tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-346057762024-03-07T16:49:03.487+08:00Truth be knowngeneration96http://www.blogger.com/profile/04817289457167951376noreply@blogger.comBlogger213125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34605776.post-9813752678716379212008-01-08T11:39:00.000+08:002008-01-08T11:46:57.397+08:00Monks in Srilanka walk for peaceIn the hope of promoting global awareness and seeking help for Burma, more than 50 monks in Srilanka started a long journey peace walk on 4th January. The walk will end in front of the UN office tomorrow.<br /><br />For photos and details please visit <a href="http://lanka-msma.blogspot.com/">http://lanka-msma.blogspot.com/</a>generation96http://www.blogger.com/profile/04817289457167951376noreply@blogger.com384tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34605776.post-5275976578005402282007-12-28T17:22:00.000+08:002007-12-28T17:25:57.525+08:00BURMA INSIDE, INSIGHTS (exhibition in Singapore)<strong>BURMA INSIDE, INSIGHTS</strong><br />Take a peek into the daily life of the Myanmarese in this photo and report exhibition (above) by Swiss daily Neue Zurcher Zeitung’s South-east asia correspondent Manfred Rist. <span style="color:#ff0000;"><strong>Photographs of the country’s monasteries and the recent demonstrations will also be featured in a slide show</strong></span>.<br /><br /><em>The Arts House Print Gallery, 1 Old Parliament Lane, Nearest MRT station: City Hall, Till Jan 7: 10am-10pm, Free, Tel 6479-2445.</em><br /><em></em><br />Source : <strong>The Straits Times</strong> Friday, December 28, 2007.generation96http://www.blogger.com/profile/04817289457167951376noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34605776.post-19967930004834822152007-12-02T23:09:00.000+08:002008-12-10T03:20:30.363+08:0011th anniversary of '96 uprising<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjamZiBlIqmCbGIxG9hZ7YTH6we2i60jtAGLYaPst7oTnlufY-af9hJV_E4lxSJ2RSYJSIlwhyphenhyphenTSjGYINczZ3VGtw9udwZcEgU0vFdfc_mmPaz9U9xIyvSFWCb05jBma0mVOMgH/s1600-r/peacock.gif"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8TkPPBUqGyrQSEasMqYIiN07ZGFhkrZ9g7A23cQx2GJJOPIa7CM4-QyJw3_oCLrAK-_FdbKUv_cBfpUCsKII4zSqjleVyAO4-gwP2z-o4TlZXhKScgcCthJIccpiodKdvBYFw/s400/peacock.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5139396826066088258" border="0" /></a><br />11 years ago on this day, we started the fight against the injustice by taking to the streets.<br />11 years ago tomorrow (3rd December), the junta started the crackdown on us by beating and arresting.<br />11 years ago this month, streets were filled with demonstrating students and crushing troops.<br />11 years ago, we lost the battle to free Burma from dictatorship.<br /><br />But the fight continues. Our burning desire to achieve freedom continues. So many of us has ran away. So many of us has spent time behind bars for years. So many of us are still fighting.....<br /><br />We had failed. We might have failed. But we will fight till we die.<br /><br />In memory of 96 uprising and in honour of who risk their lives for the cause of better Burma.generation96http://www.blogger.com/profile/04817289457167951376noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34605776.post-76579389006073273252007-11-30T09:13:00.000+08:002007-11-30T09:23:44.850+08:00သီးေလးသီး၏ ျပက္လံုးမ်ား<a href="http://zarganar-windoor.blogspot.com/2007/11/blog-post_17.html">တန္ေဆာင္တိုင္ညအျငိမ့္ပဲြ</a><div class="post hentry"><h3 class="post-title entry-title"> </h3> <div class="post-header-line-1"><span class="post-labels"> </span> </div> <div class="post-body entry-content"> <p>ၾတိခ်ိဳးခြန္းေတာက္<br /><br />လ တန္ေဆာင္ ခါသမယ ေပမို့<br />ည အေရာင္သာယာစြရယ္လို့<br />လာလာသမ်ွ စိတ္ေပ်ာ္ရႊင္။<br />ေဖ်ာ္ေျဖေၾကာင္းရယ္ နဲ့<br />စုေပါင္းကာ အႏုပညာအားကို<br />ထားၾကစံုလင္။ ။<br />ႏွင္းမွုန္ေ၀ ခ၀ဲမာလာ ပန္းေတြက<br />သင္းထံုေနအျမဲမကြာ လန္းျပန္ေတာ့<br />ပုလဲရတနာ ဆန္းတို့က မွဳန္ျပာေ၀<br />စံုပဏၰာေျခြပါလို့ ေ၀းေနအေပါင္း<br />(ပရိသတ္တို့ေရ)<br />ဘံု ျမန္မာေျပ မွာေတာ့ ေအးေစေၾကာင္း။ ။</p><p><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">ၾကယ္သီး။ </span>မဂၤလာ ရိွလိုက္တာ ကိုပန္းသီးရယ္ တန္ေဆာင္မုန္း ျဗိစၧာ ၾကတၱိကာ ေရာင္၀ါ ရိွန္သို့ျဖိဳး ခ၀ဲ ပြင့္ခ်ိန္ ခင္းကထိန္ ေရႊအိမ္ ပိုင္လည္စိုး ဆိုတဲ့ စာ ခ်ိဳးအတိုင္းေပါ့ဗ်ာ တန္ေဆာင္မုန္း ခါသမယ မွာ ခ၀ဲ ပန္းတို့က လဲပြင့္လို့ ကထိန္ ေတြလဲ ခင္းလို့ မႏွစ္က ေျပာပါတယ္</p><p><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">စိန္သီး </span>။ ဒီႏွစ္ေျပာပါဟ</p><p><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">ၾကယ္သီး။ </span>ကထိန္လဲ ၀မ္းဖိုးဖိုးနဲ့ပါသြားလို့</p><p><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">ပန္းသီး </span>။ စကားေတြေဘးေရာက္ကုန္ပါ့မယ္ ကထိန္ခါသမယ ဆိုေတာ့ ဆရာေတာ္ သံဃာေတာ္ မ်ားလဲ ကထိန္သကၤန္း ကပ္လွဴရေပတယ္</p><p><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">ဇီးသီး </span>။မွန္ပါတယ္ မသိုးသကၤန္း လို့ဆိုတာကိုး ခုေတာ့ သိုးကုန္ပါျပီ မကပ္ရပဲ သိမ္းထားလိုက္၇လို့</p><p><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">စိန္သီး </span>။ကဲပါ မိဖျပည္သူမ်ားတြက္ ဆုေတာင္းေပးၾကပါစို့ ျမန္မာျပည္သူျပည္သားမ်ား အပါယ္ေလးပါးနဲ့<br />ေ၀းၾကပါေစ ကပ္သံုးပါးနဲ့လဲ မၾကံဳၾကပါေစနဲ့<br /></p><p><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">ၾကယ္သီး </span>။ၾကက္ၾကီးသံုးပါးလဲ ေ၀းပါေစ</p><p><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">ဇီးသီး </span>။ကပ္ၾကီး သံုးပါးပါ</p><p><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">ၾကယ္သီး။ </span>ၾကက္ငွက္တုပ္ေကြး ေ၀းပါေစ ေဟာ ၾကက္တစ္ပါး ၾကက္သြန္နီမစားရတဲ့ေဘး<br />ေ၀းပါေစ ေဟာ ၾကက္ႏွစ္ပါး ၾကက္ဆူပင္ စိုက္ရတဲ့ေဘး ေ၀းပါေစ ၾကက္သံုးပါး</p><p><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">စိန္သီး </span>။ယပ္ပစ္ရွစ္ပါးေ၀းပါေစ</p><p><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">ပန္းသီး </span>။မင္းကသာ ေ၀းပါေစ ေျပာေန ငါ့ေရွ့မွာဦးဇင္းေတြ ယပ္ပစ္ျပီးေျပးတာ ရွစ္ပါး မကဖူး</p><p><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">စိန္သီး </span>။ခက္ေတာ့ေနျပီ ကိုင္း ရန္သူမ်ိဳး ၃ပါး ေ၀းၾကပါေစ</p><p><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">ပန္းသီး </span>။ရန္သူမ်ိဳး ငါးပါးပါ ဟ</p><p><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">စိန္သီး </span>။မင္း ဘာသိလဲ ၇န္သူငါးပါးဆိုတာက ေ၇ မီး မင္း သူခိုး မခ်စ္မႏွစ္သက္သူ ငါးပါးေနာ္။ခု ေျပာင္းသြားျပီ။မင္း ရယ္ သူခိုးရယ္ မခ်စ္မႏွစ္သက္သူရယ္ က တစ္ေယာက္ထဲ ျဖစ္သြားလို့ ရန္သူမ်ိဳး သံုးပါး။<br />(ထိုေနာက္ မင္းသမီး ထြက္လာ က ေစ)<br />(ဆက္လက္ ကျပ အသံုးေတာ္ ခံပါ့မည္)</p><p><a href="http://zarganar-windoor.blogspot.com/2007/11/blog-post_17.html">(ကို) ဇာဂနာ၏ ပို႔စ္</a> မွ ကူးယူေဖၚျပပါသည္။</p><div class="post hentry"><br /><div class="post-header-line-1"><span class="post-labels"> </span> </div> <div class="post-body entry-content"> <p><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">ၾကယ္သီး။ </span>ေငြႏွင္းထန္စြာက်ေမွာင္တုန္းဟာမို့ ေနမင္းဖလ္၀ါ ျမအေရာင္ဖံုးျပီး<br />လတန္ေဆာင္မုန္း နတ္ျပည္လို သာလိုက္တာ ၾကတၱီကာ မိုးေဘြခြင္ က ျမန္းျပန္ေတာ့<br />ကတိုးေရစင္ျဖန္းလို့ စန္းေပၚထြက္ကထဲက<br />မသိုးေရႊသကၤန္း နန္းေတာ္ က ရက္သည့္ျပင္<br />ပန္းေတာ္ဆက္ ပုလဲပြင့္တဲ့နံ့သာနီလို<br />ခ၀ဲပြင့္တဲ့ရာသီ တစ္အိမ္တရပ္ မယြင္းပဲ<br />ကထိန္ဥာတ္ခင္း တန္ေဆာင္တိုင္ လွဴသည့္<br />ေတာင္ခ၇ိုင္ဇမၺဴ စိတ္ဟာ ရႊင္ၾက<br />ျဗိစၧာခြင္ ထက္ရပ္ဘံုက<br />နကၡတ္အစံု စိန္ေရာင္အေသြးလင္းေတာ့<br />တသိန္ေဆာင္တဲ့ေတးသီးခ်င္းနဲ့ ပညာျဒပ္ မဆံုးႏိုင္သည့္<br />တိမ္ေမွာင္ေ၀းကင္း အစဥ္အလာ မျပတ္သံုးရေအာင္(ရြာစားေရ)မဂၤလာ ပတ္လံုး ဖဲြ့။<br />(မင္းသမီး ထြက္လာ ကာ က ေစ)<br /></p><p><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">ပန္းသီး </span>။ အဲဒါေတြ ခက္ေနတာပဲ ေခတ္က ေျပာင္းေနျပီ အင္တာနက္ေခတ္ အိုင္တီ ေခတ္ တစ္ခါလာ လဲ<br />တိန္ေနာင္ တိန္ေနာင္ နဲ့ ျပီးၾကေတာ့မွာလား</p><p><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">စိန္သီး </span>။ဒါျမန္မာ့ရိုးရာ ကြ တို့ထိန္းရမယ္</p><p><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">ပန္းသီး </span>။တစ္ဆိတ္ရိွ ၇ိုးရာ နဲ့ကိုင္ ကိုင္ မေပါက္ပါနဲ့ ေမာ္ဒယ္ရိွဳးမွာ တံုးလံုးခြ်တ္မလို<br />ေလ်ာက္တာက်ေတာ့ဒါ၇ိုးရာလား</p><p><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">စိန္သီး </span>။ဟဲဟဲ ဒါကေတာ့ ဘဘ တို့ ၾကိဳက္တာကိုး</p><p><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">ဇီးသီး </span>။ေအာ္ စကားေတြ ေရာ ကုန္ျပီ မင္းတို့ ဘာျဖစ္ခ်င္လဲေျပာ</p><p><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">ၾကယ္သီး။ </span>ေခတ္နဲ့အညီေျပာင္း၇မယ္ ဟစ္ေဟာ့ ေခတ္ဆို ဟစ္ေဟာ့ ဒါမ်ိဳး</p><p><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">စိန္သီး </span>။ေဟး မေျပာင္းဖူး အေျပာင္းအလဲကို ငါ မၾကိဳက္ဖူး ဒါရိုက္တာ ေမာင္မ်ိဳးမင္းရဲ့ ရုပ္ရွင္ေလ</p><p><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">ဇီးသီး </span>။မေျပာင္းဖူး ဗမာ မွ ဗမာ</p><p><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">ၾကယ္သီး </span>။ႏိုင္ငံတကာ နဲ့ဗမာ ယွဥ္ၾကည့္မလား</p><p><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">ဇီးသီး။ </span>စိန္လိုက္<br />(ဆိုင္း၀ိုင္းမွ နတ္ဒိုးတီးေပးရန္)</p><p><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">ပန္းသီး </span>။သူမ်ားတကာ့ႏိုင္ငံေတြမွာ ေဖာရင္းဆိုတဲ့ႏိုင္ငံေတြမွာ ေလယာဥ္ပ်ံဆိုတာ အေပါစား မ်ားလြန္းတယ္တဲ့ဗ်ား။</p><p><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">စိန္သီး </span>။ဒီေလာက္ေတာ့အေပ်ာ့ပါကြယ္ အဲဒီေလာက္ေတာ့အေပ်ာ့ပါကြယ္ငါတို့ဗမာ ေလယာဥ္မေႏွး<br />စကၤာပူေတာင္မေရာက္ေသး ခရီးစဥ္ ဖ်က္ရတယ္တဲ့ေဟး</p><p><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">ဇီးသီး </span>။မွတ္ထား အဲဒါ ပုဂံ အဲေလ ဗမာ</p><p><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">ၾကယ္သီး </span>။သူမ်ားတကာ့နိုင္င့ံေတြမွာ ေဖာရင္းဆိုတဲ့ႏိုင္ငံေတြမွာ စက္မွဳပညာ လြန္ထြန္းကား ေမာ္ေတာ္ကားေတြ မ်ား</p><p><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">စိန္သီး </span>။ဒိေလာက္ေတာ့အေပ်ာ့ပါကြယ္ အဲသေလာက္ေတာ့အေပ်ာ့ပါကြယ္ တို့ဗမာျပည္ေမာ္ေတာ္ကား စက္မွဳဇုန္ထုတ္ေမာ္ေတာ္ကား ဘယ္ကိုေကြ့ေတာ့ ညာကို သြား အားလံုးမာလကီးယား</p><p><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">ဇီးသီး </span>။မွတ္ထား အဲဒါ ထီလာဂ်စ္</p><p><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">ပန္းသီး </span>။သူမ်ားတကာ့နိုင္ငံေတြမွာ ေဖာရင္းဆိုတဲ့ႏိုင္ငံေတြမွာ ႏြားႏို့မလိုင္ လြန္ေပါမ်ား လမ္းမေပၚေတာင္သြန္လို့ထား</p><p><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">စိန္သီး </span>။။ဒိေလာက္ေတာ့အေပ်ာ့ပါကြယ္ အဲသေလာက္ေတာ့အေပ်ာ့ပါကြယ္ တို့ဗမာေတြအၾကံဥာဏ္ထုတ္ အီအီး ကုန္း တဲ့စကၠဴစုတ္ မလိုင္ ျဖစ္ေအာင္လုပ္</p><p><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">ဇီးသီး </span>။ဗမာ ကြ</p><p><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">ၾကယ္သီး </span>။။သူမ်ားတကာ့နိုင္ငံေတြမွာ ေဖာရင္းဆိုတဲ့ႏိုင္ငံေတြမွာ လက္နက္ေတြကို အျပိဳင္အဆိုင္ထုတ္ ႏ်ဴကလီးယားေတြ အျပိဳင္အဆိုင္လုပ္ န်ဴထရြန္ ဗံုးေတြ ထုတ္</p><p><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">စိန္သီး </span>။ဒီေလာက္ေတာ့အေပ်ာ့ပါကြယ္ အဲဒီေလာက္ေတာ့အေပ်ာ့ပါကြယ္ တို့ဗမာဆို ကမၻာကသိ ေဟာ ဒီမွာ ဂ်င္ဂလိ<br />(ဂ်င္ဂလိ ထုတ္ခ်ိန္ရာ အားလံုး ထြက္ေျပးၾကပံု)<br />ဆက္လက္ကျပပါဦးမည္<br /></p></div></div><p><a href="http://zarganar-windoor.blogspot.com/2007/11/blog-post_1335.html">(ကို) ဇာဂနာ၏ ပို႔စ္</a> မွ ကူးယူေဖၚျပပါသည္။</p> </div> <div class="post-footer"> <p class="post-footer-line post-footer-line-1"><span class="post-author vcard"><br /></span></p></div></div>generation96http://www.blogger.com/profile/04817289457167951376noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34605776.post-49776114023460712362007-11-30T08:48:00.000+08:002007-11-30T08:49:01.914+08:00ဆရာေတာ္မ်ားသို႔ ပန္ၾကားလႊာ<span style="font-family: "Zawgyi-One","sans-serif";">သံဃာေတာ္ေတြ အသက္ေပးခဲ့ၾကရၿပီးၿပီ။ မဂၢင္ေက်ာင္းတိုက္ အပိတ္ခံရၿပီ။ သာသနာေတာ္ဟာ စစ္ဖိနပ္ေအာက္မွာ အနင္းခံေနရၿပီဆိုတာ က်ေနာ္တို႔ မ်က္ျမင္ကိုယ္ေတြ႕ ၾကံဳေနရၿပီ။ <o:p></o:p></span> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Zawgyi-One","sans-serif";">သာသနာေတာ္အတြက္၊ ႏိုင္ငံေတာ္အတြက္၊ လူထုအတြက္ ဆရာေတာ္ဦးေဇာတိက၊ အရွင္ဆႏၵာဓိက၊ အရွင္ေဆကိႏၵ တို႔လို ဆရာေတာ္ဘုရားမ်ား ေရွ႕ထြက္ၾကဖို႔ လိုေနၿပီ။ ဗမာျပည္သူလူထုရဲ႕ အႏိႈင္းမဲ့ ယံုၾကည္ကိုးကြယ္ခံရတဲ့ ဒီဆရာေတာ္ဘုရားမ်ား လူထုဘက္က မားမားမတ္မတ္ ရပ္တည္လာမယ္ဆိုရင္၊ သံဃာ့လႈပ္ရွားမႈႀကီးမွာ ပါ၀င္ ကံေဆာင္လာမယ္ဆိုရင္ တတိုင္းတျပည္လံုး အံုးအံုးကၽြက္ကၽြက္ ၀မ္းသာပီတိျဖစ္ၾကမယ္။ သာသနာေတာ္အတြက္၊ ႏိုင္ငံေတာ္အတြက္ စိတ္ႏွလံုး ဒံုးဒံုးခ်ၿပီး ပါ၀င္လာမယ္။ စစ္တပ္ထဲက သာသနာေတာ္ကို တန္ဖိုးထားေနေသးတဲ့ အခ်ဳိ႕အခ်ဳိ႕ေသာ တပ္မေတာ္သားမ်ားလည္း အမွန္နဲ႔ အမွား ေသေသခ်ာခ်ာ စဥ္းစားႏိုင္လာမယ္။ အာဏာရူးတို႔ရဲ႕ မိႈင္းမိေနတဲ့ တပ္မေတာ္သားေတြကိုလည္း ကယ္တင္ႏိုင္မယ္။ ႏိုင္ငံေတာ္နဲ႔ သာသနာေတာ္ကိုလည္း ကယ္တင္ႏိုင္မယ္။<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Zawgyi-One","sans-serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Zawgyi-One","sans-serif";">ဆရာေတာ္ဦးေဇာတိက ဘုရား၊ အရွင္ဆႏၵာဓိက ဘုရား၊ အရွင္ေဆကိႏၵ ဘုရား<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Zawgyi-One","sans-serif";">ဗုဒၶဘာသာ သာသနာကို ကယ္တင္ဖို႔၊ ဗမာႏုိင္ငံေတာ္ကို ကယ္တင္ဖို႔၊ ဒုကၡေရာက္ေနတဲ့ ဗမာျပည္သူလူထုကို ကယ္တင္ဖို႔ သံဃာ့လႈပ္ရွားမႈဟာ မွန္ကန္ေၾကာင္း၊ ကံေဆာင္မႈေတြ ျပဳသင့္ေၾကာင္း၊ မိန္႔ေတာ္မူလို႔ ဒီလႈပ္ရွားမႈမွာ ပါ၀င္ဦးေဆာင္ေပးၾကပါလို႔ တပည့္ေတာ္ ရိုေသစြာ ပန္ၾကားအပ္ပါတယ္ဘုရား။<o:p></o:p></span></p>generation96http://www.blogger.com/profile/04817289457167951376noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34605776.post-87653008559595522552007-11-29T10:06:00.000+08:002008-12-10T03:20:31.735+08:00Burmese junta ordered journals to remove Mr Pinheiro news<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfC1fFHP01Fj2qKnYu0JdiSvNwV2Fa6ObgnclwHxlgD6Z1-utDWDBdZYDlVLZgdrF4wihua5HhRp0ZrqiiLDyjLJ28k17dMCCmhxsBaCleNdvWn8VyQLePMLAm5hvuxqD2EKPr/s1600-h/7dayFront.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfC1fFHP01Fj2qKnYu0JdiSvNwV2Fa6ObgnclwHxlgD6Z1-utDWDBdZYDlVLZgdrF4wihua5HhRp0ZrqiiLDyjLJ28k17dMCCmhxsBaCleNdvWn8VyQLePMLAm5hvuxqD2EKPr/s400/7dayFront.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5138081039937941170" border="0" /></a><br /><br />A cover story of 7Day News dated November 22, which is about the press conference held by Mr Pinheiro at Rangoon airport, had to be covered by silver ink and replaced with another news.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitsKO9QzM1dtWDW0R-J8AhNjhmWvyhEoSYboMr3mxNLBIdYuS8CeGQZE-9X4Zt48ibywRJdJTO8mMSIfdaooNAyiNORWwHaBPfRBaoAyPqUFQoRLEP9oKRGpHnAOHLXZYxC82_/s1600-h/7dayInside.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitsKO9QzM1dtWDW0R-J8AhNjhmWvyhEoSYboMr3mxNLBIdYuS8CeGQZE-9X4Zt48ibywRJdJTO8mMSIfdaooNAyiNORWwHaBPfRBaoAyPqUFQoRLEP9oKRGpHnAOHLXZYxC82_/s400/7dayInside.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5138081117247352514" border="0" /></a>However, the censor board failed to notice the other part of story appeared in page 5 which clearly stated "Continuation from cover."<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFxjPxeUWyjKFGYrNXWL9XLNm_b9IzX86i0fpuc3elmkUov_tGEdWW2aZz30Yh4K4jeN2tToEmCNUXrtR-CxhmYQ-Rz58G-XGB-jRFJrdrbYhYkeZAJ522AYPy7N2Q3jMcGjGl/s1600-h/7dayRepeat.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFxjPxeUWyjKFGYrNXWL9XLNm_b9IzX86i0fpuc3elmkUov_tGEdWW2aZz30Yh4K4jeN2tToEmCNUXrtR-CxhmYQ-Rz58G-XGB-jRFJrdrbYhYkeZAJ522AYPy7N2Q3jMcGjGl/s400/7dayRepeat.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5138078909634162306" border="0" /></a>The new cover story appeared in the journal again with exactly the same wordings.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu5rmYmPLixpiNaR52jgDO40OTlsz8rRjf8-y3ME80sIEv0r-L48PA1RSOsUQAHz65wRawMc5MJWBERieO6U8vIqWL8BehoDPqcmAmkf7RK1NFJhEfN1xI8ixl4iG-dJO4OCgv/s1600-h/YangonTimes.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu5rmYmPLixpiNaR52jgDO40OTlsz8rRjf8-y3ME80sIEv0r-L48PA1RSOsUQAHz65wRawMc5MJWBERieO6U8vIqWL8BehoDPqcmAmkf7RK1NFJhEfN1xI8ixl4iG-dJO4OCgv/s400/YangonTimes.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5138081185966829266" border="0" /></a>Yangon Times dated November 21 was another victim of Mr Pinheiro news. It ran the news under politics section but also ordered to remove. The journal replaced it with an advertisement of it own.<br /><br />In both cases, 7Day and Yangon Times, the original news are visible quite easily with enough lighting.