Myanmar Related News – Feb 2012

kaiFebruary 2, 201213min29719

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BURMA RELATED NEWS – FEBRUARY 01, 2012
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Reuters – Insight: At Suu Kyi’s rallies, signs of a new Myanmar
Reuters – Myanmar says will put stability ahead of economy – report
Reuters – Myanmar agrees to ceasefire with Mon separatists
AP – Michelle Yeoh calls Myanmar’s Suu Kyi her ‘hero’
AP – Reforms in Myanmar may spark refugee return
Brisbane Times – Suu Kyi campaign sheds light on Burma’s political spirit
BusinessWeek – Myanmar Rice Shipments May Double This Year, Group Predicts
IANS – Myanmar to introduce e-visa system
Washington Examiner – Myanmar reveals its external debt is $11 billion
Asia Times Online – When rogues drift apart
Bangkok Post – Much to look forward to in Myanmar
The Nation – Burma relaxes foreign currency exchange controls
Asia News Network – Gold rush to Burma as country opens up
The Epoch Times – Military-Backed Rule Blurs Hopes for Democracy in Burma
The Financial Times – Myanmar’s dissident media feels pinch amid reforms
The Irrawaddy – The ‘Rule of Law’ in Burma
The Irrawaddy – Property Prices Rocket by Dawei Deep-Sea Port
The Irrawaddy – NMSP, Govt Reach Five-point Agreement
Mizzima News – Quintana to visit Karen and Mon states
Mizzima News – Burma joins naval exercises
Mizzima News – Suu Kyi on poverty tour in Magway region
DVB News – Burmese warships join Indian naval drill
DVB News – Budget revamp targets health, military
DVB News – UN envoy to press govt on Kachin
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Insight: At Suu Kyi’s rallies, signs of a new Myanmar
By Jason Szep | Reuters – 9 hrs ago

DAWEI, Myanmar (Reuters) – Shortly after her aging aircraft rattled its way off the runway and into the skies of southern Myanmar, Aung San Suu Kyi crossed the aisle to where three orange-robed Buddhist monks were seated in the first row.

She knelt down and bowed her head, as passengers watched aboard a suddenly hushed plane. Media were not alerted. There were no clicking cameras.

“That’s a wonderful moment,” the lone Western diplomat on the plane said quietly.

Her display of obeisance and humility, less than an hour after ecstatic crowds feted her like a rock-star in the southern city of Dawei, revealed a side few have seen.

This more deferential demeanor of the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize laureate may well help sustain the most sweeping reforms in the former British colony since a 1962 military coup when it was known as Burma.

DEMONISED AS WESTERNISED

While she is widely admired at home, figures in her own movement have criticized her as too dogmatic, inflexible or arrogant – accusations amplified by state media under the former military junta which handed power to a nominally civilian parliament in March.

The ruling generals often demonized her as Westernized, out of touch with Myanmar. It contrasts with her international image as an enduring symbol of democracy, locked away 15 of the past 22 years for her beliefs until freed from house arrest in November, 2010.

Her steadfast support of Western economic sanctions over the years, however, divided the dissident community. Some felt they hurt the general public and allowed the junta and its cronies to carve up Myanmar’s resources and other assets for themselves. Suu Kyi countered they were crucial to force the generals to produce sincere reforms, echoing U.S. and European views.

But as Myanmar changes, so too, is she. At 66, many see her now as more politically astute, more realistic.

“She wasn’t always humble, she wasn’t always flexible. But to succeed now, she needs to be flexible, and she is starting to show that,” said one veteran Burmese journalist.

Her genuflection in the plane was emblematic of her position as opposition leader as well: monks have been at the forefront of the pro-democracy movement in Myanmar, and Suu Kyi had just finished speeches calling for changes to the army-drafted constitution at the heart of Myanmar’s power structure.

Later, speaking with Reuters aboard the 1970s-era Myanma Airways aircraft, she ticked off her top priorities, including introducing the rule of law and ending several ethnic insurgencies. But above all, she wants to amend the 2008 constitution ensuring the military’s strong influence over the resource-rich country of nearly 60 million people.

“That’s our election platform,” she said.

UNLIKELY LEADER

Her last campaign, ahead of the 1990 elections, awoke similar passions and ended with troops surrounding her lakeside villa, locking her under house arrest.

In the tumult before the election, thousands of pro-democracy protesters were killed, and the 43-year-old Suu Kyi emerged as an unlikely leader. She had a home in Oxford, England, a British husband and two sons. But as the daughter of assassinated independence hero Aung San, considered by many as the nation’s founding father, she was urged to speak up.
Just months after returning to Yangon to care for her ailing mother in 1988, she shot to prominence.

“I have never really wanted to get involved in politics but the people of Burma had a very high regard for my father … so obviously I felt a sense of responsibility,” she told Reuters in an August, 1988, interview. “After the August demonstrations and the killings, I felt it would be too cowardly of me to sit tight in my house and pretend that nothing was happening.”
In less than a year, she was drawing tens of thousands of supporters at rallies, becoming a symbol of democracy. After her arrest, the junta tightened its grip.

STAR POWER

Two decades later, her star power is undimmed.

In Dawei on Sunday, thousands of ecstatic supporters turned out for a glimpse of her, lining dusty streets, cheering and waving little red-and-white flags, the colors of her opposition National League for Democracy (NLD) party. Some wore shirts with her image. Many chanted “long live mother Suu.”

At each stop, she roused them into wild cheers.

After her rallies in Dawei, state media reminded candidates that formal campaigning had yet to begin for the 48 available seats in the 1,158-seat legislature.

Suu Kyi’s speeches on Tuesday in rural Myaing township toed that line. She did not mention the election or even her party, speaking instead about a British development project.

While in 1989 she defied authorities by holding illegal rallies and ended up under house arrest, Suu Kyi now seems less willing to provoke authorities into a backlash that could undermine the nascent reforms.

