Yesterday, the President stood in front of a gathering of House Republicans and took questions for more than an hour, urging them to put aside partisanship and work together for the good of the country. MSNBC described it as going straight into "the lion's den."
He was inspiring.
We've highlighted some of the key moments and trust me, it's worth checking out.
1.30.2010
Burma's News World's News
Photo: AP
Patriot missiles PAC-3 launchers are seen at the Kadena U.S. Air Base in Okinawa, southern Japan, in this Feb. 9, 2007 file photo
China Suspends Military Exchanges, Will Sanction US Companies That Sell Arms to Taiwan
Pentagon has notified Congress of possible $6 billion sale of military equipment to Taiwan
Full story »More Top News
- US Announces Taiwan Arms Sale, Braces for Chinese Reaction
- Clinton Urges China to Accept Sanctions Against Iran
- Afghan and NATO Officials: 4 Afghan Soldiers Killed in Joint Force Air Strike
- Afghan Taliban Deny Meeting with UN
- Officials Say Obama Administration Considers Moving 9/11 Trial
- Senior Iranian Pro-Government Cleric Urges More Executions of Regime Opponents
- Tony Blair at Iraq Inquiry Says War was Right and He'd do Again
- US Economy Growing Faster Than Expected
- Relief Organizations Race To Find Unaccompanied Children in Haiti
- Haiti Hospital Workers Say Patients Need Long-Term Care
- Fierce Fighting in Somali Capital Kills 15
 |  | China announces a series of moves in retaliation for a US proposal to sell $6.4bn of weapons to Taiwan. |
US outlines planned sale| Blast hits Pakistani checkpoint A suspected suicide bomber kills at least 12 people in an attack on a checkpoint in north-west Pakistan, officials say. | | Serena Williams seals Aussie title Tennis' world number one Serena Williams beats Justine Henin in three sets to win her fifth Australian Open title. |
A key the World Bank cannot afford.
| QUOTE OF THE DAY | |
 |  She spends a good deal of time working out how to strengthen the party [the National League for Democracy].  —Nyan Win, a lawyer of Aung San Suu Kyi |
'We Will Fight,' Says Mon Leaders |
| By LAWI WENG |
| A Mon leader rallies a crowd to oppose the Burmese military regime at a Mon National Day festival. |
Chinese Ambassador Meets Burmese Minister as Uncertainty Mounts on the Sino-Burmese Border |
| By WAI MOE |
| The Chinese ambassador to Burma met with a Burmese minister on Friday as the junta renews efforts to persuade cease-fire groups to accept its Border Guard Force plan. |
A Visit to 'Little Lhasa' |
| By ZARNI MANN |
| The Irrawaddy correspondent Zarni Mann visited Dharamshala recently and was struck by the similarities between Burmese and Tibetans who live in exile. |
Weekly Business Roundup (January 30, 2010) |
| By WILLIAM BOOT |
| One of the world’s largest international oil and gas companies has teamed up with a shadowy Burmese-Singapore firm to explore the waters of Burma’s Gulf of Martaban. |
Despite Discomfort, Suu Kyi Stays Busy |
| By BA KAUNG |
| Confined in her delapidated home, Suu Kyi keeps busy and healthy, according to her lawyer. |
Burma has nuclear ambitions: report
Burma’s military junta nurses nuclear ambitions, though there is insufficient evidence ...Burmese workers in thousands throng Ranong concert
In the midst of tight security, Burmese migrant workers in thousands attended a concert ...Plight of political prisoners deteriorates in 2009
The political prisoners population in military-ruled Burma increased to 2,177 ...Indian tourists to visit Burma on land route
A group of Indian tourists are geared to visit military-ruled Burma, through the border ...| Minister’s comment is attempt to influence court – Suu Kyi Jan 29, 2010 (DVB)–Detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi said that Burma’s Home Minister Major General Maung Oo’s alleged comment on her release is an attempt to influence the court, according to a lwayer of hers. - more |
 |
| UN rights envoy to visit Burma in February Jan 29, 2010 (DVB)–Tomas Ojea Quintana, United Nations’ Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Burma, is planning to make a visit to the country in February. - more |
|
| Armed groups to form parallel Burmese govt Jan 28, 2010 (DVB)–Several Burmese armed groups, including the Karen National Union, could soon merge with Burma’s government-in-exile to form a parallel government prior to elections this year. - more |
Pertilla & Thein share first round lead in Air Bagan Myanmar Masters
| Sports Source > TheSportsCampus Thursday, 28 January 2010 21:44 | |
| Finland's Jani Pertilla took early bragging rights with Myanmar's Thein Zaw Myint on the opening day of the US$75,000 Air Bagan Myanmar Masters presented by IBTC ... | |
| Myanmar-India To Flush Out Terrorists, Nab Paresh Baruah |
| Regional Source > News Worms Thursday, 28 January 2010 21:15 | |
| Myanmar's ruling junta has assured India of a coordinated operations to flush out Northeast militants and has also promised to help track down elusive ULFA 'commander-in-chief' Paresh Baruah, ... | |
| Myanmar arrests 11 for 'evil' bomb plots |
| National Source > AFP Thursday, 28 January 2010 21:07 | |
| Myanmar's police have arrested 11 "terrorists" accused of "evil plots" to carry out bomb blasts aimed at jeopardising plans to hold national elections this year, state media said Thursday... | |
| MYANMAR: Slow funding hits Nargis recovery |
| National Source > IRINnews Thursday, 28 January 2010 21:00 | |
| Poor funding support for recovery efforts after Cyclone Nargis has left hundreds of thousands in Myanmar vulnerable, many without durable shelters to withstand further disasters, the UN says... | |
| Myanmar Expands International Rice Market |
| Business Source > Bernama Thursday, 28 January 2010 20:58 | |
| Myanmar has been expanding its rice market to more countries by exporting its agricultual crop to Russia, Ukraine, Australia and South Korea in the first nine months of the 2009-2010 fiscal year ... | |
| World Bank considering assistance for Burma |
| World Source > Tim Johnston/Financial Times Thursday, 28 January 2010 20:49 | |
| The World Bank is considering providing Burma with assistance more than two decades after relations were frozen following the bloody suppression of the 1988 democracy movement... | |
The Use of “Democracy” as an Adjective in -Myanmar Newspaper English-
The Use of “Democracy” as an Adjective in
-Myanmar Newspaper English-
NANG SENG HONG
Introduction
