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A Yangon City Development Committee employee runs from women wielding bamboo poles during a confrontation between authorities and a group of squatters in Hlaing Tharyar township on the outskirts of Yangon on February 1. Full story page 12. Pic: EPA

Charges will not stop daily push

Partners in the The Myanmar Times file charges against each other over newsroom confrontation
By Nan Tin Htwe THE Myanmar Times founder, Mr Ross Dunkley, has vowed to push ahead with plans to publish daily from April 1, despite a flareup in a long-running dispute over ownership and control of the newspaper that resulted in both sides filing criminal charges against each other last week. The interest of the newspaper always has been the highest priority, no matter what else happens. The interests of the newspaper will be defended, Mr Dunkley said at a press conference on January 29. Their actions will not stop our application for a daily newspaper and moving towards [going] daily on April 1, he said, referring to his Myanmar business partners. There might be obstacles in the way and challenges in front of us. That doesnt mean that we cant continue to operate according to our business plan and to the vision of the company. I think its very well known for a long time that our ambition has been to publish a daily newspaper in this country. I have no reason to presume that that will not occur. The press conference was held after Mr Dunkley and Dr Khin Moe Moe, the wife of Dr Tin Tun Oo, who owns 51 percent of the papers parent company, Myanmar Consolidated Media, were involved in a confrontation in the companys Yangon office on January 28 in front of shocked newsroom staff. Following the incident, Dr Khin Moe Moe filed charges against Mr Dunkley at Kyauktada Township Police Station for assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty and voluntary hurt, while Mr Dunkley filed three charges, including criminal intimidation. The incident occurred following a very brief board meeting on January 27, at the conclusion of which Dr Khin Moe Moe said she intended to take up management duties at the paper from 1pm the following day. Mr Dunkley sent a memo warning Dr Khin Moe Moe not to come to the office without his permission, saying that More page 4

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Sultan of Brunei Hassanal Bolkiah arrives for the ninth Asia Europe Summit in Vientiane, Laos, on November 4, 2012. Pic: EPA
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In DC, discovering the heart of democracy

By Yuzana Khine Zaw SETTING foot in the United States of America six months ago, I had very limited knowledge of American politics and American society. I came to Georgetown not with the intention of studying politics in the School of Foreign Service, as most people assume, but with the hopes of studying healthcare and medicine in the School of Nursing and Health Studies. People questioned why I chose to come to Georgetown if politics was not my major interest. It is true that I dont want to sit in a classroom to study politics; however, I hope to assimilate political knowledge from those around me, was my simple reply. This hope came to fruition on January 21, the day of the presidential inauguration. Georgetown had been bustling with activity for all of January. People were painstakingly fighting to get enrolled into classes as the campus gradually came back to life from its winter sleep. Despite the frenzy, one word clearly took root in every students word bank: inauguration. I knew that presidents make speeches after they get elected, but that was the extent of my knowledge. Since I never formally took part in politics or the alleged elections we have had in Myanmar, I have never experienced anything like the democratic energy I saw at Georgetown. I was awestruck by how excited people were over this inauguration. Hey Shaq, whats with all this energy? Why is everyone this excited? Presidents get elected all the time! I asked my friend. Since I was an international student from halfway across the globe, he took the time to explain enthusiastically that it was historic because it marked the re-election of the first African American president. He then invited me to watch the inauguration at the National Mall. I promptly agreed out of curiosity. However, I did not foresee the hardships I was about to face. DC weather, as usual, loves deception. I remember that on the morning of January 20 the sun smiled warmly at me when I looked out my window. Fortunately, I checked the weather report and prevented myself from foolishly walking out in a thin shirt. The temperature was around zero Celsius the whole day, and started to further drop as the sun went in. I started to regret my decision to go to the inauguration. This regret was confirmed when Shaq excitedly told me that he was leaving at midnight for the inauguration. Is he crazy? Its freezing temperature outside. I will freeze to death! Im not going, I told myself. I sat down at the library to work on my homework as the clock ticked past midnight. I could not focus on my studies as my mind kept wondering about the inauguration. That was when I realised that I must go to this historical moment even if I did freeze to death. By the time I came to that decision, Shaq had already gone. I frantically contacted all my remaining friends and found some people who were planning to leave at 6am. I slept for three hours, woke up, put on four layers of clothes, and excitedly ran outside. I looked like a hot air balloon with my multiple layers of clothing, but I didnt care. I was going to the inauguration! Since most transportation was cut off that day, my friends and I ended up walking for almost three hours in the blistering cold to the National Mall. We arrived at 9am and had to wait for two more hours for the procession to begin. Tired, cold, and sleep deprived, I used my backpack as a pillow and slept on the bare ground. Although the ground was hard and wet, I had a very reenergising nap and woke up in time for the ceremony. Honestly, I did not know who most of the important individuals on stage were. However, I cheered with those around me, and my energy escalated with theirs. My view was bombarded by red and white stripes. I also found myself joining in, energetically waving an American flag in the air. I closed my eyes and imagined myself in a similar position at a true Burmese election. At that moment, I discovered why I went to so much trouble for a country that is not even mine. I understood why my friend waited for 11 hours in freezing weather for President Obamas speech. It does not matter which country I am cheering for, and I do not have to be studying politics to understand. The central concept of democracy alone is accountable for this mysterious source of energy. I appreciate being fortunate enough to be studying here in Washington. The inauguration is undoubtedly the most valuable experience DC has given me.

Banned in Brunei
NOT a lot of people visit Brunei, which is sad because it is a haven of tranquility, full of vibrant teashops, exciting golf courses and opulent mosques. Even for those with decadent tastes, it is a simple matter to suss out the location of a late night speakeasy where booze, pool and other diversions are available. What may vex you, however, is something the government in Bandar Seri Begawan, the tiny riverine capital, should address urgently: the lack of free and open discourse. Consider the case of Dr Maung Zarni, a well-known pro-democracy advocate from Myanmar, who taught at the University of Brunei Darussalam. Last month, he quit his post after the authorities, in a flagrant breach of academic norms, ordered him to stop espousing freedom and democracy in his home country. Remember that Brunei is this years chairman of ASEAN and that it supports the blocs Hanoi Declaration to promote open societies, as does fellow member Myanmar. But it hasnt proved very open for Maung Zarni after he attended a human rights conference in England, where one of his fellow panellists was Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. His varsity bosses demurred, fearing it signalled that Bruneian academics were extolling free and fair elections with a vibrant opposition and an uncensored media all of which are verboten in the sleepy sultanate. So his funds and support for the UK visit were blocked and he was warned not to use the universitys name during discussions. In effect, it was a standard Bruneian zip your lips command, which the professor rightly found distasteful, and impossible, to obey. As a result, upon his return he was ordered to restrict his work to non-Myanmar issues and told that everyone is watching to ensure he did just that. But, said Maung Zarni: I simply could not countenance allowing my employer to intimidate me into professional silence on unfolding human rights atrocities. So he resigned. His laudable action reminded me of an occasion when, reporting for Asiaweek, I wrote that Brunei likes to keep its society even more tightly closed than Myanmar or Laos. The Prime Ministers Office responded: Bruneians receive uncensored news from abroad via satellite television, radio and newspapers, they travel abroad freely and many seek further education in other countries. Fine, but that begged the question: If you admit that, why dont you allow Bruneians to receive uncensored news from home via their own media? Actually, as I later discovered, Bruneians who are willing to put their ethics on hold can get uncensored news from local sources by simply paying for it. The revelation came when one of my fixers arranged for me to meet a deep throat government source, who would supply sensitive scoopy items to me. He was a slim young man, dressed in black and with a thin moustache, and after apologising for his lateness, he extracted a slip of paper from a pack of Marlboro Lights. It was a printout of the immigration details of all the times I had entered Brunei and it was just a sweetener, he said, to indicate his access to highly restricted material. He then showed me a list of goods, including French impressionist paintings worth tens of millions of dollars, that had been illegally acquired by the Sultans wayward brother, Prince Jefri Bolkiah. That headline grabber and many more shock horror stories could come my way for a price. He did not ask for much, but still I refused, telling him that this was Bandar not London and that it was unethical to buy information here. So he slipped away. But that is how it is in Brunei: despite heavy censorship, everything can be bought, including forbidden fruit.

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Daw Aung San Suu Kyi receives a bouquet of flowers from her supporters as she arrives at Yangon International Airport on February 1. The National League for Democracy leader was returning from a visit to Hawaii and South Korea, where she attended the opening ceremony of the Special Olympics World Winter Games in Pyeongchang. Pic: EPA

Pilot error likely cause of Dec 25 crash: DCA

By Zaw Win Than INFORMATION retrieved from a black box data recorder indicates the Christmas Day Air Bagan crash was caused by pilot error, the Department of Civil Aviation announced last week. The department made the announcement after its investigation team retrieved data from the recorder at the Australian Transport Safety Bureau in Canberra, Australia. Deputy Director General U Myint Swe said on February 1 that the investigation could still take up to one year. After we checked the black box in Australia, we found no evidence that the flight data recorder, interviewing witnesses, analysing meteorological conditions at the time of the accident, and assessing aeronautical charts, navigation facilities and airport emergency planning and procedures. We learned that the pilot [descended in preparation for landing] and turned and headed to the runway. And in his conversation with the tower and other aircraft he said he had clearly seen the airport. But he also said there was fog between the aircraft and the airport that needed to be passed through. This is all recorded on the black box. We just need to find how the aircraft got so close to the land and why the pilot didnt notice it so we need to continue the investigation to confirm whether it was fault by the pilot or not, he said. The Fokker-100 was carrying 71 people when it crashed and caught fire while attempting to land at Heho in southern Shan State at 8:51am on December 25 after taking off from Mandalay Airport. On board the aircraft were the pilot in command, first officer, four cabin crew and 65 passengers, including 48 foreigners. The first officer was piloting the fight. A tour guide on the plane, Ma Nwe Lin Shein, died in the crash, along with a motorcyclist, U Pyar, who was killed when the plane landed on a road near the airport. The 11 people injured in the crash included four foreigners, the two pilots and a cyclist. The following day, the department established a four-member team headed by U Win Swe Tun to investigate the cause of the accident. Initially the DCA said it would send the black box to Singapore but experts there said they would be unable to recover data because it had been burned in the crash. Instead, the committee took the device to the Australian Transport Security Bureau for analysis, arriving on January 18 and returning eight days later. Air Bagan said it acquired the Fokker-100, which had been in operation since 1991, from British Midlands International Company in August 2005. Air Bagan was formed in June 2004 and launched its first flights in November that year. It is a subsidiary of Htoo Group of Companies, owned by U Tay Za.

Hluttaw makes reluctant U San Sint a minister

By Win Ko Ko Latt THE Pyidaungsu Hluttaw has approved the nomination of Ayeyarwady Region Hluttaw Speaker U San Sint as the new minister for religious affairs, despite his preference to remain in the speaker post. The January 31 appointment is likely to prove controversial, as U San Sint had been an outspoken critic of the Ayeyarwady Region government and also senior Union Solidarity and Development Party officials, who he accused of interfering in the regional hluttaws affairs. U San Sint told The Myanmar Times on February 1 that he was not surprised at the nomination being approved because MPs cannot vote against me if I meet the criteria to be a union minister. He declined to say who he thought would replace him as Ayeyarwady Region Hluttaw speaker. Although the chief minister is appointed by the president, the speaker is elected by the hluttaw representatives, he said. Following the announcement, a signature campaign was launched in Pathein, with about 1000 residents signing a petition calling for U San Sint to remain as speaker. In Pantanaw township, residents even demonstrated at 11am on February 1. We want U San Sint as our Hluttaw Speaker because he always stands up for us whenever we faced problems concerning fishing licences, said U San Lay, a resident of Pathein who signed the petition. U San Sint said he was surprised at the public show of support. Some of region hluttaw representatives rang me and told me about it. I did not expect that the people would do that for me, he said. President U Thein Sein nominated U San Sint in a letter to the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw on January 22, following the resignation of Thura U Aung Myint six days earlier. However, it was not voted on until the next sitting day, which took place on January 31. After the hluttaw announced the appointment of U San Sint, U Mann Maung Maung Nyan, the Pyithu Hluttaw representative for Pantanaw township in Ayeyarwady Region, said that the hluttaw should ask whether U San Sint wanted to accept the position. We should ask his desire because we need him as hluttaw speaker of our region because rule of law in our region is faltering. There are confrontations between farmers and companies in many places because of land grabbing and [U San Sint] is able to manage these cases, U Mann Maung Maung Nyan told the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw. But the speaker, U Khin Aung Myint, replied that the hluttaw had approved the nomination in accordance with the rules and regulations. The duty of the hluttaw is just to approve the nomination or not approve it, the speaker said. U Ye Tun, the Pyithu Hluttaw representative for Hsipaw, said the appointment process in Myanmar differed from other countries, such as the United States, where presidential appointments could be debated by parliament We cant say no to someone the president has nominated if they meet the criteria, he said. Speaking before the nomination vote, U San Sint said he believed he could serve the nation more actively as Ayeyarwady Region Hluttaw speaker. It will be decided by Pyihtaungsu Hluttaw. I will remain here if the parliament dismisses the presidents proposal, he said. He said he didnt think the presidents nomination was related to his criticism of the Ayeyarwady Region government or the USDP leadership. Translated by Thiri Min Htun

We found no evidence that engine failure, insufficient fuel, security-related issues, airframe or a malfunction caused the crash.

engine failure, insufficient fuel, security-related issues, airframe or a malfunction of flight controls caused the crash-landing. It may be the pilot missed the right direction while landing. However, we will continue and expect to complete the final report by December 25, U Myint Swe said. He said the investigation teams initial assessment was that the crash occurred when the pilot commenced his descent based on a ground-based, lowfrequency radio transmitter known as a non-directional beacon. The pilots took no corrective action against differences in the visual meteorological conditions and the instrument conditions during the final approach. The captain also conducted an insufficient assessment of the risks, the investigation team said, adding that pressure on the pilots from other aircraft waiting to land may also have been a factor. U Myint Swe said the rest of the investigation will focus on interviewing the flight crew, recovering remaining data from

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Visa targets restaurants for point-of-sale rollout

By Zaw Win Than THE smell of burning plastic will now enrich the heady cocktail of scents in Yangons streets. As of January 31, customers can pay for goods and services at selected outlets using their Visa card. Visa, which describes itself as the worlds biggest payment network, will offer the service in cooperation with Myanmar Oriental Bank. The credit card company said this would bring new opportunities for local merchants and banks to participate in the global electronic payments system, and marks the first time international cardholders can make a payment directly to a local merchant with their Visa card. Visa signed its first licensing agreements in Myanmar with Kanbawza Bank, Cooperative Bank and Myanmar Oriental Bank on November 3. Mr Somboon Krobteeranon, Visa country manager for Myanmar and Thailand, said this development was an important step in helping Myanmar develop its electronic payments infrastructure. Mr Somboom, who promised that card transactions would be secure, told The Myanmar Times he looked forward to participation by the other local partner banks at an early date. Card users would be charged a small transaction fee, he confirmed. The amount will be very small because we just From page 1

Phosphorous findings sent to commission, says lawyer

INDEPENDENT findings that apparently confirmed the use of white phosphorous in a police crackdown on Letpadaung protesters have been sent to Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, a lawyer involved in the process said. U Thein Than Oo, the head of the legal committee for the Lawyers Network in upper Myanmar, said the results of the tests were sent to the National League for Democracys email address on December 29. We send as much of our findings as possible to the commission in English so they could be included in the provisional report sent to the president. However, we dont know if they accepted our findings or not because. We are trying to translate them into Myanmar and then Ill send them again to the commission directly, U Thein Than Oo told The Myanmar Times last week. The group collected debris following the November 29 crackdown and sent it to a laboratory in Bangkok run by an Australian company, ALS Global, with the assistance of a man named Roger Norman. He sent me the findings in December. In this report, the lab stated that it had found white phosphorous on the [grenade] shell, U Thein Than Oo said. White phosphorous causes burns when it comes into contact with human skin and it cannot be used against civilians under the Geneva Convention, he said, suggesting its use at Letpadaung could contravene international law. Ei Ei Toe Lwin

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Somboon Krobteeranon (left), visa country manager for Myanmar and Thailand, uses his Visa card to purchase a souvenir from Ko Thet Lynn Aung of Green Elephant Restaurant and Showroom in Yangons Kamaryut township on January 31. Pic: Supplied charge for the transaction. I would say the charge will be less than a dollar, he said. Restaurants in Yangon are likely to be early users of the service, said Mr Somboom, with Green Elephant in Kamaryut township in the lead. Myanmar Restaurant Associations vice-chairman told me more than 200 restaurants are ready to participate. We believe hotels, antique shops and gems and jewellery stores could also use Visa, said Mr Somboon. Visa can also be used at 108 ATMs throughout the country. Daw Kyi Kyi Than, managing director of the MOB Bank, said the launch was a significant landmark in the development of financial services in Myanmar. As Myanmar opens its borders once again, we are proud to be the first Visa POS acquiring bank in the country, she said, adding that the bank was ready to install more ATMs. We have five ATMs, four in Yangon and one in Mandalay. But we will install 18 ATMs before the end of March, especially in Yangon, Mandalay, Nay Pyi Taw and Bagan, she told The Myanmar Times. Starting tomorrow, we aim to extend the Visa service to about 50 shops in two weeks, she said. The owner of Green Elephant Restaurant, Ms Cherie AungKhin, said: Weve been operating our restaurant business for more than a decade. Increasingly, we are welcoming international visitors and to be able to accept Visa card payments means we can now offer the highest level of payment convenience and service to customers.

