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|Fri, 11-12-2010 - 8:49pm
Before I get too far past the initial feelings of Ending...I want to gather a number of helpful (One Stop Shop) articles and (previous posts) If you all dont mind if I copy and paste - I promise to include the links and give credit to the author- :) I just want to Organize a
|Fri, 11-12-2010 - 11:33pm
Posted by Messenger_2008
1. Start by making a promise to yourself for upholding the following rules;
2. No contact includes every single form of contact with him/her..
|Fri, 11-12-2010 - 11:00pm
No Contact by Natalie Lue www.baggagereclaim.com
But I bet you're wondering what the key signs are that you're dealing with someone you'll need to cut contact with…
|Fri, 11-12-2010 - 10:55pm
FROM NO CONTACT by Natalie Lue
You're probably wondering how you've ended up crying wolf and there are a
number of behaviours that will not only cause your words and actions not to match,
but are indicators that you're likely to need to employ NC on someone, as you'll see
from the following ten signs:
|Fri, 11-12-2010 - 10:02pm
Stages of Change
"IT ISN'T THAT WE CAN'T SEE THE SOLUTION. IT IS THAT WE CAN'T SEE THE PROBLEM" Precontemplators usually show up in therapy because of pressures from others… spouses, employers, parents, and courts… Resist change. When their problem comes up, they change the topic of conversation. They place responsibility for their problems on factors such as genetic makeup, addition, family, society, destiny, the police, etc.
They feel the situation is HOPELESS.
Contemplators acknowledge that they have a problem and begin to think about solving it. Contemplators struggle to understand their problems, to see its causes, and wonder about possible solutions. Many contemplators have indefinite plans to take action within the next few months.
It is not uncommon for contemplators to tell themselves that some day they are going to change. When contemplators transition to the preparation stage of change, their thinking is clearly marked by two changes. First, they begin to think more about the future than the past.
The end of contemplation stage is a time of ANTICIPATION, ACTIVITY, ANXIETY, and EXCITEMENT.
Most people in the preparation stage are planning to take action and are making the final adjustments before they begin to change their behavior. Have not yet resolved their AMBIVALENCE. Still need a little convincing.
Stage where people overtly modify their behavior and their surroundings. Make the move for which they have been preparing. Requires the greatest commitment of time and energy.
Change never ends with action. Without a strong commitment to maintenance, there will surely be relapse, usually to precontemplation or contemplation stage.
|Fri, 11-12-2010 - 9:55pm
The SIX STAGES of CHANGE
Are enhanced by . . . .
Nine PROCESSES AND TECHNIQUES
"Processes" are selected activities that are regularly initiated to effect change. There are nine important ones chosen by the authors as distinct areas of consideration and useful "tools" in Changing for Good. They are:
Consciousness-raising: Increasing knowledge about yourself and your problem.
Social liberation: Considerations in the external environment that can contribute to helping change, ie: no smoking areas, lo-cal menu items, advocacy groups.
Emotional arousal: Increased awareness through depth of feeling from natural events or dramatic intervention, psychodrama.
Self-reevaluation: A thoughtful and emotional reappraisal of yourself as regards your problem, weighing the pros and cons of changing.
Commitment: Acknowledging that you are the only one who can respond, speak and act for yourself.
Countering: Planning for and substituting healthy responses for unhealthy ones, action oriented.
Environmental control: Restructuring your personal environment so that the probability of a problem-causing event is reduced.
Rewards: Affirmation of desirable behavior by self or others as contrasted with and better than any type of punishment for problem behavior.
Helping relationships: Receiving care, support and assistance from significant people in your life.
These Processes are broad areas which are applied during different stages of change. Within each process there are usually a number of Techniques that can be applied to further the effect. The few examples given with Social liberation above are examples of techniques. Another illustration of this would be in Countering urges. One person might substitute chewing gum as an alternative to having a cigarette, while another might distract himself by running around the block.
|Fri, 11-12-2010 - 9:40pm
by NML on January 30, 2008
A while back, Rose City Girl explained the No Contact Rule which drew in quite a few comments. More and more of you are writing to me wanting to know more about the 'no contact' rule and how to move forward.
The No Contact Rule is a delicate balancing act between taking back control, booting someone out of your life (even if they don't know it) and not going crazy. You apply the No Contact Rule (NCR) when you are in a relationship that just won't die a death even though it's dead as a dodo, when a guy likes to boomerang in and out of your life whenever it suits, and especially when you keep flogging a dead horse and chasing the guy around even though he is mistreating you.
|Fri, 11-12-2010 - 9:35pm
by NML on February 1, 2008
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The No Contact Rule means that you have to go cold turkey but you put yourself in the driving seat, create your own closure, and you start to control the relationship that you have perceived as uncontrollable. It is an exit strategy and trust me, you will use the No Contact Rule if you truly want to exit a poor relationship and want to get back your sense of self.
In Part 1, I explained what the No Contact Rule is, why we avoid it, and some tips to get you started and in this post I am giving some guidance on when to apply the rule.
How do you know if you need to apply the No Contact Rule?
No contact is a pretty harsh way to cut things off but it's increasingly needed because of the type of dating habits that both men and women are adopting. As women, we seem to love being with men that are disconnected and unavailable for relationship duty, and who can't commit to being with us…and can't commit to not being with us.
If you are experiencing any of the following, you need the No Contact Rule (NCR) for your sanity, nevermind anything else:
You have no endings. You have a number of 'ex' boyfriends that call you up to get nostalgic, get the lowdown on whether you've moved on, and also to get busy with you. As a result, you're not technically finished with a lot of the men in your past.
Can't break, won't break. When a man keeps popping back up in your life, despite having nothing more to offer than when you dumped him (or he exited) and despite your insistence to stay away, he does anything but.
You won't let go. You're one of those women that hopes too much. You haven't cut the contact because you think he's going to turn from a cockroach, into a frog, and then eventually into a prince. You think you're chasing and holding out for a man that's playing hard to get, when in actual fact, he's not trying to be caught…
When they pull The Friend Card. Many men lack the balls to live with the feeling of knowing that they've behaved badly, so they throw you The Friend Card so that they feel like less of a sh*t than they really are. It is a gateway into your life and if you haven't gotten over him and broken the emotional tie, it sets you back and prevents you from getting over him and moving on.
You have exchanged the 'girlfriend' role for the booty call one. Never take a demotion in the hope that it will enable you to get a promotion!
He blows hot and cold. Blowing hot and cold is Mr Unavailable's (emotionally unavailable guys) way of controlling the relationship, keeping you at a distance, and keeping you in check, but when he blows hot, it's not because he wants you, it's just because he's balancing things out so that he can keep you on ice for a bit longer.
You have a low self-esteem, bad dating and relationship habits, and are struggling to let go of old feelings.
Don't use the No Contact Rule to:
Break off a relationship for the first time. Do the decent thing woman! Unless the man is downright crazy or abusive, the first time you guys finish, a bit of an explanation wouldn't go astray!
End your marriage. The NCR is not for marriages. Not only do you need to stay in touch for your divorce, but it's a pretty nasty way to end a relationship with someone you were prepared to legally bind yourself to!
Playing games. Ladies, ladies, LADIES! Stop playing games because it will backfire, you will bite off more than you can chew, and you will falsely impact on the relationship. Pulling the NCR to test if he's interested is childish, plus, if he is emotionally unavailable, he will blow hot…and then blow cold when he's comfy putting you right back to square one.
Is the No Contact Rule permanent?
It is as permanent as you want it to be, but the golden rule is that you can only restart or accept contact when you are completely over him and have moved on. I suggest making it permanent for men that add little value to your life. There is no point in keeping contact for ego's sake, as it will be mostly his ego that gets massaged.
At the bare minimum, the no contact rule should be enforced for two to three months. For men that tend to disappear and then reappear when it suits, take the longest period of time that they've ever disappeared for and add a month.
Think of it like giving up smoking – It'll hurt in the short-term and you'll be tempted to light up a few times in the first few weeks, but after a while, you feel better than you expected and time is disappearing.
Move on ladies and learn to let go! If you had to do the NCR in the first place, it's in recognition of the fact that he didn't treat you well, he didn't respect your previous wishes to leave you alone to get on with your life, and he didn't respect your wishes when you said "I'll call you, don't call meâ€. Now why would you want to be friends with someone who can't follow basic instructions but still expected to slip back into your life when it suited, and hope that you'd break him off a piece?
In Part 3, I will put the definitive list of the best ways to cut the contact, including some suggested by readers.
|Fri, 11-12-2010 - 9:30pm
by NML on February 4, 2008
I won't lie to you ladies; initiating and maintaining the No Contact Rule is hard. You need to grow balls of steel to support your willpower and be prepared to suffer the short-term pain for the medium and long-term gain. The No Contact Rule (NCR) is about putting yourself first and you need to do it because you've allowed his needs and inability to give you what you need and want to be placed at the centre of your universe.
Do not bother with the NCR if you are hoping to get back together with him because you are clearly not ready to cut the contact and make a run for it.
So how do you ensure that you 'break' and move on?
Set yourself a challenge. I have practically had to sit on my hands in the past to get to the end of the first week, but once I did it, it became a challenge to get to the end of week two and so forth. I rewarded myself along the way and when I got to three months, my shoe cupboard had a new arrival….
Ashley suggests "I handled my NCR recently by going a minimum of 60 days of "no contact†and I kept a log/journal that also incorporated some goal setting too. What that did for me was help me focus on things other than not being in contact with my ex and it also helped me express the emotions I was feeling about it. It was interesting to be able to look back and see my progress into a stronger person that felt better about myself (and indifferent about him).â€
Put on your favourite feel good, independent woman song, turn the music up loud, and verbally vent out your frustration. Sounds crazy but it's great for releasing pent up emotions and you start to get a sense of humour about the whole thing. Oh and your neighbours can't hear you talking to yourself. If you're crazy like me, you'll do a little dance too. 'Since You've Been Gone' by Kelly Clarkson is a great one but I've done it to 'Proud Mary' by Tina Turner too!
Write 'Don't call {insert name}' on a Post-It and stick it to your phone, mirror, and anywhere else that helps you visualise. Or write it in lipstick on your mirror. I know of people who literally littered their homes with messages and it works.
Some people need reminders of the 'Big Whoppers' – the horrible things that he did. Type up the short form of each offence and print it out in a decent sized font. For eg. 'Stood me up six times';'He has never delivered on any of his promises';'He's a selfish, inconsiderate, crap lover' or for those of us with a killer vengeance 'His d*ck wasn't that big anyway!' Then stick it up somewhere that you can see them. Or create a screen saver….