The nature of the human beings is to look for a better life and individual welfare. They believe that a stable government and a system of political rights can lead them to safety and prosperity, to a “good society”. Democracy tends to be a system of choice, because people can choose to vote and elect their representatives. This is a system of government employed by 63 percent of the world’s countries. However, democracy has still not become established in 31 out of the more than 120 countries in the world.1
History and Background
Burma was a British colony and got independence in 1948. After independence, Burma was a parliamentary democracy and a relatively rich country for the world of at that time. Due to reasons of internal struggle, Nay Win led a military coup and came to power in 1962. Nay Win’s military government ran the country with socialist economic policies. Burma suffered due to lost human rights and faced economic crisis. Nation-wide demonstrations were held in 1988 in support of Burma becoming a democratic country. The military under the name of their State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC) killed nearly 3,000 demonstrators, but promised the country they would establish a democratic government. The military junta changed the name “Burma” to “Myanmar” in 1989. The National League of Democracy (NLD) led by Aung San Suu Kyi got over 80% votes in a 1990 election but SLORC refused to accept these results. Aung San Suu Kyi was put under strict house arrest in 1989 and thousands of political prisoners were arrested and sent to jail.2
Under the authority of the military, a National Convention was held in 1993. The military junta did not accept any suggestions from the NLD and tightly controlled the National Convention. The NLD announced that this constitution would not represent for people or minorities and boycotted the National Convention, which stopped functioning in 1996. Nevertheless, SLORC created a New Constitution without any interference by its few elected members.
Under internal and external pressure, SLORC renamed itself the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC) in 1997 and began the implementation of what they claim will be a 7-step road map to democracy. The military junta has been facing pressure to release political prisoners and move toward national reconciliation from the UN and the major Western powers. The SPDC increased fuel prices in August 2007, which resulted in Buddhist monks leading peaceful marches with the people and calling for a solution to the problems of the humanitarian crises at hand. Nevertheless, the military junta crackdown was violent, with the shooting, beating and arresting of many monks.
The world criticized the violent crackdown and the EU decided to extend their sanctions against the military junta. However, the military junta announced that, the constitution being completed, a referendum would be held in May 2008 and a new multi-party democratic election would be held in 2010. The SPDC refused to accept the result of the 1990 election and ignored the world’s suggestion to make a dialog with pro-democracy groups and minorities or to move towards national reconciliation. In stead, they affirmed that their 7-step Road Map would soon be complete.
Research Question
Because of the difficulties facing the establishment of democracy in Myanmar, in this paper I would like to explore how the military defines the meaning of democracy and how this could relate to the establishment of a democratic government in Myanmar.
Methodology
All media in Myanmar are under the strict control of the military junta. For the purpose of this research, I investigated the term of democracy and morphologically related words from the one daily English newspaper published in Myanmar called the “The New Light of Myanmar” (NLM). This newspaper was established in 1914, but is now used by the military junta to promote their doctrines both internally and externally. Another reason for using this newspaper was that the NLM includes articles outlining the government’s desires, policies, and political, economic, social objectives. If, we can analyze the term of democracy and it collocations carefully, we would discover what the military image of democracy might be and what the chances are of a democratic government being established in Myanmar.
Selection of Materials
May, June and July of 2008 were a very sensitive period in the history of Myanmar. Nearly one week before the military’s referendum on a constitution was to be held, Cyclone Nargis hit Myanmar and approximately 133,000 people perished, with another 2.4 million people losing their property and becoming homeless.3 Nevertheless, the military not only ignored international requests to delay the referendum but refused to accept aid also. They controlled the issuance of visas for UN staff and journalists who intended to observe the referendum.
The disaster areas had been emptied and the referendum lacked international approval, but the military junta announced that this constitution was ratified and promulgated by 98.12 of those who voted. The world criticized the referendum as not being either free and fair and because voting for a new constitution was deemed more important than the lives of the cyclone victims. With many thousands of helpless survivors being ignored, the military neglected humanitarian problems to solidify power only. Seeking release from this pressure, the military tried to prove that they were promoting democratic government, and, through NLM articles, tried to present to the world their ideals and assumptions concerning democracy.
The issues of the NLM, published in English for May, June and July of 2008 were downloaded from the internet at URL http://www.myanmargeneva.org/newseng-printE.htm. The data from the digitized versions were downloaded as PDF files and Adobe Reader was used to track the context in which democracy and morphologically related words were used. The sentences so found with democracy and democracy-related words were copied and pasted to a separate word document.
Analysis of the Data
First, sentences containing democracy were separated according to whether democracy was a noun or an adjective. If a noun appeared, sorting was done according to whether democracy appeared by itself or was together with another adjective. If democracy was presented in a positive context, I ranked its use as being positive, but if the context was problematic, I considered the use to be negative. If it was presented in neither a good nor a bad context, I considered its use to be neutral. A collocation search was then done and I noted whether the words which collocated were nouns or adjectives. The data represents a three-month period.
