Burma News International - March 19, 2013

Burma News International Burma News International March 19, 2013 Relocations of over 100 villages in the area of Mongton Hydroelectric Power Project begun Many still remember that one of the most famous dams built in Shan State known as Tasang. The construction of Tasang Dam on Salween was started in 2010, approximately 10 km from Mongton, southern Shan State. Recently, the Tasang Dam has been relocated and renamed “Mongton Hydroelectric Power Project”. According to Shan Saphawa, a Shan environmental organization, reports that due to this project, not less than 8 townships located along the Salween River would be submerged in the water; and now relocation of the locals have been started. Nasaka arrests 13 villagers for watching videos Villagers were recently arrested by Nasaka (Burma’s border security force)  for watching movies in a commercial video room while school examinations were taking place, according one eye witness who didn’t want their name used. 2,000 Karen call for stop to Salween dams Earlier this week thousands of Karen people turned out to protest over plans to dam the Salween River. Flag meeting held for detained Bangladeshi constables still not released Burmese and Bangladeshi border security forces held a flag meeting on Sunday for four Bangladeshi citizens including three policemen detained by the Burmese Nasaka but Burma did not release them, said border sources. Passports for Myanmar’s ex-prisoners still an issue Although the Myanmar government is relaxing the rules for citizens’ passport application process, former prisoners and people with criminal records still have to show ex-prisoners documents to apply for travel documents. Bangladeshi policemen and a civilian still detained by Nasaka Three Bangladeshi policemen and one civilian have been missing since March 13 after being arrested by Burma’s Nasaka for accidently crossing the border into Burma. Meanwhile the Border Guard Bangladesh (BGB) was placed on high alert while they investigated the case of the missing men, according to Hossain, a local trader. Burma army shell heavy artilleries at RCSS/SSA Homong bases Since yesterday (March 15) Burma Army were shelling heavy artilleries targeting at Loi Naga mountain ranges, where Shan State Army Homong bases are located in southern Shan State, sources