Tuesday, May 31, 2011
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Saturday, May 28, 2011
The Irrawaddy's Blog: NLD မွာ ဒီေန႔ ဖတ္တ့ဲ စာတမ္းမ်ား
The Irrawaddy's Blog: NLD မွာ ဒီေန႔ ဖတ္တ့ဲ စာတမ္းမ်ား: "၁၉၉၀ ေရြးေကာက္ပဲြ ႏွစ္လည္ေန႔ အစီအစဥ္ကုိ NLD ရုံးမွာ ဒီေန႔ လုပ္ေတာ့ စာတမ္း ၃ ေစာင္ ဖတ္ျခင္းလည္း ပါ၀င္တယ္။ ဧရာ၀တီက ရရိွတ့ဲ ဒီစာတမ္းေတြကုိ ေဖ..."
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
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Sunday, May 22, 2011
Press Release
U . S .E M B A S S Y R A N G O O N
1 1 0 U n i v e r s i t y A v e n u e , K a m a y u t T o w n s h i p , R a n g o o n , B u r m a
For Immediate Release
May 20, 2011
U.S. Department of State Deputy Assistant Secretary for
East Asian and Pacific Affairs Travel to Burma
U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State (DAS) for East Asian and Pacific Affairs Joseph Yun has just concluded a three-day visit to Burma. His May 18-20 trip was the first by a Washington- based official to meet with leaders of Burma’s post-election government. DAS Yun’s trip
reflects the United States’ ongoing efforts to engage directly with the government and to consult with a diverse range of stakeholders including democracy and ethnic leaders, businesspeople, and civil society representatives.
During his visit, DAS Yun’s delegation held introductory meetings with senior government officials, including the new Foreign Minister, a Deputy Speaker of the lower house of Parliament, and the Chief Minister of Bago Region. During these discussions, DAS Yun reiterated the
United States’ willingness to improve bilateral relations through principled engagement, while maintaining that progress would depend on the Burmese government taking meaningful, concrete steps toward democratic governance, respect for human rights, and the release of all political prisoners in line with the aspirations of the Burmese people and the international community.
DAS Yun also conveyed U.S. concerns about Burma’s military relationship with North Korea
and called on the government to abide by its public commitments to uphold UN Security Council resolutions in that regard.
DAS Yun and his team met with pro-democracy and ethnic minority leaders, including Aung San Suu Kyi and leaders of the National League for Democracy. DAS Yun and Aung San Suu Kyi had a useful conversation about how best to promote inclusive dialogue and national reconciliation to fulfill the needs and desires of all Burmese.
Saturday, May 21, 2011
Friday, May 20, 2011
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Maung Oo: Power was transferred to USDP, not to Parliament
Tuesday, 17 May 2011 20:09 Ko Pauk
New Delhi (Mizzima) – The Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) top leader, Maung Oo, told community leaders and government employees in Pauktaw Township in Arakan State that real power was transferred to the USDP, not to the newly elected Parliament. Maung Oo, a leader of the USDP, says real power rests in the hands of the state-backed USDP not in the Union Parliament.
The former Home Affairs Minister summoned about 50 community leaders and government employees to a meeting and delivered a speech from 10 to 11:30 a.m. on Saturday.
‘He said that the USDP is the ruling party and the power was transferred to the USDP, not to the Parliament. And he said that there was no Arakanese MP in the union level parliament', Tet Tun Aung, a lawmaker in the Rakhine Nationalities and Development Party (RNDP) in the Arakan State Assembly, told Mizzima.
‘He said that the USDP is the ruling party and the power was transferred to the USDP, not to the Parliament. And he said that there was no Arakanese MP in the union level parliament', Tet Tun Aung, a lawmaker in the Rakhine Nationalities and Development Party (RNDP) in the Arakan State Assembly, told Mizzima.
Maung Oo is the chief of the disciplinary committee of the USDP and a close confidant of former Senior General Than Shwe.
Community leader Saw Tun Sein, lawmaker Tet Tun Aung, retired teacher Maung Mya Hla and Township Administration Office Chief Khin Maung Lwin also attended the meeting. Maung Oo was accompanied by Minister Dr. Aung Kyaw Min of the Health and Education Ministry of Arakan State and the Chin Race Affairs Minister Ko Naing.