Results
Table 1 – Democracy as a noun
| Context | May | June | July |
| Positive | 1 | 7 | 2 |
| Negative | 4 | 34 | 24 |
| Neutral | 5 | 26 | 23 |
| Total | 10 | 67 | 49 |
Democracy appeared as a noun with a positive meaning one time in May, seven times in June and two times in July. Negative meanings were 4, 34 and 24 times and neutral meanings were 5, 26, 23 times in May, June, and July. Immediately below you can find positive, negative, and neutral examples:
(1) "That is a giant step for transition to democracy to satisfy the people’s desire" or “Do not make the goal of democracy far away from the people”. (Lu thit (Padauk Mya, NLM 31/7/2008 7, line 8);
(2) "When I read news stories that in consequence of too much democracy freedom, cases of shooting spree took place in schools and many children lost their lives in the events, the news about rapacious George Soroz,[…and other examples…]. I feel that as for our country with fine cultural traditions, such democracy is like a gift of chicken that is given when bird flu is spreading." (Hlaing Bwa (Parami) “My knowledge of democracy”NLM 13/7/2008:6, line 61,72)
(3) "Whatever it may be, the two parties give priority to the national interest and work together with the sense of democracy (Kyaw Min Lu (Shwepyitha) “Let’s nurture the sapling of democracy (2)” NLM 21/6/2008:7, line 104)
Table 2 – Democracy as an adjective
| Context | May | June | July |
| Positive | 11 | 48 | 37 |
| Negative | 3 | 17 | 18 |
| Neutral | 7 | 30 | 18 |
| Total | 21 | 95 | 73 |
As an adjective, there was use of democracy in a positive context 11 times in May, 48 times in June and 37 times in July. It was note-worthy that the use in a negative context was less at 3, 17, 18 times respectively and in a neutral context were 7, 30 and 18 times in May, June and July. Representative examples are: (1) "Therefore, I would say this constitution guarantees national races all possible democracy rights. (Soe Mya Kyaw “The most appropriate constitution, (3) ”NLM 9/5/2008: 4, line 89), (2) "We have to bear in mind that democracy practice can improve slowly according to how much the people are mature in view and knowledge. (Soe Mya Kyaw “The most appropriate constitution” NLM 7/5/2008:11, line 114)," and (3) "So, we have to understand and accept the evolution process of democracy practice. (Soe Mya Kyaw “The most appropriate constitution”NLM 7/5/2008: 11, line 113)"
Table 3 – Democratic
| Context | May | June | July |
| Positive | 27 | 2 | 51 |
| Negative | 0 | 7 | 10 |
| Neutral | 4 | 6 | 11 |
| Total | 31 | 15 | 72 |
Concerning the use of democratic appeared with positive context 27 times in May, 2 times in June and 51 times in July. There were no negative context in May, but 7 times in June and 10 time in July. It appeared in neutral context 4, 6, 11 times in May, June and July. Respectively, examples of positive, negative and neutral use are: (1) The State Peace and Development Council has been working hand in hand with the people for the emergence of a modern developed discipline-flourishing democratic nation. (Anon “Myanmar holds referendum for emergence of modern developed discipline-flourishing democratic nation”NLM 11/5/2008: 6, line 8); (2) Anti-government politicians who are said to be those respect democracy cannot accept the very democratic practice. (Lu Thit “Do not make the goal of democracy far away from the people” NLM 31/7/2008:6, line 11); and, (3) The most democratic way is to respect and fulfill the wishes of the majority of the people. (U Pyap Kyaw “Let’s march forward along the path to democracy paved by the people” NLM 26/6/2008: 7, l,18)
Table 4 – Democratic nation
| Context | May | June | July |
| Positive | 4 | 2 | 1 |
| Negative | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Neutral | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| Total | 8 | 5 | 3 |
Uses of term democratic nation were specifically investigated for this period, as the phrase stood out in comparison with other uses of democratic. It appeared itself total of 8 times in May, 5 times in June and 3 times in July. Positive context appeared 4, 2, 1 times in May, June and July. No mention for negative context in May and July but only one time in June. Neutral context appeared 4, 2, 2 times in May, June and July. Positive, negative and neutral examples are: (1) Only then, will it be possible for us to get the most discipline-flourishing and developed democratic nation. (Anon “The most appropriate constitution...”NLM 9/5/2008: 5, line 92); (2) In Myanmar that has been in the process of transforming itself into a democratic nation through the seven-step Road Map, since the government issued Announcement No 1/2008 for the approval of the State constitution, which was adopted by the National Convention, NLD had provoked and persuaded the people in collusion with the four western media groups to vote ‘No’ for the constitution and to disrupt the process of the referendum. (Aung Ze Min “Why did Myanmar people unanimously vote for State constitution?” NLM 17/6/2008:7, line 55); and (3) Now workers and peasants hand in hand with national people are making endeavors for building a new democratic nation. (Anon “Boost production for development of industrial sector” NLM 1/5/2008: 2, line 7)
5. Democrat was also investigated. There was no mention made of the word, democrat, in May and June. There was only one appearance in July and this in a neutral context. The sole example was as follows: National democrats who favors (sic!) national interest should employ national politics and national vision objectively in reviewing the concept. (Maung Cetana (B.A Bed) “Destination of pessimists”NLM 15/7/2008: 6, line 27)
6. Discussion
Democracy appeared as an adjective more than as a noun in the NLM. When it appeared as a noun, it was in a negative context more often than a positive or neutral context. The ratio of negative use to positive was roughly six to one (62 times in a negative context versus 10 times in a positive context). The ratio of positive context use as an adjective was roughly three times higher than negative context use (96 times in a positive context versus 38 times in a negative context).
