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| Title: | | Burma to rejoin U.N. tourism group
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| Date of publication: | | 16 May 2012 |
| Description/subject: | | "Burma is seeking renewed membership in the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO ), according to UNWTO Secretary-General Taleb Rifai.
He said President Thein Sein officially informed him that Burma wanted to rejoin the organization, as it is in the midst of upgrading its tourism sector..." |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Mizzima News |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 17 May 2012 |
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Tourism in Burma - descriptive/analytical
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| Title: | | Land Grabs Intensify as Burma ‘Reform’ Races Ahead of Law
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| Date of publication: | | 15 May 2012 |
| Description/subject: | | "While foreign governments heap praise on the Burmese government’s liberal tilt, land theft appears to be increasing as state agencies and powerfully placed domestic firms position themselves to welcome foreign investment.
Farmers across the country are being muscled out of their fields with little hope of appeal to the law. This is because despite all the trumpeting in the West about President Thein Sein’s “reforms,” the rule of law in Burma is closer to 12th Century Europe than the 21st Century.
In medieval Europe, land ownership was determined by sharp swords and private armies. In present-day Burma, powerful businesses linked to the army do much the same.
Land confiscation is being reported near the south coast, in the Rangoon region, around Mandalay and in northern areas close to the border with China.
Farmers and their families are being forcibly moved for major projects, such as the oil and gas pipelines being built through the country from the Bay of Bengal to the Chinese border, and for smaller industrial projects by firms with long crony links to the military.
Even where the local authorities have sided with expelled farmers, big businesses feel confident enough to ignore them. Just last week, The Irrawaddy reported how industrial firm Zay Kabar has continued to bulldoze snatched land despite a stop order issued by the administrative office of the Rangoon area’s Mingaladon Township..." |
| Author/creator: | | William Boot |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | "The Irrawaddy" |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 16 May 2012 |
| | ML > Land and other natural resources (under construction)
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Land in Burma
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Tenure
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Tenure insecurity in Burma (including land grabbing)
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| Title: | | S. Korea: Myanmar halting arms purchases from N. Korea
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| Date of publication: | | 15 May 2012 |
| Description/subject: | | "Myanmar's president has confirmed that his country bought weapons from North Korea during the past 20 years and assured his South Korean counterpart that it will no longer do so.
In a meeting with visiting South Korean President Lee Myung-bak, Myanmar President Thein Sein said his country never had nuclear cooperation with North Korea but did have deals for conventional weapons, Lee's presidential Blue House said in an announcement Tuesday.
Thein Sein told Lee that Myanmar will no longer buy weapons from North Korea, honoring a UN ban, South Korean presidential official Kim Tae-hyo told reporters traveling with Lee, according to Blue House officials in Seoul..." |
| Author/creator: | | Aye Aye Win |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Associated Press (AP) |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 16 May 2012 |
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North Korea (DPRK) -Burma relations
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| Title: | | "The New Light of Myanmar" Wednesday 16 May 2012
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| Date of publication: | | 16 May 2012 |
| Description/subject: | | DOMESTIC NEWS: Cash donated for
installation of lift at
Kyaikthanlan Pagoda...Noteworthy amounts of rainfall
(15-5-2012)...EP-2 Ministry seeking ways to fully supply power
during summer days...Vehicles without licence to be
seized in Mandalay...Greater production of tomatoes
reduces price in Inlay region...Energy forum on 23-24 May...Armed groups realizing benevolence of State
and Tatmadaw return to legal fold...Educative talks on collection of
income tax given...Basic fire fighting course concludes in Zabuthiri
Township...MCDC sets
rules for
vendors...Per acre yield of summer paddy declines due to
pest in Yedashe...Rare bird species of Mottama
to be protected...Entrance fees for Yadanabon
Zoological Gardens rose...Hsipaw plans to grow saplings for
environmental conservation...Preparation for natural
disasters, fire inspected...Information Ministry, in shouldering its
literary duties, has enlisted strength of
literati and artistes in successive eras.....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Vice-President Dr Sai Mauk Kham receives Director of
East Asia and Pacific Regional Office of UNICEF and party...UNHCR personnel meet Union Minister for Border
Affairs and for Myanma Industrial Development...Yangon Region Chief Minister receives Japan-Myanmar
Friendship Association Chairman...UMFCCI receives
Vietnamese, Thai guests...TEIN3 to embark on ASEAN tour from
Myanmar...Myanmar, Bangladesh to hold
border trade meeting...Talk on Rise of China, Implications
for Neighbouring Countries 18 May...UNICEF to continue to
cooperate in children’s
education and health in
Myanmar...Korean President and party conclude visit...US National War College
delegation heads home...ABSDF’s Myanaung, Hinthada bomber seized...Promotion of cooperation with
UNICEF discussed...Dy Education Minister receives Director
from UNICEF...Chinese delegation donates computers to
basic education schools...Price of Bangladesh products rises
at Maungtaw border market...ROK President
Mr Lee Myung-bak
and party leave for
Yangon.....
"PERSPECTIVES": "An-nyung-ha-se-yo!" (re ROK).....
ARTICLE: "Changes never change"
Tin Maung Than |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | News and Periodicals Enterprise, Ministry of Information, Union of Myanmar |
| Format/size: | | pdf (2.5MB) |
| Date of entry/update: | | 16 May 2012 |
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"The New Light of Myanmar" 2012
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| Title: | | A capitalist class emerges in Myanmar
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| Date of publication: | | 17 May 2012 |
| Description/subject: | | "Myanmar has a widely underestimated array of home-grown business families who are likely to provide the foundation of the country's future capitalist class - and a bulwark against any attack on the core privileges of the military-linked elite.
In the excitement over the opening of the "biggest emerging market opportunity since China", commentaries have portrayed Myanmar in words and images akin to those used in describing America's 19th century Wild West.
The Economist Intelligence Unit recently espied "vast untapped natural resources and land". The International Monetary Fund
Dilbert
says the country could be "the next economic frontier in Asia". Local pundits agree: "Myanmar is the last resourceful investment destination in the Southeast Asian region," said Thinn Htut Thidar, a Yangon-based consultant.
There is undoubtedly truth in these words but they overlook the local tycoons, often disparaged as cronies of the regime, as well as myriad lesser entrepreneurs, whose businesses fill out the space left by the military's own large economic presence..." |
| Author/creator: | | William Barnes |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | "Asia Times Online" |
| Format/size: | | html, pdf (76K) |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://www.burmalibrary.org/docs13/A_capitalist_class_emerges_in_Burma.pdf |
| Date of entry/update: | | 16 May 2012 |
| | ML > From military to civilian rule?
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From military to civilian rule? - Burma: Articles and analyses
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| Title: | | US/Burma: Don’t Lift Sanctions Too Soon Safeguards Needed Before Allowing Investment, Financial Services
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| Date of publication: | | 15 May 2012 |
| Description/subject: | | "The US government should not ease sanctions on business activities in Burma until adequate safeguards are in place to prevent new investment from fueling human rights abuses. A US presidential order imposing a ban on investment and financial services in Burma is scheduled to expire on May 20, 2012, unless it is renewed or revised.
In early April, in response to Burmese government pledges of reform and electoral gains by Burma’s main opposition party, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced that the US government was prepared to relax certain business-related sanctions. A new presidential order easing business restrictions is expected to be issued soon.
“The US government should not reward the Burmese government’s nascent and untested changes by allowing an unregulated business bonanza,” said John Sifton, Asia advocacy director at Human Rights Watch. “Tough rules are needed to ensure that new investments benefit the people of Burma and don’t fuel human rights abuses and corruption, or end up strengthening the military’s control over civilian authorities.”..." |
| Language: | | Engish |
| Source/publisher: | | Human Rights Watch |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 16 May 2012 |
| | ML > Economy
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Investment in Burma/Myanmar
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Debate on Investment in Burma
Economy
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Sanctions
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| Title: | | Burma: Joint Letter from NGOs to U.S. Administration
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| Date of publication: | | 15 May 2012 |
| Description/subject: | | "We are writing to request a meeting with you in the next week to share our strong concern regarding Secretary Clinton’s announcement that the U.S. financial services and investment bans on Burma may be lifted in the very near future.
We understand that President Obama’s extension of E.O. 13047 will expire on May 20, 2012. We urge you to extend E.O. 13047 until proper safeguards are put in place. We urge the Administration to comprehensively update the Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) list before relaxing any business-related sanctions on Burma. While companies are eager to gain a foothold in Burma’s economy, we believe that the goal of promoting positive political reforms in Burma will be jeopardized if new investments or other business activities reward individuals implicated in mass atrocities and other human rights abuses..." |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Human Rights Watch with AFL-CIO, Freedom House, Institute for Asian Democracy, Open Society Foundations, Orion Strategies, Physicians for Human Rights, U.S. Campaign for Burma, United to End Genocide |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 16 May 2012 |
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Sanctions
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| Title: | | Pa’an Situation Update: September 2011
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| Date of publication: | | 12 May 2012 |
| Description/subject: | | "This report includes a situation update submitted to KHRG in October 2011 by a villager describing events occurring in Pa’an District, in the period between September and October 2011. Villagers in T’Nay Hsah Township are reported to be subject to demands for forced labour by Border Guard Battalion #1017, specifically to work on Battalion Commander Saw Dih Dih’s own plantations. Information is also provided on an incident that occurred in T’Nay Hsah Township in which the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) Battalion #101’s temporary camp in Kler Law Seh village was attacked with heavy weapons by Border Guard Battalions #1017 and #1019, and by Tatmadaw Light Infantry Division (LID) #22. Since the takeover of the KNLA Battalion #101 camp by Border Guard troops, villagers in T’Nay Hseh Township have experienced an increase in demands for forced labour such as portering, as well as demands for villagers to cook at the Border Guard base and to serve as soldiers in the Border Guard, with payment demanded in lieu of military service. Such abuses are also described in the report, "Pa'an Situation Update: September 2011", published by KHRG on October 24th 2011, and "Pa'an Situation Update: September 2011 to January 2012", published by KHRG on May 2nd 2012. Border Guard troops have also embarked on the extensive laying of landmines near Th--- village, including near villagers' fields, and one villager was reported to have been seriously injured by a landmine whilst serving as a soldier in the Border Guard. Villagers are said to be concerned about the potential impact of the landmines on the welfare of their livestock, with one villager reportedly confronting a Border Guard soldier over this issue." |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Karen Human Rights Group (KHRG) |
| Format/size: | | pdf (129K), html |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://www.khrg.org/khrg2012/khrg12b41.html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 15 May 2012 |
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Labour Rights
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Labour rights: reports of violations in Burma
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Forced Labour
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Non-ILO Reports on forced fabour, including forced portering, in Karen (Kayin) State
Civil War
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The Civil War in Burma (under reconstruction)
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Border Guard Forces
Civil War
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The Civil War in Burma (under reconstruction)
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Landmines
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Reports and maps covering anti-personnel landmines and Burma/Myanmar
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| Title: | | "The New Light of Myanmar" Tuesday 15 May 2012
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| Date of publication: | | 15 May 2012 |
| Description/subject: | | DOMESTIC NEWS: Noteworthy amounts of
rainfall
(14-5-2012)...Union Minister for Information and for Culture meets
EC members of MMPO...Special Appellate Bench judges 12 special
civil appeal cases, hears five...International Cooperatives Day sales
festival commences...Mechanic course
opens...Aswedaw Library opened...Private Microfinance
Development Supporting
Committee holds coord meeting...Training courses of
UMFCCI conclude...Labour laws and bylaws briefed...Palethwe hybird paddy harvested in Einme...New school building handed over in Hmawby
Township...Sub-power station launched for
supply of electricity...Orchid Nurturing Course 1-8
June...Bo tree watered for 11th time in
Insein Township.....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: President U Thein Sein welcomes ROK
President Mr Lee Myung-bak...President U Thein Sein meets
ROK counterpart...Myanmar delegate
arrives back from
Dhaka after attending
cultural diversity
meeting...63rd ASEAN Committee on Science and
Technology (COST) Meeting held...Member of CPC Central Politburo calls on
Amyotha Hluttaw Speaker U Khin Aung Myint...Delegation led by Member of CPC Central
Politburo arrives in Mandalay...Myanmar, Philippines to
cooperate in agricultural sectors...President U Thein Sein hosts dinner to goodwill
delegation led by ROK President...President of Republic of Korea Mr Lee Myung-bak arrives in Nay Pyi Taw...Union Foreign Affairs Minister attends Ministerial Meeting
of Coordinating Bureau of Non-Aligned Movement...Import permit for migrant workers allowed...Seintalon mango fruits of
Mandalay exported...Child-centred academic
system discussed in Mandalay...MLF invites cash, book donations...Entrance fee for cultural sites
in Mandalay...Myanmar wants ROK to share its experience of democratic reform,
economic development and promoting living conditions of citizens - President U Thein Sein --
It is right choice Myanmar takes HRD as sine qua non for development - President Mr Lee Myung-bak...President U Thein Sein meets goodwill delegation
led by CPC Central Politburo member.....
"PERSPECTIVES": "Never ending task" [reforms] |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | News and Periodicals Enterprise, Ministry of Information, Union of Myanmar |
| Format/size: | | pdf (2.5MB) |
| Date of entry/update: | | 15 May 2012 |
| | RR > Print and broadcast media produced by the Government of Burma/Myanmar
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"The New Light of Myanmar" 2012
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| Title: | | "The New Light of Myanmar" Monday 14 May 2012
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| Date of publication: | | 14 May 2012 |
| Description/subject: | | DOMESTIC NEWS: Reform, a combination of National Plan approved by Hluttaw and
Physical Development Plan, needs to be People-Centred Development
Reform which could satisfy demands of people...Noteworthy amounts of
rainfall
(13-5-2012)...Union I&C Minister and wife attend consecration
and merit-sharing for sixth all-round renovation of
Shwephonepwint Pagoda...Deputy Attorney-General meets personnel of
Mon State Advocate General’s Office...OFFICEHANDEDOVER: [photo]...Generators installed for electricity
supply in Yangon...Roadwork, sanitation tasks inspected
in Taninthayi Region...Slight earthquake
hits inside Myanmar...Talk on raising bio-security
given...Workers’ Day observed in
Mansi...New fire station opened, Fire
Brigade Day observed in
Myawady...Sangyoung Township
reconstitutes writers association...GS of UMFCCI meets Kayin
State CCI officials...Fire Brigade Day marked with
sanitation in Tachilek...Myanmar Libraries
Foundation invites cash, book
donations...Leak of natural gas pipeline
repaired in time...UNIFORMS PRESENTED [photo]...Mountaineering team climbs
five hills continuously...Information for trafficking in
person...CONCRETE DRAINS REPAIRED [photo]...Fire Brigade Day observed in DISTRICT NEWS
Mawlamyinegyun...Monks, nuns who passed
religious exams honoured...Tailoring courses opened at
vocational training school in
Pakokku...16 villages along Wundwin-
Pintale Road enjoyings fruits
better transport...Cigarette fire destroys timber warehouse,
housings in Mandalay...MFF President meets players of Myanmar
U-22 Football Team...Maize, sesame plantations thriving in rains.....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Myanmar delegation arrives back from
Cambodia...Lecturer leaves for
Bangkok to attend
World Records
Committee meeting...Speaker of Pyidaungsu Hluttaw and Amyotha Hluttaw
calls on Japanese Prime Minister...Speaker of Pyidaungsu Hluttaw and Amyotha Hluttaw
visits J Power, Isogo Coal-fired Power Plant.....