Charges will not stop daily push

as a non-executive director of the company she had no right to be involved in day-to-day operations. At 3pm on January 28, Dr Khin Moe Moe entered the office together with five other people, none of whom are employees of Myanmar Consolidated Media, and started inspecting the office and talking to staff. One member of the group filmed the incident on a video camera. Mr Dunkley confronted the group and yelled at them to get out of the office, to which Dr Khin Moe Moe shouted at him: Im the owner of this company. You are the employee. The incident represents a new low in relations between the shareholders, who were brought together following the jailing of Mr Dunkleys cofounder, U Myat Swe, in 2005. In February 2011 Mr Dunkley was arrested on four charges, including assault, and spent 47 days in Insein Prison before being bailed, in what associates said was a dispute over the papers ownership. Dr Tin Tun Oo denied any involvement in his arrest, and contributed half of his surety. Mr Dunkley was later convicted on two charges but, in a highly unusual move, avoided deportation and was allowed to continue running the newspaper. While in prison, he was replaced as chief executive officer and editor-in-chief of the Myanmar edition of The Myanmar Times

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by Dr Tin Tun Oo. The following day, both sides held press conferences at which they announced they would file charges. At the January 29 press conference, Mr Dunkley accused his partners of failing to follow the rules and regulations in the companys shareholder agreement. They chose to disregard the rules by which they are bound, Mr Dunkley said. As the managing director, I run the day-to-day affairs of the company. Im appointed by the board of directors. Dr Khin Moe Moe has been appointed as a director since her husband got involved as a partner eight years ago. She is a non-executive director. She has many rights as the majority shareholder and has every right to raise her issues. However, she should address those concerns at the appropriate forum, which is the board of directors meeting. Her role is not to interfere in the day-to-day running of the newspaper. That is very clear, Mr Dunkley said. Mr Dunkley said that it was outrageous that people not employed by the company were allowed to enter Myanmar Consolidated Medias office and cause a disturbance among the staff. I think its absolutely astounding that she can turn around and file charges against me when I had done everything possible to avoid conflict. He said the confrontation had come amid negotiations over the sale of Dr Tin Tun Oos stake in Myanmar Consolidated Media

back to the family of U Myat Swe, who remains in Taunggyi Prison serving a 14-year jail term. The truth is that these shares should go back to [U Myat Swes family] so they can resume their partnership with this company, which goes back to 2000, he said. Meanwhile, Dr Khin Moe Moe said repeatedly at her press conference that she was the owner of the company and she had the right to be involved in its management because of her position as a director and member of its management committee. She also said that her husband, who is travelling overseas, had officially transferred his duties and responsibilities as chief executive officer to her. I went there to negotiate. But he insulted me physically and verbally, Daw Khin Moe Moe said. She said she had told Mr Dunkley through a personal letter that the company could not publish a daily newspaper without the approval of the board of directors. I told him in that letter that he cant use anything human resources, machinery, money or anything related to MCM property to run a daily newspaper. I also warned him that if he doesnt follow the rules, it will be solved under the law, she said. She said she had also sent a notice to the company on the day of dispute saying she planned to hold a meeting with senior staff at 1pm on January 29. She said

those who were unable to attend the meeting had to sign and send a letter explaining their absence. Until now, no one comes, Daw Khin Moe Moe said at the press conference, which was held about 2pm. I dont think it means that the staff are not on my side. I believe that someone barred them from attending. We must fire him, she said, referring to Mr Dunkley. We could have fired him since [he was arrested in February 2011]. But we didnt because we sympathised with his familys financial situation. Mr Dunkley issued a statement at 11am on January 29 in which he said that he would not allow Daw Khin Moe Moe to hold a meeting at Myanmar Consolidated Medias office but that she was free to do it in another place. He added that it was up to staff whether they attended the meeting. Meanwhile, Democratic Voice of Burma reported on January 30 that Daw Khin Moe Moe had sent a letter to Myanmar Consolidated Media and the Press Scrutiny and Registration Division, which was dissolved by the government on January 24, to ban the publication of The Myanmar Times in English and Myanmar, along with two of the companys other publications, Crime Journal and Now! Magazine, until the negotiations were finished. However, the following day The Myanmar Times Myanmarlanguage edition appeared as normal.

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Photo of motorbike smashed in December 25 Air Bagan crash mislabelled one month later as KIA mine blast
By Thomas Kean and Kyaw Hsu Mon THE Ministry of Information has apologised for mislabelling a photo of a motorcycle smashed during the December 25 Air Bagan crash and printing it beside a story about a mine blast in Kachin State, after the error was flagged by The Myanmar Times. The ministry conceded that the mistake had hurt the credibility of its newspapers and said staff at state outlets would ensure it did not happen again. The photo was published in the January 28 edition of the New Light of Myanmar in both English and Myanmar languages, with the caption: An innocent people dies in mine blast by KIA (Kachin) group near Zanan village on Myitkyina-Putao Road. The single-paragraph story beside the photograph was headlined, KIA mine blast kills one, and reported that three motorcyclists had triggered a mine while riding from Myitkyina to Putao about 10:30am on January 27. The photo had been cropped to remove the crowd of onlookers around the motorbike. The original photo was taken by the Myanmar Police Force shortly after the December 25 crash near Heho Airport. The motorbike

Left: The photo as published in the New Light of Myanmar on January 28. Right: The original photo, taken by Myanmar Police Force on December 25, including a crowd of onlookers. pictured was ridden by U Pyar, who died after being hit by the aircraft. The mistake was pointed out to The Myanmar Times by an eagle-eyed reader, Perry Han Shin. A correction published in the January 31 edition of Myanma Ahlin the Myanmar-language version of the New Light of Myanmar said the photo had been provided by a news source, who had been warned that he would not be used if he made a similar mistake in future. News editors had been instructed once again check carefully both the story and caption news about war, accidents and natural disasters and should not use news photos if they could not be confirmed, the correction said. It not only hurts the credibility of the newspapers but also fails the ethics of journalism, whereby journalists have to check information to the utmost and have to scrutinise all of news before it is published, it said. Therefore we will pay attention not to make any mistakes in the future and we apologise for our failure to check for news photos. Deputy Minister for Information U Ye Htut said editors had been told not to use news stories if they could not be confirmed. This photo hurts credibility of the newspapers as it was incorrect concerning very important news of a KIA attack, he told The Myanmar Times by email, adding that the mistake was unfortunate. However, one Myanma Ahlin editor responded directly to U Ye Htuts comments on his Facebook page, saying it was unfair that the newspaper was being blamed for the mistake. The news was provided by Myanmar News Agency and was compulsorily published in the state newspapers, he said. Whenever news or a photo is wrong, an accusing finger should no longer be pointed at reporters and editors from the newspaper because Myanmar News Agency 100 percent dominates the newspaper, he said. The revelation is likely to fuel accusations that state media has been used to disseminate government propaganda about the conflict. State newspapers have regularly featured stories about KIA attacks on civilians and the Tatmadaw, but refrained from covering the impact of Tatmadaw offensives. The photo was published the same day as the Ministry of Defence issued a press release accusing some internal and external organisations, embassies and media of issuing fabricated news as to armed conflicts in Kachin State. Although the official media stated the atrocities of KIA those organisations turned a blind eye to the actual events and issued fabricated news. Such biased news could cause misunderstanding in the public and international community, the press statement said.

Voters try to remove NLD rep

By Phyo Wai Kyaw and Than Naing Soe RESIDENTS in Mandalay Regions Tada Oo township have launched a petition to remove their National League for Democracy Pyithu Hluttaw representative, who they have accused of interfering in a party assembly. On January 25 they announced they would collect signatures to recall Daw Khin Thandar, who was elected in the April 2012 by-elections. Daw Khin Thandar used undemocratic methods to try to help her brother win a ward assembly and because of this it had to be held twice, said Dr.Aung Soe Myint, secretary of the partys district assembly commission on January 25. She was also dishonest at the township assembly, which was held on January 20. She controlled some voters to get votes and we found out about it through a video recording of the assembly. If she stays in the party, our party will lose dignity and residents dont like her now. Therefore, we are making preparations to dismiss her, he said. The ward and township assemblies were held to select delegates for the partys upcoming national assembly, which it says will be held by the end of this month. Under section 396(a) of the constitution, hluttaw representatives can be recalled for high treason, breaching the constitution, misbehavior, failing to meet the criteria for a hluttaw representative and inefficient discharge of duties. To recall their representative, at least 1 percent of the original voters in the electorate must submit a complaint to the Union Election Commission, had already sent a letter about Daw Khin Thandars actions to Daw Aung San Suu Kyi on January 4. We can easily get a minimum of 1pc of the original voters. There were about 96,000 voters in our constituency and all we need is about 1000 signatures most residents dont like her behaviour, he said. U Myat Swe, an NLD member from Tada Oos Latsaungyu village said on January 31 that more than 1000 signatures had already been collected and the documents would be sent to the election commission. If [Daw Khin Thandar] continues to get a role in coming assemblies, I will resign from the party and will remove the party signboard that is hanging from the front of my home. Some residents will also do the same, he said. Daw Khin Thandar won the seat of Tada Oo in a 2012 by-election by defeating r i v a ls f r o m t h e Un i o n Solidarity and Development Party, National Democratic Force and Unity and Peace Party. The Myanmar Times visited Daw Khin Thandars house in Tada Oo last week to seek an interview but her family said she was in Nay Pyi Taw, which was disputed by members of the group trying to unseat the NLD representative. Other efforts to reach her were unsuccessful.

Daw Khin Thandar used undemocratic methods to try to help her brother win a ward assembly.

which then investigates the allegation. However, section 397 states that the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw shall enact the necessary laws to recall a representative. While the bill to recall a representative was submitted to parliament in August 2012, it has not yet been approved. Dr Aung Soe Myint said that after getting enough signatures from residents the group will submit the documents to the commission. He said he

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Telecoms tender deadline extended

By Tim McLaughlin THE committee overseeing the tender process for two telecommunications licences has announced a 10-day extension to the original January 25 deadline for submitting expressions of interest. Companies now have until February 8 to submit the necessary documents, which are available on the Ministry of Communications and Information Technology website, the Telecommunication Operator Tender Evaluation and Selection Committee said in a statement. While the extension notice was dated January 25 and published on the website of Myanma Post and Telecommunication (MPT), the state-owned telecom services provider, on January 28, it was not run in either Myanmar- or Englishlanguage state media. The extension comes following the abrupt resignation of former Minister for Communications and Information Technology U Thein Tun on January 16 and the subsequent launch of a corruption investigation into the ministry. The former minister is believed to be one of at least a dozen ministry officials targeted by the investigation, which has been confirmed by the government. The investigation has not dimmed interest in the tender, however, with Financial Times reporting on January 28 that 18 companies had submitted proposals by the original deadline. The statement on the tender extension said those submissions remained valid and that no distinction would be made between those submitted before or after the original deadline. We would like to thank interested parties who have already submitted their Expression of Interest. If you have received an acknowledgement email, your Expression of Interest has been well received and will be taken into account, the statement said. There is no need to submit it again. Please note that the EOI is for information purposes only. No distinction will be made between interested parties who have already submitted their EOI and interested parties that will submit by the revised deadline. Pre-qualification documents will be sent from MPT to all parties who have submitted EOIs by February 22, it said. These pre-qualification documents will include information regarding the timeline of the licensing process as well as information for those companies looking to form consortiums.

President lauds debt cancellations

By Tim McLaughlin GENEROUS debt cancellations that have paved the way for new development loans marked an important step in Myanmars reentry into the global economy, President U Thein Sein said last week. In a radio address to the nation on February 1, U Thein Sein lauded the decision by Myanmars creditors to cancel or reissue billions of dollars of external debt. It is an important day in the history of Myanmars economy because Myanmar could take an important step towards re-entering into the international monetary market and economic community, he said. Thanks to the efforts of the government and people, Myanmar sees more progress. The first clearance of arrears came on January 17, when the ADB and World Bank reissued debt totaling about $960 million through a bridging loan provided by the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC). Myanmar has come a long way in its economic transformation, undertaking unprecedented reforms to improve peoples lives, especially the poor and vulnerable, the World Banks country director for Myanmar Annette Dixon said in a statement on January 27. Much work remains to be done. We are committed to helping the government accelerate poverty reduction and build shared prosperity. The Banks engagement, together with the ADB, the Government of Japan and other partners, will help attract investment, spur growth and create jobs. On January 28, the Paris Club, an informal group of creditor governments from major industrialised countries, announced that US$5.925 billion had been cancelled on January 25, following what was described as a marathon round of negotiations in Paris. Remaining arrears will be rescheduled over 15 years, including a seven-year grace period, the club Myanmar, but also for Norway. This is the largest developing country debt that we have ever cancelled. I am proud that once again Norway is leading the way, Minister of International Development Heikki Eidsvoll Holms said in a statement. The Norwegian government statement said the debt stemmed from a Norwegian ship export program that it ran between 1976 and 1980. The campaign sent shipping equipment and over 150 vessels to 21 countries. Mr Lex Rieffel, a non-resident senior fellow of global economy told The Myanmar Times that 10 billion yen is for the rehabilitation of existing power plants, 20 billion is for nationwide infrastructure projects and 20 billion is for the development of the Thilawa special economic zone, about 25 kilometres south of Yangon, which is to be developed by Japanese companies Mitsubishi, Marubeni and Sumitomo. The debt relief and restarted loan programs come despite ongoing conflicts within Myanmars borders, particularly between the Tatmadaw and Kachin Independence Army (KIA). A unilateral ceasefire announced by President U Thein Sein on January 18 broke down within hours, and the failure to stop the fighting has drawn condemnation from the United Nations and United States. Representatives from lending institutions and independent analysts agree that such turmoil could hold Myanmar back from enjoying the benefits of the progress made last week. There needs to be good policy to protect investments, starting with resolving internal conflicts, said Mr Rieffel, who added that debt rescheduling could be rendered insignificant if fighting escalates. I think that the ADB, like all development partners, knows that these conflicts can undermine efforts to fight poverty, said Kelly Bird, principal economist at the ADB and mission leader for Myanmar.

