#MYANMAR #Grandson of #Than #Shwe #met #Daw #Aung #San #Suu #Kyi.

Grandson of ex-dictator snr-gen Than Shwe has met Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. And Daw Aung San Suu Kyi has also confirmed about it.
Than Shwe’s grandson, Nay Shwe Thway Aung has written on his Facebook that ” I don’t want to beat around the bush anymore. I am so happy that Aunt, Aung San Suu Kyi has treated me warmly and friendly. I will do what I can for the good of the country. And I hope the people will happy about the news.”

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#update #MYANMAR #BURMA #NLD #CANDIDATE #ATTACKED #WHILE #CAMPAIGNING

Attacked NLD candidate in stable condition
The CT scan results of Naing Ngan Lin, the National League for Democracy’s candidate who was attacked by a sword last night on his campaign in Thaketa Township, showed that his condition is now stable.
“Scan results are good; there are no blood leaking or congealed blood clots in his head. He can talk, sit and eat,” said Dr Tin Myo Win, the chair of the NLD’s health network this afternoon at 1:30 pm.
Naing Ngan Lin had his wounds on head and hands operated this morning but still under other necessary medical examinations.
May Win Myint, the NLD lower house member from Mayangon Constituency, came and met Naing Ngan Lin.

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Today leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi visit victims of NLD attack and meet other patients

Credits: Thiha Min Wai

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update : Operation performed on injured NLD candidate Naing Ngan Lin A surgical operation was performed on Naing Ngan Lin, the National League for Democracy’s (NLD) candidate for the Yangon regional parliament, this morning at 2 am after being attacked by a sword last night. The three-hour long operation was to sew the wounds on his head and hands closed, according to his wife Khin Sandar Win. Another injured NLD member, Kyaw Thu, also had his hand treated. “The blood vessels in his hands were sewed up. The head is operated. The doctors didn’t mention the number of stitches. Other important matters were also taken care of. He can talk,” said Khin Sandar Win. The next surgery will be performed on November 2 and Naing Ngan Lin is in the intensive care unit of the Yangon General Hospital, his wife said. Naing Ngan Lin and another NLD member Ko Ni and Thanda Maw, campaign manager of Thet Htar Nwe were attacked with a sword wielding man at 8th Street of Mannpyay ward, Thakayta township, at about 9.30 pm yesterday. One NLD member, Aung Kyaw, said while they were going round on a decorated float, an unknown man appeared suddenly and punched those who came along with the vehicle. After some NLD members’ intervention, the man went home and came back with a sword. Then he started to attack and but he was stopped by Naing Ngan Lin and some party members. Later, three other empty-handed men joined him and started their attacks, said Aung Kyaw. Three of the attackers are under interrogation at Thaketa Township Police Station under sections 609/2015, 326/294/114. They are Zaw Latt (a.k.a) Aung Zaw Latt, Tin Aung Khaing Oo and Myo Min Khaing. 10359221_10207919247797901_1083242910970974413_n12107286_10207921184366314_5263693660179434105_n12047175_10207921183006280_6483705611772629811_n Breaking news: Some NLD party members including Naing Ngan Lin from Thaketa Township have been attacked in the township tonight. A man attacked the NLD party members with a knife while NLD is parading with a decorated vehicle in the ward, said Dr. Wai Phyo Aung, a lower house candidate for NLD. Naing Ngan Lin is rushed to emergency unit in Yangon Hospital along with other party members who have injures. Sources say four people are involved in the attack and police arrested two of them. Investigation is still ongoing. PHOTOCREDIT ELEVEN MEDIA 12188113_922053764498914_8847932060340565064_o11061295_922053757832248_3953099949246368605_o PHJOTOCREDIT Than Zaw 11666274_567911340023455_222013415674408963_n