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxtCbum_2lfiM8nq4QV17BqunR0Ynok38VRlWSzhXZFNPDsEgVAdXiJ3hgZQ_fjGLRhaBf8zAP6rCXBasoLJ0hiL7125FrpdhxMgf3A_yoJsE9V5g1fzIWtVGr8q6Pd5sBGDAG/s1600-h/Weekly.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxtCbum_2lfiM8nq4QV17BqunR0Ynok38VRlWSzhXZFNPDsEgVAdXiJ3hgZQ_fjGLRhaBf8zAP6rCXBasoLJ0hiL7125FrpdhxMgf3A_yoJsE9V5g1fzIWtVGr8q6Pd5sBGDAG/s400/Weekly.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5138078720655601250" border="0" /></a>Surprisingly, the news about Mr Pinheiro visit to Innsein jail, Goverment Technology Institute (a notorious detention centre during September crackdown), and Ngwe Kyar Yan monastery as well as meetings with senior Burmese ministers was appeared undeterred in Weekly Eleven journal dated November 21. The news featured a photo of Mr Pinheiro visit to the Kya Khat Wine monastery, a closed junta ally.generation96http://www.blogger.com/profile/04817289457167951376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34605776.post-92072931628044717012007-11-23T08:51:00.000+08:002007-11-23T09:13:17.899+08:00The difference between Asean and Commonwealth<h3 style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"> <author>By Anne Penketh, Diplomatic Editor</author> </h3> <h4 style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"> Published: 23 November 2007 </h4> <div class="bodyCopy"> <div style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);" class="articleButton"> <div id="articlebutton" class="ad"> </div> </div> <div id="bodyCopyContent"> <!--proximic_content_on--><p style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Pakistan was suspended from the Commonwealth last night, after General Pervez Musharraf failed to meet a deadline to lift emergency rule and resign as army chief. </p><!--proximic_content_off--> <!--proximic_content_on--> <p style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">The decision was taken by a committee of nine foreign ministers, meeting in Kampala on the eve of the Commonwealth summit, and followed hours of tough negotiations that began yesterday morning.</p><p>SOURCE : <a href="http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/article3187101.ece">The Independent</a></p><br /><p><br /></p><p>Meanwhile ASEAN stubbornly refuses to suspend or kick off Burma for killing scores of people and continuing arrest and torture of democracy activists. The stark contrast between these two groupings clearly show ASEAN is indeed a group with absolutely no regard for the human rights of a member country.<br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Therefore, the inclusion of declaration "<span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">To strengthen democracy, enhance good governance and the rule of law, and to promote human rights. ASEAN shall establish a human rights body, with terms to be decided by foreign ministers</span>." in the ASEAN charter could just meant not to protect and promote human rights in the region but to make the rest of the world, especially EU and US, think ASEAN is dedicated to promote human rights.<br /></p></div></div>generation96http://www.blogger.com/profile/04817289457167951376noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34605776.post-196660220320380192007-11-22T10:25:00.000+08:002007-11-22T10:27:06.433+08:00Burma spits on Asean. Asean slaps UN<span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><span style="font-style: italic; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 255, 51);">His message came down to this, said a person who listened to Mr Thein Sein’s speech: “I look after my own house. You cannot come in and rearrange the furniture. The furniture may not be great but I do it the way I want it. Period.”</span><o:p></o:p></span> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Source: The Straits Times (November 21 2007, Page 6, ASEAN SUMMIT)<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">To sum it up, after listening what Thein Sein had said, the Asean leaders agreed to cancel the UN envoy briefing, ultimately showing the world that Asean leaders have to genuine concern for the people of Burma. It also shows Asean doesn’t really care what the world governing body UN would have to say in the manner its envoy was treated. In fact, this incident highlighted Asean has only one thing in mind, to keep on benefitting from Burma’s abundance natural resources by nodding whatever the junta said. It is so surprising to learn that the leaders of the region follow the wishes of the junta especially after MM Lee publicly calling them “dumb generals.” Doesn’t it mean Asean leaders the followers of the dumb generals?<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">If one can think clearly, it is obvious the junta is not moving the furniture. They are killing the monks and civilians. They are still arresting and torturing people. They are doing that right in front of your eyes. Will you let to do them the way they want, killings and torturing? If you say yes, you are inhumane, heartless and selfish. This is not a time to have dinner with the killers of Burma and have “Family” dinner together. This is a time to show the world that you are caring and good neighbors Asean. There is still time. Fix it and the world will praise you. Let it go and you will go down in history as the selfish neighbors for Burma.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>generation96http://www.blogger.com/profile/04817289457167951376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34605776.post-18811246552081297462007-11-21T09:24:00.000+08:002008-12-10T03:20:31.901+08:00Burmese took to the streets in Singapore<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.straitstimes.com/Video+News/Singapore/STIVodcast_3070.html?playid=3070&type=Singapore"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLVPVBZ6EgKXJj9XxjwaY3-_cl3MJi6Rc8Q8DgOF9MeupcE5Nhc_lx8kBu-qjvpsQKfywaN4ht7BTp5OZhASP_X0iKnK_oSkVj3ZbKtyk-gZ72qQzpF_gCsyrATiQ6AXN9wDdv/s400/SG_Demo.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5135100143655956050" border="0" /></a><br />See Straits Times Report <a href="http://www.straitstimes.com/Video+News/Singapore/STIVodcast_3070.html?playid=3070&type=Singapore">HERE.</a><br /><br />Salute to all the participants of the event and wish every single one safe from any harassment.generation96http://www.blogger.com/profile/04817289457167951376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34605776.post-30731148829465503662007-11-15T02:50:00.000+08:002007-11-15T02:59:30.842+08:00Invitation for Burma's cause discussion(Extracts from the leaflets)<br /><br />Place : Excelsior Hotel<br />Time & Date : 5 pm to 8:30 pm, 17 November.<br /><br />Every single Burmese who has concern for Burma is invited to attend. The discussion is held by the permission of the Singapore Police Force.<br /><br />To wear RED and not to bring camera and web cam to avoid discomfort of the attendees.generation96http://www.blogger.com/profile/04817289457167951376noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34605776.post-169927092839852012007-11-15T02:39:00.000+08:002008-12-10T03:20:34.057+08:00Thank you Vietnam!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2Jdja-wEAk82EnwCia_TkkK2oKg5viFmr9HH1O0m8q7SOnoubEYnN-gc_f5RLNhqWT1MWA3cbcbxDLxzo3rfuaFPLIvSU_UhjCe7q8ljAneZwmAW-Vi42LstaT_52_H09-mpi/s1600-h/NLM.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2Jdja-wEAk82EnwCia_TkkK2oKg5viFmr9HH1O0m8q7SOnoubEYnN-gc_f5RLNhqWT1MWA3cbcbxDLxzo3rfuaFPLIvSU_UhjCe7q8ljAneZwmAW-Vi42LstaT_52_H09-mpi/s400/NLM.