But her appearances in Dawei had the unmistakable feel of a campaign. She spoke on stages over loudspeakers in four villages, pressing her demand for changing the constitution whose clauses reserve a quarter of parliament’s seats for the military, and warning that any government that lies to the people should be removed.

“There are certain laws which are obstacles to freedom of the people, and we will try to abolish these laws within the framework of the parliament,” she said at one rally. “Only when democracy prevails will the people’s power rule.”

LIVELY PARLIAMENT DEBATE

While little has changed physically on Myanmar’s rutted streets, the government has seen a dramatic transformation the past six months. Last August, President Thein Sein, a former junta leader, stunned lawmakers in the capital Naypyitaw, urging them to pursue reforms, adopt good governance and do the unthinkable: freely voice opinions.

Since then, hundreds of political prisoners have been freed. The government regularly engages with Suu Kyi. Parliament, dismissed as a rubber-stamping sham when it opened a year ago, began a third session last week with lively debate on a reform program that could lead the West to start lifting sanctions by mid-year.

Anti-corruption legislation is being drafted, along with bills ending the secrecy surrounding the national budget. A law is in the works that would overhaul a village administration system that has stacked election odds in favor of the dominant military-backed party. U.S. President Barack Obama has hailed Myanmar’s “flickers of progress.”

“We’re finally moving in the right direction,” said Sai Saung Si, 65, a lawmaker from northern Shan State and vice-chairman of the Shan Nationalities Development Party, a major ethnic party that won 18 seats in the lower house in 2010.

Each Sunday, he holds meetings in his home for villagers to raise issues. At first, people were afraid to speak up. But that’s changing, he said. “When I go back to my town and when there are problems, because of my status as a member of parliament, what I say takes effect. It is working,” he said.

He takes the most difficult problems directly to the relevant ministries. If they try to ignore him, he plays back the president’s words. “I tell them the president wants good governance. They generally don’t argue with that.”

CLOUD OF REPRESSION LIFTING

During Suu Kyi’s swing through Dawei, children in white and green school uniforms lined the streets waving and cheering. Under the junta, they would have been strictly barred from opposition events.

The usual retinue of undercover police did not trail her every move as they did on a July 5 visit to Bagan, north of Yangon, where some feared a reprise of the 2003 bloody attack on her motorcade in which 70 supporters were killed.

In Yangon this week, journalists, government officials and media executives both local and foreign met in a conference room to discuss changes to laws that for a half-century meant that every song, book, cartoon, news story and planned piece of art would require approval by teams of censors rooting out political messages and criticisms of Myanmar’s authoritarian system.

“Now we have a chance to change our policy,” U Than Htay, Minister of Energy, told Reuters in an interview in Naypyitaw. “Once we took office, we have changed many things to develop our nation than previously.” His first policy shift was to ban the export of natural gas from new fields in Myanmar, and use those resources to speed up development of local industry.


http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-rt-us-myanmar-suukyitre8100i7-20120131,0,2282220.story

19 comments

  • zarlay

    February 2, 2012 at 12:47 pm

    အောက်က မြန်မာဘာသာပြန်ပေးလိုက်တာ မဟုတ်ဘူး

  • kai

    February 4, 2012 at 2:27 am

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    BURMA RELATED NEWS – FEBRUARY 03, 2012
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    Reuters – Myanmar’s ambitious Dawei project faces uncertainty
    Reuters – Myanmar plans jump in health, education spending
    AFP – US decries ‘worsened’ Myanmar violence
    AFP – Michelle Yeoh says Suu Kyi role ‘lifetime opportunity’
    AFP – Suu Kyi ‘postpones major election rally’
    BigPond News – Aust may recognise Burma name change
    Asia News Network – US should reconsider Burma sanctions, says S’pore FM
    Asia News Network – Burma’s economic coming out
    The Malaysian Insider – The promise and peril of Myanmar’s economy — Simon Tay
    Asia Times Online – Lest we forget in Myanmar
    Evening Standard Magazine – Slow Burma
    People’s Daily – Myanmar to grant foreign companies to build overpass, subway
    The Independent – Burma back on the map: Tourism returns to South-east Asia’s forbidden land
    ArabNews – US urges monitoring of Myanmar by-elections
    The Economist – Myanmar and Singapore, Among friends
    The Irrawaddy – UN Envoy Visits Insein Prison, Meets Suu Kyi
    The Irrawaddy – NLD to Reopen Mandalay Offices
    The Irrawaddy – Burmese Banks Balk as Exchange Rates Rise
    Mizzima News – Kachin peace vigil at U.S. White House
    Mizzima News – ‘The process is neither smooth nor linear’
    Mizzima News – ZRO not offered peace talks
    DVB News – Attacks continue despite Karen ceasefire
    DVB News – Thai energy workers strike in Tavoy
    DVB News – Top Karen leader facing treason charge
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    Analysis – Myanmar’s ambitious Dawei project faces uncertainty
    By Jason Szep | Reuters – 6 hours ago

    DAWEI, Myanmar (Reuters) – Dusty roads and makeshift offices are the only hints of the ambitious $50 billion (31 billion pounds) project slated for the thick jungles near Myanmar’s southern city of Dawei, billed by its developers as the “new global gateway of Indo-China.”

    Big questions surround the far-reaching plans by Thailand’s largest construction firm, Italian-Thai Development Pcl, to transform 250 sq kms (97 sq miles) of scrubland in southern Myanmar into Southeast Asia’s largest industrial complex.

    “There is very little activity around here related to this project. A lot of us wonder if they are really confident enough about it to go forward with it,” said Kyaw Naing Oo, 40, a trader in Maungmakan, whose white-sand beaches would border the project.

    That comment is echoed by other villagers, industry analysts and even the government.

    In a country where a third of the 60 million people live on less than one U.S. dollar a day, Dawei is striking in its scale and ambition.

