MYANMAR, BURMA RELATED NEWS – JAN 2012
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BURMA RELATED NEWS – JANUARY 01-02, 2012
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Reuters – Myanmar cuts prison terms but no political amnesty
AP – Myanmar reduces sentences for many prisoners
AP – Gas prices rise 30 percent in Myanmar for new year
Asian Correspondent – Burma announces a false Amnesty for the third time
Asian Tribune – Burma’s sham Amnesty keeps prominent political prisoners behind bars
Channel NewsAsia – ASEAN welcomes US re-engagement in the region
Imphal Free Press – Talks with the Kachin and Mon Rebels in Myanmar: Strategy, Motives and Hurdles
Asian Tribune – Burma developing nuclear capabilities: Is US-Burma thaw connected to it?
Rediff – Myanmar, the US, China: Shifting sands
VOA News – In Burma, Visiting Dignitaries Line Up to Ride Crest of Change
icNewcastle – Evening Chronicle – Gosforth teen visits Aung San Suu Kyi in Burma
The Financial Times – Western investors target Burma
Stuff.co.nz – Burma a quietly glittering jewel
The Hindu – The great game in Myanmar
TODAYonline – Myanmar, Cambodia high-growth investments
Mizzima News – Gov’t human rights commission calls for amnesty
DVB News – Nay Win Maung dies of heart attack
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ငပေါက်ဖော်
January 3, 2012 at 4:11 pm
နေ့လည်ပိုင်းအထိ လွတ်မြောက်လာသည့် နိုင်ငံရေးအကျဉ်းသား စာရင်း
by ဆုံစည်းရာ-http://soneseayar.blogspot.com/2012/01/blog-post_8598.html
ယနေ့ နံနက်ပိုင်း မြန်မာစံတော်ချိန် ၁၂ နာရီ အချိန်အထိ နိုင်ငံရေး အကျဉ်းသား စာရင်း
အင်းစိန်ထောင်မှ
(၁) ဦးကြည်သန်း(၈၈)
(၂) စောဆေးကလယ်၊
(၃) ဂျေသန့်၊
(၄) ကိုသန်းနိုင်ဦး (ခ) အစစ်(NLD)
ပုသိမ်ထောင်မှ
(၁) ဦးအောင်တိုးဝေ
(၂) ကိုအောင်ထွန်း
စစ်တွေထောင်
(၁) ဦးနေမိုးအောင်
ပူတာအိုထောင်မှ
(၁) ဦးရဲမြင့် (ခ) ဆရာရဲ
မြိတ်ထောင်
(၁) ဦးရဲညွန့်
ပြည်ထောင်
(၁) ကိုအောင်ကျော် (သင်္ဃန်းကျွန်း NLD)
သရက်ထောင်မှ
၂၀၀၃ ပခုက္ကူအရေးအခင်းနှင့် ၂၀၀ရ သံဃာ့အရေးအခင်းများတွင် အကျဉ်းကျခံနေရသူများ ပါဝင်ကြောင်း သိရပါတယ်။
ယခုအချိန်အထိ (မြန်မာစံတော်ချိန် ၁၂ နာရီ မိနစ် ၃၀) နိုင်ငံရေးအကျဉ်းသား လွတ်မြောက်မှု မရှိသေးသော ထောင်များ
– မြစ်ကြီးနားထောင်
– ဟင်္သတထောင်
– မန္တလေး အိုးဘိုထောင်
– ကျောက်ဖြူထောင်
– သာယာဝတီထောင်
– ဘူးသီးတောင်ထောင်
– တောင်ငူထောင်
– ကလေးထောင်
– ဘားအံထောင်
(ယနေ့နံနက် ၁ဝ နာရီခွဲအချိန်က ရန်ကုန် အင်းစိန်ထောင်ရှေ့တွင် အကျဉ်းသားမိသားစုများ စောင့်ဆိုင်းနေစဉ်….. ဓါတ်ပုံ – Messenger)
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kai
January 4, 2012 at 4:27 pm
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BURMA RELATED NEWS – JANUARY 03, 2012
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AFP – Disappointment at Myanmar prison term cuts
AP – Myanmar’s clemency falls short of expectations
UPI – Myanmar’s Insein jail overcrowded
BBC News – Burma releases 32 political prisoners in amnesty
Washington Post – Families of political prisoners call Myanmar’s clemency order a disappointment
Washington Post – Gas prices unexpectedly rise 30 percent in Myanmar, raising fears of inflation on other goods
The Nation – Saha Group, Thai President Foods mull power plant, noodle factory in Burma
The Nation – Burmese company to launch cheap mobile phone service
Manila Bulletin – Editorial: Independence Day of Myanmar Wednesday
Wall Street Journal (blog) – New Report Adds To Praise of Myanmar’s Government
The Diplomat – ASEAN Predictions for 2012
Contactmusic.com – Michelle Yeoh: Yeoh Planned To Smuggle Laptop To Suu Kyi
Mizzima News – Political prisoners’ tragedy captured in video
Mizzima News – Burma human rights commission says ‘dog cells’ not true
Mizzima News – Burmese human rights commission statement
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kai
January 5, 2012 at 1:46 am
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BURMA RELATED NEWS – JANUARY 04, 2012
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Reuters – Myanmar freed only 12 political prisoners, group says
Reuters – U.S. says Myanmar move on prison terms insufficient
Reuters – S’pore-listed Yoma shares jump on Myanmar expansion plan
AFP – Myanmar president reaffirms army role
AP – Myanmar’s president calls for national unity
Asian Correspondent – Burma follows previous junta’s policy to upgrade the military
UPI – Tough love for Myanmar on Independence Day
The Telegraph – William Hague to visit Burma to promote democratic reforms
PRI Public Radio International – Signs indicate that more political prisoners in Myanmar may be released
VOA News – Burmese Leaders Slow to Move on Much Needed Economic Reforms
IRIN – MYANMAR: Donor aid begins to flow
Xinhua – Myanmar to host five-country car rally
The New York Times – Girl Band Embraces Western Culture, on Burmese Terms
The Irrawaddy – Change Is Not Quick, Yet Suu Kyi Reaffirms Confidence in President
The Irrawaddy – Kachins in Fight to Defend Mountain Base
The Irrawaddy – EDITORIAL A Cruel Clemency
Mizzima News – Suu Kyi expected to announce candidacy soon
Mizzima News – Chin peace delegation meets with gov’t on Thursday
Mizzima News – Burmese Parliament to convene Jan. 26
DVB News – Burma ‘not yet independent’: 1948 veterans
DVB News – Despite UN access, Kachin state remains a crisis zone
DVB News – By-elections set for early April
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kai
January 6, 2012 at 4:03 am
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BURMA RELATED NEWS – JANUARY 05, 2012
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AP – Suu Kyi tells AP: Myanmar army could block reforms
AP – UK’s Hague arrives in Myanmar to urge reforms
AP – Myanmar approves Suu Kyi’s party for election
AFP – Suu Kyi predicts full democracy in Myanmar
Reuters – UK to respond positively to more Myanmar reforms
RTT News – UK Urges Myanmar To Free All Political Prisoners
The Guardian – Aung San Suu Kyi can rule Burma one day, says presidential aide
Monsters and Critics – Danish development minister to visit Myanmar
Monsters and Critics – Myanmar has released a total of 347 political prisoners, group says
BBC News – Investors eye resourceful Burma
BusinessWeek – Standard Chartered Seeks Myanmar Return, Sees Sanctions Ending
IBNLive.com – Army chief begins five-day visit to Myanmar
