*Computer Training Program, A
Burden
* Directive orders new listing of illegal Burmese
Muslim refugees
* Easy Learning Mon VCD for Mon People made
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Computer Training Program, A Burden
Khonumthung News Group
Date- 30/ 10/ 2004
The Military authorities in
township in Chin state, have
charged the cost to the people for
running a computer training
program, instead of providing the
necessary costs.
The open ceremony for the computer training course was to be
held in
the first week of September in Rizua, a
State. Township Peace and
Development Council (TPDC) chairman U Kyaw
Thun ordered a forced contribution
of 180,000 kyat by the local people
for the whole cost of the proposed
program, according to a resident of
Lawngthantlang village who wished
to remain unnamed due to security
concerns.
The reporter added that the TPDC chairman called a meeting
Oct. 1 of
village council chairmen of 15
villages affected by the computer
training program and ordered
that 2,000 kyat be contributed by each
household in their respective
villages. The amount had to be submitted
at or before the end of October.
Proper lists of households that
failed to contribute this amount
also had to be submitted before the
end of the month.
"The villagers are happy about the computer training
program, However,
they regret the forced
contribution. It is an ill wish of the TPDC
chairman that poor villagers should
have more financial burden," the
reporter remarked.
Lawng Than
Tlang villages of more than 30 households had already
submitted 6,000 kyat Oct. 15.
Widows and disable people were not
spared this forced contribution.
The contribution was paid due to fear of mistreatment by the
TPDC.
Households that could not bear the contribution also paid
the allotted
amount with credit from other
sources.
The
as an area development program.
However, the TPDC local authority
forced the people to pay for the
entire program.
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Directive orders new listing of illegal Burmese Muslim
refugees
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Narinjara News
Cox’s Bazaar bazaar October 30:
The Law and Order Committee of Cox's Bazaar district
recently
expressed deep concern over the
"Burmese Muslim refugee problem" there.
The state minister for communication, Salah
Uddin Ahmed, MP, directed
the district administration to
prepare a list of illegal Burmese
Muslim refugees and take necessary steps to solve the
problem within
the next two months.
The minister presided over a meeting of the Law and Order
Committee of
Cox's Bazaar at the conference hall of the deputy
commissioner Oct, 24.
Some sentiments expressed by the minister at the meeting
were that the
large number of Burmese Muslim
refugees were destroying the ecological
harmony of the beach and the
seaside city of
many Burmese Muslim refugees engage
in crimes there, threatening the
law and order situation of the
entire country.
The state minister asked the district administrator to
prepare a new
list of current illegal Burmese
Muslim refugees residing in Cox's
Bazaar as well as take necessary steps to solve the
continuing problem
within the next two months.
Representatives of political parties, social organizations
and other
aspects of civil society discussed
the law and order situation of
Cox's bazar.
The state minister also ordered the district
administrator and police to take
special measures to curb crime in the
tourist city. He asked them to
immediately evict illegal
establishments from the sea beach
area.
Among other participants at the meeting were
Shahajahan Chowdhury MP,
Alamgir Farid
Chowdhury MP, Deputy Commissioner of Cox's Bazaar Aminul
Islam, Superintendent of Police (SP) Sayed
Toufique Uddin Ahmed, Ameer
of Jammat
of Cox's bazar Mohammed Shahjahan,
secretary of Cox's bazar
BNP Nurul Bashar
Chowdhury, Advocate Shah Jalal
Chowdhury, former MP
Mohammad Rashid, Vice-president of Cox's Bazaar Awami League Nazrul
Islam Chowdhury, Chairman of Cox's
Bazaar Pourasabha Sarower Kamal,
chairman of Teknaf
Pourasabha Abdur Rahman Bodi, president of Cox's
Bazaar city BNP Rafiqul Huda Chowdhury, and president of Chakaria BNP
Enamul Haque., Chakaria city BNP Anowarul Hakim Dulal also
participated in the meeting.
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Easy Learning Mon VCD for Mon People made
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Independent Mon News Agency
The first Easy Learning Mon Video VCD has been made by the
Sanghklaburi-based Winyangita Foundation for Mon people who can’t read
and write Mon, according to Winyangita Foundation director Nai
Orkpung.
“You do not need to have a teacher,
you can have this VCD and learn it
by following reading alphabets and
listening to the voice on it,” he
said.
“Every local Mon person can learn it with a VCD machine for
children
for whom it is difficult to have a
teacher and children who do not
have a chance to learn Mon from
their parents,” Nai Orkpung
said,
explaining the intent of the VCD.
The first edition of the Easy Learning Mon VCD, mixing basic
Mon
learning with traditional Mon
songs, has 29 sessions for the learner
and is named Loik
Kae Thell Jae Nok, which is mean the Mon
alphabet on
a big wooden white board.
“We will distribute it as soon as possible and have asked
Mon
community organizations worldwide
to help in distributing it,” Nai
Orkpung said.
“We will sell it with the decision of Mon organizations
priced at 200
baht per copy,” Nai
Orkpung said.
According to Winyangita
Foundation, it took two months to make an
edition intended for Mon people
developing the learning of their own
languages.
“Winyangita Foundation upgraded
how to learn Mon from a book and by a
teacher. We wanted Mon to have such
assistance like others in
developing our nation,” Nai Orkpung revealed.
Winyangita Foundation also plans
to make an Easy Learning Mon VCD for
Thai Mon and Burmese Mon who want to learn Mon.
“We can finish the Thai Mon
Video VCD in two months,” Nai Orkpung
told IMNA.
Mon community leaders in
Mon community children in
teachers. A Mon community leader
here also told IMNA they want a
website for learning Mon language.
Mon people in foreign countries, some in rural areas and
towns of
to have a teacher and permission to
open a Mon language school.
Schools. More than 30,000 students
attended Mon Summery Literature
training in lthe
ast year.
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