    Super-highways, steel mills, power plants, shipyards, refineries, pulp and paper mills and a petrochemical complex are part of it, as are two golf courses and a holiday resort – all strategically nestled in Southeast Asia between rising powers India and China.

    But just over a year since the former military junta signed a deal to create Myanmar’s first and biggest special economic zone (SEZ) at Dawei, the project has made little headway, despite the dramatic political reforms sweeping the country and the prospect of a gradual lifting in Western sanctions as the former British colony emerges from half a century of isolation.

    Italian-Thai has yet to secure $8.5 billion to finance construction of its first phase — roads, a telecoms network, utilities and a port — after building a dirt road of more than 100 km (62 miles) to neighbouring Thailand. Its executives hope to find a strategic partner by year-end and plan to present the project to potential investors in South Korea this month.

    Myanmar Energy Minister Than Htay told Reuters last week that at least two other SEZs would be developed more quickly than Dawei: the Thilawa project near the commercial capital, Yangon, and Kyaukphyu, where the China-Myanmar pipeline starts and a deep-sea port is nearly finished.

    “It is faster than the Dawei zone,” he said of Kyaukphyu. “Now we are considering supplying the electricity at Kyaukphyu area,” he said.

    Securing a stable source of electricity has been at the heart of Dawei’s problems since the government abruptly halted construction of a 4,000 megawatt coal-fired power plant in the area on January 10, citing environmental concerns.

    ENERGY SUPPLY “NOT SURE”

    Somchet Thinaphong, managing director of Dawei Development Co Ltd, controlled by Italian-Thai, told Reuters on January 23 that its power plant partner, Ratchaburi Electricity Generating Holding Pcl, would decide on a fuel type within three months, including the possible use of natural gas funnelled to the site via a 50 kms (31 mile) pipeline from fields within Myanmar.

    But Than Htay ruled out using natural gas to fuel Dawei.

    “Up to now the electric power supply for that project is not sure,” he said of Dawei.

    In a country beset by chronic electrical outages, powering even a home can be difficult, let alone an industrial zone. Blackouts are common across the country, even at Yangon’s international airport.

    That puts pressure on Ratchaburi, whose involvement is limited to a feasibility study as “a preliminary step,” it said in a November 16 statement.

    Than Htay stressed other ministries would decide Dawei’s future, not his. But he offered his personal view of what the government will do: “My guess is sell out, according to the contract made by the previous government.”

    Italian-Thai , which signed a 60-year concession to develop Dawei 14 months ago, has brushed aside those comments. Somchet of Dawei Development Co insists the project will go ahead. “It’s at the point of no return. They can say whatever they want but the final decision will depend on the special committee chaired by Myanmar’s president,” Somchet told Reuters on January 27.

    He has a powerful local partner. A quarter of Dawei Development is held by Max Myanmar Group, owned by Burmese tycoon Zaw Zaw, whose close ties to the government put him on the U.S. targeted sanctions list in 2009.

    A November 15, 2007 U.S. diplomatic cable described Zaw Zaw as an “up and coming crony.” Today he is one of Myanmar’s most influential businessmen.

    Thailand’s top lender, Bangkok Bank, is advising on the power project and Siam Commercial Bank on the whole project.

    Companies that Italian-Thai has identified as possible investors include Malaysia’s Petroliam Nasional Bhd, Japan’s Mitsubishi Corp, Mitsui & Co and Sumitomo Corp, and South Korea’s POSCO.

    Japanese Trade and Economy Minister Yukio Edano discussed the project with the Myanmar and Thai governments when he visited both countries last month.

    “This project is huge and is getting a lot of interest from foreign investors,” said Somchet, who personally met Edano and sees Dawei as a possible location for Japanese firms to build parts for use at car manufacturing plants in Thailand, as well as a low-cost location for industrial production for Thai companies.

    He expects much of the infrastructure, including a proper road to Thailand, to be completed within three years, creating a stable route for cargo sent to Dawei from the Middle East and Africa for shipping to Bangkok and beyond in Southeast Asia, bypassing the congested Strait of Malacca.

    “CLOUDED WITH RISKS”

    Brokers appear less sure.

    In a recent note to clients, Singapore stock brokerage DBS Vickers Securities highlighted the risks.

    “Despite potential to bring economic prosperity to Burma, the project is still in its infancy and clouded with risks,” it said. “The sudden call to halt the 4,000 megawatt coal-fired power plant project would make it difficult for Italian-Thai to secure strategic partners to help fund the project.”

    It described Dawei Development Co’s plans to sell land in the area to raise funds for the project as “optimistic” and stressed that without strategic partners and firm funding, Dawei Development would remain a drag on Italian-Thai’s earnings this year.

    In the year to date, Italian-Thai shares have underperformed those of its peers and the overall market due to uncertainty over the Myanmar project. The stock has risen just 0.1 percent in the past 12 months.

    Italian-Thai has an “Analyst Revision Score” of 14 under a model by earnings-tracker StarMine which ranks stocks according to changes in analyst sentiment, with 100 representing the highest rank.

    Kanit Sangsubhan, director of the Thai Finance Ministry’s Economic and Financial Research Institute, told Reuters Dawei would need heavy government involvement or state enterprises to co-invest.

    Whether that will happen is unclear. Than Htay of Myanmar’s Energy Ministry said the government wanted to promote more private involvement. “Regarding the petroleum refineries or the downstream plants, now most of the plans will be taken charge of by the private sector. Up to now, I have no plan to participate in that area because I need to mind existing jobs.”

    PTT Exploration and Production Pcl, Thailand’s top state-controlled oil and gas explorer, has shown little interest in the project, and neither has its parent, PTT Plc, Thailand’s biggest company.

    “It is still very early days on Dawei,” said Sean Turnell, an expert on Myanmar’s economy at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. “They are better off having a special economic zone near Yangon. Dawei mainly benefits Thailand. There are not a lot of benefits to Burma from that one.”

    IN DAWEI, MIXED VIEWS

    In Dawei itself, views of the project are mixed.