"PERSPECTIVES": "Help students pursue
education with peace of mind" |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | News and Periodicals Enterprise, Ministry of Information, Union of Myanmar |
| Format/size: | | pdf (2.6MB) |
| Date of entry/update: | | 14 May 2012 |
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| Title: | | Thais See Economic Benefit From Contract Farming In Burma
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| Date of publication: | | 20 November 2008 |
| Description/subject: | | Thai contract farming is a growing feature of the Thai-Burmese bilateral economic relationship. The activity remains concentrated in the border areas, however. Thai businesspeople who engage in contract farming in Burma are generally individuals who conduct their business informally with local Karen village leaders, not with the GOB or major Burmese companies. The Thai government views contract farming as an economic policy tool that lowers agricultural prices for Thai consumers, lessens the migrant pull in Thailand, and stimulates demand for Thai goods in Burma. However, the RTG at the national level is not currently engaged in activities to promote contract farming specifically, it is focused on agricultural development through vertical integration and greater control over quality standards, which contract farming helps to achieve. |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | US Consulate Chiangmai via Wikileaks |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 14 May 2012 |
| | ML > Land and other natural resources (under construction)
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Land in Burma
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Agriculture in Burma
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Contract farming
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| Title: | | Capitalizing the Thai-Myanmar border
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| Date of publication: | | 21 June 2007 |
| Description/subject: | | MAE SOT, Thailand - "The conflict-ridden Thai-Myanmar border has long been associated with drug smuggling, arms-dealing and human trafficking and other illicit trades. Now a new investment initiative aims to bring bilateral border trade above ground through the establishment of export-oriented special economic zones (SEZs) in the two countries' hinterlands.
The two sides agreed last month in Mandalay to finalize a long pending agreement, which in the first phases will open the way for
Thai agribusinesses to cultivate millions of acres of land tax-free in Myanmar's border areas. The ambitious plan to turn battlefields into marketplaces has the tacit backing of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), but at the same time has come under heavy criticism from rights organizations..." |
| Author/creator: | | Clifford McCoy |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | "Asia Times Online" |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 14 May 2012 |
| | ML > Land and other natural resources (under construction)
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Land in Burma
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Agriculture in Burma
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Contract farming
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| Title: | | Grab for white gold - platinum mining in Eastern Shan State (English)
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| Date of publication: | | 08 May 2012 |
| Description/subject: | | Burmese and Chinese companies are pushing aside Akha, Lahu and Shan villagers
in eastern Shan State in a grab for platinum (“white gold” in Burmese). Women are
facing particular hardship due to the loss of livelihood and the contamination of water
sources. The Lahu Women Organization is calling for an immediate halt to these
damaging mining operations....Summary
Since 2007, destructive platinum mining has been taking place in the hills north of
Tachilek, eastern Shan State, impacting about 2,000 people from eight Lahu, Akha
and Shan villages. The platinum is being extracted by Burmese mining companies and
exported to China and Thailand.
Five companies are currently operating around the Akha village of Ah Yeh, 13 kilometers
north of Tachilek. They have forced villagers to sell property and land at cheap prices,
and confiscated other lands without compensation. Hundreds of acres of farms and
forestland have been seized, or destroyed by dumping of mining waste. The villagers’
access road to the main highway has been ruined by the passage of heavy mining trucks
and machinery.
The main water source for local villagers has been diverted and contaminated by
the mining, causing tremendous hardship for local women, who must now walk long
distances to do their washing.
Women are also facing increased security risks from the influx of migrant male miners
into the area. There is regular sexual harassment of women going to their fields. Young
women are being taken as minor wives by the miners; some are also becoming sex
workers. Mining staff have also been involved in trafficking of local women.
There is no rule of law protecting the rights of the local villagers. By paying off the local
Burmese military, mining companies are able to carry out operations without adhering
to any social or environmental standards. The companies and platinum buyers in
neighbouring countries are therefore maximizing profits by avoiding responsibility for
the social and environmental costs of the mines.
The Lahu Women’s Organisation therefore calls on the Burmese government to put an
immediate stop to these destructive mining operations, which are not contributing to
local development, but are causing poverty and environmental degradation..." |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Lahu Women's Organization |
| Format/size: | | pdf (1.8MB) |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://lahuwomen.org/press-release/lahu-women-demand-end-to-destructive-platinum-mining-in-burmas-s...
http://www.burmalibrary.org/docs13/Grab_for_White_Gold-PR(th).pdf (Pres Release, Thai)
http://www.burmalibrary.org/docs13/Grab_for_White_Gold-PR(ch).pdf (Press Release, Chinese)
http://www.burmalibrary.org/docs13/Grab_for_White_Gold-PR(bu).pdf (Press Release, Burmese)
http://www.burmalibrary.org/docs13/Grab_for_White_Gold(lahu).pdf (full text, Lahu)
http://www.burmalibrary.org/docs13/Grab_for_White_Gold(bu)-op75mr-red.pdf (full text, Burmese) |
| Date of entry/update: | | 14 May 2012 |
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Land in Burma
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Tenure
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Tenure insecurity in Burma (including land grabbing)
Economy
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Industry
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Extractive industries
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Mining
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Metal mining
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| Title: | | Grab for white gold - platinum mining in Eastern Shan State (Burmese)
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| Date of publication: | | 08 May 2012 |
| Description/subject: | | အစီရင္ခံစာအက်ဥ္းခ်ဳပ္
ရွမ္းျပည္နယ္ အေရွ႔ပိုင္း တာခ်ီလိတ္ၿမိဳ ၏႔ ေျမာက္ဖက္ ေတာင္တန္းေဒမ်ားတြင္ ေဒသခံမ်ားကို ထိခိုကေ္ စသည့္
ေရႊျဖဴတူးေဖာ္ျခင္းလုပ္ငန္းကို ၂၀၀၇ခုႏွစ္မွ စတင္ခဲ့ကာ ယင္းေၾကာင့္ လားဟူ၊ အာခါႏွင့္ ရွမ္းရြာ ၈ရြာမွာ လူေပါင္း ၂၀၀၀ေက်ာ္ကို
ထိခိုက္ေစခဲ့သည္။ ေရႊျဖဴတူးေဖာ္မႈကို ျမန္မာကုမၸဏီမ်ားက ေဆာင္ရြက္ေနၿပီး တရုတ္ႏွင့္ ထုိင္းႏိုင္ငံသို႔ တင္ပို႔လွ်က္ရိွသည္။
တာခ်လီ တိ ၿ္မဳိ ႔ ေျမာကဖ္ က ္ ၁၃ကလီ မို တီ ာအကြာရ ွိအားရဲေခၚ အာခါရြာအနီးတငြ ္ကမု ဏၸ ၅ီ ခကု လပု င္ န္း လပု က္ ငို လ္ ်ွကရ္ သွိ ည။္
ထကို မု ဏၸ မီ ်ားက ရြာသားမ်ားပငို ဆ္ ငို သ္ ည ့္ပစညၥ ္းမ်ားႏငွ ့္ ေျမယာမ်ားက ိုအတင္းအက်ပဖ္ အိ ားေပး၍ ေစ်းႏမိွ ္ေရာင္းခ်ေစသကသဲ့ ႔ ို
ေျမယာအခ်ိဳ က႔ ို ေလွ်ာ္ေၾကးမေပးဘဲ အဓမၼသိမး္ ယူ ခဲ့ၾကသည္။ ေထာင္ေပါင္းမ်ားစြာေသာ စိုက္ပိ်ဳးေျမဧကမ်ားႏွင့္
သစ္ေတာမ်ားကို ကုမၸဏီက သိမ္းယူေနၿပီး အခ်ိဳ႔ေသာေျမယာမ်ားသည္ သတၱဳတြင္းမွ အညစ္အေၾကးမ်ားစြန္႔ပစ္ေသာေၾကာင့္
ပ်ကဆ္ ီးလ်ွကရ္ သွိ ည။္ ရြာသရူ ြာသားမ်ား အသုံးျပဳသည ့္အေ၀းေျပးလမ္းသ ႔ိုသြားေရာကရ္ ာလမ္းမွာလည္း သတဳၱတူးေဖာသ္ ည ့္
ကုန္တင္ကားမ်ား၊ စက္ယႏၱယားႀကီးမ်ား ျဖတ္သန္းသြားျခင္းေၾကာင့္ ပ်က္ဆီးၾကရသည္။
သတဳၱတူးေဖာျ္ခင္းေၾကာင ့္ ရြာသားမ်ား အဓကိ အသုံးျပဳေနေသာ ေရအရင္းအျမစ ္ညစည္ မ္းလ်ွကရ္ ၿွိပီး ေရစီးေၾကာင္းမ်ားလည္း
ေျပာင္းလဲကုန္သည္။ ယင္းအေျခအေနမ်ားက ေဒသခံအမ်ိဳးသမီးမ်ားကို ႀကီးမားေသာ အခက္အခဲမ်ားျဖစ္ေပၚေစသည္။
အေၾကာင္းမွာ ေရရရိွရန္အတြက္ အလြန္ေ၀းကြာေသာခရီးကို ေျခလ်င္ လမ္းေလွ်ာက္သြားရေသာေၾကာင့္ ျဖစ္သည္။
ထို႔အတူ သတၱဳတူးေဖာ္ရာလုပ္ငန္းသို႔ အမ်ိဳးသားေရႊ႔ေျပာင္းအလုပ္သမားမ်ား အစုလုိက္အၿပံဳလုိက္ ေရာက္ရိွ လာျခင္းေၾကာင့္
ထိုေနရာတ၀ိုက္တြင္ေနထိုင္သည့္ အမ်ိဳးသမီးမ်ား၏ လံုၿခံဳေရးမွာ အႏၱရာယ္ က်ေရာက္ လွ်က္ရိွသည္။ စိုက္ခင္းသို႔
သြားသည့္အမ်ိဳးသမီးမ်ားမွာ လိင္ပိုင္းဆုိင္ရာ ထိပါးေႏွာင့္ယွက္မႈမ်ားကို ႀကံဳေတြ႔ ေနရသည္။ အမ်ိဳးသမီးငယ္မ်ားမွာ
သတၱဳတြင္းအလုပ္သမားမ်ား၏ မယားငယ္မ်ားအျဖစ္ သိမ္းယူခံရသကဲ့သို႔ အခ်ိဳ႔ အမ်ိဳးသမီးငယ္မ်ားမွာ ျပည္႔တန္ဆာမ်ား
ျဖစ္ၾကရသည္။ သတၱဳတြင္း၀န္ထမ္းမ်ားက ေဒသခံ အမ်ိဳးသမီးငယ္မ်ားကို လူကုန္ကူးရာတြင္ ပါ၀င္ပတ္သက္ေနၾကသည္။
ရြာသ၊ူ ရြာသားမ်ား၏ အခငြ အ့္ ေရးက ိုကာကြယ္ေပးသည ့္ ဥပေဒစိုးမိုးမလႈ ည္း ကင္းမဲ့ေနသည။္ ျမနမ္ ာစစတ္ ပမ္ ွအရာရမွိ ်ားအား
လာဘ္ထုိးျခင္းအားျဖင့္ သတၱဳတူးေဖာ္သည့္ ကုမၸဏီမ်ားသည္ လူမႈေရးႏွင့္ သဘာ၀ပတ္၀န္းက်င္ဆုိင္ရာ စံသတ္မွတ္ခ်က္မ်ားကို
လိုက္နာရန္မလိုဘဲ လုပ္ငန္းလုပ္ကိုင္ႏိုင္ၾကသည္။ ထုိ႔ေၾကာင့္ သတၱဳတူးေဖာ္သည့္ကုမၸဏီမ်ားႏွင့္ အိမ္နီးခ်င္းႏိုင္ငံမွ
ေရႊျဖဴ၀ယ္ယူသူတုိ႔သည္ လူမႈေရးႏွင့္ သဘာ၀ပတ္၀န္းက်င္ ထိန္းသိမ္းေရးဆုိင္ရာ တာ၀န္မ်ားကို ေရွာင္ရွားျခင္းျဖင့္
သတၱဳတူးေဖာ္ျခင္း လုပ္ငန္းမွ အျမတ္ေငြ မ်ားႏိုင္သမွ် မ်ားမ်ားရေအာင္ ေဆာင္ရြက္ေနၾကသည္။
ထုိ႔ေၾကာင့္ လားဟူ အမ်ိဳးသမီးအဖဲြ႔က ေဒသတြင္းဖံြ႔ၿဖိဳးတုိးတက္မႈကို မျဖစ္ေစဘဲ ဆင္းရဲမဲြေတမႈႏွင့္ သဘာ၀ပတ္၀န္းက်င္
ပ်က္ဆီးမႈကိုသာျဖစ္ေစသည့္ သတၱဳတူးေဖာ္ျခင္းလုပ္ငန္းကို ခ်က္ခ်င္း ရပ္တန္႔ရန္ ျမန္မာအစိုးရအား ေတာင္းဆုိသည္။ |
| Language: | | Burmese/ ျမန္မာဘာသာ |
| Source/publisher: | | Lahu Women's Organization |
| Format/size: | | pdf (2.3MB) |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://www.burmalibrary.org/docs13/Grab_for_White_Gold-PR(bu).pdf (Press Release, Burmese)
http://www.lahuwomen.org
http://lahuwomen.org/press-release/lahu-women-demand-end-to-destructive-platinum-mining-in-burmas-s... |
| Date of entry/update: | | 14 May 2012 |
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| Title: | | Grab for white gold - platinum mining in Eastern Shan State (Lahu)
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| Date of publication: | | 08 May 2012 |
| Description/subject: | | Summary:
Since 2007, destructive platinum mining has been taking place in the hills north of
Tachilek, eastern Shan State, impacting about 2,000 people from eight Lahu, Akha
and Shan villages. The platinum is being extracted by Burmese mining companies and
exported to China and Thailand.
Five companies are currently operating around the Akha village of Ah Yeh, 13 kilometers
north of Tachilek. They have forced villagers to sell property and land at cheap prices,
and confiscated other lands without compensation. Hundreds of acres of farms and
forestland have been seized, or destroyed by dumping of mining waste. The villagers’
access road to the main highway has been ruined by the passage of heavy mining trucks
and machinery.