NY Sharon suggests "On a small card, write a brief snapshot list of memory triggers for you on the worse things he did or a mind imprint of something hurtful he said. These should be the ones that evoke the most terrible emotions from you. Keep this list in your purse and copies in other places for easy access.â€
Clear out everything that is associated with him. It might not be much, especially if he is the atypical type of Mr Unavailable, but put away the photos, give away his stuff to charity, or just plain old put it in the bin. If you are going to return it, do it at the beginning of the NC period and ideally do it by post or just leave it on his doorstep in a box.
Take a break from dating. Dating Hiatuses enable you to reconnect with yourself but they also prevent you from kneejerking into another dubious relationship, they give you time to heal, and most importantly, when things go wrong, you don't get nostalgic for the guy you are having NC with and end up calling him, or at worst shagging him.
Be careful with alcohol. If you're the type that calls up your exes when you've had a few vinos, it's probably best to cut back until you have gotten over the urge.
Block him on instant messenger services, block his email, and as one reader suggested, change his name on your phone to "Assclownâ€. Whatever you call him, don't answer and as another reader suggested, "If he catches you on the phone or at work…say you're too busy to talk, I have nothing to say and hang up.â€
Eventually you will need to bite the bullet and delete his number.
Screen calls that you don't recognise the number of or that come up unlisted.
Do tell close friends and family that you no longer bother with him so that they won't bring him up unnecessarily. NYSharon also suggests getting a sponsor, which can be that one person that you can rely on to sanity check things, who you can call up or meet up with when you feel weak.
Use the time to reconnect with other aspects of your life – friends, family, hobbies, work. When we are messed around by men, something always gets sidelined so use the opportunity to get things back on track.
Write a letter to him…but don't post it. Don't type, write. This is the opportunity to write a Dear John letter explaining why you are doing the NCR and how you feel as a result of being with him. End the letter positively by saying what you can be and do for yourself now that he is out of your life. This letter is your opportunity for closure but you can also keep it as a reminder of how he has made you feel. If it helps, list everything he has done to hurt and disappoint you. Read it back to yourself a few times. When the time is right, burn the letter. This is the opportunity to cleanse yourself of negative feelings about him…or at least begin the process.
But most importantly, no matter how much he begs, no matter how much he pleads, never feed him after midnight. Just joking! But no matter what, cut the contact. The No Contact Rule is not about finding out what someone will do when they lose their narcissistic fill of attention and panic. It shouldn't matter what he says or does because you want him out of your life, regardless. He has nothing to offer you and you have so much more to offer to yourself.
The litmus test of the No Contact Rule is that over time you realise that you feel so much better without him in your life.
|Fri, 11-12-2010 - 9:25pm
Breaking Up With and Getting Over a Married Man/Attached Man -
by NML on May 5, 2007
When you're The Other Woman, it will often feel like incredible highs and lows, and at some point, you should and probably will become sick of being in the situation and want to end it with the guy. Like any break up though, breaking up is hard to do unless something so awful happens that it galvanises you. There are a hell of a lot of women in this situation that are readers of this site, and the most common issue is how the hell can they move on? Here I hope that I can help to put any woman who is in this situation on the road to healthier happiness. But first, think about this point first?
Is this a half hearted cry for attention from him which you hope will force his hand into making the decision to be with you? If so, be careful as this is probably still unlikely to happen and if it means you end up staying with him, you're wasting your own time. Otherise….
1. Be firm and strong.
Be resolute about your decision and immovable. If you really do want to break up with him and you are sick of the situation, he shouldn't be able to wheedle his way around you. One of the strengths of the guy in this relationship is that he has the power to get around you. This time he can't.
2. Make it about YOU, not HIM.
If you put the focus of the break up on him, he can make excuses that he means at the time but probably don't hold up after the event and he'll make promises that he means at the time but is also unlikely to keep. Yes, you are breaking up because he can't give you what you need, want and deserve, however, you're also breaking up with him because YOU are better than this.
3. Remind yourself that he is throwing you the crumbs of his time and his emotions.
Yes you may be conditioned to think that the crumbs are enough for you, but the reality is that a healthy relationship with a man that is only with you and puts you at the centre of his life, feels far different to the flimsy 'relationship' that you're in now.
4. Think of the woman he's with, the woman that you view as the person who is robbing you of the opportunity to be with your guy as a human being with feelings and strengths and weaknesses just like you. Put yourself in her shoes and ask yourself how you would feel if you were her in the same situation. Whatever story he has told you about why he's with both of you, the cold hard truth is that he CHOOSES to be with HER.
5. Is this how you saw a healthy, happy relationship? Do you still want to be doing this in 3, 6, 9, 12 months or even in years?
6. Remember that occasions like birthdays, Christmas, New Years won't have to be spent waiting for his call or snatching a moment together.
7. Go cold turkey.
If you can afford it, go away for a few days or a week to somewhere nice or go and stay with friends and family. Turn off your phone and let the important people know where you are so that you don't worry. There should be absolutely no contact.
8. Stop being where he expects you to be and break whatever routine you have.
When I speak to women in involved with attached men, whether they realise it or not, they are almost always in a tight routine. After all, keeping things in a tight routine is how he stops himself from getting caught out and fits you into his schedule. You must break the routine. Put it on voicemail or turn off your voicemail but don't pick up calls. Be out when he calls. Instead of being in watching TV with your feet up waiting for his call, be out. Be busy. If you think you'll be tempted to be swayed, change your mobile phone or block his email address.
9. Tell somebody that you trust.
You'd be surprised at how many women act in secrecy which actually further plays into the man's hands as you are totally at the mercy of whatever he is telling you. A confidante gives you a sanity check but also gives you a rock of support. Choose someone you trust and who can be supportive but tell you that it's time to quit.
10. Steer clear of dating till you are ready to date. This also protects you from knee jerking into another situation that you may not recognise as being unsuitable due to craving some sort of emotional replacement – there is no progress in ditching a married man for an emotionally unavailable man. There is also no point in dating if it's a way of passing time in the hope of filling in the gap until the married guy potentially becomes available. The only time you should date is when you are truly ready to move on and the married guy doesn't figure any longer.
11. Remember that you need time to grieve and heal. There is no quick fix and you don't feel better immediately. In fact, you're likely to feel like sh*t in the short-term. You must give it time though. Weather the storm, cold turkey it out and let out the tears and frustration but don't give in. Your 'relationship' is over.
12. See a counsellor or therapist. If you have been in relationships that have a habit of wearing down your self esteem, if you want to understand your relationship patterns, if you feel you need a little extra help or if you feel very low, this is the ideal way of helping you to heal, understand and move on.
13. Address other areas of your life that have suffered whilst you were with the attached guy. No matter what you think, something or someone, or both suffered whilst you focused your energies on your situation. If you let work slide or put off career decisions, prioritise it. If you have neglected friends or family, build bridges. If you have neglected yourself, spend time on you. You have to put the focus back to you if you are truly intent on succeeding. It's because it's been all about him why you lasted so long with him in the first place.
14. Yes I'm sure there were happy times, but you need to remember how you REALLY felt when you were with him. Look back at your diary, think back to specifics and there are probably a lot of times when you were lonely, disappointed, insecure, sidelined, teary, clingy, frustrated, angry, too dependent, listless and much more. Put both feet in reality and get real about who you have really been. If you were that happy, you wouldn't be reading this and you wouldn't be breaking up. You wouldn't even want more.
15. Read the stories of women who have played your role of The Other Woman and realise that your situation is not unique, most of the stories of why these men cheat are the same, most of the time it ends in tears, and you, The Other Woman will always play second fiddle as long as you put yourself in this role.


