tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-92158613688801387102012-01-23T07:19:49.293+07:00HKINGHTAWNGHpan wa Karai e Lata San la hkrum sai,Ginru Ginsa Labau Htunghkring hte Laili Laika Lu ai,Amyu Rusai hta N'pawt Ngang nna Mayu Dama,Kahpu Kanau,Kashu Kahkri,Kajum Kaji rai Ngapra let Dailup Daihpang Lamu ga Hkinghtawng Lu ai Amyu Sha Ni Rai ga aiHKRINGHTAWNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13678185491779562862noreply@blogger.comBlogger2341100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215861368880138710.post-39762865112569894032012-01-23T07:19:00.000+07:002012-01-23T07:19:49.304+07:00Burma: An End to Civil War?Foreign investors are among the observers anxiously watching events unfold in Burma, monitoring the new government's program of reforms, trying to lipread government officials and foreign diplomats for indications that economic sanctions might soon be lifted.
We have seen in recent weeks two of the three criteria met: the release of political prisoners; and a willingness to bring Aung San Suu WPGINRAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03620048706175458422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215861368880138710.post-3049360212033071732011-12-07T14:30:00.001+07:002011-12-07T14:32:06.362+07:00‘They Are Fighting Us Like a Foreign Invasion'General Gun Maw, 46, is the Kachin Independence Army’s (KIA) vice chief of staff and heads the Foreign Affairs Department of the KIA’s political wing, the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO). He was interviewed by Edith Mirante, of Project Maje, in the besieged town of Laiza on November 21, a week before the KIO met with Burmese government representatives in China.
Question: Because it has HKRINGHTAWNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13678185491779562862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215861368880138710.post-25598481189109815052011-09-10T22:39:00.000+07:002011-09-10T22:39:00.646+07:00WP.Shachyen shaga lamWP shachyen shaga lamHKRINGHTAWNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13678185491779562862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215861368880138710.post-81192004260679598042011-08-06T16:14:00.000+07:002011-08-06T16:14:23.436+07:00Killing The IrrawaddyBy Aung Din
Being neighbors with China is not something the people of Burma chose for themselves, but they have to heavily bear the repercussions. For many decades, China’s influence has intruded on their daily lives politically, economically, socially and culturally. However, the relationship has now reached a tipping point, as this dominant neighbor is not only supporting the country’s ruling WPGINRAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03620048706175458422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215861368880138710.post-34084438060001897032011-01-14T01:23:00.000+07:002011-01-14T01:23:32.826+07:00Ginru Ginsa yu hkrat wa ai lam<!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA TH <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]>HKRINGHTAWNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13678185491779562862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215861368880138710.post-56953666042261459412010-12-21T18:21:00.002+07:002010-12-21T18:21:58.210+07:00Chyurum Wunpawng Jinghpaw sha ni Mayam yam hpang wa ai lamChyurum Wunpawng Jinghpaw Mungchying sha ni hta lai wa sai ten hta mayam yam shajang ai hpe mu lu ai.Dai mayam yam hpang wa ai lam hpe sagawn yu yang,lawu de na hte maren sha sagawn chye lu ai.Dai pyi gaw dumsa jaiwa ni labau maumwi hpe zawn tsun hkai ai hpe sha na lu ai.
N dai mayam yam hpang ai lam gaw,Chyurum Wunpawng Jinghpaw sha ni chyu sha,mayam rim yam,rim dut HKRINGHTAWNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13678185491779562862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215861368880138710.post-82123030212610370172010-12-17T18:32:00.000+07:002010-12-17T18:32:21.018+07:00US double talk on Burma nukesBy BERTIL LINTNER
Is Burma truly trying to acquire a nuclear weapons capability and produce ballistic missiles with North Korean assistance, as alleged in a controversial June documentary made by DVB and aired by al-Jazeera, or is it all poppycock, as claimed in a 12 November report by United States-based ProPublica, an award-winning US investigative journalism outfit?
The DVB report was HKRINGHTAWNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13678185491779562862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215861368880138710.post-12728615513077836382010-12-17T18:28:00.000+07:002010-12-17T18:28:07.384+07:00Suu Kyi’s ‘time has come and gone’: IndiaBy JOSEPH ALLCHIN
In a frank cable, leaked by whistle blower web site wikileaks an Indian diplomat responsible for South East Asia, Mitra Vashista elucidates India’s views on democratisation in Burma with outspoken criticism of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi;
“According to Vashishta, democracy in Burma is too closely linked with the greatly respected Aung San Sui Kyi (ASSK), whose “day HKRINGHTAWNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13678185491779562862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215861368880138710.post-35954590534492525742010-12-08T18:38:00.002+07:002010-12-08T18:46:00.891+07:00The Kachin's last standN pu gaw dip yu ga
http://www.tsr.ch/video/info/journal-19h30/?year=2010&month=11&day=6#id=2661574
N pu gaw dip yu ga
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxYjpzdmvuI&feature=player_embedded#!WPGINRAhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03620048706175458422noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215861368880138710.post-8530085767498768392010-12-08T01:09:00.000+07:002010-12-08T01:09:53.246+07:00MUNGKAN AIDS MASAT N’HTOI (World AIDS Day)Knet; 2010 ning December 1 ya.
Mungkan AIDS masat ninghtoi (World AIDS Day) hpe Ginjaw Hkamja Dap woi awn ai hte, 2010 ning December 1 ya shani Laiza Muklum kata hta AIDS ninghkap shamu shamawt ai lam galaw sa wa sai re hpe chye lu ai.
Ginjaw Hkamja Dap hte H.U (Health Unlimited) Kachin Project ni woi awn let 2010 ning November 29 ya shani kaw nna AIDS ninghkap ndau shakum shakap laika pa (HKRINGHTAWNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13678185491779562862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215861368880138710.post-3904179351233044882010-12-08T00:55:00.000+07:002010-12-08T00:55:09.799+07:00Thai and Burmese FM hold secret talks
By RFA
Burma’s foreign minister Nyan Win yesterday travelled to the border town of Tachilek to meet with his Thai counterpart in what observers claim may be an attempt to negotiate the re-opening of a key border crossing further south.
The three-hour meeting was held Monday morning at the Regina Hotel in Tachilek, which also acts a major trading point between the two countries, HKRINGHTAWNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13678185491779562862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215861368880138710.post-83890816033190583332010-12-03T21:46:00.000+07:002010-12-03T21:46:39.328+07:00South Korea to Retaliate If Bombed AgainBy Steve Herman | Seoul
A top South Korean presidential security advisor - who could be the country's next defense minister - says Seoul is prepared to bomb North Korea if Pyongyang again hits the South with artillery.
Kim Kwan-jin, the presidential security advisor hoping to be the next defense minister, is talking tough.
Speaking at his confirmation hearing in the nationalHKRINGHTAWNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13678185491779562862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215861368880138710.post-2099524860682716512010-12-03T21:34:00.000+07:002010-12-03T21:34:26.288+07:00US Continues Military Flexing in AsiaBy Steve Herman
As one U.S. joint military exercise ends in Asia, another is about to begin. As was the case with the just-concluded Yellow Sea naval maneuvers, officials are saying the latest war game is not a reaction to North Korea's recent artillery attack. But they say it should further demonstrate the capability of American-led military alliances to deter any potential aggressor.
TheHKRINGHTAWNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13678185491779562862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215861368880138710.post-89247096666902294202010-12-03T21:14:00.001+07:002010-12-03T21:16:30.501+07:00“Kachin State is being raped by China and by the regime”: Benedict Rogers (Interview)Benedict Rogers is a writer and human rights activist specializing in Asia and he is London-based East Asia Team Leader of the international human rights organization Christian Solidarity Worldwide (CSW). He has been a Burma specialist for more than ten years and the author of this year released the book “Than Shwe-Unmasking Burma’s Tyrant”, which focusing on Burma’s military regime, Senior HKRINGHTAWNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13678185491779562862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215861368880138710.post-24680922139855927262010-12-03T21:08:00.000+07:002010-12-03T21:08:32.647+07:00Lifting US Sanctions Won't be Easy US economic sanctions against Burma's military junta have again become a much-discussed issue since the release of the country's democratic leader, Aung San Suu Kyi. Within days of being freed, Suu Kyi faced a barrage of questions about her stance on this issue, as if she held the master key to unlocking Washington's ban on doing business with Burma.
This view was recently given some HKRINGHTAWNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13678185491779562862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215861368880138710.post-25116654226020718532010-12-03T20:51:00.000+07:002010-12-03T20:51:08.387+07:00KIO ginjaw ginra makau de, Myen hpyen n-gun, laknak n-gun n’nan jatLai wa sai mali ya kaw nna, Jinghpaw mungdaw a sinpraw maga, KIO/KIA ginjaw ginra makau hta, Myen hpyen n-gun, laknak n-gun n’nan ni bai jat bang dat sai re.
Miwa ga jarit mayan KIO ginjaw ginra ni rai nga ai, Laiza, Alen Bum, Laisin Bum hte Mai Ja Yang ni hte ni ai, Manmaw (Bhamo) mare hta Myen hpyen n-gun hte laknak kaba ni hpe, hka lam hte hkarang lam lahkawng hku, jat bang wa ai lam, HKRINGHTAWNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13678185491779562862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215861368880138710.post-31706227245801314692010-12-03T20:49:00.002+07:002010-12-03T20:49:45.626+07:00Regime Reinforces Troops, Weapons in Kachin State By KO HTWE
The Burmese army deploys more troops and weapons near the headquarters of the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) in Laiza and at other locations across Kachin State, according to residents.
Big-Gen Gwan Maw, the deputy commander in chief of the Kachin Independence Association (KIA), told The Irrawaddy on Friday: “What will happen depends on the troops that are HKRINGHTAWNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13678185491779562862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215861368880138710.post-72519609217336721922010-11-23T17:23:00.003+07:002010-11-23T17:24:53.079+07:00Burma army threatens all-out assaultBy NAW NOREEN
Five army battalions are ready and waiting in eastern Burma after the ruling junta yesterday set a deadline for a renegade Karen commander to lay down his arms.
The breakaway faction of the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA) has been given until 31 December to either surrender their weapons or transform into a government-controlled border militia.
“We will be attacked by HKRINGHTAWNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13678185491779562862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215861368880138710.post-39932870644359003212010-11-23T16:57:00.000+07:002010-11-23T16:57:36.129+07:00Military junta orders KIO to shut down all liaison officesIn the midst of growing tension between the two sides, the Burmese military junta ordered the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) to shut down all its branch liaison offices immediately in Northern Burma, KIO sources said.
The liaison offices of the KIO, and its armed wing, the Kachin Independence Army (KIA), are mainly based in Kachin State and Northern Shan State.
A central committee HKRINGHTAWNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13678185491779562862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215861368880138710.post-1228598102386828492010-11-17T16:50:00.000+07:002010-11-17T16:50:22.611+07:00Amyu bawsang, democracy lam Su Chyi hparan na, Jinghpaw ni myit madaBy KNG
Myen mung democracy ningbaw Slgj. Awng San Su Chyi gaw, mungdan kata democracy gawde lam hte amyu bawsang manghkang ni hpe, rau sha hparan sa wa na matu Jinghpaw ni myit mada nga ai re.
November 13 ya, dum nta rim sharen tawn ai kawn lawt pru wa sai hte, Slgj. Su Chyi gaw, “amyusha mahku mara lam hte democracy gawde lam hpe matut galaw sa wa na re lam” tsun shaga wa sai.
Rim da ai kawnHKRINGHTAWNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13678185491779562862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215861368880138710.post-64070980016765967502010-11-17T16:48:00.000+07:002010-11-17T16:48:20.511+07:00Asak kung Jinghpaw nu num lahkawng, roi rip hkrum
By KNG
Jinghpaw mungdaw, Hugawng Pa na asak kung Jinghpaw nu num lahkawng gaw Yuzana company amu galaw masha langai a hkum shan roi rip ai hte adup gayet hkrum sai re.
Ndai mabyin gaw November 13 ya shani byin ai rai nna, nu num langai gaw Wara Zup mare na re ai hte kaga langai gaw Nam Sai mare na re lam, chye lu ai.
Hugawng Pa maling mala hpe jak hte shawt shakrin nhtawm Kumshu hte Nai HKRINGHTAWNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13678185491779562862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215861368880138710.post-42137910668305237832010-11-17T16:36:00.000+07:002010-11-17T16:36:41.167+07:00UN Security Council to Discuss Burma IssueWASHINGTON—For the first time in several months, the United Nations Security Council will hold consultations on Burma on Thursday.
The 15-member body is expected to discuss the current situation in Burma in the aftermath of the release of Aung San Suu Kyi, the pro-democracy leader, and the completion of parliamentary elections, which the world has termed illegitimate.
Britain is the president HKRINGHTAWNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13678185491779562862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215861368880138710.post-45279220724180130792010-11-17T16:30:00.000+07:002010-11-17T16:30:04.821+07:00Suu Kyi reignites push for ethnic autonomy
Suu Kyi leaves the NLD headquarter after meeting with ethnic leaders on Monday (Reuters)By KHIN HNIN HTET
Ethnic leaders have met with released opposition icon Aung San Suu Kyi in a bid to reignite a major push for autonomy for Burma’s myriad ethnic groups.The convening of a second Panglong Conference more than 60 years after the historic 1947 meeting has been made a priority by Suu Kyi’s HKRINGHTAWNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13678185491779562862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215861368880138710.post-41077346574929368722010-11-14T20:15:00.000+07:002010-11-14T20:15:00.802+07:00Aung San Suu Kyi Addresses Supporters at Party HeadquartersBurma's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi delivers a speech to supporters at the headquarters of her National League for Democracy Party in Yangon, Burma, 14 Nov 2010
Burmese democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi urged people to stand up for their rights and seek democracy in military-ruled Burma, in a rare address after gaining her freedom from house arrest.
Thousands of supporters cheered HKRINGHTAWNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13678185491779562862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215861368880138710.post-12802458371335500452010-11-13T22:29:00.003+07:002010-11-13T22:30:09.548+07:00Aung San Kaw hpe Dat Ra MasaiHKRINGHTAWNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13678185491779562862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215861368880138710.post-14593254432255992162010-11-12T17:05:00.000+07:002010-11-12T17:05:44.655+07:00Myen hte SSA-N, matut gap hkat ai lam n ngaBy KNG
Lahta Sam mung, Myen hte Sam hpyen, Shan State Army-North (SSA-N) lapran, November 11, mana de kalang bai gap hkat ai lam byin wa sai raitim, dai hpang matut gap hkat ai lam n nga ai hpe chye lu ai.