I can think of only positive things to say.

said in a statement. Representatives from Austria, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Norway and the United Kingdom took part in the meeting, while Minister for Finance and Revenue U Win Shein led the Myanmar delegation, which also included influential economist U Zaw Oo. In addition to the Paris Clubs cancellation, Norway and Japan agreed to exceptional debt cancellations, with Norway relieving $534 million and Japan $3.58 billion. This is historic, not only for and development at the Brookings Institution in Washington, said Norways actions reflect its desire to be a pacesetter in helping Myanmar. I can think of only positive things to say, Mr Rieffel said. It is a good sign and clears away a lot of weeds that have been in the way for creditor countries. The debt clearance clears the way for new lending. Japan led the pack by announcing earlier in January that it would extend loans totaling 50 billion yen, or about US$550 million, to Myanmar. Masaki Takahara, Japan External Trade Organisations executive managing director in Yangon,

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Compensation planned for land lost to railway

By Soe Than Lynn THE government will not return land acquired for a mostly disused railway between Hpa-an and Mon State but plans to pay compensation to the original landowners, the deputy railways minister told parliament last week. The state acquired farmland to build the railroad between the Kayin State capital and Thaton in 1994. However, use of the railroad declined after 1997, when the Thanlwin Bridge was completed. Because of a lack of passengers, services ceased from 2009 and the line is only used for some freight trains running between Myainggalay, west of Hpa-an, and Thaton. Daw Nan Say Awa, the Pyithu Hluttaw representative for Hpa-an, asked whether the land would be given back to the original owners. In his reply, Deputy Minister for Rail Transportation U Chan Maung said the ministry would compensate the land owners instead, as state-run Myanmar Railways plans to resume services on the route. Myanmar Railways acquired some farmland in the past. We compensated the owners for some of it but found that we havent given any compensation for this railroad. We are going to arrange to give compensation to them after conducting negotiations with other relevant departments, U Chan Maung said on January 24. Daw Nan Say Awa then demanded compensation be paid at the market rate if the farmland is not to be given back, to which U Chan Maung replied that they would endeavour to do so after negotiating the compensation rate with other departments. Speaker Thura U Shwe Mann praised the deputy minister for his clear response but said a deadline should be set to hand over the compensation. Because the ministry will proceed with the issue, farmers and other people will be happy. However, it is more acceptable if it can be done within a given timeframe. You dont need to reply now. After making the negotiations, we would like an answer on when compensation will be given, Thura U Shwe Mann said. Translated by Thit Lwin

Govt to redraft outdated electronic transactions law

By Soe Than Lynn THE Electronic Transactions Law will be redrafted, the deputy communications minister told parliament last week, and sections of the law used in the past to lock up activists will be repealed while the new legislation is being written. Deputy Minister for Communications and Information Technology U Thaung Tin told the Pyithu Hluttaw on January 29 that the law had two parts, with one concerning online security and the other to protect against electronic crimes. If it is seen from the point of the free flow of information and free speech, it includes provisions that need to be amended or repealed, U Thaung Tin said in response to a bill from U Thein Nyunt of Thingangyun to repeal the law. The law comprises 13 chapters and 52 sections and was introduced on April 30, 2004, ostensibly to build trust in e-commerce, to the development of e-commerce. But in the meantime, before the new law comes out, provisions of chapter 12 Offences and Penalties should be redrawn. Only after the new law is enacted, the old one should be repealed, he said. Before U Thaung Tin spoke out in support of the bill, U Thein Nyunt said the law contained sections that infringed citizens rights under the constitution and was so vague it could be misused. It has a lot of provisions that are detrimental to h u m an r i g h ts. T h is is supported by punishments specified in the law. It also includes points that can be used to stretch the rules. I would like it not to hurt human rights that are guaranteed by the constitution in the name of national security. That is why I present this bill to repeal the law, U Thein Nyunt said. The Pyithu Hluttaw agreed to monitor and assist attempts to revise the law. Translated by Thit Lwin

Pyithu Hluttaw representative for Thingangyun U Thein Nyunt. Pic: Kaung Htet e-government and online banking. However, it has also been used to imprison activists. Those found guilty of using electronic transactions technology [for] any act detrimental to the security of the state or prevalence of law and order or community peace and tranquillity or national solidarity or national economy or national culture or receiving or sending and distributing any information relating to secrets of the security of the State or prevalence of law and order or community peace and tranquillity or national solidarity or national economy or national culture face from seven to 15 years jail. The deputy minister said the law should be redrawn in consultation with MPs, government ministries, the business community, and local and foreign IT and law experts in order to contribute

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Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), a Japanese governmental organization responsible for implementing Official Development Assistance (ODA) in developing countries such as Technical Cooperation, ODA Loans and Grant Aid, Myanmar Office is seeking qualified Myanmar nationals for the posts of Programme Assistant and Administrative Assistant for its expanded works in Myanmar. (1) Job Description: The Programme Assistant will work closely with Programme Officers and be responsible for:- - - - - - - - - - - - assisting in planning, implementation, monitoring & evaluation of development Projects and Programs organizing Seminars and Workshops undertaking public relations activities assisting in data collection, compilation, data analysis and writing reports handling operation and logistic matters University Graduate Fluent in English (reading, writing, speaking) Age less than 45 years Good relationship with Myanmar governmental offices Ability to work in a team and maintain harmonious relationship with other staff More than 5 years of working experience in the organization/s Good computer skills and knowledge of Word, Excel & Power Point

Migrants face familiar problems with new system

By Bill OToole THE new system for undocumented migrant workers in Thailand to register for visas and passports is already being beset by the same problems the old system, sources familiar with the process say. The main issue appears to be corruption, with migrants having to pay brokers more than US$500 to negotiate the bureaucracy of the registration process. When the new framework was announced on January 15, there were hopes that it would leave behind the corruption of the past. But U Sein Htay, a Yangonbased spokesperson for the Migrant Workers Rights Network (MWRN), said little had changed and said brokers were continuing to charge from $500 to $700 for a single visa application. U Sein Htay said this was made even more maddening by the fact that migrants who pay the fee do not know exactly what they are paying for: the new system has not got underway and neither the Thai nor Myanmar governments have provided any details. We dont know anything yet in detai l... nothing concrete has come out yet, he said last week. When asked why so little information had been released to the public, Mr Anusorn Kraiwatnussorn, a vice minister in the Thai Department of Labour and Social Welfare, said the process was ongoing and added that the Thai authorities were counting on prospective employers to keep migrant workers informed. The boss will explain the system to the worker, he said by phone from Bangkok. I think its ok. The previous registration system, known in Thailand as National Verification, was also infamous for the way it allegedly exploited vulnerable migrant populations. migrants to work legally in Thailand. On January 15, both sides agreed a new process would be put in place until at least April 15. I think its a challenge for both government to establish the price and transparency of the process given there are no laws or regulations [concerning the migrants], said Andy Hall, who advises the Myanmar Department of Labour on migration. A source within the Department of Labour who declined to be named said there was a tentative plan for both sides to meet in again in mid-February. The source said an official announcement would come out soon after. The program could begin about March 15, which would leave migrants only one month to complete the process. U Sein Htay said he remains optimistic that by the time the program begins both the financial and transparency issues will have been addressed. Businessmen want to go back to the old ways of exploiting migrant workers, he said. But workers are going to be vocal with their dissatisfaction, they will not take [exploitation] with their heads bowed. The International Office of Migration in Bangkok and other aid groups estimate that there are 1.5 million undocumented migrants in Thailand, the vast majority of whom come from Myanmar.

Eligible candidate for Programme Assistant should possess following qualifications;

(2) Job Description: The Administrative Assistant will work closely with respective Japanese Staff and Administrative Officer and be responsible for:- - - - - - - - - - assisting in administrative and general affairs of the office assisting in operation of NGO-JICA Japan Desk including library and meeting facilities assisting in Office IT management handling in operation and logistic matters University Graduate Fluent in English (reading, writing, speaking) Age less than 40 years Ability to work in a team and maintain harmonious relationship with other staff More than 5 years of working experience in the organization/s Good computer skills and knowledge of Word, Excel & Power Point (having experience in Computer Networking will be advantages)

Businessmen want to go back to the old ways of exploiting migrant workers.

Eligible candidate should possess following qualifications;

Duration of assignment: From March 2013 (negotiable), yearly renewal upon satisfactory performance How to apply: Qualified and interested persons are requested to send the applications with updated C.V, educational credentials and references to JICA Myanmar Office, Room 701, 7th Floor, Sakura Tower, No. 339, Bokyoke Aung San Road, Kyauktada Township, Yangon, not later than 5:00 p.m. February 15, 2013. Note: Only short listed candidates will be contacted for subsequent interviews.

In an open letter to Aung Sun Suu Kyi, MWRN called National Verification extortionate in practice, citing the way brokers and employers often demanded steep fees from migrants in exchange for legal work papers. After the deadline for the National Verification program passed on December 15, 2012, the Myanmar Department of Labour entered into negotiations with their counterparts in Thailand to establish a new system that could provide a legal avenue for Myanmar

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Activist blasts university over enrolment denial

By Yhoon Hnin AN ACTIVIST imprisoned for his role in the September 2007 protests has accused the Ministry of Education of discrimination because of his political history. Ko Sithu Maung said the ministry had not allowed him to resume his third year Bachelor of Economics (Statistics) classes at Yangon Institute of Economics and instead offered him the chance to enrol in a distance education program. He said the University of Distance Education did not offer statistics and he would cancel his studies rather than be forced by the Department of Higher Education (Lower Myanmar) into the distance program. I went to the university to apply to continue my final year but the Yangon Institute of Economics didnt accept me and gave no reason except that it was an instruction from the Ministry of Education. They said to continue my education at the Distance University, Ko Sithu Maung said on January 30, adding that they also told him he could not enrol without the approval of his parents. I am astonished that my entrance to this university was rejected at a time like this when we are changing direction to democracy and even the president acknowledges the importance of young people in developing the country. Politicians from foreign countries are removed from the black list and working for national reconciliation so it is unacceptable for university students who have participated in political protests to be banned from continuing their education, he said. It is like a double punishment for the students: the first punishment is being a political prisoner and the second is being banned from continuing their university course. Even previous governments allowed students who had [been involved in politics]

I am astonished that my entrance to this university was rejected at a time when we are changing direction to democracy.

DFID permanent secretary Mark Lowcock (left) and AusAID director general Peter Baxter at a press conference at the Australian Club in Yangon on January 31. Pic: Aung Htay Hlaing

Aid agencies commit to new education fund

political leaders in Nay Pyi Taw. For many people living in poverty ... they dont have the money to send their children to private or government schools. Monastic schools play a key role in this society in providing education to rural communities, Mr Baxter said at a press conference at the Australian Club. He said the consortium had been made possible by the reforms initiated by the government over the past two years, which have transformed the environment in which the aid agencies worked. Mr Baxter and Mr Lowcock also announced at the press conference a new agreement with the government that allows both AusAid and DFID the same level of access to Myanmar that it has in neighbouring countries in Southeast Asia. In our meetings weve seen a genuine national effort to support reform, Mr Baxter said. One impression that we got from this visit is the enormity of the challenges faced by the government, but also the commitment of the government in meeting those challenges. The commitment came as the agencies said they would provide a combined total of up to $500 million to projects in Myanmar between 2011 and 2015. However, both Mr Baxter and Mr Lowcock acknowledged that a number of unresolved issues, such as the conflict in Kachin State, would make expanding AusAID and DFIDs work more difficult. Mr Lowcock said that in their meetings with government officials they urged the government to grant humanitarian groups access to displaced people in Kachin State. We hope we can see in the near future a cessation of hostilities and a dialogue between the two parties, he said. The pair promised a high level of oversight and accountability in the way the funds are dispersed, and said they will likely work with bodies with which they have existing relationships. Mr Lowcock said that both he and Mr Baxter must in turn answer to their parliaments, which he described as keen to make sure tax revenue was not going to waste. We think all countries need an accountability system, Mr Lowcock said.

By Bill OToole THE Australian and British government aid bodies last week unveiled a new, multi-million dollar program aimed at educating Myanmars poorest children, as part of a larger US$500million commitment over five years. Australian Agency for International Aid (AusAID) and the UKs Department for International Development (DFID) launched the Myanmar Education Consortium (MEC) in Yangon on January 31. The two agencies will collectively contribute $22 million to the consortium, which will offer funding and training resources to educationbased Myanmar NGOs and rural schools, with a special emphasis on monastic and community schools. The announcement came after AusAID director general Peter Baxter and DFID permanent secretary Mark Lowcock spent two weeks travelling around rural Myanmar and meeting

to continue their education later on. There are many differences between the Yangon Institute of Economics and Distance University, including entrance marks, majors, course content, graduation certificate and work opportunities. He said he would raise the case with the media, human rights organisations and hluttaw representatives. A spokesperson from the Ministry of Higher Education (Lower Myanmar) could not be reached for comment last week.

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Workers help to move a section of railway line in Kanbalu township, Sagaing Region. Pic: Si Thu Lwin

Repair work on MDY-Myitkina line nears completion

By Si Thu Lwin ABOUT 80 percent of the Mandalay-Myitkyina railway has been re-laid to improve safety under a special project initiated by the government shortly after it took office, a spokesperson from Myanmar Railways said last week. When completed, the upgrade will allow trains to travel above the current speed limit of 56 kilometres an hour (35 miles an hour) on the line. U Tun Aung Thin, general manager for upper Myanmar at Myanmar Railways, said the project would be completed before the end of March. The special project will be completed this financial year, he said. When all of the repair work is finished, there will be fewer accidents, trains will regularly run on time and we can raise the speed limit so travellers can save their time, he said. Under the project, wooden sleepers are being substituted with concrete and more ballast is being laid beneath the almost 500km track. The track is also being raised and links repaired, U Tun Aung Thin said. The government has gradually been replacing wooden sleepers on the countrys railroads since 1995. Four stations in Mandalay Region, 34 stops in Sagaing Region and 33 stops in Kachin State are also being upgraded. U Tun Aung Thin said finding enough workers for the project had been a challenge. Ko Phoe Aye from Sagaings Kanbalu township said workers received K3000 a day. We come to work on the railroad repair project when we dont have any farming work to do, he said. Railroad construction is really tiring though because we have to work through the daytime. Translated by Zar Zar Soe

Sagaing track shifted after accident

By Si Thu Lwin A STRETCH of railway track where a train crash and explosion in November 2012 left at least 25 people dead is being re-laid to improve safety. A 1-mile (1.6-kilometre) section near Chat Gyi train station in Kanbalu township, Sagaing Region, is being moved to a flatter locale, said U Aung Aung Tun, deputy engineer of Myanmar Railways Region 2. The track will be moved about 30 metres west of the existing track, he said. We started in late January and estimate it will be finished this financial year, said U Tun Aung Thin, Myanma Railways general manager for upper Myanmar. He said the schedules would not change when the new track opens, adding that it would improve safety around Chat Gyi station. Three petrol wagons derailed at Chat Gyi train station on November 9 and many people were killed when petrol they were taking from the derailed wagons caught fire. Translated by Zar Zar Soe

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NLD members in Mandalay cancel protest over police restrictions

By Phyo Wai Kyaw and Si Thu Lwin NATIONAL League for Democracy members in Mandalay cancelled a planned protest against official from their party after police did not approve their original application. The protest was designed to show their anger at the organisation of ward assemblies and those in the party who they described as worse than dictators but police said it could only go ahead if they changed the date and location, reduced the number of participants by 95 percent and keep it to just one hour. Members from Mandalays Pyigyitagun township planned to demonstrate before the partys Mandalay Region office, along with disgruntled members from Mandalays Myingyan, Tada Oo and Natogyi townships, in the last week of January. [On January 26] officials from Chan Aye Thar San township police station confirmed the protest could be held on January 28. They gave us permission to protest for just one hour on that day even though we asked for three days, U Ko Ko Aung, an NLD member from Pyigyitagun township said at a press conference on January 29 at the press conference. They also did not let us use the place we wanted they just allowed 100 people from the five townships in Mandalay district [to take part] but we wanted to be allowed to have more than 2000 members from different townships. We discussed those issues and then decided to cancel the protest, he said. He said holding a protest with only 100 people would be like organising a small chinlone (cane ball) performance in a village and have trivialised the issue of the partys upcoming national assembly. We have cancelled the protest but that

Children walk on a road in the myothit or new town area of Chan Myar Thar Si township in Mandalay.

will punish God those in the party who are dishonest.

MCDC orders land owners to build homes

By Phyo Wai Kyaw and Si Thu Lwin MANDALAY City Development Committee has given the owners of undeveloped plots in the city until the end of this year to build a house on the land or face having it confiscated. MCDC said the radical order, announced in the staterun Mandalay newspaper on January 28, had been introduced because it says vacant plots slow the citys development and create administrative problems, such as trespassing. It also appears mostly designed to combat property speculation, which has driven prices of even small plots in the city above US$1 million. U Zaw Win said the focus would be on the citys southeastern fringe the section of Chan Myar Thar Si township commonly referred to as myothit, or new town. We will confirm and announce again in the newspaper what kind of houses and fences [owners will be required to build]. This order is mainly aimed at plots in the southeast of town, U Zaw Win, the head of the committees Buildings and Warehouses Department, said on January 29. In the announcement, MCDC said the houses had to be built by the end of December. After that, the committees inspection team would confiscate plots that it finds do not have houses. If the plan says owners have to build strong buildings and fences, it will create difficulties for those who hold vacant plots just for investment, said freelance property broker U Aung Win from Chan Mya Thar Si township. U Zaw Win said MCDC had announced a similar plan in 2006 but implementation had failed. The owners of some vacant plots got around the order by building cheap bamboo shacks, which he said were hard to describe as houses. Meanwhile, MCDC has also announced a plan to build up to 5000 low-cost apartments. U Zaw Win said the apartments would measure 680 square feet. We are still asking for architectural designs from construction companies registered with the department, he said. The apartments will be built between Yuzana Road and the Mandalay-Pyin Oo Lwin railway line in Chan Myar Thar Si township. Each four-storey building will have 16 apartments, with each 34 foot by 20 foot apartment containing two bedrooms, a prayer room, living room, kitchen and bathroom. Gardens will be built between the buildings, he said. The designs of the construction companies will be mixed to create an ideal design, U Zaw Win said. Translated by Thit Lwin

in no way means that we are satisfied with the top officials in the party, U Ko Ko Aung added. U Saw Win from Taguntine ward in Pyigyitagun township added that although the protest had been abandoned, God will punish those in the party who are dishonest. Ko Phyo Han from Myingyan township said that other NLD members from the Mandalay Region town had planned to participate in the Mandalay protest. We also demonstrated in Myingyan township on January 24 and we are satisfied that we were able to show that we are not pleased about the unfair ward assemblies, Ko Phyo Han said.

