23 June 2011
Cash-trapped Wa leadership is increasing tax rates again, say local people from the Sino-Burma border.
Description Previous rate New rate
Money exchanger Y1,500 per month Y 5,000-10,000 per month
Clinic Y100 per month Y300-600 per month
Drugstore Y100-200 per month Y300-600 per month
“The rule of the (tax) game,” the late Khun Sa once said, “is to levy less if you want more and to levy more if you want less.” (SHAN)
Tag: Thugs and Thieves
Golden Triangle Godfather Naw Kham and his gang had once ordered cargo ships
12 June 2011
Golden Triangle Godfather Naw Kham and his gang had once ordered cargo ships that ply the Mekong to take off the tarpaulin covers of the cargo for them to see what they were carrying. Non-compliance would meet with swift reprisals: either shooting or boarding the ship. Many are wondering whether state personnel are conspiring with Naw Kham because there has been many instances where the state personnel just watch and do nothing. (ASTV Manager Online)
Three long-tailed boats carrying 3 armed men each waylaid 2 passenger boats south of Xieng Kok on the Mekong
18 May 2011 Three long-tailed boats carrying 3 armed men each waylaid 2 passenger boats south of Xieng Kok on the Mekong. The two passenger boats belong to King Romans casino in Laos’ Tonpheung. The incident took place about 13:00 local time, according to local business community sources at the Golden Triangle. The area is patrolled by members of a protection racket led by Naw Kham. (SHAN) |
WAR:Security tightened in Shan north after bomb explosion
TUESDAY, 17 MAY 2011 15:28 HSENG KHIO FAH
Security in Shan State North’s Tangyan Township, one of the battlefields of the Burma Army and the Shan State Army (SSA) ‘North, have reportedly been tightened since a bomb exploded in the area last weekend, according to local sources.The explosion took place at a police checkpoint located east of the town leading to the strategic Ta Gawng-et Bridge on the Salween, resulting in one policeman injured in his face and arms.“It broke out around 9 pm on 14 May when most of the people living nearby the monastery to join the scriptural chanting. Otherwise, it would have frightened them,” said a local source.
It was later found to be a hand grenade. However, culprits have been unknown up to date.
Meanwhile, the SSA Company No. 1 led its commander Leng Khurh has reportedly attacked one of the checkpoints located in the same area on the same day, according to the SSA.
On the next day, leaders of the Burma Army-backed militias groups in the township as well as its battalion commanders were summoned to Lashio, headquarters of Northeastern Region Command in accordance with an order from the regional commander Bri-Gen Aung Kyaw Zaw, according to a source close to the militia groups.
Local militia units were later assigned by the area commander to provide security for the army bases and the town, another source said. “Now, militia men are seen everywhere in the town.”
Militia units in Tangyan have been formed into 6 companies, each of which is between 100 and 800 strong. Many of them are being sent to the frontline to fight against the SSA while some are left to provide security for the rear bases as almost all of the Burma Army soldiers have also been deployed to the battlefields.
According to the SSA North, 3,500 strong Burma Army units were since 13 March deployed against their 2,500-3,000 strong fighters, who are active in Tangyan, Mongyai, Monghsu and Kehsi townships. Its principal ally the United Wa State Army (UWSA) had refused to come to the aid thereby inadvertently facilitating closer relations between it and the non-ceasefire SSA South.
Yazar Company to seize land for liquor factory
Tuesday, 03 May 2011 20:00 KNG
Land confiscation is continuing in Kachin State, Northern Burma, as the Yazar Company, owned by Hkun Myat Kyaw, moves to seize 14.41 acres of land from local people in Maina Village, Waingmaw Township, to construct a liquor factory.
Landowners of hundreds of acres from the Maina Village plan to take action against the company for trying to take their land by force.
There was an announcement from Waingmaw Township Administration Office in November, 2010, giving notice that residents can submit objection letters to the office before December, 2010, on the proposal of the Yazar Company to develop the factory at Kyuntaw (Teak Forestd), at Maina.
The areas are surrounded by land owned by the Jade Land Company, the Aung Swe Kaba Company and a paddy field.
Land confiscation has occurred often in Kachin State, initiated by the companies owned by cronies of Burmese military generals.