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!! ‘update #သာေကတၿမိဳ႕နယ္အတြင္း #NLD #လႊတ္ေတာ္ကိုယ္စားလွယ္ေလာင္း #ဦးႏိုင္ငံလင္းႏွင့္ #ပါတီ၀င္အခ်ိဳ႕ ဓားခုတ္ခံရ

ယေန႔ လူထုေခါင္းေဆာင္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ မွ
အၾကမ္းဖက္ တိုက္ခိုက္ခံရေသာ ဒီခ်ဳပ္လႊတ္ေတာ္ကိုယ္စားလွယ္
ကိုႏိုင္ငံလင္းႏွင့္အဖြဲ႕အား လာေရာက္ၾကည့္ရွဳ႕ သတင္းေမးၿပီး
ေဆးရံုရွိ အျခားလူနာမ်ားကိုလဲ ေတြ႕ဆုံအားေပး

Credits: Thiha Min Wai

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သာေကတၿမိဳ႕နယ္အတြင္း NLD လႊတ္ေတာ္ကိုယ္စားလွယ္ေလာင္း ဦးႏိုင္ငံလင္းႏွင့္ ပါတီ၀င္အခ်ိဳ႕ ဓားခုတ္ခံရ 12194668_922053761165581_5987229997609484491_o 12188122_922053771165580_5420681261036554329_o 12186762_922053767832247_8293766805132076028_o 11700858_922053774498913_3281144992392391397_o-111061295_922053757832248_3953099949246368605_o12188113_922053764498914_8847932060340565064_o သာေကတၿမိဳ႕နယ္အတြင္း အမ်ိဳးသား ဒီမုိကေရစီအဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္ (NLD) ပါတီမွ ေအာက္တုိဘာ ၂၉ ရက္ ညပုိင္းတြင္ အလွျပယာဥ္ျဖင့္ လွည့္လည္ေဖ်ာ္ေျဖေနစဥ္ အမ်ိဳးသားတစ္ဦးက ဓားျဖင့္လုိက္လံခုတ္မႈေၾကာင့္ လႊတ္ေတာ္ ကုိယ္စားလွယ္ေလာင္း ဦးႏုိင္ငံလင္းႏွင့္ ပါတီ၀င္အခ်ိဳ႕ ဒဏ္ရာရရွိခဲ့ေၾကာင္း သာေကတၿမိဳ႕နယ္ ျပည္သူ႔လႊတ္ေတာ္ ကုိယ္စားလွယ္ေလာင္း ေဒါက္တာေ၀ၿဖိဳးေအာင္က ေျပာၾကားသည္။ ယင္းကဲ့သုိ႔ ဓါးျဖင့္ တုိက္ခုိက္ခံရမႈေၾကာင့္ ဦးႏုိင္ငံလင္း၏ ဦးေခါင္းတြင္ ဒဏ္ရာရရွိခဲ့ၿပီး အျခား ဒဏ္ရာရရွိေသာ ပါတီ၀င္မ်ားႏွင့္အတူ ရန္ကုန္ေဆးရုံႀကီး အေရးေပၚဌာနတြင္ ကုသမႈခံယူေနေၾကာင္း ထပ္မံသိရွိရသည္။ “ကြၽန္မမ်က္စိေရွ႕မွာေတာ့ ကုိႏုိင္ငံလင္းက အဲ့ဒီလူကုိ ၀င္တားတယ္။ ႏွစ္ေယာက္စလုံး လုံးသြားတာ ေတြ႕လုိက္ရတယ္။ ၿပီးေတာ့ ကုိႏုိင္ငံလင္း ေခါင္းထိသြားလုိ႔ ေဆးရုံႀကီး ေရာက္သြားတယ္လုိ႔ သိရတယ္” ဟု ရန္ကုန္တုိင္းေဒသႀကီး လႊတ္ေတာ္မဲဆႏၵနယ္(၂) မွ ၀င္ေရာက္ယွဥ္ျပိဳင္မည့္ NLD ပါတီမွ ေဒၚသက္ထားႏြယ္၀င္းက ေအာက္တုိဘာ ၂၉ ရက္ ည ၁၀ နာရီခန္႔က ေျပာၾကားသည္။ သာေကတျမိဳ႕နယ္၊ မန္ေျပရပ္ကြက္၊ (၈)လမ္းထိပ္တြင္ ည ၉ နာရီ ၃၀ မိနစ္ခန္႔တြင္ ျဖစ္ပြားခဲ့ျခင္းျဖစ္ျပီး ဒဏ္ရာရရွိသူမ်ားမွာ ဦးႏုိင္ငံလင္းအျပင္ အလွျပယာဥ္ အဖြဲ႕ေခါင္းေဆာင္ NLD ပါတီ၀င္ ကုိနီႏွင့္ ေဒၚသက္ထားႏြယ္၀င္း၏ campaign မန္ေနဂ်ာ NLD ပါတီ၀င္ မသႏၱာေမာ္တုိ႔ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း ကနဦး သတင္းမ်ားအရ သိရသည္။ အဆုိပါ အလွျပယာဥ္ႏွင့္အတူ သာေကတျမိဳ႕နယ္မွ ၀င္ေရာက္ယွဥ္ျပိဳင္မည့္ NLD ပါတီ ရန္ကုန္တုိင္းေဒသႀကီး လႊတ္ေတာ္မဲဆႏၵနယ္ (၁) မွ ၀င္ေရာက္ယွဥ္ျပိဳင္မည့္ ဦးႏုိင္ငံလင္း၊ ရန္ကုန္တုိင္း ေဒသၾကီး လႊတ္ေတာ္မဲဆႏၵနယ္ (၂) မွ ေဒၚသက္ထားႏြယ္၀င္း တုိ႔ႏွင့္အတူ ပါတီ၀င္မ်ား လုိက္ပါလာခဲ့ေၾကာင္း သိရသည္။ အလွျပယာဥ္ ေဖ်ာ္ေျဖေနစဥ္ မန္ေျပရပ္ကြက္ အေရာက္တြင္ အရက္ဆုိင္တစ္ဆုိင္မွ အမ်ိဳးသားတစ္ဦး ထြက္လာၿပီး အလွျပယာဥ္ႏွင့္အတူ လုိက္ပါလာသူမ်ားအား လက္သီးျဖင့္ လုိက္ထိုးေၾကာင္း၊ ယင္းေနာက္ ပါတီ၀င္မ်ားက ျဖန္ေဖ်ခဲ့ရာ အဆုိပါ အမ်ိဳးသားသည္ သူ၏အိမ္သုိ႔ ျပန္သြားၿပီး ငွက္ႀကီးေတာင္ဓားျဖင့္ အလွျပယာဥ္ ေဖ်ာ္ေျဖသည့္ ေနရာသုိ႔ ျပန္လည္ ေရာက္ရွိလာေၾကာင္း၊ ယင္းေနာက္ ဓားျဖင့္ လုိက္လံခုတ္သျဖင့္ ဦးႏုိင္ငံလင္းႏွင့္အတူ ပါတီ၀င္အခ်ိဳ႕က တားဆီးခဲ့ေၾကာင္း NLD ပါတီ၀င္ ကုိေအာင္ေက်ာ္၏ ေျပာၾကားခ်က္အရ သိရသည္။ ဓားကုိင္ေဆာင္၍ တုိက္ခုိက္သူအျပင္ လက္ဗလာျဖင့္ အမ်ိဳးသားသုံးဦးပါ ထပ္မံေရာက္ရွိလာျပီး ၀င္ေရာက္ တုိက္ခုိက္ခဲ့ေၾကာင္း NLD ပါတီ၀င္ ကုိေအာင္ေက်ာ္က ထပ္မံေျပာၾကားခဲ့သည္။ အဆုိပါ က်ဴးလြန္သူမ်ားအနက္ ႏွစ္ဦးကုိ သာေကတျမိဳ႕မ ရဲစခန္းမွ ဖမ္းဆီးရမိေၾကာင္းႏွင့္ စစ္ေဆးေနဆဲ ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း လက္တေလာ သိရွိရသည္။ (ဓာတ္ပုံ – ထက္ရႈိင္း) Website တြင္ ဖတ္ရႈရန္ >>>>>http://news-eleven.com/local/သာ%E2%80%8Bေကတ%E1%81%BFမိ%E1%80%B3%E1%82%95နယ္%E2%80%8Bအတ%E1%80%BCင္%E2%80%8Bး-nld-လ%E1%82%8Aတ္%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8Bေတာ္%E2%80%8Bကိုယ္%E2%80%8Bစားလ%E1%80%BDယ္%E2%80%8B%E2%80%8Bေလာင္%E2%80%8Bး-ဦး%E1%82%8Fိုင္%E2%80%8Bငံလင္%E2%80%8Bး%E1%82%8F%E1%80%BDင္%E2%80%8B့-ပ%E1%80%ABတီ၀င္ PHOTO CR.Than Zaw သာေကတၿမိဳ႕နယ္ NLD လႊတ္ေတာ္ကိုယ္စားလွယ္ ကိုႏုိင္ငံလင္းအား ဓားျဖင့္ခုတ္သူ မာန္ေျပ ၈ လမ္းအေနာက္မွ ဦး၀င္းေအာင္ရဲ႕သား ေဇာ္လတ္ ဆိုသူပါ လက္ေမာင္းမွာအ႐ုပ္ထိုးထားတယ္ 12122759_567911070023482_8334463780188649432_n12193550_567911390023450_4057075951193878968_n11666274_567911340023455_222013415674408963_n 11059849_567911353356787_3146359745319470087_n