The main water source for local villagers has been diverted and contaminated by
the mining, causing tremendous hardship for local women, who must now walk long
distances to do their washing.
Women are also facing increased security risks from the influx of migrant male miners
into the area. There is regular sexual harassment of women going to their fields. Young
women are being taken as minor wives by the miners; some are also becoming sex
workers. Mining staff have also been involved in trafficking of local women.
There is no rule of law protecting the rights of the local villagers. By paying off the local
Burmese military, mining companies are able to carry out operations without adhering
to any social or environmental standards. The companies and platinum buyers in
neighbouring countries are therefore maximizing profits by avoiding responsibility for
the social and environmental costs of the mines.
The Lahu Women’s Organisation therefore calls on the Burmese government to put an
immediate stop to these destructive mining operations, which are not contributing to
local development, but are causing poverty and environmental degradation. |
| Language: | | Lahu |
| Source/publisher: | | Lahu Women's Organization |
| Format/size: | | pdf (1.6MB) |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://lahuwomen.org/press-release/lahu-women-demand-end-to-destructive-platinum-mining-in-burmas-shan-state">http://lahuwomen.org/press-release/lahu-women-demand-end-to-destructive-platinum-mining-in-burmas-s...
http://lahuwomen.org |
| Date of entry/update: | | 14 May 2012 |
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| Title: | | "The New Light of Myanmar" Sunday 13 May 2012
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| Date of publication: | | 13 May 2012 |
| Description/subject: | | DOMESTIC NEWS: Priority task of government is to satisfy desire,
fulfill requirements of people -
Work coordination meeting on more effectively carrying out
national and regional development tasks concludes [President]...Noteworthy amounts of rainfall
(12-5-2012)...Nay Pyi Taw Council Area Projects Implementation
Committee meets...International Urban Rescue
Course concludes in Ye...Preventive measures against diarrhea and
dysentery taken...Information
for antihuman
trafficking...Maintenance of golf course discussed...New library building opened in Myaungmya...Pazundaung Township Writers
Association formed...Umbrella hoisted atop pagoda in
Thingangyun Township...Talks on traffic rules given in
Hinthada...Union Minister oversees regional development
tasks in Shan State...Mandalay Region Chief
Minister inspects Natka Dam...Shwekon-Pilakhat concrete
road opened...Loans disbursed for Palethwe hybrid
paddy plantation in Tatkon Township...Kayin State Chief Minister supervises
development undertakings...Coord meeting on Asia Pacific Junior
Golf Championship held...Myanmar Society of Endocrinology and
Metabolism holds third conference...Talks on spa & health care services on 14 May...Literary talks given in Singaing...Momauk
Township
GAD observes
Workers’ Day...Written exam result for NPE junior
reporter posts announced...Mudon forms Traditional Artistes
and Artisans Association...Yesagyo produces high
rate of gram.....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Myanmar delegation led by Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Speaker pays study
visit to Tokyo Stock Exchange, National Diet Library...Asia Rowing Federation Umpiring Commission
views preparations for rowing event...Speaker of Pyidaungsu Hluttaw and Amyotha Hluttaw meets
Deputy Speaker of Upper House of Japan, tours Tokyo...Speaker of Pyidaungsu Hluttaw, Amyotha Hluttaw U Khin Aung Myint calls
on Speaker of House of Councillors, Speaker of House of Representatives...Speaker of Pyidaungsu Hluttaw, Amyotha Hluttaw arrives Osaka of Japan.....
"PERSPECTIVES": "Into the list of Asian Tigers" |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | News and Periodicals Enterprise, Ministry of Information, Union of Myanmar |
| Format/size: | | pdf (2.9MB) |
| Date of entry/update: | | 13 May 2012 |
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Full, original versions of "The New Light of Myanmar", "Kyemon" and "Myanmar Alin"
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"The New Light of Myanmar" 2012
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| Title: | | Myanmar/Burma - The World's Least Known Landmine Tragedy
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| Date of publication: | | 2011 |
| Description/subject: | | 15 images of landmine victims..."Myanmar, or Burma, is home to one of the world's longest running civil wars. Conflict has occurred since the country gained independence in 1947.
Mine warfare has been a feature of the conflict throughout that time.
Mines are thought to be used by all parties to the conflict. No one knows how many people have been killed or maimed by mines.
This photo exhibit provides a glimpse into the lives of a few of those who survived their mine injury and now live tenuous lives near the border with Thailand..."
This exhibition has been co-sponsored by DanChurchAid (DCA) and the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL) |
| Author/creator: | | Photo: Giovanni Diffidenti; Art installation: Laura Morelli; Text: Yeshua Moser-Puangsuwan |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Giovanni Diffidenti, Photojournalist |
| Format/size: | | html; jpeg |
| Date of entry/update: | | 13 May 2012 |
| | RR > Photographs and other images of Burma
Civil War
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The Civil War in Burma (under reconstruction)
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Landmines
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Reports and maps covering anti-personnel landmines and Burma/Myanmar
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| Title: | | Empowering the Myanmar Human Rights Commission
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| Date of publication: | | 09 May 2012 |
| Description/subject: | | "...'The Paris Principles are the international standard and that is what they should be aiming for,'... 'If they are heading in that direction, if that is what they are aiming for, then they have a long way to go.
'The commission is [currently] almost at the whim of the president. You need to sort out the legislative underpinning
of the commission through an act of Parliament so it does have guaranteed funding. And then you figure out what function and role it is actually going to play.'
So while a few seminars and consultations may help increase the legitimacy of the international community’s policy of reengagement, a fundamental overhaul including constitutionally enshrined independence, guaranteed funding and full transparency is necessary to prevent the MHRC remaining merely the butt of snide jibes from cynical observers." |
| Author/creator: | | Charlie Campbell |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | "the Irrawaddy" |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 13 May 2012 |
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National Human Rights Institutions
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Burma's National Human Rights Commission
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| Title: | | Company Destroys Land Despite Order to Stop
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| Date of publication: | | 11 May 2012 |
| Description/subject: | | "Zay Kabar, a Burmese company that has been accused of illegally confiscating more than 800 acres of land from farmers in Shwenanthar, a village in Rangoon’s Mingaladon Township, has continued clearing the land despite being told to stop by local authorities.
After embankments on the farmland were leveled last week, around 50 farmers began rebuilding them in preparation for the start of the planting season, prompting officials from the Housing Department and the local administrative office to order both sides to desist.
However, the company has ignored the order and resumed its work on the land, according to the farmers..." |
| Author/creator: | | Nyein Nyein |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | "The Irrawaddy" |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 13 May 2012 |
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| Title: | | Platinum Mines Seize 200 Acres of Farmland
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| Date of publication: | | 08 May 2012 |
| Description/subject: | | "Around 200 acres of land has been confiscated by platinum mining companies in Tachilek Township, eastern Shan State, despite nascent democratic reforms by the Burmese government, according to report released by the Lahu Women’s Organization (LWO).
"Grab For White Gold" has been produced by the Thailand-based LWO and two other local land activists and was presented at a press conference in Chiang Mai, northern Thailand, on Tuesday.
The two activists told reporters that eight villages—comprising a total of 393 households and 2,000 people—have been impacted by the platinum mining companies. There are also reports of sexual harassment, abductions and girls being cheated into marriage as a consequence.
Ore produced in the region is sold to China at around US $3,000 per ton with the LWO accusing Burmese companies such Sai Laung Hein, U Myint Aung, Hein Lin San and Wunna Thein Than of running the mining operations.
The disputed farmland has belonged to ethnic people—including Shan, Akha and Lahu communities—for generations. The companies force them to sell their land at around half the true value, or simply confiscate it without compensation despite protests from the rightful owners..." |
| Author/creator: | | Lawi Weng |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | "The Irrawaddy" |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 13 May 2012 |
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| Title: | | "The New Light of Myanmar" Saturday 12 May 2012
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| Date of publication: | | 12 May 2012 |
| Description/subject: | | DOMESTIC NEWS: President U Thein Sein calls for more efforts in reform
process for national development -
In conducting reforms, morality and attitude of ward/village administrators and
township administrators in performing administrative duties must be polished so
that they can avoid corruption, bribery and unfriendly relations with the public...Significant Day Temperatures
(11-5-2012)...Noteworthy amounts of rainfall
(11-5-2012)...Myanmar Traditional Chess
Championship wraps up...Yangon Information and
Communication Technology
Fair commences...Sagaing Region Chief Minister
views rural development in
Yinmabin Tsp...Kayah State Chief Minister
donates alms to monks, nuns...Outstanding weightlifters awarded in sports...Insein WJA reconstituted as Insein Township
Writers Association...Hsipaw plans to grow teak
plantations...Phu Thit Wai Library opened
in Pinlebu Township...Self-reliant library opened in Dagon Myothit
(South) Township...Self-reliant concrete road commissioned in
Mawlamyinegyun...Signboard of Aung Naing Thu
Cooperative Society put up...New building of
BEPS opened in
Einme
EINME, 11 May—
Shwedaung Development
Co Ltd donated 126x30 feet
one-storey building in
Letpangon Village of Einme
Township in Myaungmya
District on 6 May.
Likewise, Triangle Links
Engineering Co Ltd and other
wellwishers sponsored
renovation of old building,
construction of bridge,
donation of uniforms and
stationery.
Wellwisher and officials
opened the new school
building.—Myanma Alin...Use of natural fertilizer talked in Myaungmya
Township...Myanmar
Libraries
Fundation
invites cash,
book donations...Tour guide course 1/2012 on
4 June-27 July...New building of library opened
in Hmawby Township...Cash donated to fund of Shwethin Home for the
Aged in Yamethin...Uniforms provided to GAD staff members...Basic fire fighting course K 849,500.—Myanma Alin
concludes in Pyinmana...Applications for damaged mobile
phone SIM cards free of charge...Micro-credit cooperative
society formed in Nawngkhio.....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Union Environmental Conservation and Forestry
Minister meets foreign guests...Dy FM receives Director-General of SEA Regional
Department of ADB...Dy H&T Minister receives DG of Southeast Asia
Regional Department of ADB...Dy Commerce Minister
receives ADB SEA
Director-General...Dy Education Minister receives
Director of Open Society
Institute of US...Speaker of Pyidaungsu Hluttaw and
Amyotha Hluttaw U Khin Aung Myint
back from Japan...Hotels and Tourism Ministry, S’porean
entrepreneurs to cooperate for
development of tourism sector.....
