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| Title: | | Extreme Measures: Torture and Ill Treatment in Burma since the 2010 Elections (English report; Burmese video)
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| Date of publication: | | 28 May 2012 |
| Description/subject: | | Executive Summary:
"This report documents the Government of Burma’s torture and ill treatment against
its own people since the 2010 elections. This report demonstrates that the Burmese
government continues to commit these abuses despite being bound to international
human rights treaties and norms. Furthermore, the lack of domestic legislation
prohibiting torture, the absence of an independent judiciary, and an ineffective
Human Rights Commission contribute to a climate where torture and ill treatment
are perpetrated with impunity.
From January to December 2011 alone, ND-Burma’s member organizations
documented 371 cases of human rights violation across the country of which 83
cases, or 22 percent constitute torture and ill treatment. Torture and ill treatment
in Burma takes place in two distinct places: (1) in detention centers where political
prisoners are interrogated and held, and (2) in ethnic nationality areas where the
Burmese military is present.
Torture of political prisoners generally takes place shortly after an individual is
arrested during interrogations. It can, along with ill treatment, continue for years –
even decades – while political prisoners serve inordinately long sentences.
In ethnic nationality areas torture seldom takes place in formal detention centers
but is meted out in military bases or remote rural villages. Shan State and Kachin
State are particularly hard hit. Evidence gathered by ND-Burma shows that torture
and ill-treatment in ethnic areas often takes place within the context of other
human rights violations, including arbitrary arrest, forced labor, forced portering,
confi scation of property, restriction of movement, and sexual violence.
The report makes a number of recommendations to the Government of Burma
and the international community. Chief among these are calls for the adoption
of legislation guaranteeing basic rights for the people of Burma, particularly the
internationally recognized right to be free from torture and ill-treatment, and
laws that ensure that the perpetrators of these crimes face justice. There are also
calls for more education, training and public awareness about torture in order to
prevent future violations as well as calls to institute safeguards and programs that
guarantee that victims have available, credible, accessible remedies to deal with
torture should it take place. This report also raises concerns regarding the new
National Human Rights Commission, including its lack of full independence, its
inability to investigate crimes committed by the military, and its failure to comply
fully with best practices for national human rights commissions as described in the
Paris Principles.
Torture and ill treatment have a ripple effect, with potentially long lasting negative
consequences for individuals, families and society as a whole. This report serves
as a reminder to the Government of Burma and the international community that
significant hurdles remain for Burma to emerge as a functioning democracy that
respects the Rule of Law and the rights of the people of Burma, particularly ethnic
nationalities." |
| Language: | | English (Burmese press release and video) |
| Source/publisher: | | Network for Human Rights Documentation - Burma (ND-Burma) |
| Format/size: | | pdf (1.5MB, report; 135K - press release; |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://nd-burma.org/video/documentary/item/92-extreme-measures.html
http://www.burmalibrary.org/docs13/Extreme_Measures-MA-bu.pdf |
| Date of entry/update: | | 28 May 2012 |
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| Title: | | Revisiting human rights in Myanmar
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| Date of publication: | | 25 May 2012 |
| Description/subject: | | "On 23 May 2012, Amnesty International concluded its first official visit to Myanmar since
2003. During two missions that year, we spent the vast majority of our time either being
escorted to and from meetings with government officials, or privately interviewing 35
political prisoners in Insein, Bago, and Moulmein prisons, where we actually felt most free.
For fear of putting civil society at risk, we did not request to speak with those actors, while
outreach to ethnic minority representatives was similarly cautious.
In contrast, our recent two-week mission to Yangon and Naypyidaw consisted of a very
diverse collection of 49 meetings, the majority of which, though confidential, were held in
public places. Unfortunately, time did not permit us to travel to an ethnic minority state.
We appreciated the opportunity to speak with government officials; political parties and
their Members of Parliament; members of the diplomatic community; lawyers and other
civil society actors; ethnic minority activists; former political prisoners as well as the
families of current political prisoners; and a representative of the National Human Rights
Commission.
Amidst a myriad of changes taking place in Myanmar, dating back to the late 2010
national elections, these meetings afforded Amnesty a preliminary opportunity to assess
Myanmar’s current human rights situation. What has improved since the new government
came into power a little more than a year ago? What human rights violations have persisted
or even worsened? And what new human rights challenges have the country’s recent reform
efforts engendered or brought to the fore? In addition to general impressions, we consider
these questions under five broad and sometimes overlapping headings most relevant to
Amnesty’s work on Myanmar over the last 25 years..." |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Amnesty International (ASA 16/003/2012) |
| Format/size: | | pdf (115K) |
| Date of entry/update: | | 28 May 2012 |
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| Title: | | "The New Light of Myanmar" Saturday 26 May 2012
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| Date of publication: | | 26 May 2012 |
| Description/subject: | | DOMESTIC NEWS: Private entrepreneurs are to try to make sure that public consumers have no
burden, buy products easily at a reasonable price, to work together with a view -
to improving living conditions of rural people as well as the grassroots -
Vice-President Dr Sai Mauk Kham addresses 21st Anniversary Plenary Meeting of UMFCCI...Amyotha Hluttaw National Races Affairs
Committee, Region Hluttaw representatives,
national race representatives meet...Bohmu Bahtoo road upgraded to four-lane road...Rural development tasks
undertaken in Monghsat...Fires brake out in
Mandalay Region...Kyaunggon township gets new
station hospital...156 shops up for auction by
MCDC...Hinthada Township gets new
concrete road...Books, cash donated to
Sittway Township writers
association...Thegon township gets new
library...Union Education Minister addresses School
Enrollment Day Ceremony...Union Construction Minister
meets region and state level
officials...Towers of Shweli-Mansan
national grid being repaired...Work coordination meeting of
Central Census Committee held...H-Pole No. 249 of Namhkam-
Muse 66-KV power grid
destroyed by KIA...Collective sanitation carried
out in Inlay Lake...Khitsan library opens in
Myaungmya Township...Inter-township Sittway
District administrator’s Cup
Men/Women volleyball
tournament concludes...Some billboards in Yangon get
five-month free of charge...Land reclamation made in
Wakema Township...SALE OF CHICKEN EGGS INSPECTED [photo]...Five Star runs Yangon-
Kawthoung direct voyage...School Enrollment Day
marked in Pyawbye Tsp.....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Union Transport Minister receives President
of ZETA Group and party...Chief Justice of Mandalay
Region High Court meets Vice-
President of Yunnan Provincial
Supreme People’s Court...Myanmar, France to cooperate in
parliamentary affairs...Pyithu Hluttaw
Committee
Chairman meets
IMS Asia
Programme
Head...Memorandum of Discussion on opening of
Myanmar-Japan centre inked...Pyithu Hluttaw International Relations
Committee Chairman receives German guests...Ayeyawady Region Chief Minister
receives guests...CBM Governor receives foreign banks
delegations...Vice-President of Yunnan
Provincial Supreme People’s
Court concludes visit...Vietnamese delegation
visits MRTV in Nay Pyi Taw...MWEA members leave for
Malaysia...Chairman of Constitutional Tribunal of
the Union arrives back from Seoul...Deputy Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services
Commander-in-Chief (Army) receives American
military attachés to Myanmar.....
"PERSPECTIVES": "The country of smiles" |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | News and Periodicals Enterprise, Ministry of Information, Union of Myanmar |
| Format/size: | | pdf (2.6MB) |
| Date of entry/update: | | 26 May 2012 |
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| Title: | | Amnesty International Annual Report 2012 (events of 2011) - Myanmar section
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| Date of publication: | | 24 May 2012 |
| Description/subject: | | "The government enacted limited political and economic reforms, but human rights violations and violations of international humanitarian law in ethnic minority areas increased during the year. Some of these amounted to crimes against humanity or war crimes. Forced displacement reached its highest level in a decade, and reports of forced labour their highest level in several years. Authorities maintained restrictions on freedom of religion and belief, and perpetrators of human rights violations went unpunished. Despite releasing at least 313 political prisoners during the year, authorities continued to arrest such people, further violating their rights by subjecting them to ill-treatment and poor prison conditions..."....Background....Internal armed conflict ....Forced displacement and refugees....Forced labour....Freedom of religion or belief....Impunity....International scrutiny |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Amnesty International |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 25 May 2012 |
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| Title: | | "The Myanmar Times" May 21-27, 2012, Volume 32, No. 627
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| Date of publication: | | 27 May 2012 |
| Description/subject: | | NEWS: Obama nominates ambassador;
Car import rule changes spark rush at state-run banks;
It’s time to show some respect for each other;
Vietnam dodges responsibilities on rare wildlife;
Concerns over national press council role ahead of June 30;
Free remaining political prisoners, urges Clinton;
U Thein Sein makes pledge on North Korea military ties;
Sampan ban leaves villagers jobless;
‘The government must change its attitude towards media’;
VP has ‘become a monk’: govt official;
MRCS launches family link-up service;
Qatar to resume flights on October 3;
The hluttaw flexes its muscles;
Factories set deadline for workers;
Three parties prepare for national conferences;
By-elections show desire for change, president tells cabinet;
Delayed FDI law set for July debut;
DKBA waiting for national peace conference;
Hotel zone approved at Inle Lake...BUSINESS & PROPERTY: Central Bank adds further effort to securities exchange formation;
Africa shakes up B&P market;
Buyers warned on odometer fraud;
Fish farmer ruined after tender bungle;
Agents hit out over misuse of company names;
Showroom demand drives rentals;
YCDC ups contractor deposit fee;
Mogadishu enjoys building boom after decades of war;
After six-year decline, US housing prices a cause for optimism...TECHNOLOGY: Facebook share fall flat in market debut;
President U Thein Sein set to operate a personal website?
Yahoo chief executive resigns...TIMEOUT: Making it big in Yangon;
‘Dictator’ invades Cannes Filmfest;
Sculptors afraid of losing their wood;
MMPO presents list of grievances;
Pakokku Literary winners named;
Lady Gaga too sexy for Indonesia: police;
New Delhi jailhouse inmates rock to live music therapy...TRAVEL...EVENTS FLASH: Car expo;
Photo contest;
Male models;
Free art classes;
Song contest...YOUR STARS...FLIGHT SCHEDULES...TEA BREAK |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Myanmar Consolidated Media Co. Ltd |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 25 May 2012 |
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| Title: | | Coping and Adaptation against Decreasing Fish Resources :Case Study of Fishermen in Lake Inle, Myanmar
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| Date of publication: | | March 2012 |
| Description/subject: | | Abstract: "Fishermen depend on Lake Inle in Myanmar for their livelihood. However, the lake has been undergoing environmental degradation over the years. Adding to the long-term decrease in the catch because of this degradation, these fishermen faced extremely low water levels in 20 I 0, which they had previously not experienced. Based on field surveys, this paper aims to reveal how fishermen adapted and coped with the changing environment as well as the sudden shock of the abnormally low water levels"....Keywords: coping, adaptation, resource, fishermen |
| Author/creator: | | Ikuko OKAMOTO |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Institute for Developing Economies (IDE DISCUSSION PAPER No. 329 |
| Format/size: | | pdf (183K) |
| Date of entry/update: | | 25 May 2012 |
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| Title: | | "The New Light of Myanmar" Friday 25 May 2012
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| Date of publication: | | 25 May 2012 |
| Description/subject: | | DOMESTIC NEWS: Pyithu Hluttaw National
Races Affairs and Internal
Peace-making Committee
meets with Hluttaw
representatives, national race
representatives of
Rakhine State...MYANMAR GAZETTE...CASH DONATED; RESPECTS PAID TO THE ELDERS; FIRE PREVENTIVE MEASURES INSPECTED; BOOKS DONATED; CASH DONATED [photos]...Writers association formed in
Pazundaung Township...Fire drill demonstrated in
Magway Region...Collective
blood
donation of
Myittamon
group held...Relief aids provided to victims
in Pindaya Township...Ministry of Sports opens Judo coaches/
referees training course...YaungchiU library opens in Bilin Township...Stakes driven for construction
of schools in Muse...Seminar on innovative LPG/CNG
engine control application on
automobiles engines on 27 May...Extempore talks and essay
competitions held in Magway...Tour guide licenses to be renewed...Refresher course for drivers and
bus conductors on 25 Ma...ICT development course for heads
of middle schools opens...Yamethin sees thriving
groundnuts, beans...Six-year-old boy dead in
Insein Township...Myeik District Police Force
presents cash assistance for
offspring of policemen...Chin State sanitation
activities launched...Mon State sanitation
activities launched...Double Strong Cup kicks off...Workshop on awareness of landmine dangers
opened in Taunggyi.....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: President U Thein Sein felicitates
Argentinian counterpart...No backsliding in Myanmar’s reforms -
Political reform without economic reform cannot
bring success to political system - Pyithu Hluttaw Speaker Thura U Shwe Mann visits European countries...Union Foreign Minister felicitates
Argentinian counterpart...Dy Home Affairs Minister
meets Chairman of Korea
Development Company and
Adviser of Saenurs
ruling party...Vietnamese delegation visits MRTV...Dy NPED Minister attends 68th ESCAP meeting...Bago Region Chief Minister, Singaporean
guest discuss investment opportunities...Union Transport Minister meets Chairman
of Japan-based Nisshin Transportation Co....Chiefs of ASEAN Police Force
meet journalists...Union
Commerce
Minister
receives
Representative
of MITSUI &
Co., Ltd...Liuzho City Mayor meets UMFCCI
Vice-President...UMFCCI officials meet Ambassador of Spain...Union Ministers
receive former
Singaporean Foreign
Minister and party...Economists suggest reform strategies
for Myanmar...Workshop on awareness of landmine dangers
opened in Taunggyi.....
"PERSPECTIVES": "Healthy living".....
ARTICLE: "Following the mood of today" SOE TINT |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | News and Periodicals Enterprise, Ministry of Information, Union of Myanmar |
| Format/size: | | pdf (2.5MB) |
| Date of entry/update: | | 25 May 2012 |
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| Title: | | New rights, old wrongs in Myanmar
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| Date of publication: | | 25 May 2012 |
| Description/subject: | | "Amid myriad changes taking place in Myanmar, Amnesty International concluded its first official visit to the country in nearly a decade on May 23.
Our two-week mission consisted of a diverse collection of 49 meetings with government officials, political parties and their members of parliament; members of the diplomatic community; lawyers and other civil society actors; ethnic minority activists; former political prisoners as well as the families of current political prisoners; and a representative of the National Human Rights Commission.
The mission provided a preliminary opportunity to assess Myanmar's current human-rights situation, which Amnesty International has monitored for the past 25 years. What has improved since the new government came into power a little more than a year ago? What human rights violations have persisted or even worsened? And what new human-rights challenges have the country's recent reform efforts engendered or brought to the fore?...Our delegation was sometimes reminded that "Rome wasn't built in a day". To the extent that the only thing less desirable than a lack of legal reform is legal reform poorly done, this reminder was well-received. The same is true to varying degrees on matters of accountability; the full realization of social, economic, and cultural rights; and the determination of who is a political prisoner and who is not. Capacity is limited and the development of certain "human-rights infrastructure" is advisable before particular changes are made.
