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Friday, 30 November 2007

Myanmar Latest News In English

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Ongoing Arrests of Political Activists in Burma M2 (Press Release) 10:17


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Gambari: Cambodia strongly supports role of UN on Myanmar Xinhua Online 10:11


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Burma 'must free opposition leader' Channel 4 10:03

UN envoy criticises continued Myanmar detentions, repression Yahoo News 09:53

Call for Burma to free opposition leader Evening Echo 09:50


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UN envoy criticises continued Myanmar detentions, repression (AFP) Yahoo! US 09:49

Envoy denies UN being too soft on Myanmar, expresses hope Monsters and Critics 09:32


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Rangoon: Junta shuts AIDS hospice monastery The Courier-Mail, Queensland 08:32

Myanmar junta shuts AIDS monastery (Reuters) Yahoo! US 08:29

Junta shuts AIDS hospice monastery The Mercury 08:25

Burma junta shuts Aids hospice, expels monks Mail & Guardian Online 08:22

Myanmar junta shuts AIDS monastery Reuters 08:21


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Myanmar shuts AIDS monastery TVNZ 08:16

7:01pm Junta shuts AIDS monastery,... The Australian 08:10

09:03pm Myanmar shuts AIDS monastery TVNZ 08:08

Myanmar junta shuts AIDS monastery and expels monks Reuters Africa 08:08

Myanmar junta shuts Aids monastery, expels monks The Straits Times 08:07

Rangoon: Junta shuts AIDS monastery, expels monks The Mercury 08:03

Junta shuts AIDS monastery, expels monks The Mercury 08:03

Two dead, monk wounded in Myanmar rebel attack The Times of India 07:06

Total plans work on installations in Myanmar TerraNet 07:05

Myanmar PM visits Cambodia amid pressure over protest crackdown (AFP) Yahoo! US 06:56

Myanmar PM visits Cambodia amid pressure over protest crackdown Yahoo News 06:52

Monastery linked to Myanmar protests shut The Peninsula 06:40

Myanmar prime minister begins bilateral discussions in Cambodia Monsters and Critics 06:34

United States Reiterates Opposition to Ongoing Arrests of Political Activists in Burma Asian Tribune 06:33


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Moral debate over business in Myanmar The Post and Courier, South Carolina 05:22

Investment in Myanmar tests ethics Arizona Republic 04:44

Myanmar PM Visits Cambodia To Gain Support Against Sanctions Nasdaq 04:40


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UN envoy to Myanmar says Aung San Suu Kyi should be released International Herald Tribune 04:12

Ontario Teachers Profit from Copter Business in Burma Guerrilla News Network 03:59

UN envoy continues Asian talks on Burma Radio Australia 03:55

Deuces High: How the U.S. Can Bring an End to Myanmar's Crackdown on Democracy World Press Review 02:37


Earlier Today

Myanmar Political Arrests, Harassment of Monks Is `Troubling,' U.S. Says Bloomberg 01:24

Thursday, 29 November 2007

BBC Burmese News Thursday Evening

Manila
Rebel soldiers and their supporters are handcuffed and led on to a police bus

Curfew after soldiers mutiny in Manila

The President of the Philippines, Gloria Arroyo, has imposed a night-time curfew in the capital Manila after a group of renegade soldiers called for her to be removed from power.

The soldiers and their supporters, who have now been arrested, barricaded themselves into a luxury hotel after breaking out of a nearby courthouse where they were standing trial over a mutiny attempt in 2003.

Government troops surrounded the hotel before an armoured personnel carrier smashed through the main entrance. Teargas and shots were fired, but there are no reports of casualties.


Burma closes HIV/AIDS sanctary, evicts monks

Maggin manastery
Burmese government closes the Maggin monastery (photo from Ko Htike Blog)

The Burmese military has closed a monastery in Rangoon which had been a centre for the treatment of AIDS patients.

Officials evicted the few remaining monks at the Maggin monastery, which has been raided a number of times since the pro-democracy protests in September.

It's thought the abbott and a number of the monks from the monastery remain in detention. The monastery was part of an AIDS programme run by the opposition National League for Democracy.


Also in the news

Ludu Daw Ahmar
Ludu Daw Ahmar said unity and solidarity of the people is important for Burma

The ninety second birth day ceremony of Ludu Daw Ahmar has celebrated at Mahagandaryone monastery in Amarapura township.

Daw Ahmar and her family offer food and alms for one thousand and two hundreds monks.

In the interview with BBC, Daw Ahmar said the unity and solidarity of the people is the most important thing for Burma’s future.