Thai News Agency MCOT – PTTEP contracts Myanmar petroleum concessions
Wall Street Journal (blog) – Happy Hanukkah in Myanmar
Asian Scientist Magazine – China, India And Myanmar Collaborate To Manage Brahmaputra-Salween Landscape
VOA News – Jailed Activists Mostly Left Out of Burma’s Latest Prisoner Amnesty
The Irrawaddy – Army Abuses, Murder Reported in Taungoo
The Irrawaddy – SSA-South Invited to Peace Talks in Naypyidaw
The Irrawaddy – Uncensored Films Finally See the Light of Day
Mizzima News – Art of Freedom film festival smash hit with audience
Mizzima News – Suu Kyi meets Soros, the billionaire
Mizzima News – Dawei project developers seek KNU cooperation
DVB News – George Soros to open first Burma office
DVB News – KNU demands survey of Tavoy road
DVB News – DVB reporter scoops Burma film prize
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kai
January 7, 2012 at 2:52 am
Immigration Waiver Process Change Will Keep Some Families Together
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Immigration Waiver Process Change Will Keep Some Families Together
OR Immigrant Rights Organization Applauds New Regulation for Stateside Processing of Family Unity Waivers and Calls on Administration to Extend Process to Legal Permanent Residents
Salem, Ore.–Today, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced a new regulation that will direct certain visa applicants to file their applications for family unity waivers within the U.S., to be adjudicated by a specially trained and designated team of professionals.
Currently, U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents face unnecessary and dangerous bureaucratic hurdles in obtaining lawful permanent resident status for their spouse or child. Those applying for a Visa would either need to return to their country of origin or apply for a waiver to be able to remain in the U.S. while completing the Visa process. Getting a waiver can take weeks, months or even over a year to be completed. Meanwhile, families are separated and spouses and children are forced to wait in potentially dangerous situations until a waiver decision is made.
The new procedures announced today will only apply to U.S. citizen spouses and children, who will still have to meet the burden of showing that a lengthy bar from the U.S. would cause their U.S. citizen spouse or parent “extreme hardship”. This welcome development will allow husbands, wives and children of U.S. citizens to remain united with their family members while awaiting a decision on their waiver.
“We applaud today’s announcement by DHS”, said Francisco Lopez, Executive Director of Causa, Oregon’s Immigrant Rights Organization. “This is a much needed change in the current flawed policy – making it one that favors keeping families together. For far too long, families were going through this process separated from one another, and often being placed in dangerous situations. Today’s announcement is another welcome step forward in moving toward a fair and humane immigration process. We look forward to the Obama Administration and Congress continuing to improve our immigration system for immigrants and families.”
The new regulation does not apply to lawful permanent residents, many whose spouses and children face the same obstacles and dangers when required to wait abroad for their waiver adjudications. Causa joins with leaders and organizations around the nation in calling on the Obama Administration to extend the process to legal permanent residents.
Francisco Lopez, Causa’s Executive Director will be available for interviews today. He can be reached at 503-269-5694 or at francisco@causaoregon.org
kai
January 10, 2012 at 1:23 am
2012 North American Car and Truck of the Year
Vehicles considered for car of the year include:
Audi A6
Audi A7
Buick Verano
Chevrolet Sonic
Chrysler 300/SRT-8
Fiat 500
Ford Focus
Hyundai Accent
Hyundai Elantra
Hyundai Veloster
Kia Rio/ Kia Rio5
Scion iQ
Subaru Impreza
Toyota Camry
Toyota Prius V
VW Beetle
VW Passat
Vehicles considered for truck of the year include:
BMW X3
Honda CR-V
Land Rover Range Rover Evoque
Mercedes-Benz M-Class
MINI Countryman
Nissan Quest
Saab 9-4X
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ကိုရီးယားကားတွေ သိသိသာသာတိုးဝင်လာကြောင်း.. 🙂
kai
January 10, 2012 at 1:37 am
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BURMA RELATED NEWS – JANUARY 07- 09, 2012
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AP – Australia eases sanctions against Myanmar
AP – Reports: Myanmar cancels planned coal power plant
AFP – Top US officials on Clinton ‘follow up’ in Myanmar
Reuters – Myanmar army chief visits Thailand, Dawei project in focus
Reuters – Asian firms in pole as Myanmar beckons
Asia Times Online – A decommissioned inquiry on Myanmar
The Nation – For the good of Burmese, Asean and Suu Kyi will have to work together
The Nation – PTTEP eyes LNG blocks with existing PTT deals
Bangkok Post – Stronger military ties with Burma
Bangkok Post – Dawei locals appeal to govt
Aliran – 60000 villagers flee Burma military assault
The Christian Post – Burma’s Christian Civilians Attacked During Christmas
IRIN – MYANMAR: High hopes for Karen peace talks
Bernama – More Armed Groups Expected To Sign Peace Agreements With Myanmar Government
NASDAQ – Volkswagen will have to reverse gears to sell in Burma (VLKAY, GM, F, VROM)
Washington Examiner – Burmese businesses bring a new flavor to Waterloo
China Daily – Support for Myanmar
Times of India – Antiques smuggled through Sunderbans
The Spectator – The Burma trail
The Irrawaddy – Adviser Denies Hinting Govt Role for Suu Kyi
The Irrawaddy – Further Hardships for Rangoon Warehouse Blast Victims
The Irrawaddy – Four Killed, 40 Injured in Bomb Blast at Karen Festival
Mizzima News – NLD reshuffles senior leadership
Mizzima News – 4,000-MW power plant project cancelled in Dawei
Mizzima News – Burma to call for offshore energy bids
DVB News – Shan army to hand over drugs
DVB News – NDF lines up candidates for April vote
DVB News – Britain balancing hope and scepticism in Burma
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LD ဆိုင်းဘုတ်တင်ပွဲ