But insofar as prisoners of conscience can be readily identified and set free, and as attacks against civilians can stop in response to clear orders, it takes less than a day to undertake some important human-rights changes. Myanmar should continue to improve its human-rights record accordingly." |
| Author/creator: | | Benjamin Zawacki and Donna Jean Guest |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Amnesty International via "Asia Times Online" |
| Format/size: | | html; pdf (69K) |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://www.burmalibrary.org/docs13/Ben+Donna-report-2012-05-23.pdf |
| Date of entry/update: | | 25 May 2012 |
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| Title: | | US State Dept. - Burma: Country Report on Human Rights Practices - 2011
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| Date of publication: | | 25 May 2012 |
| Description/subject: | | EXECUTIVE SUMMARY:
"Burma’s government is headed by President Thein Sein; the military-run State Peace and Development Council was officially dissolved in 2011, although former and active military officers continued to wield authority at each level of government. In November 2010 the then-military regime held the country’s first parliamentary elections since 1990, which were neither free nor fair. The government’s main party, the ruling Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP), claimed an overwhelming majority of seats in the national parliament and state/regional assemblies. Military security forces report to military channels, and civilian security forces, such as the police, report to a nominally civilian ministry headed by an active-duty military general.
Significant developments during the year included the emergence of a legislature that allowed opposition parties to contribute substantively to debates; democratic reforms such as the amendment of laws allowing opposition parties to register and Aung San Suu Kyi to announce her bid for Parliament; the release of hundreds of political prisoners; the relaxation of a number of censorship controls, the opening of some space in society for the expression of dissent; and an easing of restrictions on some internal and foreign travel for citizens.
Significant human rights problems in the country persisted, including military attacks against ethnic minorities in border states, which resulted in civilian deaths, forced relocations, sexual violence, and other serious abuses. The government also continued to detain hundreds of political prisoners. Abuses of prisoners continued, including the alleged transfer of civilian prisoners to military units. These units reportedly were often engaged in armed conflict in the border areas where they were forced to carry supplies, clear mines, and serve as human shields.
Government security forces were responsible for extrajudicial killings, rape, and torture. The government detained civic activists indefinitely and without charges. The government abused some prisoners and detainees, held persons in harsh and life-threatening conditions, routinely used incommunicado detention, and imprisoned citizens arbitrarily for political motives. The government infringed on citizens’ privacy and restricted freedom of speech, press, assembly, association, religion, and movement. The government impeded the work of many domestic human rights nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). International NGOs continued to encounter a difficult--although somewhat improved--environment. Recruitment of child soldiers, discrimination against ethnic minorities, and trafficking in persons--particularly of women and girls--continued. Forced labor, including that of children, persisted.
The government generally did not take action to prosecute or punish those responsible for human rights abuses, with a few isolated exceptions. Abuses continued with impunity. Rampant corruption and the absence of due process undermined the rule of law.
Ethnic armed groups also committed human rights abuses, including forced labor and recruitment of child soldiers. |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | US Department of State (Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor) |
| Format/size: | | pdf (193K-OBLversion; 166K-original) |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/186475.pdf |
| Date of entry/update: | | 25 May 2012 |
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| Title: | | "The New Light of Myanmar" Tuesday 22 May 2012
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| Date of publication: | | 22 May 2012 |
| Description/subject: | | DOMESTIC NEWS: Consecration ceremony of bronze Buddha
Image and golden throne held...EP-2 Minister inspects diesel-fired
power station in Kengtung...Noteworthy amounts of rainfall
(21-5-2012)...Significant Day
Temperatures
(21-5-2012)...1486th Anniversary of
Prophet Day marked...Books for rural libraries
in Pyawbwe...Monmyat Cooperatives Ltd provides cash
assistance to member fire victims...Specialists give educative talks on health in
Shwepyitha...Farm, Forest and Agriculture Course
opens in Yesagyo...Sein Gay Har provides care to
unhealthy aged in Seesar home...Educative talks on establishing
rural house and environmental
conservation held...Physical Education Science
(Mandalay) selects trainees...Meeting of MNL Committee and
Club Owners held...Union Hotels and Tourism Minister meets
hoteliers of small, medium licensed hotels...Sagaing Region Chief Minister
attends opening ceremonies of
hospital, monastery building...Toll gates along Yangon-
Mandalay Highway
(Nay Pyi Taw-Mandalay
section) inspected...Ceremony to give guidance on bone marrow transplant held...KIA armed group blows up two trucks...Tournament organization
course for table tennis (2012)
concludes...Union A&I Minister inspects cotton,
sugarcane, paddy plantations...Coord meeting for
maintenance of Ayeyawady
river water system and
utilization of water way...Thutapadaytha library opens in
Thongwa Township...Writers association formed in
Hline Township...Workshops on capacity
building of staff held in Putao...Faked eggs sold in Myitkyina...Pyigyimyatshin car market
faces nosedive...Fire breaks
out in
Amarapura
Township...Yesagyo Township sees Palethwe
hybrid paddy plantation...Food poisoning occurs in
Einme Township...Oxygen concentrator donated to Kawlin
Township People’s Hospital...Public request for decreased power supply (sic)...Self-reliant suspension
bridge opened in Htilin
Township.....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Union Mines Minister attends China-ASEAN Mining
Cooperation Forum and Promotion Exhibition...Chinese cultural troupe
stages entertainment show
in Mandalay...UMFCCI, Chinese guests
discuss signing of MoU...Chief Justice of Yangon Region High
Court receives Vice-President of Yunnan
Provincial Supreme People’s Court...Dy H & T Minister receives Jhon
Swire Investment Group Director...Commandant of NDSI of Royal
Thai Armed Forces Headquarters
arrives...Trainees from Malaysia Armed Forces Defence
College (MAFDC) Course No. 32/2012 arrive...Correction...MMCWA President receives
Thai ambassador’s wife...Myanmar military delegation leaves for
Kunming...Union F&R Minister receives Japanese
and Thai guests...Union minister
receives
foreign guests.....
"PERSPECTIVES": "Help civil servants say
no to bribery" |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | News and Periodicals Enterprise, Ministry of Information, Union of Myanmar |
| Format/size: | | pdf (2.5MB) |
| Date of entry/update: | | 24 May 2012 |
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| Title: | | "The New Light of Myanmar" Wednesday 23 May 2012
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| Date of publication: | | 23 May 2012 |
| Description/subject: | | DOMESTIC NEWS: UEC meets parties participated in
2012 by-elections...Noteworthy amounts of rainfall
(22-5-2012)...Myoma Gonsaung library
opens in Pyawbwe Township...Phoe Yarzar Library opened
in Yebyu Tsp...Traffic rules inspected in Indaw Township...LinyaungU library opens in Kayan Township...Mon Myat Micro Credit Cooperatives Ltd
holds AGM...Educative talks for young ladies given in
Kawthoung...Talks on control of human trafficking in
Mingala Taungnyunt Township...Myanma traditional cane ball competition
held in Thaton...RMGCC 3rd Anniversary golf
tournament on 26 May...BOOKS AND
STATIONERY DONATE: [photo]...UNIFORMS PROVIDED [photo]...Trainees of
Primary
Teachership
Training Course
seek Chief
Minister’s
advice...Coordination meeting on passing of
Intellectual Property Rights Law held...Pyithu Hluttaw, Amyotha Hluttaw Committees
meet officials on Yangon tour...Coordination meeting of sports clubs in
Mandalay Region held...Meeting on raising reading habit held in
Tamway Township...Tiger Myanmar Amateur
Open Golf Championship
2012 on 5-8 June...24/7 electricity
supply in
Tangyan
Township...Coordination meeting on
disposal of rubbishes held in
Thingangyun Tsp...Think Tank
Meeting on
development of
Myanma
Football held...Educative talks on cultivation of teak
plantations given in Letpadan...Writers association formed in
Kyauktaw Township...Pyinnyabeikman library
opens in Hlegu Township...Writers association
formed in Nyaungdon
Township...Thaikchaung villagers
get electricity...Pantanaw Towship gets one more
station hospital.....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: President U Thein Sein receives police chiefs of ASEAN
and heads of police force of dialogue partners countries...Union Minister meets project managers of FMInternational
Oy Finnmap Co, NIRAS Co...Dy Education Minister meets Vice-
President of Japanese Science Council...UMFCCI Vice-Presidents, CEC meeting with Mr You Jianhua of China NGO Network for
International Exchanges and party [photo]...Union Commerce Minister
meets Ghanaian Ambassador...Deputy Home Affairs Minister receives
Chairman of US-ASEAN Economic Council
and party...Diplomats explore Kawthoung, Dawei...Union Foreign Affairs
Minister pays official
visit to
the United States of America...Swire Investment Group eyes
investment in Myanmar...Governor of Central Bank
of Myanmar meets
foreign guests...Union Electric Power No. 2
Minister receives Chinese,
Thailand-based guests...IMF ready to help Myanmar’s reforms...Dy H&T Minister receives Thai delegation...32nd ASEANAPOL Conference opened...Union Foreign Affairs Minister
attends High-level Thematic Debate
on State of World Economy.....
"PERSPECTIVES": "Knowledge-based
industries" |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | News and Periodicals Enterprise, Ministry of Information, Union of Myanmar |
| Format/size: | | pdf (2.8MB) |
| Date of entry/update: | | 24 May 2012 |
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| Title: | | "The New Light of Myanmar" Thursday 24 May 2012
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| Date of publication: | | 24 May 2012 |
| Description/subject: | | DOMESTIC NEWS: Noteworthy amounts of rainfall
(23-5-2012)...Self-reliant concrete steel trust
bridge in Mohnyin to open soon...UMFCCI’s
disaster risk
reduction talks
on 2 June...Kayin State Chief Minister
undertakes regional
development tasks in Kyar-in-
Seikkyi Township...Pyin-nya-nyan library opens
in Kayan Township...Maw Naychi library opens in
Muse Township
...Mandalay Region Chief Minister addresses
meeting for effective reforms in regional
development tasks...National Sanitation Week launched
in Myitkyina...Application for registration as political
party submitted...Kawa Creek-crossing bridge opened in
Kyaikhto Tsp...Union Information and Culture Minister organizes novitiation
ceremony in Pale Tsp...Aye Mya
Thaya new
village opened
in Kunchangon
Tsp...U-5 pediatric centre opened at
Mitta Sanye Clinic of
MMCWA...Public notice for Remonstration (Shan Nationalities League for Democracy)...Union NPED Minister calls for
careful planning...Distribution of electricity with new generators...Reconstruction of Sedawgyi
dam complete...Emergency Ambulance
Foundation to be set up...COLLECTIVE BLOOD DONATION [photo]...OXYGEN CONCENTRATOR DONATED [photo]...Talks on cooperatives
knowledge given in North
Okkalapa Township...Cooperatives Agriculture and Livestock
Course opens in Ayeyawady Region...Pachakalo BEHS (branch)
gets new building...Private schools
running granted...Private schools
running granted.....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Indian Prime Minister and wife to
pay a State visit to Myanmar...President U Thein Sein accepts credentials of Ambassador of Republic of Ghana...President U Thein Sein accepts credentials of Ambassador of Slovak Republic...ATR aircraft for domestic flights...Chief of Armed
Forces Training
receives
Commandant of
National Defence
Studies Institute
(NDSI)...TEIN3 Workshop aims to develop research and
education network in Myanmar...Preparatory meeting for MOH-UNFPA Country
Programme (2012-2015) held...Myanmar UCSB delegation observes CSOs and
Universities of PRC...Myanmar-Thai economic
discussion on 28 May...Export earnings of fishery sector
reaches over 78 million USD...KBZ Bank, SMBC Bank ink MoU on
technical cooperation...Union Transport Minister meets Keppel
Group Chairman...Union A&I Minister receives Indian,
Dutch Ambassadors...Myanmar, Vietnam to cooperate
in banking sector...Union Minister receives foreign guests...Union Energy
Minister
receives Vice
President of
Shell Eastern
Petroleum Ltd...Union F & R Minister meets MDRI,
President’s economic advisor, economists...India to assist bordering regions in
infrastructural development...Union Minister receives Netherland,
Chinese guests...President U Thein Sein accepts credentials
of Ambassador of Kingdom of Netherlands...Myanmar goodwill delegation arrives back.....
"PERSPECTIVES": "Role of parents and teachers in
ensuring better future for children".....ARTICLE: "HONOUR TO HONOUR DUE" BY BA THAN |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | News and Periodicals Enterprise, Ministry of Information, Union of Myanmar |
| Format/size: | | pdf (2.8MB) |
| Date of entry/update: | | 24 May 2012 |
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| Title: | | Catalyst for Conflict - Investments cause renewed war, threatening Ta'ang communities in northern Burma
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| Date of publication: | | 22 May 2012 |
| Description/subject: | | "Despite recent ceasefire agreements and talk of reform in Burma, since January 2012 ethnic Ta'ang areas of northern Burma have experienced increasing militarization and conflict. Fierce battles have broken out in areas that have not seen fighting for over 20 years. Soldiers from the Burma Army have moved from their main bases to live in villages and now regularly patrol local areas, increasing abuses against local populations including killings, beatings, forced labor, and extortion.
The military expansion is directly linked to securing Chinese mega projects. Pipelines that will take oil and gas from Burma to China are currently being built in Ta'ang areas. China is also building two mega dams on the Shweli, the most important river for the Ta'ang, while loggers are cutting down precious teak forests in Ta'ang areas to export timber to China.
Control over natural resources and abuses by the Burma Army are at the heart of local grievances in both Kachin and Shan states where conflict has erupted. in July 2011, a new army, the Ta'ang National Liberation Army (TNLA), was formed under the Palaung state Liberation Front (PSLF) to protect the Ta'ang people. in March this year, pro-government militias in Mantong were given Burma Army weapons to fight the TNLA, using a divide and rule tactic which creates conflict among the Ta'ang people.
As fighting and abuses increase, local people are fleeing for their safety. Since December 2011, over 1,000 have become internally displaced, sheltering in Nam Kham and Mantong. Many have also fled to China, particularly young men avoiding forced conscription and portering. This has had devastating impacts on the annual tea harvest, a critical economic activity for the Ta'ang.
People in northern Shan State, especially in rural areas, have failed to benefit from the much talked about reform in central Burma. Investments are increasing conflict and abuses while not providing benefit to local people. |
| Language: | | English, Burmese |
| Source/publisher: | | Ta'ang Students and Youth Organization |
| Format/size: | | pdf (English: 1.2MB-OBL version; 1.61MB-original; Burmese: 1.3MB-OBL version; 4.44MB-original) |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://www.burmalibrary.org/docs13/Catalyst_for_Conflict(bu)-red.pdf
http://www.palaungland.org/media/Report/catalystforconflict/English.pdf
http://www.palaungland.org/media/Report/catalystforconflict/Burmese.pdf
www.palaungland.org |
| Date of entry/update: | | 23 May 2012 |
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| Title: | | "The New Light of Myanmar" Monday 21 May 2012
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| Date of publication: | | 21 May 2012 |
| Description/subject: | | DOMESTIC NEWS: Second Union level peace talks between
Union Peace-making Work Committee
and RCSS/SSA held...Maintenance of Shwesangyoung bridge, Pathein-
Monywa road, Nay Pyi Taw-Taungnyo-Myothit-
Kanpya (Magway) road inspected...Union Transport Minister visits
Botahtaung Jetty, Pansodan-Dalla ferry
ticket counter, IWT Delta Division...Prophet Day
marked...Refresher course for issuance
of Sama registration for
doctors opens...Road accident stemmed from
failure to observe traffic rules
leaves five dead, 12 wounded...Tour guide entrance exam held...Pathein Expo-2012 kicks off...Union A & I Minister visits 66-acre Palethwe
hybrid paddy plantation in Ottwin...Those who
handed over
ancient cultural
objects rewarded...Kutkai-Karlaing rural tarred
road commissioned into
service in Kutkai...Talk on
Media & The
Public to be
held at MFF
on 26 May...Literary talks given, books donated...Traffic rules
checked in
KhinU
Township...Saplings nurtured in Hsipaw to
conserve environment...New library building opened in Twantay Township...Pyinnyatagon library opened in Ottwin Township...Township Writers Association
formed in Maubin...Mawlamyinegyun gets school shelter...Library multiplier course
(1/2012) opens in Dagon
Myothit (South)...Fire drill
demonstrated in
Tachilek...Student-centered approach teaching method
course opens in Labutta...Respect-paying
ceremony of
Ponnagyun
(BEHS) alumni...Self-reliant wooden bridge
built in Mawlu model village...New delivery
ward opens in
Shwegu
Township...Educative talks on landscapes
held in Minhla...International Nurses Day observed
in Thanbyuzayat...Linyaungyi library opens in
Kungyangon Township...Myanma Airways changes
domestic flight fare rates...First aid course opens in
Yesagyo...Cash donated for education
fund in Mawlamyine...Farming faces shortage of farm workers...Union Sports Minister
encourages athletes in
training.....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Union CPT Minister attends Korea
Communications Conference...33rd Asia Pacific Junior Golf
Championship concludes.....