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5132767885204362146" border="0" /></a>Burma flag seen upside down at Hanoi presidential palace during the meeting of junta's PM Thein Sein and the president of Vietnam. The photo was used on the first page of The New Light of Myanmar published on 12 Nov 2007. PDF version is available on junta run MRTV3 site. Click <a href="http://www.mrtv3.net.mm/newpaper/1211newsm.pdf">HERE </a>to access PDF version.<br /><br />A mistake by the organizers? Hardly the case when they welcome another country's PM. Anyway, Thank you Vietnam!generation96http://www.blogger.com/profile/04817289457167951376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34605776.post-4330162944251973742007-11-13T08:17:00.000+08:002007-11-13T08:19:17.589+08:00Pro-government film shot in Prome<span style="font-size: 100%;">Nov 12, 2007 (DVB) Around 200 government supporters and township police officers have been involved in a video shoot in Prome in which they re-enact the suppression of the recent monk-led protests.</span><div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: 100%;">Around 200 members of the Union Solidarity and Development Association, Swan Arr Shin and township police have taken part in the filming in the grounds of Prome airport in Bago division, according to a source who had access to those involved in the shoot. </span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><br /><br />A number of people posing as monks have also been involved in the filming. </span><span style="font-size: 100%;">Prior to the making of the video, those involved undertook one month of riot training in preparation. </span><span style="font-size: 100%;">The source said that those present acted out the recent protests, but made it look as though the government's crackdown came as a result of violence from the monks. </span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><br /><br />"The film looks like it's about the monk protests, but it shows the township police trying to suppress the violence initiated by monks. Then they have to call in the military when they can't overpower the monks," the source said. </span><span style="font-size: 100%;">"So the military arrive, and first they fire rubber bullets into the crowd and some people get hit, but they made it look as though they had not choice but to fire as the monks were really getting out of hand," he said. </span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><br /><br />The scenes showed police officers following the orders of their superiors to ease the situation as much as possible without resorting to violence.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-size: 100%;">The source speculated that the film could be used to present a distorted picture of what happened during the crackdown on protests; however, the true purpose of the film could not be confirmed.</span></div>generation96http://www.blogger.com/profile/04817289457167951376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34605776.post-75731967043394707782007-11-10T00:26:00.000+08:002007-11-10T00:27:33.651+08:00News, which is not news.<o:p></o:p>On many news web sites, newspapers and journals, a heading “Suu Kyi agrees to meet with junta” or something similar to it took place today. <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">I am stunned to see the way the international world media present this particular “news”. In fact, for Burmese, this statement by Daw Su issued by Mr Gambari is nothing new. The statement is now “news” for Burmese. Daw Aung San Suu Kyi as well as NLD have always stressed that the genuine dialogue is the only way to solve the crisis in <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Burma</st1:place></st1:country-region>. They have taken this stand since 1990s. Daw Su had talked with SPDC leadership many years back. NLD has always called SPDC to talk. Never did SPDC listens Daw Su and NLD calls for dialogue. Now, Mr Gambari has again call for the dialogue. Daw Su and NLD agree. It is nothing new. In fact, the only thing to show from Mr Gambari mission is that SPDC’s outright rejection of Mr Gambari call for three way talk. </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">In short, Mr Gambari mission to <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Burma</st1:place></st1:country-region> was an absolute failure. This “news”, which is not news, should not lead the world to think Daw Su has just changed her mind. The world should know it is SPDC who UN has to talk or act to change their mind.</p><o:p></o:p><o:p></o:p>generation96http://www.blogger.com/profile/04817289457167951376noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34605776.post-29225123533728608692007-11-06T09:14:00.000+08:002007-11-06T09:16:45.318+08:00Thank you US<h2>U.S. tells Singapore to cut bank ties with Myanmar</h2> BANGKOK, Nov 5 (Reuters) - The United States told Singapore and its banks on Monday to sever financial links with Myanmar's junta, widely believed to use the city-state as its main off-shore banking centre. <p>"We believe that there are regime officials with accounts in Singapore," senior State Department official Kristen Silverberg told reporters in Thailand during a regional tour to drum up support for a tougher Asian stance against the former Burma. "We hope that they ensure that their financial institutions are not being used as sanctuary for Burmese officials," said Silverberg, who is responsible for U.S. liaison with groups such as the Association of South East Asian nations (ASEAN). </p><p>ASEAN is one of the few international organisations to admit Myanmar but its current chairman -- Singapore -- expressed "revulsion" at September's crackdown on monk-led democracy protests in which at least 10 people were killed. </p><p>Washington wants Singapore to go one step further and take action in the form of, say, financial sanctions or travel restrictions on members of the regime and their cronies, as the United States and Australia did last month. </p><p>Silverberg did not say whether "third party" sanctions, targeting non-U.S. businesses that do business with Myanmar, were among further measures being considered in Washington if the generals fail to embark on an acceptable path to democracy. </p><p>"Obviously, we've asked financial institutions and governments worldwide to consider whether their relationships with Burma are helping to facilitate this regime," she said. <table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" width="10%"> <tbody><tr><td> <table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tbody><tr><td align="center"><span style="font-family:arial;font-size:-2;"></span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></p>Singapore officials have publicly opposed sanctions, but in the last few weeks, its banks appear to have been quietly distancing themselves from Myanmar, analysts and bankers say. <p>The most concrete example is Air Bagan, a small airline owned by Htoo Trading, a conglomerate which recently appeared on a U.S. blacklist on account of its links to the junta, which is suspending flights to Singapore. </p><p>The city state's Today newspaper said the final straw for the airline, which was struggling with declining passenger numbers after the crackdown, was Singapore banks deciding to "stop dealing with" it. </p><p>Despite Washington's assertion that Myanmar's generals park their cash in banks in Singapore -- also their favoured destination for shopping and medical treatment -- Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong insists the financial system is clean. </p><p>"We don't play dirty money. We don't condone money-laundering," he told CNN. </p><p>The Burma Campaign UK, a London-based activist group, list 10 Singapore firms on its "Dirty List" of those with links to Myanmar, including banks DBS Group Holdings , Oversea-Chinese Bangking Corp and United Overseas Bank , and conglomerate Keppel Corp. .