The contributors of NLM presented democracy as being representative of an alien culture and their writings provide concrete evidence for their being uncomfortable with the idea of democracy. The following example will illustrate the attitude of the military attitude towards democracy as it is expressed by NLM writers:
“When I read news stories that in consequence of too much democracy freedom, cases of shooting spree took place in schools and many children lost their lives in the events, the news about rapacious George Soroz,[…and other examples…]. I feel that as for our country with fine cultural traditions, such democracy is like a gift of chicken that is given when bird flu is spreading.” (Hlaing Bwa (Parami), NLM, 13/7/2008, page 6, line 61)
Significantly, we can see in this comparison of democracy to an agent of contagion that there is also a recognition of the fact that Myanmar, from the viewpoint of the military, is not yet politically stable and also the fear that democracy would further destabilize the situation for the military. Elsewhere democracy was seen as necessary and it was recognized that "Furthermore, our people greatly want democracy.” (Lu Thit (Padauk Mya), NLM, 16/6/2008, page 7, line 129)
The general message conveyed by the NLM was that democracy was a prevalent in the outside world, but that Myanmar was unique and it would seem difficult to accept or promote in Myanmar without modification. In fact, when democracy was used as an adjective and in the neutral contexts, this can be found clearly stated as follows:
In reality, it is because they do not understand the difference between the historical background for democracy transition of other countries and that of Myanmar. (Maung Cetana (B.A Bed), NLM, 15/7/2008, 6, line 108)
Obviously, for the military government, democracy activists or democracy movements are equated with saboteurs and terrorists. The Democracy Party (the primary opposition party) also invariably appeared in a negative context as can be seen in the following examples:
(1) “It has praised terrorists and saboteurs as democracy activists, showing its intrigue putting danger to the nation.” (Anon., NLM, 4/6/2008, page 6, line 101)
(2) “If they claimed themselves to be public party or democracy party although they are committing such crimes, their policy will be in contrary to that of the people.” (U Pyay Kyaw, NLM, 26/6/2008, page 7, line 97)
Nevertheless, when democracy was used as an adjective, it appeared positive contexts far more frequently than negative contexts. Moreover, when it was used in the phrase democracy nation, it was almost entirely in a positive context.
“In fact, in pursuance of the seven-step Road Map to build a discipline-flourishing democracy nation, the government is dealing with anti-government groups and persons with great patience in order to achieve national reconsolidation.” (Soe Mya Kyaw, NLM, 11/6/2008, page 4, column l, line 89)
In fact, democratic nation appeared 16 times (10 times in positive context, in neutral context 5 times and only 1 time in negative context) in May, June and July in 2008. Interestingly, it attracted adjectives such as developed, modern or peaceful and collocated frequently with the phrase discipline-flourishing, for which there was no negative usage.
Discipline-flourishing, in particular, seemed to represent and reflect the world-view of the military government, a view in which professional soldiers had an essential function in creating the discipline necessary for a stable society to develop. That contrasted with the apparent junta fear that democracy was something unrestrained and easily destructive in the context of Myanmar. Evidence for this was:
“In conclusion, the minister urged the literary workers to inculcate the people with correct outlook and knowledge, to safeguard the national interest, to discharge the duties bestowed by history in efforts for emergence of a modern, developed discipline-flourishing democratic nation and to realize the objectives of the association.” (Anon , NLM, 29/6/2008, page 9, line 153)
The most striking discovery was that, democrat appeared only time during the three-month period under study and that was in a neutral context. Quite obviously, the significance of this lies in the fact that the government do not see any difference between themselves and the leaders of the democracy movement, the hidden assumption of the military being that there are no democrats in any political grouping in Myanmar at present and, that given the opportunity, the opposition would act exactly as the military is at present.
Briefly put, the choice of words found in the NLM reflect military policy and its negative viewpoint of Western-style democracy. Writers were often anonymous but, even when not, they can be seen to use government inspired code words which promote military intent and which serve to paint the activities of other political groups as criminal and/or subject to restraint.
7. Conclusion
Democracy can be understood to exist when all citizens have an equal right to vote and elect a government and where majority rule applies, as can be seen in American and British dictionaries. Nevertheless, there is no native Burmese term for democracy which can be found in any Burmese-English dictionary. This is further reinforced by the fact that there are eight major national groups and 135 distinct ethnic minorities in Myanmar³. Each ethnic group has its own language, though the official language used in Myanmar is that of the ruling Myanmar ethnic group. It goes without saying that the understanding of democracy must necessarily vary between these ethnic groups. Minority nationalities do not normally have the opportunity to publish written works in their own languages and the military regime has made no perceivable effort to promote the languages of the various ethnic groups of Myanmar.
The idea of Democracy is an uncomfortable one for the military junta to accept. It always emphasizes that democracy should be modified or restrained and, to that effect, words such as process, transition, developing often collocated. Obviously, in response to this fear, the representative phrase, discipline-flourishing democracy, was created. It seems, for the time being, to have become a slogan of sorts for the military leaders who find themselves under pressure.
The explanation of democracy in the context of NLM is slippery and inextricably with the lack of agreed-upon definitions. Unfortunately, as mentioned above, it is by no means clear how the various Burmese ethnic groups define the meaning of democracy. Moreover, there is no Burmese-Burmese dictionary, nor similar dictionaries for the minority languages. This, as much as the political factors involved, has allowed the government to put the democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi under detention and to label any pro-democracy activities as being criminal and the work of saboteurs. In stead, the goal of the government is to establish a democratic government in Myanmar under the control of the military junta which can be considered as a contradiction in terms. Nevertheless, the prospect in sight at present is that neither will Western standards of democracy be employed by the government nor will democratic values in take root in Myanmar as people expect in western countries.