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"We both have negotiated and agreed for a code of conduct in principle and signed it. It is the second draft as we negotiated and amend it during discussions," said Naw May Oo Mutraw, the spokesperson of the KNU. The code of conduct will now be submitted to President Thein Sein for approval. It will be reviewed by his office and then finalized by the KNU and Naypyidaw peace delegation in the next round of negotiations, she added. The government delegation also agreed in principle for the repositioning of its frontline troops. However, the military relocation sites proposed by the ethnic rebels first have to be reviewed by Vice-Snr-Gen Min Aung Hlaing, the commander-in- chief of the Burmese armed forces. Negotiations between the KNU and Burmese government in Pa-an on Monday. (Photo: Hla Maung Shwe) The KNU and Naypyidaw representatives agreed to hold further talks over the government's troop relocation and withdrawal from areas of Karen State populated by Karen communities, said peace broker Hla Maung Shwe, who was at the Pa-an meeting as part of the government delegation. Both sides discussed five subjects including the code of conduct which government and rebel troops must obey in order to cement a permanent ceasefire. The code of conduct was made up of 11 chapters and 34 detailed points—including safety for civilians. KNU General-Secretary Zipporah Sein signed the agreement on behalf of the KNU while Aung Min, the chief of the Naypyidaw peace team, signed for the government side, said Hla Maung Shwe. He revealed that the old adversaries also agreed to hold further peace talks before the end of the year and to continue towards a political dialogue. David Takapaw, the vice-president of the KNU, said that he will be amongst top ethnic leaders when a political dialogue is finally arranged. He also said that the discussion will be held under the stewardship of the United Nationalities Federal Council ethnic alliance group. The KNU and Naypyidaw delegation will take more time to discuss the relocation and withdrawal of government troops, said Hla Maung Shwe. Aung Min told the meeting on Tuesday that the KNU is the most disciplined among ethnic armies, adding that the code of conduct was a positive development and peace talks were successful. Aung Min reportedly said that the KNU has a clear position and was more principled than the other ethnic groups. To guarantee safety for civilians, the rebels urged the government to withdraw its troops from villages abandoned by Karen villagers. This week saw the third round of peace talks since the signing of an initial ceasefire on Jan. 12. The KNU is one of Burma's most important ethnic armed groups and has been fighting against central government rule for 63 years. http://www.irrawaddy.org/archives/13282 ------------------------------------------------------------ Page 2 of 20 KNU ႏွင့္ အစိုးရ သေဘာတူညီခ်က္မ်ား ထပ္မံရရွိ သန္းထိုက္ဦး| September 4, 2012 6 အစိုးရ ႏွင့္ ကရင္အမ်ဳိးသား အစည္းအရုံး (KNU) တို႔၏ ႏွစ္ဘက္ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရး ကုိယ္စားလွယ္ အဖဲြ႔မ်ား ဘားအံၿမိဳ႕တြင္ ယမန္ေန႔မွ စတင္၍ တတိယအႀကိမ္ ေတြ႔ဆုံ ေဆြးေႏြး၍ အပစ္အခတ္ရပ္စဲေရးဆုိင္ရာ သေဘာတူညီခ်က္ ၅ခ်က္ကုိ ယေန႔ လက္မွတ္ေရးထိုး လိုက္ၾကသည္။ အဆိုပါ သေဘာတူညီခ်က္မ်ားတြင္ အပစ္အခတ္ ရပ္စဲေရးဆုိင္ရာ က်င့္၀တ္စည္းကမ္းမ်ား(Code of Conduct)၊ တပ္ပိုင္း ဆိုင္ရာ ကိစၥမ်ားကုိ ဆက္လက္ေဆြးေႏြးေရး၊ ယခုႏွစ္ မကုန္ခင္ ထပ္မံေတြ႕ဆံုေဆြးေႏြးေရး ႏွင့္ အပစ္အခတ္ရပ္စဲေရး ပိုမိုခိုင္မာ ေစေရး အတြက္ ႏိုင္ငံေရး ေတြ႕ဆံု ေဆြးေႏြးမႈမ်ား ျပဳလုပ္ရန္ စသည့္ အခ်က္တို႔ ပါ၀င္ေၾကာင္း ေဆြးေႏြးပြဲ တက္ေရာက္ခဲ့သည့္ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္း ေရး အက်ဳိးေဆာင္ ဦးလွေမာင္ေရႊက ဧရာ၀တီသို႔ ေျပာသည္။ ိ ံ KNU ႏွင့္ အစိုးရ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရး ကိုယ္စားလွယ္မ်ား စက္တင္ဘာ ၃ ရက္က ဘားအံၿမိဳ႕ ဇြဲကပင္ ဟုတယ္၌ ေတြ႕ဆုေဆြးေႏြးစဥ္ (ဓာတ္ပုံ – KIC) ျပည္သူလူထု အတြက္ အာမခံခ်က္ရွိေသာ လံုၿခံဳမႈ ရရွိေရးႏွင့္ အဆင့္တိုင္းတြင္ ယံုၾကည္မႈ တည္ေဆာက္ေရးအတြက္ ဦးတည္ သည့္ အခ်က္မ်ားကုိ အဓိကထားၿပီး ေတြ႕ဆံုေဆြးေႏြးမည္ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း KNU က ေျပာဆိုထားသည္။ "အဓိက အခ်က္ ၅ ခ်က္ကို သေဘာ တူညီမႈ ရတယ္၊ ပထမ ကေတာ့ Code of Conduct ေပါ့ အပိုဒ္ ၁၁ ပိုဒ္ ပါၿပီးေတာ့ အခ်က္ ၃၄ ခ်က္ပါတဲ့ Code of Conduct ကုိ ဒုတိယ မူၾကမ္း သေဘာတူညီမႈ ရတယ္၊ အဲဒါကို သူတို႔ တျဖည္းျဖည္း ျပဳလုပ္ သြား မယ္၊ ၂ အခ်က္ကေတာ့ သူတို႔ တပ္ပိုင္ဆုိင္ရာ ကိစၥေတြကုိ ေနာက္အစည္းအေ၀းေတြမွာ ဆက္ၿပီးေဆြးေႏြးဖို႔ သေဘာတူၾကတယ္"ဟု ဦးလွေမာင္ေရႊက ဆိုသည္။ KNU မွ အေထြေထြ အတြင္းေရးမႉး ေနာ္စီဖိုးရာစိန္ ဦးေဆာင္ေသာ ကိုယ္စားလွယ္ တခ်ဳိ႕ႏွင့္ ျပည္ေထာင္စု အဆင့္ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရး ေဖာ္ေဆာင္ေရးလုပ္ငန္းေကာ္မတီမွ ဒု ဥကၠဌ ဦးေအာင္မင္းတို႔က လက္မွတ္ေရးထိုးၾကေၾကာင္း ဦးလွေမာင္ေရႊက ဆက္ေျပာသည္။ KNUအဖြဲ႔မွ ေျပာေရးဆိုခြင့္ရွိသူ ေနာ္ေမဦးကလည္း အဆိုပါ မူၾကမ္း၌ အပစ္အခတ္ရပ္စဲေရး အတြက္ အေရႀကီးေသာ အခ်က္မ်ား ပါ၀င္ေၾကာင္း ရွင္းျပသည္။ "ခိုင္မာတဲ့ အပစ္အခတ္ရပ္စဲေရး အတြက္ျဖစ္ဖုိ႔ အေရးႀကီးပါတယ္၊ အႏွစ္ခ်ဳပ္ေတြ ဖြင့္ဆိုတဲ့ အခ်က္ကေနၿပီးေတာ့ အေထြေထြ အာမခံခ်က္ ေနာက္ စစ္သည္ေတာ္ က်င့္၀တ္၊ ျပည္သူလူထုကုိ ဆက္ဆံျခင္း၊ ဘယ္လိုပံုစံနဲ႔ ဆက္ဆံရမလဲ၊ အခ်က္တုိင္းက အေရး ႀကီးပါတယ္၊ အေရးႀကီးတဲ့ အခ်က္ေတြကုိပဲ ထည့္ထားပါတယ္"ဟု မေနာ္ေမဦးက ေျပာဆုိသည္။ ယင္းေတြ႕ဆံုေဆြးေႏြးပြဲတြင္ ျပည္တြင္း၊ ျပည္ပမွ ႏိုင္ငံေရး ေလ့လာသူတခ်ဳိ႕က KNU ၏ ဖိတ္ၾကားခ်က္ျဖင့္ တက္ေရာက္ၾကသည္ ဟု ဆိုသည္။ ၿပီးခဲ့သည့္လ ၅ ရက္ေန႔ကလည္း ကရင္ျပည္နယ္ ျမ၀တီၿမိဳ႕၌ အစိုးရ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရး ေဖာ္ေဆာင္ေရး လုပ္ငန္းေကာ္မတီမွ ဦးေအာင္ မင္း ဦးေဆာင္သည့္ ကိုယ္စားလွယ္မ်ားႏွင့္ KNU ေခါင္းေဆာင္တခ်ဳိ႕ တတိယအႀကိမ္ ေတြ႕ဆံုေဆြးေႏြးမည့္ ပြဲတြင္ ခိုင္မာသည့္ အပစ္ အခတ္ ရပ္စဲေရး ေပၚေပါက္ေစေရး အတြက္ အလြတ္သေဘာ ညိွႏိႈင္းခဲ့ေၾကာင္း သိရသည္။ ၿပီးခဲ့သည့္ ဇန္န၀ါရီလ ၁၂ ရက္ေန႔က ဘားအံၿမိဳ႕တြင္ ပထမဆံုး အႀကိမ္ အပစ္အခတ္ ရပ္စဲေရး ေဆြးေႏြးခဲ့ၿပီး ဒုတိယ အႀကိမ္ကုိ ျပည္ေထာင္စု အဆင့္ေတြ႕ဆံုေဆြးေႏြးပြဲ အေနႏွင့္ ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕ ဆီဒိုးနား ဟိုတယ္တြင္ ဧၿပီလ ၆ ရက္ေန႔က ေတြ႕ဆံုေဆြးေႏြးခဲ့ ေၾကာင္း သိရသည္။ Page 3 of 20 ၂၀၁၁ ခုႏွစ္ ႏုိ၀င္ဘာလ ၁၅ ရက္ေန႔တြင္ အစိုးရ ကုိယ္စားလွယ္ အေနႏွင့္ ဦးေအာင္မင္းက KNU ကုိယ္စားလွယ္မ်ားကို ၿငိမ္း ခ်မ္း ေရး ေတြ႕ဆံုေဆြးေႏြးရန္ တရား၀င္ ကမ္းလွမ္းခဲ့ၿပီး ေတြ႕ဆံုေဆြးေႏြးမႈမ်ား ေပၚေပါက္ခဲ့ျခင္း ျဖစ္သည္။ KNU သည္ အမ်ဳိးသား တန္းတူေရးႏွင့္ ကိုယ္ပိုင္ျပဌာန္းခြင့္ ရရွိေရးအတြက္ ၁၉၄၉ ခုႏွစ္ ဇန္န၀ါရီလ ၃၁ ရက္ေန႔မွ စတင္ကာ အစိုး ရ အဆက္ဆက္ကုိ ဆန္႔က်င္ ေတာ္လွန္ခဲ့သည္မွာ ႏွစ္ေပါင္း ၆၀ ေက်ာ္ၿပီ ျဖစ္သည္။ http://burma.irrawaddy.org/archives/19411 ------------------------------------------------------------------- KNU ႏွင့္ အစိုးရ က်င့္ဝတ္ဆုိင္ရာ သေဘာတူညီမႈ ရယူ စိုင္းေနာင္၊ ေက်ာ္ရဲလင္း , ဘားအံ၊ စက္တင္ဘာ ၄ ကရင္အမ်ဳိးသား အစည္း အ႐ုံး-ေကအင္န္ယူႏွင့္ အစိုးရ တုိ႔ တတိယအႀကိမ္ အပစ္အခတ္ ရပ္စဲေရး ေဆြးေႏြးပဲြတြင္ ေကအင္န္ယူမွ ေရးဆဲြတင္ျပ ေသာႏွစ္ဦးႏွစ္ဖက္ လုိက္နာ ရမည့္ က်င့္ဝတ္မ်ား အား ႏွစ္ဖက္စလံုးမွ မူအားျဖင့္ သေဘာတူညီမႈ ရရိွခဲ့သည္ဟု သိရသည္။''ႏွစ္ဖက္လိုက္နာရမယ့္ က်င့္ ဝတ္ေတြကို ေကအင္န္ယူက ေရး ဆဲြၿပီး တင္ျပတယ္။ အဲဒီဟာကို ေဆြးေႏြး၊ ျပင္ဆင္၊ ျဖည့္စြက္ၿပီး ေတာ့ဒုတိယမူၾကမ္းကို ထပ္ေဆြး ေႏြးၾကတယ္။ အဲဒီက်င့္ဝတ္ ဒုတိယ မူၾကမ္းကိုႏွစ္ဖက္စလံုး မူအား ျဖင့္ သေဘာတူၾကပါတယ္'' ဟု ေကအင္န္ယူေျပာေရးဆုိခြင့္ရိွသူ မေနာ္ေမဦးက ေျပာသည္။ ေဆြးေႏြးပဲြတြင္ ျပည္သူလူထု ၏ ဘဝလံုၿခံဳမႈကို အာမခံေပးႏုိင္ ေသာႏွစ္ဦးႏွစ္ဖက္ လိုက္နာရမည့္ က်င့္ဝတ္မ်ားႏွင့္ တပ္အေရႊ႕ အေျပာင္းကိစၥရပ္မ်ားကုိ အဓိက ေဆြးေႏြးခဲ့ၾကသည္ဟု ၎က ဆုိ သည္။ မူအားျဖင့္သေဘာတူညီခဲ့ ၾကေသာ က်င့္ဝတ္ဒုတိယမူၾကမ္း တြင္ နယ္ေျမစိုးမုိးေရး၊လူ႕အခြင့္ အေရးခ်ဳိးေဖာက္မႈႏွင့္ ျပည္တြင္း ဒုကၡသည္(IDP) ၏ အဓိပၸာယ္ဖြင့္ဆိုခ်က္ စသည္တို႔ ပါရိွၿပီး အပစ္ အခတ္ရပ္စဲေရး ကာလအတြင္းႏွစ္ဖက္တပ္ဖဲြ႕မ်ား အေနျဖင့္ ေျမ ျမႇဳပ္မုိင္း လံုးဝထပ္မံ အသံုးမျပဳရန္တုိ႔ ပါရိွသည္။ ထို႔အျပင္စစ္ေျပးဒုကၡသည္ မ်ား ေနရပ္ျပန္လာေရးအတြက္ မုိင္းရွင္းလင္းေရး လုပ္ငန္းမ်ားႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္၍လည္း ''အခ်ဳိ႕ေနရာေတြ မွာေတာ့မုိင္းရွင္းေပးမွ ျဖစ္မယ္။ ဒါမွ ျပည္သူေတြက ျပန္လာရဲမွာ။ ေနရာအတိအက်ေတာ့မသတ္မွတ္ ရေသးဘူး'' ဟု မေနာ္ေမဦးက ေျပာသည္။ ြ ေဆြးေႏြးပဲြတက္ေရာက္ ခဲ့သူကရင္အမ်ဳိးသမီး ဖံ႕ၿဖိဳးတိုး တက္ေရးမွ ေဒၚစူစန္နာလွလွစိုးကေဆြးေႏြးပြဲရလဒ္ႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္၍ ေက်နပ္မႈရိွေသာ္လည္း မုိင္းရွင္းလင္းေရးလုပ္ငန္းကုိ အျမန္ဆံုး အေကာင္အထည္ေဖာ္ရန္ လို ေၾကာင္းေျပာသည္။ ''ႏွစ္ဖက္စလံုးက (ေျမျမႇဳပ္) မုိင္းေတြ သံုးခဲ့တာပဲေလ။ အခုအေျခအေနမွာေတာ့ လံုးဝ (ေျမျမႇဳပ္ မိုင္း) ထပ္မသံုးဖို႔ရယ္၊ ေျမျမႇဳပ္မုိင္း ရွင္းလင္းေပးဖို႔ရယ္က အေရးႀကီး ပါတယ္'' ဟု ၎ကေျပာသည္။ ယခု ေဆြးေႏြးပဲြတြင္ ႏွစ္ဖက္ စလံုး မူအားျဖင့္ သေဘာတူညီခဲ့ ၾကေသာက်င့္ဝတ္မ်ားႏွင့္ တပ္ အေရႊ႕အေျပာင္းကိစၥရပ္မ်ားအတြက္ ထပ္မံေတြ႕ဆံုညိႇႏိႈင္းျခင္းအားျဖင့္ ပိုမုိေကာင္းမြန္ေသာ က်င့္ဝတ္စည္း ကမ္းမ်ားႏွင့္ခုိင္မာေသာ အပစ္ အခတ္ရပ္စဲေရး ျဖစ္ေပၚလာလိမ့္ မည္ဟု ယူဆထားေၾကာင္း မေနာ္ေမဦးက ေျပာသည္။ျပည္ေထာင္စုအစိုးရႏွင့္ ေက အင္န္ယူတုိ႔ၾကား ပထမဆံုးအႀကိမ္ ျပည္ေထာင္စုအဆင့္ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရး ေဆြးေႏြးပဲြကို ဧၿပီလအတြင္းက ရန္ ကုန္တြင္ျပဳလုပ္ခဲ့ၿပီးေနာက္ ယခုအခ်ိန္အထိ ေကအင္န္ယူ ဆက္ဆံေရး႐ုံး ေလးခုကိုဖြင့္လွစ္ ထားခဲ့ၿပီး ျဖစ္သည္။ https://www.facebook.com/PopularNewsJournal --------------------------------------------------------------------- Arakan Liberation Party opens first liaison office Tuesday, 04 September 2012 13:21 Thein Hlaing Sittwe (Mizzima) – The Arakan Liberation Party (ALP) opened its first liaison office in Kyauktaw, Arakan (Rakhine) State, on Monday to coordinate