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Mizzima News
Guwahati: The first meeting of the
technical committee for a tri-nation
gas pipeline in
Feb. 14, has been postponed at the request of the
"We are postponing the meeting seven to 10 days from
Feb. 14, depending
on the convenience of the
parties," Soe Myint,
director general of
Energy and Mineral Resources A.K.M. Mosharraf Hossain.
Mosharraf Hossain
argued on Sunday that they were "not prepared for the
meeting" because the date had
been announced suddenly. At a petroleum
ministers meeting in
principle to lay the gas pipeline.
The technical committee was to follow
up the action in a meeting Feb. 14.
The new date is supposed to be set by
the governments in
A six-member techno-commercial working committee was formed
to carry out
a detailed study on the gas
pipeline project during the last meeting of
energy ministry officials from
January.
After the initial agreement to lay a 290-kilometer pipeline
from gas
fields in
Khaleda Zia
in
The gas pipeline, to start from Arakan
province in
North East Indian states of Mizoram
and Tripura, will enter
through the Brahmanbaria
area to the Rajshahi border before reaching
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Burmese military dismisses 10,000 MAPT employees
Independent Mon News Agency
The Burmese military has dismissed 10,000 Myanmar
Agriculture Produce
Trading (MAPT) department employees in the country,
according to an
employee of the central department
in
The government central MAPT department in
an official letter at the start of
February, according to the employee.
"Only 3,509 employees were left," the employee
said. An IMNA source in
The government dismissed the employees because they have no
work to do,
since the regime announced they are
not going to buy paddy from farmers
at midyear, according to the
employee.
"But the government gave a salary to employees until
Jan. 31 of this
year," he explained. "It
was the last day that employees received the
salary."
"Employees explained to me that the regime already
informed them that
the government was going to dismiss
them after the announcement," said
an IMNA source.
"We did not receive compensation," said a woman
MAPT employee in Mudon
town,
Development Council department.
"But the government gave a chance to young employees to
move and work
in other departments," she
said. "More than 50 year old MAPT employees
were given retirement," she
added. "Local township departments were
removed and only state and division
departments were left."
The Burmese military and Myanmar Agriculture Produce Trading
Department stopped buying paddy at a low price and lending
money to
farmers for more than a year.
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Shan group calls for release of leaders
February 13, S.H.A.N
Two ceasefire groups have jointly written to Senior General Than Shwe,
State Peace and Development Council chairman, urging speedy
release of
their leaders detained last week,
according to ceasefire sources.
"We are not trying to be smart or unreasonable,"
said the highly
placed source. "But attending
the National Convention (Feb. 17) without
our leaders' freedom is simply
unthinkable".
No copies of the communication was provided by the Shan
State Peace
Council, a joint office of Shan State Army "North"
and
National Army.
The release of Sai Nyunt Lwin, assistent general secretary
of the
Shan Nationalities League for Democracy, detained on
Secured following the request from the grouping.
Those arrested last week by
Shwe Ohn, who participated in the
historic 1947 Panglong Conference;
Hkun Htun
Oo, the SNLD chairman; Sai Nyunt Lwin,
its general secretary;
and Sao Hso
Ten, the SSPC chairman, among others.
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