    Some such as Hsan Htoo, a 25-year-old high school dropout working on a fishing trawler, hope it can bring jobs to the impoverished area, where many live in thatched-roof huts and many young people have left to work in neighbouring Thailand.

    “I heard that Dawei will create job opportunities for many local people. That would be very good. It would mean that we wouldn’t have to leave our homes and work in other countries,” he said.

    Others worry about the potential environmental toll and health risks from a project that would be four times bigger than Thailand’s largest industrial estate, Map Ta Phut, where pollution between 1996 and 2009 may have contributed to at least 2,000 cancer-related deaths, according to environmental activists who sought legal action to halt the estate in 2009.

    “It is just not worth it,” said Sein Win Aung, a 34-year-old private taxi owner who came out to listen to opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi address a crowd of thousands in Dawei on Sunday. “We hear about the problems at the industrial estate in Thailand. We don’t want those problems here.”

    Some activists visited Map Ta Phut to see the impact first-hand.

    In a sign of dramatic change in Myanmar, a village advocacy group has been formed to oppose the project. The Dawei Development Group has raised concern that as many as 32,000 people would be displaced in a region known for its pristine coast, groves of coconut palms and plantations of cashews, mango and rubber.

    Such groups would have been quickly shut down, their leaders arrested, during the half-century of military rule that ended last March when a nominally civilian government took office.

    Instead, they are now becoming more organised, emboldened by the government’s surprise suspension of the $3.6 billion, Chinese-led Myitsone dam project on September 30 following weeks of public outcry.

    “What we want is for the project to be done with transparency. It may ultimately go ahead, but we want to make sure it is done by the rule of law and that environmental assessment studies are carried out,” said one senior activist in Yangon who has worked closely with the Dawei Development Group.

    But Dawei is an economic lifeline for villagers such as Win Aung, a 34-year-old driver for Italian-Thai, one of about 200 of the company’s workers in Dawei. He used to work in Thailand, but hated it. He chafed at living away from his family. “I didn’t enjoying working there at all. Most of my friends don’t enjoy their jobs either but most people have no other choice.”

    He said the project was going ahead, and expects it will eventually transform the isthmus that separates the Andaman Sea from the Gulf of Thailand, strengthening Myanmar’s relationship with India, China and Southeast Asia by linking them together in trade.

    Bulldozers were clearing land, he said. Buildings for offices and staff quarters were being built, but no major construction had begun. Many villagers need to be relocated.
    Italian-Thai is buying land from the locals but has yet to complete new homes where they would live, he said.

    He remained optimistic about what it would mean for villagers like him. “It will create many, many job opportunities for local people,” he said.
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  • kai

    February 7, 2012 at 2:50 am

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/obama-authorizes-us-sanctions-waiver-for-myanmar-to-ease-restrictions-on-multilateral-aid/2012/02/06/gIQAjC5QuQ_story.html

    Obama authorizes US sanctions waiver for Myanmar to ease restrictions on multilateral aid

    By Associated Press, Updated: Monday, February 6, 10:58 AM

    WASHINGTON — The U.S. is easing one of its many sanctions against Myanmar as a reward for political reforms after five decades of direct military rule.

    The step is very limited, and most of the tough U.S. economic, trade and political restrictions will remain in place.
    But it could make it easier for Myanmar to secure help from the World Bank and other international financial institutions by lifting U.S. opposition to them conducting assessments.

    Under human trafficking legislation, the U.S. must oppose these institutions using their money to help Myanmar. State Hillary Rodham Clinton is expected to sign the waiver Monday.

    President Barack Obama authorized the move Friday.

    Other U.S. sanctions still oppose the institutions giving loans or technical assistance.

    Copyright 2012 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed

  • TTNU

    February 7, 2012 at 11:33 am

    Kai,
    Thanks for this one.
    It might be in jeopardy as a result of translation, so I just copied.
    But for your help, we would have been wandering blindfolded.
    Thank you again. 🙂

  • kai

    February 10, 2012 at 2:47 pm

    အာဏာရှင်ဟောင်း ဦးနေဝင်း၏ တော်လှန်ရေးကောင်စီလက်ထက် မိုင်းခွဲဖျက်ဆီးခံခဲ့ရသည့် ရန်ကုန် တက္ကသိုလ် ကျောင်း ဝင်းအတွင်းရှိ ကျောင်းသားသမဂ္ဂ အဆောက်

    ဖြိုခွဲ ဖျက်ဆီးခံခဲ့ရသည့် ရန်ကုန် တက္ကသိုလ်ဝင်းအတွင်းရှိ ကျောင်းသား သမဂ္ဂ အဆောက်အအုံ

    အအုံကို ပြန်လည်ဆောက်လုပ်ပေးရန် လိုအပ်ကြောင်း ၈၈ မျိုးဆက် ကျောင်း သားခေါင်းဆောင် ကိုမင်းကိုနိုင် က ပြောကြား လိုက်သည်။

    “အခု ဒီမိုကရေစီဖော်ဆောင်နေတဲ့ ခေတ်မှာ ပြည်သူ့လွှတ်တော်၊ အမျိုးသားလွှတ်တော်တွေ ပေါ်ပေါက်နေပြီပဲဗျာ၊ ကျောင်း သား လွှတ်တော်ဖြစ်တဲ့ ကျောင်းသားသမဂ္ဂ ဆိုတာရှိရမယ်။ ကျောင်းသားသမဂ္ဂဆိုတာက အဆောက်အအုံနဲ့ ရုံးခန်းနဲ့ ကျောင်း သားထုအပေါ်ကို အကာအကွယ်ပေးဖို့ သဘောပဲ”ဟု ကိုမင်းကိုနိုင်က ဧရာဝတီကို ပြောသည်။