Myen hpyendap ni shawng gap ai majaw, SSA-N daju makau, Kunkieng-Wan Lwe kahtawng e minit 45 ram gap hkat wa sai re.
SSA-N hpyenla ni. Sumla: Shan HKRINGHTAWNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13678185491779562862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215861368880138710.post-50648030264427234062010-11-12T16:58:00.000+07:002010-11-12T16:58:47.337+07:00Voting infractions ‘wouldn’t alter result’BY FRANCIS WADE
Despite breaches of standard election procedures being witnessed at polling booths last week, they were not significant enough to drastically alter the result, a recent report claims.
The report, drawn up on 8 November and titled Preliminary Findings Report, uses surveys from 175 election observers who witnessed proceedings at polling stations last week. The document is HKRINGHTAWNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13678185491779562862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215861368880138710.post-78482514550800971882010-11-12T16:56:00.000+07:002010-11-12T16:56:07.749+07:00What the papers sayBy FRANCIS WADE
Published: 8 November 2010By all accounts it was a mute affair: polling stations across the country hosted desultory audiences of voters who braved the soporific atmosphere to cast ballots, while the streets of Rangoon, which the media fanfare had depicted as a carnival in the run-up to yesterday, were quiet.
Footage filmed undercover (despite a less-than-convincing crackdown onHKRINGHTAWNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13678185491779562862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215861368880138710.post-24615517654444748152010-11-12T16:53:00.000+07:002010-11-12T16:53:04.908+07:00China will not support Kachin Army in civil war with Burmese MilitaryThe Chinese Communist Government will not supply weapons to the Kachin Independence Army (KIA), if civil war breaks out between the KIA and Burmese Army, according to Chinese authorities.
KIA officials project armed conflict could spread to northern Burma from the current fighting between the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA) and Burmese Army in Myawaddy and the Three Pagoda Pass, near theHKRINGHTAWNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13678185491779562862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215861368880138710.post-38408449289615422162010-11-12T16:49:00.002+07:002010-11-12T16:49:58.255+07:00Supporters Gather to Welcome Suu KyiBy KO HTWE
As anticipation mounts that National League for Democracy (NLD) leader Aung San Suu Kyi will soon be released, dozens of supporters wearing T-shirts emblazoned with the slogan “We Stand With Aung San Suu Kyi” had gathered outside the party's headquarters in Rangoon by 12 midday while correspondents from foreign new agencies and Rangoon-based journals waited nearby.
Suu Kyi's periodHKRINGHTAWNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13678185491779562862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215861368880138710.post-25618272995542112712010-11-12T16:45:00.000+07:002010-11-12T16:45:35.656+07:00Election VoicesBy IRRAWADDY
The consensus among those who took part in last Sunday's election as independents or candidates of parties not backed by the ruling regime was that it was grossly unfair and marred by blatant vote-rigging that favored the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP). While some called on the junta-appointed Election Commission to address numerous reports of irregularities, others HKRINGHTAWNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13678185491779562862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215861368880138710.post-60782355524643654872010-11-11T17:46:00.002+07:002010-11-11T17:46:22.497+07:00Burmese army takes DKBA strongholdBy NAW NOREEN
Published: 11 November 2010A key stronghold of the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA) has been captured by Burmese troops after hours of heavy artillery bombardment.
The Waw Lay base inside Karen state was taken yesterday after government troops peppered buildings with heavy fire. Several houses, including that of renegade DKBA leader Na Kham Mwe, were also razed.
A DKBA HKRINGHTAWNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13678185491779562862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215861368880138710.post-11177544390141731572010-11-11T17:39:00.002+07:002010-11-11T17:39:41.653+07:00Winners Become Losers One Day after ElectionMANDALAY—"I did not vote for the 'Lion,'" the symbol of the junta's proxy political party, she whispered to her friends. Then Tin Thein looked around the poll station to see if anyone was watching her as she put her ballots in the white plastic box. She felt as if she had completed her mission.
Polling Station No.1 was located in a community between Street No. 30, No. 31 and Shwe Mandalay HKRINGHTAWNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13678185491779562862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215861368880138710.post-77924457354192309432010-11-11T17:37:00.000+07:002010-11-11T17:37:10.953+07:00Canadian Company Charged with Illegal Exports to BurmaBY IRRAWADDY
The Canada Border Services Agency(CBSA) has charged Kenn Borek Air Ltd and its former general manager, Stephen Penikett, with unlawfully exporting goods to Burma.
A CBSA investigation found that the company exported one de Havilland DHC-6 Twin Otter aircraft and 149 aircraft parts to Burma without valid export permits during Novenber 2007, according to a report by the Canadian HKRINGHTAWNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13678185491779562862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215861368880138710.post-55025676130030073102010-10-29T18:50:00.000+07:002010-10-29T18:50:26.631+07:00Roundtable: Election Will Not Help Ethnic GroupsBy SAW YAN NAING
In a roundtable discussion held at Chiang Mai University in Thailand, representatives of Burma's ethnic groups who are living in exile agreed that the political landscape in Burma will not change in the wake of Burma's Nov. 7 general election because the 2008 Constitution grants no significant rights to ethnic groups.
“The 2008 constitution doesn’t protect and promote the HKRINGHTAWNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13678185491779562862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215861368880138710.post-86611488256255515022010-10-29T02:08:00.002+07:002010-10-29T02:08:51.011+07:00Burma ‘Next to Worst’ in CorruptionA report on global graft calls for transparency and accountability.
RFATransparency International ranked Burma 176th out of 178 countries in corruption.Burma was ranked next to worst in corruption in a report released today by Transparency International, a Berlin-based monitoring group.
The report, “Corruption Perceptions Index 2010,” ranks 178 countries by their perceived levels HKRINGHTAWNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13678185491779562862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215861368880138710.post-33031363431817547092010-10-29T02:04:00.000+07:002010-10-29T02:04:12.957+07:00USDP gaw Hpakan e mungchying masat majoi htuk jaw let, shawa zinlum By KNG
Jinghpaw mungdaw, Hpakan e mungshawa datkasa hku ralata hkam na, Myen hpyen asuya a shingnan pati, Pyi-Hkai-Hpyu (USDP) a Slg. Ong Myit gaw, Hpakan buga masha ni hpe aten kadun Mungchying Masat Lakmat ni htuk jaw let, ralata zinlum nga ai re.
Nsam ahtoi re ai, Mungchying masat lakmat gaw pa de lema 6 rai nna, sumla n lawm ai sha, lang ai wa a mying, hkring dat hte “PKK (Phakant HKRINGHTAWNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13678185491779562862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215861368880138710.post-47124470945137344982010-10-26T16:43:00.000+07:002010-10-26T16:43:08.322+07:00Wunpawng Mungdan Shanglawt Hpung (K.I.O) Masat Ninghtoi (50) ning hpring masat dingsat hpawng galaw.Kachinnet 2010 October 25 ya.
