Burma News International - January 14, 2012

Burma News International Burma News International January 14, 2013 Three confirmed dead in Kachin State helicopter incident Two pilots and a flight sergeant died when an MI-35 helicopter gunship crashed near Talawgyi, about 20 miles south of Myitkyina, the capital of Kachin State, on January 11. Kachin fighting unites ethnic armed alliance The United Nationalities Federal Council says they have come to a common agreement and are now prepared to help the Kachin if the government troops do not stop their offensive in Kachin State. HRW calls on Burma to drop charges against peace activists Human Rights Watch (HRW) on Monday called on Burma’s authorities to drop charges against nine activists who participated in peaceful protests in Rangoon in September against the war in Kachin State. Padoh Mahn Mahn discusses KNU meeting with Burma government President U Thein Sein invitated a Karen National Union delegation to Naypyidaw to meet with key government ministers, including the vice president Sai Mauk Kham and the military chief, Vice-Senior General Min Aung Hlaing. The KNU delegation led by General Mutu Say Poe, the KNU chairman, met for two days, from the 5th to the of 6th January, with President Thein Sein and selected ministers in the country’s capital, Naypyidaw. The KNU delegation later met with community groups based in Rangoon. Media Bill nears completion A draft Media Law bill will soon be presented by the provisional Myanmar Press Council (MPC) to members of the Burmese press, Council Secretary Kyaw Min Swe said at a press briefing on Saturday. Mining Ministry drops lawsuit against Voice Weekly The-Voice-Journal-coverBurma’s Ministry of Mines has agreed to drop its lawsuit against The Voice Weekly news journal, which published an article last year alleging that some government ministries, including the Ministry of Mining, were involved in misusing funds and misstating finances. First Burmese font smartphones launched Peter Chou, the Burma-born CEO of Taiwanese phone company HTC Corp., has announced the launch of the world’s first mobile devices designed to be used with Burmese text. Singapore investors build hopes of entering Burma’s construction market Several Singaporean companies have indicated an interest in investing in the high-end construction business and other industries in Burma, a notable advancement from previous Singapore firms which chose mostly to steer toward the construction of hotels. လက္ပံေတာင္းေတာင္ ဒဏ္ရာရ ကုိရင္တပါး မၾကာမီ ထိုင္းေဆးရုံမွ ဆင္းႏုိင္မည္ လက္ပံေတာင္းေတာင္ အေရးအခင္း ဒဏ္ရာရ ၿပီး ထိုင္းႏိုင္ငံတြင္ ေဆးကုသမႈ ခံယူေနသည့္ သံဃာေတာ္  ရွင္သဇၨန သည္ ဇန္နဝါရီ လကုန္တြင္ ေဆး႐ုံမွ ဆင္းႏိုင္ေတာ့မည္ ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း ေဆးကုသရာ သို႔အတူလိုက္ ပါလာသည့္ ဦးေတဇာသာရ က မိန္႔သည္။ စိုက္ပ်ဳိးစရိတ္ တဧကလွ်င္ က်ပ္တသိန္း ထုတ္ေခ်းေပးေတာ့မည္ လာမည့္ မိုးစပါးရာသီမွ စတင္ကာ လယ္သမားမ်ားကို စိုက္ပ်ိဳးစရိတ္အျဖစ္ တဧကလွ်င္ က်ပ္ေငြတသိန္းအထိ တိုးျမွင့္ထုတ္ေခ်းေပးေတာ့မည္ဟု လယ္ယာ စိုက္ပ်ိဳးေရးႏွင့္ ဆည္ေျမာင္း ဝန္ႀကီးဌာနက ဇန္နဝါရီလ ၁၄ ရက္ေန႔က ေၾကညာသည္။ အင္တာနက္ ဆက္ေၾကာင္းသစ္အတြက္ ေဒၚလာသန္း ၄၀ ခန္႔ တရုတ္ကုမၸဏီ ရင္းႏီွးျမွဳပ္ႏွံ ဆက္သြယ္ေရးမွ နိုင္ငံတကာသို႔ ထြက္ေပါက္တခု ပိုရလာေစရန္အတြက္ SE-ME-WE-5 အင္တာနက္ ဆက္ေၾကာင္းတခု တည္ေဆာက္မႈတြင္ တရုတ္ႏိုင္ငံ ကုမၸဏီတခုမွ အေမရိကန္ ေဒၚလာ သန္း ၄၀ ခန္႔ ဝင္ေရာက္ ရင္းနွီးျမွဳပ္နွံလုပ္ကိုင္မည္ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း သိရသည္။ စပါးခြံဓါတ္ေငြ႔ျဖင့္ လွ်ပ္စစ္ဓာတ္အား ထုတ္ရန္ ဂ်ပန္မွ ယန္းသန္း ၁၃၀ ထည့္ဝင္မည္ စပါးခြံဓါတ္ေငြ႔ အသံုးျပဳ လွ်ပ္စစ္ဓါတ္အား ထုတ္လုပ္ေရး စြမ္းအားျမွင္႔တင္မႈ သုေတသန စီမံကိန္း ေဆာင္ရြက္ရန္ ဂ်ပန္ဘက္မွ ယန္းသန္း ၁၃၀ (အေမရိကန္ေဒၚလာ တသန္းခြဲခန္႔) ထည့္ဝင္ ေဆာင္ရြက္မည္ ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း သိရသည္။ Forward to a friend  Burma News International is an unique network of eleven independent media organizations: Mizzima News, Shan Herald Agency for News, Phop Htaw News Agency, Khonumthung News Group, Narinjara News, Kaladan Press Network, Independent Mon News Agency, Network Media Group, Kantarawaddy Times, Karen Information Center and Kachin News Group. Copyright © 2011 Burma News International, All rights reserved. You are receiving our daily news because you signed up at www.bnionline.net Our mailing address is: Burma News International P.O box - 76 Chiang Mai, Thailand 50202 Download Burmese font here: http://www.bnionline.net/Zawgyi-One_v4.30_November_14_20.ttf ---------------------------------------------   Duty Editor Burma News International bnidutyeditor6m@gmail.com www.bnionline.net  unsubscribe from this list | update subscription preferences | view email in browser

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