"PERSPECTIVES": "Geographical opportunity" |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | News and Periodicals Enterprise, Ministry of Information, Union of Myanmar |
| Format/size: | | pdf (2.4MB) |
| Date of entry/update: | | 21 May 2012 |
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| Title: | | Undertain Ground: Landmines in eastern Burma
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| Date of publication: | | 21 May 2012 |
| Description/subject: | | "Analysis of KHRG's field information gathered between January 2011 and May 2012 in seven geographic research areas indicates that, during that period, new landmines were deployed by government and non-state armed groups (NSAGs) in all seven research areas. Ongoing mine contamination in eastern Burma continues to put civilians' lives and livelihoods at risk and undermines their efforts to protect against other forms of abuse. There is an urgent need for humanitarian mine action that accords primacy to local protection priorities and builds on the strategies villagers themselves already employ in response to the threat of landmines. In the cases where civilians view landmines as a potential source of protection, there is an equally urgent need for viable alternatives that expand self-protection options beyond reliance on the use of mines. Key findings in this report were drawn based upon analysis of seven themes, including: New use of landmines; Movement restrictions resulting from landmines; Marking and removal of landmines; Forced labour entailing increased landmine risks; Human mine sweeping, forced mine clearance and human shields; Landmine-related death or injury; and Use of landmines for self-protection." |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Karen Human Rights Group (KHRG) |
| Format/size: | | pdf (2.8MB-OBL version; 4.3MB-original), html |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://www.khrg.org/khrg2012/khrg1201.html
http://www.khrg.org/khrg2012/khrg1201.pdf |
| Date of entry/update: | | 21 May 2012 |
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| Title: | | "The New Light of Myanmar" Sunday 20 May 2012
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| Date of publication: | | 20 May 2012 |
| Description/subject: | | DOMESTIC NEWS: Vice-President Dr Sai Mauk Kham, wife
Daw Nan Shwe Hmon attend ceremony to honour
monks who passed Tipitaka Examination...Union Information and Culture Minister meets
Myanmar Historical Commission members...Sagaing Region Chief Minister attends launch of water
distribution to Sagaing...Four towers from Shweli-Mansan national
grid damaged in KIA’s mine blast...Pamphlets on traffic rules distributed on
Yangon-Pyay Highway...Mandalay Export & Car Show held in
Mandalay...Books, publications donated to library in
Zeyathiri Township...Fire breaks out in Myitnge, blazing one
house...Nay Pyi Taw FC to open football academy...MLF invites
cash, book
donations...Farmers of Mandalay Region observes thriving
Shwetaung hybrid paddy plantations...Bahan Township Writers Association
reconstituted...Oxygen concentrator donated to hospital...Youths to conserve environment in Sagaing...Dagon Myothit (North)
Township reconstitutes writers
association...New bridges commissioned in
Mawlamyinegyun Township...Fischer Random Chess
Tournament 28 May-5 June...Agricultural technology course
kicks off...Pyinnyadana tuition opened in
Nyaunglebin...Mongkhok Sub-Township gets new rural
health branch...Social
association
holds coord
meeting...North Okkalapa Township Writers
Association reconstituted...Kodukwe Dam, Salu Dam and
Shwelaung Dam in Bago
Township opened...Specialists render free medical treatment
in Kayin State...Auxiliary firefighter refresher
course wraps up...National Education Promotion (Higher
Education Sector) Seminar opened...Tarung Derajat sport referee and coaching
course concludes...Matriculation subjects taught
to students before one month
ahead of opening schools...Child-centred teaching course
opens in Yamethin...Traditional sport tug-of-war
held in Yesagyo...Assistance provided to students
in Pyapon...Generator launched, library opened in
Lewe Township...Vice-President Dr Sai Mauk Kham inspects MITT, Myanmar Maritime
University, Thilawa Industrial Zone, Yangon Railway Station...Noteworthy amounts
of rainfall (19-5-2012).....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: MOC General Secretary
meets swimmers...Obama nominates
ambassador to Myanmar...Tournament Organization Course for Table
Tennis 2012 commences...This is a moment for us to recognize that progress which has occurred in
last year toward democratization and national reconciliation is irreversible -
New steps announced to permit American investment in
country and export of US financial services -
Let’s all work together to create jobs, opportunity, and support reform.....
"PERSPECTIVES": "Lethargy has no place
among us" |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | News and Periodicals Enterprise, Ministry of Information, Union of Myanmar |
| Format/size: | | pdf (2.4MB) |
| Date of entry/update: | | 20 May 2012 |
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| Title: | | "The Myanmar Times" (Burmese) 17 May 2012- Vol. 29, No.569"ျမန္မာတိုင္း(မ္)"အတြဲ ၂၉ ၊ အမွတ္ ၅၆၉ ၊ ၁၇-၅-၂၀၁၂ တြင္ လႊင့္တင္သည္
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| Date of publication: | | 17 May 2012 |
| Description/subject: | | ႏွစ္ရက္ၾကာ ခရီးစဥ္တြင္ ေတာင္ကိုရီးယားသမၼတ ၎လိုလားခ်က္မ်ားကို ထုတ္ေဖာ္ ေျပာၾကားခဲ့... ထိုင္းအစိုးရက မူးယစ္ရာဇာအျဖစ္ စြပ္စြဲခ်က္
အေပၚ ျပည္တြင္း၌အစစ္ေဆးခံရန္ ဒီေကဘီေအေခါင္းေဆာင္ အဆင္သင့္ရိွ... တိုင္းရင္းသားေဒသမ်ားတြင္ ပိုမိုရင္းႏွီးျမႇဳပ္ႏွံသင့္... ဇြန္လကုန္တြင္ သတင္းဂ်ာနယ္မ်ားအားလုံး စိစစ္ေရး ကင္းလြတ္ခြင့္ေပး မည္... ဖေယာင္းသုတ္မႈ တိုင္ၾကားခ်က္မွာ ႐ံုးခြဲမ်ား၏ တင္ျပခ်က္အေပၚ မူတည္တိုင္ၾကားျခင္းဟုဆို... အင္အားႀကီးပါတီသံုးခုက ညီလာခံ က်င္းပ ရန္ စီစဥ္ေန... ဘုရင့္ေနာင္တံတား ျဖတ္သန္းအသုံးျပဳခ သာမန္ တံတားအဆင့္ ႏႈန္းထားအတုိင္း ေလွ်ာ့ခ် သတ္မွတ္ေပး ရန္ ေတာင္းဆုိ... ေရႊနံ႔သာ လယ္ေျမေနရာ တြင္ ႏွစ္ဖက္စလုံးအား လုပ္ကိုင္ခြင့္ ရက္အကန္႔အသတ္မရွိ တားျမစ္ထား... သက္ႀကီးရြယ္အုိ မ်ားအတြက္ ေပၚလစီ ခ်မွတ္ေတာ့မည္... 'အသည္းေအးတဲ့ ဘဲေလး'အကကို ပရိသတ္နဲ႔ မိတ္ဆက္ေပးခဲ့သူ ကြယ္လြန္... ျပည္သူမ်ားက အေျပာင္းအလဲ လိုလားေနေၾကာင္းကုိ ၾကားျဖတ္ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲက ျပသခဲ့ဟု သမၼတေျပာၾကား... ပထမဆံုး ဖြဲ႕စည္းလိုက္ေသာ အလုပ္သမား အဖြဲ႕အစည္းမ်ားႏွင့္ အိုင္အယ္လ္အို တုိ႔ ေတြ႕ဆံုေဆြးေႏြး... ျခစားမႈမ်ား အား မီဒီယာမ်ားက တိုက္ဖ်က္ရန္ ပိုလန္၀န္ႀကီး တိုက္တြန္း... ေရေၾကာင္းအဖြဲ႕၏ စံစာရင္း၌ အခ်ိန္မီပါရွိေရး သေဘၤာသားမ်ား စိုးရိမ္... အေျပာင္းအလဲကာလမွာ ပိုမိုျပင္ဆင္ထားဖို႔ လိုအပ္လာတဲ့ လူမႈအဖြဲ႕အစည္းမ်ားရဲ႕က႑... စစ္ေဘးသင့္ ကခ်င္ျပည္သူတို႔ မုိးကာလ ရွင္သန္ႏုိင္ေရး ႏုိင္ငံတကာ အဖြဲ႕အစည္းေျခာက္ခု ကြင္းဆင္းၾကည့္႐ႈ... ကြဲကြာေနေသာ မိသားစု၀င္ မ်ား ၾကက္ေျခနီ အသင္းက ရွာေဖြေပးမည္... ပ်ဴၿမိဳ႕ေတာ္သံုးခုအား ကမၻာ့ယဥ္ေက်းမႈ စာရင္းတင္သြင္းျခင္းကုိ ၂၀၁၃ ခုႏွစ္ ေဖေဖာ္၀ါရီလအမီ ေဆာင္ရြက္သြားရန္ စီစဥ္... ျမန္မာ့ႂကြယ္၀မႈမ်ားကို ႏိုင္ငံတကာသို႔ လက္ကမ္းလုိက္ၿပီ... တ႐ုတ္ႏိုင္ငံမွ ရင္းႏွီးျမႇဳပ္ႏွံမႈမ်ား ထပ္မံ ၀င္ေရာက္လာမည္... ရာသီကုန္ခ်ိန္ထိ ေျမပဲဆန္တ႐ုတ္၀ယ္လက္ ရွိမည္မွန္း... ေဇာတိက စီမံကိန္းအတြက္ စာခ်ဳပ္မ်ား ခ်ဳပ္ဆို... ကားတင္သြင္းမႈ မူ၀ါဒအေျပာင္းအလဲေၾကာင့္ ေဈးကြက္အတြင္း အက္ဖ္အီးစီ လဲလွယ္ႏႈန္းမ်ား ျမင့္တက္လာ... ေဈးကြက္တြင္း ကားေဈးႏႈန္း ဆက္လက္ က်ဆင္းဖြယ္ရွိ... လိုင္စင္ရကန္ထ႐ိုက္ လုပ္ငန္းအာမခံေၾကး က်ပ္သိန္း ၅၀၀ သို႔ ေျပာင္းလဲသတ္မွတ္... လိုင္းႏွစ္လိုင္း အင္တာနက္လိုင္းျပည့္၊ အျခားေလးလိုင္း အင္တာနက္ ဆက္လက္ခံ... အခ်ိန္ပိုင္းသာ မီးလာေပမယ့္ မီတာေၾကးကိုမူ ယခင္လမ်ား ထက္ ႏွစ္ဆနီး ပါး ေပးေနရ... ျမန္မာ့႐ိုးရာေရႊထီးလုပ္ငန္း မိ႐ိုးဖလာ လုပ္ငန္းအျဖစ္သာ ရွိေန... 'န' ၊ 'ပ' အကၡရာၿပီးက တကၠစီႏွင့္စီးလုံးငွားယာဥ္ ကားသစ္ လဲခြင့္ မေသခ်ာေသး... ႐ုပ္ရွင္အစည္းအ႐ုံးသစ္မွ ေတာင္းဆုိခ်က္
ရွစ္ခ်က္ကို ျပန္ၾကားေရး၀န္ႀကီး ျပန္လည္ေဆြးေႏြးခဲ့... ေတာင္တ႐ုတ္ပင္လယ္တြင္ စစ္ျပင္ဆင္ျခင္းမရွိဟု တ႐ုတ္ဆို... ဖိလစ္ပိုင္ဆႏၵျပမႈ တ႐ုတ္ႏုိင္ငံသားမ်ားအား သတိေပး... နီေပါႏိုင္ငံတြင္ ေလယာဥ္ပ်က္က်၍ ၁၅ ဦး ေသဆံုး... ၀ါသနာအရင္းခံ ဘန္ကီမြန္း ေဘာလံုးပြဲတြင္ေခ်ာ္လဲ အ႐ုိးအက္... ၿမိဳ႕ေတာ္ ဂ်ကာတာမွ စည္းကမ္းခ်ဳိးေဖာက္၍ ၀င္ေငြ ရွာေနေသာ 'ေဂ်ာ္ကီ' ႏွင့္ ကိုယ္ပိုင္ ယာဥ္ေမာင္းမ်ား... အာဖဂန္ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရး ညႇိႏႈိင္းေရးမႉး ကဘူးလ္တြင္ ပစ္သတ္ခံလိုက္ရ... အေမရိကန္ သြားမည့္ ေလယာဥ္ကို ေဖာက္ခြဲရန္ အယ္လ္ေကဒါ အဖြဲ႕၏ အၾကံအစည္ပ်က္ျပားသြား... ႏုိင္ငံျခားမွ တိုက္႐ုိက္ရင္းႏွီးျမႇဳပ္ႏွံမႈဟိုတယ္မ်ား ေကာ္မတီ ဖြဲ႕စည္း... |
| Language: | | Burmese/ ျမန္မာဘာသာ |
| Source/publisher: | | Myanmar Consolidated Media Co.Ltd. |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 19 May 2012 |
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"The Myanmar Times"
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"The Myanmar Times" (Burmese) 2012/ ျမန္မာတိုင္းမ္- ၂၀၁၂
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| Title: | | Myanmar Steps up Contract Farming
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| Date of publication: | | 06 October 2008 |
| Description/subject: | | "MYANMAR - The development of a contract farming zone in the suburban township of Yangon division is being stepped up, supported by private entrepreneurs. Almost one-third of farms there keep poultry.