After parliamentary democracy was lost, the various ethnic groups took their guns and have fought for their human rights since 1962. Neither the 1947 nor the1974 constitution could maintain state stability and peace. The 1988 and 2007 revolutions showed that the rule of the military was rejected. It should be emphasized that the ethnic rebel troops though out recent Burmese history have been challenging the military to create a system of political rights which would guarantee their safety and prosperity. Rather than new elections, the regime currently in power would do well to release its more than 2,000 political prisoners, cease attacks on ethnic minorities, and genuinely engage with the National League of Democracy (NLD), the opposition's political umbrella, as the NLD is a more representative mirror of the Burmese people as a whole. What should be done and what is actually happening are, however, different matters. The military junta currently robs the freedom of Burmese people and coerces them on a daily basis to participate in a flawed political process. Nevertheless, it may be expected that the various Burmese ethnic groups will continue to give their lives and struggle to achieve the democratic values which are necessary to guarantee both their prosperity and human dignity.
NOTES:
1. Martin et al., p3.
2. A biography of Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma Camping UK. Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and Myanmar's political prisoners, Amnesty International.
3. Tehran Times, p6.
ONLINE RESOURCES:
Compact Oxford English Dictionary, http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/democracy?view=uk
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, http://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/democracy
Webster’s Student Dictionary, http://www.wordcentral.com/cgi-bin/student?book=Student&va=democracy
http://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/democracy
REFERENCES:
AFP, Tehran Times International Daily, May 28, 2008,
Martin Lipset Seymour and M.Lakin Jason (2004), "The Democratic Century" the University of Okalahoma Press, Norman, USA.
Nang Seng Hong (2009), "Representations of Stability, Peace and Tranquility In "The New Light of Myanmar" Foreign Language journal, Daitou Bunka University, Vol.38
U Win Tin (9/9/2009), "An 'Election' Burma's People Don't Need" The Washington Post
http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?id=5093&gclid=CNGBiMbYzZwCFUwwpAodQ
http://www.foundationburma.org/node/4
http://www.myanmargeneva.org/newseng-printE.htm
Map-Democracies users.erols.com/mwhite28/govt2000.htm
http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/35910.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burma
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Light_of_Myanmar
ျမန္မာ့သတင္း ကမာၻ႕သတင္း
ထြက္ခြာခြင့္တားျမစ္ခံခဲ့ရေသာ ကိုေမတၱာတို႔အဖြဲ႔ ဂ်ပန္လာခြင့္ရသြားၿပီ
တိုက်ိဳ၊ ဇႏၷ၀ါရီ(၃၁)ေရးသားသူ-သန္႔မ်ိဳးေထြး
ဂ်ပန္ေဖ်ာ္ေျဖပြဲအတြက္ ရန္ကုန္ေလဆိပ္တြင္ ထြက္ခြာခြင့္ပိတ္ပင္တားဆီးျခင္းခံခဲ့ရေသာ လူရြင္ေတာ္ကိုေမတၱာဦးေဆာင္သည့္ တိုက်ိဳဆာကူရာအၿငိမ့္အဖြဲ႔ကို ခြင့္ျပဳလိုက္ျပီျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း သိရသည္။အေၾကာင္းျပခ်က္အေနႏွင့္ လူ၀င္မႈႀကီးၾကပ္ေရး႒ာနမွမသိရွိလိုက္သည့္အတြက္ တားျမစ္ခဲ့ရျခင္းျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း၊ သက္ဆိုင္ရာမွသိမ္းယူထားလိုက္ေသာ အႏုပညာရွင္မ်ား၏ ႏိုင္ငံကူးလက္မွတ္မ်ားႏွင့္ ထြက္ခြာခြင့္ကို လြန္ခဲ့ေသာ(၄)ရက္ခန္႔က ကိုေမတၱာအပါအ၀င္ မိုးဒီ၊ ...
ႏုိင္ငံေရး အက်ဥ္းသား ပိုမ်ားလာႏုိင္ေၾကာင္း AAPP သံုးသပ္
၂၀၁၀ ေရြးေကာက္ပဲြ ဆန္႔က်င္ လႈပ္ရွားမႈမ်ား ပိုမို မ်ားျပားလာႏိုင္သျဖင့္ ယခုႏွစ္တြင္ ႏိုင္ငံ ...
ေရႊဂံုတုိင္ စာတမ္းကို CRPP ဝန္းရံမည္
အမ်ဳိးသား ဒီမိုကေရစီအဖဲြ႔ခ်ဳပ္ NLD ၏ ေရႊဂံုတုိင္ ေၾကညာစာတမ္းကို လႊတ္ေတာ္ ကိုယ္စားျပဳ ...
ဗဟိုဦးစီးအဖဲြ႔ဝင္ စာရင္း ေပးပို႔ရန္ NLD ဥကၠ႒ ညႊန္ၾကား
ျပန္လည္ဖဲြ႔စည္းမည့္ ဗဟိုဦးစီးအဖဲြ႔ CC တြင္ အဖဲြ႔ဝင္အျဖစ္ လ်ာထားမည့္ အမည္စာရင္း ...
တန္းတူေရး လက္ခံလွ်င္ ေတာ္လွန္ေရး စြန္႔မည္ဟု KIO ထပ္ေျပာ
တုိင္းရင္းသားလူမ်ဳိးမ်ား တန္းတူေရးကို စစ္အစိုးရဘက္က လက္ခံလွ်င္ လက္နက္ကုိင္ ...
