The Irrawaddy's Blog: ခန ခန ေတာင္းပန္ေနရတဲ့ ေဒါက္တာထြန္းလြင္

The Irrawaddy's Blog: ခန ခန ေတာင္းပန္ေနရတဲ့ ေဒါက္တာထြန္းလြင္: "ျပည္တြင္း အင္တာနက္လုိင္းဟာ ႏုိ၀င္ဘာလ ၁ ရက္ကတည္းက ျပတ္ေတာက္ခဲ့ၿပီး ၈ ရက္ေန႔မွာမွ ျပန္ေကာင္းလာတယ္လုိ႔ အင္တာနက္ဆုိင္ရွင္တဦးက ေျပာပါတယ္။ ဒီလု..."

The Irrawaddy's Blog: ခန ခန ေတာင္းပန္ေနရတဲ့ ေဒါက္တာထြန္းလြင္

The Irrawaddy's Blog: ခန ခန ေတာင္းပန္ေနရတဲ့ ေဒါက္တာထြန္းလြင္: "ျပည္တြင္း အင္တာနက္လုိင္းဟာ ႏုိ၀င္ဘာလ ၁ ရက္ကတည္းက ျပတ္ေတာက္ခဲ့ၿပီး ၈ ရက္ေန႔မွာမွ ျပန္ေကာင္းလာတယ္လုိ႔ အင္တာနက္ဆုိင္ရွင္တဦးက ေျပာပါတယ္။ ဒီလု..."

The Irrawaddy's Blog: မဲမသမာမႈမ်ားႏွင့္ ျမ၀တီတုိက္ပြဲအေပၚ ဦး၀င္းတင္ အျမ...

The Irrawaddy's Blog: မဲမသမာမႈမ်ားႏွင့္ ျမ၀တီတုိက္ပြဲအေပၚ ဦး၀င္းတင္ အျမ...

ေရြးေကာက္ပဲြကို ေက်ာခုိင္းပါ

အခုက်င္းပမယ့္ေရြးေကာက္ပဲြဟာ စစ္အုပ္စုရဲ႕ တရားမ၀င္အာဏာကို တရား၀င္အာဏာ
ျဖစ္ေအာင္လုပ္မယ့္ ပြဲပါ။ ၂၀၀၈ ဖဲြ႔စည္းပံုမွာ ထင္တုိင္းျခယ္လွယ္လို႔ရေအာင္
ေရးထားပါတယ္။ ၂၀၁၀ ႏို၀င္ဘာ ၇ ရက္ေန႔၊ ေရြးေကာက္ပဲြေန႔၊ နာမည္ဆိုးနဲ႔ေက်ာ္ၾကားမယ့္ေန႔။
လက္ရွိ၀န္ႀကီး ၀န္ကေလးေတြဦးေဆာင္တဲ့ႀကံ့ဖံြ႔ပါတီဟာ ျပည္သူ႔ဘ႑ာေငြေတြကိုသံုးၿပီး မဲဆြယ္စည္း႐ံုး ေရးေတြ
လုပ္ေနၾကတာေတြဟာ မၾကားခ်င္မျမင္ခ်င္အဆံုးပါ။(VOA 29 October)

Pround to be a leader of Myanmar; We are no 2 in rank.

MOST CORRUPT COUNTRIES
1. Somalia (1.1)
2. Myanmar & Afghanistan (1.4)
4. Iraq (1.5)
5. Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan & Sudan (1.6)
8. Chad (1.7)
9. Burundi (1.8)
10. Equatorial Guinea (1.9)
LEAST CORRUPT COUNTRIES
1. Denmark, New Zealand & Singapore (9.3)
4. Finland & Sweden (9.2)
6. Canada (8.9)
7. Netherlands (8.8)
8. Australia & Switzerland (8.7)
10. Norway (8.6)
Source: Transparency International, Corruption Perceptions Index 2010.

Freedom of speech

Chinese PM Wen Jiabo said that China should not only let people have freedom of specch, but more importantly we must alsp create conditions to let them criticise the work of govenrment.(interview with CNN)
He should do what he preach. Why he does not listen Burmese people's voice?

