cl...

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Myanmar military in the money

By Brian McCartan     .....Myanmar's military has seemingly faded to the background as former khaki-wearing military officers now wear civilian garbs in President Thein Sein's reformist elected government. Outside the halls of the new parliament, however, the military, known locally as the Tatmadaw, is still the country's chief ruling power judging by recent budget allocations....

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INTERVIEW-UPDATE 1-Toyo-Thai prepares

By Ploy Ten Kate and Wirat Buranakanokthanasan     .... BANGKOK, Feb 27 (Reuters) - Contractor Toyo-Thai Corporation Pcl TTCL.BK expects higher net profit in 2012 thanks to a healthy order book and wants to invest in natural gas in Myanmar to position itself for future growth, senior executives said. ...

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Is Burma Army against the President's Peace Plans?

By - Zin Linn    ..... Naypyidaw, 27 February (Asiantribune.com): President Thein Sein led Burmese government and the Shan State Army to sign a ceasefire agreement as a major breakthrough at Taunggyi, the capital of Shan State, on 2 December 2011...

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GE Healthcare to sell products in Myanmar

Feb 27 (Reuters) - The medical equipment division of General Electric Co. has reached a deal with a local partner to sell its products in Myanmar and said it could expand further as the country continues to open up to the outside world...

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Neighbours to the west get closer

Published: 28/02/2012 at 02:15 AM    ... Bangkokpost - Myanmar's ongoing democratic and economic transition has created an unprecedented opportunity for India and Thailand to cooperate and strengthen economic links between South and Southeast Asi...

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World Bank: Emphasize Civic Participation in Burma

Encourage Transparency, Accountability in Exploring Reengagement       February 13, 2012    ...... "The World Bank has an opportunity to ensure that the Burmese people are at the center of the development agenda. For more than 20 years, Burma has been closed to the world. Now the Bank and the Burmese government can make sure engagement is open and inclusive". (Arvind Ganesan, Business and Human Rights director...

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Hu Lost Burma

By Michael Moran,   Posted Monday, Feb. 27, 2012, at 1:44 PM ET     ....... Myanmar President Thein Sein (left) iwith his Chinese  counterpart Hu Jintao last May. Apparently, Thein wanted  to go the other way. Photograph by Frederic J. Brown/AFP/Getty Images We live in an era, according to many people I respect, in which tenets of capitalism that a decade ago seemed unshakably part of the 21st century are being cha...

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Myanmar vice president speaks highly of Sino-Myanmar pipelines project

(Xinhua)   08:22, February 28, 2012     ...  MADE ISLAND, Myanmar, Feb. 27 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar Vice President U Tin Aung Myint Oo on Monday spoke highly of a Sino- Myanmar oil and natural gas pipelines project on Made Island, Rakhine state's Kyaukphy...

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Feb 27 News Update

- သုံးခြၿမိဳ႕နယ္မွာ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ မဲဆြယ္ click - သံုးခြၿမိဳ႕ လူထုေဟာေျပာပြဲတြင္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္၏ ေျပာၾကားခ်က္အခ်ိဳ႕ click - ေနျပည္ေတာ္၊ မႏၱေလး၊ စစ္ကိုင္းၿမိဳ႕မ်ားသို႔ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ ခရီးထြက္မည္ click - ရခိုင္ဒီမိုကေရစီအဖြဲ႔ခ်ဳပ္ မွတ္ပံုျပန္တင္ click - ၈၈ မ်ိဳးဆက္ေက်ာင္းသားအဖြဲ႔ ရမည္းသင္း၊ ျမင္းျခံ လွည့္လည္ click - တိုင္းဝန္ႀကီးခ်ဳပ္ဆီ စာေရးတိုင္တန္းခဲ့သူ အလုပ္သမားမ်ား ျခိမ္းေျခာက္ခံရ click - ျမန္မာႏိင္ငံမွာ အေျပာင္းအလဲေတြ ျဖစ္ေနၿပီလား (တနဂၤေႏြ ေဆြးေႏြးပြဲ) click - ဘက္စံုဖြံ႔ၿဖိဳးတိုးတက္မႈနဲ႔ ႏိုင္ငံသားမ်ား အခန္းက႑ (ဒီမိုကေရစီေရးရာ) click - ျမန္မာ့သစ္သီး၀လံ ျပည္ပတင္ပို႔မႈ အခြန္ကင္းလြတ္ cli...