ဒေါ်အောင်ဆန်းစုကြည် အစိုးရအဖွဲ့တွင်း ပါဝင်နိုင်ကြောင်း သမ္မတ အကြံပေး ပုဂိ္ဂုလ် ပြောဆို
နိုင်ငံရေး အကျဉ်းသားတွေကို ရည်စူးရိုက်ကူးခဲ့တဲ့ “ကြိုး” ဇာတ်ကား
နိုင်ငံရေးအကျဉ်းသား လွတ်မြောက်ရေး အရှိန်အဟုန်မြင့် ဆောင်ရွက်
တိုင်းရင်းသားခေါင်းဆောင်တွေ ကုလအတွင်းရေးမှူးချုပ်ထံ တောင်းဆိုစာပို့
NLD အမတ်လောင်းတွေ ရွေးနေပြီ
မြန်မာအပေါ် ဒဏ်ခတ် ပိတ်ဆို့မှုအချို့ ဩစတြေးလျ လျှော့ပေး
ထားဝယ်ဖွံ့ဖြိုးမှုအဖွဲ့ ပတ်ဝန်းကျင် ထိန်းသိမ်းရေး ထိုင်းဝန်ကြီးချုပ်ကို ပန်ကြား
ဟာဂျူလီ၏ အဟောင်းများ
ပြည်တွင်းစစ် ဘာလဲ ဘယ်လဲ (အပိုင်း ၅)
၃ဆောင်၊ ၆ခန်း
၃ဆောင်၊ ၆ခန်း (အပိုင်း ၂)
ပေးစာ – တရားပျက်ပြီ …
နိုင်ငံရေးအကျဉ်းသား မိသားစုဝင်များကို အားပေး
အနာဂတ်မဲ့ကလေးငယ်တွေရဲ့အိပ်မက်
ဘုရားသုံးဆူ ပေါက်ကွဲမှု ၄ ဦး သေဆုံး
ကဗြုတ်
“မယ်နု မာနကြီးသွားတယ် … ”
ဧရာဝတီအကြောင်း သီချင်းတပုဒ်
ချင်းဒေသ ငြိမ်းချမ်းရေး
နဂါးကြိုရန်ကုန်
တရုတ်မြန်မာနယ်စပ် နဲ့ လက်နက်မှောင်ခို
ဝန်ကြီးဦးကျော်ဆန်းတင်မည့် မီဒီယာဥပဒေကြမ်း ဒီမိုကရေစီနှင့်မညီပါက ကန့်ကွက်မည်ဟုဆို
ရေနံသူဌေးကြီးများ အကြောင်း
မီးရှို့အဆုံးစီရင် ဆန္ဒပြမှုကြောင့် တိဘက်ရဟန်းတစ်ပါး သေဆုံး
ယူရေနီယံသန့်စင် စက်ရုံသစ် ဖွင့်လှစ်ဖို့ အီရန်ကြေညာ
တောင်အာဖရိက ANC ပါတီ ရာပြည့်အခမ်းအနား ဆင်နွှဲ
အီရန်သမ္မတ လက်တင်အမေရိက လေးနိုင်ငံ ခရီးနှင်
အန်ဝါမှာ အပြစ်မရှိပါ
လီဗာပူးလ်နဲ့ မန်ယူ အက်ဖ်အေဖလား စတုတ္ထအကျော့မှာ ဆုံ
NLD unveils new sign at party headquarters
US Congressman Crowley to Visit Burma
A decommissioned inquiry on Myanmar
Australia eases Myanmar sanctions
Stronger military ties with Burma
Top US officials on Clinton ‘follow up’ in Myanmar
kai
January 11, 2012 at 3:45 am
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BURMA RELATED NEWS – JANUARY 10, 2012
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Brisbane Times – Opinion: In Burma, a general election really means the generals’ election
AP – Myanmar’s Suu Kyi confirms run for parliament seat
AFP – Myanmar cancels coal plant after opposition: official
Reuters – Jubilant to invest $80 million in Myanmar oil and gas block
CNN – U.S. officials to meet with Myanmar opposition leader
ABC Radio Australia – Australia accused of rewarding Burma too soon
Asian Correspondent – Power plants, dams and mind games in Burma
The Nation – Burmese army accused of ignoring president’s ceasefire order
The Malaysian Insider – Suu Kyi’s party seeks makeover to grab Myanmar’s youth
AsiaNews.it – Burmese exile predicts decades before nation is free of military’s clutches
Guardian Unlimited – In Burma’s villages, floods and power cuts mean more than reform
Xinhua – Myanmar vice president meets U.S. special envoy
Xinhua – ASEAN senior officials’ meeting kicks off in Cambodia
Policy Innovations – An Opportunity in Myanmar
IDSA – COMMENT: China’s Pipelines in Myanmar
The Republic – Preliminary hearing set for Myanmar refugee charged with murder in 7-year-old girl’s death
GMA News – PHL officials mark Rizal Day by honoring Myanmar author
Gulf News – Myanmar could be turning the corner
Radio New Zealand – NZ to look at relationship with Myanmar
The Daily Star, Bangladesh – Myanmar keen to increase trade: envoy
The Irrawaddy – KNU to Leave for Historic Pa-an Peace Talks
The Irrawaddy – No Ceasefire Until Kachin Fighting Stops: NMSP
The Irrawaddy – Burmese Abroad Welcome Tax Break, but More Reforms Needed
Mizzima News – Karen to hold peace ceremonies worldwide
Mizzima News – Wrong signal: Australia’s easing of sanctions
Mizzima News – More Burma-Thai border crossings likely to open
DVB News – Karen army denies deadly bombing
DVB News – US officials gauge post-Clinton progress
DVB News – Suu Kyi made party chief in lieu of vote
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kai
January 11, 2012 at 6:14 am
စစ်၂ခုပြီးမယ်ဟန်ပြင်သေး.. နောက်တခုလာဦးမလား…. မသိ..
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Breaking from Newsmax.com
Obama Ready to Strike Iran Nukes
No one should doubt that President Barack Obama is prepared to use military force to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon if sanctions and diplomacy fail, the president’s former special assistant on Iran said.
Obama has “made it very clear” that he regards a nuclear-armed Iran as so great a threat to international security that “the Iranians should never think that there’s a reluctance to use the force” to stop them, said Dennis Ross, who served two years on Obama’s National Security Council and a year as Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s special adviser on Iran.
kai
January 14, 2012 at 7:03 am
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BURMA RELATED NEWS – JANUARY 13, 2012
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AP – Myanmar frees many prominent political prisoners
AP – Senate GOP leader to visit Myanmar
AP – US to send ambassador to Myanmar, upgrading ties
CP – Myanmar frees many prominent political prisoners, step sought by West before lifting sanctions
Reuters – Myanmar frees more political prisoners
Reuters – Obama orders more steps to “build confidence” with Myanmar
AFP – Top US Senate Republican to visit Myanmar
Forbes – Myanmar Prisoner Releases, Peace Deal Could Unlock Western Aid
Committee to Protect Journalists – In mass amnesty, nine journalists released in Burma
Bloomberg – Myanmar Undertakes ‘Big’ Prisoner Release as Sanctions Reviewed
Monsters and Critics – ANALYSIS: Myanmar makes it harder to maintain sanctions
Financial Times (blog) – Myanmar banking: for the brave
New Straits Times – Nine Myanmar illegals held
The Guardian – Burma reforms leave many disorientated by pace of change
The Irrawaddy – Political Dissidents Released in Govt Amnesty
The Irrawaddy – Min Ko Naing Calls for Peace in Ethnic Areas
The Irrawaddy – Danish Govt to Focus on Burma’s Borders
The Irrawaddy – In the Words of Released Dissidents
Mizzima News – No grudge against anyone: Khin Nyunt
Mizzima News – Editorial: The road to reform got a little less bumpy today
Mizzima News – Jimmy on way home to meet his daughter
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kai
January 15, 2012 at 4:14 pm
Myanmar’s largest gold deposit found in ethnic Karen area
Jan 14, 2012, 8:16 GMT
Yangon – Myanmar’s largest gold deposit has been discovered by US satellite Landset 7, a geologist told local media Saturday.