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Rent rise rumour sparks squatter face-off with govt

By Noe Noe Aung HUNDREDS of squatters, some armed with bamboo poles, have faced off against police and Yangon City Development Committee officials over the demolition of their homes. The confrontation on February 1 occurred after several hundred people descended on an empty 16acre site in Hlaing Tharyar township the previous night and erected makeshift homes, apparently because they had heard all rents in the area would go up K5000 from February. The homes were demolished by YCDC the next day and when The Myanmar Times visited the site later on February 1, some were trying to rebuild the houses again. When a group of officials arrived to demolish the dwellings for a second time, the squatters threatened them with makeshift weapons. People came here last night, at about 8pm, and started building houses. At first there was just a small group of people but later the group grew larger and larger. I dont know how they got here. There must have been at least 300 people, said Daw Mar Oo, who lives in Hlaing Tharyars No 6 quarter. The site was to be used for a low-cost housing project to be jointly developed by Department of Human Settlement and Housing Development (DHSHD) and construction company Star Light. DHSHD official Daw Myint Myint Aye said she was waiting for instructions from the higher levels in Nay Pyi Taw about how to proceed. While she travelled to Hlaing Tharyar to observe the standoff, she said she had not tried to talk to the squatters. These people started building houses at 8pm on January 31. YCDC destroyed [the homes] and warned them not to live here from the morning of February 1. But they have not left yet. We reported this situation to Nay Pyi Taw and are waiting for more instructions, she said. A witness who asked not to be identified said the catalyst for the situation was a rumour that rental homes would increase by at least K5000 in February. Basic bamboo huts are rented for about K30,000, while sturdier dwellings are at least K40,000. There are so many poor in Hlaing Tharyar and most of them are blue-collar workers. Of course they cant pay any more rent. This week, there were rumours about increasing rents in this township and usually money is paid on the fifth day of every month. So I think people were trying to avoid paying higher rents and looked for another place to live for a while, she said. Some of the people who had occupied the site said they could not afford to pay the current market rate. W e have no choice. Rentals are higher than last year and we cant afford to pay. I have four children but no husband. The money I get from selling traditional snacks is only K2000-3000 a day. I am barely able to feed my children with that money and theres not enough to pay rent as well, said Daw May Htet Htet, 42. She said she had stayed temporarily with her friends family for a few months but her friend had asked her to leave. With nowhere to go, she decided to build a house on the empty land. But the officials destroyed our houses again and again. Even if I have to grab a knife and face the officials, I will do it if it means I can stay with my children in a house, she said. Ma Khine, a knife-wielding day labourer, said she had built a house on the site illegally on January 31 because she could no longer afford to stay in a hostel. She said work was hard to come by, as factory managers at Hlaing Tharyar prefer to hire younger rather than middleaged women because they think they work faster. We have to pay K30,000

Senior National League for Democracy members at a press briefing in October 2012. Pic: Ko Taik

Problems in the NLD?

In Myanmar, you wouldnt read about it
By Kyaw Hsu Mon FOR journalists in Myanmar, the limits to what can be published have receded so fast over the past two years that they can sometimes appear indistinct. Reports about corruption and malpractice in the government have become commonplace, along with land confiscations and strikes sparked by oppressive working conditions. But new boundaries appear to be emerging. The recent unrest in the National League for Democracy (NLD), for example, has been virtually unreported in many major publications. This has prompted some to question whether editors and journalists are hesitant to print articles that portray Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and her party in a negative light. As The Myanmar Times reported recently, NLD members in Ayeyarwady and Mandalay regions have staged large protests over the organisation of the partys upcoming national assembly. A third protest, also in Mandalay, was called off because police refused to permit the original protest application. While some editors refused to comment on the media blackout, Ko Ahr Mahn, the executive editor of 7Day News, which bills itself as the highest-selling private weekly journal, said his publication had not published news on the partys internal conflicts because it was hard to ascertain where the blame lies. We knew about the conflict in the NLD but for every internal conflict in the political parties we decided that we need to confirm the real details. As you know in this NLD issue, both sides, the demonstrators and the partys commissioners, said they are right so according to We have a lot of complaints if we post negative things about the NLD and Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. This helps local journals know what their audience wants. If they publish positive news about Daw Aung San Suu Kyis activities and criticise the government, their readership will grow, said a Thailandbased freelance journalist. Some publications are bucking the trend. Last week, Mizzima ran news about the protests on its front page but editor Ko Myo Thant conceded it might backfire with readers. Journals will think they can get a bad response from readers if they publish that kind of news because in the past circulation often depended on having news and pictures about Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. But we shouldnt just do what readers want, especially if it is unethical, he said. The Irrawaddy has also been unafraid to print negative articles about the NLD, despite the unhappy comments from readers that they normally generate. Were not going to be a mouthpiece for the NLD, said U Ye Ni, the editor of the publications Myanmar language edition. We will focus on Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and the NLD relative to the peoples interest, social issues, the economy and health, and we will criticise them if necessary, he said. There has been no suggestion that the party has tried to discourage journalists from writing negative articles. But U Ye Ni also said Irrawaddy journalists had reported the partys media contacts were becoming more like government officials in their reluctance to be interviewed. The Myanmar Times has called the NLDs headquarters numerous times over the past two weeks and received no response.

Even if I have to grab a knife and face the officials, I will do it if it means I can stay with my children in a house.

our journal policy, we did not publish this in the journal, said Ko Ahr Mahn. For reporting on political news, we always try to listen to both sides. As for news about Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, it depends on the journals policy. Maybe some publish only positive news but sometimes it is very hard to analyse who is wrong and right. At that time, we wont publish that news, he said. But Ahr Mahn said some local media had started giving

sources for accuracy, he said. But other editors were more direct in explaining the lack of coverage given to the protests. Trade Times Ko Min Zaw Oo said readers wanted to see negative news about the government because they were still cross about having to live under military rule for 23 years. And the media industry as well, we have been oppressed by the military government for years, so [journalists

We have a lot of complaints if we post negative things about the NLD and Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.
more coverage to missteps by Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and her party. Kyaw Swar Min, editorin-chief of Yangon Times, said his journal ran a short article on the disputes within the NLD and would give the issue more column inches if it escalates further. He said readers largely dictated the papers editorial policy. We choose stories with a human interest angle it really depends on what we think our readers want. So if the NLD conflict is bigger, we will cover it using several also] want to oppose the government in this transition period as much as they can. They also want to read bad news about the government, just like the readers do, he said. But journalists have to make their own decisions about what should be published and have to pay more attention to ethics. The issue is also being played out on social media, where those who criticise the party or Daw Aung San Suu Kyi can expect to face vitriolic attacks from other users.

a month for a hostel. If I stay alone, I cant afford to pay this so I have to share my room with three other girls. But lately our income is getting lower because we are over 30. So our money is not enough to pay the rent after we give some to our parents and pay for living costs. Ma Lei Lei said she would move from the land when the housing project gets underway. We will move when the project starts. We dont have a plan to live here forever. We are just asking them to let us live for a few months before they start building, Ma Lei Lei said. This land has been empty for a long time. And last night we heard that some people are living here and there is plenty of empty land to live so we came here to get a place. But officials are forcing us to leave. If we leave, we have nowhere to go because we left from our hostel without paying rent for January. Thats why we refuse to leave, she said. Star Light director U Zaw Min Tun said the housing project had started in early 2012 and the company was building fences at the site.

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The embassy issued a statement on January 27 denying the arms sale allegations, saying they were ill-founded and misguided. The Chinese government holds a clear and consistent policy of respecting the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Myanmar, the statement said. China has persistently played a constructive role in promoting peace and facilitating dialogue towards the resolution of the conflict. We will continue to do so. We express our strong disapproval with and urge an early correction of those misinformed reports as they may cause confusion and misperception among the Myanmar public and a wider audience. The statement also said China had always advocated a peaceful solution to the conflict in Kachin State. China in recent days repeatedly called for an immediate ceasefire and joint efforts to resume peace and stability along the border area, it said. But the author the IHS Janes Intelligence Review, Anthony Davis, told VOA that the Chinese government was not trying to destabilise the border area.

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Chinese embassy denies Wa army weapons sales

By Kyaw Hsu Mon A GOVERNMENT spokesman said last week he expected China would stick to its commitment not to sell arms to ethnic minority armies in Myanmar. Deputy Minister for Information U Ye Htut, who is also a spokesperson for the president, said China had regularly insisted it would not meddle in Myanmars internal affairs. He said it would also not want to threaten stability in Myanmars border areas. The Chinese government used to frequently request that Myanmars border affairs remain peaceful so I believe that the Chinese government will follow what they say, U Ye Htut said by email. He was speaking after the Chinese embassy in Yangon denied a December report by IHS Janes Intelligence Review that it had been selling advanced weapons to the United Wa State Army (UWSA). The report, which was reported on by Voice of America (VOA) on January 25, said these weapons sales included, for the first time, at least 12 armored vehicles referred to as tank destroyers.

Amyotha Hluttaw passes Kachin conflict peace bill

By Win Ko Ko Latt THE government peace team will attempt to engage the Kachin Independence Organisation in political dialogue before reaching a ceasefire, a spokesperson for team leader U Aung Min told parliament last week. Deputy Minister for the Presidents Office U Aung Thein told the Amyotha Hluttaw on January 26 said it was unclear why relations with the Kachin had deteriorated at a time when peace talks were progressing with other armed groups. Anyhow, we are going to hold political discussions without stopping the fighting, as the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) demanded, he said, adding that the government was determined that fighting in Kachin State would not hold back the broader peace process. The government can keep holding political dialogue with 10 of 11 ethnic armed groups because of hard and fast policies that have already been laid down, he said. U Aung Thein made the comments during a heated debate over U Khat Htein Nans proposal that the government lay down hard and fast fundamental principles that can build trust between both sides and help to achieve eternal internal peace. The motion, submitted on January 18, was discussed over two days by 29 representatives, including four Tatmadaw MPs. It was approved 176 votes to four, with five abstentations, following a secret vote on January 25. While most elected representatives emphasised the importance of rebuilding trust between the two sides, Tatmadaw MPs who discussed the bill slammed the actions of the KIO. Colonel Aung Kyaw said the KIA had begun behaving aggressively in the months before U Thein Seins government took office in March 2011. He said the KIA had broken the ceasefire agreement by deploying troops beyond the area designated for them and preparing for offensive. Within days after the new government emerged, KIO/ KIA did things that created conflict that then erupted into attacks, he said. He said he believed the KIO did not agree to a ceasefire in 1994 because it wanted eternal peace but because the KIA could not compete with Tatmadaw. The group used the intervening years to gather recruits, extort money, grab economic opportunities, buy weapons and generally build up its military strength through the production of narcotic drugs and smuggling natural resources. Lieutenant Colonel Kyaw Kyaw Htoo said the KIA had prolonged the fighting. The KIA reiterated that it would hold political dialogue first and later on achieve a ceasefire. Since political dialogue takes a while, the government proposed a ceasefire first for the tranquility of the area, he said. But the KIA ... wants to continue fighting until they have their political desires fulfilled. It implies that they will ensure their desires are met by escalating the fighting. U Aung Kyi Nyunt of Magway Region Constituency 4 said there was no point blaming each other for the continued attacks. Two sides of different stances and views think they are right from their point of view ... mediation is necessary, he said. Translated by Thit Lwin

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President abolishes SLORC order
PRESIDENT U Thein Seins decision to lift a restrictive order introduced by the military regime has been welcomed by analysts and politicians, who said it should have happened earlier. Order No 2/88, issued by the State Law and Order Restoration Council on September 18, 1988, was abolished by President U Thein Sein on January 28, staterun newspapers reported the following day. The government said it lifted the order because it goes against the Article 447 of the Constitution. The order banned, among other things, Gathering on the streets by a group of five or more people. We have to welcome it. This is a law which was exploited from 1988 through tp 1995 to clamp down on dissidents, said Pyay Thway Naing, editor of a monthly political magazine. It should have been abolished when the peaceful procession law took effect. This is too late, said Ko Jimmy fromthe 88 Generation student group. Win Ko Ko Latt, translated by Thit Lwin

Commission stalls, tension rises

Demonstrators march through Yangon in December following a crackdown on protesters near the Letpadaung mine on November 29. Pic: Ko Taik defiance of their wishes. We will continue to fight until the project is closed, said Ko Thaung Hike, a member of Myanmar Arts and Sciences University Network, which also supports the residents protest. Sayadaw U Sanda Thiri said: Now we hear the commission will report in February. We would like to know its findings as soon as possible. Others are also hoping for the report to be released quickly. Mr Dong Yunfei, administrator of the Myanmar-Wanbao Mining Company, said work had been suspended at Letpadaung since November 17, and the stoppage was costing the company US$2 million a month. We also hope the report will be published as soon as possible, and we hope all concerned will wait patiently and respect the report, he told The Myanmar Times by e-mail on January 30. We cooperated with the commission and we believe its report will be fair and accurate. Mr Dong Yunfei would not comment on recent reports that his company would sue the government for breach of contract if it accepted a commission recommendation to cancel the project. Our company operates according to the laws of Myanmar. We believe the Myanmar government will defend the interests of foreign investors within the framework of the law, he said, adding: We expect to resolve the conflict amicably through negotiations.

Myanmar rises up press freedom index

REPORTERS Without Borders has recognised media sector reforms in Myanmar by moving the country up 18 places on its annual press freedom index and out of the bottom 15 for the first time since 2002. Myanmar rose from 169 to 151 on the index, its highest placing ever, Reporters Without Borders announced on January 30. The organisation said the better ranking was due to steps taken by the government to loosen restrictions on freedom of the press, including ending pre-publication censorship. Exile media organisations have also been welcomed back to Myanmar, it said. The positive developments in Myanmar represented quite a different story from the rest of Asia, however, with China, Vietnam, Laos and North Korea all ranked below Myanmar. Maria Danmark

By Ei Ei Toe Lwin TENSIONS are rising as the commission set up to investigate violent clashes over a planned expansion at the Monywa copper mine in Sagaing Region failed to publish its report by January 31 as expected. More than 2000 local villagers and their supporters confronted police last week near the mine to protest the delay in publishing the report, and to mark the two-month anniversary of an attack by police against protesters, including monks who joined a demand to halt mining. The protesters, who were drawn from 60 villages surrounding the mine, called for the cancellation of the Letpadaung project, the release of those facing trial in connection with the protest campaign, and an investigation into the violent crackdown. People cant stand any more. We need clear answers over the Letpadaung issue, said Sayadaw U Sandar Thiri, of San Mya Wadi Monastery in Zeedaw village. The confrontation occurred on January 29, when protesters, carrying flags and chanting slogans, tried to march from their camps at Tone Ywa to Seltel village. The police closed the road as we approached and used loud-hailers to order us to turn back because our protest was against the law. They threatened to take action if we continued. We asked them why they had closed the public road, and assured

them our demonstration was peaceful and lawful under the constitution. They just kept telling us to go back, said Ko Aung Than Myo of Tone Ywa village. In the end we changed our route to Seltel and then returned to our camps because we didnt want to cause any problems. This is a peaceful protest for Letpadaung, he added. The Letpadaung project, which was launched in 2010, is a joint venture between Chinas Wanbao Mining and military-owned Union of Myanmar Economic Holdings Limited (UMEHL). Conflicts between the company and local villagers over issues including land ownership and environmental degradation came to a head on November 29, when police violently dispersed protesters, including monks,

who were demanding a halt to the proposed expansion. The police and government subsequently apologised for the incident. International media, including the Washington Post, reported last week that an independent laboratory has found that the police used white phosphorous against protesters on November 29. More than 100 people, mostly monks, were injured in the incident, and afterwards shell fragments and burned robes were sent for chemical analysis. White phosphorous is normally used in incendiary bombs and its use against civilians could be a violation of international law. Following the clashes in November, the Office of President U Thein Sein formed a 16-member commission under Daw Aung San Suu Kyi to establish the

facts and to look into whether mining should continue at Letpadaung, and to report to the president by the end of January. However, on January 19 the commission announced that it would submit a provisional report to the president at the end of January that would not be published. No date has been set for the publication of a final report containing all the commissions findings. I think the report should be published. We still dont know the facts. Its impossible to proceed without transparency, said U Aung Than Myo. Commission chair Daw Aung San Suu Kyi has pledged that her investigation will serve the long-term interests of the country and the people. But residents fear that the commission could advise the expansion of the project in