"PERSPECTIVES": "Favourable economic
environment" |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | News and Periodicals Enterprise, Ministry of Information, Union of Myanmar |
| Format/size: | | pdf (2.1MB) |
| Date of entry/update: | | 12 May 2012 |
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"The New Light of Myanmar" 2012
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| Title: | | "The Myanmar Times" (Burmese) 4 May 2012- Vol. 29, No.567"ျမန္မာတိုင္း(မ္)"အတြဲ ၂၉ ၊ အမွတ္ ၅၆၇ ၊ ၄-၅-၂၀၁၂ တြင္ လႊင့္တင္သည္
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| Date of publication: | | 04 May 2012 |
| Description/subject: | | ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ လႊတ္ေတာ္ထဲေရာက္ၿပီ အင္န္အယ္လ္ဒီ ကိုယ္စားလွယ္ မ်ား က်မ္းသစၥာ က်ိန္ဆို... ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္၏ ဆံုးျဖတ္ခ်က္ကို ကုလအႀကီးအကဲ ခ်ီးက်ဴးႀကိဳဆို... ဥေရာပသမဂၢက ေက်းလက္ေဒသ ေရရွည္ ဖြံ႕ၿဖိဳးေရး အစီအစဥ္မ်ားကို ဦးစားေပးေဆာင္ရြက္ ေပးသြားမည္... သက္တမ္း ႏွစ္ ၂၀ ေက်ာ္ကားမ်ား မရွိေတာ့ သည္အထိ ယာဥ္အို ယာဥ္ေဟာင္းမ်ား အပ္ႏွံမႈကို အျမဲတမ္း လက္ခံေဆာင္ရြက္ေပးမည္... ဒုကၡသည္ မ်ား ေနရပ္ျပန္ ရန္ ႏိုင္ငံသားခံယူ ခြင့္ ျပန္လည္ရရွိေရး အေရးပါသည္ဟု ကုလ အတြင္းေရးမႉးခ်ဳပ္ အေလးထားေျပာၾကား... စစ္ေဘးသင့္သူမ်ားအတြက္ အလႉရွင္မ်ား အစည္းအေ၀း က်င္းပမည္... လႊတ္ေတာ္ တတိယပံုမွန္ အစည္းအေ၀းမ်ား ႏွစ္ရက္ထပ္မံ ေရႊ႕ဆုိင္းၿပီး ၿပီးဆံုးခဲ့... လုိင္ဇာကုိ သိမ္းပုိက္မည္ မဟုတ္ဟုဆုိ... အမ်ဳိးသားဒီမိုကေရစီ အဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္ လႊတ္ေတာ္တက္ေရာက္သည္ကို ၀မ္းေျမာက္ႀကိဳဆိုေၾကာင္း ဟီလာရီကလင္တန္ ေျပာၾကား... ျမန္မာအား ကူညီရန္အဆင္သင့္ရွိဟု ဂ်ာမနီ၀န္ႀကီး ေျပာၾကား... လြန္ခဲ့ေသာ ၁၄ ႏွစ္က သိမ္းယူခံခဲ့ရသည့္ လယ္ယာေျမမ်ားအတြက္ လယ္သမားမ်ားက နစ္နာေၾကး ေတာင္းဆုိ... အလုပ္သမားႏွင့္ အလုပ္ရွင္အဖြဲ႕မ်ားကို အသိအမွတ္ျပဳ လက္မွတ္မ်ား ထုတ္ေပး... ကခ်င္ျပည္နယ္တြင္ ကုလ၏ အကူအညီမ်ား ရပ္ဆိုင္းထားရ... ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕မီးေပးေရး ၂၅ မဂၢါ၀ပ္ထြက္ရွိမည့္ 'ကန္'လုပ္ ယာဥ္တင္ ေရြ႕လ်ား မီးစက္ေလးလုံး ငွားရမ္း အသုံးျပဳမည္... အာမခံလုပ္ငန္းကုိ ပုဂၢလိကအား လုပ္ကိုင္ခြင့္ေပးေတာ့မည္... သူတို႔ေျပာတဲ့ ေရတစ္စက္ရဲ႕တန္ဖိုး... ၿမိဳ႕ေတာ္စည္ပင္ အငွားယာဥ္မ်ား အငွားခ်ထားမႈ ရပ္ဆိုင္း... အာရွဖြံ႕ၿဖိဳးေရး ဘဏ္က ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံအား ေႂကြးက်န္မ်ား ေပးဆပ္ၿပီးလွ်င္ ကူညီမည္ဟုဆို... (၆၄)ႀကိ္မ္ေျမာက္ တိပိဋကဓရ တိပိဋကေကာ၀ိဒ ဘြဲ႕တံဆိပ္ ဆက္ကပ္ပြဲက်င္းပမည္... အေရးေပၚလူနာတင္ယာဥ္ေဖာင္ေဒးရွင္းကို ဆရာ၀န္အသင္းမွ ဦးစီးတည္ေထာင္သြားမည္... ထုိင္းႏုိင္ငံတြင္ ဆဲလ္အစားထုိးကုသမႈကုိ ပိတ္ပင္လုိက္သည့္ အတြက္ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံသားမ်ား ေဆးကုသစရိတ္ ပုိမုိျမင့္မားလာ... အေရွ႕ေတာင္အာရွတြင္ ကာလၾကာရွည္ျဖစ္ ပြားေနေသာ ပဋိပကၡမ်ား ေတြ႕ဆံုေဆြးေႏြးျခင္းျဖင့္ ရလဒ္ေကာင္းမ်ားထြက္ေပၚ... အပစ္အခတ္ရပ္စဲေရး တင္မဟုတ္ဘဲ ထာ၀ရ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးရသည္ အထိ ေဆာင္ရြက္မည္... ကေမၻာဒီးယားမွ ထုိင္း-ျမန္မာနယ္စပ္သုိ႔ လ်င္ျမန္စြာ ျပန္႔ပြား လာေသာ ေဆးယဥ္လာသည့္ ငွက္ဖ်ားေရာဂါပုိး... ဒဂုံဆိပ္ကမ္းတြင္ ၀မ္းပ်က္ ၀မ္းေလွ်ာ ျဖစ္ပြားမႈရွိခဲ့... World Press Freedom Day - May 3, 2012ကမၻာ႔သတင္း လြတ္လပ္ခြင့္ေန႔... အေမရိကန္ ကုမၸဏီမ်ား ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံတြင္ လာေရာက္ရင္းႏွီး ျမႇဳပ္ႏွံခြင့္အတြက္ ပြင့္လင္းစြာ ေတာင္းဆိုမႈမ်ား ျပဳလုပ္လာ... ဧၿပီလကုန္ပိုင္းတြင္ ငါးေဈးႏႈန္းမ်ား သိသာစြာ က်ဆင္းလာ... ျပည္ပပို႔ဆန္အခ်ဳိ႕ သတ္မွတ္စံမမီ ၍ ေဈးေလွ်ာ့ေရာင္းခ်ခဲ့ရ... အသစ္ေျပာင္းလဲ က်င့္သံုး လုိက္ေသာ ေငြလဲႏႈန္းရွင္ စနစ္ေၾကာင့္ ႏုိင္ငံ့ စီးပြားေရးလုပ္ငန္းတြင္ အက်ဳိးသက္ေရာက္မႈမ်ားစြာ ရွိလာႏိုင္ဟု ကြ်မ္းက်င္သူမ်ားသံုးသပ္... ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ၏ ျပဳျပင္ေျပာင္းလဲေရးေၾကာင့္
ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံမွ ေဂါက္သီးသမားမ်ားအတြက္
အနာဂတ္ေကာင္းကိုေတြ႕ေနရ... အေမရိကန္ႏွင့္ ဗီယက္နမ္ ပူးတြဲစစ္ေရးေလ့က်င့္... |
| Language: | | Burmese/ ျမန္မာဘာသာ |
| Source/publisher: | | Myanmar Consolidated Media Co.Ltd. |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 12 May 2012 |
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"The Myanmar Times" (Burmese) 2012/ ျမန္မာတိုင္းမ္- ၂၀၁၂
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| Title: | | "The Myanmar Times" (Burmese) 10 May 2012- Vol. 29, No.568"ျမန္မာတိုင္း(မ္)"အတြဲ ၂၉ ၊ အမွတ္ ၅၆၈ ၊ ၁၀-၅-၂၀၁၂ တြင္ လႊင့္တင္သည္။
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| Date of publication: | | 10 May 2012 |
| Description/subject: | | ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးတည္ေဆာက္ရာ၌ အမ်ဳိးသမီးမ်ား ပါ၀င္ရန္လိုအပ္... ၾကည့္ျမင္တုိင္ စက္ဆန္းတစ္ရြာလံုးရွိ သမၺန္မ်ား အား ေျပးဆြဲခြင့္ ပိတ္ထား... ၂၀၁၂-၁၃ ႏုိင္ငံေတာ္ ဘတ္ဂ်က္ကို တေစ့တေစာင္း ဆန္းစစ္
ေလ့လာျခင္းႏွင့္ လူတုိင္း သာတူညီမွ် ဖြံ႕ၿဖိဳးတုိးတက္မႈအတြက္
အၾကံျပဳခ်က္ အခ်ဳိ႕... ျမန္မာ၏ အနာဂတ္ကို ေလးေလး နက္နက္ ေမွ်ာ္လင့္ထားဟု ကုလသမဂၢအႀကီးအကဲ ဘန္ကီမြန္း ေျပာၾကား... ယခုႏွစ္ မုတ္သံုရာသီ ကာလ၌ မိုးရြာသြန္းမႈ အားေကာင္းႏိုင္... သႀကၤန္ပြဲ ဗုံးခြဲသူ ေသဒဏ္ခ်မွတ္... အမ်ဳိးသမီးမ်ား ၾကံဳေတြ႕ေနရသည့္ စိန္ေခၚမႈမ်ားကို ေလ့လာ သြားမည္... ေဇကမၻာမွ ယူထားေသာ လယ္ေျမမ်ားေပၚတြင္ မုိးစပါးျပန္စုိက္ မည္ဟု မဂၤလာဒုံၿမိဳ႕နယ္ ေရႊနံ႔သာ စံျပေက်းရြာမွ လယ္သမားမ်ားက ေၾကညာ... ပိုလန္က ပညာသင္ဆုေပးရန္ ျမန္မာႏွင့္နားလည္မႈစာခ်ဳပ္ခ်ဳပ္ဆို... ဆႏၵမဲလက္မွတ္မ်ားတြင္ ဖေယာင္းသုတ္ထားသည္ဟု NLD ၏ စြပ္စြဲမႈကို ျပည္ေထာင္စုေရြးေကာက္ပြဲေကာ္မရွင္က မွန္ကန္မႈ မရွိဟု သတင္းထုတ္ျပန္... ႏိုင္ငံေတာ္ဖြဲ႕စည္းပံုအေျခခံ ဥပေဒဆုိင္ရာခံု႐ံုး အၿပီးသတ္ ဆံုးျဖတ္ခ်က္မ်ား ခ်မွတ္... ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံတြင္ စေတာ့အိတ္ခ်ိန္း တစ္ရပ္ ေပၚေပါက္ေရး တိုက်ဳိ စေတာ့အိတ္ခ်ိန္းႏွင့္ စတင္ ပူးေပါင္းေဆာင္ရြက္မည္... ကုလသမဂၢ ခရီးသြားအဖြဲ႕သို႔ ျပန္လည္၀င္ရန္ သမၼတက တရား၀င္ ဆႏၵျပဳေတာင္းဆို... သတင္းသမားမ်ားအား ကာကြယ္ေပးမည့္ ဥပေဒ ေပၚလာရန္ ၀ါရင့္သတင္းစာဆရာမ်ား ေတာင္းဆို... ကမၻာ့စာနယ္ဇင္း လြတ္လပ္ခြင့္ အခမ္းအနားကို ပထမဆံုးက်င္းပ... ဂ်ာနယ္လစ္ ကြန္ရက္၏ ပထမအႀကိမ္ ညီလာခံက်င္းပ... လူ႔ေဘာင္ အဖြဲ႕အစည္းတြင္ မသန္စြမ္း သူမ်ားလည္း ပါ၀င္ႏုိင္ခြင့္ ရွိရန္ လိုအပ္... ေမာေတာင္ႏွင့္ မဲ့စဲနယ္စပ္ကုန္သြယ္ စခန္းမ်ား တိုးခ်႕ဲဖြင့္လွစ္ သြားမည္... ေလျပင္းႏွင့္ မိုးႀကိဳးပစ္မႈမ်ားေၾကာင့္ ေသဆံုး ပ်က္စီးမႈမ်ားျဖစ္ေပၚ... အလုပ္သမား အဖြဲ႕အစည္းမ်ား လြတ္လပ္စြာ ဖြဲ႕စည္းခြင့္ရရန္ အလုပ္သမားမ်ားေတာင္းဆုိ... စီးပြားေရးဆိုက္ေရာက္ဗီဇာကို ဇြန္ ၁ ရက္ေန႔ စေပးမည္... လူမႈဖူလုံေရးႏွင့္ အလုပ္အကိုင္ကြ်မ္းက်င္မႈ ဖြံ႕ၿဖိဳး တိုးတက္ေရး ဥပေဒမူၾကမ္းႏွစ္ခု ေရးဆြဲလ်က္ရွိ... ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ ပင္လယ္ကူး သေဘၤာသားမ်ား အလုပ္သမား အဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္ ဖြဲ႕စည္း... ၄၄ ႏွစ္ျပည့္ ေမာင္ေမာင္ ဆုိေလ ထီး႐ုိးရွည္အဖြဲ႕သံခ်ပ္ေတြနဲ႔ေဖ်ာ္ေျဖခဲ့... |
| Language: | | Burmese/ ျမန္မာဘာသာ |
| Source/publisher: | | Myanmar Consolidated Media Co.Ltd. |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 12 May 2012 |
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Weekly magazines
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"The Myanmar Times"
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"The Myanmar Times" (Burmese) 2012/ ျမန္မာတိုင္းမ္- ၂၀၁၂
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| Title: | | "The New Light of Myanmar" Friday 11 May 2012
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| Date of publication: | | 11 May 2012 |
| Description/subject: | | DOMESTIC NEWS: Work Committee for Drawing Farmland
Bylaws (Draft) and Virgin and Fallow Land
Management Bylaws (Draft) meets...Significant
Day
Temperatures
(10-5-2012)...MYANMAR GAZETTE...Continuous nursing education
talked in Mawlamyine...Trophies handed over in
Dagon Myothit (South)
Township...Duties assigned for implementation of
plans at Nay Pyi Taw Council Area...Permission granted to Tailai (Red Shan) Nationalities
Development Party (TNDP) for registration as political party...Sites for port, river-water pumping
tasks inspected...Respect paid, merit shared, library opened...AMBULANCE DONATED [photo]...362,165 GSMs, WCDMAs
installed in regions...Cash donated to fund of Home
for the Aged...Equipment for taking physical exercises
installed at bund of Meiktila Lak...Township Writers Association
formed in Thanlyin...Commerce graduates to organize
workshop 13 May...Information for trafficking
in person...Basic vocational courses
opened in Muse...Informal advanced meeting on green
economy, green development held...First IRS Inter-Club Pencak Silat
Championship concludes...Fire drill demonstrated at CBM.....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Union Minister for Information
and for Culture receives
Managing Director of
NTEGRATOR Co of Singapore...Ambassador accredited to
Brazil...Union Energy Minister receives Polish
FM, Hong Kong guests...Myanmar-Poland economic seminar opened...Polish FM donates furnishings to monastic education schools...Dy Construction Minister
receives Team Leader of
JICA...Chartered planes of
Myanma Airways
available...Myanmar entrepreneurs
invited to SHRM 2012 Annual
Conference & Exposition...Fares of ship trips changed for
tourists...Union EP-2 Minister receives
ADB Director-General...Union Finance and Revenue Minister
receives guests...Union Health Minister
receives Global Women’s
Affairs Ambassador...Union Minister receives Qatar
Airways officials...CBM Governor receives World Bank East Asia
and Pacific Region Director...Dy Home Affairs Minister receives
De La Rue Director...Asia-Pacific Junior Golf
Championship 15-18 May.....
"PERSPECTIVES": "Myanmar to be next
economic frontier in Asia".....
ARTICLE: "Noblest task for purification, perpetuation,
propagation and promotion of Buddha Sasana" Ba Sein
(Religious Affairs) |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | News and Periodicals Enterprise, Ministry of Information, Union of Myanmar |
| Format/size: | | pdf (2.2MB) |
| Date of entry/update: | | 11 May 2012 |
| | RR > Print and broadcast media produced by the Government of Burma/Myanmar
>
Full, original versions of "The New Light of Myanmar", "Kyemon" and "Myanmar Alin"
>
"The New Light of Myanmar" 2012
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|
| Title: | | The Last Frontier: Burma's Chinland In Transition - A Project Maje Update Report, April 2012
|
| Date of publication: | | April 2012 |
| Description/subject: | | "In mid-2012, with reforms taking hold in central Burma, war raging in the north, and a possible peace process in the east, little attention is being paid to Burma's western regions, including the homelands of the indigenous peoples known as the Chins. A group of culturally similar, but linguistically diverse ethnic peoples associated with highland lifestyles (although many live in river valleys), the people who have been called "Chins" in Burma have historically lived in Chin State, Sagaing Division, and far northern Arakan. These areas of residence are known as Chinland, particularly in indigenous-rights contexts. Some of these people prefer to be called Zo, and regional/tribal/linguistic names are often used in addition to "Chin" or instead of "Chin." Some of them who live in other countries use "Burmese" to describe their origins, or are described that way by others. Total population estimates of the "Chin" people of Burma, including residents outside of Burma, come to around 1.5 million.