‘I have been searching for that gold deposit for a long time and now I can confirm it,’ retired professor Soe Thein was quoted in the Flower News. ‘It can produce a thousand tons of gold for hundreds of years.’
The deposit covers a large area in the eastern part of the country that includes the ethnic Karen state, the report said.
‘There was a historical evidence that people were using manual methods to extract gold in the dynasty of King Mindon in that area,’ Soe Thein said.
There are 22 working gold mines in Myanmar, according to the mine department.
kai
January 15, 2012 at 4:47 pm
အောက်ပါ ဂျာနယ်လစ်များအား.. ထပ်မံလွှတ်ငြိမ်းချမ်းသာခွင့်ပေးပါရန် (လွှတ်ပေးပါရန်)… တောင်းခံအပ်ပါသည် သမ္မတဦးသိန်းစိန်ခင်ဗျား..။
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13 January 2012
Alert
All DVB journalists, freelancers and blogger freed under amnesty
(RSF/IFEX) – 13 January 2012 – Reporters Without Borders and its partner organization, the Burma Media Association, hail the release of a number of journalists and bloggers under an amnesty announced today.
Journalists working for the Burmese exile radio and TV station Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) have confirmed that all DVB journalists, including Hla Hla Win, Ngwe Soe Lin, Win Maw, Sithu Zeya and his father U Zeya, two freelance journalists (Thant Zin Aung and Zaw Thet Htwe) and the blogger Nay Phone Latt are among those who have been released.
“We are pleased to see the government continuing to advance in the right direction and we urge it to release all the other detained journalists and Internet users. Once all the detainees have been freed, we hope the government will also address the need for reforms and the need to end censorship in Burma.”
According to DVB, today’s amnesty was carried out under article 401 (1) of the code of criminal procedure, unlike previous amnesties, which were issued under article 204 of the Constitution. This suggested that today’s amnesty did not have the approval of the influential National Defence and Security Council, DVB said.
The freelance journalist Thant Zin Aung and the blogger Nay Phone Latt were released from Hpa-an prison in Karen state. As regards the released DVB journalists, Win Maw was being held in Kyaukphyu prison in the western state of Arakan, Hla Hla Win was in Kathar prison in the north of the country, Sithu Zeya was in Henzada prison in the southwest, Ngwe Soe Lin was in Lashio prison in the northeast and U Zeya was in Hsipaw prison in the northeast. The freelance journalist Zaw Thet Htwe was released from Taunggyi prison.
Myint Hlaing, a media assistant who had helped Hla Hla Win on many occasions and was arrested with her in 2009, was also freed.
After leaving prison today, Sithu Zeya said: “As for the president, I think he’s pretty decent as he is [enacting reforms] under a lot of pressure. But also it depends a lot on the men behind him – just one decent person won’t make the change happen. We need all-inclusive cooperation from both sides to build a democratic system.”
The blogger and comedian Zarganar was freed from Myitkyina prison in the northern state of Kachin on 12 October under an earlier “general amnesty.” Three other DVB journalists were released in late December.
Reporters Without Borders congratulates DVB’s “Free Burma VJ” campaign for the release of all of the DVB video-journalists arrested after covering the 2007 Saffron Revolution and the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis in 2008.
Reporters Without Borders is still awaiting news about the blogger Kaung Myat Hlaing (also known as Nat Soe), who has been imprisoned since April 2010, and the following journalists:
• Detained since 13 October 2009 – Nyi Nyi Tun – Kantarawaddy News Journal
• Detained since 18 June 2009 – Zaw Tun – freelance
• Detained since 28 August 2007 – Win Saing – photo-journalist
• Detained since 24 March 2006 – U Thaung Sein – freelance photo-journalist
• Detained since 24 March 2006 – Ko Moe Htun – Dhamah-Yate
• Detained since February 2004 – Ne Min – freelance
• Detained since 17 February 1998 – Aung Htun – freelance
kai
January 17, 2012 at 6:55 am
ပြည်ပ ကချင်အမျိုးသားများ ခွဲထွက်ရေးမူ တောင်းဆို
ကြာသပတေးနေ့၊ ဇန်နဝါရီလ 12 ရက် 2012 ခုနှစ် ကချင်သတင်းဌာန သတင်း – ကချင်သတင်းဌာန