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#Vote #NLD #ရွမး္ဘာသာစကားျဖင့္#VIDEO #Download

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!! #Dr #Thein #Lwin #NNER #removed from #NLD #leadership

 It’s the fact that NLD is a by-product of student-led pro-democracy movement in 1988. Therefore, NLD should take an extra caution not to antagonize its alliances.

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?? Dr Thein Lwin cannot be included in the central executive committee (CEC) of the National League for Democracy (NLD) according to its rules and regulations, said party leader Aung San Suu Kyi on February 3.
Dr Thien Lwin, who is a member of the National Network for Education Reform (NNER), violated the rules and regulations of the party by attending the four party talk with the government to reform the National Education Law, NLD announced.
“We are not associated with NNER. It is their choice. According to our rules and regulations, our party member cannot have duties in other organisations because it can lead to conflict. The NLD has already talked with Dr Thein Lwin. If he wants to participate in the NLD and NNER, he cannot be included in the central executive committee. He can participate in the party activities as a party member,” said Suu Kyi.
Suu Kyi continued that the student march is not associated with the NLD. cr. eleven media

Dr Thein Lwin

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#အထူးသတင္း>>( ၂၈-၁-၂၀၁၄) #သပိ္တ္စစ္ေၾကာင္းမ်ား #ရပ္နားၿပီ။