2010 Ning October 25 ya shani Laiza Muk Lum Sinpraw Majoi Gawknu hta Wunpawng Mungdan Shanglawt Hpung hpaw hpang ai (50) ning hpring masat dingsat hpawng hpe ngwi pyaw awngdang ai hte galaw la lu sai lam chye lu ai.
Wunpawng Mungdan Shanglawt Hpung (K.I.O) gaw 1960 ning October 25 ya kaw nna dai ni 2010 ning October 25 ya hta asak 50 ning hpring sai hteHKRINGHTAWNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13678185491779562862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215861368880138710.post-7125994047398025852010-10-26T16:04:00.000+07:002010-10-26T16:04:10.784+07:00UN Chief Starts Asian Tour in Thailand BANGKOK — UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon started a four-country Asian tour Tuesday in Bangkok, where tight security was in place to prevent anti-government protesters from "embarrassing" Thailand in front of the UN chief.
The country's army chief, Gen Prayuth Chan-ocha, warned so-called Redshirt protesters who staged paralyzing protests earlier this year that rallies were "absolutely HKRINGHTAWNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13678185491779562862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215861368880138710.post-51389522717153487862010-10-26T16:02:00.000+07:002010-10-26T16:02:46.154+07:00Looking Beyond Burma's 2010 Elections NEW YORK—While scores of international observers wait on tenterhooks for the first election in Burma in two decades - and one of only three multiparty elections in 60 years – a report by the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights there suggests that the world need not wait for Nov. 7 to judge the outcome.
"The election process has been deeply flawed and disappointing," HKRINGHTAWNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13678185491779562862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215861368880138710.post-15265154203180292842010-10-26T16:00:00.000+07:002010-10-26T16:00:18.943+07:00Myen a shingnan pati, dinghkrai salang ni shawa hte hpa n sengBY KNG Jinghpaw mungdaw e ralata poi shang na, Myen hpyen asuya a shingnan pati hte dinghkrai datkasa ni gaw, mungmasha hkam sha lam hpe, shanhte a ralata poi shawa zinlum lam galaw shagu, tsepkawp n jahta ai lam chye lu ai.
Ya ten, Jinghpaw mungdaw kata kaba dik byin nga ai manghkang gaw, Myen-Miwa jawm pawng nna, Mali Zup e hka wanjak kaba gaw gap nga ai lam hte, Hugawng Pa lamu ga Eka HKRINGHTAWNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13678185491779562862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215861368880138710.post-56162549939683062092010-10-25T17:42:00.000+07:002010-10-25T17:42:22.809+07:00Wan Hpyen Hkrum ShigaKachinnet; 2010 October 25 ya.
Laiza Muklum Masat (1) Mungshawa Gat Wang hta nhtoi 24/10/2010 ya shana hkying 12:00 Pm. grup-yin ten e Wan Hpyen Hkrum hkra ai lam na chye lu ai. Ndai mabyin lam hte seng nna, seng ang ai lit nga ai hpu-awn ni hte Laiza Muklum Uphkang Rung ni kaw nna, mabyin n-pawt lam hpe matut sagawn nga ai.HKRINGHTAWNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13678185491779562862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215861368880138710.post-74214596079258637552010-10-25T17:32:00.002+07:002010-10-25T17:32:53.350+07:00Munggu e pyi-tu-sit 3, pyada langai mayun gap sat hkrumSam mung, Kachin Sub-state kata Munggu mare, shawng de Mungsa La uphkang ginra hta, pyi-tu-sit 3, pyada langai gaw, lahkawng ya laman matut manoi, mayun gap sat hkrum sai re.
Lai wa sai bat kru ya, October 23 ya shani, hkying 1 kawn 2 lapran, shawng de Masat 1 Munggu Pyada Dap, ya, pyi-tu-sit dap hta, pyi-tu-sit marai 3 mayun gap sat hkrum nhtawm, shanhte a Miwa sinat masum hte sinat pala HKRINGHTAWNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13678185491779562862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215861368880138710.post-1248539917079222772010-10-24T23:18:00.000+07:002010-10-24T23:18:16.461+07:00Maran Amyu Lakung Lama htinggaw Mying niMaran amyu lakung lama htinggaw mying ni hpe lawu na hte maren mu tam san sagawn lu ai htinggaw myit ni hpe daw lahkawng hku nna shagawn la yu ga ai,ndai hta nlawm ai ni mung tinang a amyu matu mara ,amyu lakung lama hta hkan nna matut ka bang la mai ai
Hkahku Maran,Pangwa Htinggan a Amyu Lakung Lama Htinggaw Mying Ni
Pangwa Htinggan a amyu matu Hkahku Maran amyu ni a lakung lam htinggaw ni HKRINGHTAWNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13678185491779562862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215861368880138710.post-14956504614999192612010-10-22T23:51:00.000+07:002010-10-22T23:51:14.488+07:00KIO, kani shamyit masing yat yat hte shaja galaw waBy KNG
Myen hpyen asuya gaw shi a November praw 7 Ralata Poi hta amu kyin nga ai ten, Wunpawng Mungdan Shanglawt Hpung (KIO) gaw, tinang kani pat jasan masing hpe yat yat hte shaja galaw nga sai.
KIO gaw, ndai October 15 ya hpe jahtum nhtoi masat nna, Jinghpaw mungdaw kata kani nanghpam tsepkawp pat hkum kau dat ai, dai nhtoi kru ya lai ai hpang, kani nanghpam lu sha htu marawp ai ni hte HKRINGHTAWNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13678185491779562862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215861368880138710.post-48420117796391018712010-10-15T23:12:00.001+07:002010-10-22T23:22:42.733+07:00Farmers Fight for Their Land in Kachin StateBy KO HTWE
“Every day, I can hear farmers crying. I see their despair and their tears,” said Bauk Ja, a Kachin farmer who lost her land to the Yuzana Company in December 2008. “We farmers depend on our land for agriculture. It is our livelihood and our life. Without land, we have nothing!”
The 44-year-old is the appointed leader of one of the groups of farmers in Hukawng Township, a rural HKRINGHTAWNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13678185491779562862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215861368880138710.post-81807971190677051642010-10-15T23:07:00.002+07:002010-10-22T23:26:09.122+07:00Junta Calls KIA “Insurgents”The Burmese junta decribed the Kachin Independence Army (KIA), a cease-fire group which operates on the Sino-Burmese border, as “insurgents” in state-run-newspapers on Friday, ceasing to call them a cease-fire group which they have done since signing a cease-fire agreement with the KIA in 1994.
The state-run newspapers described the KIA as “insurgents” in a report blaming the KIA for a mineHKRINGHTAWNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13678185491779562862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215861368880138710.post-46181864229283527502010-10-05T00:00:00.003+07:002010-10-22T23:33:44.516+07:00Marip,Lahtaw hte Lahpai Amyu ni "JA" Mying Lu ai LamChyurum Wunpawng sha ni Ningran ga e nnan du hkrat wa let ninghtawn ga de wa ai ten hta,Chyurum sha ni yawng ,rai n bra shi ai sha naw nga shajang ma ai.