According to Chinese sources, a state-backed Myanmar newspaper describes the Yangon division special integrated farming zone, set up in Nyaunghnapin village, Hmawby township, as made up of some sub-zones where undertakings including the raising of poultry, growing of beans and pulses, and physic nuts as well as fish breeding, are carried out...." |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | The Poultry Site |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 19 May 2012 |
| | ML > Land (under construction)
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Land in Burma
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Agriculture in Burma
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Contract farming
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| Title: | | Results of HIV Sentinel Sero-surveillance 2009 Myanmar
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| Date of publication: | | May 2010 |
| Description/subject: | | Table of contents:
1. Background
2. Methodology
3. HIV Antibody Testing
4. Data analysis
5. Findings
5.1. Sample collection
5.2. HIV prevalence by sentinel population
5.3. HIV prevalence by sex and age
5.4. HIV prevalence by place of residence and marital status
5.5. Results of syphilis screening
6. HIV trends over time
6.1. HIV prevalence among low risk population 1992-2009
6.2. HIV prevalence among young population
7. Decentralization of HIV testing
8. Limitations
9. Recommendations
9.1. Recommendations for programme implementation
9.2. Recommendations for surveillance
9.3. Recommendations for research...
Annexes |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | National AIDS Programme Department of Health Ministry of Health |
| Format/size: | | pdf (1.1MB) |
| Date of entry/update: | | 19 May 2012 |
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Threats to Health
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Diseases
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Communicable (infectious) diseases
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HIV/AIDS
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| Title: | | "The New Light of Myanmar" Saturday 19 May 2012
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| Date of publication: | | 19 May 2012 |
| Description/subject: | | DOMESTIC NEWS: Formation of Union Peace-making Central Committee [Order No.11/2012]...Formation of Union Peace-making Work Committee [Order No. 12/2012]...Vice-President Dr Sai Mauk Kham inspects sports grounds,
Hledan Overpass construction project in Yangon...Dy Construction Minister inspects roads, bridges works...Plenary meeting on forming Pabedan
Township Writers Association...Motorboats under maintenance before rainy
season...Township Writers Association reconstituted in
Yankin Township... Cash donated to fund for
construction of walls...Workshop on rights of child held in Sittway...Kamayut Township
reconstitutes writers association...Respects paid to doyen literati...Self-reliant supply of electricity
undertaken in Yedashe Township...EXHIBITION OPENED:
Yangon ICT Exhibition [photo]...Child-centred teaching course 12-22 May...Fire destroys two houses in Ye...New tractors transported for state and region governments...Kayah farmers observe Palethwe hybrid
paddy plantations in Nay Pyi Taw...Sagaing Region Chief Minister inspects
foundry in Monywa...UMFCCI to hold its 21st
anniversary in Nay Pyi Taw...How to address climate change in
Central Myanmar discussed...UMFCCI to hold
talk on 19 May...Fire breaks out in Mahlaing Township...Yamethin Township WJA
holds plenary meeting...MDA to hold educative talk...Phu Pwint Wai Library put into
service in Hmawby Township...Stake drive for school building
in Muse...ROAD INAUGURATED: Self-reliant Khaingthitsa
concrete road was opened at the road [photo]...RMGCC 3rd Anniversary
Charity golf tournament to
kicks off on 26 May...Labutta TV Retransmission
Station starts airing programmes
through UHF system...Briefing on recounting 22nd
AGM of Chin State MCWSC...Educational fund contributed to
Mawlamyine MTE...Noteworthy amounts of
rainfall
(18-5-2012).....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Union I&C Minister receives Secretary-General
of CNIE and party...Deputy H & T Minister meets JMA
Chairman...63rd ASEAN Science and Technology
Committee Meeting concludes...Union Minister for Information and for Culture
receives representatives of Chinese company...Union F&R Minister
receives US, Japanese
guests separately...AFC (C) Certificate Coaching Course, MA
Referee’s Course commence...Vietnam to invest in rice sector for first time...MWEA member leaves for
Thailand...Chairman of Constitutional Tribunal and
party leave for ROK.....
"PERSPECTIVES": "Adapt or die" [need for State-owned enterprises to become more efficient].....
ARTICLE: "Towards a sound financial system: Regime Change"
By San Thein [exchange rates] |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | News and Periodicals Enterprise, Ministry of Information, Union of Myanmar |
| Format/size: | | pdf (2.3MB) |
| Date of entry/update: | | 18 May 2012 |
| | RR > Print and broadcast media produced by the Government of Burma/Myanmar
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Full, original versions of "The New Light of Myanmar", "Kyemon" and "Myanmar Alin"
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"The New Light of Myanmar" 2012
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| Title: | | Burma to rejoin U.N. tourism group
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| Date of publication: | | 16 May 2012 |
| Description/subject: | | "Burma is seeking renewed membership in the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO ), according to UNWTO Secretary-General Taleb Rifai.
He said President Thein Sein officially informed him that Burma wanted to rejoin the organization, as it is in the midst of upgrading its tourism sector..." |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Mizzima News |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 17 May 2012 |
| | ML > Tourism
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Tourism in Burma - descriptive/analytical
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| Title: | | Institutional Design for Divided Societies: A Blue-print for a multi-ethnic Burma
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| Date of publication: | | May 2012 |
| Description/subject: | | "The retrospective analysis of an institutional breakdown – democratic breakdown – in the union of Burma demonstrates that over six decades of conflict in Burma is rooted in a constitutional arrangement that fails to recognize the existence of ethno-cultural cleavages, resulting in the denial of power to territorially concentrated ethnic national minorities. Therefore, in this article, I argue that an asymmetrical federation with a written constitution is the most viable governance framework for a democratic future Burma due to its multi-ethnic segmental cleavages such as ethnicity, language, religion, culture, and territory. Such a constitutional federation will ensure shared rule for a common Union and self-rule for federating states drawn upon ethnic lines.
To contextualize an institutional design for future Burma in a comparative international perspective, I examine the core arguments put forward by the integrationist and accommodationist camps as a theoretical framework within which to discuss the management of societal divisions, including their implications and applicability to Burma. To prove that a constitutional federation that draws together elements of both integrationist and accommodationist theory, I revisit and analyse reasons behind the constitutional crises of Burma, the basis upon which Burma emerged as a country, the composition of its ethnic fragmentations, and competing visions of the Union of Burma itself. With respect to an institutional design for a future Burma, there are two main components in my proposal: a disproportional upper chamber in the union legislature, whereby I envision an equal number of representatives from each constituent state; and separate legislatures and constitutions for each federating unit, dividing power between central and state governments along the line of US states and Canadian provinces. Lastly, I look at the current provisional constitution drafted by leaders of a democratic opposition – seven ethnic national minorities - in anticipation of a future federal Union of Burma..." |
| Author/creator: | | Zaceu Lian |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Burma Centre for Ethnic Studies (Working Paper No. 1) |
| Format/size: | | pdf (377K - OBL version; 868K - original) |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://burmaethnicstudies.net/pdf/BCES-WP-1.pdf |
| Date of entry/update: | | 17 May 2012 |
| | ML > Law and Constitution
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Constitutional and parliamentary processes
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National and State constitutions, draft constitutions and amendments (commentary)
Civil War
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The Civil War in Burma (under reconstruction)
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Burma Centre for Ethnic Studies (BCES)
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| Title: | | Constitutionalism Before Constitutions: Burma's Struggle to Build a New Order
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| Date of publication: | | 2009 |
| Description/subject: | | "In at least some cases - and Burma is one - seeking trust, integration,
and unity in the abstract may be neither useful nor even possible. Instead, a
reconciliation process should seek, quite specifically, to find constitutional
common ground well before drafting begins; it should be oriented toward
developing a shared constitutional vision that will provide the warring sides
with reason to commit to the new proposed regime. As the contending sides
come to realize that they might share specific and concrete constitutional
desires, they also come to realize that cohabitation might be possible. The moral of the story is that constitution making (broadly defined) is part and
parcel of the creation of social integrity and not merely its consequence...Part I offers an overview of the constitutional history of Burma to the
year 2000. Part II explains the constitutional processes going on today-not
only the military government's "roadmap to democracy" but also the
democracy movement's alternative process (or processes, depending on your
perspective). As will become plain, the two processes are very different: the
junta's roadmap has yielded a written constitution that will shortly become
the law of the land but which lacks all legitimacy.6 By contrast, the
democracy movement's alternative will not become sovereign law anytime
soon, but it has set in train social dynamics that might, in the long run, build the conditions necessary for genuine constitutional rule..." |
| Author/creator: | | David C. Williams |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Indiana University Maurer School of Law Faculty Publications. Paper 492. |
| Format/size: | | pdf (740K-OBL version; 2.42K - original) |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://www.repository.law.indiana.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1492&context=facpub |
| Date of entry/update: | | 17 May 2012 |
| | ML > Law and Constitution
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Constitutional and parliamentary processes
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National and State constitutions, draft constitutions and amendments (commentary)
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| Title: | | "The New Light of Myanmar" Thursday 17 May 2012
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| Date of publication: | | 17 May 2012 |
| Description/subject: | | DOMESTIC NEWS: Press Council to come into existence soon
serving as genuine Fourth Estate...Newly recorded maximum
temperature in Chauk...63rd Meeting of Committee on Science
and Technology kicks off...Application for registration as
political party submitted [Asho Chin National Party]...Police Code of Conduct Test
held in Yamethin...Union Information and Culture Minister addresses
Pakokku Literary Award, Scholarship, Pakokku
Library Book Award Presentation Ceremony...Third liaison office of KNU opened in
Phayathonzu...Advanced computer course
concludes at DBE-1...Free funeral services given in
Mandalay...Mawlamyinegyun opens
self-reliant rural library...Hinthada Township constitutes writers association...Stake driven for construction of school building
in Shwepyitha Township...250 boys initiated into novice
hood in Dedaye...Water poured
at Bo tree in
Falam...Village libraries put into
service in Hmawby Township...CRIME REDUCTION TALKED [photo]...Talks on crime free week given in Thingangyun...Self-reliant earthen road constructed in
Yedashe Township...Information for trafficking in person...School-based disaster risk
reduction opens in Tachilek...Football clubs of Mandalay
Region meet...Self-reliant hydropower
station launched in Loikaw
Township...Significant Day
Temperatures
(16-5-2012).....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: President U Thein Sein felicitates
His Majesty King of Norway...President U Thein Sein felicitates
Norwegian Prime Minister...President U Thein Sein accepts credentials of Turkish Ambassador...Union FM felicitates Norwegian
counterpart...Union Health Minister receives
UNICEF Director...China-Myanmar Paukphaw
Friendship Concert held...Dy CPT Minister receives Executive
Director of First Pacific Company...UMFCCI President, ADB
Director-General hold talks...Member of Central Politburo of CPC
and party conclude visit...Cash donated for social welfare works...UMFCCI Vice-Presidents meet Italy
delegation...Mandalay to host women’s football
tournament in SEA Games...President U Thein Sein accepts credentials of Pakistani Ambassador...Union Minister for Foreign Affairs
back from Singapore.....
"PERSPECTIVES": "Use your energy to boost
your health".....
ARTICLE: "PAGODAS, MYTH AND MYSTIQUE" BY BA THAN |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | News and Periodicals Enterprise, Ministry of Information, Union of Myanmar |
| Format/size: | | pdf (2.4MB) |
| Date of entry/update: | | 17 May 2012 |
| | RR > Print and broadcast media produced by the Government of Burma/Myanmar
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Full, original versions of "The New Light of Myanmar", "Kyemon" and "Myanmar Alin"
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"The New Light of Myanmar" 2012
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| Title: | | MYANMAR: Census offers hope to ethnic groups
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| Date of publication: | | 16 May 2012 |
| Description/subject: | | CHIANG MAI, 16 May 2012 (IRIN) - "A recent decision to undertake a national census could prove key to empowering Myanmar’s more than 100 ethnic groups, provided it is inclusive and conducted to international standards.
“Potentially, the census would have a very positive affect on the ethnic areas and could serve to support claims for ethnic rights in education, language and culture that in some areas is repressed by the state and military,” David Scott Mathieson, a senior researcher in the Asia division of Human Rights Watch (HRW), told IRIN.
The government lists 135 ethnic groups, comprising more than a third of Burma’s 55 million inhabitants, which are grouped into eight national races: Burman, Kachin, Kayah, Karen, Chin, Mon, Rakhine and Shan.
The United Nations agreed on 30 April 2012 to assist the Burmese government in conducting its first census in 31 years. The project will start in April 2014, ahead of the next general election in 2015..." |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | IRIN |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 17 May 2012 |
| | ML > Non-Burman and non-Buddhist groups
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Ethnic groups in Burma: general studies and articles
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| Title: | | MYANMAR: Cross-line NGOs in Kachin need support...MYANMAR: Les ONG qui travaillent des deux côtés du conflit ont besoin d’aide
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| Date of publication: | | 11 April 2012 |
| Description/subject: | | Thousands of displaced remain in need...
YANGON, 11 April 2012 (IRIN) - "Local NGOs in northern Myanmar with access to both sides of an ongoing conflict between government forces and the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) are playing a key role in addressing the needs of thousands of displaced.
There are four local cross-line Burmese NGOs and community-based groups: Karuna Myanmar Social Services (KMSS), the Metta Development Foundation, the Kachin Baptist Convention (KBC) and the Shalom Foundation.
“We are working between two warring parties - this is the biggest challenge we face,” Win Tun Kyi, programme coordinator for KMSS, a faith-based group affiliated with the Catholic Church, told IRIN.
“It’s already been 10 months [of being displaced] - these people have suffered too much,” said Sai Sam Kham, executive director of Metta, citing food, shelter, water and sanitation, and psychosocial support as the primary needs.
The UN estimates that up to 55,000 people have been displaced by fighting inside Myanmar between government forces and the KIA, since the collapse of a 17-year ceasefire between the two sides in June 2011.
The KIA has been fighting for greater autonomy from the country’s central government since 1961.
Around 20,000 of the displaced are living in government-controlled areas, up to 35,000 more are in KIA-controlled areas; mostly in camps, and another several thousand are believed to be staying with host families across the border in China..."..."...Les organisations non gouvernementales (ONG) locales qui ont accès aux victimes des deux côtés du conflit opposant les forces gouvernementales à l’Armée pour l’indépendance du Kachin (KIA) dans le nord du Myanmar jouent un rôle clé dans la réponse aux besoins de milliers de personnes déplacées.
Quatre ONG locales et groupes communautaires birmans interviennent auprès des victimes des deux côtés du conflit : Karuna Myanmar Social Services (KMSS), la Metta Development Foundation, la Kachin Baptist Convention (KBC) et la Shalom Foundation.
« Nous sommes pris entre les parties en conflit – C’est le plus grand défi auquel nous sommes confrontés », a dit à IRIN Win Tun Kyi, coordinateur de programme auprès de KMSS, un groupe confessionnel catholique.
« Cela fait déjà dix mois [qu’elles sont déplacées] – ces populations ont beaucoup trop souffert », a dit Sai Sam Kham, directeur exécutif de Metta, qui a indiqué que les besoins de bases incluent la nourriture, les abris, l’eau, l’hygiène et les soutiens psychologiques.
Les Nations Unies estiment que plus de 60 000 personnes ont été déplacées par les combats entre les forces gouvernementales et la KIA depuis la fin d’un cessez-le-feu vieux de 17 ans entre les deux camps en juin 2011.
Depuis 1961, la KIA lutte pour obtenir une plus grande autonomie par rapport au gouvernement central du Myanmar.
Quelque 20 000 personnes déplacées vivent dans les zones contrôlées par le gouvernement et jusqu’à 40 000 sont installées dans les zones tenues par la KIA ; la plupart d’entre elles résident dans des camps, et quelques milliers d’autres seraient accueillies par des membres de leur famille en Chine..." |
| Language: | | English, Français, French, |
| Source/publisher: | | IRIN |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://www.irinnews.org/fr/Report/95278/MYANMAR-Les-ONG-qui-travaillent-des-deux-c%C3%B4t%C3%A9s-du... |
| Date of entry/update: | | 17 May 2012 |
| | ML > Civil War
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The Civil War in Burma (under reconstruction)
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Civil war in Burma - conflict in particular States
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Civil war in Burma - Kachin State
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Kachin State - the humanitarian situation
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| Title: | | "The Myanmar Times" May 14 - 20, 2012, Volume 32, No. 626
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| Date of publication: | | 20 May 2012 |
| Description/subject: | | NEWS: Car prices dive after rule change;
Zaykabar defies order on farmland;
Sad memories of conflict linger on;
Positive steps for peace in Kachin but IDPs need more;
DKBA defiant over drug claims;
U Thein Sein: Myanmar’s next Nobel Peace Prize winner?
