Myanmar Related News – Feb 2012
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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 – Myanmarâs dissident media feels pinch amid reforms
The Irrawaddy – The âRule of Lawâ 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 â 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.
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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-rt-us-myanmar-suukyitre8100i7-20120131,0,2282220.story
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February 2, 2012 at 12:47 pm
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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 Myanmarâs economy â 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 Asiaâs 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 – âThe process is neither smooth nor linearâ
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 â 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 â 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. đ
kai
February 10, 2012 at 2:47 pm
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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 Burmaâs 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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February 10, 2012 at 4:29 pm
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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.
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February 12, 2012 at 4:02 pm
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padonmar
February 12, 2012 at 10:09 pm
Obama authorizes US sanctions waiver for Myanmar to ease restrictions on multilateral aid.
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kai
February 14, 2012 at 2:11 am
áĄááŻáá˝ááşáá˛áˇ.. ááááşá¸á áŹáážáŹ.. áĄááąááááĄá ááŻá¸á áĄááŹáážá.. ááŤááąáŹáášá ááąáŤáşááŽááŽáááşá¸
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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: Burmaâs Trust Deficit
The Irrawaddy – NDF Feeling Vindicated by NLD About-turn
Mizzima News – Latecomer Burma potential âeconomic power houseâ
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 âexploitationâ
DVB News – Student army latest to join peace talks
DVB News – As confidence grows, the regimeâs vice-like grip loosens
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February 15, 2012 at 10:15 am
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February 23, 2012 at 2:47 am
âItâs right between China and India, 60 million people, massive natural resources, agriculture,â Singapore-based Rogers said at the gathering organized by New York-based INTL FCStone Inc. âYou could feed much of Asia, they have metals, they have energy, they have everything.â
Chinaâs Deng introduced capitalist reforms in the late 1970s, lifting more than 200 million people out of poverty and transforming the nation into the worldâs 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
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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 countryâs peace plans?
Asian Tribune – Burmese Army (Tatmadaw) is Anathema to Democracy & Union
Asian Tribune – âThe Glass Palaceâ 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 – Myanmarâs 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 â 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 – Schoolâs 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 Burmaâs 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 Kyiâs election bid
DVB News – Female migrants see dark side of Chinaâs border
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kai
March 1, 2012 at 2:41 am
Myanmar’s Suu Kyi says reforms could be reversed
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Reuters – 2 hours ago
Suu Kyi backs sanctions imposed by the United States and the European Union on the grounds they pressured Myanmar’s rulers to make concessions.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/29/myanmar-suukyi-cabinet-idUSL2E8DT3G720120229
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