</p><br /><p><br /></p><p>Source : <a href="http://asia.news.yahoo.com/071105/3/3af9x.html">Yahoo News</a><br /> </p>generation96http://www.blogger.com/profile/04817289457167951376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34605776.post-66064225855703567152007-11-05T08:11:00.000+08:002007-11-05T08:15:05.730+08:00Monks back on streets(3-Nov)DVB reported that monks in mogok protested on 3rd Nov. The town population happily welcomed the protesting monks the report also said.generation96http://www.blogger.com/profile/04817289457167951376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34605776.post-28271128176890995102007-11-04T11:05:00.000+08:002007-11-04T11:20:56.577+08:00Singapore is deeply disappointed<p class="MsoNormal"><st1:country-region st="on">SINGAPORE</st1:country-region>: <st1:country-region st="on">Singapore</st1:country-region>, the current chair of the ASEAN bloc, said on Saturday it was "deeply disappointed" over <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Myanmar</st1:place></st1:country-region>'s decision to expel the most senior UN official working in the military-ruled country.<br /><br /><st1:country-region style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);" st="on"><st1:place st="on">Myanmar</st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">'s announcement sends an inconsistent message about it's willingness to engage the United Nations, a foreign ministry spokesman said in a statement.</span><br /><br />"<st1:country-region st="on">Singapore</st1:country-region> is deeply disappointed to learn of the <st1:country-region st="on">Myanmar</st1:country-region> government's decision to discontinue the assignment of the UNDP Resident Coordinator Charles James Petrie in <st1:place st="on"><st1:country-region st="on">Myanmar</st1:country-region></st1:place>," he said.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-style: italic;">Oops… deeply disappointed? We are so sorry for that. Don’t you think it is a result of “constructive engagement”? or “keeping </span><st1:country-region style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-style: italic;" st="on"><st1:place st="on">Myanmar</st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-style: italic;"> in the family”? </span><br /><br />"This announcement has come at a most inopportune time, just before the arrival of (UN special envoy) Ibrahim Gambari," the spokesman added.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);" class="MsoNormal">Then again, that is why your Minister Mentor said they are “dumb generals”. They do what they want to do at when they want to do. They do not care whether it is at a most opportune time or not. Whee… try lecture them if you do not believe what your MM said.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><br />"It also sends an inconsistent message about <st1:place st="on"><st1:country-region st="on">Myanmar</st1:country-region></st1:place>'s willingness to continue engaging the UN in improving its domestic political and socio-economic situation."</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-style: italic;">No… it sends a very consistent message about </span><st1:country-region style="font-style: italic;" st="on"><st1:place st="on">Myanmar</st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-style: italic;">’s willingness to reject whatever UN or anyone said.</span> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><br /><st1:country-region st="on">Singapore</st1:country-region> urged the <st1:country-region st="on">Myanmar</st1:country-region> junta to continue dialogue with the UN as it offers "hope for <st1:place st="on"><st1:country-region st="on">Myanmar</st1:country-region></st1:place> to resolve key socio-economic problems, and to work towards peaceful national reconciliation with all groups in the country."</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0); font-style: italic;" class="MsoNormal">Surprise…surprise. Does <st1:country-region st="on">Singapore</st1:country-region> genuinely think <st1:country-region st="on">Myanmar</st1:country-region>’s “dumb generals” would listen to what <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Singapore</st1:place></st1:country-region> urge? MM Lee had tried it and failed. <st1:country-region st="on">Myanmar</st1:country-region> has just kicked UN’s most senior official for reporting truth about <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Burma</st1:place></st1:country-region>. Hmm… may be “constructive engagement” and “keeping <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Myanmar</st1:place></st1:country-region> in the family” would help. We will see.</p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p><!--[if !supportLineBreakNewLine]--><br /> <!--[endif]--></p>generation96http://www.blogger.com/profile/04817289457167951376noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34605776.post-53225315368573407282007-11-01T09:55:00.000+08:002008-12-10T03:20:34.515+08:00ဒီလူေတြကို သပိတ္ေမွာက္ပါ<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnhRJ4n9RajGlZVSCgrPZYRmgxbt8Kbo8uXYGzs2-YhRUp_4ufIg-uKE2iyHgxU5CwGWXnEVyzzpcz50tYc_Z2MJh13EYMcBpJOhaiJSuFxVDZspX_RbpXh21Bru34Fe-kgKYL/s1600-h/ThanShweGrandson.JPG"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnhRJ4n9RajGlZVSCgrPZYRmgxbt8Kbo8uXYGzs2-YhRUp_4ufIg-uKE2iyHgxU5CwGWXnEVyzzpcz50tYc_Z2MJh13EYMcBpJOhaiJSuFxVDZspX_RbpXh21Bru34Fe-kgKYL/s400/ThanShweGrandson.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5127685005117408818" border="0" /></a><span style="font-family:Zawgyi-One;">သန္းေရႊေျမးရဲ႕ ေမြးေန႔ပဲြမွာ ပလူးဖို႔၊ ဖားဖို႔ ေစာင့္ေနၾကတဲ့ ျပည္သူေကၽြးတဲ့ ထမင္းကိုစား၊ ျပည္သူေပးတဲ့ ေမတၱာကို ခံယူၿပီး၊ ျပည္သူ႔ကို ေစာ္ကားေနၾကတဲ့ အႏုပညာရွင္လို႔ စာနယ္ဇင္းေတြမွာ နာမည္တပ္ခံရတဲ့ ဖက္ခြက္စားေတြ။<o:p></o:p></span> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Zawgyi-One;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Zawgyi-One;">က်ေနာ္တို႔ သူတို႔ကို သင္ခန္းစာေပးဖို႔ လိုၿပီ။<br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Zawgyi-One;">အိႁႏၵာေက်ာ္ဇင္ ဘယ္လိုလွလွ၊ ေဇာ္၀င္းထြဋ္ ဘယ္ေလာက္ အသံေကာင္းေကာင္း၊ စိုင္းစိုင္းကို ဘယ္ေလာက္ႀကိဳက္ႀကိဳက္ ဒီလူေတြကို အားမေပးသင့္ေတာ့ဘူး။ က်ေနာ္တို႔ အားလံုး(သို႔မဟုတ္ ေတာ္ေတာ္မ်ားမ်ား) သူတို႔ အေခြေတြ မ၀ယ္မွ၊ မၾကည့္မွ၊ သူတို႔ ရိႉးေတြ မၾကည့္မွ သူတို႔ကို ထမင္းေကၽြးထားတာဟာ ျပည္သူလူထုပဲ၊ နအဖ မဟုတ္ဘူးဆိုတာ နားလည္လာမယ္။ ထမင္း မငတ္ခ်င္ရင္ လူယုတ္မာနဲ႔ ေပါင္းသင္းျခင္းက ေရွာင္ၾကဥ္ရမယ္ဆိုတာ နားလည္လာမယ္။ <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Zawgyi-One;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Zawgyi-One;">ဇာဂနာေလာက္ မလုပ္ႏိုင္ရင္ ေက်ာ္သူေလာက္ေတာ့ လုပ္ႏိုင္ရမယ္။ ေက်ာ္သူေလာက္ မလုပ္ႏိုင္ရင္လည္း ေလးျဖဴေလာက္ေတာ့ ကင္းကင္းေနႏိုင္ရမယ္။ <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Zawgyi-One;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Zawgyi-One;">သံဃာေတြ ညီညြတ္သလို က်ေနာ္တို႔ လူထု ညီညြတ္စြာ ဒီလူေတြကို သပိတ္ေမွာက္သင့္ၿပီ။ ဒီသပိတ္ဟာ အဖမ္းခံရစရာ အေၾကာင္းမရိွသလို ေသနတ္နဲ႔လည္း အပစ္ခံရစရာ မရိွဘူး။ လူတိုင္း လူတိုင္း လုပ္ႏိုင္တဲ့ လုပ္သင့္တဲ့ အရာပါ။ <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Zawgyi-One;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Zawgyi-One;">ဓာတ္ပံုထဲမွ ဖက္ခြက္စားမ်ား<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Zawgyi-One;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Zawgyi-One;">ေဇာ္၀င္းထြဋ္<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Zawgyi-One;">အိႁႏၵာေက်ာ္ဇင္<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Zawgyi-One;">ခိုင္သင္းၾကည္<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Zawgyi-One;">ရတနာခင္<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Zawgyi-One;">ရာဇာေန၀င္း<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Zawgyi-One;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Zawgyi-One;">ေဇာ္၀င္းထြဋ္ဟာ မီမီ၀င္းေဖနဲ႔ အတူ သႏၱာေရႊ မဂၤလာေဆာင္တုန္းကလည္း သီခ်င္းဆိုခဲ့ပါေသးတယ္။<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Zawgyi-One;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>generation96http://www.blogger.com/profile/04817289457167951376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34605776.post-2091240442917329632007-11-01T09:05:00.000+08:002007-11-01T09:14:45.506+08:00ဆရာေတာ္ႀကီးတပါး ေျပာတဲ့စကား<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family: Zawgyi-One;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">ငါတုိ႔ခံရတဲ့ ဒုကၡေတြ မတရားမႈေတြဟာ ငါတို႔ အတိတ္ဘ၀က လုပ္ခဲ့တဲ့ ကံေတြေၾကာင့္ပဲလို႔ ေျပာတာဟာ ကိုယ့္စိတ္ကို ကိုယ္ေျဖတဲ့စကားလား၊ ကိုယ္ဘာလုပ္ရမယ္ဆိုတာ မသိလို႔ ေျပာတာလား၊ ကိုယ္ယူရမယ့္ တာ၀န္ကို ေၾကာက္လို႔ ေျပာတာလား။</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family: Zawgyi-One;">ဒီလို ေျပာတာဟာ အမွန္တရားလား။<br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family: Zawgyi-One;">ဘာလုပ္ရမလဲဆိုတဲ့ ေမးခြန္းကို ေမးၿပီး အေျဖကို ရွာၿပီး ဒီ ဒုကၡေတြ ေပ်ာက္ေအာင္၊ ဒီ မတရားမႈေတြ ေပ်ာက္ေအာင္ မလုပ္ပဲ ကံေကာင္းမယ့္ေန႔ကို ထိုင္ေစာင့္ေနမွာလား။<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family: Zawgyi-One;">သတၱိမရိွတဲ့စကား၊ တာ၀န္မယူရဲတဲ့စကား၊ ကိုယ့္ကိုယ္ကို ကိုယ္ယံုၾကည္မႈ မရိွတဲ့သူရဲ႕ စကား --<o:p></o:p></span></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Zawgyi-One;"><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;font-size:130%;" >ေလာကမွာ ေကာင္းတာေတြဟာ ေၾကာက္တတ္တဲ့ သူေတြက လုပ္ခဲ့တာေတြ မဟုတ္ဘူး။ သတၱိရိွတဲ့ သူေတြက လုပ္ခဲ့တာေတြ။</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><br /><a href="http://www.zarganar.com/life/">Zaganar Lives</a> ၏ <a href="http://zarganar.com/life//index.php?op=ViewArticle&articleId=31&blogId=1">ဒီပိုစ့္ </a>မွ စာသားကို ကူးယူေဖာ္ျပသည္။<br /> ႏိုင္ငံေက်ာ္ ဆရာေတာ္ႀကီး၏ ကိုယ္တိုင္ေရး လက္ေရးနဲ႔စာ လုိ႔ဆိုပါတယ္။generation96http://www.blogger.com/profile/04817289457167951376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34605776.post-64568756519710569532007-10-31T14:09:00.000+08:002007-10-31T14:16:14.261+08:00Breaking News: Monks back on street in PakhokuReports from Burma and various dissident news sources confirmed that monks in Pakhoku staged a protest this morning.<br /><br />The protest is the first after the military crushed the peaceful protests in late september. Reports claimed the monks came out one hour after the junta sponsored one househould one person must attend pro-junta demonstration.generation96http://www.blogger.com/profile/04817289457167951376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34605776.post-34144760166678798102007-10-31T09:34:00.000+08:002007-10-31T09:40:37.923+08:00Thant Myint, a disgraced grandson of U Thant<div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal">I have never heard of his name until he launched his not so successful book “The River of Lost Footsteps”. In fact, I didn’t even know <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Burma</st1:place></st1:country-region>’s beloved U Thant has a grandson until then. I suspect he has ever had the first hand experiences of the struggles of <st1:country-region st="on">Burma</st1:country-region> and the true relationships between Burmese and ethnic minorities, for his writings didn’t show he has enough knowledge to talk about <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Burma</st1:place></st1:country-region>’s internal affairs albeit naming himself historian.<br /></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal">Frankly, no historians know better than ordinary Burmese about <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Burma</st1:place></st1:country-region>. Burmese are tight lipped about their sufferings for they afraid their words might endanger their families. <span style=""> </span>As a result, the so called historians had to rely only on different books published in and out of <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Burma</st1:place></st1:country-region>. Some of these books are indeed the work of oppressive regime and includes junta’s propagandas. However, the so called experts or historians didn’t even know the facts inside the books are totally wrong and misleading and happily refer the books. It is a sad case for the experts and historians of <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Burma</st1:place></st1:country-region> affairs. Thant Myint is one of them.<o:p></o:p></p><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p>His recent words <span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 204, 0);">"We don't want </span><st1:country-region style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 204, 0);" st="on">Myanmar</st1:country-region><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 204, 0);"> to be a parallel of </span><st1:country-region style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 204, 0);" st="on"><st1:place st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(51, 204, 0);">, where we said it's good Saddam Hussein is no longer there, but then did not know how to handle the insurgency that went on after he was gone."</span> not only angered the ethnic minorities and Burmese around the world but also leads to something ASEAN leaders could happily refer to when they want to defend their policy of not taking any action against the regime. These words have been used by Singapore Prime Minister and Singapore Foreign Minister time and time again to justify their stand of keeping <st1:place st="on"><st1:country-region st="on">Myanmar</st1:country-region></st1:place> in the family <span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">( the family of ASEAN governments, not the family of ASEAN nationals)</span>. </p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">Below is what Foreign Minister said in a parliament.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify; font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">Aung San Suu Kyi herself acknowledges the need to involve the military. Without the military, <st1:place st="on"><st1:country-region st="on">Myanmar</st1:country-region></st1:place> can dissolve into civil war. The country has many ethnic groups, a number of which are still armed and can easily restart rebellions in the border regions. The last thing we want is a <st1:place st="on"><st1:country-region st="on">Yugoslavia</st1:country-region></st1:place> or an Iraqi situation at our doorstep. In this regard, ASEAN shares a common position with <st1:country-region st="on">China</st1:country-region> and <st1:place st="on"><st1:country-region st="on">India</st1:country-region></st1:place>. Thant Myint-U, the grandson of the third Secretary General of the UN U Thant, who's no apologist for the regime, has wisely cautioned that "We don't want Myanmar to be a parallel of Iraq, where we said it's good Saddam Hussein is no longer there, but then did not know how to handle the insurgency that went on after he was gone."</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">It is a wonder how <st1:country-region st="on">Singapore</st1:country-region> leaders accept and agree with some unknown writer’s view on <st1:country-region st="on">Burma</st1:country-region>, especially when the writer might not ever spend even his childhood in <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Burma</st1:place></st1:country-region>. However, just with this statement, Thant Myint has become a <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 255, 51);">wise </span>historian for ASEAN leaders. Sadly, <span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">he has become a disgrace in the eyes of millions of Burmese around the world</span>. His grandfather would be so ashamed of him if he is still alive.