peacekeeping and development with the government. Page 4 of 20 ALP secretary Saw Mya Yar Zar Lin, Rakhine State Security and Border Affairs Minister Col. Htein Lin and Rakhine State Chief Justice Hla Thein took part in the opening ceremony with about 700 people attending the event. One of the aims of the liaison office is to hold "union level" peace talks and to support development, said Khaing Aung Soe Than, the leader of the organizing committee. In April, the ALP conducted peace negotiations with the government. The ALP was founded in Rangoon in 1967, and its arm-wing was founded in 1974. http://www.mizzima.com/news/inside-burma/7925-arakan-liberation-party-opens-first-liaison-office.html ------------------------------------------------------- First Arakan Rebel Liaison Office Opens in Arakan State September 4, 2012, 3:18 pm Kyauk Taw: The Arakan Liberation Party, or ALP, opened its first liaison office in the strategic town of Kyauk Taw, on the upper Kaladan River, close to Chin state's Paletwa and near Indo- Burma border. The opening was on Monday, five months after the organization signed a peace deal with the Arakan state government on the 5th of April 2012. "The opening ceremony for the office began at 9AM on Monday. Over 1000 local residents attended the opening ceremony," said Daw Saw Mrara Zarlin, who opened the office as a leading person from the ALP. Colonel Htin Lin, the Arakan State Minister for Border and Security Affairs and Arakan State Chief of Justice U Hla Thein attended the office opening ceremony as delegates of the Arakan state government while Daw Saw Mrara Zarlin, the central executive committee member and Kahing Soe Than Auang, the central committee member attended as ALP delegates. "We hope we are able to communicate with the government through this liaison office and promote better relationships and understanding between the government and the ALP. Another benefit is that we also can communicate with the Arakan people more closely in order to help them work with the government to solve problems they have faced," said Daw Mrara Zarlin. She also said that she has planned to set up internet facilities in the liaison office with the aim at distributing and sharing news and information to local people. It would include media from outside and inside Burma. The ALP and the Arakan State Government signed the following five points in Sittwe on 5 April 2012: to stop fighting each other, to open liaison offices in Kyauktaw and Paletwa for mutual communication, not to cross each others' areas holding weapons without prior information or negotiation, to allow members of the ALP free travel across the nation, and to continue negotiations for activities to build peace and development inside Arakan State. The agreement was reached after a two-day peace meeting was held in Sittwe Hotel on the sea beach in Sittwe on the 4th and 5th of April 2012. Arakan Liberation Party and Arakan Liberation Army were established in 1973 at the KNU area on the Thai- Burma border. The bases of the ALP are currently on Thai-Burma border and Indo- Burma border. http://www.narinjara.com/main/index.php/first-arakan-rebel-liaison-office-opens-in-arakan-state/ Page 5 of 20 NMSP Outlines Party Objectives at 65th Mon Revolution Day Kaowao, Monday, September 03, 2012 More than 500 Mon people and 100 New Mon State Party (NMSP) troops-in-training joined the 65th Mon Revolution Day held near the Thai-Burmese border in Palain Japan Village in the Three Pagodas Pass area on September1. Mon National Liberation Army and the Mon people celebrated their 65th Mon Revolution Day held near the Thai-Burmese border in Palain Japan Village in the Three Pagodas Pass area on September1. (Photo:Banya Gita) In a statement released for the event, the party announced its intention to strengthen the NMSP to prepare for a renewal of fighting should their demands for a federal union in Burma not be met. "We need to strengthen our party and army. Through this, we can implement what we and other ethnic groups in Burma want, [which is] genuine federal union," said the statement. The statement also said that ethnic Mon people must support and join the Mon revolution. Although the party signed a ceasefire with the Burmese government on February 1, 2012, the NMSP reinstated retired colonels and former members of the Mon National Liberation Army (MNLA) to reinforce the army and provide military training to new recruits. Three retired MNLA military officers, Nai Chan Lwin, Nai Bot, and Nai Htoo, recently returned to the party, according to Mon sources. Party leaders said the NMSP would first try to have political dialogue with the government to solve the ongoing conflict. But, if the government chooses not to the hold political dialogue currently scheduled for December, the NMSP will invalidate the ceasefire agreement. The 65th Mon Revolution Day was commemorated in different places around Mon State, including liberated, NMSP-controlled areas, and international locations. An ethnic Mon planning to join the event said he would pay respect to the Mon leaders and soldiers who sacrificed their lives while fighting against the Burmese government for self-determination for over fifty years. The NMSP continues to stand by the policy of the United Nationalities Federal Council (UNFC), which demands that the Burmese government reform the 2008 constitution and hold a conference with all ethnic groups. According to Nai Hong Sar, the party secretary, the NMSP will not form a political party unless the Burmese government amends the 2008 constitution, which grants 25 percent of parliamentary seats to the military. NMSP leaders said they would continue to struggle until ethnic Mon people receive equal rights in Burma, and will not join the parliament as long as military representatives retain the majority of seats, opting instead to fight for ethnic rights outside of parliament by cooperating with other ethnic armed groups. http://www.kaowao.org/2012news-September-3.php ------------------------------------------------------------- Kachin residents fear imminent war Tuesday, 04 September 2012 13:04 Phanida Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – The Burmese government has increased its military presence in Hpakant Township in Kachin State, and residents are worried that serious fighting will soon break out again. Page 6 of 20 Since August 1, the Burmese government has deployed soldiers in civilian clothes via the Myitkyina-Hpakant route, and 50 to 200 soldiers have been stationed in every Burmese base in the area, a Kachin Independence Army (KIA) military source said. In addition, at least 200 soldiers armed with heavy weapons were deployed by helicopters on August 2. In response, KIA soldiers have been stationed along the Hpakant-Lauhkaung Road in upper Mogaung Township and are on alert, said a KIA source. On August 29, dozens of Burmese soldiers were killed when a fuel warehouse of the Wai Aung Gabar Company exploded when hit by a mortar shell during fighting, the KIA said. The figure could not be confirmed. Meanwhile, many residents from Hpakant have fled to Myitkyina and Mogaung because they are worried that fighting will intensify. Last week, 886 war refugees took refuge at a church of the Kachin Baptist association. "Residents cannot go to the jade mines to work," said Tu Ja, a church worker. "It will be difficult to move from our church when there is heavy rain. Now, flooding has not hit. Despite the rain, the water level subsided." National League for Democracy [NLD] official Khin Maung Chin told Mizzima, "We heard the military presence has been increased. People from the town's jade mines are worried, and they moved to camps in the town." Around 12,000 war refugees have taken refuge in 34 refugee camps in Hpakant, according to the NLD. Khin Maung Chin said the NLD and social organizations had jointly donated more than 38 million kyat and basic food including rice, cooking oil and salt. Meanwhile, some purified drinking water companies including Lucky Star have donated water to the refugees. A township doctor has organized healthcare service groups that visit the camps every day to provide basic services. Buses run from Hpakant to Myitkyina as usual, but only a few buses run from Myitkyina to Hpakant because there are many security checks, said Khin Maung Chin. Last week, the Kachin State government donated five million kyat for war refugees, and the Kachin Baptist Association received more than 300,000 kyat. The Buddha Gawpaka Group, the NLD and the Mandalay Kyaw Wine group have also donated to the refugees. http://www.mizzima.com/special/kachin-battle-report/7924-kachin-residents-fear-imminent-war.html ------------------------------------------------------------------- Residents flee as fighting intensifies in northern Shan state By NANG MYA NADI, Published: 4 September 2012 More than 1,000 Palaung ethnic residents in northern Shan state have fled their homes as fighting between government forces and several ethnic