This update report is composed of interviews with people who identify themselves as Chin or Zo. The interviews took place in March-April 2012 in India: Delhi and Mizoram State (which borders Burma's Chin State). The interviews contain information on the current situation within Chinland and on the conditions for refugees and migrants in India. Of particular interest are Chin opinions on what the benchmarks would be for safe return to their homeland. A range of responses to change in Burma are observable. Some Chin refugees have already returned, some have gone back to visit for the first time in decades, and the majority apparently do not trust Burma's military/government and express a "wait and see" viewpoint..." |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Project Maje |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 11 May 2012 |
| | ML > Non-Burman and non-Buddhist groups
>
Ethnic groups in Burma (cultural, political)
>
Single Groups
>
Chin (Zo)- economic, social, cultural, political
|
|
| Title: | | MIGRANT INFORMATION NOTE Issue #15-May 2012 (English)
|
| Date of publication: | | May 2012 |
| Description/subject: | | "This issue of the IOM Migrant Information Note (MIN) details the latest developments in the nationality verification procedures for Cambodian, Lao and Myanmar/Burmese migrant workers in Thailand and specifically addresses their access to the social security system and health care. in addition, it discusses the recent increase in minimum wage standards implemented nationwide, offers the latest available statistics on migrants with work permits in Thailand, and outlines progress made by government agencies in terms of anti-human trafficking, migrant education, social wellbeing and quality of life." |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | International Organization for Migration (IOM) |
| Format/size: | | pdf (151K - OBL version; 457K - original) |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://www.burmalibrary.org/docs13/IOM-Migrant_Info_Note_No_15(en).pdf |
| Date of entry/update: | | 11 May 2012 |
| | ML > Migration
>
Migration from Burma
>
Migrant Workers from Burma
>
Migrant workers' registration in Thailand - texts and guidelines
|
|
| Title: | | IOM Health Programme
|
| Description/subject: | | Downloadable reports relating to migrant health in Thailand in English and/or Thai:
"HIV Triangulation Report" (English)- June 2010..."Migrant Health Program Model" (Thai)- June 2010..."Migration and HIV/AIDS in Thailand: A desk review of Migrant Labour Sectors" (English)- September 2008..."Healthy Migrants, Healthy Thailand: A Migrant Health Programme Model" (English) - September 2009..."Assessment of Mobility and HIV Vulnerability among Myanmar Migrant sex workers and factory workers in Mae Sot District, Tak Province, Thailand" Assessment of Mobility and HIV Vulnerability among Myanmar Migrant sex workers and factory workers in Mae Sot District, Tak Province, Thailand, 2007 (English) - September 2009..."Financing Healthcare for Migrants: A case Study from Thailand" (English) - September 2009..." Avian and Human Influenza Pandemic Preparedness Plan in 4 Piloted Districts of Chiang Rai Province, 2008" (English, Thai) เตรียมพร้อมรับการระบาดใหญ่ของโรคไข้หวัดนก
และโรคไข้หวัดใหญ่สายพันธุ์ใหม่
ใน 4 อำเภอนำร่อง จังหวัดเชียงราย พ.ศ. 2551..."Activity Manual for Immigration Officers and Relevant Persons in Migrant Health Care, 2008" (English)... คู่มือกิจกรรมการพัฒนาบทบาท
ของเจ้าหน้าที่ตำรวจตรวจคนเข้าเมืองและผู้ที่เกี่ยวข้อง
ในการดูแลสุขภาพผู้ย้ายถิ่น (Thai) |
| Source/publisher: | | International Organization for Migration (IOM) |
| Format/size: | | html, pdf |
| Date of entry/update: | | 11 May 2012 |
| | ML > Health
>
Health of Burmese refugees and migrants
|
|
| Title: | | Report on the Human Rights Situation in Burma, March 2011-March 2012
|
| Date of publication: | | March 2012 |
| Description/subject: | | "The periodic report of the Network for Human Rights Documentation - Burma (ND-Burma) documents the human rights situation in Burma from March 2011 - March 2012 the period marking President Thein Sein and his government being in office. The ND-Burma periodic report provides up-to-date information on human rights violations (HRVs) and highlights pressing issues and trends within the country. The information gathered covers 16 categories of human rights violations (HRV's), documented in all 14 states and regions across Burma...There is still a serious concern for the human rights situation in Burma. The ongoing civil war in ethnic areas has directly resulted in killings, land confiscation, forced labour, child soldiers, forced relocation, torture and ill treatment. Fighting in Karen State intensified after the 2010 election, until a ceasefire agreement was reached between the KNU and the government's peace negotiation team in January 2012. The Burmese armed forces continue to launch offensives against the Shan State Army (south) and the Shan State Army (North) even though a ceasefire agreement was signed more than four months ago. Finally, a seventeen year ceasefire agreement between the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) and the Burmese armed forces fell apart when the military attacked a strategic KIA post on June 9 2011, despite President Thein Sein ordering the army to haft offensives in Kachin State..." |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Network for Human Rights Documentation - Burma (ND-Burma) |
| Format/size: | | pdf (382K - OBL version; 1.6MB - original) |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://www.nd-burma.org/reports/item/download/89.html
http://www.burmalibrary.org/docs13/HRsituation2011-2012.pdf |
| Date of entry/update: | | 11 May 2012 |
| | ML > Human Rights
>
Various Rights
>
Various rights: reports of violations in Burma
>
Various rights: reports of violations against several ethnic groups
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|
| Title: | | MICROFINANCE INDUSTRY REPORT Myanmar
|
| Date of publication: | | 2010 |
| Description/subject: | | "...The development of microfinance in Myanmar
requires a concerted effort between the
government, donors and the other microfinance
stakeholders. Throughout Asia microfinance has
proved to be an indispensable tool in poverty
alleviation strategies. Depending on each country,
the dominant model varies from NGO-MFIs type
(Bangladesh) to government sponsored programs
(Sri Lanka, Indonesia), to a mix of both (India). A
handful of microfinance actors already exist in
Myanmar and could pave the way to a NGO-MFIs
structured model benefiting from the support of
donors and government.
This report makes two sets of recommendations.
>> The first is aimed at donor countries, which in the
short- to medium-term will play a key role for the
development of microfinance. Given the lack of
other sources of financing, donors should increase
their support towards Myanmar’s microfinance
sector as part of their effort to alleviate poverty
and promote growth by improving and expanding
access to affordable rural finance. Donors should
also be willing to support any initiative aimed at
introducing a specific microfinance regulatory
framework.
>> The second recommendation is aimed at the
Myanmar authorities and other microfinance
stakeholders. It is recommended that a specific
microfinance regulatory and legal framework
is introduced, enabling the development of a
sustainable and effective microfinance sector.
However, such framework should be introduced
gradually and in a phased manner, after a process
of consultation with and capacity building of
relevant stakeholders..." |
| Author/creator: | | Sophie Vincent |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Foundation for Development Cooperation, Banking With the Poor Network and Agence d’Aide à la Coopération Technique Et au Développement (ACTED) |
| Format/size: | | pdf (2.25MB) |
| Date of entry/update: | | 10 May 2012 |
| | ML > Economy
>
Microfinance
|
|
| Title: | | "The New Light of Myanmar" Tuesday 8 May 2012
|
| Date of publication: | | 08 May 2012 |
| Description/subject: | | DOMESTIC NEWS: Special Refresher Course No. 80 for basic
education teachers opens...Significant Day Temperatures
(7-5-2012)...Union Minister inspects Pathein Main
Sub-power Station...Ayeyawady Region Hluttaw
Speaker attends ceremony to
mark Fullmoon Day of Kason...Measures for proper drainage inspected...Ayeyarwaddy International School opened...16th Coordinating Committee on Customs held...Information for trafficking in person...Thudhamma public rest houses
renovated in Mandalay...Fire kills one in Hlinethaya Township...Blood donation marks 66th
Anniversary Fire Brigade Day...Palethwe paddy strain harvested on model plot
in Kyaiklat Township...E-government promotion training course,
e-mail, Internet course open...Armament ceremony of people’s militia held
in Tarlawgyi Village, Hsinbo Sub-township,
Kachin State...Computer and English Proficiency
Courses open...Establishment of political parties
scrutinized, passed...Tachilek Township Writers Association formed...Books, publications donated to Nay Pyi Taw
General Hospital (1000-bed)...Bhamo District observes Workers’ Day...Palethwe hybrid paddy
plantation thriving in Yesagyo...Respects paid to retired teachers...Myanmar Medical Association
to conduct Strengthening CME...Kawlin Township Writers
Association formed...MLF invites cash, book
donations...Bookkeeping course kicks off in Magway...Outstanding police members
honoured in Meiktila...Car Import Supervisory Committee meets...Myanmar Traditional Chess
Championship-2012 continues.....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Union Minister for Information
and for Culture receives
Ambassador of Israel...Appointment of South African
Ambassador agreed on...Appointment of Nepalese
Ambassador agreed on...U Soe Nwe appointed as
Ambassador to Germany...U Min Lwin appointed as
Ambassador to Indonesia...U Zaw Tun appointed as
Ambassador to Serbia...Lt-Gen Yar Pyae and party leave for India...Initiative Regional Forum to enhance
Collaborative Activities for
Establishment of Ancient Cities Network
of ASEAN held...UMFCCI officials meet Brazilian entrepreneurs...US, Canada issue statements for suspension of
some sanctions against Myanmar.....
"PERSPECTIVES": "We can prevent water-borne
diseases".....
ARTICLE: "The key to successful aging is successful living" Than Daing Kaung (Meiktila) |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | News and Periodicals Enterprise, Ministry of Information, Union of Myanmar |
| Format/size: | | pdf (2.3MB) |
| Date of entry/update: | | 10 May 2012 |
| | RR > Print and broadcast media produced by the Government of Burma/Myanmar
>
Full, original versions of "The New Light of Myanmar", "Kyemon" and "Myanmar Alin"
>
"The New Light of Myanmar" 2012
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|
| Title: | | "The New Light of Myanmar" Wednesday 9 May 2012
|
| Date of publication: | | 09 May 2012 |
| Description/subject: | | DOMESTIC NEWS: Waxed ballot complaint by NLD a sham, suggests UEC investigation...In time of new government, pensions of retired service
personnel who had difficulties with their insufficient
monthly pensions increased...Significant Day Temperatures
(8-5-2012)...NPED Dy Minister meets district/township
planning committees in Bago, Mandalay...Dy Construction
Minister inspects
Sittoung Bridge
(Natthangwin) worksite...Improvement of English
Proficiency Skills for
staff discussed...Bamboo chairs marketable in
Yedashe Township...Respects paid to aged in
Ponnagyun for 16th time...Twantay Township gets self-reliant village library...Books, publications donated to
libraries of monastic education
school in Pyay Township...Special Refresher Course for Basic Education
Teachers No (46) commences...Palethwe hybrid paddy harvested on model plot
in Wakema Township...AIDS Knowledge and Hygienic Habit Course
conducted...Tiger Myanmar Amateur
Open Golf Championship 5-8
June...Meiktila District observes Fire
Brigade Day...Settlement and Land Records Department
concludes Survey Officer Course...Traffic rules
talked in
Tachilek...Bo tree watered at Shwedagon
Pagoda in Tachilek...Workers’ Day observed in
Pantanaw.....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: President U Thein Sein congratulates
Russian President Putin...Union A&I Minister receives FAO Resident Representative...Union Mines Minister receives Member of British
House of Lord (sic)...Spanish entrepreneurs interested in putting investment
in Myanmar...Union Commerce Minister receives Spanish Ambassador...Polish Minister of
Foreign Affairs arrives
in Nay Pyi Taw...IMF says Myanmar could boom if it sticks to reforms...Delegation of US National
War College arrive in Yangon...Coord meeting on Asian Youth and Junior
Class Weightlifting Championships held...Union F&R Minister receives
Indonesian Ambassador,
representatives of Indonesian
government-owned companies...Union L&F Minister receives Indian ambassador...ACCAHZ Preparatory Committee meets...Daw Khin Khin Win, wife of President U Thein Sein,
receives Global Women’s Affairs Ambassador...World Red Cross Day marked in Nay Pyi Taw.....
"PERSPECTIVES": "A kind of dreadful plague"
ARTICLES: "Say it Now!" Khin Aye Kyu..."Tube-well satisfies water demand of Nanmyint
Hill religious region in Myingyan" Byline: Ko Htwe |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | News and Periodicals Enterprise, Ministry of Information, Union of Myanmar |
| Format/size: | | pdf (2.2MB) |
| Date of entry/update: | | 10 May 2012 |
| | RR > Print and broadcast media produced by the Government of Burma/Myanmar
>
Full, original versions of "The New Light of Myanmar", "Kyemon" and "Myanmar Alin"
>
"The New Light of Myanmar" 2012
|
|
| Title: | | "The New Light of Myanmar" Thursday 10 May 2012
|
| Date of publication: | | 10 May 2012 |
| Description/subject: | | DOMESTIC NEWS: Significant Day
Temperatures
(9-5-2012)...Aye Chan Myitta Trading Co Ltd donates Emergency Live
Broadcasting Vehicle to Information Ministry...World Red Cross Day commemorated in
Myitkyina...Pirated DVDs, VCDs destroyed...Plan to clear piles of garbage along railroads
before rainy season...Stakes driven for construction
of library...Tornado hits
Laymyethna
Township...Fire Brigade Day observed in
Aunglan...World Red Cross Day
observed in Taunggyi...National Technical Officer of
International Technical Officer
course opens...Plough conclusion of Palethwe
paddy plantation observed,
payment made for Palethwe
hybrid paddy in advance...Union Minister for Environmental
Conservation and Forestry donates cash
for regional development in Haka Tsp...Union level peace making
group, CNF peace making
group hold talks...Mon State observes World
Red Cross Day...Slight
earthquake
jolts...Palethwe hybrid paddy harvested on model
plot in Hlegu Township...Bo trees watered in Kyauktan Township...Thuta Padetha Library put into service in
Kungyangon Township...Anti-snake venom donated to local farmers...Bo tree watered in Thakayta
Township...Water poured at Bo trees in
Mawlamyinegyun...Fire breaks out in Hlinethaya
Township...Myanmar Libraries
Foundation invites cash,
book donations...Books, publications donated
to Bawa Lanhnyun Library...Entire national people urged to make energetic efforts based on skills
of departmental personnel under supervision of committees at
different levels as 2014 nation-wide taking census is national concern.....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: President U Thein Sein
receives Polish Minister of
Foreign Affairs...Yatanarpon FC back from tune-up matches in Thailand...Myanmar delegation led by Union Construction
Minister visits Singapore, Malaysia...Union Transport
Minister receives officials
of Qatar Airways...Union EP-2 Minister receives Chairman of Busan
Korea Biotechnology Co...Union Commerce Minister
receives Polish FM,
Bangladesh Ambassador...Central Bank of Myanmar
Governor meets officials from
UOB Bank, Korea Exchange...20th ASEAN Sectoral Working Group on Livestock Meeting held...Union Minister meets Chinese experts
in news broadcasting, recording
applying advanced equipment and
technology at sports events.....
"PERSPECTIVES": "What if we don’t respect
the Earth?".....
ARTICLE: "Heart attack one of the leading causes of death globally" Dr Tha Sein |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | News and Periodicals Enterprise, Ministry of Information, Union of Myanmar |
| Format/size: | | pdf (2.4MB) |
| Date of entry/update: | | 10 May 2012 |
| | RR > Print and broadcast media produced by the Government of Burma/Myanmar
>
Full, original versions of "The New Light of Myanmar", "Kyemon" and "Myanmar Alin"
>
"The New Light of Myanmar" 2012
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|
| Title: | | Les nouvelles de BIRMANIE - janvier 2012
|
| Date of publication: | | January 2012 |
| Description/subject: | | Actualités:
Thein sein: « Pas de retour en arrière sur les réformes »...
Amnisitie présidentielle: environ 300 prisonniers politiques libérés...
Allègement ou renforcement de la censure ? ...
Le régime signe des accords de « cessez-le-feu » avec cinq groupes ethniques...
Malgré l’ordre de Thein Sein, les attaques contre les civils continuent dans les régions ethniques...
Pénurie alimentaire dans l’Etat Kachin...