ဘာျဖစ္လို႔ မဲထည့္ရမွာတုန္း၊

ႏုိင္ငံသားေတြဟာ ၂၀၀၈ ခုႏွစ္က အ တည္ျပဳခဲ့တဲ့ ဖြဲ႔စည္းပံုအသစ္ကို ဘာမွန္းေသေသခ်ာခ်ာ မသိလုိက္ရဘဲ မဲထည့္ၾကဆိုလို႔ မဲထည့္ခဲ့ရပါတယ္။ ႏုိင္ငံသားေတြအေနနဲ႔ မဲမထည့္ခင္ အဲဒီ့ဖြဲ႔စည္းပံုကို ျပန္လွန္ေဆြးေႏြးခြင့္ရျခင္း မရိွခဲ့ပါဘူး။ မရဘူးဆိုတာက လည္း ႏုိင္ငံသားေတြဆီကို ခ်ျပခဲ့တာမွ မဟုတ္ လူေတြဆီက သေဘာထား ေတာင္းခံတာလည္း မရိွ။
၁၉၉၀ ခုႏွစ္ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲတုန္းက က်ေနာ္တုိ႔ မဲေတြထည့္ခဲ့ပါတယ္။ ေပးခဲ့တဲ့ မဲေတြဟာ အမိႈက္ ေတာင္းထဲ အထည့္ခံလုိက္ရသလိုပါပဲ။ ဘာမွ ျဖစ္မလာခဲ့ပါဘူး။ အရင္တခါကလည္း အလိမ္ခံထားရၿပီးၿပီ။ ဘာျဖစ္လို႔ မဲထည့္ရမွာတုန္း၊ ေနာက္တခါ ထပ္လိမ္မယ္ဆိုတာႀကီးကို သိေနတဲ့ဥစၥာပဲ။ လူေတြကို မဲထည့္ခုိင္း တဲ့ သူေတြကို ဘယ္လိုယံုၾကည္ရမွာလဲ။

ေဇာ္မင္း Drlunswe.blogspot.com

PR in Singapore

SM Goh Chok Tong made a comment at Marine Parade dialogue on Monday that the government will not renew the some of the PR who decline to take up citizen ship. It is the departure from the Government's previously stated policy of letting PS decide for themselves whether to become citizen.

Tension in Burmese Army.

BBC reported that the soldiers including station commander and major has been demonstrating with mufti since the beginning of this month as they do not agreed with the handling of their bank saving. BBC reported that 100 persons from the naval unit stationed at Haigyi Island leave the camps.
In a separate report, 8 army units under Infantry division 88 station at Ye Mon area, Hlegu Township, Yangon Divivsion, are being replaced with units from Infantry division 11 as the 8 army units under 88 showed their displeasure on the handling of their bank saving. Army Unit no 213 under Infantry division 88 is in alert condition if the army unit from infantry division 11 take action against them.

International commission on war crimes and crimes against humanity.

A senior official from Obama administration said that US supports forming an international commission to probe possible war crimes and crimes against humanity by the Junta.In March, a United Nations investigator, into Myanmar's human rights , called for the formation of the commission, saying the junta had a pattern of gross and systematic violations of fundamental freedoms of its citizens.Violations included mass arrests of dissidents, deaths and torture of detainees and forced labor, which could involve categories of crimes against humanity or war crimes under international

Bravo. Glad to hear the news, however, it still need to see whether China and Russia may veto in Security council. May US persuade both countries abstain from voting.

ဦး၀င္းတင္ : လူထုုအုုံၾကြမႈနဲ႔ ႏိုုင္ငံေရးသမားေတြရဲ့ ပိုုင္းျဖတ္မႈ အခန္းက႑

လူထုုအုုံၾကြမႈဆိုုတာ Spontanuous ေပၚတဲ့ အရာျဖစ္တယ္။ ဒါေၾကာင့္မိုု႔ က်ေနာ္ေျပာႏိုုင္တာကေတာ့ - ၈ ေလးလုုံး လိုု အုုံၾကြမႈမ်ဳိးက အခုုလိုု အခ်ိန္မ်ဳိးမွာ အခ်ိန္မေရြး အခါမလပ္ ေပၚေပါက္လာႏိုုင္တယ္ ဆိုုတာကိုု မေမ့ၾကပါနဲ႔ ဆိုုတာျဖစ္ပါတယ္။