ပိုၾကမ္းၿပမယ္

“ေတာထဲမွာ တရားအားထုတ္ေနတဲ့ သူေတာ္စဥ္ကို ေဒါသထြက္ေအာင္လုပ္တာ ဘယ္သူလဲ”
“Hacker ကို Craker ၿဖစ္ေအာင္လုပ္တာ ဘယ္သူေတြလဲ။”

အပိတ္ခံရေသာ မဂၢင္ေက်ာင္းတုိက္

နအဖေတြေခါင္းေဆာင္ေတြဟာ သူတို႔အာဏာတည္ၿမဲဖို႔အတြက္ဆို ဘယ္သူ႔ကိုမွ အလြတ္ေပးမွာ မဟုတ္။ ဘုရားလဲမခ်န္ ၊ တရားလဲ မလိုက္နာ ၊ သံဃာကို သတ္ၿပီး တရုတ္လမ္းစဥ္ ေတြကို ဆက္လက္က်င့္သံုးသြားဖြယ္ရိွေန။
က်ဳပ္တုိ႔ေတြဟာ နအဖရဲ့ ရက္စက္ယုတ္မာ၊ ရမ္းကား၊ ၾကမ္းတမ္းမႈေတြကို ခံစားေနၾကရတာ ႏွစ္ေပါင္း ရာစုႏွစ္ေရာက္ခါနီးေနပါၿပီ။
အၾကမ္းဖက္တဲ့သူေတြကို အၾကမ္းမဖက္တဲ့နည္းနဲ႔က်င့္သံုးေနခဲ့ၾကတာလဲ ႏွစ္ေပါင္း ရာစုႏွစ္ေရာခါနီးေနပါၿပီ။
ဒီလိုအၾကမ္းမဖက္တဲ့နည္းနဲ႔ ဆက္သြားမယ္ဆိုရင္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္လဲ နာမည္ၾကီးသထက္ၾကီးလာမယ္၊ နအဖလဲ အာဏာၿမဲသထက္ၿမဲလာမယ္။
ေတြ႔ဆံုေဆြးေႏြးအေၿဖရွာေရးဆုိတာ ၾကားရတာ နားခါးလွပါၿပီ။ ေတာ္ၾကပါေတာ့။ ဘာတစ္ခုမွ ၿဖစ္မလာဘူး။
အဲ့ဒီေတာ့ ဒီစနစ္ဆိုးကေအာက္ကလြတ္ခ်င္ရင္ ၊ ေနာင္မ်ိဳးဆက္အတြက္ စိတ္ခ်မ္းသားေစခ်င္တယ္ဆုိရင္ ၊ နအဖအေပၚ လက္ရွိက်င့္သံုးေနတဲ့ နည္းဗ်ဴးဟာေတြကို ေၿပာင္းလဲပစ္ရမယ္။
ဘာနည္းလဲ အၾကမ္းဖက္သူကို ပုိၿပီးအၾကမ္းဖက္တဲ့နည္း။ ဒီနည္းဟာ ဒီမိုကေရစီလမ္းစဥ္ေဟာင္း တစ္ခုၿဖစ္တယ္။ ကိုယ့္မ်က္လံုးတစ္လံုးကို ကန္းေအာင္လုပ္ရင္ သူ႔မ်က္လံုးႏွစ္စလံုးကို ကန္းေအာင္လုပ္မယ္။ ကိုယ့္လူတစ္ေယာက္ေသရင္ သူ႔လူႏွစ္ေယာက္ကို ေသေအာင္လုပ္မယ္။ ကိုယ့္ဘုန္းၾကီးေက်ာင္းတစ္ေက်ာင္းပိတ္ခံရရင္ သူတို႔တပ္ရင္းႏွစ္ရင္း ပိတ္နိဳင္ေအာင္လုပ္ရမယ္။
ကိုယ့္ရပ္ကြက္ထဲက သစၥာေဖာက္ၾက့ဖြတ္ေတြကိုလဲ သုတ္သင္၊ အၿပတ္ရွင္း။ သူတို႔နဲ႔လဲ ဆက္ဆံေပါင္းသင္းသူေတြကိုပါ သစၥာေဖာက္အၿဖစ္သတ္မွတ္။ သူတို႔နဲ႔ပတ္သက္တဲ့ ဘုန္းၾကီးေတြကိုလဲ ရႈပ္ခ်။
လူေတြရဲ့ႏွလံုးသားထဲမွာ စစ္သားတစ္ေယာက္ကုိ ၿမင္ရင္သတ္ခ်င္ေလာက္ေအာင္ မုန္းနိဳင္ေအာင္အားထုတ္။ ေမြးကင္းစကတည္းက ကေလးေတြကိုၾကိဳေၿပာထား ၿမင္ေအာင္ၿပထား စစ္သားဆုိတာ မိစၦာ၊ မေကာင္းဆိုး၀ါး။ ဘုန္းၾကီးေတြကို သတ္တဲ့သူ။ စစ္၀တ္အစားနဲ႔လာရင္ ခဲနဲ႔ေပါက္ရင္လဲ ေပါက္ ၊ တုတ္န႔ဲရိုက္ရင္လဲ ရိုက္ ၊ သတ္ရင္လဲ သတ္။
ဒီအထက္ပါနည္းလမ္းမ်ားဟာ သမုိင္းမွာ က်င့္သံုးခဲ့တဲ့ ဒီမိုကေရစီ လမ္းစဥ္ၿဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ဒီနည္းလမ္းကို က်င့္သံုးသြားမယ္ဆိုရင္ အံ့ေမာင္(ယခင္ သာသနာေတာ္ထြန္းကားၿပန္႔ပြားေရး ညႊန္ၾကားေရးမႈးခ်ဳပ္ ၊ လက္ရွိနိဳင္ငံေတာ္ အၾကံေပးအရာရွိ ၊ ဘုန္းၾကီးလူထြက္) နဲ႔ ပဲခူးၾကခတ္၀ိုင္း လူသတ္ေကာင္ဆရာေတာ္ ဦးေဇာတိပါလတို႔ရဲ့ လမ္းစဥ္ေတြထက္ ပိုေကာင္းၿပီး ပုိေအာင္ၿမင္မယ္လို႔ ယံုၾကည္မိပါေၾကာင္း။
ဘေလာ့သမားမ်ားအေနနဲ႔လဲ ကုိယ္တတ္ထားတဲ့ Programming Language ေတြကို အသံုးခ်ၿပီး၊ တစ္ဖက္ဘေလာ့သမားကို ရွင္းလင္းၾကဖို႔နဲ႔ ကိုယ္တတ္ထားတဲ့နည္းပညာေတြကို အခ်င္းခ်င္းၿဖန္႔ေ၀သြားၾကဖို႔ ၊ ပြင့္ပြင့္လင္းလင္းေရးသားၾကဖို႔ တိုက္တြန္းလုိက္ပါရေစ။


