The Elders visit Myanmar- “ ကမၻာ့ေခါင္းေဆာင္ေဟာင္းမ်ားအဖြဲ႕ (The Elders)မွ အဖြဲ႔ဝင္

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and two other members of The Elders – and independent group of global leaders – are on a three day visit to Myanmar to support peace efforts.

Jimmy Carter, 88, along with Martti Ahtisaari, former President of Finland, and Norwegian Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland, arrived in Myanmar on September 24.

Their visit is aimed at supporting Myanmar’s democratic transition, encouraging the government’s peace efforts to end decades of civil war and to help to achieve national reconciliation.

The three members of The Elders plan to meet with senior Myanmar officials, political figures, religious leaders and civic organisations during their trip and hope to lay the foundations for a more sustained engagement by the group.

 

 

“ ကမၻာ့ေခါင္းေဆာင္ေဟာင္းမ်ားအဖြဲ႕ (The Elders)မွ အဖြဲ႔ဝင္
(၃)ဦးႏွင့္ ၈၈မ်ိဳးဆက္ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးႏွင့္ပြင့္လင္းလူ႔အဖြဲ႔အစည္း)မွ
၈၈မ်ိဳးဆက္ေခါင္းေဆာင္ မင္းကုိႏုိင္တုိ႔ ေတြ႔ဆုံေဆြးေႏြး ”

ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးႏွင့္ ဒီမိုကေရစီကူးေျပာင္းေရး လုပ္ငန္းစဥ္မ်ားကို
ကူညီရန္ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံ၊ ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕သုိ႔ေရာက္ရွိေနၾကေသာ ကမၻာ့
ေခါင္းေဆာင္ေဟာင္းမ်ားအဖြဲ႕ (The Elders)မွ အဖြဲ႔ဝင္မ်ားျဖစ္
ၾကသည့္ အေမရိကန္သမၼတေဟာင္း ဂ်င္မီကာတာ၊ ေနာ္ေဝႏုိင္ငံ
ဝန္ႀကီးခ်ဳပ္ေဟာင္း ဂရုိ ဟာလမ္ ဘရန္႔တ္လန္း၊ ဖင္လန္သမၼတ
ေဟာင္း မာတီ အာတီဆာရီ တုိ႔(၃)ဦးသည္ ယေန႔ (စက္တာင္ဘာလ၊
၂၅ ရက္) နံနက္ ၁၁း၁၅ နာရီက ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕ကမ္းနားလမ္းရွိ
The Strand Hotel ၌ ၈၈မ်ိဳးဆက္(ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးႏွင့္ပြင့္လင္း
လူ႔အဖြဲ႔အစည္း)မွ ၈၈မ်ိဳးဆက္ေခါင္းေဆာင္ မင္းကုိႏုိင္ႏွင့္ ၄၅
မိနစ္ၾကာ ေတြ႔ဆုံေဆြးေႏြးခဲ့ၾကသည္။