ႏိုုင္ငံေရးပါတီေတြ အဖြဲ႔အစည္းေတြနဲ႔ ပါတီေခါင္းေဆာင္ေတြ၊ ႏိုုင္ငံေရး ေခါင္းေဆာင္ေတြ ဆိုုတာက လူထုုအုုံၾကြမႈၾကီးတခုုနဲ႔ ရင္ဆိုုင္ၾကရျပီဆိုုရင္ မဦးေဆာင္ႏိုုင္ရင္ေတာင္မွ ပါ၀င္ရမယ္၊ ပတ္သက္ရမယ္၊ ၀င္ေရာက္ေဆာင္ရြက္မယ္ဆိုုတဲ့ ပိုုင္းျဖတ္မႈမ်ဳိးကေတာ့ ရွိရမယ္၊ ရွိသင့္တယ္ လိုု႔ ေျပာခ်င္တယ္။
လူထုုအုုံၾကြမႈၾကီးကိုု မဦးေဆာင္ႏိုုင္ရင္ေတာင္မွ ပါ၀င္ပတ္သက္မယ္၊ Involve လုုပ္ၾကမယ္၊ လက္တြဲမယ္၊ ခ်ီတက္မယ္ ဆိုုတဲ့ ပိုုင္းျဖတ္မႈမ်ဳိး၊ ၾကိဳတင္ ဆုုံးျဖတ္ထားမႈမ်ဳိး က်ေနာ္တိုု႔မွာ ရွိသင့္တယ္၊

ပိုုင္းျဖတ္ခ်က္၊ ဆုုံးျဖတ္ခ်က္ေတြ မရွိၾကရင္ေတာ့ လူထုုအုုံၾကြမႈေတြမွာ ႏိုုင္ငံေရးအဖြဲ႔အစည္းေတြ၊ ဦးေဆာင္သူေတြနဲ႔ ႏိုုင္ငံေရးအင္အားစုုေတြရဲ့ ပါ၀င္မႈ၊ လက္တြဲေဆာင္ရြက္မႈေတြ မရတဲ့အတြက္ တဖက္က ဖိႏွိပ္ ေခ်မႈန္းမႈေတြနဲ႔ ၾကဳံၾကရလိမ့္မယ္။

http://moemaka.blogspot.com/

Election in 7 November

The Junta announced today(13 August) that it would hold its first election in two decades in early November, despite Western fears the vote will be a sham aimed at shoring up the government’s half-century grip on power.

One quarter of the seats in parliament will be reserved for the military following the election, which state media said would be held on November 7.

This time, the Junta not use number 9 as election date. What a strange?

People should abstain from voting so that the world will know that people do not accept the constitution.

Myanmar under N Koreas colony Or Independent Myanmar ?

I never use Myanmar for my beloved country after the Junta change the name to Myanmar from Burma. But there is no longer Independent Burma. Under British, we are not allowed to criticize His majesty King or queen.  Now under Junta, a book about N Korea reader was seized as some of its content makes displeasure to N Korea. So Mynamar is N Korea colony now.

Asean: the rubber stamp for Burmese election.

Myanmar "definitely wants us to rubber stamp the election results," a senior Indonesian diplomat said on condition of anonymity. "And while we will use every opportunity to push the Myanmar authorities to greater democracy, in the end we will probably end up being a big rubber stamp."

See detail http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Southeast_Asia/LG27Ae02.html

401 Singapore suicide in 2009.

The Straight Times report that 401 Singaporean ,(267 male, 134 female,)committed suicide last year. It was 9.35 per 100000, increased from 8.76 per 100000 residents in 20008.  The suicide rate in Japan is 19.1, Korean is 22 and Hongkong is 14.5.

Among 401 Singapore suicide case , there was 72 suicide age  between 20 to 29. The bad economy have a trickle down effect on the very young, The Straight Times reported.

Than Shwe in India.

The Junta chief chief Than Shwe is visitng India and he is going to meet PM Singh. He got red carpet treatment from India. India's state-run oil firms ONGC Videsh, the overseas arm of Oil and Natural Gas Corp, and and GAIL have a 30 percent stake in two gas-producing blocks in Myanmar as part of a consortium which is supplying the hydrocarbon gas that goes to China. Officials said the two companies -- which will continue to pursue hydrocarbon interests in Myanmar -- are also part of the pipeline project which will link the two blocks to China. The total investment by the state companies is around $1 billion
Once a staunch supporter of Myanmar's democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, India began engaging the junta in the mid-1990s as security, energy and strategic priorities began to override concerns over democracy and human rights.Sad story.

Uniquely Singapore.

1. “Photographer arrested because of taking photos”.
57-year-old photojournalist, Shafie Goh, was detained by police for one hour. His detention at about 7am on Saturday took place after a policeman saw the veteran photographer taking pictures of snarling traffic and stranded vehicles along Upper Bukit Timah Road, one of the areas badly hit by Saturday morning’s floods. After being spotted by an unidentified on-duty policeman who was mobilised to deal with the traffic situation, Mr Goh was asked to leave the scene.. However, he pleaded with the policeman to be allowed to take one more photograph. Before he could finish talking, the policeman took out his handcuffs and placed them on his right hand. He was also told he would be brought down to a police station.The policeman then brought him to the roadside and told him to wait for an investigator.He was only released after an hour.
A police statement released on Sunday said that officers had repeatedly asked Mr Goh to move to a safe place as he was taking photos in a dangerous position.