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Three more Iranians arrested in Feb 14 bomb probe

Published: 27/02/2012 at 03:23 AM   .... Bangkokpost - Three more Iranians were detained by the police yesterday on suspicion of involvement in the bombings on Sukhumvit Soi 71 on Feb 1...

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Asean chief says Thailand must change

Myanmar reform puts new priority on skills       Published: 25/02/2012 at 02:54 AM      .... Bangkokpost - The enthusiasm of Myanmar's leadership for their migrants to return and work for the country's development should be a wake-up call for Thailand, Asean secretary-general Surin Pitsuwan has warned....

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Govt to back Myanmar at UN summit

Published: 27/02/2012 at 02:28 AM .... Bangkokpost - Thailand will play a more active role this year in helping Myanmar to fully engage with the international community as the formerly military-led country continues with political reforms....

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N.Korea 'sacred war' threat over US-South drill

Published: 25/02/2012 at 12:32 PM  .... Bangkokpost - North Korea threatened to stage a "sacred war" over US-South Korean annual joint military exercises next week, denouncing the drill as a "silent declaration of war". ...

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S. Korea, US begin military exercise: spokesman

Published: 27/02/2012 at 06:32 AM    .... Bangkokpost - South Korea and the United States Monday began a major military exercise, a Seoul spokesman said, despite North Korea's threats of possible retaliation. ...

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US drone crashes in NW Pakistan : official

Published: 26/02/2012 at 02:32 AM    .... Bangkokpost - A US drone crashed in northwest Pakistan's tribal district near the Afghan border late Saturday, officials said. US Predator unmanned drone. A US drone crashed in northwest Pakistan's tribal district near the Afghan border late Saturday, officials said. ...

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Police 'hunt Afghan suspect' in Kabul killings

Published: 26/02/2012 at 03:32 PM ... Bangkokpost - Police are hunting for an Afghan intelligence officer suspected of killing two US officers in a shooting at the interior ministry in Kabul, according to a government source...

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Myanmar signs pact with Mon rebels

Published: 27/02/2012 at 01:19 PM   .... Bangkokpost - Myanmar has signed a preliminary peace agreement with separatists in southeast Mon State, official media reported on Monday, the latest in a series of deals with ethnic minority guerrilla...

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Will myanmar's reforms be enough for washington ?

Published: 27/02/2012 at 08:15 AM   ...... Bangkokpost - The political reforms under way in Myanmar for nearly one year have prompted a review of US policy and speculation that the United States might consider lifting some of its sanctions against the country. In reality, the Obama administration has set several conditions that must be met before the sanctions will be eased, including the government's ensuring that the April 1 parliamentary byelections will be reasonably free and fai...

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Top Chinese legislator vows to further parliamentary exchanges with Myanmar

(Xinhua) 16:25, February 25, 2012        ........ Wu Bangguo (R), chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, meets with Myanmar's Speaker of the House of Representatives Thura U Shwe Mann in Beijing, capital of China, Feb. 24, 2012. (Xinhua/Li Tao) BEIJING, Feb. 24 (Xinhua) -- Top legislator Wu Bangguo on Friday vowed to further parliamentary exchanges with Myanma...

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Burma awakes to glasnost: a (partly) free press and (some) freedom of expression

Pictures of Aung San Suu Kyi adorn T-shirts and her speeches are reported verbatim. In Burma, the censors are in retreat guardian.co.uk, Saturday 25 February 2012 15.31 GMT         ....... Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi on the campaign trail earlier this month in the constituency of Kaw Hmu, which she hopes to represent. Photograph: Paula Bronstein/Getty Images At Bangon Books, a second-hand shop in the beating heart of Rangoon, U Htay Hong is doing a brisk trade...

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Hillary Clinton in Burma: kisses for Suu Kyi, handshake for the president

Posted at 07:16 AM ET, 12/02/2011   By Debbi Wilgoren............   There was no giggling when U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton met the former general who runs Burma’s oppressive government. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Burma's pro-democracy opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi talk prior to dinner at the U.S. Chief of Mission Residence in Rangoon, Burma, Thursday, Dec. 1. (Saul Loeb - AP) ...