L’Etat Chin menacé par la famine...
La Birmanie au Forum de Davos...
Les investisseurs occidentaux s’intéressent à la Birmanie...
Alain Juppé en visite en Birmanie...
Le Ministre britannique des Affaires étrangères en visite en Birmanie...
L’Australie allège ses sanctions vis-à-vis de la Birmanie...
L’Union européenne allège les sanctions contre la Birmanie mais exhorte le gouvernement à poursuivre ses réformes .....
Eclairage:
Ce que disent les prisonniers politiques.....
Témoignage :
«La libération de mon père est une bonne chose. Mais il n’y a toujours pas de réformes en Birmanie», par Wai Hnin Pwint Thin...
Evènements:
Soirée de solidarité sur la Birmanie à Miramas (13140), le 23 Février à 18H |
| Language: | | Français, French |
| Source/publisher: | | Info Birmanie |
| Format/size: | | pdf (575K) |
| Date of entry/update: | | 10 May 2012 |
| | ML > Activism and Advocacy (groups from Burma, solidarity groups, campaigns, publications)
>
Online publications by Burma solidarity groups
>
"Les Nouvelles de Birmanie", "Birmanie>Net Hebdo"
|
|
| Title: | | Les nouvelles de BIRMANIE - février 2012
|
| Date of publication: | | February 2012 |
| Description/subject: | | Actualités:
Nouvelle session parlementaire: le
budget, priorité nationale...
Aung San Suu Kyi en campagne dans
sa circonscription...
Des restrictions contre le parti d’Aung
San Suu Kyi levées...
Courte amnistie pour U Gambira...
Incendie dans un camp de réfugiés
birmans en Thaïlande...
L’Union Nationale Karen rappelle la
fragilité du cessez-le-feu...
Le nombre de personnes déplacées
augmente en Birmanie du Nord...
La Commission des Droits de l’Homme
réfute l’idée d’une enquête sur les
violences en zones ethniques...
La Commission des Droits de l’Homme
réfute l’idée d’une enquête sur les
violences en zones ethniques...
Médecins Sans Frontières dénonce le
manque de financements pour les
traitements contre le Sida...
Des ouvriers en grève à Rangoun
obtiennent une augmentation de
leur salaire...
Le commissaire de l’UE au
développement visite à son tour la
Birmanie...
La Birmanie envisage la présence
d’observateurs asiatiques aux
élections.....
Eclairage:
Le projet de gazoduc Shwe Gas doit
être suspendu |
| Language: | | Français, French |
| Source/publisher: | | Info Birmanie |
| Format/size: | | pdf (482K) |
| Date of entry/update: | | 10 May 2012 |
| | ML > Activism and Advocacy (groups from Burma, solidarity groups, campaigns, publications)
>
Online publications by Burma solidarity groups
>
"Les Nouvelles de Birmanie", "Birmanie>Net Hebdo"
|
|
| Title: | | Les nouvelles de BIRMANIE - Mars 2012
|
| Date of publication: | | March 2012 |
| Description/subject: | | Actualités:
Raz-de-marée de la LND aux élections
partielles : Aung San Suu Kyi salue «une
nouvelle ère»...
Aung San Suu Kyi évoque des
irrégularités répandues pendant le
scrutin
La LND signale des fraudes avant les
élections
Un discours électoral de Suu Kyi censuré
Le convoi d’Aung San Suu Kyi visé par
des jets de pierre
Souffrante, Aung San Suu Kyi annule la
fin de sa campagne électorale
La Birmanie invite des observateurs
internationaux aux élections d’avril
Les élections partielles reportées dans
l’Etat Kachin
Un leader de la résistance Karen libéré
de façon inconditionnelle
La Birmanie toujours “ennemi
d’Internet” selon RSF
Les conflits armées continuent dans les
régions ethniques
Des troupes birmanes envoyées à
proximité du barrage de Myistone
La Birmanie signe un nouvel accord
pour mettre fin au travail forcé
La Birmanie autorise l’envoi d’une
mission d’aide de l’ONU dans l’Etat
kachin
La Birmanie se dote enfin d’un taux de
change flottant
Eclairage:
Crise Humanitaire dans l’Etat
Kachin
Evènements
Nous soutenir,
nous rejoindre |
| Language: | | Français, French |
| Source/publisher: | | Info Birmanie |
| Format/size: | | pdf (484K) |
| Date of entry/update: | | 10 May 2012 |
| | ML > Activism and Advocacy (groups from Burma, solidarity groups, campaigns, publications)
>
Online publications by Burma solidarity groups
>
"Les Nouvelles de Birmanie", "Birmanie>Net Hebdo"
|
|
| Title: | | THE USE OF RAPE AS A WEAPON OF WAR IN BURMA’S ETHNIC AREAS (English, French)
|
| Date of publication: | | March 2012 |
| Description/subject: | | "With a population of over 50 million people, Burma is
comprised of eight major ethnic nationalities: Burman,
Shan, Karen, Karenni, Mon, Chin, Kachin and Arakan.
Burma’s ethnic groups demand equality, autonomy and
self-determination, but are systematically denied their
rights by the regime. Instead, they are met with human
rights violations: forced labor, forced relocation, religious
persecution, arbitrary arrest and detention, destruction of
thousands of ethnic villages, the driving out of hundreds
of thousands of ethnic civilians to neighboring countries,
and the forced internal displacement of an estimated one
million people.
Worse yet is that Burmese military soldiers are raping
the ethnic women and girls with impunity. Women and
girls from the Shan, Kachin, Chin, Karen, Mon, Karenni
and Arakan states have long suffered under these state-sanctioned
sex crimes. Rape incidents in ethnic areas are
higher than anywhere else in Burma because they are part
of the regime’s strategy to punish the armed resistance
groups or used as a tool to repress various peoples in the
larger agenda of ethnic cleansing.
Although rape has been used by the regime to control the
population for decades, it took years and the courage of
many women to document these crimes. In recent years,
the different women’s groups operating in Burma started
documenting the systematic sexual violence against ethnic
women by the State army soldiers. The total number of
rape victims documented in these reports from Chin,
Shan, Karen, Mon and Kachin states totals 1,859 girls and
women, with some accounts going back as far as 1995.
As a result of these reports, the UN Special Rapporteur
for Human Rights in Burma has repeatedly raised
concerns about the widespread use of sexual violence
by the regime’s troops. However, the military regime and
the “new”, nominally civilian government of Burma, has
continued to deny this atrocity and the sexual violence
continues.
This report will look into the meaning of “rape as a
weapon of war”, the way it is used by the Burmese
military and the response that the Burmese government
and the international community could provide to stop
such practice..." |
| Language: | | Français, French, English |
| Source/publisher: | | Info Birmanie, Swedish Burma Committee |
| Format/size: | | pdf (346K - English; 390K, French) |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://www.info-birmanie.org/web/images/stories/Rapport_le_viol_comme_arme_de_guerre_Mars_2012.pdf |
| Date of entry/update: | | 10 May 2012 |
| | ML > Human Rights
>
Discrimination
>
Women: discrimination/violence against
>
Discrimination/violence against women: reports of violations in Burma
|
|
| Title: | | Les nouvelles de BIRMANIE - Avril 2012
|
| Date of publication: | | April 2012 |
| Description/subject: | | Actualités:
La LND accepte finalement de prêter
serment au Parlement...
Deuxième rencontre entre Aung San
Suu Kyi et le président Thein Sein.
Démission d’un vice-président...
La liberté d’expression toujours bafouée
en Birmanie...
Les discussions préliminaires de cessezle-
feu continuent entre le gouvernement
et les représentants ethniques...
Situation explosive dans l’extrême Nord
malgré les appels à la paix...
Les réfugiés risquent le rapatriement...
L’industrie du tourisme fait face à un
afflux de voyageur...
Reprise des travaux du barrage de
Myitsone...
Suspension des sanctions occidentales...
L’UE veut des réformes «irréversibles»...
Ban Ki-moon en visite en Birmanie...
Le président Thein Sein en visite official
au Japon...
Portrait:
Zayar Thaw, rappeur devenu député.....
Eclairage:
Investissements et commerce en
Birmanie.....
Nous soutenir,
nous rejoindre |
| Language: | | Français, French |
| Source/publisher: | | Info Birmanie |
| Format/size: | | pdf (407K) |
| Date of entry/update: | | 10 May 2012 |
| | ML > Activism and Advocacy (groups from Burma, solidarity groups, campaigns, publications)
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Online publications by Burma solidarity groups
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"Les Nouvelles de Birmanie", "Birmanie>Net Hebdo"
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| Title: | | Myanmar: "In the national interest": Prisoners of conscience, torture, summary trials under martial law.
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| Date of publication: | | 07 November 1990 |
| Description/subject: | | This report provides compelling evidence that real or imputed critics of Myanmar's military government continue to be imprisoned for the peaceful expression of their views. It contains graphic accounts of widespread torture, both of those detained for participation in the pro-democracy movement and of people held in connection with the activities of armed opposition groups representing Myanmar's ethnic minorities. AI's concerns about arrest, detention and judicial procedures under martial law are also described. Profiles of the following prisoners are given: Nay Min, Nan Zing La, Ba Thaw, Ma Theingi, Dr Tin Myo Win, U Aung Khin, Tin Nain Tun, and U Than Nyunt. Testimonies from former and current prisoners, relatives, friends or associates are also included. |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Amnesty International (ASA 16/10/90) |
| Format/size: | | pdf (1.05MB) |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/ASA16/010/1990/en |
| Date of entry/update: | | 10 May 2012 |
| | ML > Human Rights
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Various Rights
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Various rights: reports of violations in Burma
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Amnesty International reports on Burma/Myanmar
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| Title: | | Dooplaya Interview: Saw L---, June 2011
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| Date of publication: | | 01 May 2012 |
| Description/subject: | | "This report contains the full transcript of an interview conducted during June 2011 in T--- village, Kya In Township, Dooplaya District by a villager trained by KHRG to monitor human rights conditions. The villager interviewed 17-year-old T--- villager, Saw N---, who described an incident in which the Tatmadaw Light Infantry Battalion (LIB) #--- fired mortar rounds towards T--- village, in response to an attack by Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA) #107 on their camp near H--- village. Saw N--- and two other T--- villagers were injured by two shells, with one villager, Kyaw M---, later dying as a result of his injuries. Saw N--- highlighted other issues that arose as a consequence of the attack, particularly concerning the cost of healthcare as his relatives had to borrow money to ensure that he received hospital treatment for his injuries. Demands for food from the Tatmadaw were also cited, as well as arbitrary taxation demands levied by armed groups, and taxes on houses and land. Villagers also have to pay the schoolteachers' salaries which comprise 40 baskets of rice paddy shared between the villagers and 4,000 baht (US $133.33) per household each year..." |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Karen Human Rights Group (KHRG) |
| Format/size: | | pdf (331K), html |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://www.khrg.org/khrg2012/khrg12b39.html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 10 May 2012 |
| | ML > Civil War
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The Civil War in Burma (under reconstruction)
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Civil war in Burma - attacks on civilians
Economic oppression, Extortion
Human Rights
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Life, Right to
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Right to Life: reports of violations in Burma
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| Title: | | Pa'an Situation Update: September 2011 to January 2012
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| Date of publication: | | 02 May 2012 |
| Description/subject: | | "This report includes a situation update submitted to KHRG in January 2012 by a villager describing events occurring in Pa'an District between September 2011 and January 2012, and contains updated information concerning military activity in the area, specifically Border Guard Battalion #1017's use of forced labour and their planting of landmines. In September 2011, over 200 villagers from Th---, Sh---, G--- and M--- were forced to harvest beans and corn, an incident which is also described in the report "Pa'an Situation Update: September 2011", published by KHRG on November 25th 2011. Villagers are also described as being forced to porter rations, ammunition and landmines, and carry out various tasks at Battalion #1017's camp. The pervasive presence of landmines has resulted in the deaths of two villagers and injuries to eight others in Sh--- and K--- village tracts, as well as the deaths of villagers' livestock. Information is also provided on the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA) ceasefire with the Tatmadaw and their subsequent transformation into the Border Guard, and how this has reduced the capacity of soldiers to engage in mining and logging enterprises. The subsequent increase in pressure on villagers by DKBA and Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) troops to resist Border Guard military recruitment demands had meant that village heads often fled, rather than serve their one-year term. Villagers' perspectives on the January 2012 ceasefire agreement between the Karen National Union (KNU) and the Burma government are also outlined, as are villagers' responses to abuses, including the introduction of a village head system that rotates on a monthly basis..." |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Karen Human Rights Group (KHRG) |
| Format/size: | | pdf (242K), html |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://www.khrg.org/khrg2012/khrg12b40.html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 10 May 2012 |
| | ML > Human Rights
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Labour Rights
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Labour rights: reports of violations in Burma
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Forced Labour
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Non-ILO Reports on forced fabour, including forced portering, in Karen (Kayin) State
Food Security
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Food Security in Burma/Myanmar
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Destruction/theft of crops and food stores, killing/theft of livestock
Civil War
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The Civil War in Burma (under reconstruction)
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Landmines
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Reports and maps covering anti-personnel landmines and Burma/Myanmar
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| Title: | | Abuses since the DKBA and KNLA ceasefires: Forced labour and arbitrary detention in Dooplaya
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| Date of publication: | | 07 May 2012 |
| Description/subject: | | "In the six months since DKBA Brigade #5 troops under the command of Brigadier-General Saw Lah Pwe ('Na Kha Mwe') agreed to a ceasefire with government forces, and in the four months since a ceasefire was agreed between KNLA and government troops, villagers in Kawkareik Township have continued to raise concerns regarding ongoing human rights abuses, including the arbitrary detention and violent abuse of civilians, and forced labour demands occurring as recently as February 24th 2012. One of the villagers who provided information contained in this report also raised concerns about ongoing landmine contamination in two areas of Kawkareik Township, despite the placing of warning signs in one area in January 2012 and the incomplete removal of some landmines by bulldozer from another area in March 2012. The same villager noted that the remaining landmines, some of which are in a village school compound and in agricultural areas, continue to present serious physical security risks to local villagers, as well as disrupt livelihood activities and children's education." |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Karen Human Rights Group (KHRG) |
| Format/size: | | pdf (296K), html |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://www.khrg.org/khrg2012/khrg12f2.html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 10 May 2012 |
| | ML > Human Rights
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Detentions, Trials, Independence of the Judiciary
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Detentions by the military in conflict areas
Human Rights
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Labour Rights
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Labour rights: reports of violations in Burma
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Forced Labour
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Non-ILO Reports on forced fabour, including forced portering, in Karen (Kayin) State
Civil War
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The Civil War in Burma (under reconstruction)
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Landmines
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Reports and maps covering anti-personnel landmines and Burma/Myanmar
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| Title: | | As Country Opens, Myanmar Businesses Embrace the Global Compact
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| Date of publication: | | 01 May 2012 |
| Description/subject: | | (Yangon, 1 May 2012) – "Speaking to more than 200 participants at a ceremony in Yangon, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon chaired the launch of the UN Global Compact in Myanmar today, underscoring heightened interest in corporate responsibility as the country is going through a process of political and economic reforms.