armed groups continues to erupt in the region. Page 7 of 20 Lwe Poe Rein of the Taaung (Palaung) Students and Youth Association said fighting between the Burmese Army and armed groups, including the Kachin Independence Army, Taaung National Liberation Army and the Shan State Army-North, near Kutkhai, Mongtong, Namhsang and Namtu townships has forced residents to abandon their homes. A truck carries Burmese troops through a town in Shan state (Kyaw Khaing) "Most people are fleeing into the jungle," said Lwe Poe Rein. "There are more than 1,000 people including women and children – most of the males are elderly." According to Lwe Poe Rein, the Burmese Army has five battalions active in the region and most of the displaced people are from Pankhagyi, Pankhalay, Naok, Sankaw and Konpaung villages in Mongtong township and Mawaw village in Namtu township. Aid has not been able to reach victims hiding in the jungle, most of whom are tea farmers whose land has been ruined by the fighting. Meanwhile, relief groups in Kachin state said heavy fighting in the Hpakant jade mining region has forced about 6,000 villagers to leave their homes. According to experts, there are an estimated 90,000 people in Kachin state who have been displaced. The KIA and Burmese troops have been involved in intense fighting, after a ceasefire broke down in June 2011. Although the government signed a raft of ceasefire deals earlier in the year with armed ethnic groups across the country, Burmese troops continue to engage in brief skirmishes with the rebel armies, which observers say is a sign that the military isn't always willing to live up to the agreements brokered by union politicians. 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တိုင္ျပည္ အနာဂတ္ တည္ၿငိမ္ေအးခ်မ္းေရး ဖြံၿဖိဳး တိုးတက္ေရး ဒီမိုကေရစီထြန္းကားေရးတို႔ကို ဦးစားေပးၿပီး အေဟာင္းကို ရည္ရွည္ဖက္တြယ္ထားျခင္းမ်ဳိး မရွိသင့္ေတာ့ ပါဘူး" ဟု ဦးခင္ေမာင္ေဆြက ေျပာသြားသည္။ အန္ဒီအက္ဖ္ပါတီအေပၚ မည္သူေတြက တိုက္ခုိက္ေနတာလည္းဆိုျခင္းအေပၚ သူက ထည့္သြင္းေျပာသြားျခင္းမရွိသလို လတ္တ ေလာ အန္ဒီအက္ဖ္ႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္၍ တုိက္ခိုက္မႈမ်ားလည္း ၾကားသိရျခင္း မရွိပါ။ သို႔ေသာ္ ၂ဝ၁ဝေရြးေကာက္ပြဲအႀကိဳကာလ တြင္ သူတို႔၏ ပါတီေဟာင္းျဖစ္ခဲ့ေသာ အမ်ဳိးသားဒီမိုကေရစီ အဖြဲ႔ခ်ဳပ္ဝင္ အခ်ဳိ႕က ျပစ္တင္ေဝဖန္မႈမ်ားရွိခဲ့သည္။ အမ်ဳိးသား ညီၫြတ္ေရးအတြက္ စစ္မွန္သည့္ တန္းတူညီမွ်မႈရွိသည့္ ျပည္ေထာင္စုတခု တည္ေထာင္ၿပီး ႏိုင္ငံသား အားလံုး၏ လူမႈစီးပြားေရးဘဝမ်ား တိုးတက္ေစရန္ ဒီမိုကေရစီအင္အားစုမ်ား လက္တြဲညီညီ ခ်ီတက္ၾကရန္လိုေၾကာင္း လည္း ဦးခင္ေမာင္ေဆြက တိုက္တြန္းေျပာၾကားသြားသည္။ "တဘက္ႏွင့္တဘက္ အျပန္အလွန္ေလးစားမႈ အျပန္အလွန္နားလည္မႈ ပူးေပါင္းေဆာင္ရြက္မႈ သေဘာထားႀကီးမႈ စိတ္ရည္သီးခံမႈတို႔ကို လက္ေတြ႔က်င့္သံုးမွသာ ႏိုင္ငံေရး၊ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးတို႔ကို ထာဝရ တည္ေဆာက္ႏိုင္ပါလိမ့္မယ္" ဟုလည္း ဦးခင္ေမာင္ေဆြက ေျပာသြားသည္။ Page 9 of 20 NDF ႐ံုးခ်ဳပ္ကို ၂၀၁၀ ခုႏွစ္မွစ၍ တာေမြေမတၱာၫြန္႔ရပ္ကြက္တြင္ စတင္ဖြင့္လွစ္ခဲ့သည္။ ယခုအခ်ိန္တြင္ NLD တိုင္း႐ံုးႏွင့္ ေပ ၅၀၀ ခန္႔အကြာသို႔ ေျပာင္းေရႊ႕သြားျခင္း ျဖစ္သည္။ NDF ပါတီမွ ေခါင္းေဆာင္အမ်ားစုသည္ NLD ပါတီဝင္ေဟာင္းမ်ားျဖစ္ၾကၿပီး ၂၀၁၀ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ ဝင္မဝင္ သေဘာထားကြဲရာမွာ NDF ပါတီ ေပၚေပါက္လာခဲ့သည္။ NDF ပါတီဌာနခ်ဳပ္ ေျပာင္းေရႊ႕ဖြင့္လွစ္ပြဲ အခမ္းအနားသို႔ ဒီမိုကေရစီ မိတ္ေဆြ ၁ဝ ပါတီ ေခါင္းေဆာင္မ်ား၊ တစည ပါတီမွ အတြင္းေရးမႉး ဦးဟန္ေရႊ၊ ရွမ္းတိုင္းရင္းသားမ်ား ဒီမုိကေရစီ အဖြဲ႔ခ်ဳပ္မွ ဦးစိုင္းၫြန္႔လြင္၊ က်ားျဖဴပါတီမွ ဦးေစာသန္းျမင့္ ခ်င္းတိုးတက္ေရးပါတီမွ ဦဒိုင္ထုန္း တို႔လည္း တက္ေရာက္ခဲ့ၾကသည္။ http://mizzimaburmese.com/news/inside-burma/10029----ndf-.html -------------------------------------------------------------- သမၼတနွင့္ တိုင္းရင္းသားေရးရာ ၀န္ၾကီးမ်ား ေတြ႔ဆံုမည္ 6 Tuesday, 04 September 2012 15:44 Written by ေရႊဟသၤာသတင္းဌာန သမၼတ ဦးသိန္းစိန္သည္၊ ျမန္မာ တႏိုင္ငံလံုးရွိ တိုင္းရင္းသားေရးရာ ၀န္ႀကီးမ်ားႏွင့္ ေတြ႔ဆံုရန္ စက္တင္ဘာ ၇ ရက္ေန႔တြင္ ေနျပည္ေတာ္၌ ခ်ိန္းဆိုလိုက္သည္ဟု ကရင္ျပည္နယ္ရွိ တိုင္းရင္းသားေရးရာ ၀န္ႀကီးတပါးက ဆိုပါသည္။ တနိုင္ငံလံုး၌ တိုင္းရင္းသားေရးရာ ၀န္ၾကီး ၂၉ ဦးရွိျပီး၊ ဤေတြ႔ဆံုမွဳသည္ ပထမ ဦးဆံုးအၾကိမ္ ေတြ႔ဆံုၾကမည့္ပြဲလည္း ျဖစ္ပါသည္။ တိုင္းရင္းသားေရးရာ ၀န္ၾကီးမ်ားသည္ သမၼတႏွင့္ေတြ႔သည့္အခါ တင္ျပႏိုင္ရန္ စက္တင္ဘာလ (၅)ရက္ေန႔တြင္ ရန္ကုန္ျမိဳ႔ ၌ေတြ႔ဆံုေဆြးေႏြးမည္ဟု ဆိုပါသည္။ သမၼတသည္ မည္သည့္ ကိစၥေၾကာင့္ တိုင္းရင္းသားေရးရာ ၀န္ၾကီးမ်ားႏွင့္ ေတြ႔ဆံုရန္ အလိုရွိသည္ကို အသိေပးျခင္းမရွိ ေသာ္လည္း ဖိတ္ၾကားခ်က္ကို ေၾကးနန္းျဖင့္သာ သမၼတက ဖိတ္ၾကားခဲ့ျခင္း ျဖစ္သည္ဟု ဆိုပါသည္။ http://phophtaw.org/burmese/index.php/news/short-news/2080-2012-09-04-08-48-32.html --------------------------------------------- ု ျပည္ေထာင္စဝန္ႀကီးဌာန ၃၆ ခု လႊတ္ေတာ္တြင္ အတည္ျပဳ ရန္ပိုင္ | September 4, 2012 6 သမၼတ ဦးသိန္းစိန္ အဆုိျပဳထားသည့္ ျပည္ေထာင္စုအဆင့္ ၀န္ႀကီးဌာန ၃၆ ခုထားရွိေရးကုိ ယေန႔ ျပည္ေထာင္စု လႊတ္ေတာ္တြင္ မဲခြဲဆုံးျဖတ္ကာ အတည္ျပဳလိုက္သည္။ ႔ ္ လႊတ္ေတာ္ကုိယ္စားလွယ္ ၉ ဦးက ေဆြးေႏြးၾကၿပီး ေထာက္ခံမဲ ၅၁၁ မဲ၊ ကန္ကြကမဲ ၄၉မဲ၊ ၾကားေနမဲ ၄၀ ျဖင့္ အတည္ျပဳခဲ့ျခင္းျဖစ္သည္။ ကာကြယ္ေရးဝန္ႀကီးအျဖစ္ ဒု ဗုိလ္ခ်ဳပ္ႀကီး ေ၀လြင္ကို ခန္႔အပ္ေရး လာမည့္ စက္တင္ဘာ ၇ ရက္ေန႔၌ ျပည္ေထာင္စု လႊတ္ေတာ္တြင္ ေဆြးေႏြးမည္ (ဓာတ္ပံု – ဧရာဝတီ) အစုိးရသစ္ စတင္ဖြဲ႔စည္းစဥ္က၀န္ႀကီးဌာန ၃၄ ခုျဖင့္ ဖြဲ႔စည္းၿပီး ၀န္ႀကီးဦးေရ၃၀ခန္႔အပ္ကာတာ၀န္ေပးလုပ္ေဆာင္ေစခဲ့ေသာ္လည္း မၾကာေသးမီက သေဘာထားတင္းမာသည့္ ၀န္ႀကီးတခ်ိဳ႕ကုိ ဖယ္ရွားကာ အစုိးရအဖြဲ႔ကုိ အသစ္ျပန္လည္ ျပဳျပင္ဖြဲ႔စည္းခဲ့သည္။ Page 10 of 20 သမၼတ႐ုံး ၀န္ႀကီးဌာနကုိလည္း ျပည္တြင္း ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးႏွင့္ ႏုိင္ငံျခားရင္းႏွီးျမဳပ္ႏွံမႈ က႑မ်ားတြင္ တုိးတက္ေစရန္အတြက္ မူလ ႏွစ္ဌာနအျပင္ ေနာက္ထပ္ ၄ ခု တုိးခ်ဲ႕ကာ ၆ ဌာန အထိ ဖြဲ႔စည္းခဲ့သည္။ အဆုိပါ သမၼတ႐ုံး ၀န္ႀကီးဌာန ၆ ခု၏ တာ၀န္မွာ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရး၊ ၀န္ႀကီးဌာနအခ်င္းခ်င္း ဆက္သြယ္ေရး၊ ႏုိင္ငံျခား ရင္းႏွီးျမဳပ္ႏွံမႈႏွင့္ ပတ္သက္ၿပီး စီမံခန္႔ခြဲေရးတုိ႔ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း အမ်ိဳးသားလႊတ္ေတာ္ ကုိယ္စားလွယ္ ဦးဘုန္းျမင့္ေအာင္က ဆုိသည္။ "၂၀၁၃ ဆီးဂိမ္းမွာ ေအာင္ျမင္စြာ ေဆာင္ရြက္ဖုိ႔ရယ္ ၂၀၁၄ ခုႏွစ္မွာ စတင္မယ့္ အာဆီယံ ဥကၠ႒ တာ၀န္ကုိ သီးျခားေဆာင္ရြက္ဖုိ႔ ေတြ ရွိတာေၾကာင့္ ဖြဲ႔စည္းရတယ္လုိ႔ ဆုိပါတယ္" ဟု ၎က ဆုိသည္။ ၿပီးခဲ့သည့္ ရက္ပုိင္းအတြင္းက သမၼတ႐ုံး၀န္ႀကီးမ်ားအျဖစ္ မီးရထား၀န္ႀကီးဦးေအာင္မင္း၊စက္မႈ၀န္ႀကီးဦးစုိးသိန္း၊အမ်ိဳးသားစီမံကိန္း ႏွင့္ စီးပြားေရးဖြံၿဖိဳးတုိးတက္မႈ ၀န္ႀကီး ဦးတင္ႏုိင္သိန္း၊ ဘ႑ာေရးအခြန္ ၀န္ႀကီး ဦးလွထြန္းတုိ႔ ၄ဦးကိုထပ္မံခန္႔အပ္ခဲ့ျခင္းျဖစ္သည္။ ထုိ႔အျပင္ ဗုိလ္ခ်ဳပ္ သိန္းေဌး တာ၀န္ယူသည့္ ျမန္မာ့စက္မႈဖြံၿဖိဳးေရး ၀န္ႀကီးဌာနကုိ ဖ်က္သိမ္းခဲ့ၿပီး လွ်ပ္စစ္စြမ္းအား၀န္ႀကီး ဌာန အမွတ္ (၁) ႏွင့္ (၂) ကုိလည္း ျပန္လည္ေပါင္းစည္းကာ ၀န္ႀကီးတဦးတည္းမွ ကုိင္တြယ္ေစခဲ့သည္။ ျပန္ၾကားေရး ၀န္ႀကီးဌာနႏွင့္ ယဥ္ေက်းမႈ ၀န္ႀကီးဌာန၊ အမ်ိဳးသားစီမံကိန္းႏွင့္ စီးပြားေရးဖြံၿဖိဳးတုိးတက္မႈ ၀န္ႀကီးဌာန ႏွင့္ ေမြးျမဴေရး ႏွင့္ ေရလုပ္ငန္း ၀န္ႀကီးဌာန၊ အလုပ္သမား ၀န္ႀကီးဌာနႏွင့္ လူမႈ၀န္ထမ္း ကယ္ဆယ္ေရးႏွင့္ ျပန္လည္ေနရာခ်ထားေရး ၀န္ႀကီးဌာန၊ ဟုိတယ္ႏွင့္ ခရီးသြားလာေရး ၀န္ႀကီးဌာနႏွင့္ အားကစား၀န္ႀကီးဌာနကဲ့သုိ႔ ၀န္ႀကီးတဦးတည္းမွ ပူးတြဲတာ၀န္ယူရသည့္ ၀န္ႀကီးဌာန မ်ားကုိလည္း ခြဲထုတ္ကာ ၀န္ႀကီးတဦးခ်င္း သီးသန္႔တာ၀န္ယူေစသည္။ ကာကြယ္ေရး၀န္ႀကီး ဒု ဗုိလ္ခ်ဳပ္ႀကီး လွမင္း၏ ေနရာတြင္ တပ္မေတာ္ စစ္ေထာက္ခ်ဳပ္ ဒု ဗုိလ္ခ်ဳပ္ႀကီး ေ၀လြင္ကို အစားထုိးေရး ခန္႔အပ္ေရးႏွင့္ ျပည္ေထာင္စု စာရင္းစစ္ခ်ဳပ္ အသစ္အျဖစ္ လက္ရွိ သတၳဳတြင္းဝန္ႀကီး ဦးသိန္းထိုက္တို႔ကို ခန္႔အပ္ေရးအား လာမည့္ေသာၾကာေန႔တြင္ ျပည္ေထာင္စု လႊတ္ေတာ္တြင္ ေဆြးေႏြးရန္ရွိေၾကာင္း ဦးဖုန္းျမင့္ေအာင္က ေျပာသည္။ http://burma.irrawaddy.org/archives/19403 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Myanmar parliament passes gov't proposal for reformation of ministries YANGON, Sept. 4 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar parliament Tuesday passed the proposal of President U Thein Sein for reformation of the cabinet by adding ministries to 36 in its continued major reshuffle, parliament sources said. The parliament's adoption was passed by the majority vote in favor on the message sent by President U Thein Sein seeking to reform the cabinet for effective run. The 36 ministries, including six ministries at the President's Office from No. 1 to No. 6, will be run by each minister. There were 34 ministries with 30 ministers when the new government took office on March 30, 2011. Over the period of the government's more than one year's tenure, the Ministries of Industry No. 1 and 2 were combined into one as Ministry of Industry. In the present reformation of the cabinet, Ministries of Electric Power No. 1 and 2 were also combined into one as Ministry of Electric Power, while the Ministry of Industrial Development was abolished. Following the adoption of the proposal, President U Thein Sein is yet to announce detailed ministerial posts to be filled. In the government's major cabinet reshuffle over the last several days, nine ministers had been first reassigned, mainly with four transferred to the President's Office and one, who is U Aung Kyi, as new Minister of Page 11 of 20 Information moved from the posts of Minister of Labor and Minister of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement to replace U Kyaw Hsan, who was transferred to the Ministry of Cooperatives as minister. With the removal of two ministers and the auditor-general and one deputy minister shifted, 19 new deputy ministers including two with the Foreign Ministry were appointed. The major cabinet reshuffle happened 12 days after U Tin Aung Myint Oo, who resigned from the post of Vice President for health reason, was replaced by U Nyan Tun, the former Naval Chief, through approval of the parliament. http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2012-09/04/c_131827256.htm -------------------------------------------------- Four New Ministries Created in President's Office By NYEIN NYEIN / THE IRRAWADDY| September 4, 2012 Burma's parliament on Tuesday approved the formation of four new ministries within the President's Office while at the same time voting to close the Ministry of Myanmar Industrial Development, and amalgamate the Ministries of Electricity 1 and 2 into one office. Speaking to The Irrawaddy after Tuesday's parliamentary session, Upper House MP Phone Myint Aung from the New National Democracy Party said that the Ministry of the President's Office is to be expanded from two ministries to six. Four new ministers— Aung Min, Soe Thein, Hla Htun and Tin Naing Thein—were duly appointed last week. Treading the corridors of power—Members of Parliament walk to a parliamentary session in Naypyidaw. (PHOTO: Reuters) President Thein Sein told Parliament that the four additional ministries would improve efficiency to the ongoing peace processes, as well as in the President's Office as it moves to approve a foreign direct investment law, and to prepare for Burma's role as host of the Southeast Asian Games in 2013 and as chair of Asean in 2014. Nine of the 36 ministers' posts are still to be filled, though the names of potential candidates have now been put forward. The names of eight deputy ministers have been suggested for promotion, alongside a member of the Civil Service Board and the regional chief of Northern Command Gen. Zay Yar Aung. The vacant posts are at the ministries of construction, social welfare and relocation, culture, finance and revenue, labor, tourism, railways, and technology. All the appointments should be officially announced before the end of this parliamentary session, which is scheduled to conclude on Friday, said MPs. According to Phone Myint Aung, Tuesday's session saw the confirmation of more than 50 of the 72 deputy ministers—each of the now 36 ministries boasting two deputies. In his ongoing Cabinet reshuffle, President Thein Sein proposed to the Parliament two more appointments: one for a new auditor-general; and one as Minister of Defense. In a presidential letter to the Union Parliament, Thein Sein proposed former Minister of Mining Thein Htike to replace outgoing Auditor-General Lun Maung who resigned from the post last week; and he proposed Lt-Gen Wai Lwin to replace Defense Minister Lt-Gen Hla Min. Wai Lwin was appointed to the Rangoon Regional Parliament just last month. The president's recommendations are to be debated among MPs in Friday's session. Phone Myint Aung said that the initial reaction among MPs was negative toward Thein Htike due to the Page 12 of 20 notorious corruption within the Ministry of Mining. However, he said, those who oppose the proposal can air their views on Friday in accordance with the law. A reshuffling of the Cabinet has been ongoing since last Monday when nine new ministers and 19 new deputy ministers were appointed. http://www.irrawaddy.org/archives/13275 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Burmese Military Discharges 42 Child Soldiers By LAWI WENG / THE IRRAWADDY| September 4, 2012 The International Labor Organisation (ILO) says that the government discharging 42 underage Burmese soldiers on Monday was a positive step towards outlawing their use completely. The Burmese military hosted a public ceremony in Rangoon for the underage troops which was the first time such a large number has been allowed to resign since the government and UN signed agreements in June aimed at tackling the issue. Child soldiers who were discharged from the Burmese military on Monday. (Photo: The Irrawaddy) Steve Marshall, ILO liaison officer in Rangoon, told The Irrawaddy on Tuesday that, "each individual discharge of a boy and their reuniting with their families is a victory. It is even better when you are able to see it is no longer simply one every now and then but that we have got a committed position for everybody, and it is obviously very emotional. "But it is the beginning of a longer process and we are very hopeful that we will be able to meet the needs of all the young people who are child soldiers—not only with the Tamadaw [Burmese armed forces] but we also need to be having similar discussions with the non-state armed groups as well to ensure that children are not placed in this situation now or in the future." The military officials handed the child soldiers to their parents, issued them with ID cards and will provide formal education for them to study for a new life. UN representatives also joined the ceremony along with Burmese military representatives including Maj-Gen Tin Maung Win, from the office of the commander-in-chief (army). The ILO has been working with the Burmese government on a joint UN taskforce—headed by the UN Children's Fund and including international NGOs World Vision and Save the Children—for the release and reintegration of child soldiers and the prevention of further recruitment. Marshall said that the number of complaints recently received has been less than previous years, although fresh accusations do continue to arrive. The Burmese government is responding positively to new complaints, he added. "We are now seeing the majority of cases related to last year and the year before," said Marshall. "The number of new recruits has been low this year." Aye Myint, a rights activist who works with child soldiers in Pegu Division, said that Monday's release was just a show for the international community and the military should officially announce exactly how many children are currently enlisted. "They even need to release the list of who they have already discharged and hand this to their families in order to let them clearly know where their children are," he said. Maung Maung Lay, a member of the Human Rights Defenders and Promoters network, said that there are current soldiers who have served from the age of 14 or 15 but are now 19 or 20 years old. Page 13 of 20 "We do not know what their condition is and the government should release all of them," he said. The ILO said that they will continue to work with the government to monitor the situation for discharged underage soldiers and to prevent further recruitment. The government is also taking a very constructive line and meets regularly to discuss working procedures, added the UN body. Many child soldiers in Burma are kidnapped on their way home from school. They are then brutalized and physically abused during their induction and basic training before being shipped off to fight in the country's border areas. Human Right Watch has also accused some ethnic rebel groups of using underage troops. A total of 93 child soldiers were discharged from the Burmese armed forces through government mechanisms from January to December 2010, according to a statement of the UN Secretary-General to the bloc's Security Council on April 23, 2011. The UN taskforce said that 40 had been recruited during 2010 with the remaining 53 recruited the year before. However, this is not likely the total number of child soldiers in Burma given that the ILO received 201 complaints of underage recruitment in 2010—a significant increase on the 86 complaints received in 2009—and a steady stream of related incidents are reported to the taskforce. In 2010, the taskforce regularly followed up on alleged cases but access restrictions continue to limit the number it is able to verify. Most incidences were of children from 15 to 17 years of age with the majority from Rangoon Division. Children continue to be persuaded or duped by relatives working in the Tatmadaw, soldiers trying to earn a promotion or employment brokers. There are eight groups mentioned by the UN Secretary-General as using child soldiers—the Burmese Army, the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army, the Kachin Independence Army, Karen National Liberation Army, Karen National Liberation Army-Peace Council, Karenni Army, Shan State Army-South and the United Wa State Army. http://www.irrawaddy.org/archives/13266 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Waiting for Reform to Hit the Streets By HPYO WAI THA / THE IRRAWADDY| September 4, 2012 RANGOON—It is long walk through a warren of backstreets to get to the nearest bus stop. There is no running water and no garbage collection service. Hla Shwe seems to live in a world away from public utilities even though he resides in an area only a few minutes' drive from the bustling downtown of Burma's former capital, which remains the main business hub. A worker removes feathers from a chicken at a wholesale market in Rangoon. (Photo: Reuters) Until now, his neighborhood seems like a microcosm of a society untouched by President Thein Sein's restructuring process. It has been 17 months since