President reshuffles peace team;
Wig factory workers win big wage rise;
Speaker, hluttaw representatives visit foreign parliaments over recess;
Room rate dispute harming industry;
World tourism body, govt set to restart cooperation;
IWT raises fares for foreigners;
UNICEF regional head to visit this week;
A clarion call to prospective donors;
Daw Suu gets passport;
Words alone will not bring peace: Saboi Jum;
INGOs survey needs in Kachin camps;
NLD backs away from ‘waxed’ ballot claim;
Polish FM urges journalists to tackle corruption;
Business travellers to get VOA from June...BUSINESS & PROPERTY: FEC rises after car import notice;
Shrimp prices double;
PTTEPI signs Zawtika construction work contracts;
FDI report outlines opportunities, risks;
CNG pipeline near Htantabin fixed after 20 hours;
Myanmar needs policy reform for growth: IMF;
Insurance industry set for privatisation;
Casablanca’s old core crumbles;
Indian architect warns of urban breakdown;
Lima’s sacred, pre-Inca ruins fall prey to growth...TECHNOLOGY: Slow internet upsets users;
Japanese firm Sharp to sell talking robot vacuum cleaner;
Yahoo launches probe in CEO credentials flap...TIMEOUT: Photos of Daw Suu Kyi to go on display;
Indonesian Islamists threaten to prevent Lady Gaga concert;
Dancers gather to mark U Po Sein anniversary;
New Iggy Pop album shuns ‘humiliating’ record labels;
Hollywood gives up the explosion, embraces the implosion;
Monroe beckons film world to Cannes...TRAVEL...SPORT: AFC run ends for Myanmar clubs...EVENTS FLASH: Trade and car expo;
Solo art show;
Group art show;
Photo contest;
Male model contest;
Free art classes;
Song contest...YOUR STARS...FLIGHT SCHEDULES: ["Subject to change
without notice"]...TEA BREAK |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Myanmar Consolidated Media Co. Ltd |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 17 May 2012 |
| | RR > Private sector publications produced under censorship restrictions
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Weekly magazines
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"The Myanmar Times"
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"The Myanmar Times" (English) 2012
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| Title: | | Why ceasefires fail in Myanmar
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| Date of publication: | | 18 May 2012 |
| Description/subject: | | "In northern Myanmar, government troops continue to push into the heartland of the ethnic Kachin armed opposition. Next month, the renewed conflict will mark its first birthday, and while protracted fighting has eased in other areas of the ethnically diverse country, the battle for Kachin State rages on.
The limited gains made by government negotiators with at least six ethnic rebel groups over the past year make the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) something of an anomaly. Lower House member of parliament Aung Thaung, whose hawkish persona was seen as ripe for the recalcitrant group, was recently retired from his post as peace broker. More than five high-level meetings with Kachin officials failed to net a result, and as additional battalions are deployed to the frontline, the prospect of a ceasefire anytime soon seems unlikely.
The narrative runs that the Kachin distrust the government, which they fear could renege on an agreement and rekindle the conflict at any time. But their reluctance to sign a ceasefire runs deeper; indeed it is their experience with the recent era of "peace" that makes the three-point roadmap demanded by Aung Thaung - entailing a ceasefire and then economic development before cementing a political solution - so objectionable.
Among Kachin civilians, the 1994 ceasefire deal was seen to facilitate the rapacious development of the state, which 33 years of insurgency had somewhat stifled. The inflow of investment came with alarming levels of environmental degradation, particularly around areas rich in minerals, timber and hydropower potential. While the abuses associated with fighting lessened, including forced portering and rape, the number of people displaced by the development drive may well have taken a heavier toll than the years of conflict..." |
| Author/creator: | | Francis Wade |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | "Asia Times Online" |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 17 May 2012 |
| | ML > Civil War
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The Civil War in Burma (under reconstruction)
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Civil war in Burma - conflict in particular States
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Civil war in Burma - Kachin State
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Kachin State - ceasefires and ceasefire talks
Development (and mis-development)
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Development and the civil war
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| Title: | | "The New Light of Myanmar" Friday 18 May 2012
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| Date of publication: | | 18 May 2012 |
| Description/subject: | | DOMESTIC NEWS: Union I & C Minister attends meeting on preservation
of nationalities’ cultural heritage...Yangon Region Chief Minister inspects
development undertakings...MYANMAR GAZETTE...Blood donated to mark
Mothers’ Day...Sustainability of libraries, need for people to really
engage in reading and emergence of libraries in every
village are the objectives to be realized by MLF...Durain, mangosteen
marketable in Toungoo
market...100th Year Anniversary Concert of Song
Composer U Ba Thein (Mandalay) staged...
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Vice-President Dr Sai Mauk Kham
receives Assistant Secretary General of
United Nations Development Program...Vice-President Dr Sai Mauk Kham receives United Nations
Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Asia and Pacific...Union Health Minister meets Special Adviser
to UN Secretary General...Union Minister for Labour and for
SWRR meets special advisor to UNSG...US-based Foreign Affairs magazine
interviews Union Transport Minister...Union Hotels & Tourism Minister meets
Thai Ambassador to Myanmar...Union Electric Power No. 2 Minister
receives US, Japanese guests...International entrepreneurs meet
departmental officials at MICC...Myanmar-New Zealand hold talks...
"PERSPECTIVES": "Customer satisfaction" [re tourism].....
ARTICLE: |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | News and Periodicals Enterprise, Ministry of Information, Union of Myanmar |
| Format/size: | | pdf (2.4MB) |
| Date of entry/update: | | 17 May 2012 |
| | RR > Print and broadcast media produced by the Government of Burma/Myanmar
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Full, original versions of "The New Light of Myanmar", "Kyemon" and "Myanmar Alin"
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"The New Light of Myanmar" 2012
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| Title: | | Land Grabs Intensify as Burma ‘Reform’ Races Ahead of Law
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| Date of publication: | | 15 May 2012 |
| Description/subject: | | "While foreign governments heap praise on the Burmese government’s liberal tilt, land theft appears to be increasing as state agencies and powerfully placed domestic firms position themselves to welcome foreign investment.
Farmers across the country are being muscled out of their fields with little hope of appeal to the law. This is because despite all the trumpeting in the West about President Thein Sein’s “reforms,” the rule of law in Burma is closer to 12th Century Europe than the 21st Century.
In medieval Europe, land ownership was determined by sharp swords and private armies. In present-day Burma, powerful businesses linked to the army do much the same.
Land confiscation is being reported near the south coast, in the Rangoon region, around Mandalay and in northern areas close to the border with China.
Farmers and their families are being forcibly moved for major projects, such as the oil and gas pipelines being built through the country from the Bay of Bengal to the Chinese border, and for smaller industrial projects by firms with long crony links to the military.
Even where the local authorities have sided with expelled farmers, big businesses feel confident enough to ignore them. Just last week, The Irrawaddy reported how industrial firm Zay Kabar has continued to bulldoze snatched land despite a stop order issued by the administrative office of the Rangoon area’s Mingaladon Township..." |
| Author/creator: | | William Boot |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | "The Irrawaddy" |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 16 May 2012 |
| | ML > Land (under construction)
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Land in Burma
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Tenure
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Tenure insecurity in Burma (including land grabbing)
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| Title: | | S. Korea: Myanmar halting arms purchases from N. Korea
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| Date of publication: | | 15 May 2012 |
| Description/subject: | | "Myanmar's president has confirmed that his country bought weapons from North Korea during the past 20 years and assured his South Korean counterpart that it will no longer do so.
In a meeting with visiting South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, Myanmar President Thein Sein said his country never had nuclear cooperation with North Korea but did have deals for conventional weapons, Lee's presidential Blue House said in an announcement Tuesday.
Thein Sein told Lee that Myanmar will no longer buy weapons from North Korea, honoring a UN ban, South Korean presidential official Kim Tae-hyo told reporters traveling with Lee, according to Blue House officials in Seoul..." |
| Author/creator: | | Aye Aye Win |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Associated Press (AP) |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 16 May 2012 |
| | ML > Foreign Relations
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North Korea (DPRK) -Burma relations
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| Title: | | "The New Light of Myanmar" Wednesday 16 May 2012
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| Date of publication: | | 16 May 2012 |
| Description/subject: | | DOMESTIC NEWS: Cash donated for
installation of lift at
Kyaikthanlan Pagoda...Noteworthy amounts of rainfall
(15-5-2012)...EP-2 Ministry seeking ways to fully supply power
during summer days...Vehicles without licence to be
seized in Mandalay...Greater production of tomatoes
reduces price in Inlay region...Energy forum on 23-24 May...Armed groups realizing benevolence of State
and Tatmadaw return to legal fold...Educative talks on collection of
income tax given...Basic fire fighting course concludes in Zabuthiri
Township...MCDC sets
rules for
vendors...Per acre yield of summer paddy declines due to
pest in Yedashe...Rare bird species of Mottama
to be protected...Entrance fees for Yadanabon
Zoological Gardens rose...Hsipaw plans to grow saplings for
environmental conservation...Preparation for natural
disasters, fire inspected...Information Ministry, in shouldering its
literary duties, has enlisted strength of
literati and artistes in successive eras.....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Vice-President Dr Sai Mauk Kham receives Director of
East Asia and Pacific Regional Office of UNICEF and party...UNHCR personnel meet Union Minister for Border
Affairs and for Myanma Industrial Development...Yangon Region Chief Minister receives Japan-Myanmar
Friendship Association Chairman...UMFCCI receives
Vietnamese, Thai guests...TEIN3 to embark on ASEAN tour from
Myanmar...Myanmar, Bangladesh to hold
border trade meeting...Talk on Rise of China, Implications
for Neighbouring Countries 18 May...UNICEF to continue to
cooperate in children’s
education and health in
Myanmar...Korean President and party conclude visit...US National War College
delegation heads home...ABSDF’s Myanaung, Hinthada bomber seized...Promotion of cooperation with
UNICEF discussed...Dy Education Minister receives Director
from UNICEF...Chinese delegation donates computers to
basic education schools...Price of Bangladesh products rises
at Maungtaw border market...ROK President
Mr Lee Myung-bak
and party leave for
Yangon.....
"PERSPECTIVES": "An-nyung-ha-se-yo!" (re ROK).....
ARTICLE: "Changes never change"
Tin Maung Than |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | News and Periodicals Enterprise, Ministry of Information, Union of Myanmar |
| Format/size: | | pdf (2.5MB) |
| Date of entry/update: | | 16 May 2012 |
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| Title: | | A capitalist class emerges in Myanmar
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| Date of publication: | | 17 May 2012 |
| Description/subject: | | "Myanmar has a widely underestimated array of home-grown business families who are likely to provide the foundation of the country's future capitalist class - and a bulwark against any attack on the core privileges of the military-linked elite.
In the excitement over the opening of the "biggest emerging market opportunity since China", commentaries have portrayed Myanmar in words and images akin to those used in describing America's 19th century Wild West.
The Economist Intelligence Unit recently espied "vast untapped natural resources and land". The International Monetary Fund
Dilbert
says the country could be "the next economic frontier in Asia". Local pundits agree: "Myanmar is the last resourceful investment destination in the Southeast Asian region," said Thinn Htut Thidar, a Yangon-based consultant.
There is undoubtedly truth in these words but they overlook the local tycoons, often disparaged as cronies of the regime, as well as myriad lesser entrepreneurs, whose businesses fill out the space left by the military's own large economic presence..." |
| Author/creator: | | William Barnes |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | "Asia Times Online" |
| Format/size: | | html, pdf (76K) |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://www.burmalibrary.org/docs13/A_capitalist_class_emerges_in_Burma.pdf |
| Date of entry/update: | | 16 May 2012 |
| | ML > From military to civilian rule?
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From military to civilian rule? - Burma: Articles and analyses
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| Title: | | US/Burma: Don’t Lift Sanctions Too Soon Safeguards Needed Before Allowing Investment, Financial Services
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| Date of publication: | | 15 May 2012 |
| Description/subject: | | "The US government should not ease sanctions on business activities in Burma until adequate safeguards are in place to prevent new investment from fueling human rights abuses. A US presidential order imposing a ban on investment and financial services in Burma is scheduled to expire on May 20, 2012, unless it is renewed or revised.
In early April, in response to Burmese government pledges of reform and electoral gains by Burma’s main opposition party, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced that the US government was prepared to relax certain business-related sanctions. A new presidential order easing business restrictions is expected to be issued soon.
“The US government should not reward the Burmese government’s nascent and untested changes by allowing an unregulated business bonanza,” said John Sifton, Asia advocacy director at Human Rights Watch. “Tough rules are needed to ensure that new investments benefit the people of Burma and don’t fuel human rights abuses and corruption, or end up strengthening the military’s control over civilian authorities.”..." |
| Language: | | Engish |
| Source/publisher: | | Human Rights Watch |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 16 May 2012 |
| | ML > Economy
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Investment in Burma/Myanmar
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Debate on Investment in Burma
Economy
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Sanctions
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| Title: | | Burma: Joint Letter from NGOs to U.S. Administration
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| Date of publication: | | 15 May 2012 |
| Description/subject: | | "We are writing to request a meeting with you in the next week to share our strong concern regarding Secretary Clinton’s announcement that the U.S. financial services and investment bans on Burma may be lifted in the very near future.
We understand that President Obama’s extension of E.O. 13047 will expire on May 20, 2012. We urge you to extend E.O. 13047 until proper safeguards are put in place. We urge the Administration to comprehensively update the Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) list before relaxing any business-related sanctions on Burma. While companies are eager to gain a foothold in Burma’s economy, we believe that the goal of promoting positive political reforms in Burma will be jeopardized if new investments or other business activities reward individuals implicated in mass atrocities and other human rights abuses..." |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Human Rights Watch with AFL-CIO, Freedom House, Institute for Asian Democracy, Open Society Foundations, Orion Strategies, Physicians for Human Rights, U.S. Campaign for Burma, United to End Genocide |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 16 May 2012 |
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| Title: | | Pa’an Situation Update: September 2011
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| Date of publication: | | 12 May 2012 |
| Description/subject: | | "This report includes a situation update submitted to KHRG in October 2011 by a villager describing events occurring in Pa’an District, in the period between September and October 2011. Villagers in T’Nay Hsah Township are reported to be subject to demands for forced labour by Border Guard Battalion #1017, specifically to work on Battalion Commander Saw Dih Dih’s own plantations. Information is also provided on an incident that occurred in T’Nay Hsah Township in which the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) Battalion #101’s temporary camp in Kler Law Seh village was attacked with heavy weapons by Border Guard Battalions #1017 and #1019, and by Tatmadaw Light Infantry Division (LID) #22. Since the takeover of the KNLA Battalion #101 camp by Border Guard troops, villagers in T’Nay Hseh Township have experienced an increase in demands for forced labour such as portering, as well as demands for villagers to cook at the Border Guard base and to serve as soldiers in the Border Guard, with payment demanded in lieu of military service. Such abuses are also described in the report, "Pa'an Situation Update: September 2011", published by KHRG on October 24th 2011, and "Pa'an Situation Update: September 2011 to January 2012", published by KHRG on May 2nd 2012. Border Guard troops have also embarked on the extensive laying of landmines near Th--- village, including near villagers' fields, and one villager was reported to have been seriously injured by a landmine whilst serving as a soldier in the Border Guard. Villagers are said to be concerned about the potential impact of the landmines on the welfare of their livestock, with one villager reportedly confronting a Border Guard soldier over this issue." |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Karen Human Rights Group (KHRG) |
| Format/size: | | pdf (129K), html |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://www.khrg.org/khrg2012/khrg12b41.html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 15 May 2012 |
| | ML > Human Rights
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Labour Rights
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Labour rights: reports of violations in Burma
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Forced Labour
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Non-ILO Reports on forced fabour, including forced portering, in Karen (Kayin) State
Civil War
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The Civil War in Burma (under reconstruction)
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Border Guard Forces
Civil War
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The Civil War in Burma (under reconstruction)
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Landmines
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Reports and maps covering anti-personnel landmines and Burma/Myanmar
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| Title: | | "The New Light of Myanmar" Tuesday 15 May 2012
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| Date of publication: | | 15 May 2012 |
| Description/subject: | | DOMESTIC NEWS: Noteworthy amounts of
rainfall
(14-5-2012)...Union Minister for Information and for Culture meets
EC members of MMPO...Special Appellate Bench judges 12 special
civil appeal cases, hears five...International Cooperatives Day sales
festival commences...Mechanic course
opens...Aswedaw Library opened...Private Microfinance
Development Supporting
Committee holds coord meeting...Training courses of
UMFCCI conclude...Labour laws and bylaws briefed...Palethwe hybird paddy harvested in Einme...New school building handed over in Hmawby
Township...Sub-power station launched for
supply of electricity...Orchid Nurturing Course 1-8
June...Bo tree watered for 11th time in
Insein Township.....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: President U Thein Sein welcomes ROK
President Mr Lee Myung-bak...President U Thein Sein meets
ROK counterpart...Myanmar delegate
arrives back from
Dhaka after attending
cultural diversity
meeting...63rd ASEAN Committee on Science and
Technology (COST) Meeting held...Member of CPC Central Politburo calls on
Amyotha Hluttaw Speaker U Khin Aung Myint...Delegation led by Member of CPC Central
Politburo arrives in Mandalay...Myanmar, Philippines to
cooperate in agricultural sectors...President U Thein Sein hosts dinner to goodwill
delegation led by ROK President...President of Republic of Korea Mr Lee Myung-bak arrives in Nay Pyi Taw...Union Foreign Affairs Minister attends Ministerial Meeting
of Coordinating Bureau of Non-Aligned Movement...Import permit for migrant workers allowed...Seintalon mango fruits of
Mandalay exported...Child-centred academic
system discussed in Mandalay...MLF invites cash, book donations...Entrance fee for cultural sites
in Mandalay...Myanmar wants ROK to share its experience of democratic reform,
economic development and promoting living conditions of citizens - President U Thein Sein --
It is right choice Myanmar takes HRD as sine qua non for development - President Mr Lee Myung-bak...President U Thein Sein meets goodwill delegation
led by CPC Central Politburo member.....