ေတြ႔ဆုံေဆြးေႏြးရာတြင္ –
– ရွစ္ေလးလုံး ဒီမုိကေရစီအေရးေတာ္ပုံ ေငြရတုအခမ္းအနားမွ
ခ်မွတ္ခဲ့သည့္လုပ္ငန္းစဥ္(၃)ရပ္ကုိ မည္ကဲ့သုိ႔ အေကာင္အထည္
ေဖာ္ေဆာင္ေရးဆုိသည္ကုိ အဓိကထားေဆြးေႏြးခဲ့ၾကကာ၊
– မၾကာမီရက္ပုိင္းက က်င္းပၿပီးစီးခဲ့ေသာ ရွမ္းျပည္နယ္ ေတာင္ႀကီး
ၿမိဳ႕၌ ျပဳလုပ္ခဲ့သည့္ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးအတြက္ ယုံၾကည္မႈတည္ေဆာက္ျခင္း
ေဆြးေႏြးပြဲမွ ခ်မွတ္ခဲ့ေသာ လုပ္ငန္းစဥ္မ်ားႏွင့္ေငြရတုလုပ္ငန္းစဥ္
(၃)ရပ္တုိ႔မွာ ကြဲျပာျခားနားမႈမရွိဘဲ တူညီၾကသည္ကုိလည္းေကာင္း၊
– အားလုံးက်ယ္ျပန္႔စြာပါဝင္ေသာ ႏုိင္ငံေရးျဖစ္စဥ္(ညီလာခံ) ျဖစ္ရန္
အစုိးရအဖြဲ႔၊ လႊတ္ေတာ္၊ လႊတ္ေတာ္ျပင္ပတုိင္းရင္းသားအင္အား
စုမ်ား၊ လူမႈ အေျချပဳ အဖြဲ႔အစည္းမ်ား၊ အားလုံးသေဘာတူသည့္
လုပ္ငန္းစဥ္ကုိ အေကာင္အထည္ေဖာ္ရန္ လုိအပ္သည္ကုိလည္းေကာင္း၊
– ဒီမုိကေရစီအေရးႏွင့္အတူ တုိင္းရင္းသားအေရးကုိပါ တျပိဳင္နက္
ေျဖရွင္းရန္ လုိအပ္သည္ကုိ လည္းေကာင္း၊
– ျပည္တြင္းပဋိပကၡမ်ားတြင္ ျပည္တြင္းျပည္ပမွေန၍ ပုံႀကီးမခ်ဲ႕ရန္
လုိအပ္သည္ကုိလည္းေကာင္း၊
– ေဒသတြင္းႏွင့္ မိတ္ေဆြႏုိင္ငံမ်ား၏ ဝင္ေရာက္ကူညီေျဖရွင္းမႈမ်ိဳးကုိ
လက္ခံႏုိင္ေသာ္လည္း ဘာသာေရးေခါင္းစဥ္ တစ္ခုခုေခါင္းစဥ္တပ္ကာ
ဖိအားေပးျခင္းမ်ိဳး မျပဳလုပ္ၾကရန္ လုိအပ္သည္ကုိ လည္းေကာင္း၊
– ၂၀၁၅ ခုႏွစ္ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲအား မည္သုိ႔ကူညီရမည္လဲ ဆုိလွ်င္
၂၀၁၅ ခုႏွစ္ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲသည္ ပန္းတုိင္္မဟုတ္ဘဲ မုိင္တုိင္တစ္္ခုု
အျဖစ္သာ ျဖတ္သန္းသြားျခင္း ျဖစ္သည္ကုိ လည္းေကာင္း၊
– ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ တရားမွ်တရန္ႏွင့္သန္႔ရွင္းေရးသည္ အေရးႀကီးသည့္
အတြက္ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲေစာင့္ၾကည့္ေရးႏွင့္ မဲဆႏၵရွင္ျပည္သူမ်ားကုိ
မဲေပးပုံနည္းစနစ္မ်ား ပညာေပးရန္လုိအပ္သည္တုိ႔ကုိ လည္းေကာင္း၊
ေဆြးေႏြးခဲ့ၾကသည္။

Myanmar Burma : Ethnic leaders – Ceasefire deal unlikely unless all armed groups participate

 

Leaders from various ethnic parties have expressed skepticism over the signing of a nation-wide ceasefire deal between the government and ethnic armed groups.

The nation-wide deal which is to be signed in Nay Pyi Taw in October risks becoming a non-starter if some ethnic armed groups do not participate, according to Colonel Saw Lwin, the joint-secretary of the Kayan New Land Party.

“The root cause of clashes between the ethnics and the government is the political problem. It won’t come to an end only with the ceasefire. What the ethnics long for is the political dialogue. It will be meaningless if all ethnic armed groups do not join in the ceasefire deal. If this happens, we won’t sign the deal,” said Colonel Saw Lwin.

“If for instance if the Kachin Independence Army does not join it [the ceasefire] we won’t either. Armed revolution is due to the political problem. If the political problem is set aside, we won’t come to the signing,” added the colonel.

Skirmishes between the Myanmar army and ethnic armed groups have continued in various contested areas despite government efforts to push for a nation-wide ceasefire deal. The latest incident involved fighting in Mangyin Village of Shan State on September 17 as trust-building talks for peace were still underway in the state capital of Taunggyi.

“There have been over 100 skirmishes between the government and the Shan State Progress Party/Shan State Army (SSPP/SSA) despite a ceasefire agreement in January 2012. The fighting continued up to the end of September and therefore the October ceasefire deal is unlikely to be held,” said Khun Tun Oo, the chairman of Shan Nationalities League for Democracy.

Khun Tun Oo added that matters regarding the Wa and Mongla armed groups had yet to be settled.