Shingrai Ningran ga e naw nga yang Wahkyet Wa a kasha Lahpai Daina La hpe shaprat wu ai.Lahpai La hpe shaprat ai shaloi, Lahpai La a shadai hpe shana aten re majaw ,rai n lup kau ma ai,shadai majaw hpe npan dap karap kaw naw mara da mu ai.
HKRINGHTAWNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13678185491779562862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215861368880138710.post-6504992531522772782010-10-04T23:58:00.001+07:002010-10-22T23:35:44.061+07:00Marip Amyu Lakung Lama Htinggaw Mying Ni Ndai Marip amyu lakung lama htinggaw mying ni hpe dep sagawn la lu ai made hpe ka bang da ai re.N ka lawm ai Marip amyu lakung lama htinggaw ni mung, law law naw nga shajang nga ai majaw, kadai rai tim sagawn shachyaw la mai ai.
Sagawn la lu ai Marip amyu lakung lama htinggaw mying ni gaw,
MARIP, NAU RAI, NJA, LAI SAI, HUHA, MANPANG, NINGRANG, NBU, NDAWNG, N-GANG, HKRINGHTAWNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13678185491779562862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215861368880138710.post-15194848248762809462010-10-01T18:41:00.003+07:002010-10-22T23:37:51.757+07:00KIO/A NDAU SHABRA LAIKA1.KIO a makam hte pandung gaw mungdan kata shanu nga ai mungshawa ni hta jadip jahpang nga ai hte mungdan ting ngwi pyaw simsa rawt galu kaba wa lu na matu yaw shatawng shada ai lam rai nga ai.
2.KIO gaw simsa ngwi pyaw wa lu na matu Mungdan Asuya ni hte law law lang bawngban jahkrup lai wa sai. 2009 ning April shata (28) ya shani kaw nna galaw hpang ai bawngban hpawng mung dai ni aten du hkra HKRINGHTAWNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13678185491779562862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215861368880138710.post-62329031035279011282010-10-01T18:36:00.002+07:002010-10-22T23:40:29.864+07:00Condemnation of Burmese regime’s hydropower project in Myitsone, Irrawaddy that bring human rights violationsWe, Kachin National Organization, strongly express our condemnation of recent forced relocations and the reckless arrest of innocent Kachin youths and villagers by Burmese military junta in Kachin State.
The regime has started building a series of dams in Kachin State since 2007, without having approval of the local people concerned. The fact that the regime taking no measurable consideration HKRINGHTAWNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13678185491779562862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215861368880138710.post-23945514292865919422010-09-25T18:14:00.003+07:002010-10-22T23:41:39.545+07:00Amnesty Int’l calls for political prisoner releaseBy AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
Amnesty International yesterday urged Burma to free all political prisoners ahead of elections in November, as it marked three years since a deadly crackdown on protests led by Buddhist monks.
The London-based rights group said more than 2,200 dissidents including pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi were still being detained by the military regime – more than double HKRINGHTAWNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13678185491779562862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215861368880138710.post-21947381180385951092010-09-25T18:10:00.003+07:002010-10-01T18:09:51.809+07:00The Political Landscape of the Old CapitalBy HTET AUNG
The real competition centers on the USDP and the NUP to contest the upcoming election for the parliament of Rangoon Division. Will Rangoon residents support either state-backed party, given their history with the regime?
Residents of Rangoon, Burma's former capital, will choose their own representatives for local parliament and also vote for the national parliaments, the People's HKRINGHTAWNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13678185491779562862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215861368880138710.post-73106283783081585912010-09-25T18:08:00.001+07:002010-10-01T18:17:01.630+07:00By LALIT K JHA
WASHINGTON — US President Barack Obama on Friday urged the Burmese leadership to embark on a process of national reconciliation by releasing all political prisoners, including Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi.
Obama renewed his call during a meeting with the leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) in New York, held on the sidelines of the United HKRINGHTAWNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13678185491779562862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215861368880138710.post-37748468203596640502010-09-25T18:02:00.001+07:002010-10-01T18:18:59.633+07:00Obama to Raise Burma Issues with Asean LeadersBy LALIT K JHA
WASHINGTON—US President Barack Obama will raise the issue of Burma during his meeting on Friday with leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) and impress upon them the need for Burma to have a free and fair election, the White House said Thursday.
“I'm sure the President will address the issue of Burma,” Special Assistant to the US President and Senior HKRINGHTAWNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13678185491779562862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215861368880138710.post-27891446453402500022010-09-23T21:53:00.001+07:002010-10-01T18:19:52.199+07:00KIO Wants Hong Kong StatusKIO Wants Hong Kong Status
Some of Burma's armed ethnic groups are seeking the support of the Chinese government in a bid to gain self-autonomy in their regions, a leading think tank disclosed on Tuesday.
The International Crisis Group (ICG) said that the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) has had “basic discussions” with Beijing over the contours of a “genuine union” within Burma in HKRINGHTAWNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13678185491779562862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215861368880138710.post-72899757978690048592010-09-23T21:46:00.001+07:002010-10-01T18:21:58.068+07:00UN millennium development goals in jeopardyBy JOSEPH ALLCHIN
Some 140 heads of state are in New York to mark five years until the target date of the UN Millenium Development Goals (MDGs), but observers say that governments around the world are failing billions of people.
UN chief Ban Ki-moon appealed to the summit to “send a strong message of hope. Let us keep the promise”, hinting at concerns that the eight goals will not be met. US HKRINGHTAWNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13678185491779562862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215861368880138710.post-87024776743768626932010-09-23T21:43:00.003+07:002010-10-01T18:22:35.186+07:00Troops bolstered in Kachin as border regions flareBy AKT
Burmese troops are being sent en masse to the country’s northern Kachin state as tensions rise with an ethnic Kachin army, one of a number in Burma to have rejected approaches by the junta.
Locals in Kachin state’s Moe Hnyin and Hpakant towns, close to Kachin Independence Army (KIA) outposts, said that residents were being forced to build accommodation for extra troops.
“Originally, HKRINGHTAWNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13678185491779562862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215861368880138710.post-3488560593402992812010-09-20T20:00:00.001+07:002010-10-01T18:23:20.698+07:00UN inaction on Burma war crimes ‘unjustifiable’By SIR GEOFFREY NICE QC and JULIANNE KERR STEVENSON
It is time for the UN to investigate the consistent reports of mass human rights violations in Burma to enable the identification of those responsible. The failure to take this step is unjustifiable. For decades NGOs and UN actors have documented reports of extrajudicial killings, sexual violence, torture, mass internal displacement, sexual HKRINGHTAWNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13678185491779562862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215861368880138710.post-43476453885680122542010-09-17T23:53:00.001+07:002010-10-01T18:24:28.075+07:00'Concern' Doesn't Cut ItBy Irrawaddy
With less than two months to go before Burma is subjected to an election that will be the very antithesis of “free and fair,” it is comforting to know that UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has once again found the time to chime in on the country's current political situation.