US announces $4.2m for Rakhine State

THE United States last week announced more than US$4 million in new humanitarian assistance in Rakhine State. The assistance will be provided through the United States Agency for International Development, the US embassy in Yangon said in a statement on January 30. The assistance will be provided to those in need in Rakhine State regardless of ethnicity and guided by international principles, including non-discrimination, respect for the dignity of people affected, and provision of assistance that meets international standards, the statement said. Nan Tin Htwe

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Mining company rejects allegations

By Pyae Thet Phyo A MINING company has rejected accusations from villagers in Sagaing Regions Kanbalu township that it demanded hundreds of dollars from them to continue running their mines. The residents submitted complaint letters to the Presidents Office, Ministry of Home Affairs and Ministry of Mining on January 24 accusing Shwe Pyi Thein of demanding K700,000 and one tical of gold to continue mining at 2400-foot Taungmagyi Mountain near Gar Ga Law village. One tical is equal to 16.329 grams and was worth K700,500 last week. The company also engaged police to guard the goldfields with police, Ko Ngwe Than, who sent the complaint letters on behalf of the residents, told The Myanmar Times on January 28. But Ko Aung Khine Win of Shwe Pyi Thein said the accusations were totally not true. They accused us one-sidedly because they are afraid that they will no longer be able to work those fields when our company receives a legal gold mining licence, he said on January 29. Shwe Pyi Thein submitted an application to the Department of Mining in Monywa and Ministry of Mining in Nay Pyi Taw for a mining concession at Taungmagyi in October 2012, he said. Our company is still applying for a legal licence and we have not started doing anything at the site yet. Only the residents of Gar Ga Law are working at the site, said Ko Aung Khine Win. Daw San San, a clerk from the Kantbalu Department of General Administration, confirmed the company had submitted a mining licence application and it has not yet been approved. Another Gar Ga Law resident, Ko Win Khine, said they had also sent complaint letters to the chief minister of Sagaing Region on January 25 and planned to contact the Pyithu Hluttaw and Amyotha Hluttaw soon. Shwe Pyi Thein company has attempted to control the residents without a legal licence for gold mining in the area so we sent the complaint letters, Ko Win Khine said. As part of Shwe Pyi Theins application, officials from the Department of Mining from Monywa and Kawlin townships inspected the Taungmagyi fields on January 18 and 19 but were blocked by about 200 residents from Gar Ga, said Ko Kyaut Khe, another member of the company. Residents of Gar Ga Law have mined the fields at Taungmagyi since 1995. The field has attracted interest from local mining firms but an operation that started in 2008 stopped soon after because the fields can only produce two ticals a day, residents said. Translated by Zar Zar Soe

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Police chief responds to complaints on ward, village administrators

By Soe Than Lynn PEOPLE should complain to the township or district general administration department, regional government or Ministry of Home Affairs if their ward or village head is abusing their authority, a senior police official said last week. Major General Kyaw Kyaw Tun, the deputy minister for home affairs and director general of the Myanmar Police Force, was responding to a question from Daw Nan Say Awa, the Pyithu Hluttaw representative for Hpa-an, who said some local administrators abused their position for personal profit by selling farms to investors who want to develop the land. If a head of the village or ward administration office breaks the code of conduct, he will be investigated by the head of the township general administration office under section 15, chapter 8 of the Ward and Village-tract Administration Law, he told the Pyithu Hluttaw on January 25. If there were cases relating to misuse of power, such as misusing funds, reselling farmlands without the knowledge of the owners or selling public buildings, action is taken under the law, he said, adding that complaints must be accurate and detailed. But Daw Nan Say Awa said the government took too long to investigate complaints about abuse of power. The former heads of villages collected money from the people for projects such as building schools, repairing roads, getting electricity and building a clinic, and used this money for their own interests without being able to show any evidence of how the money was spent. And taking advantage of farmers lack of knowledge, they also resold farmland, sold the village graveyard without the knowledge of the villagers, sold land owned by the Cooperative Department or even sold the roads in the village, she said. When villagers complained to the head of the township administration about them because they couldnt show receipts for expenditure on village projects when the villagers asked, it took a long time to investigate. The township and then district office examined the case and then the township looked at it again and so on. Finally, no action was taken. So Id like to know how these people can be punished and which department we should complain to, she said. Section 11, chapter 5 of the Ward and Village-tract Administration Law states that the head of a village or quarter must serve dutifully by following the laws, by-laws, regulations, orders and instructions and must avoid abusing their authority, exerting influence over people and judging unfairly. Translated by Thiri Min Htun

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Womens group plans kids health fundraiser

By Yamon Phu Thit A WOMENS group has launched a campaign to bring back the smiles to childrens faces. The International Cultural and Charity Group (ICCG), a non-profit organisation formed by women, has organised a fundraising event Help us Save a Smile, to be held on February 10 at Traders Hotel. The proceeds will fund surgical and dental operations for children with cleft palates in Mandalay Region, and newborn care equipment at the Central Womens Hospital of Yangon, said Ms. Vidya Seshadri, president of ICCG. We are helping children who need surgical operations to rectify their birth defects so that they can get back their self-esteem and are able to smile again, she told a press conference on January 29. According to the Central Womens Hospital, cleftpalate deformities affect roughly one in every 800 to 1000 babies in Myanmar. The estimated cost for each operation is K400,000 to K500,000, a maxillofacial surgeon said. Dental surgeons of Mandalay Dental Universities will perform the operations at the university. We will need at least K20 million for both operations and the equipment donation, Daw Pauline Khin Maung Lwin, vice president of ICCG, said at the press conference. The fundraiser will include a dinner featuring a fashion show displaying Inle silk garments designed by well-known local designers and offered for sale to participants. The ticket price is K50,000, which people might think expensive. However, we want to give a hand to needy children, Daw Pauline Khin Maung Lwin said. Registration for the operations will be conducted later, and the groups funding will cover transportation, meals and accommodation for the children and their caregivers, Ms Seshadri said. Those who want to donate and buy tickets can contact the ICCG at 01 230 1051/52 or at dkmlwin@mptmail. net.mm.

Group to donate to mothers, children in Insein

By Naw Say Phaw Waa THE Former Political Prisoners Association is preparing to launch a program to support pregnant women, mothers and children in Insein Prison The organisation is waiting for a list of inmates from the Corrections Department, after which it will begin providing those eligible with food, clothes and medicine, association committee member U Tun Kyi said last week. Recently we have asked the list of prisoners. After we have the detailed list we will start donating. Officers from the prisons have already approved our proposal, he said. He said the organisation will assist all pregnant women, children and mothers, regardless of whether they are political prisoners or not. He said the program had been launched at the request of some local donors, including a number of celebrities. Meanwhile, Ko Bo Kyi, joint secretary of the Thailand-based Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (Burma), said his organisation would maintain its focus on providing support to political prisoners and former political prisoners. We only help political prisoners, former political prisoners and their families. Recently we donated K100,000 each to 33 children of former political prisoners to support their education, he said, shortly after making a donation in Mandalay. Ko Bo Kyi and AAPP secretary Ko Taik made an official visit to Myanmar on January 5 to assess the political situation. They intend to stay for about one month and will meet political prisoners and politicians.

A fisherman paddles his boat past houses on stilts at Inle Lake in southern Shan State. Pic: Douglas Long

Funds and coordination key to Inle conservation

By Aye Sapay Phyu SAVE Inle Lakethats the goal of an expert workshop held in Nay Pyi Taw on January 24-25. The key, participants said, lies in a mixture of coordination and secure funding. The tourist attraction, located in southern Shan State, is suffering from many problems, at least some of which are the result of growing visitor numbers. International wetland repair specialist Dr Anne Jensen identified some of the major issues as a reduction in surface area of open water, decline in native water plants, impact of poor sanitation on water quality, increase in soil erosion in hillside and delta areas, silting up of boat channels, decline in production of floating gardens and health threats from disease and pesticides. Mr Joern Kristensen, director and representative of the Institute for International DevelopmentMyanmar (IID) said good governance and continuous funding were needed for sustainable management. Last year, the IID compiled an assessment report named Inle Lake Conservation Project: A Plan for the Future with the support of the Norwegian government, in which it urged the government to develop a conservation action plan for the lake from 2010 to 2025. Good governance involves all stakeholders, including farmers, the tourist industry, boatmen and so on. They should agree on how to maintain the lake. The best way to reach the common understanding on this issue is to share information, Mr Kristensen told the workshop in the Ministry of Environmental Conservation and Forestry. The government, NGOs and UN agencies all suffer from a lack of continuity in funding, and fail to coordinate with each other, he said. Efforts and investments are lost and dont lead to the desired improvements of the environmental conditions of the lake, he said. Mr Kristensen said President U Thein Sein encouraged establishing the Lake Trust Fund for long-term conservation. The fund would be financially suppored by international and local donors and the tourism industry, particularly hotels. IID recommended that an Inle Lake Authority be established under the ministry to coordinate government departments, ethnic groups, NGOs, researchers and others relevant groups. Mr Kristensen said the Lake Authority, to be established in Nyuangshwe, would serve as secretariat for the Government Committee for Environmental Conservation and Sustainability of Inle Lake, which is chaired by Minister for Environmental Conservation and Forestry U Win Tun. The authority will alsobe custodian of an Inle Lake data base,coordinate the Inle Lake action plan 2010-2025 andmanage the Inle Lake Trust Fund. Without good coordination there is a high risk that the lake environment will be further degraded and the lake could lose its attraction to tourists with serious consequences for the livelihood of the local population, he said. Mr Kristensen said US$6.15 million was required over a three-year period and recommendedthe government seek donor assistance. After this initial period, the trust fund, supported by the tourism industry, would provide continuous funding for maintaining a healthy lake, he said.

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In Yangon, business with a conscience

By Chris Myers ON an unusually overcast Yangon afternoon, the top floor of Monsoon on Theinbhyu Road gave me my first glimpse of a new kind of business that is starting to appear in Yangon: a social enterprise. Yangon Bakehouse is an organisation run by women, for women. Founded by four expatriates working in the private sector who wanted a vehicle to tackle social issues, the group gives disadvantaged Myanmar women the opportunity to work as apprentice chefs, where they learn how to prepare, cook and present food. [The program] makes a dramatic difference to the nuclear family and the broader community as well. Were really for the community, by the community, Heatherly Butcher, one of the four founders, said at the launch on January 29. The idea is simple: make money, but by employing people that businesses would otherwise neglect and then put the money back into those same people and their communities, and repeat the cycle. There are a lot of programs for a lot of different groups in Myanmar, whether it is street children or the poor all needy, all important but not so many for really disadvantaged women, who just dont have a way of making a living, dont have any confidence, have had their dignity shattered. So thats our focus, Ms Butcher told The Myanmar Times. Yangon Bakehouse and other projects like it work on the idea that while philanthropy has its place, training and employment are the best path to socioeconomic improvement. In a country where unemployment is almost 40 percent, according to one recent survey, this would appear to makes a lot of sense. The Bakehouse has managed to attract some high-profile support. Naomi Pomeroy, owner

Activist and businessman attend court hearings

By Naw Say Phaw Waa A CIVIL society activist got a rude shock last week when he attended court after filing three charges against a businessman and instead found himself on trial. Ko Htin Kyaw, the leader of Movement of Democracy Current Forces, charged U Thein Naing of Yoe Yoe Lay Company for allegedly swearing, threatening and assaulting him at a press conference on January 13. Constable Tint Lwin from Bahan township police station informed Ko Htin Kyaw the hearing would begin on January 29. But when he registered at the court, he found he was the defendant. Ko Htin Kyaw said Constable Tint Lwin apologised to him at the court and said the case had caused difficulties. Meanwhile, U Thein Naing failed to appear because he was out of town. I only realised when I arrived at the court that I was a defendant and not the plaintiff. The police said all of the defendants who I filed charges against had not come to the court. Then I said to the police that I filed this case to the police station on which the people are relying because I was being bullied. And it was the polices duty to call all of the people who I filed charges against. Then U Tint Lwin apologised to me and asked me to understand him, saying that he also had difficulties, Ko Htin Kyaw said. After Ko Htin Kyaw filed the charges against U Thein Naing on January 13, Yoe Yoe Lay manager U Than Aung countercharged Ko Htin Kyaw the following day for swearing, hurt and defamation. I have never seen [U] Than Aung but now he has filed charges against me, said Ko Htin Kyaw. U Thein Naing attended a hearing the following day, at which it was revealed the case against the businessman would begin on February 8. Ko Htin Kyaws lawyer, U Robert San Aung, said the police needed to be fair to both sides regardless of the backgrounds of the defendant and plaintiff. While the police said they did not proceed with Ko Htin Kyaws case because it was incomplete, U Robert San Aung said he believed there were other forces at play. Bahan police station didnt put up the case for plaintiff Ko Htin Kyaw but they put up a case for defendant Ko Htin Kyaw. Its because Ko Htin Kyaw is poor and the businessman is rich. The police can never do that under the law. We have to wait for the next hearing to see what happens, U Robert San Aung said. The Myanmar Times called U Thein Naing but was told that he had gone out an d could not be contacted. Bahan township police said there was nobody in the police station willing to answer questions about the cases involving U Thein Naing and Ko Htin Kyaw.

Guest chef Naomi Pomeroy with Yangon Bakehouse training manager Ma Thi Thi at Monsoon restaurant on January 29. Pic: Supplied/Chris James White of the critically acclaimed restaurant Beast in Portland, was on hand to help out at the January 29 opening. Its something Im really proud of my involvement with. I got involved as a member of the US Culinary Corps through the State Department. I was coming here to Yangon anyway and the embassy let me know about it so I volunteered for Bakehouse team. I really enjoy it, a smiling apprentice, Ma Nandar, told me. Ive been here two months and have six to go, but if they let me continue I will work here again at the Bakehouse. I would like to help train apprentices. Ma Nandar is from Yangon and, at 36, is right in the middle of the age group that the Yangon Bakehouse is launch: on the top floor of Monsoon, another social enterprise, Pomelo, sells art and jewellery made by disadvantaged groups. Its amazing how much a little design can change someones life, said Ulla Kroeber, a volunteer for Pomelo, which was also instigated by women. We started with a group called Helping Hands, which helps street children, disadvantaged women and women with HIV make things to sell so they have an income, but since then weve expanded to working with over 20 NGOs. The shop is open to everybody, but we only take things that will sell. People have to buy it because they want it, she said. The model clearly has promise. While only seven apprentices are undertaking the first course, Ms Butcher said she is confident there will be more in future groups. Ma Nandar said she knew of many who are interested, and at least two have signed up for the next program. A lot of women I know are really excited. I think theyll take the opportunity really quickly, she said. Its already made a huge difference to me, I just love it.