Lieutenant General Hsay Htin who was involved in the ceasefire processes under General Ne Win in 1963, as well as assisting to General Khin Nyunt’s efforts in late 1990, said that trust in a ceasefire was necessary for it to succeed.

“If an ethnic armed group keeps on fighting, ceasefire will not come true. If all ethnic armed groups agree to a ceasefire, it would be the best for the country,” said Hsay Htin.

The Kachin Independence Army (KIA) is not likely to participate in the signing of ceasefire to be held in October. The Union Peacemaking Implementation Work Committee is planning to meet the KIA in order to push it to the signing deal.

Myanmar-Burma Villagers protest the building of oil refinery in Dawei

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Locals from Yinboat village in Dawei, Tanintharyi region have protested the building of a Chinese-backed oil refinery project.

A poster that protestors set up to remind the government’s principles for environmentally friendly investment

Three hundred residents from the area gathered on September 24 with posters citing President Thein Sein’s speech and the principles laid down by the Myanmar Investment Commission which call for environmentally friendly investment.

“The employees working for us at the factory are people, not robots. If the poison gas comes out from the factory, the employees will be the ones who suffer first hand. I had health results for a number of employees who suffered respiratory tract infection,” said presiding monk from Lay Tun Khan monastery.

A precession began in Nyinmaw village and proceeded to Yinboat village which is due to be relocated when the project begins. The peaceful demonstrators hung posters at the entrance of the village road and listened to sermons given by monks. Residents voiced worries of oil spills and waste from the oil refinery.

The monk added that: “the villagers are now divided into two. Some accept the project, some have not. Those who agreed is because of the compensation money. But we cannot watch merely for the side of money. We have to look also for the bad consequences.”

The project is a joint venture between the Chinese company Guangdong Zhenrong Energy Co Ltd (GDZR), the military-owned Union of Myanmar Economic Holdings Limited (UMEHL) and the Htoo Group of Companies.

GDZR has contributed 70 percent to the project while UMEHL and Htoo Group have contributed 20 percent and 10 percent respectively. The oil refinery aims to produce five million tons of oil per year and will import the necessary crude oil from the Middle East.

Jetties are being built to importing crude oil at Tesit and Sanhlan beaches in west of Nyinmaw village. It is estimated that 25,000 tons of waste will be produced from the refinery yearly.

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ဇာတ္သိမ္းသြားေသာ ကုိကင္တားနားမ ေန ့က က်င္းပ ျပဳလုပ္တဲ့ ကုလသမၼဂ လူ ့အခြင့္အ ေရးဆိုင္ ရာ အစည္းအ ေ၀း တစ္ခုမွာ ကန္တားနားကို တာ၀န္မွ ရပ္စဲဖို ့ ဆုံးျဖတ္လိုက္ေၾကာင္း သိရပါတယ္..

ဇာတ္သိမ္းသြားေသာ ကုိကင္တားနား
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မ ေန ့က က်င္းပ ျပဳလုပ္တဲ့ ကုလသမၼဂ လူ ့အခြင့္အ ေရးဆိုင္ ရာ အစည္းအ ေ၀း တစ္ခုမွာ ကန္တားနားကို တာ၀န္မွ ရပ္စဲဖို ့ ဆုံးျဖတ္လိုက္ေၾကာင္း သိရပါတယ္..

အမွန္တကယ္ေတာ့ သူ ့ တာ၀န္ သက္တမ္း ေျခာက္ႏွစ္ဟာ လာမယ့္ ေဖေဖာ္၀ါရီလ
ျမန္မာျပည္ ေနာက္ဆုံး ခရီးစဥ္ အျပီးမွာ အဆုံးသတ္မွာပါ။ ဒါေပမဲ့ သူ ့သ ေဘာထား
အျမင္ သုံးသပ္ခ်က္ေတြဟာ တဖက္သတ္ ဆန္လြန္းတယ္ ဆိုတဲ့ စြပ္စြဲခ်က္ေတြ.. ကန္ ့ကြက္မွဳ ့ေတြ.. ျမန္မာျပည္သူေတြ ကမၻာသိေအာင္ ျပသႏိုင္ ခဲ့တဲ့ေနာက္မွာ အ ေျခအ ေန ေတြက ေျပာင္းခဲ့ရတာပါ။