“The Secretary-General notes with some concern the decision by the Union Election Commission to dissolve HKRINGHTAWNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13678185491779562862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215861368880138710.post-54304048001106173962010-09-17T23:42:00.002+07:002010-10-22T23:43:25.889+07:00Myen a Amyu Shamyit Democracy: Anhte gaw Asak Jahkrung Ai Democracy DeBy Maling Kataw
Dai ni gaw J.W. sha ni a Shawng na ban prat a (tinang a kashu kasha) matu atsawm sha sung sung myit yu nhtawm, daw dan let asak hkrung na aten rai sai. Myen hkringmang daju, snr hpyen asuya a shingnan pati USDP a ningbaw, Ting Tsing (Thein Sein) a “KIO” hpe “ASEAN mungdan e kasi hku shamyit kau na” ngu ai gaw, anhte J.W. sha ni yawng hpe yup su sun nga ai kaw na shabran, sharawt HKRINGHTAWNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13678185491779562862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215861368880138710.post-25363546445106487802010-09-17T23:37:00.001+07:002010-10-22T23:46:11.041+07:00KIO hpe “kasi hku shamyit kau sana”, Myen HMD Ting Tsing tsunBy KNG
Wunpawng Mungdan Shanglawt Hpung (KIO) hpe “kasi hku shamyit kau sana re lam” Myen hpyen asuya Hkringmang Daju Dukaba Ting Tsing gaw, lai wa sai bat mi jan, ndai September praw de tsun mat wa sai re.
HMD Ting Tsing (Thein Sein) gaw, shi Myitkyina e Lawayang Daju, Lasang Awng Wa N’gawn Hpyen hte Pangwa Daju NDA-K Jarit Sin Dap na du salang ni hpe alak mi shaga hkrum ai shaloi, ndai ga HKRINGHTAWNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13678185491779562862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215861368880138710.post-7171710702959672982010-09-17T23:26:00.001+07:002010-10-01T18:24:56.301+07:00Questioning the EC Definition of 'Free and Fair'By HTET AUNG
Burma's Election Commission has announced “areas where elections will not be held,” saying the constituencies are “in no position to host free and fair elections.”
Where are the areas, why can't elections can't be held there and how does the EC define the term “free and fair”?
According to a series of EC notifications issued on Sept.16, the areas are home to ethnic nationals in HKRINGHTAWNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13678185491779562862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215861368880138710.post-86689647828727150842010-09-17T23:23:00.001+07:002010-09-17T23:44:04.879+07:00EC Afraid of Losing Poll in Ethnic AreasBy SAW YAN NAING and LAWI WENG
The Election Commisssion's (EC) cancellation of polling in some 300 villages in ethnic areas announced on Thursday is due to poor security and lack of support from ethnic people, ethnic observers suggest.
The EC made the announcement on state television on Thursday, saying,"Polling will not take place in several constituenecs where free and fair elections cannot HKRINGHTAWNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13678185491779562862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215861368880138710.post-16405756705950132972010-09-17T23:18:00.001+07:002010-09-17T23:20:53.688+07:00Rebel students turn the tideBy GAYATRI LAKSHMIBAI
It’s a cloudy, grey Friday afternoon in the Mae La Oo refugee camp on the Thai-Burma border. Hla Htay, the headmaster of the Yaung Ni Oo school, sits in his bamboo hut with a keen eye on proceedings at the school just across the narrow mud lane. He takes a puff out of his cigarette. “These are Burmese cigarettes, they are good. Would you like to try one?” he asks with a HKRINGHTAWNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13678185491779562862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215861368880138710.post-73399084242531934272010-09-17T23:14:00.001+07:002010-09-17T23:15:21.390+07:00It’s a warped mirror into which Than Shwe staresBy JOSEPH ALLCHIN
As part of the Senior General’s visit to ‘big brother’ China, he paid an impromptu visit to Shenzen, the Chinese city which in 1980 became a Special Economic Zone (SEZ) and thus one of the country’s first forays back into commercialism.
Than Shwe spoke of his desire to emulate China’s remarkable and highly successful transformation into one of the most successful capitalist HKRINGHTAWNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13678185491779562862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215861368880138710.post-68941826968604636982010-09-17T23:10:00.000+07:002010-09-17T23:10:57.238+07:00US ‘thoroughly disappointed’: Kurt CampbellBy AGENCE FRANCE-PRESS
The US official leading dialogue with Burma said Thursday he was thoroughly disappointed with the results but that engagement was the best option as the country prepares for controversial elections.
“I think it would be fair to say in almost every arena, we have been disappointed,” said Kurt Campbell, the assistant secretary of state for East Asian affairs.
“Everything HKRINGHTAWNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13678185491779562862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215861368880138710.post-45424400092618607812010-08-28T01:34:00.000+07:002010-08-28T01:34:57.055+07:00How the CIA bedded down in BurmaBy JOSEPH ALLCHIN
“…in pursuit of the fundamental US goals of peace, democracy and reconciliation in Burma.”- US Congressional Statement, October 2009.
The Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) chief was asked to come to the transmissions room in the US embassy in Rangoon. It was 1992 and Richard Horn had only recently been made DEA chief in what was then the world’s largest producer of heroin, BurmaHKRINGHTAWNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13678185491779562862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215861368880138710.post-30056856580615890122010-08-28T01:25:00.001+07:002010-10-22T23:49:22.802+07:00Six Reasons to Welcome US Support for War Crimes ProbeBy DR ZARNI
On 24 Aug, the United States officially confirmed that it is "exploring how best to proceed" on the initiative to push for "a properly structured international commission of inquiry that would examine allegations of serious violations of international law in Burma".
My old college mate from Mandalay University would not welcome this move. In the 1980s, he confessed to me that he HKRINGHTAWNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13678185491779562862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215861368880138710.post-72789544042384546612010-08-19T22:17:00.000+07:002010-08-19T22:17:55.415+07:00Yuzana company grabs land of 1,000 familiesIn a land grab of massive proportions, huge tracts of land of nearly 1,000 families in Hukawng Valley in Burma’s northern Kachin State have been seized by the Rangoon-based Yuzana Company backed by the country’s ruling junta, said local sources.
A valley farmer said tens of thousands of acres of land--- active crop plantation and paddy fields, owned by people in five Kachin villages between HKRINGHTAWNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13678185491779562862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215861368880138710.post-205874355448969062010-08-19T22:09:00.000+07:002010-08-19T22:09:29.325+07:00KSPP’s future depends on KIO’s decisionBy KNG
The Election Commission’s approval of the Kachin State Progressive Party (KSPP) to contest the polls is now hinging on the stand to be taken by the Kachin Independence Organization’s (KIOs) decision following its meeting with public representatives, which is to be released soon, said party officials.
The KIO has tentatively informed the junta before the three-day Laiza meeting three HKRINGHTAWNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13678185491779562862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215861368880138710.post-32890294168277647932010-08-19T21:55:00.000+07:002010-08-19T21:55:39.515+07:00A Good Move by WashingtonThe US decision to begin consultations with key international and regional partners to support the establishment of a UN Commission of Inquiry (COI) into the Burmese junta's alleged crimes against humanity and war crimes is a good move but it must be more than just symbolic.
Benjamin Chang, deputy spokesman of the US National Security Council, confirmed to The Irrawaddy that the US has began HKRINGHTAWNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13678185491779562862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215861368880138710.post-89625261349919200372010-08-19T21:52:00.000+07:002010-08-19T21:52:09.304+07:00US Consulting on Junta War CrimesBy LALIT K JHA and BA KAUNG
The US government said it is “consulting” with its international partners, as well as key global and regional players, on the subject of creating an international commission to investigate alleged war crimes by the Burmese military junta, the White House said on Wednesday.