the former general took office and launched radical reform plans ostensibly for the good of people. However, while Thein Sein embarked on a series of cabinet changes late last month—a move widely considered as a major boost to the democratic transition—it raises questions whether the shakeup would bring any economic or social improvement to the 25 percent of Burmese who still live below the poverty line. When The Irrawaddy asked a middle-aged man in the area about the reshuffle, he replied "so what?" Page 14 of 20 Indeed, news of the ministerial merry-go-round got a low-key reception in Hla Shwe's neighborhood where most people are unemployed and instead try their luck on an illegal two-digit lottery. They are more interested in the winning number of the day than new faces in the cabinet. "People here don't care about who's who in the new cabinet or what is happening in Parliament. They are too busy trying to make ends meet," said the 75-year-old, a few days after the president announced 30 ministerial positions were being reshuffled. Veteran politician Chan Tun, a former Burmese ambassador to China, said real reform means a better life for ordinary people and a shakeup only at the top ministerial level would not work alone. "If you want to see improvements at the grassroots level, you also need to make changes in township or village- level authorities if needed," said the 91-year-old, pointing out the rampant corruption among authorities in granting agricultural subsidies to farmers. "Corrupt servicemen make a government weak," he added. "A weak government will do more harm than good to its people." Thu Wai, chairman of the Democratic Party Myanmar (DPM), believes that conservative and reformist divisions in the government make substantive change difficult. "If a junior officer dares to ignore the president's order, it's taken for granted that he has someone in a high place who can defend him and is not pleased with the president's order," he said. "That's why most of our president's reform processes are still fruitless, and ordinary people are badly affected." He recalled a recent meeting with Thein Sein during which the reformist admitted that there are some obstacles to his current program. "Take the return of Burmese exiles as an example. In that case, it takes him one year to remove them officially from the blacklist. So you can guess what happens in other cases," said Thu Wai, whose own name was only removed a few days ago. Conventional wisdom says that the recent cabinet reshuffle is the president's attempt to get rid of some hardliners "who do not have a reformist mindset," as he mentioned during a speech in May. "With the demise of hardliners in the new cabinet, hopefully the president is now free to move. But we still don't know to what extent as it is in a very early state," added Thu Wai. Ko Ko Gyi, a leader of the 88 Generation Students group, thinks that Thein Sein increasing the number of President's Office ministers to six is his way of preparing to accelerate the reform process. "After the cabinet shakeup, we really want to see the right policy changes that can promote people's rights," he said. Even though there is some skepticism about the reshuffle, people who spoke to The Irrawaddy view the inclusion of scholars and technocrat as deputies in relevant ministries as a positive sign. "It's good to have someone who knows their job rather than just having someone who has only been trained to take orders," said Chan Tun. Hla Shwe said if the government really wants to make changes, they have to make them happen. "As we are seeing no tangible results after 17 months of his presidency, I wonder if the government is doing some publicity stunts by parroting 'reform or change,'" he said. "If they want to alleviate poverty, why don't they go down to the grassroots level to witness people suffering? A visit to a slum could give them some idea about it." On the fourth evening after Thein Sein announced his new cabinet members to strengthen reform, Min Zaw, 26, Page 15 of 20 was at a downtown bus stop. The salesman endures a punishing bus ride for many hours from his home in the outskirts of Rangoon to his job in the city center every day. "I know very little about our president's reforms," he said. "But it would be very kind of him if he could arrange more bus services that can make our ride home comfortable," he added, before taking his place amongst his fellow passengers all jammed in like sardines. http://www.irrawaddy.org/archives/13236 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Arakanese public company to form Tuesday, 04 September 2012 13:35 Hnin Pwint An Arakanese (Rakhine) public company is being formed with starting capital of 500 million kyat (US$ 573,723) from an initial investment by 50 shareholders, Than Maung, a shareholder, said in a meeting at the Arakan (Rakhine) Religious Hall in Rangoon on Sunday. In early 2012, the plan to start up the Arakanese public company was advertised in newspapers, but because of riots that began in Arakan State in early June, meetings to form the company were postponed, said Than Maung. The Sunday meeting was the first step to establish the company. "We hope that we can officially register the company within this year, but it may take until the next year. Today, we explained [the company] to the shareholders and the public," said Than Maung. More shareholder meetings will be held, he said. The aim to form the public company is for the regional development of Arakan State, said Kyu Kyu Win. According to current regulations for registering a public company, the number of directors must be at least seven and every company must renew its license every three years. The company's agent, Kyu Kyu Win, said each of the shareholders has invested 10 million kyat per person as starting capital. "The 50 initial shareholders will choose a managing director from the shareholders," he said. Shwe Thein Kyaw, a shareholder who attended the meeting, said, "Our planned public company is not only for financial profits but also for improving various poor sectors such as the social, economic, education and road communication sectors of our Arakan State." http://www.mizzima.com/business/7926-arakanese-public-company-to-form.html -------------------------------------------------------------------- Foreign investment law is designed for competition Tuesday, 04 September 2012 16:36 Nay Lin Aung Rangoon (Mizzima) – Burma's new foreign investment law will be introduced this September and it will not foster monopolies, said Kyaw Zaw Maung, the director of the Department of National Planning and Economic Development. Page 16 of 20 "Due to the [economic] liberalization and openness, competitions will take place," he said. "Without competitions, we cannot say that the business environment will improve." "It's not true that some business opportunities and rights of our citizens will be lost when foreign investments enter [into Burma]," he said. "We cannot adopt a one-sided view. We must care about both our citizens and the international [business] situation." Rangoon is preparing for an influx of foreign investors after the approval of the Foreign Investment Law. Photo: Mizzima According to the draft law, foreign investors can own companies 100 percent and if a foreign investor wants to establish a joint venture with Burmese partner, foreign capital must be at least 35 per cent of the total capital. "After the Parliament has approved it, it'll be submitted to the president. After the president has signed it, it will come into effect. It'll be introduced in the first or second week of September," Kyaw Zaw Maung said. According to the law, foreign investors must put up at least US$ 350,000 for service-based businesses and at least US$ 500,000 for manufacturing businesses. Foreign investors can also lease land and buildings from the state or from private citizens, according to the law. The initial lease would be for up to 50 years, and could be extended twice, for up to 10 years on each occasion. Any foreign company that does not meet necessary qualifications and standards will not be accepted, according to Kyaw Zaw Maung. "Generally, the person who wants to invest must invest for the longterm. And [the business] must create jobs for the citizens," he said. In making decision to accept foreign investment, Burma needs to think about the pros and cons of the foreign investment, Kyaw Zaw Maung said. A foreign business must present its environmental conservation plan. Businesses that can damage natural environment will not be allowed, said Kyaw Zaw Maung. He said that most of the potential foreign investors now are from Japan and Thailand. About 700 to 1,000 foreign companies came to Burma this year to discuss opportunities, according to Kyaw Zaw Maung. Most of the foreign investors in Burma so far have invested in the oil and natural gas sector, the energy sector or the mining sector. http://www.mizzima.com/business/7931-foreign-investment-law-is-designed-for-competition.html --------------------------------------------------------------- Tightened Chinese border owes to planned party congress Tuesday, 04 September 2012 12:48 S.H.A.N. Thanks to the meet-every-5-year congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) that will be held two months from now, Chinese authorities have increased security measures along its borders with its neighbors, including that with Burma, according to Chinese security sources. Page 17 of 20 "This time it is different from earlier screenings," said a source on the Yunnan-Shan State border. "At that time, we only need to know whether or not you carry valid documents. But now we want to know who you are." Tens of thousands of Burmese citizens were rounded up early in the year in Chinese towns along the Burmese border. Beginning August, the emphasis is on Caucasian or Indian looking visitors, he added. "Even Burmese who are dark-skinned are being singled out to be thoroughly scrutinized and interrogated," agreed a traveler. With Burma, security is even tighter because of the continued fighting in Kachin and northern Shan states that share borders with China's Yunnan provinces. The 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) started its closing session in Beijing on Oct. 21, 2007.