</p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">To be honest, this statement is a direct insult to ethnic minorities and Burmese alike. How could somebody living outside <st1:place st="on"><st1:country-region st="on">Burma</st1:country-region></st1:place> say something he doesn’t understand? How well he knows about relations between Burmese and minorities? It is true that there are armed groups still holding their arms. But it is also true that they also want democracy, human rights, peace and stability. The rebel groups in <st1:place st="on"><st1:country-region st="on">Burma</st1:country-region></st1:place> are not headed by trigger happy blood thirsty uneducated bastards. Almost all of the leaderships have substantial education before they decided to go against the junta. They all want to see their states progress. They all want to see prosperous <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Burma</st1:place></st1:country-region>. Almost all the rebel groups including KNU have said they will drop the independence calls if they can get autonomy which we think is not unjust. Even if there are groups which haven’t done so, we can always talk. The citizens of <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Burma</st1:place></st1:country-region> are not dumb. We have done it once in 1947. We can do it again in 2007. The only thing we need is our chance to do so. So, stop saying <st1:country-region st="on">Burma</st1:country-region> would become a Balkan, or <st1:country-region st="on">Iraq</st1:country-region>, or <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Somalia</st1:place></st1:country-region>. We have the right to decide our own fate. <span style=""> </span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;">Allowing the citizens of <st1:place st="on"><st1:country-region st="on">Burma</st1:country-region></st1:place> a chance to enjoy democracy and human rights would not lead to civil war but it would probably lead to lost opportunities to sell arms and buy rubies, jades, fish, timber and gas cheap.<o:p><br /></o:p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p style="text-align: justify;" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>generation96http://www.blogger.com/profile/04817289457167951376noreply@blogger.com33tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34605776.post-39059345573439273712007-10-26T09:59:00.000+08:002007-10-26T10:22:43.666+08:00George Yeo's answers in Parliament<p class="MsoNormal">15 <st1:country-region st="on">Singapore</st1:country-region> has very few defence interactions with <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Myanmar</st1:place></st1:country-region>. <span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">But we have to maintain links with the military because it is a key institution</span>. These are largely limited to interactions at multilateral events such as ASEAN-related meetings, international defence exhibitions, and sports activities like the Army Half Marathon. As far as defence sales are concerned, <span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">it is established policy of the Government not to divulge details publicly. </span><st1:country-region style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);" st="on"><st1:place st="on">Myanmar</st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"> is not subject to any UN arms embargo</span>. If there is any UN sanction against <st1:country-region st="on">Myanmar</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Singapore</st1:place></st1:country-region> will of course abide by it. Nevertheless, I can say that over the years defence sales to <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Myanmar</st1:place></st1:country-region> have not been substantial, and <span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">have always been carefully limited to items that are not suitable for countering civilian unrest</span>. There have not been any defence sales to <st1:place st="on"><st1:country-region st="on">Myanmar</st1:country-region></st1:place> in recent years and, going forward, we will continue to behave in a responsible manner.</p><br /><p style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-style: italic;">That is what Mr George Yeo replied to one of many questions. The minister didn't deny sales of defence items, instead stressed that the sales items are not suitable for countering civilian unrest. But what kind of military items are not suitable for beating and shooting people? The tanks and SAMs may be. </span><br /></p><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p>Ms Sylvia Lim: Mr Speaker Sir, <span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">what concerns me is to what extent </span><st1:country-region style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);" st="on">Singapore</st1:country-region><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"> might be implicated in somehow propping up the military authorities in </span><st1:country-region style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);" st="on">Burma</st1:country-region><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"> or </span><st1:country-region style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);" st="on"><st1:place st="on">Myanmar</st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"> in their oppressive tactics</span>. And the reason I ask this, there have been some press reports recently as well as in the past. Just to cite one example, a <st1:city st="on"><st1:place st="on">Melbourne</st1:place></st1:city> newspaper called The Age last month came up with an article called "Web of Cash, Power and Cronies" which reiterated in fact, soft contents from earlier articles in Jane's Intelligence Review in 1998. And the content of those articles basically is to say that <st1:country-region style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);" st="on">Singapore</st1:country-region><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"> has in fact been much involved in shipping ammunitions and other military equipment to </span><st1:country-region style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);" st="on"><st1:place st="on">Myanmar</st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"> and also been instrumental in helping to set up a <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 204, 0);">cyber centre</span> where intelligence equipment was subsequently used to monitor activists. </span>So, I would like to ask the Minister to comment on these articles, whether there have been some activities as such, in the past, to what extent it has minimised now. Such clarity I think would be very important for us.