ဗမာတိုင်းရင်းများချုပ်ကိုင်သော မြန်မာအစိုးရက “စစ်မှန်သော ဖက်ဒရယ် (Federal) ပြည်ထောင်စုမူကို လက်မခံလျှင် သီးခြား ကချင်ခွဲထွက်ရေးလမ်းစဉ်ကို နက်နက်နဲနဲလိုလားကြောင်း” ထိုင်းနိုင်ငံတွင်ရောက်ရှိ နေသော ကချင်အမျိုးသားများက ဇန်နဝါရီလ ၄ ရက် လွတ်လပ်ရေးနေ့ တွင် ဆန္ဒထုတ်ပြန်ခဲ့သည်။
ကချင်အမျိုးသားအစည်းအရုံး ဥက္ကဌ ဒူဝါ ဘောမ်ဝွမ် လရော် မှ ကချင်နိုင်ငံရေး ဆွေးနွေးနေပုံ။
ကချင်အမျိုးသားအစည်းအရုံး ဥက္ကဌ ဒူဝါ ဘောမ်ဝွမ် လရော် မှ ကချင်နိုင်ငံရေး ဆွေးနွေးနေပုံ။
ဇန်နဝါရီလ ၃ ရက် ထိုင်းနိုင်ငံ ချင်းမိုင်မြို့တွင်ကျင်းပသည့် ကချင်အမျိုးသား နိုင်ငံရေးဆွေးနွေးပွဲမှ ယင်းကြေညာချက် ထုတ်ပြန်လိုက်ခြင်းဖြစ်သည်။
ဆွေးနွေးပွဲသို့ ကချင်လွတ်မြောက်ရေး အဖွဲ့ (KIO)၊ ကချင်အမျိုးသားအစည်းအရုံး (KNO)၊ ကချင်ကျောင်းသားနှင့် လူငယ်သမဂ္ဂ (AKSYU)၊ ကချင်အမျိုးသမီးအစည်းအရုံးထိုုင်းနိုင်ငံ (KWAT)၊ PKDS (Pan Kachin Development Society) နှင့် ဘာသာရေးအဖွဲ့မှ ခေါင်းဆောင်များအပြင် တက္ကသိုလ် ကျောင်းသားများနှင့် KIA စစ်သားဟောင်းများ အားလုံးစုစုပေါင်း လူ (၇၈) ဦး တက်ရောက်ခဲ့သည်။
ဗိုလ်ချုပ်အောင်ဆန်းနှင့် တိုင်းရင်းသားခေါင်းဆောင်များ စတင်ခဲ့သည့် ၁၉၄ရ ပင်လုံစာချုပ်အတိုင်း စစ်မှန်သောပြည်ထောင်စု ဖော်ဆောင်ရန် မြန်မာအစိုးရအဆက်ဆက်က ပျက်ကွက်နေခြင်းကို ကြေညာချက်တွင် ပြင်းပြင်းထန်ထန် ရှုတ်ချထားသည်။
ထိုစာချုပ်တွင် ဗမာမဟုတ်သည့်တိုင်းရင်းသားများကို ၎င်းတို့ဒေသများတွင် ကိုယ်ပိုင်အုပ်ချုပ်ခွင့် အပြည့်အဝ ပေးထားသည်။
မြန်မာအစိုးရအဆက်ဆက်က ပင်လုံစာချုပ်ကို လျစ်လျူရှူ
ဗိုလ်ချုပ်အောင်ဆန်း လုပ်ကြံခံရပြီးနောက်ပိုင်း လွတ်လပ်ရေးရပြီးနောက် ၎င်းအားဆက်ခံသည့် ဦးနုအစိုးရမှာ ပင်လုံစာချုပ်အတိုင်း အကောင်အထည်ဖော်ခြင်း မရှိခဲ့ပေ။
ထို့ကြောင့် ၁၉၆ဝ အောက်တိုဘာတွင် ကချင်လွတ်မြောက်ရေးအဖွဲ့ (KIO) ကိုစတင်ဖွဲ့စည်းခဲ့သည်။
အထူးသဖြင့် ၁၉၆ဝ ရွေးကောက်ပွဲတွင် ဗုဒ္ဓဘာသာကို နိုုင်ငံတော်ဘာသာအဖြစ်ကြေညာမည်ဟု ဆိုသည့် ဦးနု၏ ရွေးကောက်ပွဲကတိသည် ခရစ်ယာန်လူများစုဖြစ်သည့် ကချင်အမျိုးသားများအပေါ် စိတ်ဆိုး ဒေါသ ဖြစ်စေခဲ့သည်။
ကေအိုင်အို အထွေထွေအတွင်းရေးမှူး ဒေါက်တာလဂျာမှလည်း ယခုလို် ကချင်နိုင်ငံရေး ဆွေးနွေးနေပုံ။
ထိုနှစ် ဩဂုတ်လတွင် ဦးနုက နိုင်ငံတော်ဘာသာကို ကြေညာခဲ့ရာ ကချင်လူငယ်များ လက်နက်ကိုင် တော်လှန်ရန်အတွက် တွန်းအားဖြစ်စေခဲ့သည်။
ဗိုလ်ချုပ်ကြီးနေဝင်း အာဏာသိမ်းအစိုးရနှင့် KIO တို့ ၁၉၆၃၊ ၁၉၇၂ နှင့် ၁၉၈၀-၈၁ ခုနှစ်များတွင် တွေ့ဆုံဆွေးနွေးခဲ့သော်လည်း အချီးအနှီးသာဖြစ်ခဲ့သည်။
၁၉၉၄ အပစ်ခတ်ရပ်ဆိုင်းရေးစာချုပ်နောက်ပိုင်း KIO သည် ၎င်းတို့ထိန်းချုပ်နယ်မြေ ရှမ်းပြည်မြောက်ပိုင်းနှင့် ကချင်ပြည်နယ်တွင် ကိုယ်ပိုင်အုပ်ချုပ်ခွင့်ရခဲ့သည်။ သို့သော် မြန်မာစစ်အစိုးရက ကချင်လူထုအပါ ပြည်သူများအပေါ် လူ့အခွင့်အရေးချိုးဖောက်မှုများ အများအပြား ကျူးလွန်နေသည်။
ယခုအချိန် နယ်ခြားစောင့်တပ်ပြောင်းရန် KIO ကငြင်းဆန်ခဲ့ပြီးနောက်ပိုင်း ၁ရ နှစ်ကြာ အပစ်ခတ်ရပ်ဆိုင်းရေးပျက်ပြားကာ ၂၀၁၁ ခုနှစ် ဇွန်လမှ တိုက်ပွဲများ စတင်ဖြစ်ပွားခဲ့သည်။
kai
January 17, 2012 at 6:55 am
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BURMA RELATED NEWS – JANUARY 14-16, 2012
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AP – US senator praise Myanmar reforms, calls for more
AP – Crowds greet famous Myanmar activist after release
AFP – US to restore ties with Myanmar
AFP – French FM meets Myanmar leader to gauge reforms
Reuters – Myanmar says 302 political prisoners freed in amnesty
UN News Centre – Myanmar: UN rights expert welcomes release of prisoners of conscience
UN News Centre – Ban welcomes prisoner release and other important moves by Myanmar authorities
BusinessWeek – Clinton Moves to Upgrade Myanmar Ties After Prisoners Released
AI – County Down campaigners celebrate success after Burma prisoner release
ABC Radio Australia – Former Burmese prisoner says wait and see on sanctions
AsianCorrespondent – Aung San Suu Kyi’s party brings out a journal for ‘Democracy Wave’
Bernama – Traditional Kyon Eyes Inclusion In Myanmar SEA Games
The Nation – ITD facing big risks after power plant plan in Burma scrapped
Louisville Courier-Journal – In Myanmar, McConnell and Suu Kyi have emotional first meeting
IBN Live – India-Myanmar Home Secy talks on January 19
Capital FM Kenya – Vapour leak ‘likely’ cause of Korean ship explosion
Bangkok Post – Thailand’s loss is Myanmar’s gain
The National – Myanmar’s lessons for political change
bdnews24 – Dhaka, London hail Myanmar move
The Daily Star – Bangladesh may link up with another submarine cable via Myanmar
Monsters and Critics – Myanmar trade deficit with China hits 400 million dollars
The Daily Yomiuri – Reaching Asia’s ‘final frontier’ / Japan steps up efforts to crack untapped Myanmar market
The Irrawaddy – Govt and KIO Set to Meet This Week
The Irrawaddy – The Khin Nyunt Factor
The Irrawaddy – Ethnic Issue Key to Ending Sanctions: McConnell
Mizzima News – How many political prisoners remain in jail?