“In order to deliver prosperity and opportunity widely, Myanmar needs strong and inclusive markets,” the Secretary-General said in his keynote remarks to participants, which also included nearly 50 representatives of the international community, including foreign investors. “Business has to be the backbone of growth. However, investment and business activity must be sustainable and responsible – upholding the highest standards of business ethics.”
The meeting with business and government representatives came on the last day of the Secretary-General’s three-day visit to Myanmar. At the event, 14 companies and the Myanmar Chamber of Commerce formally joined the Global Compact in a signing ceremony..." |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | UN Global Comact |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 10 May 2012 |
| | ML > Human Rights
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Various Rights
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Business and Human Rights
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| Title: | | Building sustainable investment in Myanmar: institutional investors report back EU guidelines for companies active in Burma expected shortly.
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| Date of publication: | | 07 May 2012 |
| Description/subject: | | "...Extractive companies will be tempted by Myanmar’s rich reserves of oil, gas, minerals, and teak. In talks with another multinational company, we were reminded that it is possible to combine activities in the extractive industry with sound sustainable practices such as environmental and social impact assessments, grievance mechanisms and strategic social investments. Since extractive companies inevitably have to work closely with the government, they should leverage government relations to pursue sustainable development and the protection of human rights..." |
| Author/creator: | | Kris Douma |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | responsible-investor.com |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 10 May 2012 |
| | ML > Human Rights
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Various Rights
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Business and Human Rights
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| Title: | | Soldiers using forced labour to be prosecuted
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| Date of publication: | | 09 May 2012 |
| Description/subject: | | "Burmese army personnel suspected of using forced labour will be prosecuted under civilian law, according to senior military chiefs who met with representatives from the International Labour Organization (ILO) in Rangoon last week.
'The Commander in Chief has given instruction that military personnel are similarly covered to all other persons by the law concerning forced labour,' said Steve Marshall during an interview with DVB. '[He] indicated that persons alleged to have utilised forced labour will be prosecuted under the penal code rather than military regulations....." |
| Author/creator: | | Hanna Hindstrom |
| Source/publisher: | | Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 10 May 2012 |
| | ML > International Labour Organisation (ILO)
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News about the ILO and Burma/Myanmar
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| Title: | | "The Myanmar Times" May 7 - 13, 2012, Volume 32, No. 625
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| Date of publication: | | 13 May 2012 |
| Description/subject: | | NEWS: A new era for NLD after reps take oath;
Monopoly mars sales of ‘cheap’ SIM cards;
Water shortages hit Thongwa tsp;
Backdown hints at greater pragmatism;
UN Sec-Gen leaves with ‘profound hope and expectation’;
UN ready assist peace effort in Kachin: Ban;
Ban Ki-moon praises NLD decision on oath;
Hillary Clinton welcomes NLD entry to parliament;
UN to assist with 2014 census;
Workers, activists highlight labour law issues on May Day;
Hotel room rate crisis rolls on;
‘Freedom, democracy depend on each other’;
Training, new laws focus at ceremony;
Govt pledges more press freedom;
Unrestricted press a fundamental foundation of democracy;
Experts urge focus on tobacco education, law enforcement;
MMA to establish ambulance group, says services are inadequate;
Dala could run out of water this week: official;
Makeover for govt negotiating team;
Germany to focus on ‘sustainable’ support;
Japans funds mangroves, scholarships;
After the ‘demographic dividend’...BUSINESS & PROPERTY: Car owners struggle for service;
Car import scheme almost finished: govt;
Govt seeks answers to power shortages as industry sweats;
Fisheries factories battle electricity cuts;
Fisheries industry unveils CMP plan;
ADB expects to return to Myanmar soon;
China’s heritage plan hits strong resistance;
Hamptons home prices rising as luxury beach houses lure buyers;
Squatter squabble in Mayangone tsp...TECHNOLOGY: Microsoft readies shot into tablet market; iPads for infants stir fierce debate...TIMEOUT: Movie traces founding of army by Aung San;
Fashion show to benefit Children’s Hospital;
Exhibit showcases paintings by kids;
Chinese acrobats raise funds for Myanmar libraries;
On Bond film set, everything is top secret;
Afghan museum highlights Buddhism;
Six Asian restaurants on world’s top list;
Munch’s ‘Scream’ sets new auction record at US$120m...TRAVEL: Jeju merges nature, dark history...SPORT: Myanmar traditional chess set to break international stage...EVENTS FLASH: Free art classes;
Art exhibition;
Mother’s Day fair;
Free show...YOUR STARS...FLIGHT SCHEDULES...TEA BREAK: Six Asian restaurants on world’s top list |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Myanmar Consolidated Media Co. Ltd. |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 09 May 2012 |
| | RR > Private sector publications produced under censorship restrictions
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Weekly magazines
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"The Myanmar Times"
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"The Myanmar Times" (English) 2012
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| Title: | | Myanmar: Recent developments related to human rights
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| Date of publication: | | 01 November 1990 |
| Description/subject: | | This report describes some of the human rights violations which have taken place in Myanmar between May and September 1990, including the arrest of political activists and ill-treatment of political prisoners. It reports the continuing detention of members and leaders of the National League for Democracy (NLD), namely: Aung San Suu Kyi, Tin U, Kyi Maung, Chit Kaing, Ohn Kyaing, Thein Dan, Ye Myint Aung, Sein Kla Aung, Kyi Hla, Sein Hlaing, Myo Myint Nyein, and Nyan Paw. Three leaders of the Democratic Party for a New Society have also been arrested: Kyi Win, Ye Naing, Ngwe Oo. |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Amnesty International (ASA 16/28/90) |
| Format/size: | | pdf (10K) |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/ASA16/028/1990/en |
| Date of entry/update: | | 08 May 2012 |
| | ML > Human Rights
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Various Rights
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Various rights: reports of violations in Burma
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Amnesty International reports on Burma/Myanmar
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| Title: | | Myanmar: Update on human rights violations
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| Date of publication: | | 01 December 1990 |
| Description/subject: | | This document reports the repression of peaceful opponents of Myanmar's Military Government (SLORC), including political party activists and buddhist monks. Unofficial reports suggest that some 90 National League for Democracy (NLD) members were arrested in late October, along with the entire leadership of the Democratic Party for a new Society. Amongst those imprisoned for political activities are Ohn Kyaing, Thein Dan, Kyi Maung, Chit Kaing and Nita Yin Yin May. Among the buddhist monks and lay religious supporters arrested for involvement in a boycott of the military are: U Laba, alias U Layama, Ma Khin Mar Swe, Daw Nan, Maung Aye alias Khin Maung Aye and U Soe Myint. Ill-treatment of hunger-strikers is also reported, including the death of Maung Ko. |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Amnesty International (ASA 16/39/90) |
| Format/size: | | pdf (16K), html |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/ASA16/039/1990/en |
| Date of entry/update: | | 08 May 2012 |
| | ML > Human Rights
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Various Rights
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Various rights: reports of violations in Burma
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Amnesty International reports on Burma/Myanmar
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| Title: | | "The New Light of Myanmar" Monday 7 May 2012
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| Date of publication: | | 07 May 2012 |
| Description/subject: | | DOMESTIC NEWS: Union A&I Minister inspects
dredging of Bago River...(OIAC-2) Boarding & Private School
(Nay Pyi Taw) commissioned into service...Yangon Region government gets two ambulances...Bago Region Chief Minister
waters Bo tree...Rakhine State Chief Minister
attends Fire Brigade Day
ceremony...Water pours at Bo tree on
Fullmoon Day of Kason...UNIFORM GIVEN: [photo]...Pathein Association holds
Annual General Meeting...Fire breaks out in
Aungmyethazan
Township...Myanmar Writers Association Organizing
Committee meets for third time...Recruitment of blood donors explained...Htidaw-hoisting ceremony of TheindawU
Pagoda in Pyawbwe held...Union Cooperatives and L&F
Minister receives President of
Myanmar Region of CP Livestock...Taninthayi Region Chief Minister
attends celebration of Fire Brigade Day...Sagaing Region Chief Minister views
regional development tasks...Fire Brigade Day observed
in Pathein...363 culprits arrested in 278
drug-related cases...Plan to realize child-centred
academic system...World Veterinary Day
observed in Hlegu...Over 260 people
fall into storm
victims in
Maubin
Township...Self-reliant concrete commissioned into service...Survey experiences of children
recounted...Blazed transformer substituted with new
equipment in time in Pazundaung Township...Basic fire fighting course kicks
off in Tatkon...Farmland laws, vacant and
virgin lands law clarified...Dredging creek in Hsipaw hail Fire
Brigade Day...BO TREES WATERED [photo]...OFFICE OPENED: [photo]...Kason water-pouring
ceremony held in Theingon
Village of Yamethin Tsp...Alin Saytaman Library opened
in Indaw Township...Noteworthy amounts of rainfall
(6-5-2012).....
EXTERNAL RELATIONS: Pyithu Hluttaw Speaker Thura U Shwe Mann
leaves for Germany, Belgium...Chinese acrobatic troupe shows their
performances in Mandalay...Myanmar
delegation leaves for
Cambodia...Ginger, turmeric from Koekway, Taungkya
regions become export products.....
"PERSPECTIVES": "Change with climate change".....
ARTICLE: "MYA NANDAR AND MYANMAR THINGYAN" By Ba Than..."Artesian wells turn yellow plain to greener one"
Article: Tin Htway (MNA); Photos: Ko Htway |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | News and Periodicals Enterprise, Ministry of Information, Union of Myanmar |
| Format/size: | | pdf (2.7MB) |
| Date of entry/update: | | 07 May 2012 |
| | RR > Print and broadcast media produced by the Government of Burma/Myanmar
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Full, original versions of "The New Light of Myanmar", "Kyemon" and "Myanmar Alin"
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"The New Light of Myanmar" 2012
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| Title: | | Japan's Itochu joins the charge of the mining brigade in to Burma
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| Date of publication: | | 04 May 2012 |
| Description/subject: | | "It is reported in the Japanese press today that Itochu Corp has begun a feasibility study in the country to isolate specialty metals including tungsten and molybdenum.
This follows approaches by Japanese officials last year trying to get a deal with Burma for access to rare earths, the elements vital to Japanese industry’s high tech and hybrid car programs.
South Korea has also been lobbying the Burmese over rare earths. Chinese companies have also been eyeing projects in the country. In 2008, China National Petroleum Corp signed a 30-year gas agreement covering production from three blocks in the Bay of Bengal.
But this is only the beginning. The country will be a big target because it has bountiful resources in close proximity to resource-hungry India and China..." |
| Author/creator: | | Robin Bromby |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | "The Australian" |
| Format/size: | | html |
| Date of entry/update: | | 06 May 2012 |
| | ML > Economy
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Industry
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Extractive industries
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Mining
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Minerals and Mining - General
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| Title: | | The Mineral Industry of Burma (Myanmar) 2004
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| Date of publication: | | 2005 |
| Description/subject: | | For over 40 years the U.S. Bureau of Mines has issued an annual summary of mining activity in Burma which is now available on-line from 1994. These useful reports include information about surveying, mapping, exploration, concession grants, mineral exports and imports and the operations of major mining companies, as well as a valuable five year tonnage table for all major mineral products. The reports cover a wide range of mine products including base metals, precious metals, non-metallic minerals and petroleum. Cement and steel products are also covered. The focus of these reports is on large-scale mining operations and they tend to leave out of consideration the activities of smaller national companies and the mining 'rushes' that occur from time to time, attracting the participation of thousands from around the country. There is little emphasis on the environmental concerns associated with mining activities in Burma. Burmese government reports provide the major sources for the information provided in these reports, but, particularly in recent years, they have also included information from the section on Burma (Myanmar) in the Mining Annual Review produced by the Journal of Mining. The reports are usually a year out-of-date by the time are made available on-line... OUTLOOK:
"Burma’s economy is expected to grow in 2005 and 2006 at a rate of 6% and 5%, respectively, on the basis of GDP at purchasing power parity. By 2006, trade between Burma and India is expected to increase by 134% following an MOU signed in 2004. Production in the mining sector will likely follow the trend in recent years and continue to be dominated by the copper, natural gas, and petroleum industries.
Exploration activity in Burma will have a tendency to continue to increase mainly as the result of the many exploration projects that started in 2004; these included two gold deposits, Modi Taung and Set Ga Done, and the developments that involve natural gas and petroleum, both onshore and offshore. Preliminary exploration that shows high-grade discoveries of nickel and zinc could also open Burma’s doors to new markets within the next few years. Burma could become a leading mineral producer in Asia if ongoing explorations are proven to be feasible and profitable to develop.
Expansion and development plans in the S&K Mine and the Lepadaung deposit will increase annual copper production capacities within the next 4 years. The S&K Mine is expected to achieve production of from 50,000 to 80,000 t/yr, and Letpadaung, to reach copper production of from 125,000 to 150,000 t/yr. In addition, the discovery of a potentially significant high-grade copper zone in the Sabetaung area could increase the production of copper even more and transform the Monywa Copper Project into the leading SX-EW copper producer in Asia.
The development of interregional gas pipelines, increases in natural gas consumption in Asia and the Pacific region, and the discovery of new gasfields in Burma are circumstances that will place Burma as a key producer in the region. Also, recent gas discoveries in Burma could increase gas exports to Thailand, which is Burma’s main natural gas importer." |
| Author/creator: | | Yolanda Fong-Sam |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | US Geological Survey (USGS) |
| Format/size: | | pdf (115K), xls |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/country/2004/bmmyb04.xls |
| Date of entry/update: | | 06 May 2012 |
| | ML > Economy
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Industry
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Extractive industries
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Mining
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Minerals and Mining - General
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| Title: | | The Mineral Industry of Burma (Myanmar) 2005
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| Date of publication: | | 2006 |
| Description/subject: | | For over 40 years the U.S. Bureau of Mines has issued an annual summary of mining activity in Burma which is now available on-line from 1994. These useful reports include information about surveying, mapping, exploration, concession grants, mineral exports and imports and the operations of major mining companies, as well as a valuable five year tonnage table for all major mineral products. The reports cover a wide range of mine products including base metals, precious metals, non-metallic minerals and petroleum. Cement and steel products are also covered. The focus of these reports is on large-scale mining operations and they tend to leave out of consideration the activities of smaller national companies and the mining 'rushes' that occur from time to time, attracting the participation of thousands from around the country. There is little emphasis on the environmental concerns associated with mining activities in Burma. Burmese government reports provide the major sources for the information provided in these reports, but, particularly in recent years, they have also included information from the section on Burma (Myanmar) in the Mining Annual Review produced by the Journal of Mining. The reports are usually a year out-of-date by the time are made available on-line...OUTLOOK: "By 2006, trade between Burma and India is expected to increase as a result of the MOU signed in 2004. Production in the mining sector will likely follow the trend of recent years in which the mining sector was dominated by the copper, natural gas, and petroleum industries.