    ယမန်နေ့က မျိုးဆက် အဆက်ဆက် ကျောင်းသားဟောင်းများ မိတ်ဆုံပွဲကို တောင်ဥက္ကလာပမြို့နယ်ရှိ စိတ်တိုင်းကျ လက် ဖက်ရည်ဆိုင်၌ ကျင်းပသည့် အခမ်းအနားတွင် ကိုမင်းကိုနိုင်က ပြောကြားခြင်းဖြစ်သည်။

    မိတ်ဆုံပွဲသို့ ၁၉၆၂ ခုနှစ် ကျောင်းသားမျိုးဆက်များမှ အစပြုကာ ၁၉၇၄၊ ၁၉၇၅၊ ၁၉၇၆၊ ၁၉၈၈၊ ၂၀၀ရ ခုနှစ် အထိ ကျောင်း သားမျိုးဆက်များ တက်ရောက်ခဲ့သည်။

    ယခုကဲ့သို့ ကျောင်းသားမျိုးဆက် စုံလင်စွာတွေ့ဆုံမှုသည် နှစ်ပေါင်း ၅ဝ ကျော် ကာလအတွင် ပထမဆုံးဖြစ်သည်။

    ကိုမင်းကိုနိုင်က သမဂ္ဂ ဒေါင်း အလံ လက်ဆင့်ကမ်းမှု သင်္ကေတ ဖြစ်ကြောင်း ဆက်ပြောလိုက်ပြီး မြန်မာ့လွတ်လပ်ရေး သမိုင်းသည် ကျောင်းသားလှုပ်ရှားမှုနှင့် စတင်ခဲ့ကြောင်း၊ လွတ်လပ်ရေး ကြိုးပမ်းခဲ့သည့် ကျောင်း သား ခေါင်းဆောင်များက ကျောင်းသားသမဂ္ဂ အဆောက်အအုံ၌ လွတ်လပ်ရေးအတွက် အခြေတည်ခဲ့သောကြောင့် သမိုင်း တန်ဖိုး ကြီးမား၍ လည်းကောင်း၊ ဒီမိုကရေစီဖော်ဆောင်ချိန်ဖြစ်သည့် အချက်တို့ကြောင့်လည်းကောင်း ကျောင်းသားသမဂ္ဂ အဆောက် အအုံ ကို ပြန်လည်ဆောက် လုပ်ပေးရန် လိုအပ်သည်ဟုလည်း ဆိုသည်။

    ၁၉၆၂ ခုနှစ် ဇူလိုင်လ ရ ရက်က ရန်ကုန် တက္ကသိုလ်ကျောင်းသားများသည် ဖိနှိပ် ချုပ်ချယ်သည့် ကျောင်းစည်းကမ်းများ ရုပ် သိမ်းရေးအတွက် ကျောင်းသားသမဂ္ဂ အဆောက်အအုံ၌ စည်းဝေး ဆုံးဖြတ်၍ ကျောင်းဝင်းအတွင်း လှည့်လည် ဆန္ဒပြခဲ့ကြ သည်။

    ထိုသို့ကျောင်းသားများ ဆန္ဒပြမှုကို ဗိုလ်ချုပ်ကြီး နေဝင်း တော်လှန်ရေးကောင်စီအစိုးရက အကြမ်းဖက်ဖြိုခွဲ နှိမ်နင်းခဲ့ရာ ၁ဝ ဦးထက် မနည်း သေဆုံး၍ ဒဏ်ရာရသူ ၅ဝ နီးပါးရှိခဲ့ပြီး ကျောင်းသားများစွာ ဖမ်းဆီး ထောင်ချခံခဲ့ရသည့် မှတ်တမ်းများ ရှိခဲ့ သည်။

    နောက်တနေ့ ဇူလိုင် ၈ ရက် နံနက်စောစောတွင် ကျောင်းသားသမဂ္ဂ အဆောက် အအုံကို မိုင်းခွဲဖျက်ဆီးခဲ့သည်။ နောက်ပိုင်း ၌ ထိုကျောင်းသား အရေးအခင်းကို ဆဲဗင်း ဂျူလိုင် အရေးအခင်းဟု သတ်မှတ် ခေါ်ဆိုခဲ့ကြသည်။

    ထိုကိစ္စနှင့်ပတ်သက်၍ တော်လှန်ရေးကောင်စီ ဥက္ကဌ ဗိုလ်ချုပ်ကြီး ဦးနေဝင်း၊ ဒု ဥက္ကဌ ဗိုလ်မှူးချုပ်ဟောင်း ဦးအောင်ကြီး တို့အကြား ၁၉၈၈ ခုနှစ်ကလည်း လူသိရှင်ကြား အပြန်အလှန် အပြစ်တင်ခဲ့ကြဖူးသည်။

    ယမန်နေ့က မိတ်ဆုံပွဲ၌ ၁၉၆၂ ခုနှစ် ကျောင်းသားသမဂ္ဂ ခေါင်းဆောင် ဦးလှရွှေ ၊ ၈၈ မျိုးဆက် ခေါင်းဆောင် ကိုမင်းကိုနိုင်၊ ကိုကိုကြီး၊ ၇၄ မျိုး ဆက် ခေါင်းဆောင် ဦးလှစောတို့က အသီးသီး အမှာစကားများ ပြောကြားခဲ့ကြသည်။

    ၆၂ မျိုးဆက်ခေါင်းဆောင် ဦးလှရွှေက“ သမဂ္ဂ ဒေါင်းအလံကို အသက်တွေ၊ ဘဝတွေ၊ မျက်ရည်တွေ ထုနဲ့ဒေး ပေးဆပ် ရင်း လက်ဆင့်ကမ်းလာကြတာ အခု ၈၈ မင်းကိုနိုင်တု့ိ၊ ကိုကိုကြီးတို့ကနေ နောက်ဆုံး ၂၀၀ရ မျိုးဆက်ထိပဲ။ အားလုံးဟာ တိုင်းပြည်အတွက် ပေးဆပ်ခဲ့၊ ပေးဆပ်ဆဲ လူတွေချည်းပါပဲ”ဟု ဧရာဝတီကို ပြောသည်။