“We have begun to consult with a broad array of stakeholders and key players, other countries,HKRINGHTAWNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13678185491779562862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215861368880138710.post-5570727644115266832010-08-17T20:19:00.000+07:002010-08-17T20:19:28.378+07:00Shan State Railway to Suppress Armed Ethnic Groups: Rights GroupsBy WAI MOE
The Burmese junta is building a strategic railroad from southern Shan State to eastern Shan State to suppress ethnic armed groups, particularly the United Wa State Army (UWSA), Shan ethnic human rights groups said at a press conference on Tuesday.
At the launch of a campaign opposing construction of the new railway begun in 2009 from Mong Nai to Kengtung, the Shan Women Action HKRINGHTAWNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13678185491779562862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215861368880138710.post-92142957973336215072010-08-17T01:18:00.000+07:002010-08-17T01:18:52.775+07:00Election Commission Keeps Kachin Parties WaitingBy SAW YAN NAING
Although the date of the Burmese election is now known, three Kachin political parties are still waiting for a decision on their application for registration.
The leader of one party, Tu Ja of the Kachin State Progressive Party (KSPP), said he hoped to receive the green light from the Election Commission within a week. He said he was nevertheless unhappy about the long delay HKRINGHTAWNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13678185491779562862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215861368880138710.post-83014029858042086092010-08-17T01:15:00.000+07:002010-08-17T01:15:59.243+07:00Election Date Hasn't Changed the Screwed Up Political SceneBy KYAW ZWA MOE
Burma's election date has finally been announced and constituencies have been designated. So, what has actually changed.? The blunt answer to that question is that everything is screwed up.
“Multiparty general elections for the country's parliament will be held on Sunday Nov. 7,” announced the Election Commission last Thursday. Interestingly, one week later, on Saturday Nov. HKRINGHTAWNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13678185491779562862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215861368880138710.post-20240527429660810062010-08-17T01:08:00.000+07:002010-08-17T01:08:49.528+07:00Burmese Supremo Plans “Election Victory”By NAYEE LIN LATT
Burmese Snr-Gen Than Shwe has attended an “election victory campaign” meeting held on Friday by the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) led by Prime Minister Thein Sein, according to sources in Naypyidaw.
The meeting, which is being attended by USDP candidates including ministers, deputy ministers, director generals of government departments and businessmen close HKRINGHTAWNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13678185491779562862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215861368880138710.post-37730370174976779342010-08-17T00:59:00.000+07:002010-08-17T00:59:19.968+07:00Food related unrest to hit the table?By JOSEPH ALLCHIN
The world’s attention has been firmly focused on a smog choked Moscow, where record temperatures have caused the often icy countryside to burn with a litany of wild fires, a predicament that lead the government there to suspend wheat exports to preserve local prices.
Such a move created the steepest rise in wheat prices since 2007/2008 when prices caused riots globally. AndHKRINGHTAWNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13678185491779562862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215861368880138710.post-17592981620655636782010-08-17T00:53:00.000+07:002010-08-17T00:53:55.886+07:00UN, US and UK slam Burma electionsBurma’s announcement of the date for elections this year has been met with strong words by the international community, with the US saying there remains “no level playing field” for the polls.
The date for the country’s first elections in 20 years has been set for 7 November, after months of wild speculation and rumours, and even doubt as to whether they would be held this year.
But the UK HKRINGHTAWNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13678185491779562862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215861368880138710.post-83264975651692000992010-07-20T17:54:00.001+07:002010-10-01T18:20:25.498+07:00Preventing genocide in BurmaBy ALEX ZUCKER
Readers of this website should need no convincing of the seriousness of ongoing human rights violations against minority ethnic groups in Burma. Medicins Sans Frontieres has described Burma’s ethnic Rohingya minority has one of the world populations “most in danger of extinction” and leading scholars, including William Schabas, president of the International Association of HKRINGHTAWNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13678185491779562862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215861368880138710.post-44322944301040472142010-07-20T17:51:00.000+07:002010-07-20T17:51:22.440+07:00New oil potential in southern BurmaBy JOSEPH ALLCHIN
Burma’s energy ministry has reported “progress” in tests on a potential new oil field close to Rangoon.
Maubin lies less than 50 kilometres from Burma’s economic hub at a site where natural gas was discovered in 2008. The New Light of Myanmar newspaper said today that energy minister Lun Thi visited the site yesterday afternoon and said that the “region had potential for a HKRINGHTAWNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13678185491779562862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215861368880138710.post-51347799296621548202010-07-20T17:47:00.000+07:002010-07-20T17:47:11.735+07:00Burmese Army to transport 100,000 Burman voters to Kachin StateBy KNG
In a two pronged strategy the Burmese military junta plans to transport 100,000 Burman voters to Kachin State to win the elections and then settle them to control the resource rich state. That the first step could tantamount to rigging the polls seems to be nobody’s concern.
The junta will leave no stones unturned to win the elections. For starters the Burmese Army has promised to ferry HKRINGHTAWNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13678185491779562862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215861368880138710.post-2023340702179227042010-07-20T17:44:00.000+07:002010-07-20T17:44:27.223+07:00Kokang troops enter Kachin state from China surreptitiouslyBy KNG
Kokang troops, from Burma’s Shan State, who had escaped the Burmese Army’s onslaught in August last year and sheltered all this time in China’s southwest Yunnan province, surreptitiously entered Kachin State over 12 days ago said local sources.
The troops with about 300 fighters of Kokang Chinese ethnic origin, or the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) entered territoriesHKRINGHTAWNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13678185491779562862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215861368880138710.post-86031007650329086292010-07-20T17:38:00.000+07:002010-07-20T17:38:29.776+07:00Informal Sex Trade Threatens to Undercut Gains in HIVBy IRWIN LOY / IPS WRITER
PHNOM PENH — on a muggy evening, a handful of men in suits were quickly getting drunk in a beer garden here in the Cambodian capital. One man rested his hand on the thigh of a slender woman sitting uncomfortably in a short skirt.
A sign above the table read: "Be responsible. Use a condom."
"The customers play around with us all the time," said Neang, glancing at the HKRINGHTAWNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13678185491779562862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215861368880138710.post-14042341783839792782010-07-20T17:35:00.000+07:002010-07-20T17:35:33.016+07:00Burma’s Nuke Ambitions to Come under ScrutinyBy MARWAAN MACAN-MARKAR / IPS WRITER
BANGKOK — When Southeast Asian foreign ministers gather in Hanoi this week for a series of annual security meetings, the region’s most troublesome member, military- ruled Burma, is due to come under scrutiny over reports of its nuclear ambitions.
Alarm bells have been going off in South-east Asian capitals since the early June expose by the Democratic VoiceHKRINGHTAWNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13678185491779562862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215861368880138710.post-81188965334464958162010-07-20T17:32:00.000+07:002010-07-20T17:32:16.066+07:00Building an Opposition to the OppositionBy AUNG MOE ZAW
It is popular today to say that Burmese civil society can be built without a struggle despite the present environment created and controlled by a military regime to ensure that people live according to their rules.