Mizzima News – Asean human rights code process criticized
Mizzima News – ‘They ordered me to renounce my monkhood’
DVB News – Monks’ boycott of govt remains: Gambira
DVB News – Burmese troops nab govt employee
DVB News – As the dust settles, are we any clearer about tomorrow’s Burma?
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Kyaemon
January 17, 2012 at 11:31 am
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အမျိုးသမီးတွေ ကလေးတွေ မကြား ဝံ့ မနာသာတွေ ပါ
စည်းကမ်း အရ ရွာမှ ထုတ်ပယ်ဘို့ မလိုဘူးလား?
တော်တော်ကြာ တယောက်ပြီးတယောက် အပြန်အလှန်
ဆဲနေတဲ့ ဖော်ရမ် ဖြစ်နေ အုံးမယ်၊
စာထဲက ပါလာတဲ့ သတင်းကို မကြိုက်တာနဲ့ စာပို့ လုလင် ကို
ကလှော်ဆဲနေတာနဲ့တူမနေဘူးလား၊
အကောင်းကြည့်ရင်လဲရတာဘဲ ဟာ
ယူကေ ဘဏ်ဋာရေးဝန်ကြီးလို
ကိုယ်လဲ ဝင်ငွေတွေရနိုင်ဘို့ကြိုတင်စီမံလို့ရတာဘဲ
ကိုယ့်အတွက်အကျိုးမပြုတဲ့ ထင်မြင်ယူဆချက်အလွဲအချော်
အမှားအယွင်းတွေကို ထောက်ပြဘို့လို
ကြိုက်တာမကြိုက်တာ အ ပ ထား
ကမ်ဘာ့ စီးပွါးရေး သတင်း ကိုသိဘို့လို
kai
January 20, 2012 at 8:02 am
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BURMA RELATED NEWS – JANUARY 18, 2012
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AP – Suu Kyi registers for seat in Myanmar’s Parliament
AFP – Myanmar’s Suu Kyi launches bid for parliament
AFP – Myanmar old guard adapt to new life as lawmakers
BusinessWeek – Myanmar Buoyed by $8.6 Billion Port as Sanctions Abate: Freight
Bloomberg – Myanmar Feeds Asia Trade With $8.6 Billion Port as U.S. Ties Thaw: Freight
Manila Bulletin – Myanmar changing?
The Nation – Burma sends peace delegation to end northern ethnic conflict
Al Jazeera – Myanmar: What is in it for the US?
Deutsche Welle – Burmese refugees stuck in Thailand hold hope after rebel ceasefire
Calcutta News – India to scale up ties with democratic Myanmar
Council on Foreign Relations (blog) – Myanmar: the Next Asian Tiger Cub Economy?
New York Times (blog) – Turning Off the Dark in Myanmar?
The Diplomat – The January Spring
Korea JoongAng Daily – [Viewpoint] Pyongyang may be ready for change
The Irrawaddy – Myanmar: On Claiming Success
The Irrawaddy – Burma’s Hip Hop Singer Stands for By-Election Seat
The Irrawaddy – No More Coups in Burma, Says Shwe Mann
The Irrawaddy – Govt Hints at Release of KNU Leader
Mizzima News – KNU seeks release of KNU-connected prisoners
Mizzima News – Burma tourism ready to takeoff?
Mizzima News – China now No. 1 investor in Burma
DVB News – Party alliance faces fight against NLD
DVB News – Student army laments jailed members
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BURMA RELATED NEWS – JANUARY 19, 2012
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AFP – Myanmar’s Suu Kyi launches bid for parliament
AP – Ethnic Shan leader in Myanmar to re-register party
AP – Myanmar holds new cease-fire talks with Kachin
Reuters – Myanmar holds peace talks with Kachin state rebels
Reuters – Lifting Myanmar sanctions in play if April vote fair: McCain
Reuters – UPDATE 1-Thai PTT Exploration to sell part of Myanmar M11 field stake
Monsters and Critics – Myanmar-Kachin peace talks fail to agree on ceasefire
The Huffington Post – Myanmar-Kachin Cease-Fire Talks Will Continue
The Japan Times – Finessing the dramatic opening to Myanmar
Channel NewsAsia – EU mulls lifting sanctions against Myanmar in February
VOA News – Burmese Political Reforms Raise Hope for Curbing Opium Production
The Independent – Burma: Crowds cheer Suu Kyi as she registers for poll
Strategy Page – Ceasefires All Around
Committee to Protect Journalists – Freedom with limits in Burma
IRIN – In Brief: 40,000 Rohingya children in Myanmar unregistered
Foreign Policy – The Last Kim of Pyongyang?
The Irrawaddy – Evicted Buddhist Abbot to Leave Monastery Within One Month
The Irrawaddy – Shift Away from Sanctions Gathers Steam
The Irrawaddy – Myanmar: On Claiming Success
Mizzima News – Possible food shortage in Chin State: NGO
Mizzima News – Minister Aung Min seeks talks with Thailand-based groups
Mizzima News – ABSDF to hold peace talks with government
DVB News – Govt upping health spending 0.7 percent
DVB News – Burma ‘blacklisting’ Rohingya children
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kai
January 22, 2012 at 8:11 am
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BURMA RELATED NEWS – JANUARY 20, 2012
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Reuters – Insight: Freed prisoners add momentum, risks to Myanmar reform
AP – Myanmar president says no turning back on reforms
AP – Myanmar holds new cease-fire talks with Kachin
AP – Report: Myanmar stops snake smuggling attempt
AFP – Myanmar election fever grips Suu Kyi party
AFP – Myanmar eyes more talks with Kachin rebels
AlertNet – Q+A-Myanmar releases political prisoner Htay Kywe
IANS – Myanmar, India vow to ensure border stability
New York Times – An Ethnic War Is Rekindled in Myanmar
Daily Telegraph – Burma president calls on West to lift sanctions
Europe Online Magazine – EU foreign ministers to consider easing of Myanmar sanctions
Nasdaq – Myanmar President Says Suu Kyi May Become Cabinet Minister If Voted In
Brisbane Times – Inside story: Burma’s long road back
Mainichi Daily News – Fortune-tellers believed to be behind mysterious relocation of Myanmar’s capital
The Economist – Change in Myanmar Follow my lead
The Irrawaddy – Burma: An End to Civil War?
The Irrawaddy – Gov’t Negotiator Offers Talks with Exiled Dissident Groups
The Irrawaddy – China’s Outlaws Find a Second Home in ‘Lawless’ Burma
Mizzima News – RFA airs satellite TV news program in Burma
Mizzima News – Four dissolved ethnic parties to re-register
Mizzima News – Human rights document to be judged by universal standards
DVB News – Famine threat looms in Chin state
DVB News – Evicted Burmese monk pledges no return
DVB News – Suu Kyi urges ‘sense of humility’ for April vote
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kai
January 24, 2012 at 4:20 am
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BURMA RELATED NEWS – JANUARY 21-23, 2012
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AFP – Suu Kyi becomes key to complex Myanmar politics
AFP – Rights report highlights Myanmar ethnic abuses
AFP – US ‘pleased’ with Myanmar reforms progress
AFP – Investors aim to reap benefits of Myanmar reforms
AP – Generation 88 activists back Myanmar’s reform path
AP – EU agrees to ease Myanmar sanctions
Reuters – EU eases sanctions on Myanmar leaders after reforms
Reuters – Top Myanmar dissidents back Suu Kyi but won’t contest election
The Christian Science Monitor – Is it ‘Burma’ or ‘Myanmar’? US officials start shifting.
