Burma News International - April 19, 2013

Burma News International Burma News International April 19, 2013 No ceasefire for Shan army The Shan State Progress Party / Shan State Army (SSPP/SSA) that had signed the ceasefire agreement with Naypyitaw on 28 January 2012 is now facing another military campaign launched by the Burma Army, according to local sources. Burma army shells villages It is reported that Burma army shelled 2 villages in Tangyan Township causing 2 injuries and 2 houses burned down. UN revise Kachin aid plan The United Nations says its Kachin Response Plan is being revised to cover humanitarian requirements and to reflect changes in the situation. The new plan is expected any day now and will extend to the end of 2013, according to a statement by UNOCHA (UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs). Myanmar is region’s biggest drug producer: UN The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) announced this week that organized crime in the Asia-Pacific region is a US$90 billion a year business—twice the GDP of Myanmar. TIME’s Most Influential Person of the Decade—Aung San Suu Kyi Myanmar opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi was voted TIME magazine’s most influential person of the decade on Wednesday, narrowly defeating pop star Lady Gaga, US President Barack Obama and Google founder Larry Page. Suu Kyi meets Japan PM Abe Myanmar opposition leader and newly anointed Most Influential Person of the Decade Aung San Suu Kyi rounded off her visit to Japan with a courtesy visit to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Tokyo on Thursday. Maday Islanders protest Chinese pipeline About 800 residents of Maday Island in Kyaukphyu Township turned out on Thursday evening to protest against the gas and oil pipeline project that is backed by the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), which recently opened an office in the area, according to the officials of Maday Island Development Committee. Myanmar readies for EU to lift sanctions Myanmar economist Dr. Aung Tun Thet says that the country’s business leaders should be ready to “grab every opportunity” that comes available once the European Union (EU) lifts economic sanctions. Teachers want official go-ahead to teach Karen Fort the first time the Karen Education Department and the Karen Teachers Working Group held a summer camp for teacher training in a government controlled area. The training was held in Pway Poe Kla village, east of Dawei, in Southern