ဒီျဖစ္ ရပ္.. သ ေဘာထား.. ေတြဟာ အမွန္ပဲလား ဆိုတာ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ ငံဆိုင္ ရာ 
လူ ့ အခြင့္အ ေရး အထူးအၾကံေပး ကိုယ္စားလွယ္ ဗီေဂ် နမ္ဗီးယား ကိုယ္တိုင္ ကန္တားနားရဲ ့ မ ေအာင္ျမင္ တဲ့ ခရီးစဥ္ အျပီးမွာပဲ ခ်က္ခ်င္း ေရာက္လာျပီး စုံစမ္း အတည္ျပဳ ခ်က္ ယူခဲ့ပါတယ္။

ဒီေနရာမွာ ထူးျခားတာ တစ္ခုက မိတၳီလာ ျဖစ္စဥ္ အျပီး (24.3.2013) ေန ့ေတြမွာ ကိုယ္တိုင္ သြားေရာက္ ေလ့လာခဲ့သူ မစၥတာ နမ္ဘီးယား ဟာ 969 စနက္ မကင္းဘူးလို ့ အေစာပိုင္းမွာ သံေယာင္ လိုက္ ေျပာခဲ့ပါေသးတယ္.. ဒါေပမဲ့ 
ၿမန္မာျပည္သူေတြရဲ ့ ကန္ ့ကြက္မွဳ ့ကို ေသခ်ာသိျပီး ေနာက္ပိုင္း ယခုခရီးစဥ္ အျပီးမွာ လုံး၀ ေလသံေျပာင္းခဲ့ပါတယ္။ ဒါဟာ ျမန္မာျပည္တြင္းေရး ျဖစ္ပါတယ္
ျပည္တြင္းေရးကို ဘယ္သူမွ ၀င္ စြက္လို ့ မရသလို ၀င္ စြက္ဖက္ ရင္ လဲ ဘယ္ႏိုင္ ငံကမွ လက္သင့္ ခံမွာ မဟုတ္ဘူးလို ့ တရား၀င္ ေျပာၾကားခဲ့ပါတယ္။

ဘာပဲျဖစ္ျဖစ္ သတင္းေကာင္းပါ ကြ်န္ေတာ္တို ့ ႏိုင္ ငံသားေတြ အ ေနနဲ ့အရာရာကို 
ေ ခါင္းငုံ ့ မခံပဲ ရဲရဲ၀ံ့၀ံ့ ကမၻာသိေအာင္ ေျပာၾကဖို ့ လိုပါတယ္။
ဒါဟာ စည္းလုံးမွဳ ့ရဲ ့ေအာင္ ပြဲပါ….။

ဒီေနရာမွာ ဆရာေတာ္ ဦးနာယက (U.S.A) နဲ ့ 
ကိုလင္းထိန္ (U.K) တို ့ကိုလဲ ေက်းဇူး တင္ေၾကာင္း မွတ္တမ္း တင္ လိုပါတယ္…..

Ko Min Min.

 

 

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THAILAND: WOMEN from IDP MAE LA CAMP RAPED AND KILLED_ဒုကၡသည္ အမ်ိဳးသမီး တဦး ပေဟဠိဆန္စြာ ေသဆုံး ၿငိမ္းၿငိမ္း

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Women from  IDP Mae Lar Camp Mae Sot  raped and killed .   Photo taken  near by toe Wah be 4 today .

————ဒုကၡသည္ အမ်ိဳးသမီး တဦး ပေဟဠိဆန္စြာ ေသဆုံး
ၿငိမ္းၿငိမ္း| September 25, 2013

ဒုကၡသည္ အမ်ိဳးသမီး, ေသဆုံး

ပေဟဠိ ဆန္စြာ ေသဆုံးေနတဲ့ ဒုကၡသည္ ကရင္အမ်ိဳးသမီး
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ထိုင္း-ျမန္မာ နယ္စပ္ မယ္လ ဒုကၡသည္စခန္းက အသက္ ၃၇ ႏွစ္အရြယ္ အမ်ဳိးသမီးတဦး ၂ ရက္ၾကာ ေပ်ာက္ဆံုးေနရာ က ဒီေန႔မနက္ပိုင္းမွာ ဒုကၡသည္စခန္း အျပင္ဘက္ ကားလမ္းေဘးက ေတာအုပ္ၾကားကေန သူ႔ အေလာင္းကို ျပန္လည္ ေတြ႔ရွိရတယ္လို႔ တာ၀န္ရွိသူေတြက ေျပာျပပါတယ္။