"PERSPECTIVES": "Never ending task" [reforms] |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | News and Periodicals Enterprise, Ministry of Information, Union of Myanmar |
| Format/size: | | pdf (2.5MB) |
| Date of entry/update: | | 15 May 2012 |
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| Title: | | "The New Light of Myanmar" Monday 14 May 2012
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| Date of publication: | | 14 May 2012 |
| Description/subject: | | DOMESTIC NEWS: Reform, a combination of National Plan approved by Hluttaw and
Physical Development Plan, needs to be People-Centred Development
Reform which could satisfy demands of people...Noteworthy amounts of
rainfall
(13-5-2012)...Union I&C Minister and wife attend consecration
and merit-sharing for sixth all-round renovation of
Shwephonepwint Pagoda...Deputy Attorney-General meets personnel of
Mon State Advocate General’s Office...OFFICEHANDEDOVER: [photo]...Generators installed for electricity
supply in Yangon...Roadwork, sanitation tasks inspected
in Taninthayi Region...Slight earthquake
hits inside Myanmar...Talk on raising bio-security
given...Workers’ Day observed in
Mansi...New fire station opened, Fire
Brigade Day observed in
Myawady...Sangyoung Township
reconstitutes writers association...GS of UMFCCI meets Kayin
State CCI officials...Fire Brigade Day marked with
sanitation in Tachilek...Myanmar Libraries
Foundation invites cash, book
donations...Leak of natural gas pipeline
repaired in time...UNIFORMS PRESENTED [photo]...Mountaineering team climbs
five hills continuously...Information for trafficking in
person...CONCRETE DRAINS REPAIRED [photo]...Fire Brigade Day observed in DISTRICT NEWS
Mawlamyinegyun...Monks, nuns who passed
religious exams honoured...Tailoring courses opened at
vocational training school in
Pakokku...16 villages along Wundwin-
Pintale Road enjoyings fruits
better transport...Cigarette fire destroys timber warehouse,
housings in Mandalay...MFF President meets players of Myanmar
U-22 Football Team...Maize, sesame plantations thriving in rains.....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Myanmar delegation arrives back from
Cambodia...Lecturer leaves for
Bangkok to attend
World Records
Committee meeting...Speaker of Pyidaungsu Hluttaw and Amyotha Hluttaw
calls on Japanese Prime Minister...Speaker of Pyidaungsu Hluttaw and Amyotha Hluttaw
visits J Power, Isogo Coal-fired Power Plant.....
"PERSPECTIVES": "Help students pursue
education with peace of mind" |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | News and Periodicals Enterprise, Ministry of Information, Union of Myanmar |
| Format/size: | | pdf (2.6MB) |
| Date of entry/update: | | 14 May 2012 |
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"The New Light of Myanmar" 2012
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| Title: | | Thais See Economic Benefit From Contract Farming In Burma
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| Date of publication: | | 20 November 2008 |
| Description/subject: | | Thai contract farming is a growing feature of the Thai-Burmese bilateral economic relationship. The activity remains concentrated in the border areas, however. Thai businesspeople who engage in contract farming in Burma are generally individuals who conduct their business informally with local Karen village leaders, not with the GOB or major Burmese companies. The Thai government views contract farming as an economic policy tool that lowers agricultural prices for Thai consumers, lessens the migrant pull in Thailand, and stimulates demand for Thai goods in Burma. However, the RTG at the national level is not currently engaged in activities to promote contract farming specifically, it is focused on agricultural development through vertical integration and greater control over quality standards, which contract farming helps to achieve. |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | US Consulate Chiangmai via Wikileaks |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 14 May 2012 |
| | ML > Land (under construction)
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Land in Burma
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Agriculture in Burma
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Contract farming
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| Title: | | Capitalizing the Thai-Myanmar border
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| Date of publication: | | 21 June 2007 |
| Description/subject: | | MAE SOT, Thailand - "The conflict-ridden Thai-Myanmar border has long been associated with drug smuggling, arms-dealing and human trafficking and other illicit trades. Now a new investment initiative aims to bring bilateral border trade above ground through the establishment of export-oriented special economic zones (SEZs) in the two countries' hinterlands.
The two sides agreed last month in Mandalay to finalize a long pending agreement, which in the first phases will open the way for
Thai agribusinesses to cultivate millions of acres of land tax-free in Myanmar's border areas. The ambitious plan to turn battlefields into marketplaces has the tacit backing of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), but at the same time has come under heavy criticism from rights organizations..." |
| Author/creator: | | Clifford McCoy |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | "Asia Times Online" |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 14 May 2012 |
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Land in Burma
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Agriculture in Burma
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Contract farming
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| Title: | | Grab for white gold - platinum mining in Eastern Shan State (English)
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| Date of publication: | | 08 May 2012 |
| Description/subject: | | Burmese and Chinese companies are pushing aside Akha, Lahu and Shan villagers
in eastern Shan State in a grab for platinum (“white gold” in Burmese). Women are
facing particular hardship due to the loss of livelihood and the contamination of water
sources. The Lahu Women Organization is calling for an immediate halt to these
damaging mining operations....Summary
Since 2007, destructive platinum mining has been taking place in the hills north of
Tachilek, eastern Shan State, impacting about 2,000 people from eight Lahu, Akha
and Shan villages. The platinum is being extracted by Burmese mining companies and
exported to China and Thailand.
Five companies are currently operating around the Akha village of Ah Yeh, 13 kilometers
north of Tachilek. They have forced villagers to sell property and land at cheap prices,
and confiscated other lands without compensation. Hundreds of acres of farms and
forestland have been seized, or destroyed by dumping of mining waste. The villagers’
access road to the main highway has been ruined by the passage of heavy mining trucks
and machinery.
The main water source for local villagers has been diverted and contaminated by
the mining, causing tremendous hardship for local women, who must now walk long
distances to do their washing.
Women are also facing increased security risks from the influx of migrant male miners
into the area. There is regular sexual harassment of women going to their fields. Young
women are being taken as minor wives by the miners; some are also becoming sex
workers. Mining staff have also been involved in trafficking of local women.
There is no rule of law protecting the rights of the local villagers. By paying off the local
Burmese military, mining companies are able to carry out operations without adhering
to any social or environmental standards. The companies and platinum buyers in
neighbouring countries are therefore maximizing profits by avoiding responsibility for
the social and environmental costs of the mines.
The Lahu Women’s Organisation therefore calls on the Burmese government to put an
immediate stop to these destructive mining operations, which are not contributing to
local development, but are causing poverty and environmental degradation..." |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Lahu Women's Organization |
| Format/size: | | pdf (1.8MB) |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://lahuwomen.org/press-release/lahu-women-demand-end-to-destructive-platinum-mining-in-burmas-s...
http://www.burmalibrary.org/docs13/Grab_for_White_Gold-PR(th).pdf (Pres Release, Thai)
http://www.burmalibrary.org/docs13/Grab_for_White_Gold-PR(ch).pdf (Press Release, Chinese)
http://www.burmalibrary.org/docs13/Grab_for_White_Gold-PR(bu).pdf (Press Release, Burmese)
http://www.burmalibrary.org/docs13/Grab_for_White_Gold(lahu).pdf (full text, Lahu)
http://www.burmalibrary.org/docs13/Grab_for_White_Gold(bu)-op75mr-red.pdf (full text, Burmese) |
| Date of entry/update: | | 14 May 2012 |
| | ML > Land (under construction)
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Land in Burma
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Tenure
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Tenure insecurity in Burma (including land grabbing)
Economy
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Industry
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Extractive industries
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Mining
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Metal mining
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| Title: | | Grab for white gold - platinum mining in Eastern Shan State (Burmese)
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| Date of publication: | | 08 May 2012 |
| Description/subject: | | အစီရင္ခံစာအက်ဥ္းခ်ဳပ္
ရွမ္းျပည္နယ္ အေရွ႔ပိုင္း တာခ်ီလိတ္ၿမိဳ ၏႔ ေျမာက္ဖက္ ေတာင္တန္းေဒမ်ားတြင္ ေဒသခံမ်ားကို ထိခိုကေ္ စသည့္
ေရႊျဖဴတူးေဖာ္ျခင္းလုပ္ငန္းကို ၂၀၀၇ခုႏွစ္မွ စတင္ခဲ့ကာ ယင္းေၾကာင့္ လားဟူ၊ အာခါႏွင့္ ရွမ္းရြာ ၈ရြာမွာ လူေပါင္း ၂၀၀၀ေက်ာ္ကို
ထိခိုက္ေစခဲ့သည္။ ေရႊျဖဴတူးေဖာ္မႈကို ျမန္မာကုမၸဏီမ်ားက ေဆာင္ရြက္ေနၿပီး တရုတ္ႏွင့္ ထုိင္းႏိုင္ငံသို႔ တင္ပို႔လွ်က္ရိွသည္။
တာခ်လီ တိ ၿ္မဳိ ႔ ေျမာကဖ္ က ္ ၁၃ကလီ မို တီ ာအကြာရ ွိအားရဲေခၚ အာခါရြာအနီးတငြ ္ကမု ဏၸ ၅ီ ခကု လပု င္ န္း လပု က္ ငို လ္ ်ွကရ္ သွိ ည။္
ထကို မု ဏၸ မီ ်ားက ရြာသားမ်ားပငို ဆ္ ငို သ္ ည ့္ပစညၥ ္းမ်ားႏငွ ့္ ေျမယာမ်ားက ိုအတင္းအက်ပဖ္ အိ ားေပး၍ ေစ်းႏမိွ ္ေရာင္းခ်ေစသကသဲ့ ႔ ို
ေျမယာအခ်ိဳ က႔ ို ေလွ်ာ္ေၾကးမေပးဘဲ အဓမၼသိမး္ ယူ ခဲ့ၾကသည္။ ေထာင္ေပါင္းမ်ားစြာေသာ စိုက္ပိ်ဳးေျမဧကမ်ားႏွင့္
သစ္ေတာမ်ားကို ကုမၸဏီက သိမ္းယူေနၿပီး အခ်ိဳ႔ေသာေျမယာမ်ားသည္ သတၱဳတြင္းမွ အညစ္အေၾကးမ်ားစြန္႔ပစ္ေသာေၾကာင့္
ပ်ကဆ္ ီးလ်ွကရ္ သွိ ည။္ ရြာသရူ ြာသားမ်ား အသုံးျပဳသည ့္အေ၀းေျပးလမ္းသ ႔ိုသြားေရာကရ္ ာလမ္းမွာလည္း သတဳၱတူးေဖာသ္ ည ့္
ကုန္တင္ကားမ်ား၊ စက္ယႏၱယားႀကီးမ်ား ျဖတ္သန္းသြားျခင္းေၾကာင့္ ပ်က္ဆီးၾကရသည္။
သတဳၱတူးေဖာျ္ခင္းေၾကာင ့္ ရြာသားမ်ား အဓကိ အသုံးျပဳေနေသာ ေရအရင္းအျမစ ္ညစည္ မ္းလ်ွကရ္ ၿွိပီး ေရစီးေၾကာင္းမ်ားလည္း
ေျပာင္းလဲကုန္သည္။ ယင္းအေျခအေနမ်ားက ေဒသခံအမ်ိဳးသမီးမ်ားကို ႀကီးမားေသာ အခက္အခဲမ်ားျဖစ္ေပၚေစသည္။
အေၾကာင္းမွာ ေရရရိွရန္အတြက္ အလြန္ေ၀းကြာေသာခရီးကို ေျခလ်င္ လမ္းေလွ်ာက္သြားရေသာေၾကာင့္ ျဖစ္သည္။
ထို႔အတူ သတၱဳတူးေဖာ္ရာလုပ္ငန္းသို႔ အမ်ိဳးသားေရႊ႔ေျပာင္းအလုပ္သမားမ်ား အစုလုိက္အၿပံဳလုိက္ ေရာက္ရိွ လာျခင္းေၾကာင့္
ထိုေနရာတ၀ိုက္တြင္ေနထိုင္သည့္ အမ်ိဳးသမီးမ်ား၏ လံုၿခံဳေရးမွာ အႏၱရာယ္ က်ေရာက္ လွ်က္ရိွသည္။ စိုက္ခင္းသို႔
သြားသည့္အမ်ိဳးသမီးမ်ားမွာ လိင္ပိုင္းဆုိင္ရာ ထိပါးေႏွာင့္ယွက္မႈမ်ားကို ႀကံဳေတြ႔ ေနရသည္။ အမ်ိဳးသမီးငယ္မ်ားမွာ
သတၱဳတြင္းအလုပ္သမားမ်ား၏ မယားငယ္မ်ားအျဖစ္ သိမ္းယူခံရသကဲ့သို႔ အခ်ိဳ႔ အမ်ိဳးသမီးငယ္မ်ားမွာ ျပည္႔တန္ဆာမ်ား
ျဖစ္ၾကရသည္။ သတၱဳတြင္း၀န္ထမ္းမ်ားက ေဒသခံ အမ်ိဳးသမီးငယ္မ်ားကို လူကုန္ကူးရာတြင္ ပါ၀င္ပတ္သက္ေနၾကသည္။
ရြာသ၊ူ ရြာသားမ်ား၏ အခငြ အ့္ ေရးက ိုကာကြယ္ေပးသည ့္ ဥပေဒစိုးမိုးမလႈ ည္း ကင္းမဲ့ေနသည။္ ျမနမ္ ာစစတ္ ပမ္ ွအရာရမွိ ်ားအား
လာဘ္ထုိးျခင္းအားျဖင့္ သတၱဳတူးေဖာ္သည့္ ကုမၸဏီမ်ားသည္ လူမႈေရးႏွင့္ သဘာ၀ပတ္၀န္းက်င္ဆုိင္ရာ စံသတ္မွတ္ခ်က္မ်ားကို
လိုက္နာရန္မလိုဘဲ လုပ္ငန္းလုပ္ကိုင္ႏိုင္ၾကသည္။ ထုိ႔ေၾကာင့္ သတၱဳတူးေဖာ္သည့္ကုမၸဏီမ်ားႏွင့္ အိမ္နီးခ်င္းႏိုင္ငံမွ
ေရႊျဖဴ၀ယ္ယူသူတုိ႔သည္ လူမႈေရးႏွင့္ သဘာ၀ပတ္၀န္းက်င္ ထိန္းသိမ္းေရးဆုိင္ရာ တာ၀န္မ်ားကို ေရွာင္ရွားျခင္းျဖင့္
သတၱဳတူးေဖာ္ျခင္း လုပ္ငန္းမွ အျမတ္ေငြ မ်ားႏိုင္သမွ် မ်ားမ်ားရေအာင္ ေဆာင္ရြက္ေနၾကသည္။
ထုိ႔ေၾကာင့္ လားဟူ အမ်ိဳးသမီးအဖဲြ႔က ေဒသတြင္းဖံြ႔ၿဖိဳးတုိးတက္မႈကို မျဖစ္ေစဘဲ ဆင္းရဲမဲြေတမႈႏွင့္ သဘာ၀ပတ္၀န္းက်င္
ပ်က္ဆီးမႈကိုသာျဖစ္ေစသည့္ သတၱဳတူးေဖာ္ျခင္းလုပ္ငန္းကို ခ်က္ခ်င္း ရပ္တန္႔ရန္ ျမန္မာအစိုးရအား ေတာင္းဆုိသည္။ |
| Language: | | Burmese/ ျမန္မာဘာသာ |
| Source/publisher: | | Lahu Women's Organization |
| Format/size: | | pdf (2.3MB) |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://www.burmalibrary.org/docs13/Grab_for_White_Gold-PR(bu).pdf (Press Release, Burmese)
http://www.lahuwomen.org
http://lahuwomen.org/press-release/lahu-women-demand-end-to-destructive-platinum-mining-in-burmas-s... |
| Date of entry/update: | | 14 May 2012 |
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| Title: | | Grab for white gold - platinum mining in Eastern Shan State (Lahu)
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| Date of publication: | | 08 May 2012 |
| Description/subject: | | Summary:
Since 2007, destructive platinum mining has been taking place in the hills north of
Tachilek, eastern Shan State, impacting about 2,000 people from eight Lahu, Akha
and Shan villages. The platinum is being extracted by Burmese mining companies and
exported to China and Thailand.