Ive been here two months and have six to go, but if they let me continue I
a day to help the chefs, teach them some basics about being in a kitchen before this most of them never had [been in a professional kitchen] so its been good to pass on some skills, she said. It was clear at the opening that the Yangon Bakehouse team runs a tight ship: the food tasted fantastic and was well presented, while the chefs appeared pleased at what they had achieved. About 35 people enjoyed a lunch that included bread with a mushroom sauce, pasta, potato salad and other dishes whipped up by the

will work here again at the Bakehouse.

targeting. The young generation that are coming up, that are still in school are getting lots of attention, which is great, said Ms Butcher. But this kind of mid-20s to 40s lost generation, not so much, so thats our focus. Ms Butcher said many apprentices are single parents. So its about being able to support their children, being able to raise them well and make the next generation successful. But the Bakehouse is certainly not the first social enterprise in Yangon, as was clear from last weeks

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Wooden boat salvaged in Nay Pyi Taw

By Pyae Thet Phyo A 65-FOOT carved wooden boat has been salvaged from a creek in Nay Pyi Taw, residents said last month. The boat, which is 8 feet wide, was raised from Pa Lwal Creek, just north of Thit Taw village in Lewe township, on January 15, said U Thit Lwin, a National League for Democracy member who serves as the local administrator. He said the boat had been salvaged with the financial help of a retired army major, U Khin Maung Win. Villager U Kyaw Thein said he discovered the front of the boat in Pa Lwal Creek when his cows were grazing. As soon as we found it we started uncovering it with about 20 villagers. But we stopped because the Won Tae Kuu village tract administrator warned us that if we didnt stop then government officials would take it, he said. The boat promptly disappeared but showed up again when the water level dropped at the end of December, he said. U Khin Maung Win said he learned about the boat when he visited the village two years ago and had spent more than K10 million since December on the salvage operation. He said he wanted to display the boat, which is made from a kind of hardwood known as dammar, in his garden beside the Yangon-Mandalay Highway so that the public could

Residents of Thit Taw village in Lewe township with a wooden boat made enjoy it. The boat will be pulled by elephants to the side of the Yangon-Mandalay Highway. We will carry the boat by car to my garden from there, U Khin Maung Win said. This boat is longer than the one on display in the Fountain Garden [in Nay Pyi Taw]. But it will still need to be examined by archaeologists to work out how old it is. While residents had said they thought it could be more than 100 years old, an official from the Department of Archaeology told The Myanmar Times in late January that the boat is about 50 years old. It is not ancient at all. [We can tell this ] because it lacks arabesque [carvings], he said. One 85-year-old resident of Thit Taw village said the boat was of a similar style to those used to travel between upper and lower Myanmar about 150 years ago, before the arrival of road and rail transport. She said the boats were mostly made in the Bago Yoma. About 30 years ago, a similar boat was salvaged from Pa Lwal Creek, while about five years ago another one was discovered in Nga Lite Creek. The latter was installed in Nay Pyi Taws Fountain Garden. Translated by Zar Zar Soe

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Myanmars phantom Spitfi

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by Derek Tonkin IN recent weeks we have been regaled with stories about the imminent unearthing In Myanmar of literally squadrons of brand-new World War II Spitfires that iconic aircraft of the Battle of Britain in 1940 that were supposedly buried 40 feet deep in their original shipping crates strengthened with Burmese teak. As many as 140 could be found, we were told, but the first phase would be restricted to excavating 36 Spitfires at Yangon International Airport (Mingalardon), 18 at Myitkyina in Kachin State and 6 at Meiktila in Mandalay Region. Contracts were signed, blessed by the British embassy in Yangon, and we awaited breathlessly the results of the first dig in mid-January. So far, though, there has been not a trace of these aircraft and as Men with Dark Glasses have told the excavation team to stop using JCB diggers after only two days because they were too close to the main runway, who can say what might have been found, or might still be found if digging by hand is permitted during the silent hours? When I first heard of this story, back in 1998, the rumour was that in August 1945 a handful of newly arrived Spitfires had been placed in a shallow earthen silo as there was no vacant space around the airport buildings at Mingalardon and that these few aircraft had quietly sunk into the ground after heavy monsoon rains, so much so that within a matter of months they had disappeared from sight and were soon forgotten. The rumour supposedly came from US engineering construction veterans who had been tasked to do this by the Royal Air Force (RAF). It was a delightful story, scarcely credible, but one or two businessmen and Spitfire enthusiasts thought it worth a closer look and even investing a little time and money. In the end, a Lincolnshire farmer, David Cundall, saw off the opposition and secured the recovery contract. What started off, though, as no more than an amateurish treasure hunt has since April 2012 been transformed into a saga of veritable fantasy. The report that so many aircraft might still exist is based on evidence of a very flimsy nature. In any case, there is simply no good reason to treat Spitfires in this way. It defies all common sense, which has been remarkably absent in all media comment on this affair. US engineers: the source of the reports

one actually No seems to have seen any Spitfires, only crates about to buried.

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The US military engineers were originally identified as US Navy Seabees, immortalised in the film The Fighting Seabees, starring John Wayne. But Seabees never came to Burma. They did their fighting and construction as they hopped from island to island in the Pacific. It was then suggested that they must have been a unit from the military construction battalions that built the Ledo Road from India and other roads and airfields in northern Burma, except that such construction units never worked south of Myitkyina. It was then thought that they were in fact a unit of engineers in transit at Rangoon on their way to Singapore at the end of World War II who, out of the goodness of their hearts, had offered their expertise to the RAF to help bury these aircraft, although they presumably had no transport or machinery of their own. The US unit has never been identified. And how did they get the crates up to Meiktila and Myitkyina? Would it not have been easier to assemble the aircraft at Mingalardon and fly them up, if they were needed there for whatever reason, overt or clandestine? The main evidence was no fewer than eight eyewitnesses, US and British, who could testify to what they had seen, namely crates with Spitfires being buried at Mingalardon. Unfortunately one of the US eyewitnesses is no longer with us, and the other was on a life-support system some years ago and might by now have gone the way of all flesh. As for British eyewitnesses, I have no reason to disbelieve they saw what they saw, while some recounted what others had said they had seen. But no-one actually seems to have seen any Spitfires as such, only crates about to be buried. None of the actual eyewitnesses, though, was with the RAF, and some who had been permanently stationed at RAF Mingalardon between 1945 and 1947 have said that they saw nothing to confirm these accounts by transient eyewitnesses and did not for a moment believe that there was any truth in the story. Documentary evidence:

virtually non-existent The final piece of evidence is what has been described as a tantalising bundle of notesand a record discovered by a researcher in the National Archives at Kew in London showing that some 124 Spitfire Mark XIVs had been delivered Burma in August 1945 and then Struck Off Charge (SOC). As The Times of January 7 put it, quoting David Cundall: With an archival researchers help, he found an astonishing record. On one day in August 1945, 124 Mark XIV Spitfires were struck off charge no operational history, no mention of joining squadrons, they just disappeared. The record in the National Archives, however, has not been identified by file reference and searches by both official and private investigators, including myself, have failed to locate any such document. Endeavouring to prove that something does not exist is no easy matter, but we are helped by the fact that every single Spitfire ever built has been faithfully recorded in detail in both online and printed record. ( Spitfire: The History by Eric Morgan and Edward Shacklady runs to over 675 pages, took more than 35 years of research to compile and tells you everything you are ever likely to wish to know about every one of the 22,799 Spitfires ever built.) So far as Spitfire Mark XIVs are concerned, you have in this and other references details of those supplied to Air Command South-East Asia (ACSEA), the place they were built (mostly Aldermaston, Eastleigh, Keevil and Chattis Hill, but not Castle Bromwich as so many UK newspapers have reported), the date they were completed, the ship on which they were transported to ACSEA, the squadron to which they were allocated and the date on which they were SOC or otherwise disposed of.

Spitfire excavation project leader David Cundall (left) holds a special projects at Wargaming looks on at Yangon airport on Japan, though there seem to have been only isolated cases in Myanmar itself as a result of accidents. We can rule out 36 being struck off at any time during the 20-month period 2 May 1945 (when a RAF Mosquito daringly landed at Mingalardon) to 31 December 1946, while 124 SOCs belongs to the realm of fantasy (even if a few at Meiktila were Mark VIIIs, as has recently been suggested). A Telegraph report based on information supplied by David Cundall notes that it took months for the aircraft at Mingalardon to be buried. What happened to them while they were waiting, I wonder, and what hard luck records have already been released to the public. I find this explanation though totally lacking in credibility. Increase in air activity after the Japanese surrender The suggestion that up to 140 Mark XIVs might be superfluous to needs in August 1945 is contradicted, in Southeast Asia alone, by the continuing sale and supply into the 1950s of Spitfires of various Marks, including Mark XIVs, to the Royal Indian Air Force and its successor the Indian Air Force, to the French Air Force for use in Indo-China until 1953, to the Dutch Air Force for use in the Netherlands East Indies, to the Royal Thai Air Force in 1950, and to the RAF itself for use at their main post-war base in Singapore, in Malaya during the Emergency and to reinforce Hong Kong in 1949 as Chinese communist forces took control of the Chinese mainland. The Burmese Air Force, created in January 1947 some 12 months before independence, took over three Spitfires from ACSEA in 1948 and constantly requested more; it received 20 refurbished units from the RAF in 1951 and 30 converted carrier-borne Seafires from the Israeli Air Force in 1954. It is simply not credible that all this time brand new, carefully preserved Spitfires would have remained buried at Mingalardon. The increased tempo of activity is reflected in the following account in Wikipedia: South-East Asia Command had been increased in size from the day after the surrender, taking in

started off as no more than an What amateurish treasure hunt has since April 2012 been transformed into a saga of veritable fantasy.

I have found no discrepancies, no missing batches and no evidence that, as has been alleged, Lord Mountbatten, then Supreme Allied Commander South East-Asia, gave instructions to dispose of these aircraft. None was listed as having been sent by sea to Burma in 1945-46, and even if ships had been sent on from Bombay or Karachi, which appears the normal destination for ACSEA-bound aircraft, there were only isolated SOCs in 1945 and several in 1946 for operational or other reasons on particular dates. By 1947 and 1948 Mark XIVs were beginning to be struck off in increasing numbers in the ACSEA theatre, which now included

for the passing US military engineers who probably missed their onward flight to Singapore? We may never know. The only other speculative explanation suggested for this entombment of commercially valuable aircraft has been that the 36 or more Mark XIVs were a special shipment, never test flown in the UK like all the other 957 Mark XIVs built, nor given published serial numbers, but shipped prepared for long-term deep burial in fulfilment of some project even more Secret than Force 136 of Special Operations Executive, Detachment 101 of the US Office of Strategic Services and other clandestine operations whose

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ires: how a legend was born

The political background to the myth My own conclusion, reached three months ago, is that the original story, which I scarcely believed in any case, had now reached such mythical proportions that I decided to include the saga, discreetly, as Myth No 11 on the website of Network Myanmar (which lists 11 other political myths relating to Myanmar). However, at the time that Prime Minister David Cameron went to Myanmar in April 2012, it is only fair to say that none of this detail was known and has only emerged since. The PM also went at very short notice. On April 1, 2012, 45 by-elections were held in Myanmar and by the following day it was clear that the National League for Democracy had won a stunning victory, capturing 43 of the 45 seats contested, including the election of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. The elections were judged by the European Union to be reasonably free and fair, despite some irregularities during the campaigning period. The EU needed to discuss urgently whether sanctions should be lifted or not, as the annual review of EU policy on Myanmar would take place on April 23. As the PM was leaving for a trade promotion visit to Japan, Indonesia, Singapore and Malaysia on April 9, it was decided at very short notice to include a leg into Myanmar on 13 April, to persuade Daw Aung San Suu Kyi to agree at least to the suspension of sanctions, which she did. There was accordingly little or no time for the PMs Office and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to ask the Ministry of Defence to provide a considered assessment by the RAF Air Historical Branch at Northolt of the reliability of reports, at that stage still very sketchy, about buried Spitfires in Myanmar, though I might have expected No 10 at least to make a telephone call. I can see that it was politically very attractive to the PM to mention the matter to President U Thein Sein on April 13, 2012 as an example of future possible cooperation on an issue of common heritage at a time of reengagement, although No 10 has since been at pains to make it clear that they were not involved in any commercial negotiations and had no interest in any aircraft which might be he would surely not now be operating on a success fee basis alone. I would find it hard though to agree though with the British embassy spokesman whose colleagues were reported in The Times as believing that there was compelling evidence that the aircraft were there. The evidence, in my assessment, is virtually non-existent. There is however no need to defend the Prime Minister.

can see that it was politically very I attractive to the PM to mention the matter as an example of future possible cooperation.

recovered. Some might say that the PM allowed his political instincts to cloud his judgement by venturing on what has turned out to be a wild goose chase of mythical proportions. I would give him though the benefit of any doubt. For the companies supporting David Cundall there has been valuable publicity, and for David Cundall himself probably the recouping of his expenses over the years and an advance fee, since

These days the British public well understand the foibles and motivations of politicians and are more than willing to forgive him this lapse of judgement while there was the remotest likelihood of unearthing even one Spitfire, whatever its condition. There is one final twist to the tale. The PM invited a property developer, Steven Boultbee Brooks, to join the trade delegation that accompanied him for the

Myanmar leg. Mr Brooks had claimed to be the consortium leader: We would very much like Mr Cundall on board, the Independent reported. In the event, the Myanmar authorities gave the recovery contract to David Cundall, not to the PMs guest. I have wondered whether this might not be a sign from Myanmar that it would have been better if the PM had sought to lift EU sanctions entirely, as the Germans, Italians and others in the EU preferred, rather than just suspending them until April 2013, when a decision will need to be taken on whether to continue the suspension by first reinstating and then immediately suspending EU sanctions again, or to consign them finally to history. While David Cundall and close friends dig quietly inMyitkyina, let us acknowledge that a legend has been born. It may be a myth totally lacking in credibility, but as Prospero said: We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep. (Derek Tonkin is chairman of non-profit Network Myanmar and on the advisory Board of Bagan Capital Limited.)

model of a Spitfire aircraft as Tracy Spaight, director of January 9. Pic: AFP south French Indo-China, and much of the Dutch East Indies. The command was now half as big again in area as it had been during the war. The strain imposed by the high operations tempo that occupation duties, when combined with the downsizing of the command due to demobilisation and return of American aircraft provided under lend-lease aircraft, was very great. The only other evidence worth mentioning is that in 2004 a scan by an advanced electronic sensor Geonics EM3 mapped the presence of significant deposits of conductive materials in designated areas, but without excavation it was impossible to say what these materials might be. At one stage a trial excavation reportedly reached a buried wooden crate, but allegedly for political and contractual reasons the decision was astonishingly taken not to look inside the crate. Since then the scientific experts involved have spoken more of their interest in uncovering evidence of conflict archaeology in which the discovery of Spitfires would be an incidental bonus, as it were. Marsden perforated steel matting (known as PSP) was widely used by Seabees in the construction of Pacific island runways and much is to be found in Myanmar as well, not least in domestic use these days as fencing.

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Beyond Myanmars tourism boom

Minister for Hotels and Tourism U Htay Aung on the tourism sectors rapid growth and the hotel room rate saga
By Yu Yu Maw THE ministry recently announced that tourism arrivals through all gateways topped one million in 2012. Why did we see such a spike in tourism last year? It is because our countrys situation has changed. Business and political reforms have created international interest. Myanmars relations with foreign countries have become friendly and open because of these political reforms. The first sector to benefit from these changes was tourism. Tourism is booming but its clear that growth has also highlighted some shortcomings in the industry. How will you lead the sector to ensure these issues are addressed? This is not just related to the tourism industry on its own. Sectors related to tourism also need to develop to cope with the booming tourism. If you look at countries with developed tourism industries, they can accept huge numbers of tourists because of development across a range of sectors. They have good service, accommodation, transportation and food. If we are going to get more people to come to Myanmar, we also need to create those conditions. Is there any plan to revise the old tourism law, which was introduced in 1990? The government enacted the tourism law in 1990 and reformed it in 1993, changing the name to the hotels and tourism law. You are right. The law is very old. It is not suitable for this century. We are trying to reform the 1993 hotels and tourism law now. We have introduced a Responsible Tourism Policy and Dos and Donts booklets for the travel industry. And then we are drafting the Tourism Master Plan with international experts. We consider those kinds of activities to also be part of the reform process for the sector. What sort of changes can we expect when the law is revised? We will consider the pros and cons of the tourism industry and how we can best prevent to grow rapidly. But in 2012, they changed their room rates immediately so travel companies faced difficulties. No one could control the situation so the ministry stepped in between the hotels and tour companies. The ministry negotiated between them and is still doing so now. Another cause is that the quality and service of local hotels was not good enough. But new local hotels are going to open with good quality and service soon. It will take a little bit of time for them to appear and those problems over pricing could continue to happen during this transition period. We could suffer from this problem for another one or two years. The ministry will control the situation so it does not get worse. I want to say one thing that I hope the hotels keep in mind: Dont be the one who killed the goose that laid the golden egg. What preparations have you made to cope with anticipated tourism growth over the next 12 months? We need to have sound management and try to set fair policies. We can accept huge tourism arrivals if we have strong policies and good research. We are going to try to manage arrivals so that travellers are more spread out and not trying to crowd into the same place. For this kind of process, we need a steering committee. We need all ministries to sit together as a committee. This committee can set new policies, and study and analyse every development. There was once a committee like that. You mean you want to reestablish that committee and make it more effective? You are right; we founded that committee before 1996. It was established by ministers and regional-level officials. If we still had that committee the tourism sector would be in a better state. But we have founded the Committee for Smooth Entrance of Foreign Visitors last year. State and region officials are involved in this committee but I want to see higher-level officials on board to make it stronger and more active.