    ကိုမင်းကိုနိုင်ကလည်း“ကျောင်းသားလှုပ်ရှားမှု သမိုင်းတွေက ဖုံးကွယ်ထားလို့မရဘူးဗျ။ အမှန်တရားဟာ ဘယ်လိုမှ တားမြစ်ပိတ်ပင်လို့ မရတဲ့အတွက် အချိန်တန်တော့ ကျောင်းသားတွေရဲ့ ရင်ဘတ်ထဲကို ရောက်လာတာပဲဗျ။ ၆၂ ဆဲဗင်း ဇူလိုင် ကျောင်းသား လှုပ်ရှား မှုတွေက စပြီး ၇၄၊ ၇၅၊ ၇၆ ကျောင်းသားလှုပ်ရှားမှုတွေဟာ ကျနော်တို့ ရင်ထဲကိုဝင်လာပြီးတော့ သွေးထဲကို မြစ်တစင်းလို စီးဆင်း လာတယ်။ အခုထိ ဒေါင်းအလံကို လက်ဆင့်ကမ်း သယ်လာလိုက်ကြတာ”ဟု ပြောသည်။

    ၈၈ မျိုးဆက် ခေါင်းဆောင် ကိုကိုကြီး၊ ၇၄ မျိုးဆက် ဦးလှစောတို့ကလည်း ကျောင်းသားသမိုင်း ဆိုင်ရာများကို အသီးသီးပြော ဆိုခဲ့ကြပြီး မျိုးဆက်သစ်တို့၏ ကြိုးစားလှုပ်ရှားမှုများ အတွက် ဂုဏ်ပြု ပြောဆိုခဲ့ကြသည်ဟုလည်း သိရသည်။

    http://burma.irrawaddy.org/archives/5902

  • kai

    February 10, 2012 at 2:47 pm

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    BURMA RELATED NEWS – FEBRUARY 09, 2012
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    AFP – Clinton meets freed Myanmar activists
    AFP – First EU official off to Myanmar ahead of polls
    Reuters – Thai hotelier Central Plaza sees 2012 profit up 50 pct, eyes Myanmar
    Europe Online Magazine – EU gives more aid to Myanmar, might scrap sanctions in April
    Asia Times Online – The master plan for Myanmar
    AsiaOne – Aung San Suu Kyi wants to see Myanmar surpass Asean members
    Sydney Morning Herald – Don’t rush to Burma, firms told
    Brisbane Times – Suu Kyi cites graft in urging business caution
    Channel NewsAsia – S’pore delegates to explore business opportunities in Myanmar
    Business Wire – Research and Markets: 3Q11 Myanmar Mobile Operator Forecast, 2011 – 2015
    Sin Chew Jit Poh – Myanmar changes not like Arab Spring: state media
    Bangkok Post – Mekong river patrol: China, Thailand, Laos, Myanmar
    The Star – Nazir: Myanmar is an integral part of Asean
    GlobalPost – Is Burma seeking a role in US war games?
    BusinessWeek – Singapore Seeks First Mover Status in Myanmar After Reforms
    Bernama – Myanmar’s Defence Chief Meets Visiting Malaysian Counterpart
    Wall Street Journal (blog) – Too Bad, Burma: Big Bank Loans Unlikely Anytime Soon
    eTurboNews – E-visas arrive to Myanmar and probably to Vietnam
    msnbc.com (blog) – Up to 10,000 Myanmar refugees seek refuge in China
    The Irrawaddy – ABSDF Holds Peace Talks with Govt
    The Irrawaddy – KNU Divided Over Peace Treaty
    The Irrawaddy – Dying Behind Bars
    Mizzima News – Shwe Mann delivers reformist-style speech
    Mizzima News – Banks increase interest rate by 2 per cent
    Mizzima News – Healthy jump in Burma’s foreign trade
    DVB News – Burma pledges full release of dissidents
    DVB News – After a decade ban, Mon revel in Rangoon
    DVB News – Trouble brews as Burma turns to world markets
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  • စိန်ပေါက်ပေါက်

    February 10, 2012 at 4:29 pm

    http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-yxEID555utc/TzTaNIW4LMI/AAAAAAAAMhY/EXK2RkWC9ZE/s400/405699_296481540413487_103865773008399_803459_2053766345_n.jpg

    http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-x-kXo5jfkvQ/TzTaMwpbZWI/AAAAAAAAMhQ/RWm0pW557rk/s400/422218_296481570413484_103865773008399_803460_1821787561_n.jpg

    ရွှေဝါရာင်တော်လှန်ရေး ( ၂၀၀ရ စက်တင်ဘာ အရေးအခင်း) အပြီးပိတ်ထားခဲ့သော မဂ္ဂင်ကျောင်းတိုက်ကို ယနေ့ (ဖေဖော်ဝါရီ-၁၀)မွန်းလွှဲ ၁ နာရီတွင် ရန်ကုန်တိုင်းဒေသကြီးအစိုးရ၊ လူမှုဖူလုံရေးဝန်ကြီး ဒေါက်တာမြင့်သိန်းနှင့် သက်ဆိုင်ရာဌာနမှ တာဝန်ရှိသူများက တရားဝင်ပြန်ဖွင့်ပေးခဲ့သည်။ထိုကျောင်းတိုက် မှ ကျောင်းထိုင်ဆရာတော်ဦးက္ကန္ဒက၊ဦးက္ကုဿရိယတို့နှစ်ပါးမှာထောင်မှ ဇန်နဝါရီ ၁၃ ရက်တွင် လွတ်မြောက်လာပြီး ခေတ္တ သီတင်းသုံးခဲ့ရာ၊ သက်ဆိုင်ရာက ဖေဖော်ဝါရီ ၄ ရက်တွင် ပြန်ပိတ်ခဲ့ပြီး ယခုတရားဝင်ဖွင့်ခွင့်ပြုခြင်းဖြစ်သည်။ ထိုကျောင်းတိုက်အတွင်း ဆရာတော်သုံးပါး၊ ကိုရင် တစ်ပါး သီတင်းသုံးနေသည်။ ကျောင်းတိုက်ကို ပြန်လည်ဖွင့်လှစ်ပြီးနောက် တွေ့ရစဉ်။