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India unprepared for new Myanmar

Labourers from Myanmar sit on a truck loaded with bricks as they cross the Indo-Myanmar border bridge at the border town of Moreh, in Manipur, February 3, 2012. Credit: Reuters/Rupak De Chowdhuri/Files By Satarupa Bhattacharjya and Frank Jack Daniel       ...... MOREH | Sun Feb 26, 2012 10:14am IST                 ..... (Reuters) - As dusk falls on a lonely police station in the eastern tip of India, a young policeman nervously keeps an eye on the Arakan hills above him, dotted with poppy field...

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Feb 26, 2012 News Update

- ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ကို ကန္႔ကြက္ဖို႔ အယူခံ ထပ္တင္ click - ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္၏ မႏၱေလးႏွင့္ က်န္ခရီးစဥ္မ်ား လံုျခံဳေရး အၿငိမ္းစားဗုိလ္ခ်ဳပ္ႀကီး သူရဦးတင္ဦး၏ သံုးသပ္ခ်က္ (တပ္မွဴးတပ္သား ေျပာစကား) click - NLD ပါတီအား အျမစ္ျပတ္ ေျခမႈန္းပစ္ရန္ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္မွဴးႀကီး သန္းေရႊက အမိန္႔ေပးခ့ဲ (ေဆာင္းပါး) click - ဒီမိုကရက္တစ္ပါတီမွ NLD သို႔ ကူးေျပာင္း click - ၈၈ မ်ဳိးဆက္ေတြကို မႏၱေလးေဒသခံံေတြ ႀကိဳဆို click - ႏိုင္/က်ဥ္း လြတ္ေျမာက္ေရး ရခုိင္မွာ ဆုေတာင္း click - ဒီေကဘီေအႏွင့္ အစိုးရျပည္ေထာင္စု ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးေဖာ္ေဆာင္ေရးအဖြဲ႔ ေတြ႔ဆံု click - ျမန္မာအစိုးရနဲ႔ မြန္ျပည္သစ္ အပစ္ရပ္ သေဘာတူ click - အစုိးရနဲ႔ မြန္ျပည္သစ္ပါတီ ၄၅ ရက္အတြင္း ႏုိင္ငံေရးေဆြးေႏြးပြဲ စမယ္ click - ဆရာေတာ္မ်ားကုိ ေပးတ့ဲ ၀န္ႀကီးရဲ႕ လက္ခ်ာ click - ျမန္မာျပည္မွာ အေမရိကန္စစ္သား ရွာေဖြေရး click - ကေမၻာဒီးယား-ျမန္မာ clic...

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Myanmar must focus on long-standing challenges to gain stability – UN

Special Adviser to the Secretary-General for Myanmar Vijay Nambiar. Photo: UNIC/Yangon 24 February 2012 –  Myanmar is only at the early stages of its transition and must continue to tackle long-standing challenges so that the Asian country can achieve lasting peace and stability, a top United Nations official said toda...

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Feb 25, 2012 News Upadate

- ျမန္မာလူ႔အခြင့္အေရးခ်ဳိးေဖာက္မႈ မေလ်ာ့ click - SSA-S ႏွင့္ အစိုးရတပ္တိုက္ပြဲမ်ား ဆက္တိုက္ျဖစ္ေန click - ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရး မရဘဲ ဖြံ႔ၿဖိဳးေရး မျဖစ္ႏုိင္ click - လူထု ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းလံုျခံဳဖို႔ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ ႀကိဳးစားမည္ click - ႏုိင္ငံတြင္းက ခ်မ္းသာႂကြယ္ဝမႈအားလုံးဟာ ျပည္သူအားလုံးနဲ႔ ဆိုင္တယ္ (႐ုပ္သံ) click - ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ ကခ်င္ျပည္နယ္ခရီးစဥ္ (ဓာတ္ပံု) click - မႏၱေလးၿမိဳ႕တြင္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ တရားေဟာခြင့္ ျပန္ရ click - ဧၿပီ ၁ ၾကားျဖတ္ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ အေရးႀကီး click - ၾကားျဖတ္ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ ႏိုင္ငံတကာ ေစာင့္ၾကည့္ခြင့္ရဖို႔ ကုလ ေမွ်ာ္လင့္ click - အာဆီယံဥကၠ႒ တာ၀န္ေက်ဖို႔ အမ်ားႀကီး ျပင္ဆင္ရဦးမည္ click - တ႐ုတ္-ျမန္မာနယ္စပ္ လံုျခံဳေရးအတြက္ တ႐ုတ္ ေျပာ click - တိုင္းရင္းသားေတြနဲ႔ ေတြ႔ဆံုေဆြးေႏြးဖို႔ ျမန္မာအစိုးရကို တ႐ုတ္အစိုးရ တိုက္တြန္း click - ေပ်ာက္ဆံုး အေမရိကန္စစ္သား႐ုပ္ကလာပ္ ရွာေဖြေရး...