Five companies are currently operating around the Akha village of Ah Yeh, 13 kilometers
north of Tachilek. They have forced villagers to sell property and land at cheap prices,
and confiscated other lands without compensation. Hundreds of acres of farms and
forestland have been seized, or destroyed by dumping of mining waste. The villagers’
access road to the main highway has been ruined by the passage of heavy mining trucks
and machinery.
The main water source for local villagers has been diverted and contaminated by
the mining, causing tremendous hardship for local women, who must now walk long
distances to do their washing.
Women are also facing increased security risks from the influx of migrant male miners
into the area. There is regular sexual harassment of women going to their fields. Young
women are being taken as minor wives by the miners; some are also becoming sex
workers. Mining staff have also been involved in trafficking of local women.
There is no rule of law protecting the rights of the local villagers. By paying off the local
Burmese military, mining companies are able to carry out operations without adhering
to any social or environmental standards. The companies and platinum buyers in
neighbouring countries are therefore maximizing profits by avoiding responsibility for
the social and environmental costs of the mines.
The Lahu Women’s Organisation therefore calls on the Burmese government to put an
immediate stop to these destructive mining operations, which are not contributing to
local development, but are causing poverty and environmental degradation. |
| Language: | | Lahu |
| Source/publisher: | | Lahu Women's Organization |
| Format/size: | | pdf (1.6MB) |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://lahuwomen.org/press-release/lahu-women-demand-end-to-destructive-platinum-mining-in-burmas-shan-state">http://lahuwomen.org/press-release/lahu-women-demand-end-to-destructive-platinum-mining-in-burmas-s...
http://lahuwomen.org |
| Date of entry/update: | | 14 May 2012 |
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| Title: | | "The New Light of Myanmar" Sunday 13 May 2012
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| Date of publication: | | 13 May 2012 |
| Description/subject: | | DOMESTIC NEWS: Priority task of government is to satisfy desire,
fulfill requirements of people -
Work coordination meeting on more effectively carrying out
national and regional development tasks concludes [President]...Noteworthy amounts of rainfall
(12-5-2012)...Nay Pyi Taw Council Area Projects Implementation
Committee meets...International Urban Rescue
Course concludes in Ye...Preventive measures against diarrhea and
dysentery taken...Information
for antihuman
trafficking...Maintenance of golf course discussed...New library building opened in Myaungmya...Pazundaung Township Writers
Association formed...Umbrella hoisted atop pagoda in
Thingangyun Township...Talks on traffic rules given in
Hinthada...Union Minister oversees regional development
tasks in Shan State...Mandalay Region Chief
Minister inspects Natka Dam...Shwekon-Pilakhat concrete
road opened...Loans disbursed for Palethwe hybrid
paddy plantation in Tatkon Township...Kayin State Chief Minister supervises
development undertakings...Coord meeting on Asia Pacific Junior
Golf Championship held...Myanmar Society of Endocrinology and
Metabolism holds third conference...Talks on spa & health care services on 14 May...Literary talks given in Singaing...Momauk
Township
GAD observes
Workers’ Day...Written exam result for NPE junior
reporter posts announced...Mudon forms Traditional Artistes
and Artisans Association...Yesagyo produces high
rate of gram.....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Myanmar delegation led by Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Speaker pays study
visit to Tokyo Stock Exchange, National Diet Library...Asia Rowing Federation Umpiring Commission
views preparations for rowing event...Speaker of Pyidaungsu Hluttaw and Amyotha Hluttaw meets
Deputy Speaker of Upper House of Japan, tours Tokyo...Speaker of Pyidaungsu Hluttaw, Amyotha Hluttaw U Khin Aung Myint calls
on Speaker of House of Councillors, Speaker of House of Representatives...Speaker of Pyidaungsu Hluttaw, Amyotha Hluttaw arrives Osaka of Japan.....
"PERSPECTIVES": "Into the list of Asian Tigers" |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | News and Periodicals Enterprise, Ministry of Information, Union of Myanmar |
| Format/size: | | pdf (2.9MB) |
| Date of entry/update: | | 13 May 2012 |
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"The New Light of Myanmar" 2012
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| Title: | | Myanmar/Burma - The World's Least Known Landmine Tragedy
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| Date of publication: | | 2011 |
| Description/subject: | | 15 images of landmine victims..."Myanmar, or Burma, is home to one of the world's longest running civil wars. Conflict has occurred since the country gained independence in 1947.
Mine warfare has been a feature of the conflict throughout that time.
Mines are thought to be used by all parties to the conflict. No one knows how many people have been killed or maimed by mines.
This photo exhibit provides a glimpse into the lives of a few of those who survived their mine injury and now live tenuous lives near the border with Thailand..."
This exhibition has been co-sponsored by DanChurchAid (DCA) and the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) |
| Author/creator: | | Photo: Giovanni Diffidenti; Art installation: Laura Morelli; Text: Yeshua Moser-Puangsuwan |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Giovanni Diffidenti, Photojournalist |
| Format/size: | | html; jpeg |
| Date of entry/update: | | 13 May 2012 |
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Civil War
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The Civil War in Burma (under reconstruction)
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Landmines
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Reports and maps covering anti-personnel landmines and Burma/Myanmar
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| Title: | | Empowering the Myanmar Human Rights Commission
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| Date of publication: | | 09 May 2012 |
| Description/subject: | | "...'The Paris Principles are the international standard and that is what they should be aiming for,'... 'If they are heading in that direction, if that is what they are aiming for, then they have a long way to go.
'The commission is [currently] almost at the whim of the president. You need to sort out the legislative underpinning
of the commission through an act of Parliament so it does have guaranteed funding. And then you figure out what function and role it is actually going to play.'
So while a few seminars and consultations may help increase the legitimacy of the international community’s policy of reengagement, a fundamental overhaul including constitutionally enshrined independence, guaranteed funding and full transparency is necessary to prevent the MHRC remaining merely the butt of snide jibes from cynical observers." |
| Author/creator: | | Charlie Campbell |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | "the Irrawaddy" |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 13 May 2012 |
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National Human Rights Institutions
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Burma's National Human Rights Commission
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| Title: | | Company Destroys Land Despite Order to Stop
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| Date of publication: | | 11 May 2012 |
| Description/subject: | | "Zay Kabar, a Burmese company that has been accused of illegally confiscating more than 800 acres of land from farmers in Shwenanthar, a village in Rangoon’s Mingaladon Township, has continued clearing the land despite being told to stop by local authorities.
After embankments on the farmland were leveled last week, around 50 farmers began rebuilding them in preparation for the start of the planting season, prompting officials from the Housing Department and the local administrative office to order both sides to desist.
However, the company has ignored the order and resumed its work on the land, according to the farmers..." |
| Author/creator: | | Nyein Nyein |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | "The Irrawaddy" |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 13 May 2012 |
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| Title: | | Platinum Mines Seize 200 Acres of Farmland
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| Date of publication: | | 08 May 2012 |
| Description/subject: | | "Around 200 acres of land has been confiscated by platinum mining companies in Tachilek Township, eastern Shan State, despite nascent democratic reforms by the Burmese government, according to report released by the Lahu Women’s Organization (LWO).
"Grab For White Gold" has been produced by the Thailand-based LWO and two other local land activists and was presented at a press conference in Chiang Mai, northern Thailand, on Tuesday.
The two activists told reporters that eight villages—comprising a total of 393 households and 2,000 people—have been impacted by the platinum mining companies. There are also reports of sexual harassment, abductions and girls being cheated into marriage as a consequence.
Ore produced in the region is sold to China at around US $3,000 per ton with the LWO accusing Burmese companies such Sai Laung Hein, U Myint Aung, Hein Lin San and Wunna Thein Than of running the mining operations.
The disputed farmland has belonged to ethnic people—including Shan, Akha and Lahu communities—for generations. The companies force them to sell their land at around half the true value, or simply confiscate it without compensation despite protests from the rightful owners..." |
| Author/creator: | | Lawi Weng |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | "The Irrawaddy" |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 13 May 2012 |
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| Title: | | "The New Light of Myanmar" Saturday 12 May 2012
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| Date of publication: | | 12 May 2012 |
| Description/subject: | | DOMESTIC NEWS: President U Thein Sein calls for more efforts in reform
process for national development -
In conducting reforms, morality and attitude of ward/village administrators and
township administrators in performing administrative duties must be polished so
that they can avoid corruption, bribery and unfriendly relations with the public...Significant Day Temperatures
(11-5-2012)...Noteworthy amounts of rainfall
(11-5-2012)...Myanmar Traditional Chess
Championship wraps up...Yangon Information and
Communication Technology
Fair commences...Sagaing Region Chief Minister
views rural development in
Yinmabin Tsp...Kayah State Chief Minister
donates alms to monks, nuns...Outstanding weightlifters awarded in sports...Insein WJA reconstituted as Insein Township
Writers Association...Hsipaw plans to grow teak
plantations...Phu Thit Wai Library opened
in Pinlebu Township...Self-reliant library opened in Dagon Myothit
(South) Township...Self-reliant concrete road commissioned in
Mawlamyinegyun...Signboard of Aung Naing Thu
Cooperative Society put up...New building of
BEPS opened in
Einme
EINME, 11 May—
Shwedaung Development
Co Ltd donated 126x30 feet
one-storey building in
Letpangon Village of Einme
Township in Myaungmya
District on 6 May.
Likewise, Triangle Links
Engineering Co Ltd and other
wellwishers sponsored
renovation of old building,
construction of bridge,
donation of uniforms and
stationery.
Wellwisher and officials
opened the new school
building.—Myanma Alin...Use of natural fertilizer talked in Myaungmya
Township...Myanmar
Libraries
Fundation
invites cash,
book donations...Tour guide course 1/2012 on
4 June-27 July...New building of library opened
in Hmawby Township...Cash donated to fund of Shwethin Home for the
Aged in Yamethin...Uniforms provided to GAD staff members...Basic fire fighting course K 849,500.—Myanma Alin
concludes in Pyinmana...Applications for damaged mobile
phone SIM cards free of charge...Micro-credit cooperative
society formed in Nawngkhio.....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Union Environmental Conservation and Forestry
Minister meets foreign guests...Dy FM receives Director-General of SEA Regional
Department of ADB...Dy H&T Minister receives DG of Southeast Asia
Regional Department of ADB...Dy Commerce Minister
receives ADB SEA
Director-General...Dy Education Minister receives
Director of Open Society
Institute of US...Speaker of Pyidaungsu Hluttaw and
Amyotha Hluttaw U Khin Aung Myint
back from Japan...Hotels and Tourism Ministry, S’porean
entrepreneurs to cooperate for
development of tourism sector.....