မေရႊလွေအး လို႔ေခၚတဲ့ အဲဒီ ကရင္ အမ်ဳိးသမီးဟာ တနလၤာေန႔ ေန႔လယ္ပိုင္းကတည္းက ေပ်ာက္ဆံုးေနခဲ့တာျဖစ္ၿပီး အဂၤါေန႔က ဒုကၡသည္စခန္းတခုလံုး ၀ိုင္း၀န္းရွာေဖြခဲ့ေပမယ့္ မေတြ႔ရွိဘဲ ဒီေန႔မနက္ ၇ နာရီ ေလာက္မွ ျပန္လည္ေတြ႔ရွိခဲ့တာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။

“တနလၤာေန႔က စခန္းတြင္း ရိကၡာေ၀တဲ့ ေန႔ေလ။ ရိကၡာ လက္ခံလာယူဖို႔ သူ႔နာမည္ေခၚတဲ့အခါ သူ မရွိေတာ့ဘူး။ ေစ်းဆိုင္ သြားမယ္ဆိုၿပီး ထြက္သြားတာတဲ့။ ညအထိ ျပန္မေရာက္တာေၾကာင့္ မိသားစုက လိုက္ရွာခဲ့တယ္။ မေတြ႔ေတာ့ က်မတို႔ဆီ အမႈလာတိုင္တယ္။ ေနာက္ေန႔ မနက္အထိ မေတြ႔ေတာ့၂၄ ရက္ေန႔မွာ သူ႔ဓာတ္ပံုေတြကို စခန္းထဲမွာ လိုက္ကပ္ၿပီး ထပ္ရွာ တယ္။ ဒီေန႔မနက္မွ စခန္းအျပင္ဘက္ စိုးလု ရြာနား သြားတဲ့လမ္းေဘးမွာ ျပန္ေတြ႔တာ”လို႔ ကရင္ အမ်ဳိးသမီး အစည္းအရံုး မွ ေဒၚေအးက ဧရာ၀တီကို ေျပာပါတယ္။

အေပၚ၀တ္အက်ီ၊ ေဘာင္းဘီနဲ႔ အတြင္းခံေတြ မရွိေတာ့ဘဲ ဗလာစီယာ တထည္နဲ႔ သူ႔ အေလာင္းပံုေတြကို ေဖ့့စ္ဘုတ္ စာမ်က္ႏွာ တခုက ေတြ႔ရပါတယ္။

ဒုကၡသည္ စခန္းေကာ္မတီ ဥကၠဌ ေစာေအာနက္ေတာ့ “သူ႔ လည္ပင္းက က်ဳိးေနတယ္။ ရင္ဘတ္မွာလည္း တခုခုနဲ႔ ထုထားသလိုပဲ။ ဒါေပမယ့္ မုဒိမ္းမႈ ဟုတ္မဟုတ္ ဆိုတာေတာ့ ေသခ်ာမေျပာႏိုင္ဘူး။ ထိုင္း တာ၀န္ရွိသူေတြ စစ္ေဆးေန တုန္းပါ”လို႔ ေျပာဆိုပါတယ္။

မနက္ ၉ နာရီေလာက္မွာပဲ ထိုင္းႏိုင္ငံ မယ္လစခန္းနားက မယ္တန္ၿမိဳ႔နယ္က ထိုင္း မႈခင္းရဲ နဲ႔ ထိုင္းဆရာ၀န္ေတြ လာေရာက္ စစ္ေဆးခဲ့ၿပီး မုဒိမ္းမႈ ဟုတ္မဟုတ္ဆိုတာ ေသခ်ာသိခ်င္ရင္ ဘန္ေကာက္ ေဆးရံုကိုပို႔ၿပီး စစ္ေဆးရမယ္လို႔ ဆိုတဲ့အတြက္ က်န္ရစ္တဲ့ မိသားစု၀င္ေတြက ေငြေၾကးမတတ္ႏိုင္တာေၾကာင့္ တခါတည္း သၿဂၤိဳဟ္ဖို႔ ဆံုးျဖတ္လိုက္ၾက ပါတယ္။