မြန္ျပည္သူလူထုအေနျဖင့္ ျပည္သူလူထု အားလံုးအတြက္ အေရးႀကီးသည့္ ႏုိင္ငံေရးအေျပာင္းအလဲ ကာလတြင္ မြန္ေခါင္းေဆာင္မ်ား၏ ဦးေဆာင္မႈေနာက္ကို ယံုယံုၾကည္ၾကည္လိုက္ပါၾကရန္ တိုက္တြန္းလိုက္သည္။
စစ္တပ္ေႏြစပါးစုိက္ပ်ဳိးေရးအဖြဲ႕ လယ္ေရသြင္းစဥ္ ၎တုိ႕၏တပ္တြင္းရံပံုေငြ အုတ္ဖုိထဲေရ၀င္သြားသျဖင့္ အနီး အနား႐ြာသားမ်ားထံမွ ေလ်ာ္ေၾကးျပန္ေတာင္းေၾကာင္း နယ္စပ္သတင္းရပ္ကြက္က ေျပာပါသည္။
သတင္း ဆက္ဖတ္ရန္..
ျမန္မာနဲႛေျမာက္ကုိရီးယား အထူးသတိထားေစာင့္ၾကည့္ဖုိႛလုိ
ရန္ကုန္တိုင္း အင္အယ္လ္ဒီနဲႛ ႓မိဳႚနယ္အဖြဲႚမ်ား ဒုတိယအႀကိမ္ ေဆြးေႏြးပြဲ က်င္းပ
ဓါတ္ပံု-ဗြီဒီယိုမွတ္တမ္း။ ။ေကသီသိန္း,
သတင္း။ ။စိုးမိုးနိင္(NLD(LA)JB လူငယ္ႏွွင့္ေက်ာင္းသားေရးရာဌာန)
တိုက်ိဳ၊ ဇႏၷ၀ါရီ(၃၁)ေရးသားသူ-သန္႔မ်ိဳးေထြး
ဂ်ပန္ေဖ်ာ္ေျဖပြဲအတြက္ ရန္ကုန္ေလဆိပ္တြင္ ထြက္ခြာခြင့္ပိတ္ပင္တားဆီးျခင္းခံခဲ့ရေသာ လူရြင္ေတာ္ကိုေမတၱာဦးေဆာင္သည့္ တိုက်ိဳဆာကူရာအၿငိမ့္အဖြဲ႔ကို ခြင့္ျပဳလိုက္ျပီျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း သိရသည္။အေၾကာင္းျပခ်က္အေနႏွင့္ လူ၀င္မႈႀကီးၾကပ္ေရး႒ာနမွမသိရွိလိုက္သည့္အတြက္ တားျမစ္ခဲ့ရျခင္းျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း၊ သက္ဆိုင္ရာမွသိမ္းယူထားလိုက္ေသာ အႏုပညာရွင္မ်ား၏ ႏိုင္ငံကူးလက္မွတ္မ်ားႏွင့္ ထြက္ခြာခြင့္ကို လြန္ခဲ့ေသာ(၄)ရက္ခန္႔က ကိုေမတၱာအပါအ၀င္ မိုးဒီ၊ ...
 |
ျမန္မာစစ္အစိုးရ ျပည္ထဲေရး၀န္ႀကီးရဲ႕ မွတ္ခ်က္နဲ႔ပတ္သက္လို႔ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္က ဒါဟာ သူ႔အေပၚခ်မွတ္ထားတဲ့ ေထာင္ဒဏ္နဲ႔ ပတ္သက္ၿပီး ျပင္ဆင္ခ်က္ေလွ်ာက္ထားမႈ ဆံုးျဖတ္ခ်က္မခ်ရေသးခင္ တရားရံုးခ်ဳပ္ရဲ႕ လုပ္ပိုင္ခြင့္ကိုထိခိုက္ႏိုင္တယ္လုိ႔ ေျပာဆိုလိုက္ပါတယ္။
 |
အိႏၵိယအစိုးရ မူ၀ါဒ ေျပာင္းလဲရန္ သတင္းေထာက္မ်ား တိုက္တြန္း
ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံတြင္ ဒီမိုကေရစီစနစ္ ေပၚထြန္းေရးအတြက္ အိႏၵိယ အစိုးရအေနျဖင့္ ျမန္မာစစ္အစိုးရအေပၚ ထားရွိေသာ ႏိုင္ငံျခားေရး မူ၀ါဒမ်ားကို ျပန္လည္စဥ္းစား ေျပာင္းလဲသင့္ျပီျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း အိႏၵိယႏုိင္ငံ အေရွ႕ေျမာက္ျပည္နယ္မ်ားမွ ျမန္မာ့အေရးစိတ္၀င္စားသူ သတင္းေထာက္မ်ားက ယေန႔တြင္ တိုက္တြန္းလိုက္သည္။ဆႏၵျပ ျမန္မာအလုပ္သမားမ်ား ေတာင္းဆိုခ်က္ အလုပ္ရွင္လိုက္ေလ်ာ
ထိုင္း-ျမန္မာနယ္စပ္ မယ္ဆိုင္ၿမိဳ႕ရွိ OSAKA MARUNI (Thailand) Co. Ltd ဖိနပ္စက္ရံုမွ ျမန္မာအလုပ္သမားမ်ား၏ ၿပီးခဲ့သည့္ ဇန္န၀ါရီ လ၂၃ ရက္က လုပ္ခလစာ တိုးျမွင့္ေပးရန္ ဆႏၵျပ ေတာင္းဆိုမႈကို စက္ရံုတာ၀န္ရွိသူမ်ားက လိုက္ ေလ်ာရန္ ယမန္ေန႔က သေဘာတူခဲ့ေၾကာင္း သတင္း ရရွိသည္။ႏုိင္ငံေရး အက်ဥ္းသား ပိုမ်ားလာႏုိင္ေၾကာင္း AAPP သံုးသပ္
၂၀၁၀ ေရြးေကာက္ပဲြ ဆန္႔က်င္ လႈပ္ရွားမႈမ်ား ပိုမို မ်ားျပားလာႏိုင္သျဖင့္ ယခုႏွစ္တြင္ ႏိုင္ငံ ...