In the meeting, Maung Oo launched a bitter attack on Chin people, sources said. ‘He said that although some Chin tried to nominate Chin MPs to be ministers in the union level assembly, most of them are illiterate and they could not be ministers’, according to Tet Tun Aung, who added that Maung Oo said little about regional development. ‘The Township Administration Office Chief Khin Maung Lwin attended the meeting. He is a former chairman of the Township Peace and Development Party. Maung Oo evicted him from the meeting by saying that he did not help the USDP in the township and the USDP lost in the election’.
He said the RNDP will file a complaint against Maung Oo for his remarks on the state and central government. In the Arakan State government, the prime minister and most of the ministers are from the USDP.
In the Pauktaw Township constituencies, four candidates of the RNDP for parliamentary seats in the Lower and Upper houses and in the Arakan State Assembly won the election.
Community leader Saw Tun Sein, lawmaker Tet Tun Aung, retired teacher Maung Mya Hla and Township Administration Office Chief Khin Maung Lwin also attended the meeting. Maung Oo was accompanied by Minister Dr. Aung Kyaw Min of the Health and Education Ministry of Arakan State and the Chin Race Affairs Minister Ko Naing.
In the meeting, Maung Oo launched a bitter attack on Chin people, sources said. ‘He said that although some Chin tried to nominate Chin MPs to be ministers in the union level assembly, most of them are illiterate and they could not be ministers’, according to Tet Tun Aung, who added that Maung Oo said little about regional development. ‘The Township Administration Office Chief Khin Maung Lwin attended the meeting. He is a former chairman of the Township Peace and Development Party. Maung Oo evicted him from the meeting by saying that he did not help the USDP in the township and the USDP lost in the election’.
He said the RNDP will file a complaint against Maung Oo for his remarks on the state and central government. In the Arakan State government, the prime minister and most of the ministers are from the USDP.
In the Pauktaw Township constituencies, four candidates of the RNDP for parliamentary seats in the Lower and Upper houses and in the Arakan State Assembly won the election.
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Burmese government bans CDs, USB sticks and floppy disks
05/16/2011 16:35
MYANMAR
AsiaNews.it - Internet cafés: Burmese government bans CDs, USB sticks and floppy disks
External data storage devices are banned as the authorities tighten controls to prevent demonstrations and unrest. Censorship has not prevented the development of an underground blogging network. Ruling junta keeps mobile telephony on a leash.
MYANMAR
AsiaNews.it - Internet cafés: Burmese government bans CDs, USB sticks and floppy disks
External data storage devices are banned as the authorities tighten controls to prevent demonstrations and unrest. Censorship has not prevented the development of an underground blogging network. Ruling junta keeps mobile telephony on a leash.
CONTINUATION OF THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY WITH RESPECT TO BURMA
The White House
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
May 16, 2011
WH - Notice from the President regarding the annual renewal of the national emergency with respect to Burma
NOTICE
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Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release
May 16, 2011
WH - Notice from the President regarding the annual renewal of the national emergency with respect to Burma
NOTICE
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CONTINUATION OF THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY WITH RESPECT TO BURMA
Monday, May 16, 2011
Saturday, May 14, 2011
Suu Kyi appeals to Australia for scrutiny of Burmese parliament
MPs have been shown a video message by the democracy leader, writes Deborah Snow.
Deborah Snow May 14, 2011
THE Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has urged Australia to maintain a close watch on her country, saying the recent election of a parliament after decades of military rule has not produced a move towards ''true'' democracy.
In a video message played for federal MPs in Canberra this week, the recently released leader said: ''We have not seen any positive, definite move towards a truly democratic process''.
She cites as core concerns the failure to free the country's 2000 political prisoners and tight constraints on the new parliament. ''I particularly appeal to elected members of parliament, not just in Australia or Asia, but all over the world to look very carefully at how the elections of [November] 2010 were conducted, and what the elected members of the national assembly are allowed to do.''
Ms Suu Kyi has chosen her words carefully, given she is is not long out of 15 years of house arrest, and wants to minimise direct confrontation with the still-powerful generals. The message was recorded to mark 100 days of the Burmese parliament, which convened in January after the military orchestrated the first elections in 20 years.
Ms Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy boycotted the poll, which was engineered to give the army control of more than 80 per cent of the seats.