“ ဒီႏိုင္ငံပဲျဖစ္ျဖစ္၊ ဘယ္ႏိုင္ငံပဲျဖစ္ျဖစ္ ျပႆနာေတြကို အေကာင္းဆံုးေျဖရွင္းတာကေတာ့ ညွိႏိႈင္းၿပီးေတာ့ ေျဖရွင္းရတာပဲ။ ျပႆနာေျဖရွင္တယ္ဆိုတာ တစ္ဖက္တည္းေတာ့မဟုတ္ဘူး။ ဟိုဘက္ ဒီဘက္ေပါ့ေနာ္။ အားလံုးကေနၿပီးေတာ့ အေပးအယူလုပ္ဖို႔ အဆင္သင့္ရွိရမွာေပါ့။ အန္တီအျမဲခဏခဏေျပာတယ္။ ဒီမိုက ေရစီိမွာ အေပးအယူလုပ္တယ္ဆိုတာ တစ္ဖက္ကငါလိုခ်င္တာ ၁၀၀ ရာခိုင္ႏႈန္းရမွာဆိုတဲ့ကိစၥက အေပး အယူဘယ္ေတာ့မွမျဖစ္ဘူး။ အေပးအယူဆိုတာ ကိုယ့္ဘက္ကလည္းေပးရတယ္။ ဟိုဘက္ကလည္းေပးရ တယ္။ ကိုယ့္ဘက္ကလည္းယူမယ္။ ဟိုဘက္ကလည္းယူမယ္။ ဒီလိုပဲရွိရမွာပဲ။ ဒါဒီမိုကေရစီရဲ႕ယဥ္ေက်းမႈ အေျခခံပဲ။”
ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ ( ၂၇-၁-၂၀၁၅ )
မေန႕ကအေမ႕ေျပာစကားနဲ႕ဒီေန႕အနာဂါတ္ေခါင္းေဆာင္ေက်ာင္းသားေတြရဲ႕လုပ္ေဆာင္ခ်က္တစ္သား တည္းပါ ။ ေလးစားပါတယ္အနာဂ်တ္ေဆာင္းေဆာင္တုိ႕
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သပိ္တ္စစ္ေၾကာင္းမ်ား ရပ္နားၿပီ။

ယေန႔မနက္(၉)နာရီတြင္ ေနျပည္ေတာ္ရွိ ပညာေရးဝန္ႀကီးဌာန၌ အစိုးရနွင့္ ဒီမိုကေရစီပညာေရးလႈပ္ရွားမႈဦးေဆာင္ေကာ္မတီတို႔ ေတြ႕ဆံုေဆြးေႏြးခဲ့ၾကသည္။ ထိုေတြ႕ဆံုေဆြးေႏြးမႈတြင္ အစိုးရမွ သပိတ္ေမွာက္ေက်ာင္းသားမ်ားေတာင္းဆိုထားေသာ ေလးပြင့္ဆို္င္ေတြ႕ဆံုေဆြးေႏြးေရး နွင့္ ျပင္ဆင္ရန္အခ်က္(၁၁)ခ်က္ကို လိုက္ေလ်ာမည္ဟူေသာ ကတိက၀တ္အား လက္မွတ္ေရးထိုးခဲ့ သျဖင့္ အႀကိဳသေဘာတူညီခ်က္ကိုရရွိခဲ့သည္။ ထို႔ေၾကာင့္သပိတ္ေခါင္းေဆာင္မ်ားက ထိုသေဘာတူညီခ်က္အား လက္ခံခဲ့ၿပီး သပိတ္အား ေခတၱရပ္နားမည္ဟုဆံုးျဖတ္သျဖင့္ သပိတ္စစ္ေၾကာင္းမ်ားအားရပ္နားမည္ျဖစ္ပါသည္။ သို႔ေသာ္ သပိတ္ေမွာက္ေက်ာင္းသားမ်ားမွ ေတာင္းဆိုေသာအခ်က္မ်ား အျပည့္အ၀မရရွိပါက ယခုထက္ပိုမိုမ်ားျပား၍ ႀကီးမားျပင္းထန္ေသာ သပိတ္ႀကီးအား ဆင္ႏြဲမည္ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း အသိေပးေၾကျငာအပ္ပါသည္။

ဒီမိုကေရစီပညာေရးလႈပ္ရွားမႈ ဦးေဆာင္ေကာ္မတီ

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#BURMA #myanmar #NLD #denies #SuuKyi as #parliament #speaker #wrong #INFORMATION