ေရႊဂံုတုိင္ စာတမ္းကို CRPP ဝန္းရံမည္
အမ်ဳိးသား ဒီမိုကေရစီအဖဲြ႔ခ်ဳပ္ NLD ၏ ေရႊဂံုတုိင္ ေၾကညာစာတမ္းကို လႊတ္ေတာ္ ကိုယ္စားျပဳ ...
ဗဟိုဦးစီးအဖဲြ႔ဝင္ စာရင္း ေပးပို႔ရန္ NLD ဥကၠ႒ ညႊန္ၾကား
ျပန္လည္ဖဲြ႔စည္းမည့္ ဗဟိုဦးစီးအဖဲြ႔ CC တြင္ အဖဲြ႔ဝင္အျဖစ္ လ်ာထားမည့္ အမည္စာရင္း ...
တန္းတူေရး လက္ခံလွ်င္ ေတာ္လွန္ေရး စြန္႔မည္ဟု KIO ထပ္ေျပာ
တုိင္းရင္းသားလူမ်ဳိးမ်ား တန္းတူေရးကို စစ္အစိုးရဘက္က လက္ခံလွ်င္ လက္နက္ကုိင္ ...
| အေရးေတာ္ပံု ရင္ခုန္သူမ်ား အမွတ္ ၁၅ ေအာင္ေ၀း ဇန္နဝါရီ ၃၀၊ ၂ဝ၁ဝ အခုတစ္ေလာ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံ အက်ဥ္းေထာင္ အသီးသီးထဲက ျပန္လြတ္လာတ့ဲ ႏုိင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသားေတြထဲမွာ ကြ်န္ေတာာ္တုိ႔ရဲ႕ ရဲေဘာ္ႀကီး ကဗ်ာဆရာ မုံရြာေအာင္ရွင္လည္း အင္းစိန္ေထာင္ကေန ျပန္ထြက္လာပါတယ္။ ဆရာမုံရြာေအာင္ရွင္ကုိ စစ္အစုိးရက ၂၀၀၀ ျပည့္ႏွစ္မွာ ပုံႏွိပ္အက္ဥပေဒေတြနဲ႔ ေထာင္ဒဏ္ ၂၁ ႏွစ္ ခ်ခ့ဲတာပါ။ ကြ်န္ေတာာ္တုိ႔ တုိင္းျပည္မွာ စာေပအႏုပညာ လြတ္လပ္ခြင့္ဟာ ဘယ္တုန္းကမွ မရိွခ့ဲတာပါ။ ဘယ္ရိွပါ့မလဲ။ ကြ်န္ေတာ္တုိ႔ဟာ ဒီမုိကေရစီနဲ႔ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးေတြ ႏွစ္ေပါင္းမ်ားစြာ အၾကမ္းဖက္ ခ်ဳိးေဖာက္ခံေနရတ့ဲ တုိင္းျပည္ပဲ။
| |
| အျပည့္အစုံသို႔ ... |
| လွ်ိဳ႕၀ွက္သတင္းေထာက္ႏွင့္ မီဒီယာဌာနမ်ားရဲ႕တာ၀န္ ျပည္တြင္းက သတင္းေထာက္ေတြ ဘာျပန္ေျပာၾကသလဲ သန္းစုိးလႈိင္ ဇန္န၀ါရီ ၂၉၊ ၂၀၁၀  | |
| အျပည့္အစုံသို႔ ... |
မြန္လူထုအေနျဖင့္ မြန္ေခါင္းေဆာင္မ်ား ဦးေဆာင္မႈေနာက္ကို လိုက္ရန္ တိုက္တြန္း
မြန္ျပည္သူလူထုအေနျဖင့္ ျပည္သူလူထု အားလံုးအတြက္ အေရးႀကီးသည့္ ႏုိင္ငံေရးအေျပာင္းအလဲ ကာလတြင္ မြန္ေခါင္းေဆာင္မ်ား၏ ဦးေဆာင္မႈေနာက္ကို ယံုယံုၾကည္ၾကည္လိုက္ပါၾကရန္ တိုက္တြန္းလိုက္သည္။
| ေစ့စပ္ေဆြးေႏြးေရးျဖစ္ဖုိ႔ အဓမၼ တြန္းအားေပးစီစဥ္ေန Friday, January 29, 2010 အျပည့္အစံုသို႔ | |||
 ပုိဂ်ာမန္းရဲ႕ရတ္ခ်ာဒါပီဆက္က ေျမနဲ႔ပတ္သက္ၿပီး တရား႐ုံးအမိန္႔ ထုတ္ျပန္ Friday, January 29, 2010 အျပည့္အစံုသို႔ | |||
 ထပ္စင္ရဲ႕ပစၥည္းေတြသိမ္းတဲ့အမႈ တရားစီရင္တာမွာ တရားသူႀကီးေတြလုံၿခဳံေရးကုိ ၀န္ႀကီးခ်ဳပ္အာမခံ Friday, January 29, 2010 .... အျပည့္အစံုသို႔ | |||
 ေျမာက္ကုိရီးယားက လက္နက္ေမွာင္ခုိမႈမွာ ၀င္မစြက္ပါ Friday, January 29, 2010 |
ေႂကြးေၾကာ္သံ