One of the most significant incidents took place in the Hukawng Valley, Danai Township, in Western Kachin State. Continue reading “Yazar Company to seize land for liquor factory”
Farmers in Mongkok sub-township-Thai company -Burma Army
23 April 2011
Farmers in Mongkok sub-township, Monghsat township, say their paddy fields have been purchased by the Thai company working on a coal mining project at B 20,000 ($ 666.6) per acre rate. However, the Burma Army commander had given them only K 20,000 ($20) per acre, leaving them with little capital to start a new life. (SHAN)
Naw Kham, Shan godfather:said yesterday all the ransom money, 25 million baht ($ 0.83 million), went to the Burmese authorities,
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27 April 2011
Naw Kham, Shan godfather who made the headlines again earlier this month with his spectacular abduction of 13 Chinese workers from King Roman casino in Tonpheung, Laos, said yesterday all the ransom money, 25 million baht ($ 0.83 million), went to the Burmese authorities, without specifying who. He was speaking from his stronghold at an undisclosed place along the Laotian-Burma border. (SHAN)
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Myanmar land ကုမၸဏီသည္ ယာဥ္ယႏၱရားမ်ား ငွါးရမ္းျခင္း လုပ္ငန္းအျပင္ ေနျပည္ေတာ္ တည္ေဆာက္ေရး လုပ္ငန္းမ်ား၊ ရထားလမ္း ေဖာက္လုပ္ေရး လုပ္ငန္းမ်ား၊ ရန္ကုန္-ျပည္-မေကြးလမ္း အဆင့္ျမွင့္တင္ေရးလုပ္ငန္းမ်ားအား တာ၀န္ယူေဆာင္ရြက္ရေသာ ကုမၸဏီႀကီး တစ္ခု ျဖစ္ပါသည္။ ယင္းကုမၸဏီသည္ စီးပြားေရးဦးပိုင္ လိမိတက္တြင္ ၀င္ေငြအေကာင္းဆုံး လုပ္ငန္းမ်ားတြင္ တခုအပါအ၀င္ ျဖစ္ၿပီး စစ္ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ႀကီးမ်ား၏ အဓိကပစ္မွတ္ျဖစ္ကာ လူမသိ သူမသိ ဖုံးဖိထားေသာ လုပ္ငန္းလည္း ျဖစ္သည္။ ၎တို႔ႏွင့္ အနီးကပ္ရွိေစရန္ ၎ကုမၸဏီအား ၂၀၀၆ ခုႏွစ္တြင္ ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕ ပ်ဥ္းမပင္မွ ေနျပည္ေတာ္သို႔ပင္ ေျပာင္းေရႊ႕ထားလိုက္ေသးသည္။ ေနျပည္ေတာ္ တည္ေဆာက္ေရး လုပ္ငန္းတြင္ လူေနအေဆာက္အဦး (၁၆၅) လုံးအား နယ္စပ္စည္ပင္သာယာေရး၀န္ႀကီးဌာနမွ ေဆာက္လုပ္ေပးရန္ လုပ္ငန္းအပ္ႏွံခဲ့ပါသည္။ (နတလ) မွ ရရွိေသာ အေဆာက္အဦးလုပ္ငန္းမ်ားအား Myanmar Land ကုမၸဏီမွ ျပင္ပေဆာက္လုပ္ေရး ကုမၸဏီမ်ားအား (၅%) အျမတ္စား စနစ္ျဖင့္ လုပ္ငန္းမ်ား ျပန္လည္အပ္ႏွံခဲ့ပါသည္။ လုပ္ငန္းရရွိေသာ ကုမၸဏီ (၁၆)ခုအနက္ အမ်ားစုမွာ တပ္မေတာ္အရာရွိႀကီးမ်ားႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္ေသာ ကုမၸဏီမ်ားသာ ျဖစ္သည္။ ဥပမာ- အင္အားသစ္ ကုမၸဏီ (ဒုတိယဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ႀကီး