The opposition National League for Democracy (NLD) denied that Aung San Suu Kyi, the chairperson of the NLD will be appointed speaker of the parliament after the general election.
NLD spokesperson Win Myint told The Daily Eleven, the heading expressing “Aung San Suu Kyi will try only the parliamentary speaker position” was posted on the internet page of The Trade Times Journal on January 8.
“The report expressed that if the parliaments fails to amend the 2008 Constitution prior to the 2015 general election, Suu Kyi will likely be appointed as the influential speaker of the parliament in accordance with the provisions prescribed in the Constitution after the election as she is banned from being a president,’’ the NLD’s spokesperson said on January 2.
NLD’s spokesperson Win Myint denied talking to The Trade Times about the report. He asked who the NLD’s spokesperson who talked to the Trade Times. The name must be mentioned. Now is the time we are trying to make constitutional amendment. No decision has been made.
According to Win Myint, Monywa Aung Shin who is a member of the information committee of the NLD also denied talking about the report.
“We don’t know whether he is telling the truth,” Win Myint said.
We don’t have enough time to make constitutional amendment. But if Suu Kyi has an opportunity of becoming the parliament speaker she will be satisfied, Aung Shin was quoted during the interview with the Trade Times. CR. ELEVEN MEDIA

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“Regarding the news coverage of the Trade Times, the expression is wrong. The Trade Times made wrong interpretation. This matter is not a problem and we can deal with it. The Trade Times questioned me about the constitutional amendment after 2015 election. I replied that Suu Kyi had difficulty in becoming the president if the constitutional amendment is made after the election, that the Tatmadaw could not amend the Section 436 and 59 (f), that Suu Kyi would keep on trying to become president and she would try to win the 2015 general election,” Aung Shin said.
“While I was being interviewed, Ye Tun of White Tiger party was also present. The Trade Times interviewed Ye Tun as well. I think our two interviews caused the journal to misunderstand,” Aung Shin said.
“I am not the spokesperson nor close to Suu Kyi. I am a member of information committee of the NLD,” Aung Shin said.

ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ လႊတ္ေတာ္ဥကၠဌေနရာအတြက္သာႀကိဳးစားမည္ ဟူေသာ သတင္းေခါင္းစဥ္ျဖင့္ The Trade Times ဂ်ာနယ္မ်က္ႏွာဖုံးတြင္ေရးသားေဖာ္ျပခဲ့တဲ့ သတင္းအား NLDအဖြဲ႔ခ်ဳပ္ မွာ ႐ွင္းလင္း ေသာေၾကျငာခ်က္

NLD STATEMENT TRADE TIME

#BURMA #Myanmar #Officer #jailed for #backing #Suu #Kyi

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Maj. Kyaw Swar Win signing a petition in favor of amending Burma’s Constitution,

Maj. Kyaw Swar Win has been in military custody since early April after he was photographed signing what appears to be a pro-amendment petition circulated by the National League for Democracy (NLD) party.

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Yangon (dpa) – A military officer was sentenced to two years in prison for signing a petition calling for an end to the military grip on the constitution drafted by the former regime, local media reported Saturday.

A military court in central Mandalay region sentenced Army Major Kyaw Swar Win for violating regulations that bar military men from supporting political campaigns, he told reporters in front of the Obo prison.

He was arrested in April after a photo showing that he had signed the petition was spreading on social media, especially Facebook.

“It’s unfair to send a person in prison for supporting charter change as this man Kyaw Swar Win is a citizen even though he serves the country as a soldiers,” said Win Tin, a former army chief and now a leader of the opposition National League for Democracy (NLD).

More than 5 million people joined the signature campaign organized by the NLD and the Peace and Open Society headed by student leaders of 1988 uprising. They are demanding changes to the constitutional article that gives an effective veto to the military.

Amendments can only occur with the support of more than 75 per cent of the legislature. The constitution allocates 25 per cent of the seats for military personnel who are appointed without election.

DPA