Student Protest In Sittwe -Narinjara news

ယေန႕ ဆႏၵျပေက်ာင္းသားမ်ား ျပည္နယ္လြတ္ေတာ္ေရွ႕ ( ယခင္ ျမိဳ႕ေတာ္ခန္းမ) တြင္ ေတြ႕ရစဥ္။

” ကားခ တစ္ေၾကာင္္းကို က်ပ္ ၁၀၀ ကေန ၂၀၀ ထိ တိုးလိုက္ပါတယ္။ ဒါကို မေက်နပ္တဲ့ အတြက္ ဆႏၵျပတာပါ။ ေတာင္းဆိုတာကေတာ့ ပံုမွန္အတုိင္း ကားခကို ဆက္ထားဖို႕ပါဘဲ” ဟု လမ္းေလွ်ာက္ ခ်ီတက္ရာတြင္ ပါ၀င္သူ ေက်ာင္းသား တစ္ဦးက ေျပာသည္။

ေက်ာင္းသားမ်ားသည္ စစ္ေတြ တကၠသိုလ္မွ ေန၍ ျပည္နယ္ ၀န္ၾကီးရံုးထိ ယေန႕႔ေန႕လည္ပိုင္းတြင္ လမ္းေလွ်ာက္ ခ်ီတက္ခဲ့ၾကသည္ဟု မ်က္ျမင္ တစ္ဦးက ေျပာသည္။

” ကၽြန္ေတာ္တို႕ အိမ္ေရွ႕ကဘဲ သူတို႕ အခု သြားေနၾကတယ္။ ေက်ာင္းသား ေက်ာင္းသူ သံုးရာေက်ာ္ ပါမယ္ထင္တယ္။ အခု ပလုတ္ေတာင္ရဲစခန္းကို လြန္သြားပါျပီ” ဟု ပလုတ္ေတာင္ရပ္ကြက္မွ ေက်ာင္းဆရာ တစ္ဦးက ေျပာသည္။

ဆီေစ်းႏုုန္းေတြ ျမင့္တက္ေနတဲ့ အတြက္ ကားခ တိုးေတာင္းျခင္း ျဖစ္သျဖင့္ ကားသမားမ်ား ေတာင္းတာက တရားသျဖင့္ မျဖစ္ဘူးလားဟု ေက်ာင္းသားကို ဆက္ေမးရာ သူက ယခုလို ျပန္ေျပာသည္။

” အခုလို ေက်ာင္းကားခကို တစ္ရာက်ပ္ကေန ႏွစ္ရာထိ တိုးလိုက္တဲ့ အတြက္ တစ္ေန႕ကုိ က်ပ္ ၄၀၀ ျဖစ္သြားေတာ့ ဆင္းရဲႏြမ္းပါးတဲ့ ေက်ာင္းသားေတြ အေနနဲ႕ ဘယ္လိုမွ မတတ္ႏိုင္ပါဘူး။ ဒါေၾကာင့္ ေက်ာင္းကားခကို မေလ်ာ့ဘူးဆိုရင္ အမ်ားစုက ေက်ာင္းသားေတြက စာသင္ႏိုင္ၾကေတာ့မွာ မဟုတ္ဘူး။ ဒါေၾကာင့္ ေက်ာင္းကားခကို ပံုမွန္အတိုင္းထားေပးဖို႕ ေတာင္းဆိုရတာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။”

ျပည္နယ္ အေထြေထြ အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ေရးမွဴးရံုးကိုု ခ်ီတက္ရျခင္း အေၾကာင္းအရင္းကိုလည္း သူက ယခုလို ေျပာသည္။

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Burma:troops from IB 130 shot and killed Ai Hta, a young villager, on 4 January at Pha Pien village, Namkham township

6 January 2011
Ai Hta, a young villager, who ran away to escape from being recruited as a porter shot and killed on 4 January at Pha Pien village, Namkham township, by troops from IB 130. One other young man and 3 women were taken by them. (SHAN)

Four Chinese cargo vessels and one Myanmar patrol boat were attacked by an unknown force on Mekong River on Wednesday.

According to Xinhua news agency on Friday, the unidentified assailants attacked the Myanmar patrol boat and Chinese cargo ships with M-79 grenades in the early hours of Wednesday.It was not known whether the Myanmar troops on their patrol boat returned gunfires but no damage was reported aboard the Chinese cargo ships plying the Golden Triangle area.

Beijing had suspended Chinese shipping activity on Mekong River, following last Oct’s massacre of 13 Chinese crewmembers aboard two Chinese-flagged cargo ships where 950,000 tablets of methamphetamine were found and seized.

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One Burmese patrol ship and four Chinese cargo vessels were attacked by missiles on the Mekong River on Wednesday, Chinese state media reported on Friday quoting a Thai official.

According to the Xinhua news agency report, an unknown group of assailants attacked a Burmese patrol vessel and four Chinese cargo ships near a Burmese port on the river with M79 grenade launchers in the early hours of Jan. 4.

According to the Thai source, it is unclear whether the Burmese patrol ship responded with gunfire. The cargo ships were reportedly undamaged in the attack.

