US to ease investment restrictions on Myanmar

Bangkokpost, April 6th, 2012 -  WASHINGTON: The United States said Wednesday it will ease restrictions on investment to Myanmar and quickly appoint an ambassador as it seeks to boost reformers who allowed landmark elections in the long-closed nation.

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March 5th, 2012 Burma News Update

- ပိတ္ဆို႔မႈ ေလွ်ာ့ေပါ့ေရး Congress လႊတ္ေတာ္ သံုးသပ္မည္ click
- အေမရိကန္ ေပးတဲ့ အကူအညီမွာ အေႂကြးကတ္စနစ္ ပါ၀င္ဖြယ္ရွိ click
- ျမန္မာအေပၚ ပိတ္ဆို႔မႈေတြ ႐ုပ္သိမ္းဖို႔ အာဆီယံ ေတာင္းဆို click
- ျမန္မာအေပၚ ပိတ္ဆို႔မႈတခ်ိဳ႕ ႐ုပ္သိမ္းေရး အေမရိကန္ စတင္ျပင္ဆင္ click

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Burma News on International Media

1.Clinton Announces "Targeted Easing" of Sanctions on Myanmar Inter Press Service News Agency 08:50

2.Aung San Suu Kyi, David Cameron and the perils of politikverdrossenheit guardian.co.uk 19:03 Wed, 04 Apr 2012

3.US Eases Some Burma Sanctions Following By-Elections Voice of America 06:10

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Burma News Update

- မဲဆႏၵနယ္ ေနရာ ၄၀ မွာ NLD ႏိုင္ၿပီလို႔ ေကာ္မရွင္ ေၾကညာ click
- ျပည္သူေတြရဲ႕ ေအာင္နိုင္မႈလို႔ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ ေျပာ click
- ၾကားျဖတ္ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲဟာ လူထုေအာင္ပြဲပဲလို႔ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ ေျပာၾကား click
- ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ကို ဘဂါ၀မ္ မဟာဗီယာ ကမၻာ့ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးဆု ခ်ီးျမႇင့္ click
- ၾကားျဖတ္ေ႐ြးေကာက္ပြဲ ေအာင္ျမင္မႈ သမၼတ အုိဘားမား ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံသားေတြကုိ ခ်ီးက်ဴး click

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Thailand looks beyond the US alliance

Kavi Chongkittavorn The Nation April 2, 2012 1:00 am ... 

Thailand is losing out big time in the fast shifting strategic landscape due to its leaders' inability to break away from the vicious political cycle at home as other countries in the region gain higher levels playing fields and strategic values. The lack of foreign policy focus of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra's administration - trapped in her charm syndrome - further erodes the country's competitive prepositioning.

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Asean thumbs-up for Myanmar polls

Li Xueying, The Straits Times, Publication Date : 03-04-2012 ...
 
Asean foreign ministers yesterday welcomed Myanmar's recent landmark by-elections, which the regional grouping's secretary-general Surin Pitsuwan described as orderly with high participation.

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The doctor behind the lady

Aung San Suu Kyi's long-time doctor calls the shots behind the scenes on whether the democracy icon should travel

Bangkokpost, April 1st, 2012:   Aung San Suu Kyi has defied Myanmar's generals for decades. But there's one man whose orders she usually follows: Tin Myo Win, her doctor.

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Election Related News...

- ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ ေနအိမ္မွ ေကာ့မွဴးသို႔ ထြက္ခြာၿပီ click
- ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ တည္းခိုမည့္ ၀ါးသခၤအိမ္တြင္ ကရင္လူငယ္မ်ား လံုျခံဳေရး တာ၀န္ယူ click
- ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ပါတီ၏ မဲဆြယ္စည္း႐ံုးေရးကို ေကာ့မွဴးလူထုအားလံုး ႀကိဳဆို click
- ၾကားျဖတ္ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ တရားမွ်တမႈ မရွိႏုိင္ဟု ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ ေျပာ (႐ုပ္သံ) click
- ျမန္မာ့​ေ႐ြး​ေကာက္ပြဲ ကမၻာ့​မီဒီယာ​ေတြမွာ ဖံုး​လႊမ္း click
- ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲသတင္းမ်ား အန္အယ္လ္ဒီ တိုက္႐ိုက္ ထုတ္ျပန္သြားမည္ click
- ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲအႀကိဳ စစ္တမ္းအရ အမ်ားစု NLD ကို မဲေပးဖြယ္ရွိ click

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Real test for Myanmar is after the election

Bangkokpost, April 1th, 2012:   Today people in 45 political constituencies in Myanmar will go to the polls to elect their parliamentary representatives, and almost certainly one of these will be Aung San Suu Kyi, representing Kawhmu township in Yangon region for the National League for Democracy (NLD).

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March 31, 2012 Burma News Update

- မတရားလည္း ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ ေရွ႕ဆက္မည္ click
- NLD ၾကားျဖတ္ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ သတင္းစာရွင္းလင္းပြဲ (႐ုပ္သံ) click
- NLD မဲဆႏၵပညာေပးပဲြ သြားစဥ္ ဝင္းကုန္းရြာလံုးကၽြတ္နီးပါး မီးေလာင္ click
- ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ လြတ္လပ္မွ်တမႈ ၆၀ ရာခိုင္ႏႈန္း ရွိႏိုင္ click
- ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ လြတ္လပ္မွ်တရမယ္လို႔ ေကာ္မရွင္ဥကၠဌ ေျပာ click

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Burma: Aung San Suu Kyi 'does not hold a monopoly on democracy'

Campaigners from President Thein Sein's party tell Dean Nelson why they think they will defeat Aung San Suu Kyi in Sunday's historic by-elections. 

By Dean Nelson, Rangoon, 8:00PM BST 30 Mar 2012 ...

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Aung San Suu Kyi has finally broken her silence

John Irvine: International Correspondent, March 30, 2012 ...
Aung San Suu Kyi has spent most of the 16 months since her release praising the regime for introducing reforms.

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16 Ways to Fix Burma

MARCH 30, 2012 ...

On the eve of the country's historic elections, 16 experts give us their prescriptions for the future. 

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U.S. stresses importance of successful by-election in Myanmar

(Xinhua) 09:13, March 31, 2012 ...

JAKARTA, March 30 (Xinhua) - The United States on Friday stressed here the importance of successful by-election in Myanmar scheduled on April 1.

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EU says won't be pushed into lifting Myanmar sanctions

Stuart Grudgings, Reuters, 9:32 a.m. EDT, March 30, 2012 ...

PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Fair elections in Myanmar this weekend will be a major step toward the lifting of European Union sanctions but the bloc will not be rushed by big business into lifting the full range of trade restrictions, its trade commissioner said on Friday.

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