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| By FRANK DOUGLAS |
| After a stressful meeting in Naypyidaw, a senior Thai government official relaxes in the barber’s chair. |
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| “I’ve received a copy of a very confidential CD,” said the barber, as he cut the customer’s hair. |
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| By THE IRRAWADDY |
| The barber takes a tongue-in-cheek guess at what Burma’s Nobel Peace Prize winner would write in a letter from Insein prison to Burma’s most ignoble loser. |
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| By DAVID PAQUETTE |
| Our Rangoon barber takes time out to interview long-distance swimmer and full-time fantasist John William Yettaw. The verdict: Insein or insane? You decide. |
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| By JIM ANDREWS |
| The barber smiled and raised his neatly trimmed eyebrows as he settled his youthful customer in the chair. |
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| Election Watch |
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| By KAY LATT |
| Time is running out for a genuine dialogue before the election, and the regime is moving ahead despite all appeals by democratic groups and ethnic nationalities. |
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| By AUNG NAING OO |
| Before Burma’s 1990 general elections, detractors of the Burmese military regime cried foul against the repressive and restrictive conditions of the polls. |
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| By HTET AUNG |
| If the Burmese military believes that it deserves the privilege to govern, then it should be brave enough to compete with politicians and political parties within an open and fair parliamentary framework. |
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| Beyond 1988 - Reflections |
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| By LINN THANT |
| A former political prisoner who spent time behind bars with members of Burma's purged Military Intelligence unit looks at the different approach to prison life taken by political activists and former junta hardliners. |
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| By AUNG NAING OO |
| Dr. Salai Pa Cin, a Chin doctor and pro-democracy activist, arrived at Three Pagodas Pass near the Thai border with Burma in October 1989. Like most of his fellow democracy campaigners, he left the country |
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| By AUNG NAING OO |
| Friends and family members often find themselves on opposite sides of Burma's many conflicts, fighting each other for reasons many barely understand. |
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| Others |
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| By JOSEPH ALLCHIN / THE IRRAWADDY |
| While Naypyidaw appears committed to a market-oriented economy, farmers fear that a new Land Act will cede control over the agriculture sector to government. |
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| By AUNG THET WINE/ THE IRRAWADDY |
| Young girls continue to flock to Rangoon to escape hardship at home and support their families, with many ending up as sex workers in the cities multitude of massage parlors and karaoke bars. |
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| By BJ STUART / THE IRRAWADDY |
| U Gambira, one of the leaders of the 2007 Saffron Revolution, recalls his time in prison for peacefully protesting the economic hardships imposed on Burma's people by their rulers. |
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