Clockwise from left: Minister for Hotels and Tourism U Htay Aung. Tourists change money at Yangon Airport. Tourists board a boat in Mandalay. A recently reopened resort at Letkokkon in Yangon Region. Pics: Ko Taik, Phyo Wai Kyaw unwanted side effects. Not to ruin the culture and environment, those kinds of things. There are some new developments we have to consider. For example, we will study the recently introduced environmental conservation law to help us when drafting the section on tourisms environmental impact. And we will study neighbouring countries tourism laws and look at what our tourism law lacks. We also have to focus on the bylaws. We will try to introduce the new hotels and tourism law within one year. Myanmar still keeps no outbound statistics and mostly does not issue licences for outbound companies. Why is that? Will you let tour companies do this business officially? Well, there are a number of issues we need to consider. First we have to think about the balance between earnings for outbound and inbound tourism we need that kind of research. I want this outbound market to grow and be more formal. But first of all, we need market research and then need to prepare legislation. The former minister introduced a rule that room rates for most hotels should not exceed US$150. Is that still in effect? Many hotels did not follow this rule so how will you manage that situation? Demand is much higher than supply. But the business owners did not prioritise service they prioritised financial gains. So the room rate problem developed between hotels and travel companies. The room rate at hotels with foreign investment was nearly same as locally owned hotel before tourism started

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By Tim McLaughlin and Maria Danmark CARLSBERG Group, the worlds fourth-largest brewery group, has announced its entry into the Myanmar market. The Danish brewer signed a strategic partnership agreement with Myanmar Golden Star (MGS) Breweries in Yangon on February 1. Carlsberg will be 51 percent owner of the newly formed Myanmar Carlsberg Co Ltd. Under the agreement Carlsberg plans to brew and market beer in the country under its world-renowned label. We have followed the developments in Myanmar closely and are encouraged by the recent political developments in the country, Roy Bagattini, senior vice president of Carlsberg for Asia, said in a statement released by the company on February 1. We believe that the timing is right for us to invest in the country. We expect that the Myanmar beer market will grow strongly in coming years as the economy expands. Jorgen Buhl Rasmussen, Carlsbergs chief executive officer, told The Myanmar Times that the company will build a production facility in Bago Region capable of producing 1 million hectolitres of beer a year. The investment for the project would be about US$50 million, he said. The area in Bago will be developed into a larger industrial zone with a strategic position near the proposed Hantharwaddy International Airport. The most important thing for us was that the plan with the area is to turn it into an industrial area, and it means that everything for the factory, such as water supplies and electricity, is going to be there, said Mr Rasmussen of the location. Carlsbergs Myanmar partner, MGS Group of Companies, is privately owned by U Thein Tun. MGS Beverages produces the carbonated soft drink brands Quench, Crusher and Star Cola, as well as Popa brand bottled water. In 1991, a partnership with MGS brought PepsiCo

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Carlsberg enters Myanmar with MGS deal

Mr Jorgen Buhl Rasmussen, Carlsbergs chief executive officer, speaks during an event to unveil the companys partnership with Myanmar Golden Star at Chatrium Hotel in Yangon on February 1. Pic: Thiri Lu to Myanmar for the first time. As an industry leader, Carlsberg is bringing in its expertise, innovation and construction of the brewery is to begin in three months and he expects it will be finished by June or July 2014. Though Mr Rasmussen Mandalay Beer. U Thant Zin Tun said the partnership is the culmination of a yearlong process, but MGS and Carlsberg have a relationship that dates back two decades. The two companies began working together in 1993 but Carlsberg was forced to leave the country three years later under mounting pressure from human rights activists and threats of a boycott of the brand. Mr Rasmussen said MGS was the only company that Carlsberg considered for the new venture. We know MGS from before and there is a good relationship. It is one thing to figure out how to do business together. Another thing is that the relationships and the chemistry have to work, which it certainly does in this partnership, said Mr Rasmussen. In 2011 Carlsberg did 18pc of its business in Asia. Prior to its Myanmar announcement, Carlsbergs last large scale move in Asia came in 2010 when the company purchased a 12.5pc stake in Chinas Chongquing Brewery for $338.3 million.

We expect that the Myanmar beer market will grow strongly in coming years as the economy expands.
international standards. This, combined with MGS Groups already wellestablished capabilities and local position in the market, will enable us to capitalise on the significant growth potential of the beer category, said U Thant Zin Tun, vice chairman of MGS Group of Companies, who was named executive director of Myanmar Carlsberg. U Thant Zin Tun said said that he did not want to put a figure on the number of jobs the project would create, U Thant Zin Tun estimated that the brewery and its distribution network would result in about 2500 new jobs. He added that Carlsberg beer would be marketed as a premium product, while two to three other beers would be developed to compete with local brands such as Myanmar Beer and

Ministry releases new investment rules

By Stuart Deed CLARIFICATION of the rules governing the newly enacted Foreign Investment Law in Myanmar was issued by the Ministry of National Planning and Economic Development on January 31. Key features of the guidelines include a provision that allows shares in entities that have been formed under the FIL to be transferred from Myanmar citizens to foreigners and vice versa if approval is granted by the Myanmar Investment Commission. At the same time, the rules no longer set a minimum capital requirement for investments, except in mining ventures. Another important clarification is the dropping of foreign ownership restrictions in joint ventures, except in restricted sectors, where they will be capped at 80 percent. Other sectors, which have been deemed to not require foreign capital or knowledge, such as farming and fishing enterprises, as well as those that heavily pollute the environment, have been deemed off-limits to foreign investment. The January 31 release also affirms the role of the Directorate of Investment and Companies Administration (DICA) in foreign investments. The body has been given more power to carry out its stated functions. The role and discretionary powers of the Myanmar Investment Commission is also strengthened by the new rules. And while the rules might appear to make the country more attractive to foreign companies, it also sets tighter requirements in terms of finishing proposed projects within specified deadlines. Failure to do so will result in the withdrawal of MIC approval.

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Debate surrounds possible national minerals exchange

MYANMAR is seeking to open a domestic exchange for its minerals, chiefly gold, the chairman of the countrys only gold specific public company said recently. However, a debate has started in the industry about whether the exchange should include all tradable minerals or just gold, with a separate integrated exchange to follow later. U Khin Maung Han, chairman of Myanmar Gold Development, said the company is working to establish an exchange market to ensure domestically sourced minerals met international quality standards. We have proposed that a commodity exchange market He said security, official support and the ability to easily link with banking systems countrywide were important in establishing the market. A spokesperson for Myanmar Gold Development Co said: We want to open a single market or an integrated commodity exchange market before we open the capital market in 2015. U Kyaw Win, from U Htone Gold Smith Shop and the marketing managing director of the Myanmar Gold Development, said a single market would protect buyers and sellers. In a proper market there would not be any room for swindlers who trade without the necessary capital in their hands, he said. U Aung of Aung Thamadi gold shop said the creation of a commodity market would hopefully lead to gold exports in future. We would like to be able to export gold eventually, just like other countries do, he said. The gold price on February 1 was K762,000 a tical (0.576 ounces), while the international rate was US$1662 an ounce on the London Bullion Market, AFP news agency reported. Myanmar Mineral Entrepreneur Associations vice chairman U Khin Maung Han said the timing of the market is important. We need to wait for the right time to open a commodity exchange market. But it will take a lot of work to bring together the different players so that the market can be set up, he said. San Yamin Aung

Myanmar Gem Enterprise calls for U Tay Za to stay on

By Soe Sandar Oo DONT quit. Thats the message from senior members of Myanmar Gems Enterprise (MGE) to their chairman, U Tay Za, who has reportedly been trying to resign since he was involved in a helicopter crash two years ago. U San Myo, vice-chairman of the enterprise, said: U Tay Za has tried to resign his post twice, but we didnt accept his resignation. Hes a good chairman and we need him to continue to carry out his duties until 2014. MGE has three main goals: establishing a gems and jade value-added market in Myanmar, improving the production and trading sector, and setting up a specialised gems and jade laboratory, he told The Myanmar Times on January 31. Its not enough to have natural resources we need to add value, as they do in Thailand and China. This is MGEs duty. As chairman, U Tay Za has been working on this extremely hard, so this is not the time to quit. We would like him to finish the job, he said. U Tay Za has reportedly cited health concerns for his desire to step down but at a January 26 meeting, executive members of the enterprise asked him to stay on. U Tay Za could not be reached for comment for Myanmar Gems Enterprise vice chairman U San Myo speaks during a press conference in Yangon last week. Pic: Thiri Lu

There will not be swindlers who trade with money they dont have if the single market is established.

be set up to make sure that our minerals meet international standards, he said. He added that facilities to refine raw minerals should also be built, noting that the establishment of the market would create jobs. A single market for gold would operate through banking systems, giving access to internet trading and credit, he said. But there will not be swindlers who trade with money they dont have if the single market is established, he added.

this article. He hasnt yet responded, but we hope he will stay in place, said U San Myo. Some observers suggest that continued European Union and United States sanctions on Myanmars mineral sector are related to U Tay Zas prominence during the era of military government. But MGE secretary U Kyaw Htay denied this was a concern, saying the gems and jade market did not rely heavily rely on European and American sales. Since U Tay Za took office as chairman in 2007 the sector has developed

very fast, and brought in a lot of foreign income. Its the second largest earner after natural gas, he said. We can sell gems and jade whether sanctions are in place or not. Under current law, foreigners cant invest in Myanmar minerals, but they are welcome to cooperate in building up the value-added market, he said. Plans included the establishment of a duty-free gem and jade market called Shwe Kyar Bin in Nay Pyi Taw. The gems laboratory is scheduled to be completed this year. We need to send people for training in Hong Kong, and hope then to open

one-stop service centres for gem dealers in Nay Pyi Taw, Mandalay and Yangon, he said. Not everybody is averse to letting U Tay Za relinquish his responsibilities. Mandalay jade merchant U Myo Zaw said: Its not important who is chairman. The important thing is to establish a one-stop service, a tax-free market and an international-standard laboratory. Any chairman needs good contacts with the ministry, and should be a wealthy man, so U Tay Za is ideal. But the main concern is to improve the sector.

New car trading site launched

CAR enthusiasts have been gifted another forum to buy, trade and discuss vehicles with the launch last week of MMautotrader.com by Kaus Media Group. The website will enter into competition with established sites, such as myanmarcarsdb.com, and is billed by Kaus Media as the ultimate online service for business and locals. The online car market in Myanmar is still untouched, so we are trying to get in quickly. We really want to grow with Myanmar, said project manager U Nyi Lin Han. The website offers free services for car importers, brokers, showrooms and agents, who can host private web pages with round-the-clock access. The website will also provide content hosting, including photos, and technical support for dealers. U Nyi Lin Han said the website was more a platform that would connect people than a service forcing them to go through the company. Sellers can host photos and detailed information so that if someone wants to buy a car they can simply contact the seller. They could sell their own car by registering on the website for free, he added. The whole process will save people money and make it much easier to compare prices and technical information. Staff Writer

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is made independent these policies will be handled by two bodies that will hold each other in check. The Central Bank will assume responsibility for monetary policy, which will be the main change from the banks current functions. Do you think the banks employees are ready to perform the tasks the bank will assume in future? This is the key question. We have already formed several new departments and brought in more staff to prepare for this. No country can properly develop its economy without significant progress in the banking sector and the government and parliament knows this, which is why the law has been put into parliament. Central banks need to be energetic and quick to act. Parliament wants to establish an autonomous central bank as soon as possible but we can perform some tasks already using the 1990 law. Do you think the new central bank law will meet international standards? Ive found that different countries have different definitions of what is meant by an autonomous central bank. We can say the strategy is same, but the approach is not always the same. Myanmar is a member of the International Monetary Fund, and Article IV missions visit every year to determine the state of the economy and our monetary situation. They [IMF officials] meet government officials and private businesspeople and ask for data, which we have to provide. At the end of the mission they issue a set of suggestions for Myanmar. The IMF sees our data every year and knows the status of the economy. IMF officials have also said the draft law is perfect for establishing an autonomous central bank. We have also taken suggestions [in drafting the law] from the public through stateowned news paper, and the draft has already been submitted to the Attorney General, the government and parliament. You said the bank had formed new departments while making the draft. What are these? We formed departments to handle monetary policy affairs and financial markets, and we reformed other departments, such as currency management, financial institutions and supervision, payment and settlement, and internal audits. The internal audit department is critical for an autonomous central bank and must be independent, although external audits are also important.

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Central Bank prepares for independence

By Aye Thidar Kyaw CENTRAL Bank of Myanmar deputy director general U Thein Zaw (on behalf of Governor U Than Nyein) spoke with The Myanmar Times following the submission of a draft Central Bank Law to the Pyithu Hluttaw by the Minister for Finance and Revenue on January 30. W hen d o y o u e x p e c t the Central Bank will become independent? Members of parliament are working to enact the Central Bank Law during this sitting of parliament. After that law [is enacted] we will become autonomous.

What will change in t h e C e n t r a l B a n k s abilities? At the moment one organisation sets both fiscal and monetary policy. But when the Central Bank

Austrade to open Yangon office

AUSTRADE, the Australian governments trade promotion agency, will open an office in Yangon this year to help Australian companies break into Myanmar. The plans for the office were announced in a January 29 press release. An opening date has not yet been set but the office will be in Yangon. Australian Minister for Trade and Competition Craig Emerson said the Austrade office will support Australian businesses in education and training, financial services, telecommunications, infrastructure, mining and tourism. Recognising and responding quickly to new opportunities in Asias growth and emerging markets is central to putting the Asian Century White Paper into practice, Mr Emerson said. The office is also a part of a strategy for Australia to strengthen its relationship with Myanmar. Last year the Australian government lifted travel and financial sanctions against Myanmar officials as a result of the countrys political reforms. Austrades Bangkok office assists Australian companies with commercial inquiries regarding Myanmar, and since last October has received two to three enquiries a week from Australian businesses, said Austrade communications manager Paul Sanda. Maria Danmark

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Swisstel Management GmbH, a company incorporated in Switzerland, of Balz-Zimmermannstrasse 7, 8302 Kloten, Switzerland, is the Owner of the following Trade Mark:-

Reg. No. 13792/2012 in respect of Intl Class 35: Management of offices for third parties; advertising; business management; business administration; office functions; running of business centers; running of offices. Intl Class 36: Real estate affairs; real estate agency services; real estate management; renting of real estate; management of serviced apartments; running of serviced apartments. Intl Class 43: Renting of holiday homes; services for providing food and drink, services for temporary accommodation, running of hotels, room reservation in hotels, hotel reservation, accommodation agencies (hotels), running of restaurants, cafes, bars and cafeterias. Fraudulent imitation or unauthorised use of the said Trade Mark will be dealt with according to law. Win Mu Tin, M.A., H.G.P., D.B.L for Swisstel Management GmbH P. O. Box 60, Yangon E-mail: makhinkyi.law@mptmail.net.mm Dated: 4 February 2013

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Customs responds to media complaints

By Aye Thidar Kyaw CUSTOMS Department officials have promised to address traders complaints about delays, lack of transparency and disputes over the value of imported goods. At a press conference on January 26 at Customs headquarters on Strand Road officials responded to a host of critical reports published in local publications, including Hot News, Auto World and Weekly Eleven. The media had reported complaints by importers that they had lost money because disagreements over the value of the cars had delayed their release from ports in Yangon. Officials admitted the department should upgrade its technology and increase staff, and said the law should be amended. The trade volume has increased a great deal, and there is some confusion over the value of goods, particularly automobiles, said U Thein Swe, a director in the Customs Department. I dont accept that all the criticisms are valid, but I agree there are weaknesses, and we are going to fix them, he said. He said Customs used many sources to estimate value, including internet websites, international vehicle guide books, catalogue prices, enquiries in the local market and dealers in other countries. The department also found that some traders underestimated the value of their goods. For example, one trader declared the value of a 1998 Ferrari sports car worth about US$44,000 to be only $5000. After customs duties and commercial taxes had been levied, the vehicle was said to be worth of only K3.2 million, although its actual value was nearly K29 million. The country suffers from a lack of adequate revenue from trade, said U Thein Swe. U Kyaw Win, director of the Customs Department in Yangon, said Myanmar favoured using the value assessment system established by the World Trade Organisation, which is based on actual prices sourced from websites. However, the system required new and costly technology. If we use the WTO system, the problem of value assessment will decrease, he said. Customs will also work with the Ministry of Commerce on an accurate value assessment system, he said. The department had already adopted measures to speed up customs clearance, including the use of telegraphic transfers instead of letters of credit. Longer-term improvements required a change in the law, and a switch to e-Customs from the manual system. Farmer Auto Sales Centre chief executive officer Dr Soe Htun said he did not know how Customs assessed the value of imported goods, but said traders suffered from delays, and called on customs officers to negotiate. Companies have to pay revenue, we cannot avoid taxes, but customs officers should also consider our point of view, he said. On January 29, Deputy Minister for Communications and Information Technology U Thaung Tin introduced proposed legislation in the Pyitthu Hluttaw to facilitate e-commerce in order to adapt to changing circumstances and to bring Myanmar into line with other countries.