တင္ေအး၏တူ) ၊ ျမတ္အားမာန္ ကုမၸဏီ (ဒုတိယဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ႀကီး တင္ေအး၏တူ)၊ GGC ကုမၸဏီ (အားကစား၀န္ႀကီး သူရ ဦးေအးျမင့္၏သား)၊ ေက်ာ္ရတနာမြန္ကုမၸဏီ (ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္၀င္းသန္း၏ သားမက္) တို႔အျပင္ အျခားအခြင့္ထူးခံ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္မ်ားႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္ေသာ ကုမၸဏီမ်ား ပါ၀င္ပါသည္။ Myanmar Land ကုမၸဏီသည္ တည္ေဆာက္ေရးလုပ္ငန္းမ်ား ေဆာင္ရြက္ရသျဖင့္ ဆင္မင္းဘိလပ္ေျမစက္ရုံမွ ဘိလပ္ေျမအိတ္ခြဲတမ္း ေန႔စဥ္ အိတ္ (၈၀၀၀) နီးပါးအား စက္ရုံသြင္းေစ်းက်ပ္ (၃၀၀၀) ျဖင့္ ရရွိပါသည္။
၂၀၀၆ ခုႏွစ္မွစတင္၍ ယေန႔အထိ ရရွိဆဲ ျဖစ္သည္။ Myanmar Land ကုမၸဏီမွ ယာဥ္ယႏၱရားမ်ားသည္ နအဖ အဖြဲ႔၀င္မ်ားျဖစ္ေသာ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္မွဴးႀကီး သန္းေရႊ၊ ဒုတိယဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္မွဴးႀကီး ေမာင္ေအး၊ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ႀကီး သူရေရႊမန္း၊ ဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ႀကီး သိန္းစိန္၊ ဗုိလ္ခ်ဳပ္ႀကီး သီဟသူရတင္ေအာင္ျမင့္ဦး၊ ဒုတိယဗိုလ္ခ်ဳပ္ႀကီး တင္ေအးတို႔၏ အိမ္မ်ား ေဆာက္လုပ္မည့္ ေျမဧက (၄၀၀) ေက်ာ္အား ေျမညွိေပးရျခင္း လုပ္ငန္းမ်ားကို ေဆာင္ရြက္ ေပးခဲ့ရပါသည္။ Myanmar Land ကုမၸဏီ၏ ယာဥ္ယႏၱရားငွါးရမ္းမႈလုပ္ငန္းအား စီးပြားေရးဦးပိုင္ လိမိတက္ ဥကၠဌမွ တုိက္ရိုက္ခ်ဳပ္ကိုင္ထားသည္။ ယာဥ္ယႏၱရားငွါးရမ္းမႈစနစ္မွာ ေျမသယ္ယာဥ္ (၁၀)ဘီးကား တစ္စီးအား လခ်ဳပ္စနစ္ျဖင့္ ငွါးရမ္းမည္ဆုိပါက စေပၚေငြ သိန္း (၂၀) က်ပ္တင္ရၿပီး လစဥ္ငွါးရမ္းခ က်ပ္ (၇)သိန္း၊ ေျမတူးယာဥ္ႏွင့္ ေျမသယ္ယာဥ္မ်ား ဌားရမ္းမည္ဆိုပါက စေပၚေငြ (၄၅) သိန္းႏွင့္ လစဥ္ဌားရမ္းခက်ပ္ (၂၀) သိန္းသာ ေပးသြင္းရပါသည္။ ေျမသယ္ယာဥ္ (၁၀)ဘီးကား ျပင္ပတြင္ ျပန္လည္ ငွါးရမ္းပါက တစ္ဂ်ဴတီ (၈)နာရီတြင္ က်ပ္တစ္သိန္းရရွိၿပီး ေျမတူးယာဥ္ႏွင့္ ေျမေကာ္ယာဥ္မ်ား ငွါးရမ္းပါက တစ္ဂ်ဴတီ (၈)နာရီတြင္ က်ပ္တစ္သိန္းေျခာက္ေသာင္းမွ က်ပ္ႏွစ္သိန္း နီးပါး ရရွိၾကပါသည္။ ယာဥ္ယႏၱရား ငွါးရမ္းခြင့္ ရွိသူမ်ားသည္ (၂) ႏွစ္ ငွါးရမ္းခြင့္ ရရွိၿပီးပါက အရစ္က်ဆပ္ အေၾကြးစနစ္ျဖင့္ ၀ယ္ယူခြင့္ ရရွိၾကပါသည္။ Continue reading “armydevelopment/armydictator-naywin/-u-paing-and-their-company by photayokeking”
Godfather of the Golden Triangle refused to surrender
Sai Naw Kham, 51, known as the Godfather of the Golden Triangle, has refused to surrender when his two-week deadline passed yesterday, said sources from Shan State East. He is reportedly still holding some Chinese workers as hostages. (SHAN) 19.April 2011
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