“သူတို႔က ဗုဒၵဘာသာ၀င္ေတြဆိုေတာ့ သူ႔အေလာင္းကို အိမ္ကို ျပန္မသယ္ေတာ့ဘဲ သခ်ိဳင္းကုန္းကို သယ္သြားတယ္။ ေနာက္ၿပီး ဘန္ေကာက္သြားျပဖို႔လည္း ပိုက္ဆံမရွိေတာ့ ဒီေန႔ ေန႔လယ္ ၂ နာရီမွာ သၿဂိဳဟ္ လိုက္ၾကတယ္။ က်မတို႔ကေတာ့ ဓာတ္ပံုမွတ္တမ္း ေသခ်ာယူထားပါတယ္”လို႔ ေဒၚေအးက ေျပာတယ္။

မေရႊလွေအးဟာ လႈိင္းဘြဲ႔ၿမိဳ႕ ဘီးလင္းရြာကျဖစ္ၿပီး ဒုကၡသည္စခန္းက ကုလသမဂ အသိအမွတ္ျပဳလက္မွတ္နဲ႔ စခန္းထဲမွာ ၁၀ ႏွစ္ေက်ာ္ ေနထိုင္ခဲ့သူ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ကေလး၂ ေယာက္မိခင္ မုဆိုးမ တဦးျဖစ္ၿပီး ေမာင္ႏွမ၊ အေဒၚေတြနဲ႔ အတူ မယ္လ စခန္း ရပ္ကြက္ ၂ (Zone B2) မွာ ေနထိုင္တာ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။

အိမ္နီးနားခ်င္း တဦး ျဖစ္တဲ့ အမိုးႀကီးက “သူက တအားေအးၿပီး စကားလည္း သိပ္မေျပာတဲ့လူ။ ဘယ္လိုျဖစ္သြားတယ္ ဆိုတာ ဘယ္သူမွ အတိအက် မသိဘူး။ ၂၃ ရက္ေန႔လယ္က စၿပီး သူေပ်ာက္သြားတာ”လို႔ ေျပာျပတယ္။

အခုေသဆုံးသူမွာ တက္ တတ္တဲ့ ေရာဂါရွိၿပီး စိတ္သိပ္ပံုမွန္ မဟုတ္ဘူးလို႔ ေျပာၾကပါတယ္။ သူ႔ရဲ့ နားကပ္နဲ႔ ေငြသားေတြ ဒီအတိုင္းရွိေနၿပီး အေလာင္းကလည္း ပုပ္လာေနတာေၾကာင့္ မုဒိမ္းက်င့္ခံရတာ ဟုတ္မဟုတ္ကို ဘယ္သူမွ အေသအခ်ာ မေျပာႏိုင္ဘဲ ပေဟဠိလို ျဖစ္ေနပါတယ္။

ဒုကၡသည္စခန္းတြင္းမွာ မုဒိမ္းက်င့္မႈေတြ တႏွစ္ကို ၂ မႈ ၃ မႈ ျဖစ္ပြားမႈရွိေပမယ့္ အခုလိုမ်ဳိး စခန္း အျပင္ဘက္မွာ ေသဆုံး ေနတဲ့ အမႈမ်ဳိးကေတာ့ ျဖစ္ခဲတယ္လို႔ ဒုကၡသည္ေတြက ေျပာၾကပါတယ္။

မယ္လ ဒုကၡသည္ စခန္းမွာ လူဦးေရ ၅ ေသာင္းေလာက္ ရွိတယ္လို႔ ဆိုပါတယ္။

ထုိင္း-ျမန္မာ နယ္စပ္တေလွ်ာက္မွာ ဒုကၡသည္ စခန္း ၉ ခုရွိၿပီး ဒုကၡသည္ တသိန္း ေျခာက္ေသာင္း ေလာက္ ရွိေၾကာင္း ကူညီ ကယ္ဆယ္ေရးနဲ႔ အေထာက္အပံ့ေပးေရး အဖြဲ႔ေတြရဲ႕ စာရင္းအရ သိရတယ္။