သာသာနာနယ္ေၿမကို စစ္ေခြးမ်ား၀ုိင္း

KNU not to reopen Three Pagoda Pass-Thanphyuzayart highway

Thu 29 Nov 2007
Joi Htaw, IMNA

The Karen National Union in a letter to the Three Pagoda Pass Township Peace and Development Council authorities has announced that it is not going to work in tandem with the Burmese military authorities to reopen the highway from the Thai-Burma border town of Three Pagoda Pass to Thanpyuzayart, Mon State.

The letter was sent not only to TPP authorities, but also to traders and businessmen who operate from across its gate in Kyungyaung village. The officer at the check point gave the letter to them.

The letter has the seal of the KNU and said that they would not take any responsibility for those passing through the Three Pagoda Pass to Thanpyuzayart road and would shoot whoever uses the vehicular route.

There are three routes, Three Pagoda Pass to Kyainnseikyi Township, Karen State, TPP to Ye Township, and TPP to Thanphyuzayart Township, Mon State.

KNU has allowed businessmen and traders the use of two roads but not TPP to Thanphyuzayart route because there are thousands of Burma Army troops using the road. They are the enemy and KNU have said they will shoot at any car, boat or people they see on this route, a person who read the letter said.

He added that KNU will take off its gate after its water trip at the end of this month and will have a meeting on December 4 to let car owners and the traders know which route they will be allowed to use.

KNU has prohibited use of the vehicular route fromT PP to Thanpyuzayart because the regime armed forces marched to their area of influence to establish four more army bases in Kyainnseikyi and Three Pagoda Pass Townships.

A car owner who used to drive from the Thai-Burma border town to Thanpyuzayart said that this will affect the local people badly because the ban and restriction is not only from KNU but also from the Burma Army's side.

Wednesday, 28 November 2007

BBC Burmese News Wednesday Evening

More detainees than Burma said: Mr Pinheiro

Mr Paulo Sergio Pinheiro, the human rights investigator for Burma, has said he believes there are more political prisoners detained in the country than the government says.

Burmese regime has said it has released most of the detainees, but Pinheiro said yesterday that the government’s claim that only 93 people remain in detention is most likely not true.

Mr Pinheiro told an audience at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International Studies that he did not think the number corresponded to reality.

But he did not estimate how many people still remain in detention.

BBC covers: Interview with Mr Pinheiro

In the interview with BBC, Mr Pinheiro said that he noticed there were new detentions after his return from Burma and commented it was not a positive result. He also said he will follow up those cases and deal with them in his report.


Musharraf stands down as army chief

General Musharraf
Musharraf gives up army uniform

President Musharraf of Pakistan has stood down as head of the army as he prepares for a five-year term as civilian head of state.

In a ceremony in Rawalpindi, he transferred command of the military to General Ashfaq Kiyani. Mr Musharraf described the military as the saviours of Pakistan.

The former prime minister and opposition politician, Benazir Bhutto, welcomed the move. But she said she was in no hurry to recognise Mr Musharraf as president.

The United States said it was a good first step, but it urged Mr Musharraf to lift emergency rule.


Our coverage includes :
-Burmese authorities try to seal off the Maggin monastery which was a shelter for AIDS patients and was raided by security forces during September demonstrations

-The release and arrest of politicians in Burma