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Myanmar, All Mine

Bicycling in Bagan, the site of more than 2,000 ancient temples and approximately zero tourists By FINN-OLAF JONES Photo: Herman van Heusden, A view over Bagan Manuha Temple had a simple whitewashed exterior, a small door and a surprise: Ducking through the entry, we found ourselves staring into the lap of a three-story-high Buddha that filled the space like a ship in a bottle, smiling benevolently at something far beyond his cramped cel...

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Myanmar to Launch Tender for Six Onshore Oil, Gas Blocks

Feb 23, 2012      - --- Myanmar will launch a global tender for six onshore oil and gas blocks to attract foreign investment in the sector.  According to a report in Reuters, latest tender will be issued in late February or early March. In August last year, country’s 10 onshore blocks were lapped up by foreign firm, mostly Asia...

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Feb 24, 2012 News Update

- ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ကို ကခ်င္ျပည္နယ္လူထု ႀကိဳဆို click - ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ကို ကခ်င္လူထု ေထာင္ေသာင္းမ်ားစြာ ႀကိဳဆို click - ေဒၚ​ေအာင္ဆန္း​စုၾကည္ ျမစ္ႀကီး​နား​ လူထု​ေဟာ​ေျပာပြဲ (ဓာတ္ပံု) click - ကခ်င္ျပည္နယ္ေရာက္ NLD ဥကၠ႒ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ မိန္႔ခြန္းႏွင့္ ဓာတ္ပုံမ်ား - အပုိင္း (၃) click - ကခ်င္ျပည္နယ္ေရာက္ NLD ဥကၠ႒ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ မိန္႔ခြန္းႏွင့္ ဓာတ္ပုံမ်ား - အပုိင္း (၂) click - ကခ်င္ျပည္နယ္ေရာက္ NLD ဥကၠ႒ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ မိန္႔ခြန္းႏွင့္ ဓာတ္ပုံမ်ား - အပုိင္း (၁) click - ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္၏ ျမစ္ႀကီးနားခရီးစဥ္ click - ျပည္တြင္း​ၿငိမ္း​ခ်မ္း​ေရး​ကို နိုင္ငံ​ေရး​နည္း​နဲ႔ ေျဖရွင္း​မွ ရမယ္လို႔ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ ျမစ္ႀကီး​နား​မွာ ​ေဟာေျပာ click - ပင္လံုစိတ္ဓာတ္နဲ႔ ၿငိမ္း​ခ်မ္း​ေရး​ကို အရယူရမယ္လို႔ ​ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္း​စုၾကည္က ကခ်င္ျပည္နယ္ခရီး​စဥ္မွာ ​ေျပာၾကား​ (႐ုပ္သံ) click -...

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US encourages Burma to distance itself from China

By John Roberts,23 February 2012    ..... The US has taken the first tentative steps toward lifting sanctions on Burma (Myanmar) as part of its efforts to facilitate a rapprochement with the military junta and undermine the country’s economic and strategic ties with Chin...

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Good neighbours, better business

Feb 24, 2012 Bangkokpost - Thailand is trying to strike a balance between diplomatic and trade benefits with Myanmar, a country that is opening up to the outside world after years of isolation and suppressio...

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China presses Myanmar to bring stability to border

Feb 24, 2012    BEIJING (Reuters) - China has told Myanmar to better secure their joint border across which thousands of refugees have been fleeing to escape fighting since last year between the Myanmar government and ethnic minority rebels...

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After 25 years, Japan willing to resume Myanmar loans

Feb 24, 2012    TOKYO: Japan is moving to resume loans to Myanmar after a quarter of a century, a report said yesterday, the latest move by the world community to bring the country in from the cold....