အဲဒီ စခန္းေတြကေတာ့ မယ္လ၊ အုန္းဖ်န္၊ ႏုိ႔ဖိုး၊ မယ္လဦး၊ မယ္ရာမို၊ ထန္ဟင္း၊ ဘန္႔ဒုံယမ္း စတဲ့ စခန္း ၇ ခုနဲ႔ ကရင္ နီ စခန္း အမွတ္ (၁)၊ အမွတ္ (၂) စခန္းတို႔ ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ဒုကၡသည္ေတြဟာ အစိုးရတပ္ေတြရဲ႕ ထိုးစစ္ဆင္မႈေၾကာင့္ ၁၉၈၃ ခုႏွစ္ေလာက္ကတည္းက စတင္ ထြက္ေျပး ေရာက္ရွိလာၾကသူေတြ ျဖစ္တယ္လို႔ သိရပါတယ္။

Thai Immigration nabs Burma Myanmar workers holding ‘faked’ passports

TAK ― Three Myanmar workers have been arrested with fake passports at a border checkpoint in Mae Sot district, after an immigration official noticed them looking nervous and had their documents examined using a passport authentication device.

The suspects included a man identified as Miew Oo, 37, and two 17-year-old girls.

It was the first time migrant workers from Myanmar had been caught using forged travel documents, Tak immigration chief Pol Col Pongnakhon Nakhonsantiparp said.

The page containing the photo and personal information of the passport holders in each of the seized passports was forged, but other parts of the documents were authentic.

Pol Col Pongnakhon said he believed the fake passports were produced in Thailand and sold to Myanmar labourers.

Miew Oo allegedly confessed that he bought the passports for 16,000 baht from a man known only as Kotoon in Myawaddy, the Myanmar border town opposite Mae Sot. He said he waited for eight days to get the documents.

Myanmar police jointly questioned the suspects with Thai authorities and reported the incident to officials in Nay Pyi Daw. Police would investigate further to find those behind the production of the fake passports, with the help of their Myanmar counterparts, Pol Col Pongnakhon said.

http://www.bangkokpost.com/breakingnews/371277/myanmar-workers-arrested-over-counterfeit-passports

Questions to ask on the US$11 billion and newly mentioned US$7.6 billion

After Mr. Jelson Garcia, manager of Asia Program for Bank Information Centre, revealed that Myanmar possesses US$11 billion in foreign bank accounts, The Daily Eleven asked if such a large amount of money actually exists and if they are the corrupt money.

https://soundcloud.com/lp-paing/mr-jelson-garcia-talk-about

Afterwards, the Central Bank admitted that Myanmar has US$7.6 billion in foreign currency reserves at foreign banks, but they having knowledge about the US$11 billion. The Central Bank failed to answer if the foreign currency reserves of US$7.6 billion are in circulation or in fixed deposit accounts. Such is not something to be kept in secret but something to be explained.

If the current government fails to unravel the US$11 billion and seek the concrete facts, The Daily Eleven believes that the next government will need to probe the case. There are also questions for the officially mentioned US$7.6 billion.

If the country is in possession of such a big amount of money, the government will not need to borrow loans from other nations, nor will President Thein Sein need to request the other countries to write off Myanmar’s debts. Even if it is required to borrow further, the government should turn only to the low-interest loans from the World Bank, International Monetary Fund and Japan.

However, Myanmar government loaned from China at the interest rate of 4.5 percent, requiring itself to pay US$45 million to China within 10 years. Myanmar took a loan of US$100 million from China recently. The loan will be used to lend money to the farmers at the interest rate of 2 percent, which is quite high for the farmers to repay. While the government has US$7.6 billion in foreign currency reserves, should it borrow in haste the high-interest loans from China?

Single visa policy discussed for Cambodia,Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam

EMG

ientiane Times

Asia News Network

Tourism ministers from Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam met recently in Ho Chi Minh City to discuss a plan to introduce a single visa policy for tourists entering the five nations.

The proposed move aims to boost tourist arrivals in these countries, whose combined international arrivals in 2012 saw 18-per-cent growth to reach 37 million. The ministers met at the ACMECS conference on the sidelines of the 9th International Travel Expo, which ran from September 12 to 14. Cambodia and Thailand launched a pilot scheme in January that allows tourists who obtain a visa to enter Thailand to also enter Cambodia.

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Five Southeast Asian countries, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam, are targeting a double-digit growth rate of international visitors annually by 2015 under the theme “Five Countries One Destination”, according to Hoang Tuan Anh, Minister of Culture, Sport and Tourism.