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WFP to Stop Relief Flights to Burma Next Month

By SAW YAN NAING

The UN’s World Food Programme will stop its relief flights to Burma next month, leaving aid organizations to find their own means of ferrying supplies into the country.

No Political Prisoner in Burma: Junta’s Mouthpieces

By WAI MOE

Burma’s state-run media has denied the existence of “political prisoners” in the country—because the term doesn’t exist in Burmese law.

Burmese Humor Survived the Storm

By THE IRRAWADDY

About 400 works by 70 cartoonists are on show at the Lawkanat gallery in an exhibition titled “Wake from the Storm.”

Unknown Gunman Kills Burmese Woman Refugee

By VIOLET CHO

A Burmese woman refugee has been shot dead by an unknown gunman while working outside the Mae Lah camp on the Thai-Burmese border.

Burma’s Disposable Soldiers

By MIN LWIN

For rank-and-file members of Burma’s 400,000-strong armed forces, injury often means a freefall into poverty.

US Calls Burma's Promise of Democracy a 'Mockery'

By JIM GOMEZ

The United States blasted the Burmese junta's oft-repeated promise to democratize as a "kind of mockery", while Asia-Pacific countries urged the generals to take bolder steps to meet international demands.

MORE NEWS

	North Korea Signs Nonaggression Pact with Asean
	Asia-Pacific Powers Finalize Ambitious Joint Disaster Relief Plan
	UN Wants ‘Tangible Progress’ in Burma
	Relief Must Focus on Remote Areas: Holmes
	Speculation Surrounds Future UWSA Leaders
	Rice Urges Asean to Push Burma Reform
	UN Security Council to Discuss Burma
	Asean EU-style Union Likely to Stumble
	Singapore Pushes back on Pushy Press at Asean Meeting
	Asia-Pacific Airlines Report Rise in Passengers in 2008
	Burma Opposes Asean Investigative Powers
	Nobel Laureate Doubts Suu Kyi Will Be Released

NEWS BRIEFS

QUOTE OF THE DAY
	What we need to bring is hand-to-hand, heart-to-heart help, not donor conferences with all their bowing and scraping. In the meantime, people are dying. — French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner

OPINION

Water Buffalo and Beautiful Music

By AUNG ZAW

There is widespread talk inside and outside Burma of a move toward armed resistance to the military regime.

	Burma: A Human Rights Supporter?
	By KYAW ZWA MOE
	Delivering Aid While Countering Corruption
	By YENI
	A Call to Arms?
	By KYAW ZWA MOE
	What if Thailand Wants ‘Migrant Problems’?
	By SAI SOE WIN LATT

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May 20, 2008

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