ABC Radio Australia – Burma guarantees Aung San Suu Kyi media access in polls
The New York Times – Many Freed Burmese Weren’t Jailed for Politics
Indian Express – Manmohan to visit Myanmar in May
The Times of India – Burma event at JLF
Livemint – India to review economic, security ties with Myanmar
Assam Tribune – Myanmar to take steps against NE militants
Reuters AlertNet – No school, no travel for Myanmar’s blacklisted Rohingya kids –report
Xinhua – Lion and dragon dance opens up Chinese New Year celebration in Yangon
Xinhua – Myanmar’s ruling party stresses need to improve public welfare
Daily Times – Myanmar sanction talks set to intensify
Bangkok Post – EDITORIAL: Pursue the drug dealers
New Straits Times – Myanmar worker slashed to death
Mainichi Daily News – Myanmar’s military government obsessed with fortune telling and ‘lucky’ number 9
Mainichi Daily News – Top Myanmar military regime officials cross-dressed to drive away evil spirits
Mainichi Daily News – Myanmar military used Buddhism to maintain national unity
Monsters and Critics – Myanmar punk band’s fund-raising campaign runs into US sanctions
The Irrawaddy – Burma’s Censors Tighten Grip Ahead of By-election
The Irrawaddy – Mon Chairman Says ‘No’ to Ceasefire
The Irrawaddy – US Calls for International Observers at Burma By-elections
Mizzima News – 88-Students will be active in politics
Mizzima News – ‘The path to peace is better’
Mizzima News – Suu Kyi to have access to media: presidential adviser
DVB News – Army abuses ongoing in Burma: HRW
DVB News – Politics returns to Burma
DVB News – Tortured activist dies days after jail release
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kai
January 24, 2012 at 4:23 am
EU Lifts Visa Ban on Top Burmese Leadership
23 January 2012: The Council of the European Union on Monday eased travel restrictions on some top leaders of the new Burmese government in a move that signals the beginning of a new relationship between the world’s most powerful regional grouping and the South East Asian country that has long maintained an international pariah status…
http://chinlandguardian.com/news-2009/1693-eu-lifts-visa-ban-on-top-burmese-leadership.html
အဂ္ဂမဟာသရေစည်သူ၊ အဂ္ဂမဟာသီရိသုဓမ္မ၊ သီရိပျံချီ KING
January 24, 2012 at 9:48 am
န်မာ့အကောက်ခွန်နှုန်းစာရင်း ၂၀၁၂ အား သတ်မှတ်ပြဋ္ဌာန်းလိုက်ရာ ၎င်းကို အကောက်ခွန်ဦးစီးဌာန၏ ဝက်ဘ်ဆိုက်တွင်ကြည့်ရူနိုင်ကြောင်း သိရှိရသည်။ http://www.myanmarcustoms.gov.mm ဝက်ဘ်ဆိုက်လိပ်စာတွင် စတင်ဖော်ပြထားခြင်းဖြစ်ကြောင်း အကောက်ခွန်ဦးစီးဌာနမှ သိရှိရသည်။ ပြည်ထောင်စု သမ္မတမြန်မာနိုင်ငံတော် အစိုးရသည် အကောက်ခွန်နှုန်းဥပဒေ ၁၉၉၂ ခုနှစ် မတ်လ ၁၂ ရက်နေ့တွင် ပြဋ္ဌာန်းပေးခဲ့ပြီး ယင်းဥပဒေပါ အပ်နှင်းထားသော လုပ်ပိုင်ခွင့်များကို ကျင့်သုံးခဲ့ကြောင်း၊ ဘဏ္ဍာရေးနှင့် အခွန်ဝန်ကြီးဌာန ပြည်ထောင်စုဝန်ကြီးသည် ကမာ္ဘ့အကောက်ခွန်အဖွဲ့၏ စည်းဝါးညီပြင်ဆင်ချက် ၂၀၁၂ (ASEAN HS 2012 Amendment) များကို အခြေခံရေးဆွဲထားသော မြန်မာ့ အကောက်ခွန်နှုန်းစာရင်း ၂၀၁၂ (Customs Tariff oF Myanmar 2012)အား မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ၏ ကုန်သွယ်မှုလုပ်ငန်းများနှင့် လွတ်လပ်သော ကုန်သွယ်မှုဒေသများတွင် ကျင့်သုံးဆောင်ရွက်ရန်အတွက် ဘဏ္ဍာရေးနှင့် အခွန်ဝန်ကြီးဌာန န်ကြီးရုံး၏ ၂၀၁၁ ခုနှစ် ဒီဇင်ဘာလ ၁၅ ရက် ရက်စွဲပါ အမိန့်ကြော်ငြာစာအမှတ် (၂၇၈/၂၀၁၁) ဖြင့် သတ်မှတ်ပြဋ္ဌာန်းလိုက်ကြောင်း ၂၀၁၂ ခုနှစ် ဇန်နဝါရီ ၂၆ ရက်နေ့ထုတ် Internet ဂျာနယ်တွင် ဖော်ပြထားပါသည်။
kai
January 24, 2012 at 4:34 pm
1/24/2012 @ 4:09AM |40 views
A ‘Millionaires’ Tour Of Myanmar? Yours For $8,500
Everyone is jumping onto Myanmar/Burma bandwagon, and tourism is no exception. Decades of isolation and consumers boycotts have kept tourist arrivals to a bare minimum, so now the rush is on to sell Myanmar as an exciting new destination. It’s definitely off the beaten track as far as Southeast Asian tourism goes. Last year 400,000 foreigners visited, of which a fair number were probably curious businesspeople, social activists or (shhh!) backpack-touting reporters. Compare that to neighbouring Thailand, which had over 17 million tourist arrivals in the year to Nov. 30. That’s nearly as many vacationers per week as Myanmar’s annual intake.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/simonmontlake/2012/01/24/a-millionaires-tour-of-myanmar-yours-for-8500/
kai
January 27, 2012 at 7:12 am
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BURMA RELATED NEWS – JANUARY 26, 2012
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Reuters – In Myanmar, a “sham” parliament stirs to life
Reuters – U.N. chief praises Myanmar, plans visit there soon
AP – In divided US politics, rare agreement on Myanmar
AFP – IMF applauds Myanmar reforms, urges more, quickly
AFP – EU mulling 150-mln-euro aid package for Myanmar
ANI – Myanmar hopes to usher in democracy
Bangkok Post – Srithai mulls Myanmar move
APP – President Zardari’s Myanmar visit to promote bilateral relations: FO
Phnom Penh Post – Overseas Karen warily eye Myanmar changes
Financial Times (blog) – Myanmar: entering the brave new world of economic data
Mainichi Daily News – Spiritual nature runs deep in Myanmar
Mainichi Daily News – IMF: Myanmar has chance to lift living standards
Hindustan Times – Nambiar is UNSC’s special adviser on Myanmar
Bloomberg – Myanmar Confident of Free and Fair Elections, Minister Says
Asian Tribune – Imagine: The Burmese Regime Swindling the European Union
The Journal Gazette, Indiana – IMF: Myanmar could become Asia’s ‘next economic frontier’
UN News Centre – UN official calls on Myanmar to foster private-public partnerships to support reforms
The Diplomat – Why Burma Needs Transparency
Port Strategy – Myanmar port goes ahead – but no coal
The Irrawaddy – Change in Burma ‘Irreversible’: FM