The military's ruling organ, the State Peace and Development Council, dissolved itself at the end of March but seasoned Burma observers say the same people remain in charge behind the parliamentary facade.
''The old Senior General Than Shwe still calls the shots even though he holds almost no official position at all,'' says a Macquarie University academic, Sean Turnell, who visited the country less than a month ago. 'The message from just about everyone I spoke to is that … the military are still in charge.''
Associate Professor Turnell, a world expert on the Burmese economy, says the defence apparatus will consume more than half of the national budget this year, and that more than 90 per cent of Burma's revenues from natural gas - some 2 to 3 billion dollars a year - will go into a slush fund controlled by the army.
The Indonesian MP and current head of the ASEAN Inter-Parliamentary Myanmar Caucus, Eva Sundari, was also in Canberra this week underscoring warnings about how little has changed in Burma. She says her group is campaigning against Burma taking chairmanship of ASEAN in 2014.
Tensions remain along the Thai-Burma border, where some 140,000 Burmese live in refugee camps after fleeing crackdowns on ethnic minorities by the Burmese military.
A further 87,000 Burmese have taken refuge in Malaysia, where they live in the shadows among the populace, with no right to work (though many do illegally for pitiful wages) and no right for their children to attend schools.
It is from this group that Australia will draw many of the 4000 refugees it has agreed to take from Malaysia in return for 800 irregular boat arrivals it will send to Kuala Lumpur.
The Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, unveiled the controversial swap this week as part of Canberra's increasingly desperate plan for a '' regional solution'' to stop the boats, hoping that those contemplating the journey would be deterred by the risk they will end up in Malaysia not Australia.
Many Burmese refugees living in Malaysia are from ethnic groups in revolt against Rangoon.
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
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Friday, May 6, 2011
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Tuesday, May 3, 2011
Myanmar to grant amnesty to prisoners
May 2, 2011
Straits Times - Myanmar to grant amnesty to prisoners: official
YANGON - MYANMAR'S new military-backed government is preparing to grant an amnesty to some prisoners, an official said Monday, but it was unclear whether they would include political dissidents.
The move is expected to coincide with President Thein Sein's visit to Indonesia from Thursday to attend a summit of Southeast Asian leaders, his first overseas trip since he was sworn in as head of state on March 30.
'Some prisoners will be released around the time of the president's first state visit,' said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity and did not provide further details.
According to the London-based human rights group Amnesty International there are more than 2,200 political prisoners in Myanmar being held under vague laws frequently used to criminalise peaceful political activists.
Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi was released from house arrest in November shortly after an election that led to the handover of power from the military to a nominally civilian government.
Her release was welcomed worldwide, but Western governments who impose sanctions on Myanmar have urged the new government to do more to demonstrate its commitment to improving its much criticised human rights record.
Straits Times - Myanmar to grant amnesty to prisoners: official
YANGON - MYANMAR'S new military-backed government is preparing to grant an amnesty to some prisoners, an official said Monday, but it was unclear whether they would include political dissidents.
The move is expected to coincide with President Thein Sein's visit to Indonesia from Thursday to attend a summit of Southeast Asian leaders, his first overseas trip since he was sworn in as head of state on March 30.
'Some prisoners will be released around the time of the president's first state visit,' said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity and did not provide further details.
According to the London-based human rights group Amnesty International there are more than 2,200 political prisoners in Myanmar being held under vague laws frequently used to criminalise peaceful political activists.
Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi was released from house arrest in November shortly after an election that led to the handover of power from the military to a nominally civilian government.
Her release was welcomed worldwide, but Western governments who impose sanctions on Myanmar have urged the new government to do more to demonstrate its commitment to improving its much criticised human rights record.
Monday, May 2, 2011
Sunday, May 1, 2011
ဖိုးပါ: ခင္..... သို႔
ဖိုးပါ: ခင္..... သို႔: "“ခင္.... သို႔” ထြန္းထြန္း (မုံ႐ြာ) အလြမ္းေပဖူးလႊာ စခန္းေျမကူးကာပါး ငယ္ခ်စ္ဦးစကားနားေထာင္ ‘ေတာ္လွန္ေရးေအာင္ျမင္ေအာင္သာ ေမာင္ ေဆာင္..."
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