It is popular today to talk of engaging the regime which itself has refused to engage with the political party that won the last election and for whom meaningful HKRINGHTAWNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13678185491779562862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215861368880138710.post-67344026796712376912010-07-20T17:26:00.000+07:002010-07-20T17:26:52.203+07:00Asean Urges Burma to Hold Free, Fair ElectionBy JIM GOMEZ / AP WRITER
HANOI — Southeast Asian foreign ministers urged Burma's military-run government to hold free and fair elections—a rare stand by the cautious group often accused of overlooking rights abuses in member nations.
Foreign ministers from the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations began their annual meeting Tuesday in the Vietnamese capital of Hanoi to tackle a HKRINGHTAWNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13678185491779562862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215861368880138710.post-14213885334183709272010-06-19T16:37:00.000+07:002010-06-19T16:37:25.594+07:00Election Commission keeps KSPP on tenterhooksThe Kachin State Progressive Party (KSPP) remains on tenterhooks, with Burma’s Union Election Commission (UEC) sitting on the approval. Following a second appeal, the party has been asked to wait.
The KSPP, which is keen to contest the elections, sent two delegates to meet UEC officials in Naypyitaw, the country’s capital on June 16, according to party officials in Myitkyina, Burma’s northern HKRINGHTAWNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13678185491779562862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215861368880138710.post-27195110599809152132010-06-19T16:32:00.000+07:002010-06-19T16:32:25.296+07:00World unites to honour Suu Kyi | Democratic Voice of BurmaWorld unites to honour Suu Kyi Democratic Voice of BurmaHKRINGHTAWNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13678185491779562862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215861368880138710.post-47672712701298957672010-06-19T16:29:00.000+07:002010-06-19T16:29:17.684+07:00Weekly Business RoundupBy WILLIAM BOOT
South Korea Bids for More Burma Gas Development
The South Korean government is promoting greater involvement in exploration and production of gas in Burma by Korean companies.
Agreement has been reached in principle for Korean lead development of two more blocks, one offshore and one onshore, while six other potential blocks are under discussion, said the semi-official South HKRINGHTAWNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13678185491779562862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215861368880138710.post-52500268915695428872010-06-19T16:25:00.002+07:002010-06-19T16:25:46.683+07:00Parties Seek Allies to Meet Election ExpensesBy KO HTWE
Short on funds and with limited manpower at their disposal, several political parties in Burma are looking to pool their resources ahead of this year's election.
The parties, among the dozens that have so far received permission to run in the election, say they are facing severe financial constraints that limit their ability to function effectively. Among other things, they say theyHKRINGHTAWNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13678185491779562862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215861368880138710.post-14874655403749472612010-06-19T16:22:00.000+07:002010-06-19T16:22:31.363+07:00UN Group Accuses Malaysia Police of Torture, AbuseBy JULIA ZAPPEI / AP WRITER
KUALA LUMPUR—A United Nations delegation accused Malaysian police officers on Friday of torturing and abusing detainees to obtain confessions, saying suspects prefer prison rather than police custody and immigrant detention centers.
The government must also set up prompt and independent investigations into deaths in police custody, and should repeal or change strictHKRINGHTAWNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13678185491779562862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215861368880138710.post-41331567892027807902010-06-17T20:31:00.000+07:002010-06-17T20:31:06.022+07:00USDP ’sapping’ election hopes | Democratic Voice of BurmaUSDP ’sapping’ election hopes Democratic Voice of BurmaHKRINGHTAWNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13678185491779562862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215861368880138710.post-6044833868559137202010-06-17T20:22:00.000+07:002010-06-17T20:22:47.583+07:00Top-level Iranian officials in Burma | Democratic Voice of BurmaTop-level Iranian officials in Burma Democratic Voice of BurmaHKRINGHTAWNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13678185491779562862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215861368880138710.post-13518937277556567522010-06-17T18:04:00.000+07:002010-06-17T18:04:56.761+07:00Relocated Myitsone villagers face health problems in new placeMyitsone villagers forced to relocate by the Burmese junta in Northern Burma, Kachin State are now suffering from varied illness and lack of health care facilities in their new place, said local people.
Children are the worst sufferers and their lives are threatened because there is no facility for treatment, said a source who visited the place.
Lungga Zup relocation place, 18 miles north of HKRINGHTAWNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13678185491779562862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215861368880138710.post-81026491211861890422010-06-17T17:46:00.000+07:002010-06-17T17:46:37.234+07:00No Let Up in Human Trafficking from BurmaBy LAWI WENG
There has been no let up in the level of human trafficking from Burma to Thailand, according to a Thai rights group.
Speaking to The Irrawaddy on Wednesday, Sompong Srakaew, the director of the Labour Rights Promotion Network (LPN), which is based at the port of Mahachai near Bangkok, said, “We have rescued 70 victims of human trafficking this year. Ninety percent were Burmese.
HKRINGHTAWNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13678185491779562862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215861368880138710.post-6780875229741583552010-06-09T16:50:00.000+07:002010-06-09T16:50:57.071+07:00Cross-border rules ‘hampering’ ASEAN tradeBy AGENCE FRANCE-PRESS
Southeast Asian nations must coordinate efforts to cut cross-border red tape and promote regional road transport as they move towards a common market, industry players said Monday.
Better links among the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) could reduce transport costs while boosting intra-regional trade and economic welfare, they said.
ASEAN, HKRINGHTAWNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13678185491779562862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215861368880138710.post-35215626294522535192010-06-09T16:46:00.000+07:002010-06-09T16:46:02.740+07:00IAEA ‘assessing’ Burma nuclear claimsBy FRANCIS WADE
The world’s leading nuclear energy watchdog has said it is investigating reports that Burma is looking to develop nuclear weaponry and may look for clarification from the military government.
“We have seen the related articles in the media and we are now assessing the information,” the director of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Yukiya Amano, said on Monday. “HKRINGHTAWNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13678185491779562862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215861368880138710.post-61759631995867943472010-06-09T15:28:00.000+07:002010-06-09T15:28:01.842+07:00J.W sha ni hte Miwa hpe kamhpa let sakhkrung ra ai prat deMiwa Hkringmang Daju Wan Chya Bau a Myen mung de lahkawng ya, June praw 2 hte 3 ya shani sa du gawan ai hkrunlam gaw, 16 ning laman, Miwa HMD a shawng n’nan lang sa du gawan ai lam re.
Miwa gumsan magam Hu Jintao hte, Miwa asuya madu ai CPI, lit la galaw nga ai Jinghpaw mungdaw Mali-N'Mai Zup hka wanjak masing kaba.
Shaning 20 ning jan uphkang wa sai, N.W.T, N.A.Hp Myen hpyen asuya a lakhtak HKRINGHTAWNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13678185491779562862noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9215861368880138710.post-32093629819628730752010-06-09T15:20:00.000+07:002010-06-09T15:20:50.087+07:00China plundering natural resources in BurmaKNG
China was variously described as plunderer and arch destroyer of Burma’s natural resources on the 38th World Environment Day today, by local people and environmental activists.
Mindless logging and rampant mining in northern Burma by China for over two decades has led to widespread deforestation, pollution of rivers and land with Mercury used in gold mining. There is now varied ecological HKRINGHTAWNGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13678185491779562862noreply@blogger.com0