Natural gas exploration activities in Burma are expected to continue to increase during 2006 mainly as the result of the many exploration projects and discoveries that were started in 2005. In 2006, the Indo-Korean consortium that holds interests in offshore natural gas Blocks A1 and A3 plans to start appraisal wells in Block A1 and to begin an exploration drilling program in Block A3 (Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) Videsh Ltd., 2005§).
Expansion and development plans in the S&K Mine is expected to increase annual copper production capacities within the next few years. In the meantime, a decline in copper production is expected during 2006 owing to decreased copper grades encountered in the Sabetaung deposit in 2005." |
| Author/creator: | | Yolanda Fong-Sam |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | US Geological Survey (USGS) |
| Format/size: | | pdf (120K), xls |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/country/2005/bmmyb05.xls |
| Date of entry/update: | | 06 May 2012 |
| | ML > Economy
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Industry
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Extractive industries
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Mining
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Minerals and Mining - General
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| Title: | | The Mineral Industry of Burma (Myanmar) 2006
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| Date of publication: | | 2007 |
| Description/subject: | | For over 40 years the U.S. Bureau of Mines has issued an annual summary of mining activity in Burma which is now available on-line from 1994. These useful reports include information about surveying, mapping, exploration, concession grants, mineral exports and imports and the operations of major mining companies, as well as a valuable five year tonnage table for all major mineral products. The reports cover a wide range of mine products including base metals, precious metals, non-metallic minerals and petroleum. Cement and steel products are also covered. The focus of these reports is on large-scale mining operations and they tend to leave out of consideration the activities of smaller national companies and the mining 'rushes' that occur from time to time, attracting the participation of thousands from around the country. There is little emphasis on the environmental concerns associated with mining activities in Burma. Burmese government reports provide the major sources for the information provided in these reports, but, particularly in recent years, they have also included information from the section on Burma (Myanmar) in the Mining Annual Review produced by the Journal of Mining. The reports are usually a year out-of-date by the time are made available on-line...OUTLOOK: "During 2006, the mineral industry of Burma underwent a significant setback in production, which would be noticeable in early 2007. The copper industry was to be particularly affected given Ivanhoe’s decision to sell its Monywa Copper Project assets, which were transferred to an independent third party while awaiting the sale.
Natural gas exploration activities in Burma are expected to continue to increase during 2007, mainly as a result of the many exploration projects that were started and the discoveries that were made in 2005 and 2006." |
| Author/creator: | | Yolanda Fong-Sam |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | US Geological Survey (USGS) |
| Format/size: | | pdf (114K), xls |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/country/2006/myb3-2006-bm.xls |
| Date of entry/update: | | 06 May 2012 |
| | ML > Economy
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Industry
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Extractive industries
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Mining
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Minerals and Mining - General
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| Title: | | The Mineral Industry of Burma (Myanmar) 2007
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| Date of publication: | | 2008 |
| Description/subject: | | For over 40 years the U.S. Bureau of Mines has issued an annual summary of mining activity in Burma which is now available on-line from 1994. These useful reports include information about surveying, mapping, exploration, concession grants, mineral exports and imports and the operations of major mining companies, as well as a valuable five year tonnage table for all major mineral products. The reports cover a wide range of mine products including base metals, precious metals, non-metallic minerals and petroleum. Cement and steel products are also covered. The focus of these reports is on large-scale mining operations and they tend to leave out of consideration the activities of smaller national companies and the mining 'rushes' that occur from time to time, attracting the participation of thousands from around the country. There is little emphasis on the environmental concerns associated with mining activities in Burma. Burmese government reports provide the major sources for the information provided in these reports, but, particularly in recent years, they have also included information from the section on Burma (Myanmar) in the Mining Annual Review produced by the Journal of Mining. The reports are usually a year out-of-date by the time are made available on-line...
OUTLOOK: "During 2007, the mineral production of Burma decreased significantly following a similar decrease in 2006. Mineral production is expected to continue to decrease in 2008 as well. Copper production was to remain at a reduced level as a result of Ivanhoe Mine’s assets in the Monywa Copper Project being transferred to an independent third party for sale." |
| Author/creator: | | Yolanda Fong-Sam |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | US Geological Survey (USGS) |
| Format/size: | | pdf (265K), xls |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/country/2007/myb3-2007-bm.xls |
| Date of entry/update: | | 06 May 2012 |
| | ML > Economy
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Industry
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Extractive industries
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| Title: | | The Mineral Industry of Burma (Myanmar) 2008
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| Date of publication: | | 2009 |
| Description/subject: | | For over 40 years the U.S. Bureau of Mines has issued an annual summary of mining activity in Burma which is now available on-line from 1994. These useful reports include information about surveying, mapping, exploration, concession grants, mineral exports and imports and the operations of major mining companies, as well as a valuable five year tonnage table for all major mineral products. The reports cover a wide range of mine products including base metals, precious metals, non-metallic minerals and petroleum. Cement and steel products are also covered. The focus of these reports is on large-scale mining operations and they tend to leave out of consideration the activities of smaller national companies and the mining 'rushes' that occur from time to time, attracting the participation of thousands from around the country. There is little emphasis on the environmental concerns associated with mining activities in Burma. Burmese government reports provide the major sources for the information provided in these reports, but, particularly in recent years, they have also included information from the section on Burma (Myanmar) in the Mining Annual Review produced by the Journal of Mining. The reports are usually a year out-of-date by the time are made available on-line...OUTLOOK: "For the past several years, the production of most mineral commodities has decreased exponentially in Burma owing mainly to the withdrawal of mining companies from the country. Burma’s mineral production in 2009 will likely be further affected by the significant decline in late 2008 of world market prices and world demand for mineral commodities. As a result of the agreement signed by ME-3 and CNMC, Burma’s nickel production is expected to increase after 2011 when the Tagaung Taung Mine is commissioned." |
| Author/creator: | | Yolanda Fong-Sam |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | US Geological Survey (USGS) |
| Format/size: | | pdf (276K), xls |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/country/2008/myb3-2008-bm.xls |
| Date of entry/update: | | 06 May 2012 |
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| Title: | | The Mineral Industry of Burma (Myanmar) 2009
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| Date of publication: | | 2010 |
| Description/subject: | | For over 40 years the U.S. Bureau of Mines has issued an annual summary of mining activity in Burma which is now available on-line from 1994. These useful reports include information about surveying, mapping, exploration, concession grants, mineral exports and imports and the operations of major mining companies, as well as a valuable five year tonnage table for all major mineral products. The reports cover a wide range of mine products including base metals, precious metals, non-metallic minerals and petroleum. Cement and steel products are also covered. The focus of these reports is on large-scale mining operations and they tend to leave out of consideration the activities of smaller national companies and the mining 'rushes' that occur from time to time, attracting the participation of thousands from around the country. There is little emphasis on the environmental concerns associated with mining activities in Burma. Burmese government reports provide the major sources for the information provided in these reports, but, particularly in recent years, they have also included information from the section on Burma (Myanmar) in the Mining Annual Review produced by the Journal of Mining. The reports are usually a year out-of-date by the time are made available on-line...OUTLOOK: "Burma’s mineral production for 2010 will most likely be dependent on the performance of neighboring economies, as well as on the global mineral commodity markets. The decrease in production in much of the mineral sector during 2009 might be linked to the general slowdown in business brought about by the global economic crisis.
The gemstone industry was affected by decreased demand resulting in part from the importation ban imposed by the JADE Act. High operational costs have forced mines to halt operations or face closing the mining facilities altogether. Based on the circumstances surrounding the gemstone sector during 2009, it is likely that the demand for and production of Burmese gemstones will remain unchanged in 2010.
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lthough global markets for many mineral commodities reflected a decrease in demand, copper production in Burma for 2010 is expected to increase when the Monywa copper project resumes operations. A similar situation is expected for the nickel industry once the Tagaung Taung Mine is commissioned in 2011.
In 2010, oil and gas exploration activities are expected to continue to increase, mainly as a result of the many exploration projects that started in 2008 and 2009. Further exploration for oil and gas in new areas of the Bay of Bengal will be highly dependent on the resolution that Bangladesh, Burma, and India reach regarding the delimitation of their respective maritime boundaries. Meanwhile, business ties between Burma and China are likely to strengthen as a result of the agreements and projects that the two countries have committed to in the oil and gas sector, such as the construction of the oil and gas pipeline that will connect the two countries." |
| Author/creator: | | Yolanda Fong-Sam |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | US Geological Survey (USGS) |
| Format/size: | | pdf (170K), xls |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/country/2009/myb3-2009-bm.xls |
| Date of entry/update: | | 06 May 2012 |
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| Title: | | Community Forestry in Myanmar: Some field realities
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| Date of publication: | | August 2011 |
| Description/subject: | | INTRODUCTION:
"Myanmar’s Community Forestry programme began in with the Community Forestry Instruction of 1995. Since then over two hundred and fifty Forest User Groups have been formed across the country, and have taken responsibility for controlling, managing and sustainably using a wide range of forest. How have they faired?
In an effort to answer that question this paper presents the experiences from 16 randomly selected Forest User Groups across the country. They were visited by a research team in late 2010 during a Community Forestry study conducted by ECCDI, with technical support from the School of International Development, University of East Anglia, under funding support from the Pyoe Pin programme. Full findings from the study are presented in a separate report (Tint et al. 2011 ‘Community Forestry in Myanmar: Progress and Potentials’). This companion paper presents the local realities of community forestry experiences on a case by case basis.
The diverse range of stories here show that Forest User groups are struggling against a wide range of challenges, with very limited support in most cases, and only some are able to overcome them effectively. Regional conditions are a key factor, with the dry zone and Shan FUGs struggling much more than the more supportive environmental conditions in Kachin and the Delta..." |
| Author/creator: | | Oliver Springate-Baginski and Maung Maung Than with Naw Hser Wah, Ni Ni Win, Khin Hnin Myint, Kyaw Tint and Mehm Ko Ko Gyi |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Ecosystem Conservation and Community Development Initiative (ECCDI) |
| Format/size: | | pdf (1.9MB - OBL version; 6.88MB - original) |
| Alternate URLs: | | http://www.uea.ac.uk/dev/People/staffresearch/ospringate-baginskiresearch/myanmar/CF+Myanmar+report... |
| Date of entry/update: | | 06 May 2012 |
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Land in Burma
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| Title: | | Statement on Peace and Development in Burma
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| Date of publication: | | 10 April 2012 |
| Description/subject: | | Statement edorsed by 35 humanitarian organisations (Burmese, Shan, Mon, etc.) working on the Burma-Thailand border...
"With international donors preparing significantly increased humanitarian and development assistance in
order to promote peace in Burma, we are very concerned that cross-border aid to marginalized and
vulnerable populations is being limited or cut at this crucial time.
Even while the cease-fire process is being carried out with separate ethnic armed groups, fighting is still
taking place with the Kachin Independence Organization (KIO), resulting in fresh displacement of tens of
thousands of people internally and outside the country. Even though some level of agreement has been
reached with some ethnic armed groups, human rights violations are continuing in all ethnic areas under
the new Army-backed government of U Thein Sein, including land confiscation, forced relocation, forced
labour, extortion, and restriction of movement, rape and intimidation..." |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Ethnic Community Development Forum (ECDF) and 34 other groups |
| Format/size: | | pdf (27K) |
| Date of entry/update: | | 06 May 2012 |
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Cross-border assistance
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| Title: | | DO NO HARM: CROSS-BORDER AND THAILAND BASED ASSISTANCE TO REFUGEES, IDPS AND MIGRANTS FROM BURMA/MYANMAR-REPORT ON FINDINGS FROM CONSULTANCY
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| Date of publication: | | 27 April 2012 |
| Description/subject: | | INTRODUCTION:
"Norway has supported cross-border assistance to the Back Pack Health Worker Team since 1998 and Thailand-based humanitarian assistance to the Mae Tao Clinic since 2005. Such support has been consistent with Norway's commitments to advance humanitarian principles in conflict and disasters and to ensure that people in need receive necessary protection and assistance.
In 2010, Norway decided to cut cross-border assistance citing accountability concerns and difficulties of monitoring such assistance. In 2012, NCA was informed by MFA of an impending cut in all cross-border and Thailand- based assistance, due to positive political changes in Burma/Myanmar and improved access from Yangon to border areas of Eastern Burma/Myanmar.
NCA is concerned about the impact of such a decision. NCA therefore hired a consultant in order to verify the impact of a cut in assistance on access to services for rights holders in border areas and for local peace building efforts, and to assess whether such a cut stands at risk of violating humanitarian principles of Do No Harm. NCA further notes that other concerned parties, most recently the European Parliament, have instead called on the Burmese government to allow cross-border assistance to take place. NCA also has reason to believe that an abrupt cut in assistance to refugees, internally displaced people and migrants at this stage
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would not be conducive to the ongoing peace making efforts of the Burmese government and ethnic armed groups in the country.
Over a period of three weeks in April 2012, the consultant conducted 35 single interviews and/or group interviews with respondents in four locations (four in Bangkok, 18 in Yangon, seven in Mae Sot and six in Chiang Mai). Two additional sources were contacted by email. The respondents belonged to the following categories: (1) Representatives of the UN system in Burma/Myanmar, including the UN Resident Coordinator; (2) Representatives of INGOs working in Burma/Myanmar and/or along the border; (3) Representatives of national and local NGOs in Burma/Myanmar; (4) Representatives of FBOs/CBOS in Burma/Myanmar and along the border; (5) Representatives of ethnic health authorities in border areas; (6) Three medical doctors with experience working with border-based health providers including two doctors from the Thai healthcare system, and (7) One independent evaluator of one border-based health provider. The consultant also attended one meeting of the Coordinating Committee for Stateless and Displaced Persons in Thailand (CCSDPT) and one press conference on the situation in Kachin State organized by Human Rights Watch, both in Bangkok1.
This report is a case study focusing primarily on the provision of healthcare services. However, NCA believes that many of the considerations and concerns raised in the report also apply to other service deliveries and that the potential consequences of a cut as described in this report would also apply to other sectors.
By seeking to gain better understanding of current dynamics of aid in the political and peace reforms in Burma/Myanmar, NCA hopes this report will contribute to the transition towards peace and reconciliation for local communities in Burma/Myanmar..." |
| Language: | | English |
| Source/publisher: | | Norwegian Church Aid (NCA) |
| Format/size: | | pdf (175K) |
| Date of entry/update: | | 06 May 2012 |
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