Burma. The training was made possible because of the ceasefire agreement reached between the Karen National Union (KNU) and the Burma government in January 2012. Karen State – land disputes a growing problem The once forested slopes of the hills around Kyeik Pe Lor village are now surrounded by rubber trees or burnt black in preparation for the planting of more rubber trees. Forests have been burnt to the ground. The burnt land once was part of the villager’s rotation rice farming, but now has been taken over by a company for a rubber plantation project. ပထမအႀကိမ္ တိုင္းရင္းမီဒီယာညီလာခံ ေမာ္လၿမိဳင္တြင္က်င္းပမည္ ပထမအႀကိမ္ တိုင္ရင္းမီဒီယာညီလာခံကို နိုင္ငံတကာ ျမန္မာ့သတင္း Burma News Internews မွ ဦးေဆာင္ၿပီး ဧၿပီလ ၂၅ ရက္ မွ ၂၇ ရက္ေန႔အထိ ၃ ရက္ၾကာ က်င္းပမည္ဟု သိရသည္။ ေရႊဂတ္စ္ပိုက္လုိင္း လမ္းေၾကာင္းရွိ တုိင္းရင္းသားပါတီႏွင့္ ကိုယ္စားလွယ္မ်ားအား တ႐ုတ္အစုိးရဖိတ္ေခၚ ေရႊဂတ္စ္ပုိက္လုိင္း လမ္းေၾကာင္းေပၚရွိ ေဒသတြင္း တုိင္းရင္းသားပါတီအခ်ိဳ႕ႏွင့္ လႊတ္ေတာ္တြင္ ကုိယ္စားလွယ္အျဖစ္ အမ်ားအျပား တက္ေရာက္ေနၾကေသာ ပါတီမ်ားအား တ႐ုတ္ ကြန္ျမဴနစ္ပါတီႏွင့္ တ႐ုတ္ျပည္သူ႔သမၼတႏုိင္ငံသုိ႔ ဖိတ္ေခၚထားေၾကာင္း ဖိတ္ၾကားခံရသည့္ ရခုိင္တုိင္းရင္းသားမ်ား တုိးတက္ေရးပါတီ (RNDP) မွ ဥကၠဌ ေဒါက္တာေအးေမာင္ ကေျပာသည္။ ရွမ္းေျမာက္ပုိင္း KIA ႏွင့္ အစိုးရ ၃ နာရီၾကာတိုက္ပြဲျဖစ္ ရွမ္းျပည္နယ္ေျမာက္ပုိင္း ကခ်င္လြတ္ေျမာက္ေရးတပ္ဖြဲ႔ (KIA) တပ္ရင္း ၁၇ နယ္ေျမတြင္ အစိုးရႏွင့္ KIA တပ္ဖြဲ႔ၾကား  ၃ နာရီခြဲၾကာ တိုက္ပြဲျဖစ္ပြားခဲ့ေၾကာင္း သိရသည္။ အစိုးရနွင့္ ျပည္ေထာင္စုအဆင့္ ထပ္မံမေဆြးေႏြးမွီ KNPP လူထုနွင့္တြ႕ဆုံ ကရင္နီအမ်ိဳးသားတိုးတက္ေရးပါတီ ( KNPP ) ျမန္မာအစိုးရတို႕ အပစ္အခတ္ရပ္စဲေရး လက္မွတ္ေရးထိုးၿပီး တႏွစ္ေက်ာ္အၾကာ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးေဖာ္ေဆာင္ေနတဲ့ ကာလအတြင္း ဒုတိယအႀကိမ္ ျပည္ေထာင္စုအဆင့္ ထပ္မံမေတြ႕ ဆုံခင္တြင္ ကရင္နီအမ်ိဳးသား တိုးတက္ေရးပါတီ ကိုယ္စားလွယ္ေတြက ကယားျပည္နယ္မွ ၿမိဳ႕နယ္အသီးသီးသို႕ ေဒသခံလူထုေတြနဲ႕ ေတြ႕ဆုံပြဲ ထပ္မံျပဳလုပ္သြားပါတယ္။ ကရင္ေက်ာင္းသားကြန္ယက္ အႏုပညာႏွင့္ မီဒီယာ လက္ေတြ႕ လႈပ္ရွားမႈ ျပဳလုပ္ ကရင္ေက်ာင္းသားကြန္ယက္အဖြဲ႔-KSNG မွ သတင္းမီဒီယာ၊ ပန္းခ်ီေရးဆြဲေရးႏွင့္ ျပဇာတ္ဆိုင္ရာ လက္ေတြ႕လႈပ္ရွား မႈကို မယ္လဒုကၡသည္စခန္း တြင္ တစ္လတာသင္တန္းအျဖစ္ ပထမဆံုးအႀကိမ္ ပို႔ခ်လွ်က္ရွိသည္။ ကရင္နယ္စပ္မွ ဘဂၤလာနယ္စပ္သုိ႕ ပထမဆံုး AA စစ္ေၾကာင္း ခ်ီတက္ရာတြင္ ပါ၀င္ခဲ့သူ ရဲေဘာ္ရိုးလင္း ကြယ္လြန္ ဗုိလ္ရာဇာဦးေဆာင္ခ့ဲေသာ ရခုိင့္တပ္မေတာ္ Arakan Army ၏ ပထမဆံုး စစ္ေၾကာင္း ကရင္ျပည္နယ္ နယ္စပ္မွ ဘဂၤလာေဒခ်္႕ နယ္စပ္သုိ႕ ခ်ီတက္ရာတြင္ ပါ၀င္ခဲ့သူ ရဲေဘာ္ရိုးလင္းသည္ ဧျပီလ ၇ ရက္ေန႕က အိႏၵိယင္ငံတြင္ ကြယ္လြန္သြားခဲ့ေၾကာင္း သတင္း ရရွိသည္။ 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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