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Britain's Hague says Myanmar needs more reforms

By GRANT PECK | Associated Press – Fri 6 Jan, 2012                    YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — British Foreign Secretary William Hague cautioned Friday while visiting Myanmar that foreign supporters of democracy must not slacken pressure on its military-backed government while reforms remain incomplet...

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The First Thing the U.S. Should Do In Myanmar

Stanley Weiss (Founding Chairman, Business Executives for National Security) Feb 23, 2012   YANGON, Myanmar--During the years he lived as a child in Indonesia, President Barack Obama learned the culture of Jakarta, spoke the language, survived chicken pox and recalls frequently feeling "the sting of [his] teachers' bamboo switches...

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Myanmar military abuses unabated despite reforms, rights group says

Washington— The Associated Press, Published Thursday, Feb. 23, 2012 1:41PM EST        .... Human Rights Watch says that despite Myanmar's headlong rush toward reform and cease-fires reached with ethnic insurgents, abuses by the military have not abate...

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Fire at Myanmar refugee camp

Feb 23, 2012 Bangkokpost - A huge fire swept through a crowded Thai border camp home to thousands of refugees from neighbouring Myanmar on Thursday, destroying hundreds of homes, the authorities said....

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Feb 23, 2012 News Update

- NLD ကုိ ေရြးေကာက္ပဲြေကာ္မရွင္ သတိေပး click - ေဒၚေနရီဗေဆြလည္း NLD ပါတီ၀င္ၿပီ click - ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ ကခ်င္ျပည္နယ္ခရီးစဥ္ (Update) click - ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ ျမစ္ႀကီးနားေရာက္၊ နမၼတီးကို ခရီးစဥ္ဆက္ click - ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ ကခ်င္ေခါင္းေဆာင္မ်ားႏွင့္ ေတြ႔ဆံုမည္ click - ေဒၚ​ေအာင္ဆန္း​စုၾကည္ ကခ်င္ျပည္နယ္ခရီး​စဥ္ (ဓာတ္ပံု) click - မန္းေတာင္ေျခ စုေဝးခြင့္မျပဳ click - အာဆီယံ အတြင္းေရးမွဴးခ်ဳပ္နဲ႔ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ ေတြ႔ဆုံ click - စစ္ေျပးဒုကၡသည္မ်ားကုိ အကူအညီ သြားေပးေနသည့္ ၈၈ မ်ဳိးဆက္အဖြဲ႔ကုိ ေမးျမန္းခ်က္ click - ကုိကုိႀကီး မ်က္ရည္က်တဲ့ သရက္ခရီးစဥ္ (႐ုပ္သံ) click - အပစ္အခတ္ ရပ္စဲမႈ DKBA ဖ်က္သိမ္း click - ေရရွည္ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရး KNU ဆက္ႀကိဳးစားမည္ click - KNU ထိန္းခ်ဳပ္နယ္ေျမအတြင္း အစိုးရတပ္မ်ား ႐ုပ္သိမ္းရန္ ေတာင္းဆို click - ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံရဲ႕ လက္ရွိ ျပဳျပင္ေျပာင္းလဲမႈေတြ သူရဦးေရႊမန္း...

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Myanmar: road to reform?

Feb 22, 2012, Euronews - Myanmar has been isolated internationally for decades. However, in only a few months the country has made, what seems like, startling steps towards democracy. Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy, will contest parliamentary elections in April for the first time since a recent ban was lifted on the opposition party...

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Suu Kyi takes campaign to Myanmar's restive north

Published on 22 February 2012 - 9:22pm       ..... Myanmar pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi takes her party's election campaign to the country's conflict-riven far north Thursday in a bid to bolster support among ethnic minoritie...

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India doesn’t like the view as Myanmar policy stalls

7DAYS - The four Indian states sharing the country’s 1,640km border with the former Burma were supposed to be India’s gateway to Southeast Asia. Instead, the area has become India’s Wild East. As resource-rich Myanmar emerges from decades of isolation under military rule, India should be a natural partner, with ties stretching back to the 3rd Century BC and, more recently, a shared experience of British colonialism and World War Two. Myanmar sits at Asia’s crossroads. It has a western border with India, a northern one with China, and is also neighbours with  fellow Asian nation Thailand. “Myanmar is India’s only bridge to Southeast Asia,” Myo Myint, Myanmar’s deputy foreign minister, said last week, adding: “India needs...

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