The Irrawaddy – NMSP, Govt to Hold Talks Next Month
The Irrawaddy – Art for Rangoon’s Sake
Mizzima News – Thailand PM touts Dawei in India
Mizzima News – Joint parliament session to debate budget on Tuesday
DVB News – Future of UN probe into Burma in doubt
DVB News – Militants fire on Thai village, killing two
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kai
January 27, 2012 at 7:23 am
IMF: Burma Could Become Asia’s Next Economic Frontier
UN’s Ban Says Very Pleased with Burmese Democratic Reforms
EU to lift sanctions in steps: French FM
US Lawmaker Notes Progress in Burma
kai
January 31, 2012 at 3:53 am
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BURMA RELATED NEWS – JANUARY 27, 2012
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BURMA RELATED NEWS – JANUARY 28, 2012
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AFP – ‘Open door’ Myanmar offers 8-year tax break to foreign firms
Reuters – EXCLUSIVE – INTERVIEW – Myanmar has no plans to boost gas exports beyond 2013
Reuters – Myanmar shift to democracy not over, more reforms ahead-minister
CheapOair (blog) – Myanmar to Become Popular Tourist Destination
Asian Correspondent – Will Burma’s press free after new media reform bill?
Malaysian Digest – Myanmar Man Almost Decapitated after Being Hit by LRT Train
Deepika – India, Myanmar to increase security, economic cooperation
VOA News – Burmese Trade Minister Promises More Reforms
Chicago Tribune – Custody decision for abandoned boy set for next month
ASIAONE – Myanmar to sell Indonesia up to 200,000 tonnes rice a year
Mainichi Daily News – Teahouses in Myanmar a reflection of George Orwell’s ‘good is bad’
The Irrawaddy – Burma’s Parliament Back in Session, Budget is Top Priority
The Irrawaddy – Preaching to Different Choirs
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Reuters – Special Report: In Mekong, Chinese murders and bloody diplomacy
Wall Street Journal (blog) – Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi Addresses WEF in Video Message
VOA News – Rights Groups Urge International Community to Maintain Burma Sanctions
VOA News – Documentary Highlights Burma’s Jailed Political Activists
Asian Correspondent – Burma’s Parliament talks about 2012-2013 Budget Bill
Economic Times – IMF sees Myanmar as Asia’s next economic bright spot
Deutsche Welle – India, Myanmar seek closer ties
Financial Times – Currency tops Myanmar’s economic agenda
Xinhua – Myanmar to cooperate with U.S. universities to develop education
Xinhua – Myanmar banks to launch money exchange services with 3 ASEAN nations
PRWeb – East Bay Interior Designer, Kristina Wolf of Kristina Wolf Design Announces Products from Myanmar
Global Voices Online – Myanmar (Burma): Betwixt and Between
The Australian – Scholarships help rebuild Myanmar
Moneycontrol.com – EXCLUSIVE – INTERVIEW – Myanmar has no plans to boost gas exports beyond 2013
The Irrawaddy – Than Shwe: Karma Chameleon
The Irrawaddy – Burmese Army Stands Behind President
The Irrawaddy – Jailed Karen Leader Facing Trial Again
Mizzima News – Burma’s censorship dep’t to be abolished?
Mizzima News – Internal refugees need help: KNU
Mizzima News – Up to 900 political prisoners may remain in Burmese jails
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BURMA RELATED NEWS – JANUARY 29-30, 2012
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Reuters – Myanmar’s Suu Kyi calls for changes to constitution
Reuters – Insight: Myanmar’s the hot new neighborhood
Reuters – Singapore to help emerging Myanmar train its workers
Reuters – Southeast Asian airlines to profit as Myanmar opens
Reuters – Singapore Hot Stocks-Yoma jumps on Myanmar’s tax incentive plan
AFP – Myanmar taps Singapore expertise to modernise economy
AFP – Thousands greet Suu Kyi on Myanmar campaign trail
AP – Myanmar’s Suu Kyi makes political tour in south
AP – Suu Kyi galvanizes once-repressed Myanmar politics
Channel NewsAsia – Myanmar’s president vows “healthy democracy”
Channel NewsAsia – Myanmar president’s visit marks new chapter in bilateral ties: President Tan
Straits Times – Myanmar and Singapore sign MOU on technical cooperation
Bernama – Singapore Leaders Hail Positive Developments In Myanmar
Asian Correspondent – Burma lines up first political prisoner of the “new” era
Asian Correspondent – Burma reaches a truce with Shan State Army (North)
Thailand Outlook Channel – Michelle Yeoh Brings Story of Aung San Suu Kyi to Big Screen
UPI – U.N. to assess human rights in Myanmar
Bangkok Post – Europeans see Thailand as gateway for push into Myanmar
New Kerala – Jamia Milia to confer doctorate on Aung San Suu Kyi
New Kerala – Use northeast as springboard to Myanmar: Nagaland CM
Asia News Network – Burma ready to sell rice to Indonesia
APP- Pakistan, Myanmar make new beginning in bilateral relations
Natural Gas for Asia – Myanmar Not to Export New Gas Finds
The Business Standard – India ramps up ties with Myanmar, Thailand
The Diplomat – Suu Kyi in Election Mode
The Irrawaddy – Peace Efforts Persist, But a Nationwide Ceasefire Remains Elusive
The Irrawaddy – ‘End to Censorship’ Pledge at First Media Workshop
The Irrawaddy – Thein Sein’s Singapore Trip to Focus on Economic Cooperation
Mizzima News – Political parties discuss Kaladan project
Mizzima News – Ethnic peace No. 1 issue for Thein Sein: Adviser
Mizzima News – Arakan Liberation Party invited to peace talks
DVB News – Lawyers urge end to politicised laws
DVB News – Ex-army captain facing ‘T-shirt’ charge
DVB News – Shan army signs ceasefire, agrees territory
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