ဖိုးသံေခ်ာင္း
Saturday, January 30, 2010
လက္နက္ကိုင္တိုက္ပြဲလမ္းေၾကာင္းကို ေရြးရေတာ့မယ့္ အေျခအေနကိုေရာက္ေတာ့ ေယဘုယ်ေႂကြးေၾကာ္သံ “သခင္ မ်ဳိးေဟ့ တို႔ဗမာ” ဆိုတာေလာက္နဲ႔ မရေတာ့ပါဘူး။ “မီးဒုတ္ မီးဒုတ္ ႐ႈိ႕႐ႈိ႕” “သူပုန္သူပုန္ ထထ”... အျပည့္အစံုသို႔
ဇန္နဝါရီလ ၂၉ရက္။ နန္းထူးစံ (ေကအုိင္စီ)
လာမည့္ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ ပ်က္ျပားေစရန္အတြက္ အၾကမ္းဖက္ ဗုံးခြဲမႈလုပ္ငန္းမ်ား ႀကံစည္လုပ္ေဆာင္ေနသည္ဟု စစ္အစုိးရ၏ စြပ္စြဲ ခ်က္အရ ၎တို႔၏ လမ္းစဥ္မဟုတ္ေၾကာင္း ကရင္အမ်ဳိးသား အစည္းအရုံး(ေကအဲန္ယူ)က ေျပာဆုိလုိက္သည္။
ပု႑ားကၽြန္း-ေက်ာက္ေတာ္ ရထားလမ္းပိုင္း ေဖါက္လုပ္ရာတြင္ အလုပ္သမားတဦး ေသဆံုး
၁၊၃၀၊၂၀၁၀
မင္းေအာင္ (နိရဥၥရာ) ရခိုင္ျပည္နယ္ အတြင္းရွိ ပု႑ားကၽြန္း-ေက်ာက္ေတာ္ ရထားလမ္းပိုင္းကို ေဖါက္လုပ္ ေနရာတြင္ အလုပ္သမား တဦး ေရထဲလိမ့္က် ေသဆံုးသြားေၾကာင္း သတင္းရရွိသည္။ အျပည့္အစံုသို႔
တပ္တြင္းရံပံုေငြ အုတ္ဖို ေရ၀င္၍ ႐ြာသားမ်ားဒဏ္ေငြေပးေဆာင္ရ
ေျမာက္ဥကၠလာပျမိဳ ့နယ္(၂)ရပ္ကြက္ က လုပ္ရပ္
ေျမာက္ဥကၠလာပျမိဳ ့နယ္ ၂ရပ္ကြက္ရွိ က်ဳးေက်ာ္နယ္ေျမတစ္ခုျဖစ္တဲ ့မုဒိတာလမ္းရွိေနအိမ္မ်ားအား ၃၁၊ ဇန္နာ၀ါရီလ၂၀၁၀တြင္ ေနာက္ဆံုးထားျပီးဖ်က္ရမည္ဟုေျမာက္ဥကၠလာပျမိဳ ့နယ္ ျမိဳ ့နယ္မွဴး ဦးျမင့္ေမာင္ ကညႊန္ၾကားခဲ့ေၾကာင္းသိရသည္။...
ျမန္မာနဲႛေျမာက္ကုိရီးယား အထူးသတိထားေစာင့္ၾကည့္ဖုိႛလုိ
ရန္ကုန္တိုင္း အင္အယ္လ္ဒီနဲႛ ႓မိဳႚနယ္အဖြဲႚမ်ား ဒုတိယအႀကိမ္ ေဆြးေႏြးပြဲ က်င္းပ
ေမ ၃၀ ဒီပဲယင္း လုပ္ႀကံမွဳ ႀကီး (၆)ႏွစ္၈လ၊(၈၀)လ ျပည့္္ ၀မ္းနည္းျခင္း အထိမ္းအမွတ္အခမ္းအနားမွတ္တမ္း
ေမ ၃၀ ဒီပဲယင္း လုပ္ႀကံမွဳ ႀကီး (၆)ႏွစ္၈လ၊(၈၀)လ ျပည့္္ ၀မ္းနည္းျခင္း အထိမ္းအမွတ္အခမ္းအနားကို အမ်ဳိးသားဒီမုိကေရစီ အဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္(လြတ္ေျမာက္နယ္ေျမ)ဂ်ပန္ဌာနခြဲမွ ဦးေဆာင္၍ ရွိနဂါ၀ါရွိ ျမန္မာသံရုံး (အခြန္ရုံး) ေရွ႕တြင္ ဒီကေန႕ က်င္းပခဲ့ပါသည္။ဂ်ပန္ ေရာက္ ဗမာျပည္သူျပည္သားမ်ား တိုင္းရင္းသား ညီအကို ေမာင္ႏွမမ်ား အဖြဲ႕စည္းအသီးသီးမွညီအကိုေမာင္ႏွမမ်ား ပူေပါင္းပါ၀င္ၾကရာ အေယာက္ ၁၅၀ခန္႕ တက္တက္ၾကြၾကြ ပူးေပါင္း ပါ၀င္ခဲ့ပါသည္။
ဓါတ္ပံု-ဗြီဒီယိုမွတ္တမ္း။ ။ေကသီသိန္း,
သတင္း။ ။စိုးမိုးနိင္(NLD(LA)JB လူငယ္ႏွွင့္ေက်ာင္းသားေရးရာဌာန)
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