</p> <p>REPLY</p> <p>Minister: On the question of military sales, I've given a full answer earlier. It's been insubstantial. We've always made sure they were items which could not be used against civilians and there has been no sales in recent years. I shouldn't go on beyond that because it is our established policy not to divulge details of military sales. We have replied to the Australian newspaper. As for the reports about helping them establish a listening facility to monitor civilian dissidents, there's no truth in that. We have made repeated clarifications to Australian newspapers. They have printed our replies, but somehow the journalists who wrote subsequently ignored those replies we've made. As for their accusations about us being involved in drug money laundering, it goes back quite a long time to Dr Chee Soon Juan. We've clarified again and again but they keep being recycled and that article you've referred to contains some of that recycled hash. </p> <p class="MsoNormal">The answer is the same as answered before. But, let's see what he has said before. In answer 16,</p><br /><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">16 Ms Eunice Olsen asked whether the Government would consider granting humanitarian assistance to the <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Myanmar</st1:place></st1:country-region> people. We would certainly do so if there is a request from <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Myanmar</st1:place></st1:country-region>. <st1:country-region style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);" st="on">Singapore</st1:country-region><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"> has provided significant technical assistance to </span><st1:country-region style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);" st="on"><st1:place st="on">Myanmar</st1:place></st1:country-region> for human resource development over the years. <span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">To date, we have trained more than 6,000 </span><st1:country-region style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);" st="on"><st1:place st="on">Myanmar</st1:place></st1:country-region> officials in several areas, including English language, tourism, <span style="color: rgb(51, 255, 51); font-weight: bold;">IT</span><span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);"><span style="color: rgb(51, 255, 51);">, </span>civil aviation and <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 255, 51);">telecommunications</span></span><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 255, 51);">. </span>We do not intend to stop such assistance. Under the Initiative for ASEAN Integration, <span style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">we have established <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 255, 51);">a training centre</span> in </span><st1:place style="color: rgb(255, 102, 0);" st="on">Yangon</st1:place>. Should one day the Myanmar Government open up and request further assistance from us, we will certainly do all we can.</p><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">That was an admission that Singapore has helped trained Myanmar officials. The training included IT and telecommunications, which can be used against monitoring activists in and out of the country. It is also mentioned a training centre was set up in Yangon. Isn't this be the cyber centre an australian newspaper mentioned? I believe it is the one. 6000 officials in for training and a training centre is more than good enough to monitor large webs of activists around the world. Moreover, never in the history of Burma, the military had intention to help general public, let alone training 6000 officials for them.<br /></span></p><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">Q&A source: <a href="http://beyondsg.typepad.com/">BEYOND SG</a><br /></p>generation96http://www.blogger.com/profile/04817289457167951376noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34605776.post-20094707234510372792007-10-26T09:42:00.000+08:002007-10-26T09:58:57.252+08:00George Yeo's used the word 'trouble makers'<p>Dr Lily Neo: Mr Speaker Sir, MM had said that an unstable <st1:country-region st="on">Myanmar</st1:country-region> is a "time bomb" for <st1:place st="on">Southeast Asia</st1:place>. Could Minister elaborate on it? Are ASEAN countries in agreement with this view? Should such scenarios be discussed in ASEAN countries so that all can be better prepared to mitigate such eventualities?</p> <p>REPLY</p> <p>Minister: It is true that <st1:country-region st="on"><st1:place st="on">Myanmar</st1:place></st1:country-region> is a ticking time bomb. For the time being, because of the way the government has been able to arrest ‘<span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">trouble-makers</span>’ and intimidate the population, there is an apparent return to normalcy.</p><br /><p><br /></p><p style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 153, 102);">The word '<span style="font-weight: bold;">trouble-makers</span>' is an insult to the peaceful demonstrators including monks and nuns. Although the Foreign Minister probably referred to the word used by Burmese Junta, it was not a wise choice, for we, Burmese, felt greatly insulted by it. It leads us to think Singapore has no genuine desire to help the oppressed general population but the cruel military only. By saying so, the trip to the Buddhist Monastery was wasted.<br /></p><br /><p> Q&A source: <a href="http://beyondsg.typepad.com/">BEYOND SG</a><br /></p>generation96http://www.blogger.com/profile/04817289457167951376noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34605776.post-77116973442153843402007-10-24T10:47:00.000+08:002007-10-24T10:53:16.484+08:00၂၁ ရာစု နအဖ ဘုရားရိွခိုးက်ေနာ္တို႔ရဲ႕ ျပည္သူ႔အခ်စ္ေတာ္ ျပည္သူ႔သူရဲေကာင္း ကိုသူရ(ဇာဂနာ) ေျပာတဲ့ နအဖရဲ႕ ဘုရားရိွခိုး<br /><br />ဗုဒၶံ သရဏံ ဂစာၦမိ<br />ဓမၼံ သရဏံ ဂစာၦမိ<br />သံဃံ သရဏံ <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">ဂန္း</span>စာမိ<br /><br />--------------------<br /><br />ေလးစားပါတယ္ ကိုဇာဂနာ။ ဦးၫႊတ္ပါတယ္။generation96http://www.blogger.com/profile/04817289457167951376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34605776.post-74089743809445974822007-10-21T13:29:00.000+08:002007-10-21T13:31:53.597+08:00Arresting Black Listed persons at Rangoon (Yangon) Int’l AirportAt the counter which is neither Immigration nor Custom at the new <st1:city st="on">Rangoon</st1:City> (Yangon) <st1:placename st="on">Int’l</st1:PlaceName> <st1:placetype st="on">Airport</st1:PlaceType> terminal, the name of the passenger to be departed from <st1:city st="on">Rangoon</st1:City> (<st1:place st="on">Yangon</st1:place>) was keyed in to the computer. A list appeared on the screen with similar name(s). The passport number was keyed in to determine the passenger. The personal details including the photo of the passenger were appeared. After a few seconds, a message claiming the passenger was checked successfully and not included in the “Black List” popped up. The passenger was then cleared to proceed to the immigration. <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">If a passenger was not cleared at that point, he or she was subject to arrest by the junta. It is not known how many of them were detained by now. </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal">There were unconfirmed but quite reliable reports of arresting people who actively organized the overseas demonstrations as well as revoking the passports of those who were mere participants of the protests overseas. </p>generation96http://www.blogger.com/profile/04817289457167951376noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34605776.post-37674846195887575322007-10-19T10:48:00.001+08:002008-12-10T03:20:34.669+08:00Blood Donation Drive at Burmese Monastery<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWgRthukeuXS3_upbD1ejsmNSDcG6tNzR5-51HeRHqmXl30QYrZGW9XeeRg6DVM2kCBCsl7ymiJv9xdnI2YsUL5crFPardiPws1e0uV6mJ3bho0qkqvoYplidqwCgHMh8txucz/s1600-h/blood_donation.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWgRthukeuXS3_upbD1ejsmNSDcG6tNzR5-51HeRHqmXl30QYrZGW9XeeRg6DVM2kCBCsl7ymiJv9xdnI2YsUL5crFPardiPws1e0uV6mJ3bho0qkqvoYplidqwCgHMh8txucz/s400/blood_donation.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5122874452119411794" border="0" /></a>There will be a blood donation drive at Balestier (Toapayoh)Burmese Buddhist Temple this Saturday to show our solidarity with the monks and people fallen in Burma during the recent crackdown. Every single one is invited to join regardless of nationality and religion.<br /><br />Time: 2 pm<br /><br />Please contact Ko Tin Maung Win at 92766087 to register.generation96http://www.blogger.com/profile/04817289457167951376noreply@blogger.com0