2. British freelance journalist and author of "Once A Jolly Hangman:” arrested.

July 18 - Singapore police have arrested a British author on charges of criminal defamation and contempt of court, a day after he launched a book on death penalty in the city-state
Shadrake, who was arrested at a hotel on Sunday, remained in police custody as the investigation was ongoing, a police spokesman said.
In an email to Reuters on July 3, Shadrake called himself a "British freelance journalist and author," who had planned to launch his latest book "Once A Jolly Hangman: Singapore Justice in the Dock" in the city-state on Saturday.
The Straits Times newspaper reported that Shadrake was 75 and his 219-page book was filled with accounts of high-profile cases in Singapore involving the use of the death penalty. It also included interviews with the city-state's former executioner.

3. Flash floods

Singapore got 3d flash flood on Saturday. Flash floods were a rare occurrence in Singapore until recently, with a climate expert interviewed by the Straits Times attributing the problem to regional weather phenomena such as Typhoon Conson and Indonesian squalls.
Critics had blasted the Public Utilities Board (PUB) for not being prepared to handle the first two floods, while the department defending itself by saying abnormal weather conditions and clogged drains were to blame. A government minister is asking the Public Utilities Boad to explain itself to residents affected by the early morning floods.
One Singaporean suggested : “We want our Transport Minister to take MRT train, public bus in the rush hour so that he knows how ordinary Singaporeans feel. Our Health Minister went thru the operation recently, he might understand how it looks like under his charge our health system performance. Now, how about the chief PUB, the Minister in charge where were you when some Singaporeans houses/shops undergoing this flooding. Where was our PM on these flooding occasions?Show some leadership, please. (JT on July 19, 2010 at 9:07 am http://sg.yfittopostblog.com/2010/07/19/govt-minister-asks-pub-to-explain-flood/)

63 Matryr Day

 Today is Martyrs Day: The Junta is not given much attention to the Martyrs Day. Low level government official attend the ceremony now. Trying to neglect the fallen leaders. Young generation do not know who are Burmese Martyrs.

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Today is
The day which we, Burmese, shall remember and value always.
The day which breaks our hearts away.
The day which on the ground, every single Burmese’s tears lay.
The day which our hopes lost the right way. ...
...The day which we wish to never happen anyway.
The day which took the life of our Martyrs who gave the independence of today.
So Today Is Our Hero’s Day..
Today Is The Burmese 63rd Martyr’s Day..

Thidaaye

China is not interested in the Myanmar People democratic

Speaking at the closing session of the inaugural Future China Global Forum on 13 July, Singapore Foreign Minister  said "  China is not interested in  the Myanmar People democratic or in making Muslims Confucianist. China is quite prepared to accept the world in all its diversity as long as you don't threaten them.

Yes, he is right. The Chinese is only interest for their economic success regardless of other people suffering. I would say they are selfish.

မဲေပးျခင္းမျပဳဘဲ ေနႏိုင္ေသာ အခြင့္အေရး

မဲေပးျခင္းမျပဳဘဲ ေနႏိုင္ေသာ အခြင့္အေရး
ရန္ၿငိမ္းေအာင္ (လူငယ္) | တနလၤာေန႔၊ ဂ်ဴလုိင္လ ၀၅ ရက္ ၂၀၁၀ ခုႏွစ္ ၁၄ နာရီ ၁၃ မိနစ္

ျပည္သူ႔လႊတ္ေတာ္ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ ဥပေဒပုဒ္မ - ၂ (ဎ) တြင္ … ေရြးေကာက္မႈဆုိင္ရာ အခြင့္အေရး ဆုိသည္မွာ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲတြင္ လႊတ္ေတာ္ ကုိယ္စားလွယ္ေလာင္းအျဖစ္ ပါဝင္ယွဥ္ၿပိဳင္ႏုိင္ေသာ အခြင့္အေရး၊ ပါဝင္ယွဥ္ၿပိဳင္ျခင္း မျပဳဘဲ ေနႏုိင္ေသာ အခြင့္အေရး၊ လႊတ္ေတာ္ကုိယ္စားလွယ္ေလာင္း စာရင္းမွ ႏုတ္ထြက္ႏုိင္ေသာ အခြင့္အေရး ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲတြင္ မဲေပးႏိုင္ေသာ အခြင့္အေရး (သုိ႔မဟုတ္) မဲေပးျခင္း မျပဳဘဲ ေနႏုိင္ေသာ အခြင့္အေရးကို ဆုိလုိသည္။