"PERSPECTIVES": "Favourable economic
environment" |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | News and Periodicals Enterprise, Ministry of Information, Union of Myanmar |
| Format/size: | | pdf (2.1MB) |
| Date of entry/update: | | 12 May 2012 |
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"The New Light of Myanmar" 2012
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| Title: | | "The Myanmar Times" (Burmese) 4 May 2012- Vol. 29, No.567"ျမန္မာတိုင္း(မ္)"အတြဲ ၂၉ ၊ အမွတ္ ၅၆၇ ၊ ၄-၅-၂၀၁၂ တြင္ လႊင့္တင္သည္
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| Date of publication: | | 04 May 2012 |
| Description/subject: | | ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ လႊတ္ေတာ္ထဲေရာက္ၿပီ အင္န္အယ္လ္ဒီ ကိုယ္စားလွယ္ မ်ား က်မ္းသစၥာ က်ိန္ဆို... ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္၏ ဆံုးျဖတ္ခ်က္ကို ကုလအႀကီးအကဲ ခ်ီးက်ဴးႀကိဳဆို... ဥေရာပသမဂၢက ေက်းလက္ေဒသ ေရရွည္ ဖြံ႕ၿဖိဳးေရး အစီအစဥ္မ်ားကို ဦးစားေပးေဆာင္ရြက္ ေပးသြားမည္... သက္တမ္း ႏွစ္ ၂၀ ေက်ာ္ကားမ်ား မရွိေတာ့ သည္အထိ ယာဥ္အို ယာဥ္ေဟာင္းမ်ား အပ္ႏွံမႈကို အျမဲတမ္း လက္ခံေဆာင္ရြက္ေပးမည္... ဒုကၡသည္ မ်ား ေနရပ္ျပန္ ရန္ ႏိုင္ငံသားခံယူ ခြင့္ ျပန္လည္ရရွိေရး အေရးပါသည္ဟု ကုလ အတြင္းေရးမႉးခ်ဳပ္ အေလးထားေျပာၾကား... စစ္ေဘးသင့္သူမ်ားအတြက္ အလႉရွင္မ်ား အစည္းအေ၀း က်င္းပမည္... လႊတ္ေတာ္ တတိယပံုမွန္ အစည္းအေ၀းမ်ား ႏွစ္ရက္ထပ္မံ ေရႊ႕ဆုိင္းၿပီး ၿပီးဆံုးခဲ့... လုိင္ဇာကုိ သိမ္းပုိက္မည္ မဟုတ္ဟုဆုိ... အမ်ဳိးသားဒီမိုကေရစီ အဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္ လႊတ္ေတာ္တက္ေရာက္သည္ကို ၀မ္းေျမာက္ႀကိဳဆိုေၾကာင္း ဟီလာရီကလင္တန္ ေျပာၾကား... ျမန္မာအား ကူညီရန္အဆင္သင့္ရွိဟု ဂ်ာမနီ၀န္ႀကီး ေျပာၾကား... လြန္ခဲ့ေသာ ၁၄ ႏွစ္က သိမ္းယူခံခဲ့ရသည့္ လယ္ယာေျမမ်ားအတြက္ လယ္သမားမ်ားက နစ္နာေၾကး ေတာင္းဆုိ... အလုပ္သမားႏွင့္ အလုပ္ရွင္အဖြဲ႕မ်ားကို အသိအမွတ္ျပဳ လက္မွတ္မ်ား ထုတ္ေပး... ကခ်င္ျပည္နယ္တြင္ ကုလ၏ အကူအညီမ်ား ရပ္ဆိုင္းထားရ... ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕မီးေပးေရး ၂၅ မဂၢါ၀ပ္ထြက္ရွိမည့္ 'ကန္'လုပ္ ယာဥ္တင္ ေရြ႕လ်ား မီးစက္ေလးလုံး ငွားရမ္း အသုံးျပဳမည္... အာမခံလုပ္ငန္းကုိ ပုဂၢလိကအား လုပ္ကိုင္ခြင့္ေပးေတာ့မည္... သူတို႔ေျပာတဲ့ ေရတစ္စက္ရဲ႕တန္ဖိုး... ၿမိဳ႕ေတာ္စည္ပင္ အငွားယာဥ္မ်ား အငွားခ်ထားမႈ ရပ္ဆိုင္း... အာရွဖြံ႕ၿဖိဳးေရး ဘဏ္က ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံအား ေႂကြးက်န္မ်ား ေပးဆပ္ၿပီးလွ်င္ ကူညီမည္ဟုဆို... (၆၄)ႀကိ္မ္ေျမာက္ တိပိဋကဓရ တိပိဋကေကာ၀ိဒ ဘြဲ႕တံဆိပ္ ဆက္ကပ္ပြဲက်င္းပမည္... အေရးေပၚလူနာတင္ယာဥ္ေဖာင္ေဒးရွင္းကို ဆရာ၀န္အသင္းမွ ဦးစီးတည္ေထာင္သြားမည္... ထုိင္းႏုိင္ငံတြင္ ဆဲလ္အစားထုိးကုသမႈကုိ ပိတ္ပင္လုိက္သည့္ အတြက္ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံသားမ်ား ေဆးကုသစရိတ္ ပုိမုိျမင့္မားလာ... အေရွ႕ေတာင္အာရွတြင္ ကာလၾကာရွည္ျဖစ္ ပြားေနေသာ ပဋိပကၡမ်ား ေတြ႕ဆံုေဆြးေႏြးျခင္းျဖင့္ ရလဒ္ေကာင္းမ်ားထြက္ေပၚ... အပစ္အခတ္ရပ္စဲေရး တင္မဟုတ္ဘဲ ထာ၀ရ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးရသည္ အထိ ေဆာင္ရြက္မည္... ကေမၻာဒီးယားမွ ထုိင္း-ျမန္မာနယ္စပ္သုိ႔ လ်င္ျမန္စြာ ျပန္႔ပြား လာေသာ ေဆးယဥ္လာသည့္ ငွက္ဖ်ားေရာဂါပုိး... ဒဂုံဆိပ္ကမ္းတြင္ ၀မ္းပ်က္ ၀မ္းေလွ်ာ ျဖစ္ပြားမႈရွိခဲ့... World Press Freedom Day - May 3, 2012ကမၻာ႔သတင္း လြတ္လပ္ခြင့္ေန႔... အေမရိကန္ ကုမၸဏီမ်ား ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံတြင္ လာေရာက္ရင္းႏွီး ျမႇဳပ္ႏွံခြင့္အတြက္ ပြင့္လင္းစြာ ေတာင္းဆိုမႈမ်ား ျပဳလုပ္လာ... ဧၿပီလကုန္ပိုင္းတြင္ ငါးေဈးႏႈန္းမ်ား သိသာစြာ က်ဆင္းလာ... ျပည္ပပို႔ဆန္အခ်ဳိ႕ သတ္မွတ္စံမမီ ၍ ေဈးေလွ်ာ့ေရာင္းခ်ခဲ့ရ... အသစ္ေျပာင္းလဲ က်င့္သံုး လုိက္ေသာ ေငြလဲႏႈန္းရွင္ စနစ္ေၾကာင့္ ႏုိင္ငံ့ စီးပြားေရးလုပ္ငန္းတြင္ အက်ဳိးသက္ေရာက္မႈမ်ားစြာ ရွိလာႏိုင္ဟု ကြ်မ္းက်င္သူမ်ားသံုးသပ္... ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ၏ ျပဳျပင္ေျပာင္းလဲေရးေၾကာင့္
ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံမွ ေဂါက္သီးသမားမ်ားအတြက္
အနာဂတ္ေကာင္းကိုေတြ႕ေနရ... အေမရိကန္ႏွင့္ ဗီယက္နမ္ ပူးတြဲစစ္ေရးေလ့က်င့္... |
| Language: | | Burmese/ ျမန္မာဘာသာ |
| Source/publisher: | | Myanmar Consolidated Media Co.Ltd. |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 12 May 2012 |
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"The Myanmar Times" (Burmese) 2012/ ျမန္မာတိုင္းမ္- ၂၀၁၂
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| Title: | | "The Myanmar Times" (Burmese) 10 May 2012- Vol. 29, No.568"ျမန္မာတိုင္း(မ္)"အတြဲ ၂၉ ၊ အမွတ္ ၅၆၈ ၊ ၁၀-၅-၂၀၁၂ တြင္ လႊင့္တင္သည္။
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| Date of publication: | | 10 May 2012 |
| Description/subject: | | ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးတည္ေဆာက္ရာ၌ အမ်ဳိးသမီးမ်ား ပါ၀င္ရန္လိုအပ္... ၾကည့္ျမင္တုိင္ စက္ဆန္းတစ္ရြာလံုးရွိ သမၺန္မ်ား အား ေျပးဆြဲခြင့္ ပိတ္ထား... ၂၀၁၂-၁၃ ႏုိင္ငံေတာ္ ဘတ္ဂ်က္ကို တေစ့တေစာင္း ဆန္းစစ္
ေလ့လာျခင္းႏွင့္ လူတုိင္း သာတူညီမွ် ဖြံ႕ၿဖိဳးတုိးတက္မႈအတြက္
အၾကံျပဳခ်က္ အခ်ဳိ႕... ျမန္မာ၏ အနာဂတ္ကို ေလးေလး နက္နက္ ေမွ်ာ္လင့္ထားဟု ကုလသမဂၢအႀကီးအကဲ ဘန္ကီမြန္း ေျပာၾကား... ယခုႏွစ္ မုတ္သံုရာသီ ကာလ၌ မိုးရြာသြန္းမႈ အားေကာင္းႏိုင္... သႀကၤန္ပြဲ ဗုံးခြဲသူ ေသဒဏ္ခ်မွတ္... အမ်ဳိးသမီးမ်ား ၾကံဳေတြ႕ေနရသည့္ စိန္ေခၚမႈမ်ားကို ေလ့လာ သြားမည္... ေဇကမၻာမွ ယူထားေသာ လယ္ေျမမ်ားေပၚတြင္ မုိးစပါးျပန္စုိက္ မည္ဟု မဂၤလာဒုံၿမိဳ႕နယ္ ေရႊနံ႔သာ စံျပေက်းရြာမွ လယ္သမားမ်ားက ေၾကညာ... ပိုလန္က ပညာသင္ဆုေပးရန္ ျမန္မာႏွင့္နားလည္မႈစာခ်ဳပ္ခ်ဳပ္ဆို... ဆႏၵမဲလက္မွတ္မ်ားတြင္ ဖေယာင္းသုတ္ထားသည္ဟု NLD ၏ စြပ္စြဲမႈကို ျပည္ေထာင္စုေရြးေကာက္ပြဲေကာ္မရွင္က မွန္ကန္မႈ မရွိဟု သတင္းထုတ္ျပန္... ႏိုင္ငံေတာ္ဖြဲ႕စည္းပံုအေျခခံ ဥပေဒဆုိင္ရာခံု႐ံုး အၿပီးသတ္ ဆံုးျဖတ္ခ်က္မ်ား ခ်မွတ္... ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံတြင္ စေတာ့အိတ္ခ်ိန္း တစ္ရပ္ ေပၚေပါက္ေရး တိုက်ဳိ စေတာ့အိတ္ခ်ိန္းႏွင့္ စတင္ ပူးေပါင္းေဆာင္ရြက္မည္... ကုလသမဂၢ ခရီးသြားအဖြဲ႕သို႔ ျပန္လည္၀င္ရန္ သမၼတက တရား၀င္ ဆႏၵျပဳေတာင္းဆို... သတင္းသမားမ်ားအား ကာကြယ္ေပးမည့္ ဥပေဒ ေပၚလာရန္ ၀ါရင့္သတင္းစာဆရာမ်ား ေတာင္းဆို... ကမၻာ့စာနယ္ဇင္း လြတ္လပ္ခြင့္ အခမ္းအနားကို ပထမဆံုးက်င္းပ... ဂ်ာနယ္လစ္ ကြန္ရက္၏ ပထမအႀကိမ္ ညီလာခံက်င္းပ... လူ႔ေဘာင္ အဖြဲ႕အစည္းတြင္ မသန္စြမ္း သူမ်ားလည္း ပါ၀င္ႏုိင္ခြင့္ ရွိရန္ လိုအပ္... ေမာေတာင္ႏွင့္ မဲ့စဲနယ္စပ္ကုန္သြယ္ စခန္းမ်ား တိုးခ်႕ဲဖြင့္လွစ္ သြားမည္... ေလျပင္းႏွင့္ မိုးႀကိဳးပစ္မႈမ်ားေၾကာင့္ ေသဆံုး ပ်က္စီးမႈမ်ားျဖစ္ေပၚ... အလုပ္သမား အဖြဲ႕အစည္းမ်ား လြတ္လပ္စြာ ဖြဲ႕စည္းခြင့္ရရန္ အလုပ္သမားမ်ားေတာင္းဆုိ... စီးပြားေရးဆိုက္ေရာက္ဗီဇာကို ဇြန္ ၁ ရက္ေန႔ စေပးမည္... လူမႈဖူလုံေရးႏွင့္ အလုပ္အကိုင္ကြ်မ္းက်င္မႈ ဖြံ႕ၿဖိဳး တိုးတက္ေရး ဥပေဒမူၾကမ္းႏွစ္ခု ေရးဆြဲလ်က္ရွိ... ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ ပင္လယ္ကူး သေဘၤာသားမ်ား အလုပ္သမား အဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္ ဖြဲ႕စည္း... ၄၄ ႏွစ္ျပည့္ ေမာင္ေမာင္ ဆုိေလ ထီး႐ုိးရွည္အဖြဲ႕သံခ်ပ္ေတြနဲ႔ေဖ်ာ္ေျဖခဲ့... |
| Language: | | Burmese/ ျမန္မာဘာသာ |
| Source/publisher: | | Myanmar Consolidated Media Co.Ltd. |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 12 May 2012 |
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Weekly magazines
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"The Myanmar Times"
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"The Myanmar Times" (Burmese) 2012/ ျမန္မာတိုင္းမ္- ၂၀၁၂
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| Title: | | "The New Light of Myanmar" Friday 11 May 2012
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| Date of publication: | | 11 May 2012 |
| Description/subject: | | DOMESTIC NEWS: Work Committee for Drawing Farmland
Bylaws (Draft) and Virgin and Fallow Land
Management Bylaws (Draft) meets...Significant
Day
Temperatures
(10-5-2012)...MYANMAR GAZETTE...Continuous nursing education
talked in Mawlamyine...Trophies handed over in
Dagon Myothit (South)
Township...Duties assigned for implementation of
plans at Nay Pyi Taw Council Area...Permission granted to Tailai (Red Shan) Nationalities
Development Party (TNDP) for registration as political party...Sites for port, river-water pumping
tasks inspected...Respect paid, merit shared, library opened...AMBULANCE DONATED [photo]...362,165 GSMs, WCDMAs
installed in regions...Cash donated to fund of Home
for the Aged...Equipment for taking physical exercises
installed at bund of Meiktila Lak...Township Writers Association
formed in Thanlyin...Commerce graduates to organize
workshop 13 May...Information for trafficking
in person...Basic vocational courses
opened in Muse...Informal advanced meeting on green
economy, green development held...First IRS Inter-Club Pencak Silat
Championship concludes...Fire drill demonstrated at CBM.....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Union Minister for Information
and for Culture receives
Managing Director of
NTEGRATOR Co of Singapore...Ambassador accredited to
Brazil...Union Energy Minister receives Polish
FM, Hong Kong guests...Myanmar-Poland economic seminar opened...Polish FM donates furnishings to monastic education schools...Dy Construction Minister
receives Team Leader of
JICA...Chartered planes of
Myanma Airways
available...Myanmar entrepreneurs
invited to SHRM 2012 Annual
Conference & Exposition...Fares of ship trips changed for
tourists...Union EP-2 Minister receives
ADB Director-General...Union Finance and Revenue Minister
receives guests...Union Health Minister
receives Global Women’s
Affairs Ambassador...Union Minister receives Qatar
Airways officials...CBM Governor receives World Bank East Asia
and Pacific Region Director...Dy Home Affairs Minister receives
De La Rue Director...Asia-Pacific Junior Golf
Championship 15-18 May.....
"PERSPECTIVES": "Myanmar to be next
economic frontier in Asia".....
ARTICLE: "Noblest task for purification, perpetuation,
propagation and promotion of Buddha Sasana" Ba Sein
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| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | News and Periodicals Enterprise, Ministry of Information, Union of Myanmar |
| Format/size: | | pdf (2.2MB) |
| Date of entry/update: | | 11 May 2012 |
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Full, original versions of "The New Light of Myanmar", "Kyemon" and "Myanmar Alin"
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"The New Light of Myanmar" 2012
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| Title: | | The Last Frontier: Burma's Chinland In Transition - A Project Maje Update Report, April 2012
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| Date of publication: | | April 2012 |
| Description/subject: | | "In mid-2012, with reforms taking hold in central Burma, war raging in the north, and a possible peace process in the east, little attention is being paid to Burma's western regions, including the homelands of the indigenous peoples known as the Chins. A group of culturally similar, but linguistically diverse ethnic peoples associated with highland lifestyles (although many live in river valleys), the people who have been called "Chins" in Burma have historically lived in Chin State, Sagaing Division, and far northern Arakan. These areas of residence are known as Chinland, particularly in indigenous-rights contexts. Some of these people prefer to be called Zo, and regional/tribal/linguistic names are often used in addition to "Chin" or instead of "Chin." Some of them who live in other countries use "Burmese" to describe their origins, or are described that way by others. Total population estimates of the "Chin" people of Burma, including residents outside of Burma, come to around 1.5 million.
This update report is composed of interviews with people who identify themselves as Chin or Zo. The interviews took place in March-April 2012 in India: Delhi and Mizoram State (which borders Burma's Chin State). The interviews contain information on the current situation within Chinland and on the conditions for refugees and migrants in India. Of particular interest are Chin opinions on what the benchmarks would be for safe return to their homeland. A range of responses to change in Burma are observable. Some Chin refugees have already returned, some have gone back to visit for the first time in decades, and the majority apparently do not trust Burma's military/government and express a "wait and see" viewpoint..." |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Project Maje |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 11 May 2012 |
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Ethnic groups in Burma (cultural, political)
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Single Groups
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Chin (Zo)- economic, social, cultural, political
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