Foul play reported during early voting

By SHWE AUNG | 31 March 2012

The National League for Democracy (NLD) and independent by-election monitors are crying foul as early votes are cast in Burma’s by-elections.

Miss Myanmar International အလွမယ္ဆု ပအုိ၀္းတုိင္းရင္းသူ ဆြတ္ခူး


ေတာင္ႀကီးတုိင္းမ္ | မတ္လ ၂၉ ရက္၊ ၂၀၁၂

 ပအို၀္းတုိင္းရင္းသူေလးျဖစ္တဲ့ နန္းခင္ေဇယ်ာက ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံရဲ႕ ပထမဆံုးအႀကိမ္က်င္းပတဲ့ Miss Myanmar International အလွမယ္ၿပိဳင္ပဲြမွာ ပထမဆု ဆြတ္ခူးရရွိခဲ့တယ္လုိ႔ သိရပါတယ္။ နန္းခင္ေဇယ်ာဟာ ေတာင္ႀကီးဇာတိ ျဖစ္ၿပီး လက္ရွိမွာေတာ့ အိဂၤလိပ္နဲ႔ ျပင္သစ္ဧည့္လမ္းညြန္တစ္ဦးျဖစ္တယ္္လုိ႔ သိရပါတယ္။

ယင္းအလွၿပိဳင္ပြဲမွာ ယွဥ္ၿပိဳင္သည့္အလွမယ္မ်ားမွ မိမိတုိ႔တုိင္းရင္းသားရုိးရာ၀တ္စံု၊ အားကစား၀တ္စံု အစရွိတဲ့၀တ္စံုျဖင့္ ၀တ္ဆင္ယွဥ္ၿပိဳင္သည့္အျပင္၊ အေထြအေထြဗဟုသုတမ်ား၊ မိမိတုိ႔တကိုယ္ရည္စြမ္းရည္မ်ားႏွင့္ အျခားေသာ အရည္အျခင္းမ်ားလည္း ယွဥ္ၿပိဳင္ခဲ့ရေၾကာင္းလဲ သိရပါတယ္။

Pa-O National Organization presents its policy, stance and work programmes

NAY PYI TAW, 17 March-Pa-O National Organization CEC member U Khun Min Kyaw presented party’s policy, stance and work programmes through radio and TV today.

ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးလမ္းစဥ္မ်ားအား စနစ္တက်လုပ္ေဆာင္ရန္ တိုင္းရင္းသားအဖြဲ႔မ်ား ေဆြးေႏြး

မတ္လ ၁၅ရက္၊ ၂၀၁၂ခုႏွစ္။ နန္းသူးေလ (ေကအိုင္စီ)

အစိုးရႏွင့္ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးေဆြးေႏြးမႈအား စနစ္တက် လုပ္ေဆာင္သြားရန္ တိုင္းရင္းသား လက္နက္ကိုင္အဖြဲ႔အစည္းမ်ား စုေပါင္း၍ ထိုင္းႏိုင္ ငံ၊ ခ်င္းမိုင္ၿမိဳ႕တြင္ ေလးရက္ၾကာ တိုင္ပင္ေဆြးေႏြးခဲ့ၾကသည္။

Burma: A Sly Fox between the two Elephants

By Kanbawza Win | 15 March 15, 2012

When President Hu Jintao visited US in January this year both leaders declared their shared obsession of “Positive cooperation and comprehensive bilateral relations.” but the underlying trends could not be neglected. Based on the recent actions of China, most American and foreign strategic thinkers construe that China is displacing the US as a pre-eminent power in Asia and the Pacific to suit the Chinese economic and foreign policy interests.

ပအို၀္းတမ်ဳိးသားလံုး စည္းလံုးၾကရန္ PNLO တိုက္တြန္း

မတ္လ ၈ရက္၊ ၂၀၁၂ခုႏွစ္။ ေစာခါးစူးညား (ေကအိုင္စီ)

ပအို၀္းတမ်ဳိးသားလံုး စည္းလံုးညီညႊတ္ၾကရန္ မတ္လ ၇ရက္ေန႔(ျမန္မာလ တေပါင္းလျပည့္)၌ က်ေရာက္သည့္ ပအို၀္းအမ်ဳိးသားေန႔တြင္ ပအို၀္းအမ်ဳိးသားလြတ္ေျမာက္ေရးအဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္-PNLO က ေျပာၾကားလိုက္သည္။

Inle Lake Faces Serious Threat of Water Poisoning

By ZARNI MANN | March 8, 2012 |  THE IRRAWADDY

A local woman rows her boat past houses built
on the water at Inle Lake. (Photo: Reuters)
Environmentalists claim that scenic Inle Lake, Burma's second largest inland body of water, needs urgent attention to prevent severe poisoning from pesticides and aggressive development.

“There have been reports of water poisoning in some areas. The water in certain areas is not clean enough to drink,” said U Ohn, general secretary of the Forest Resource Environment Development and Conservation Association.

Wa, Shan to join ethnic army grouping

By NANG MYA NADI | 1 March 2012 | DVB

Two Shan state-based ethnic armies will be included in a “nationalities forces” setup being formulated by Burma’s armed opposition as negotiations with the government to broker a ceasefire continue.