(Xinhua Photo) The CPC Congress in November, attended by more than 2,000 members is expected to elect the new 371 Central Committee members and the country's paramount authority, the Politburo. Among those who will stand down to make way for younger leaders include President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao. China is bordered by several countries: India, Bhutan, Nepal, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Tajikstan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Russia, North Korea, Vietnam, Laos and Burma. http://www.english.panglong.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4922:tightened-chinese- border-owes-to-planned-party-congress&catid=85:politics&Itemid=266 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံဆုိင္ရာ အေမရိကန္ သံအမတ္ႀကီး ရခိုင္သြားမည္ 6 September 4, 2012 at 7:27 pm ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံဆုိင္ရာ အေမရိကန္ သံအမတ္ႀကီး မစၥတာ ဒဲရစ္မစ္ခ်ဲလ္ႏွင့္ သံအရာရွိအ ဲ႔ ဖြဟာ ဒီလ (၉)ရက္ေန႔မွာ ရန္ကုန္ကေန စစ္ေတြကို သြားမယ္လို႕ သတင္း ရရွိပါတယ္။ အမည္မေဖၚလိုသူ အရာရွိ တစ္ဦးရဲ႕ အေျပာအရ သံအမတ္ၾကီးနဲ႕ အဖြဲ႕ဟာ စစ္ေတြ ကုိ စက္တဘၤာ ၉ ရက္ေန႕မွာ ေရာက္ရွိျပီး စစ္ေတြဟိုတည္မွာ တည္းခိုၾကမွာ ျဖစ္တယ္လို႕ ဆိုပါတယ္။ အဓိကေတာ့ ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္ ခရီးစဥ္ အတြင္းမွာ ရခိုင္မွာ ျဖစ္ပြားခဲ့တဲ့ အၾကမ္းဖက္ ဆူပူမူေတြနဲ႕ ပတ္သက္ျပီး ေလ့လာၾကမယ္လို႕ ေျပာပါတယ္။ ဒါေပမယ့္ ဘယ္ႏွစ္ရက္ေနမယ္။ ဘယ္သူေတြနဲ႕ ေတြ႕မယ္။ ဘာေတြကို လုပ္ေဆာင္မလဲ ဆိုတာကိုေတာ့ အရာရွိၾကီးက တစ္စံုတစ္ရာ ေျပာဆိုျခင္း မရွိပါဘူး။ အေမရိကန္ သံအမတ္ၾကီးရဲ႕ ရခိုင္ ခရီးစဥ္နဲ႕ ပတ္သက္ျပီးလည္း ရန္ကုန္ အေမရိကန္ သံရံုးက ခုအခ်ိန္ထိ တစ္စံုတစ္ရာ ထုတ္ျပန္တာေတြလည္း မရွိေသးဘူးလို႕ သိရပါတယ္။ http://www.narinjara.com/burmese/?p=1990 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Page 18 of 20 U.S. offers educational opportunities for Burmese students Tuesday, 04 September 2012 14:36 Mizzima News The US government is targeting Burmese students as participants in various educational and exchange programs, aiming to build leadership qualities in Burmese youth while providing a diverse cultural experience. Convened Sunday at the Orchid Hotel in downtown Rangoon, the Myanmar US Friendship Exchange symposium featured speakers from the US embassy in Rangoon as well as various Burmese students who shared their experiences in studying abroad. Virginia Murray, the deputy Chief of Mission to the US embassy in Rangoon, told the audience that it was her experience as an exchange student in Cairo that started her down her chosen career path. Meanwhile, returned Burmese students from the US and staff from the US embassy documented the requirements of applying for admission to a US institution, in addition to conveying the basics of social life on an American campus. Virginia Murray, the deputy chief of mission to the US embassy in Rangoon, at the US-Myanmar Several Burmese youth spoke of their experiences with short-term US State Friendship Exchange symposium Department sponsored programs such as the Study of the United States Institutes on Sunday, September 2, 2012, in for Scholars (SUSI) and Southeast Asia Youth Leadership Program. Rangoon. Photo: Mizzima Graduates of the SUSI program related how an emphasis of the program is on building leaders for tomorrow's Burma. After spending time in the US states of Hawaii and Colorado, as well as Washington, D.C., returnees are expected to take up mentoring positions, raising awareness of opportunities for Burmese youth and recruiting more participants into the exchange programs. Around 150 interested Burmese youth, diplomats and professionals attended the event. Further information on the possibilities of US State Department supported exchange programs can be accessed through the website of the embassy in Rangoon. Burmese youth learn about US education opportunities at the Orchid Hotel in Rangoon on Sunday, September 2, 2012. Photo: Mizzima http://www.mizzima.com/news/inside-burma/7930-us-offers-educational-opportunities-for-burmese-students.html ------------------------------------------------------------- Myanmar, Canada boosts bilateral cooperation by Feng Yingqiu YANGON, Sept. 4 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar and Canada are making progress in further improving bilateral relations and cooperation. Myanmar President U Thein Sein, in meeting with Canadian Minister of International Trade Edward Fast in Nay Pyi Taw on Monday, expressed hope for continuation of friendship and cooperation between the two countries, Page 19 of 20 initiated by Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird, underlining that the two countries have opened a new chapter through high level visits. Thanking the Canadian government for easing the economic sanctions on Myanmar, U Thein Sein disclosed plan to open Myanmar Embassy in Ottawa. Inviting investment from Canada in downstream industries and citing the abundance of rubber and oil palm plantations in Myanmar, U Thein Sein assured that his country now has the legal framework for safeguarding investors, pinning hope for increase in bilateral trade volume. Witnessing dramatic changes in Myanmar and honoring U Thein Sein's spearheading of reform, Fast, who is accompanied by 26 corporate delegations to seek economic prospects in Myanmar, assured that the Canadian government has set high standards of Corporate Social Responsibility for Canadian companies. U Thein Sein stressed that "Myanmar needs help from established democracies like Canada for endurance of democracy in Myanmar", expressing hope for investment in factories and workshops of lower technology, which he said, is the fundamental requirement of the country. The Canadian minister requested the recognition of Canada as a trustworthy partner from Myanmar people, saying that the economic sanctions were lifted in recognition of human rights and economic reform in Myanmar. He requested the president to grant visa-on-arrival for Canadian citizens investing Myanmar and the president promised for negotiation on the matter after Myanmar opens embassy in Canada soon. In March this year, Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird made a landmark visit to Myanmar and had discussions with U Thein Sein on enhancement of the two countries' bilateral ties and promotion of economic cooperation and investment. Baird also met with speaker of the parliamentary House of Representatives U Shwe Mann, Minister of Foreign Affairs U Wunna Maung Lwin and then Minister of Rail Transportation U Aung Min. Canada downgraded its relations with Myanmar in late 1988 and imposed economic sanctions on Myanmar, barring trade with the country and banning visas for then Myanmar high ranking military officials. The two countries normalized relations afterwards and are dealing at ambassadorial level. In April, Canada suspended most of its prohibitions on trade and investment in Myanmar in recognition of the Myanmar's reform. The Canadian embassy with Myanmar is now stationed in Bangkok, Thailand but it is planning to open in Myanmar for closer links. Trade between Myanmar and Canada is slight, a Ministry of Commerce official said, adding that bilateral trade amounted to 4. 2 million U.S. dollars in the fiscal year 2012-13. Myanmar exported about 400,000 U.S. dollars of mainly agricultural products to Canada and received imports of construction materials and other goods worth about 3.8 million U.S. dollars. Canadian investment in Myanmar amounted to about 40 million U.S. dollars as of June 2012, according to Myanmar Investment Commission data. http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2012-09/04/c_131826559.htm ----------------------------------------------------------------- Page 20 of 20


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