A Burmese source confirmed to Xinhua that a total of five ships had been attacked, including one patrol vessel.

Thailand: Chatuchak market now under high levels of security

BANGKOK, 6 January 2011 (NNT)-Police Chief Police General Preawpan Damapong has instructed the Metropolitan Police and the Central Investigation Bureau to increase security around Chatuchak market following the recent fire. The fire occurred on January 4, two days after the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) returned the management of the popular weekend market to the State Railway of Thailand (SRT). According to the report, the fire broke out from a book shop which is just meters away from the MRT’s Kamphaeng Phet station, at around 8 p.m. Although the police have concluded that a short circuit had started the fire, shop keepers believe it could be the work of a third party. In an attempt to prevent a similar incident in the future, police officers have been dispatched and stationed around Chatuchak to keep the situation under control. The Central Investigation Bureau has been instructed to speed up the investigation. The case is reportedly under the supervision of Deputy National Police Chief Police General Panupong Singhara. Police General Preawpan added later that if the situation exacerbates, the investigation team must report to the Royal Thai Police immediately.NNT

PTTEP contracts Myanmar-Burma petroleum concessions

BANGKOK, Jan 5 –Thailand’s state-owned PTT Exploration and Production (PTTEP) on Thursday signed an agreement with Myanma Oil and Gas Enterprise (MOGE) for an investment in Myanmar’s Zawtika M9 gas field.

PTTEP president and chief executive Anon Sirisaengtaksin said petroleum and natural gas production will start in 2013 with a production capacity of 300 million cubic feet/day, with 240 million cubic feet to be distributed to Thailand daily. MOGE holds a 20 per cent stake in the investment, he said.

Granted rights by Myanmar, PTTEP will also begin exploring the country’s two onshore oil blocks, EP2 and G, on Wednesday.

The Thai company is investing in neighbouring Myanmar to build ties between the nations and to secure energy for Thailand.

Mr Anon said PTTEP expects petroleum sales to rise to 290,000 barrels/day this year, an increase of 8 per cent. Petroleum sales volume were 265,000 barrels/day in 2011.

PTTEP current main production centre in the Greater Bongkot South project in the Gulf of Thailand will begin production in March at 300 million cubic feet/day, and its Australian Montara field will resume in either Q2 or Q3 at 30,000 barrels/day.

The firm began producing oil in the Vietnam 16-1 Project in Sept 2011, with full production capacity beginning this year at 30,000 barrels/day.

The company’s investment strategies include collaboration with the PTT Group in petroleum exploration and with partners such as Statoil to seek investment opportunities in the United States, South America and Africa, whereas the Browse LNG project in Western Australia and other investment sources in Thailand and Asian countries such as Malaysia also have PTTEP’s interest.

This year’s investment total was set at Bt150 billion, said Mr Anon, out of which Bt100 billion is for construction, Bt20 billion for drilling and exploration, and Bt30 billion for management.

PTTEP’s five-year investment plan reached a total of Bt600 billion, with Bt350 billion earmarked for construction. The company aims to produce oil at 900,000 barrels/day in 2020. (MCOT online news)

Chin National Front (CNF) First Day of Peace Talks: Agreeing to Disagree

Team leader Dr. Sui Khar (Right) and Brigadier Solomon (Left in army uniform) waving at the public in Hakha (Photo:CG)

06 January 2012: The first day of peace talks between the Chin National Front (CNF) and the new State government in Hakha ended today with both parties ‘agreeing to disagree’ without any final formal agreement.

Speaking to Chinland Guardian at the end of Thursday’s talks, CNF peace delegation team leader Dr. Sui Khar said, “We haven’t reached any formal agreement yet. That will be the discussion for the next day. But we have basically agreed to disagree with each other.”

Separately, the CNF peace delegation is also expected to meet with a group of Chin State ministers on Friday, according to an inside source. It is immediately not clear whether Chief Minister ex-general Hung Ngai will be present in that meeting.

The two-day peace talks is being held in the Chin State’s capital amidst public euphoria and historic welcome ceremonies for the CNF peace delegation in Thantlang and Hakha towns where thousands of people clad in traditional dresses packed the streets to greet the ten-member negotiating team.

Some observers believe the huge public support will give the CNF an added negotiating power as it shows how much support the organization enjoys from the Chin people.

“We have been regularly ‘required’ to greet state officials during their visits to town on countless occasions but this time we came out on the street on our own account. People say ‘we even greet Burmese officials, why not our own heroes?’,” said an elderly woman in Hakha.

The current peace talks is aimed at securing a ceasefire between the Chin National Army, the armed wing of CNF and Burmese government troops, which have fought for the last 23 years. It followed an initial meeting between the CNF and Burma’s Railways Minister Aung Min in November on the Thai-Burma border.

If a cease-fire agreement is reached between the two sides, more negations are expected to follow so that substantive political issues can be discussed, according to CNF source.

http://chinlandguardian.com/home.html

FBR REPORT: Burma Army mortars villages in Pa’an District, Karen State

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