from Restoration Council of Shan State/Shan State Army (RCSS/SSA) said. Bangladeshi army destroy poppy fields near Burmese border The Bangladeshi army destroyed several acres of poppy fields cultivated by hill peoples in remote jungles near Burma’s western border recently, said an authority and local hill people in the area. Shan and Kayah to hold joint peace conference A Shan-Kayah (Karenni) joint conference will be held in Lashio, Shan State from March 20-22 and will be attended by ethnic political parties and ethnic armed groups from the Shan and Kayah States. ACO bets $700 million on Myanmar aco-logoACO Investment Group have announced that they will invest US$700 million in Myanmar over the coming year. Thein Sein’s minimum wage recommendations accepted by Parliament The Pyidaungsu Hluttaw (General Assembly) accepted President Thein Sein's recommendations for the 2013-Minimum Wage Bill, according to a report in the state-run newspaper The New Light of Myanmar on March 19. ဌာနခ်ဳပ္ထားရွိေရး သေဘာတူညီခ်က္ တပ္မေတာ္က ဖ်က္ေနဟု RCSS ေျပာ သၽွမ္းျပည္အေရွ႕ပိုင္း မိုင္းထားၿမိဳ႕နယ္ႏွင့္ ေတာင္ပိုင္းရွိ ဟိုမိန္းၿမိဳ႕နယ္အား RCSS/SSA ဌာန ခ်ဳပ္ထားရွိရန္၊ တပ္မိသားစုမ်ား ေနရာခ်ထားရန္ အစိုးရႏွင့္ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရး ေဖာ္ေဆာင္ေရးေဆြးေႏြးစဥ္ သေဘာတူညီမွု ရထားေသာ္လည္း အေကာင္အထည္ေဖာ္ခြင့္အား ျမန္မာ့တပ္မေတာ္က အဟန႔္အတားျပဳေနသည္ဟု RCSS/SSA ကေျပာသည္။ PNLO ႏွင့္ အစိုးရ ၿငိမ္းအဖြဲ႕ ျပည္ေထာင္စု အဆင့္ ေတြ႕ဆုံရန္႐ိွ ပအိုဝ့္ အမ်ိဳးသား လြတ္ေျမာက္ေရး အဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္ PNLO ႏွင့္ အစိုးရ၏ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရး အဖြဲ႕တို႔ လာမည့္ မတ္လ (၂၂) ရက္ေန႕တြင္ ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕ ျမန္မာ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရး စင္တာ၌ ျပည္ေထာင္စု အဆင့္ ေတြ႕ဆုံေဆြးေႏြးရန္ ရွိေၾကာင္း PNLO အဖြဲ႔ ဥကၠဌျဖစ္သူ ခြန္ဥကၠာက ဆိုသည္။ ယာလုပ္လုိ႔ မရမဲ့အတူတူ ေလ်ာ္ေၾကးေငြယူ ယာေျမမ်ားတြင္ ပုံထားေသာ ေျမစာပုံမ်ားေၾကာင့္ ယာလုပ္ရန္ အခက္အခဲ ျဖစ္သျဖင့္ လက္ပံေတာင္းေတာင္ ေၾကးနီစီမံကိန္းနယ္ေျမအတြင္း ေပးအပ္ခဲ့ေသာ ေျမယာေလ်ာ္ေၾကးေငြမ်ား ယူခဲ့ရသည္ဟု  စီမံကိန္းႏွင့္ အနီးဆုံးေက်းရြာျဖစ္သည့္ ေက်ာ္ရြာမွ ဦးႏုိင္က မဇၥ်ိမသုိ႔ ေျပာၾကားခဲ့သည္။ ဘုရားသံုးဆူရွိ တပ္ကုန္းေန လူထုမ်ား ေနရာမွထြက္ေပးရန္ သတိေပးခံရ ကရင္ျပည္နယ္၊ ဘုရားသံုးဆူၿမိဳ႕ရွိ အစိုးရစစ္တပ္ပိုင္ တပ္ကုန္းတြင္ အေျခခ် ေနထိုင္ၾကသူမ်ားကို လက္ရွိေနရာမွ ထြက္ခြာသြား ၾကရန္ အေရွ႕ေတာင္တိုင္းဗ်ဴဟာႏွင့္ ၿမိဳ႕ခံအာဏာပိုင္မ်ားက သတိေပးခဲ့သေၾကာင္း သိရသည္။ မီဒီယာဥပေဒအား လႊတ္ေတာ္ ျပန္စခ်ိန္ တင္ျပမည္ မီဒီယာ ဥပေဒမူၾကမ္း အၿပီးသတ္အား သႀကၤန္အၿပီး လႊတ္ေတာ္ ျပန္စခ်ိန္တြင္ ျပည္သူ႔လႊတ္ေတာ္ သုိ႔ တင္ျပသြားမည္ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံ စာနယ္ဇင္းေကာင္စီ (ယာယီ)မွ အေထြေထြ အတြင္းေရးမွဴး ဦးေက်ာ္မင္းေဆြ က မဇၥ်ိမသုိ႔ ေျပာသည္။ က်ဳံးပတ္လည္ႏွင့္ ကန္ေတာ္ႀကီးအျပင္ လမ္းမႀကီးမ်ားတြင္ပါ မ႑ပ္မ်ား ခြင့္ျပဳမည္ ယခုႏွစ္ အတာသႀကၤန္တြင္ မႏၲေလးၿမိဳ႕အႏွံ႔ စည္ကားေစရန္ က်ဳံးပတ္လည္ႏွင့္ ကန္ေတာ္ႀကီး အျပင္ ၿမိဳ႕နယ္အလိုက္ လမ္းမႀကီးမ်ားတြင္လည္း မ႑ပ္မ်ား ေဆာက္လုပ္ခြင့္ ေပးသြားမည္ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း ၿမိဳ႕ေတာ္စည္ပင္သာယာေရး ေကာ္မတီက ဆိုသည္။ လုပ္ငန္းသစ္ စတင္လုပ္ကိုင္မည့္သူမ်ား အတိုးႏႈန္း သက္သာစြာ ေငြေခ်းယူႏိုင္ အေသးစားနွင့္ အလတ္စား လုပ္ငန္းသမားမ်ား (SMEs) ႏွင့္ လုပ္ငန္းသစ္ စတင္ လုပ္ကိုင္မည့္ သူမ်ားအား အတိုးႏႈန္း သက္သာစြာျဖင့္ ACLENDA ျမန္မာ ကုမၸဏီက ေခ်းေပးေနသည္ဟု ကုမၸဏီ၏ စီမံခန္႔ခြဲမႈ ဒါ႐ိုက္တာက ဆိုသည္။ ေဒသခံကားသမားအား တံတားေစာင့္ စစ္ဗိုလ္ရိုက္ႏွက္ သၽွမ္းျပည္အလယ္ပိုင္း လဲခ်ားၿမိဳ႕နယ္တြင္ တံတားပိတ္ခ်ိန္ ညေန ၆ နာရီထက္ အနည္းငယ္ေနာက္က်၍ ေရာက္လာေသာ ၿမိဳ႕ခံကားသမားအား တံတားေစာင့္တာဝန္က် ျမန္မာစစ္ဗိုလ္က ေသနတ္ဒင္ျဖင့္ထုရိုက္ရာ ကားဆရာ ေဆး႐ုံ တက္လိုက္ ရေၾကာင္း သိရသည္။ ႏုိင္ငံကူးလက္မွတ္မ်ား (၁၀) ရက္အတြင္း ထုတ္ေပးႏုိင္ေတာ့မည္ ႏိုင္ငံကူး လက္မွတ္မ်ားအား ေလွ်ာက္ထားၿပီး ၁၀ ရက္အတြင္း ထုတ္ေပးႏုိင္ရန္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံကူးလက္မွတ္ ထုတ္ေပးေရး႐ံုးမွ စီစဥ္ေဆာင္ရြက္ေနေၾကာင္းယေန႔ ႏုိင္ငံပုိင္ သတင္းစာမ်ားတြင္ထုတ္ျပန္ေၾကျငာ သည္။ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံမွ အခြင့္အလမ္းမ်ားကို Google မ်က္စိက်ေန ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံသို႔ ပထမဆံုး လာေရာက္လည္ပတ္သည့္ နည္းပညာပိုင္းဆိုင္ရာ က႑မွ အဆင့့္ျမင့္ ထင္ရွားေက်ာ္ၾကားသူ တဦးအျဖစ္ Google ဥကၠ႒ အဲရစ္ ခ်မစ္သည္္ ယခု သီတင္းပတ္ ေႏွာင္းပိုင္းတြင္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံ သို႔ လာေရာက္မည္ ျဖစ္သည္။ စိုင္းေနာ္ခမ္းအမွု၌ နိုင္ငံေတာ္သက္ေသအျဖစ္ တ႐ုတ္သို႔ပို႔ခဲ့သူအား ျမန္မာသို႔ျပန္လႊဲ ေရႊႀတိဂံေဒသ မဲေခါင္ျမစ္အတြင္း တ႐ုတ္နိုင္ငံသား ၁၃ ဦးသတ္ျဖတ္မွု၌ စြပ္စြဲခံရၿပီး တ႐ုတ္နိုင္ငံ၌ ႐ုံးတင္စစ္ေဆးခံရေသာ စိုင္းေနာ္ခမ္းအမွုအတြက္ နိုင္ငံေတာ္သက္ေသအျဖစ္ စစ္ေဆးဖို႔ အပို႔ခံရသူ စိုင္းေအာင္ျမတ္အား တ႐ုတ္အစိုးရက ျမန္မာ အစိုးရထံ ျပန္လည္လႊဲအပ္ၿပီးျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း စုံစမ္းသိရသည္။ 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. 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