    ဓာတ်ပုံ- စောပြည့်စုံ

    သတင်း…7Day News Journal’s
    Src:http://myatlayngon.blogspot.com/2012/02/blog-post_3901.html

  • kai

    February 12, 2012 at 12:45 pm

    Whitney Houston, pop titan, dies at 48
    The singer is found unresponsive at the Beverly Hilton hours before Clive Davis’ annual pre-Grammy Awards party. Once a ruler of the pop charts, Houston had seen addiction take a toll on her success.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9nPf7w7pDI

    • inz@ghi

      February 12, 2012 at 4:02 pm

      အာ ..စိတ်မကောင်းထှာဗျာ ….
      ရင်ထဲမချိလော့ဝူး….

      သများက အသည်းမမာဝူးရယ်…

  • padonmar

    February 12, 2012 at 10:09 pm

    Obama authorizes US sanctions waiver for Myanmar to ease restrictions on multilateral aid.

    အိုဘားမား က sanction လျှော့ပေးမှာ သူကြီးရဲ့ poll ကြောင့်များလား။
    အိုဘာကြောင့်ဖြစ်ဖြစ် ကြိုဆိုပါတယ်။
    တစထက်တစ ပိုပြီး လျှော့ပေးနိုင်တဲ့ အခြေအနေတွေ ပေါ်ပေါက်လာပါစေ။
    သူများတိုင်းပြည်တွေနဲ့ တန်းတူ ဘယ်တိုင်းပြည်ကိုမဆို ကိုယ့်ထွက်ကုန်တွေ တင်ပို့နိုင်တဲ့၊ ကိုယ့်တိုင်းပြည်က လိုတာတွေ ကြားမခံပဲ ဝယ်သုံးနိုင်တဲ့၊ ခရီးသွားရင် Visa လျှောက်စရာ မလိုတဲ့ တိုင်းပြည်အဖြစ် အမြန်ဆုံးရောက်ပါစေ။

    • kai

      February 14, 2012 at 2:11 am

      အခုထွက်မဲ့.. သတင်းစာမှာ.. အမေရိကအစိုးရ အရာရှိ.. ပါမောက္ခ ဒေါ်မီမီဝင်း
      http://www.apcss.org/college/faculty/byrd/
      နဲ့အင်တာဗျုးထားတယ်..။
      ဆန်ရှင်အကြောင်းပါတယ်..။ 🙂

  • kai

    February 14, 2012 at 2:08 am

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    BURMA RELATED NEWS – FEBRUARY 13, 2012
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    AFP – Myanmar promises EU to hold fair vote
    AFP – Myanmar’s First Budget In Decades
    Reuters – Myanmar by-elections vital for EU sanctions move: official
    Straits Times – UN gives Suu Kyi non-violence prize awarded in 2002
    UPI – More praise heaped on Myanmar
    BBC News – EU announces $200m Burma infrastructure package
    Channel NewsAsia – Yoma Strategic eyes growth in Myanmar
    The Edge Singapore – Yoma buys 70% in Myanmar site, reports Q3 profit
    Deutsche Welle – Change in Myanmar: Opposition gaining ground
    Asia News Network – Thailand sees big potential for Burma
    The Nation – Opinion: A new era of the Asean-Burma family saga
    Europe Online Magazine – EU development commissioner mulls lifting sanctions on Myanmar
    Bernama – Myanmar Man Gets 23 Years, Four Strokes For Immigration, People Smuggling Offences
    New Kerala – Thai company to explore oil in Myanmar
    New Kerala – Myanmar foreign trade to grow by 30 percent
    Department of Foreign Affairs – Secretary Del Rosario Meets Filipino Community in Myanmar
    Asia Sentinel – Tensions between Myanmar’s Hardliners and Liberals
    Medical News Today – First Direct Evidence Of Effect Of Malaria On Fetal Growth
    TwoCircles.net – Myanmar foreign trade to grow by 30 percent
    Aljazeera – Ending Myanmar’s civil war
    The Irrawaddy – No Breakthrough in Strike Talks
    The Irrawaddy – EDITORIAL: Burma’s Trust Deficit
    The Irrawaddy – NDF Feeling Vindicated by NLD About-turn
    Mizzima News – Latecomer Burma potential ‘economic power house’
    Mizzima News – Now is time to invest in health, education: Nambiar
    Mizzima News – Dunkley talks about his arrest, changes in Burma
    DVB News – ASEAN chief warns of reform ‘exploitation’
    DVB News – Student army latest to join peace talks
    DVB News – As confidence grows, the regime’s vice-like grip loosens
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  • nozomi

    February 15, 2012 at 10:15 am

    သူကြီး – မြန်မာနဲ့ ပတ်သက်တဲ့ သတင်းတိုလေး ရေးဘို့ ဒီပို့စ် ကို မနဲလိုက်ရှာနေရတယ်
    ဟိုးအရင်လို အပေါ်မှာ ထားရင် ကောင်းမယ်ထင်တယ်
    ပို့စ် အသစ်လဲ မတင်ချင် ၊ ဖိုရမ် မှာ မရေးချင်ဆို ဒီ ပို့စ် ( လအလိုက်) အောက်မှာ ကွန်မန့်အနေနဲ့ ရေးရတာ ပို အဆင်ပြေတယ်

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  • kai

    February 23, 2012 at 2:47 am

    “It’s right between China and India, 60 million people, massive natural resources, agriculture,” Singapore-based Rogers said at the gathering organized by New York-based INTL FCStone Inc. “You could feed much of Asia, they have metals, they have energy, they have everything.”

    China’s Deng introduced capitalist reforms in the late 1970s, lifting more than 200 million people out of poverty and transforming the nation into the world’s second-largest economy and its biggest consumer of steel, copper and coal.
    http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-02-22/investor-rogers-compares-myanmar-reforms-to-china-s-opening.html

  • နှူးဘာဂိုဏ်းချုပ်

    February 23, 2012 at 7:06 am

    ဟောဒါလေးကို
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    ဆေဲးဇိုးဂယော က လူတချို့ တွေ့ရမယ်ထင့် …
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  • kai

    February 28, 2012 at 10:38 am

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    BURMA RELATED NEWS – FEBRUARY 26-27, 2012
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    AFP – Myanmar inks peace pact with Mon rebels: media
    Reuters – GE Healthcare to sell products in Myanmar
    Reuters – INTERVIEW: Toyo-Thai prepares for Myanmar, sees higher profit
    Asia Times Online – Myanmar military in the money
    Asian Correspondent – Why does the Burmese army act against the country’s peace plans?
    Asian Tribune – Burmese Army (Tatmadaw) is Anathema to Democracy & Union
    Asian Tribune – ‘The Glass Palace’ as a Mirror of Myanmar
    UPI – Beijing cautions India over border issues
    Bangkok Post – Will myanmar’s reforms be enough for washington ?
    Bangkok Post – Govt to back Myanmar at UN summit
    The Observer – Burma awakes to glasnost: a (partly) free press and (some) freedom of expression
    The Manila Times – Myanmar’s exiled media lured back home by reform
    Europe Online Magazine – Norway tops travel wish list for Myanmar’s Nobel laureate
    IRIN – MYANMAR: Humanitarian cost of economic development
    The Copenhagen Post – Stateless immigrants to be granted rights
    EurekAlert! – A study analyzes the causes of the trafficking of women in China
    Philippine Star – ASEAN economic ministers meet in Myanmar to push for community building
    The Financial Times – Helping Myanmar
    TwoCircles.net – First Myanmar-India car rally in March
    The Irrawaddy – Suu Kyi Tourism on the Burma Itinerary
    The Irrawaddy – Japan’s Yen to Lend Returns Amid Burma Reforms
    The Irrawaddy – Asean Meets in Naypyidaw for Economy Summit
    Mizzima News – Bauk Ja receives U.S. award
    Mizzima News – Whistle blowers against sexual harassment
    Mizzima News – Only 10 per cent of NLD membership applications returned
    DVB News – Myitsone evictees begin returning home
    DVB News – Shan party eyes return to politics
    DVB News – DVB chief arrives in Burma
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    BURMA RELATED NEWS – FEBRUARY 25, 2012
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    AFP – US urges Myanmar to lift ex-prisoners’ restrictions
    ABC News – US Holds Talks in Myanmar on Recovery of Soldiers
    VOA News – UN Envoy Urges Lifting of Burma Sanctions
    UN News Centre – Myanmar must focus on long-standing challenges to gain stability – UN
    Bangkok Post – Asean chief says Thailand must change
    The Nation – Aid for fire-hit Burmese refugees
    The Times of India – Incarcerated Myanmarese family likely to be released soon
    Film Journal – Film Review: They Call It Myanmar: Lifting the Curtain
    WFMZ Eastern Pennsylvania and Western New Jersey – College helps Burmese woman share story of torture, imprisonment
    AsiaNews.it – Human Rights Watch: Burma’s military regime as “violent as ever”
    Thai News Agency MCOT – Fire at Myanmar border camp not arson: Thai official
    Wall Street Journal – Myanmar, All Mine
    The Irrawaddy – School’s Not Out in Kachin State
    The Irrawaddy – Burma Business Roundup (Saturday, February 25)
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    BURMA RELATED NEWS – FEBRUARY 24, 2012
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    Reuters – In Myanmar’s Kachin hills, Suu Kyi stirs hopes of peace
    AFP – Freed Myanmar blogger pushes ‘people’s voice’
    AP – China calls on Myanmar to ensure border security
    AP – Britain’s Hague says Myanmar needs more reforms
    Scoop – Myanmar: Demand Open Trial, Retrial And Dropping Of Contempt
    IRIN – MYANMAR: “Urgent” need for HIV treatment
    Sin Chew Jit Poh – Rights group presses Myanmar on prisoners
    VOA News – ASEAN Secretary-General Assesses Burma’s Reforms
    NPR – Politics In Myanmar Reverberate In Upstate NY
    Asian Correspondent – Suu Kyi campaigns for peace in north Burma visit
    Monsters and Critics – Myanmar has far to go in summit preparations, ASEAN says
    Bernama – Mayanmar Refugees Not Eligible For 6P Programme
    Xinhua – China to cement cooperative partnership with Myanmar
    Xinhua – Top Chinese legislator vows to further parliamentary exchanges with Myanmar
    Huffington Post – The First Thing the U.S. Should Do In Myanmar
    Der Spiegel – Burma’s Punk Scene Fights Repression Underground
    World Socialist Web Site – US encourages Burma to distance itself from China
    Bangkok Post – Good neighbours, better business
    The Irrawaddy – Teenage Boys Tell of Forced Labor Horror
    The Irrawaddy – Asean Can Act as Burma’s Bridge to the World
    The Irrawaddy – Suu Kyi Delivers Message of Trust, Respect in Myitkyina
    Mizzima News – Ruili working conditions tough on Burmese women
    Mizzima News – No deaths in camp fire; donations needed
    Mizzima News – Suu Kyi draws large crowds in Kachin State
    DVB News – Troops die in renewed Shan fighting
    DVB News – Defectors boost Suu Kyi’s election bid
    DVB News – Female migrants see dark side of China’s border
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  • thu 062012

    August 19, 2012 at 3:20 pm

    Hi

    I found that a member asked same question in this forum some months ago.

    Pls use search box to find this questions with comments

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