Newly imported cars are unloaded at a port in Yangon. Pic: Thet Htoo

CIF changes create headaches for car importers, say traders

By Myat May Zin CAR sales have slowed to a crawl since the Ministry of Commerce cut cost, insurance, freight charges used to determine the amount of tax owed on vehicles for imported automobiles in December. Showroom owners say customers are waiting until the new, lower prices kick in before making their purchase. About 80 percent of all imported cars are affected by the cut in CIF, which amounts to about 5pc of the total price of the car. However, the CIF reduction is about 10pc of the previous value in many cases. The 10pc cut in CIF values translates to lower prices. For instance, a Toyota Mark II sedan cost about K19 million before the end of December but is K18 million at the new rate, said Dr Khant Win, managing director of Assurance Services Enterprises car showroom. However, U Htay Aung, chairman of Sakura Auto Auction Centre, said the reductions had left many importers facing reduced profits or even losses. We order cars for import one or two months in advance. Then we arrange shipment and pay in advance. The ministry reduced CIF rates by 10pc for some models in December. As a result, car prices are falling, and we cant make an after-tax profit on the cars that have already arrived in port here, he said. Buyers of inexpensive models benefit most from the tax cut, and can save themselves hundreds of thousands of kyat by waiting for the new rates, say car showroom owners in Yangon. Buyers in the K18 million range dont want to pay the old CIF rate because that would cost them an extra K500,000K700,000. But buyers in the K40 million-plus range dont care about the extra K2 million they would have to pay at the old rate. They wont buy at a car market because they dont know the cars history. They want to go to a showroom, and theyre prepared to pay the extra to do so, said Dr Khant Win. A 2003 Toyota Alphard would fall in price from K40 million to K32-K33 million, a 1997 Prado TZ from K40 million to K32 million, and comparable vehicles would be reduced in price accordingly, according to prices at the Hantharwaddy car trading market. Car import permits were selling for about K8.5 million, including broker fees, on January 31. Permits are required to import vehicles eligible for the vehicle import substitution program, which includes cars made between 1996 and 2006. A separate import scheme allows consumers to buy cars with engines smaller than 1.35 litres in capacity without a permit. In a related development, some importers are reluctant to collect their imported cars from ports because they fear the change in import policies might leave them open to fines. U Htay Aung, chairman of Sakura car showroom, said the CIF rates imposed in December are applied only to vehicles with 380 horsepower or less. Cars that have more than 380 horsepower or more are stuck at port because we have to pay increased duties on them since December, he said. Current port policy states that automobiles can be held at port for 60 days, after which the government can auction them off. One trader at Hantharwaddy said the falling prices are encouraging some importers to leave their vehicles at port rather than attempt to sell them at a loss. U Zar Htet Myint, another car trader, said prices of popular models had declined by up to K7 million following the December changes. As far as Ive heard, the Ministry of Commerce spoke with large importers to discuss the changes [to CIF values] before they released the news to the public, he said. Since the new CIF prices came out in December, the prices of most cars have fallen. For example, a Toyota Hilux Surf is selling for about K28 million, down from about K35 million in late 2012. But it can cost up to K32 million to import a Hilux Surf after the purchase price, shipping and duties are all paid. Its very hard to make a profit after that, which is why some importers are just leaving their cars at port, he said.

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Global research firm announces Yangon office plans

MILLWARD Brown, a global leader in brand, media and communications research, announced plans to open a new office in Myanmar in the first quarter of 2013, a press release dated January 30 said. The press release said the company is already handling projects in Myanmar but is establishing a permanent presence to better support local and regional clients operating in the country. The new Millward Brown Myanmar business will be headed by Lyndal Pearce, an Australian researcher who has more than 10 years experience working in Myanmar from 1996 to 2006 as the co-founder of Compass Research. Since 2006 Ms Pearce has continued to work as a researcher in Southeast Asia. Gonzalo Fuentes, managing director of Millward Brown Southeast Asia, said Myanmar would be a growth engine for the companys clients and it needed an office in the country to meet demand. We have been looking into opening an office in here for the last year, he said. It is clear that Myanmar is going to be a great engine of growth for our clients and having a presence in the region will better serve their needs. As always, we are committed to bringing new approaches to the areas of branding and communication insights. To start this journey with Lyndal and her vast experience of the Myanmar market is a great privilege for Millward Brown. Millward Brown Myanmar plans to commence operations in the first quarter of 2013 subject to approval from the Myanmar authorities, Ms Pearce said. The company will be applying for a permit to trade, and registering a local affiliate shortly, she added. The projects that Millward Brown has already completed in country have been done by contracting local field suppliers and servicing clients from regional Millward Brown offices. We will continue to operate this way until licensed, Ms Pearce said. We expect to be operational in the first half of 2013. Staff Writer

The Chan Mya Shwe Pyi terminal in Mandalay. Trucking companies are digging in their heels over a Mandalay City Development Committee directive to relocate to a new terminal. Pic: Phyo Wai Kyaw

New Mandalay trucking terminal hits a roadblock

By Than Naing Soe MANDALAY citys truck terminals will be consolidated into the Pyi Gyi Mingalar Truck Terminal in Amarapura township before February 15, Mayor U Aung Maun said last week. However, trucking company owners say sites at the new terminal are too expensive and they will not move until the prices are lowered. [The completion of] Pyi Gyi Mingalar Truck Terminal Camp was delayed until the [Mandalay City Development] Committee completed the necessities for the new camp, such as utilities and high-quality streets, which was followed by negotiation between members of the committee, U Aung Maun said. All the completed terminal rooms and warehouses are now available. Therefore, the truck terminals in the city will begin moving to the new terminal from February 5 before the deadline February 15, he added. MCDC initially built a total of 150 reinforced concrete two-storey buildings that measure 25 feet wide and 60 feet long at the camp and sold them for K135 million each, or leased them for K700,000 a month, said U Aung Maun. However, only 12 units were bought by trucking companies and the rest were bought by other companies and individuals, he said. The first units that we built were expensive, so we added a further 139 because the committee had planned the project as a low-cost venture and because we realised that we needed to add more. We will sell the newly completed sites for K70 million each or rent them for K300,000, he added. U Aung Maun said the price could not be further reduced. U Aung Soe, head of MCDCs revenue department, said the newly finished sites were reserved for trucking companies. We will sell and rent the new sites only to those who will do trucking business here, U Aung Soe said on January 17 at a meeting concerning the new terminal. Trucking company owners should contact the revenue department if they would like to buy or rent a site. However, U Khin Maung Htay, chairman of the Mandalay Region Highway Transportation and Service Business Association, said they will not move their firms to Pyi Gyi Mingalar. MCDC said the new sites are low-cost. The city development initially priced sites measuring 20- by 40-feet for K25-30 million or rented for K150,000 a month. But then the revenue department said they would be sold for K70 million, with monthly rents at K300,000, he said. We will not move there until they offer the prices that we want, said U Khin Maung Htay. U Aung Zaw Nyo, an associate secretary of the association, added that the prices are too high. In Yangon, developers and the public declined a low-cost residential project that was selling units for K20 million each because they said they was not affordable. So how can we say that K70 million for a single site should be considered low-cost? he asked. Members of our association would not like to rent sites and would prefer to buy, which we would consider doing if it could be done via instalment, he added. U Khin Maung Htay said Pyi Gyi Mingalar project was completed without proper negotiations with truck companies. We cant accept the terminal because its a onesided project. The officials launched the project on their own ideas and did not negotiate with us. So how can we accept it? he said. Trucking companies in Mandalay have been moved several times since the mid-1990s as the city has expanded: They were first moved to the Yadanarbon Truck Terminal in Chan Mya Thar Si township, and later relocated to Chanmya Shwe Pyi Truck Terminal (Pyi Gyi Tagun township) in 1991. Association deputy chairman U Win Myint said rising land prices were forcing trucking companies ever further out. It seems that MCDC officials have forced the terminals owners to move. The Chanmya Shwe Pyi terminal was previously surrounded by undeveloped land but land prices have increased sharply since it was finished. And now companies are being asked to move again because the area is too crowded, he said. And Im sure that if we move again, the new site will soon be crowded. Translated by Zar Zar Soe

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No parking fees in Yangon from April, says YCDC

By Noe Noe Aung PARKING fees in all of Yangons public parking lots are being dropped from April 1, municipal authorities announced last week. We are going to allow motorists to park for free starting from April, said U Sithu Lwin, deputy head of the department of roads and bridges under Yangon City Development Committee (YCDC). We will take back the licences from contractors who won auctions for collecting parking fees, he added. YCDC has 20 official car parks across Yangon. Of these 20 sites, seven on Bogyoke Aung San Road in front of Yangon Hospital, in front of the Department of Human Settlement and Housing Development, between Thein Byu and Maha Bandoola roads, and between Anawrahta and Maha Bandoola roads; on Thein Byu Road between Bo Min Yaung and Daw Thein Tin roads; and on Upper Kyeemyindaing Road between Bargayar and Hantharwaddy roads were specified as free parking zones in 2008. We are working on these seven zones to fit more spaces and will work on other areas later, U Sithu Lwin said. He said YCDC is widening roads YCDC will cooperate with the Yangon City Public Transport Authority (YCPTA), an organisation that was formed in January 2013 to regulate traffic related matters, to take action against people who parked illegally. We will assign small groups in nearly every township to check if cars are parked correctly. Groups will be formed in April in cooperation with Yangon City Public Transport Authority. If cars are found illegally parked we will confiscate the vehicle and only return it to the owner when they have paid the required fine, he said. But U Hla Aung, YCPTA secretary, said he could not say what action would be taken against illegally parked vehicles. The authorities will cooperate to ensure that drivers obey the rules. But we are still discussing what we will do to offenders and will release more specific data later, he said. YCDC began collecting parking fees in designated areas on 2008 by auctioning the right to collect fees to private companies in yearly contracts. Fees started at K100 an hour but were increased to K200 later. The contracts for auction end in April, and at that point we will take back their licenses.

A parking attendant waits to collect parking fees from a driver on Bo Aung Kyaw Street last week. Pic: Ko Taik by demolishing half the width of pavements in many townships to provide extra space to park. We are extending the roadside in many places, for example on Bogyoke Aung San and Ye Gyaw roads because car owners who live in apartments have no choice but to park there, he said. This is one of the main causes of bad traffic congestion around Yangon, he added. U Sithu Lwin said motorists would need to obey parking rules once the fees are dropped and

Singapores property curbs affect takeovers

By Pooja Thakur and Joyce Koh SINGAPORE Singapores latest round of measures to curb record property prices has become a stumbling block in the city-states twobiggest corporate takeover deals. Overseas Union Enterprise last week gave up its twomonth, S$13.8 billion (US$11.2 billion) tussle against Thai billionaire Charoen Sirivadhanabhakdi for property and drinks company Fraser & Neave Ltd, citing the measures. Wheelock Properties, which tried to thwart a plan by SC Global Developments chief executive officer to buy out the company, dropped the fight less than a week after the new rules, citing market developments. Singapores latest curbs from higher taxes to tougher mortgage requirements have been described by broker Knight Frank LLP as the most severe since the government started cooling the market more than three years ago. Announced acquisitions of Singapore property companies and real estate investment trusts were worth $37.3 billion last year, the top destination for property deals behind the United States, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Its a game changer, said Bryan Go, an analyst at Phillip Securities Research. The new measures are some of the key considerations in both of these M&A deals. They will now evaluate differently on discounting deals. A group led by OUE, which in November tried to outbid Charoen for Fraser & Neave, said January 21 it will not match the billionaires higher offer, bowing out of the battle. Singapores latest measures to cool the property market has impacted on two huge corporate takeovers. Pic: AFP the amount they are allowed to borrow relative to the value of their properties. The cash down payment will rise to 25pc from 10pc starting from the second loan, it said. Overall, the latest round of measures should lead to a slowdown in sales volume and lower selling prices, said Goh Han Peng, an analyst at DMG & Partners Securities. We could well see the trend of privatisation continuing in the current year especially if developers share prices are depressed due to policy overhang. Singapore isnt alone in attempting to curb its property market. Since Hong Kong Chief Executive Leung Chunying took office in July, his government has introduced three major sets of property measures, including a new tax for home buyers who are not permanent residents in the city. The city continued to attract new investors, with China Vanke Cos first purchase of a residential site in Hong Kong last week through its unit. The Singapore property stock index tracking 39 developers fell the most in seven months the first trading day after the curbs were announced. The gauge has since recovered, rising 1pc in the past two weeks. Mizuho Corporate Bank and Barclays Plc predicted the first annual decline in home prices after the government measures, which they described as the most comprehensive since it started cooling speculation in 2009. That would be a consideration for deals going forward, said Vikrant Pandey, a Singapore-based analyst at UOB Kay Hian. Deals on the residential side would have to take account of the new measures. Bloomberg News

OUE wanted F&Ns property assets, which include serviced apartments, shopping malls and residential projects in Singapore, and are the biggest contributor to the companys sales. OUE would need to significantly increase the offer price to a level which is no longer as attractive to OUE, in particular, given the potential impact of the recent measures taken by the Singapore government in relation to the property market, the company said in a statement. TL Woo, a spokeswoman for OUE, could not be reached on her mobile phone. OUE is controlled by Chairman Stephen Riady, a son of Mochtar Riady, who controls Indonesias Lippo Group with businesses from real estate to financial services across Asia. Charoens acquisition is the biggest for

a Singapore-based company, Bloomberg data shows. CEO Simon Cheongs S$745 million takeover of SC Global is the biggest privatisation of a real estate company in Southeast Asia since 2000, Bloomberg data shows. The deal faced earlier headwinds from Wheelock Properties, part of the 156year-old Wheelock & Co group of real estate companies, which said SC Globals stock was undervalued and hired Goldman Sachs as its adviser. Wheelock Properties, which had 16 percent of SC Global, bought more shares in the market at a higher price than Cheongs offer. Five days after the real estate curbs were announced, it said in a statement it decided to accept Cheongs offer in light of recent market developments. Tammy Kwong, a spokeswoman for Wheelock

Properties in Singapore, declined to comment beyond the statement. Potential buyers will be most concerned about overpaying for assets and the recent measures will have an impact on the profitability of targets, said Alvin Lim, head of Singapore advisory for HSBC Holdings. Hence, buyers will offer less and sellers will have to reset value expectations. Both F&N and SC Global shares were trading above their respective offer prices before OUE and Wheelocks decisions on the deals. Still, the curbs targeted homes, and may not be enough to hamper deals in Singapore, said Choe Tse Wei, managing director of strategic advisory at DBS Group Holdings. Most of the citys developers are diversified with assets including malls and offices, many expanded overseas

and are not dependent on one segment of the property market or country, he said. The measures will affect short-term sentiment and valuations in the residential property sector, but the medium- to-long term economic fundamentals remain strong, as the government continues to invest in infrastructure, he said. Singapore announced the property curbs on January 11, adding a 5 percentagepoint to 7 percentage-point increase in stamp duties for homebuyers to ease record residential prices. It also imposed an added tax for permanent residents on their first home, and on Singaporeans starting with their second purchase. In addition, the government tightened the loan-to-value limits for buyers seeking a second mortgage, referring to

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French housing starts fall by 20pc in 2012: govt

Myanmars democratic reforms have increase demand for plots at Yangons industrial zones, say real estate agents. Pic: Myanmar Times Archive PARIS The number of new homes under construction in France fell by 19.6 percent last year from the level in 2011, data released by the housing ministry showed. The number of housing permits for new homes slipped by 7.7pc to 429,851 units meanwhile for the eurozones second biggest economy. The trend deteriorated sharply in the fourth quarter, when the number of homes under construction fell by 30.1pc and permits dropped by 24.8pc, whereas they had not fallen by more than 1.9pc in any of the preceding three quarters. On a sliding 12-month scale, the fall in housing starts to the end of December was the biggest since September 2009. The French economy in general ended 2012 on a weak note, and in the construction sector, loans for French housing plunged by an annualised rate of 26.4pc despite ultra-low interest rates. AFP

Renewed focus on industrial zones

By Noe Noe Aung SOME of Yangon Regions prime industrial zones are developing quickly thanks to local and foreign investment in factories, real estate agents said in January. U Thant Sin, of New Moon real estate agency, said that infrastructure in the more popular industrial zones of Shwe Than Lwin, Hlaing Tharyar, East Dagon and Dagon Seikkan is developing fast. Hlaing Tharyar Industrial Zone 5 was almost empty in the past. But now there are buildings, roads and lamp posts on the main roads. Businesses are building strong fences around their plots. The zone is expanding its capacity by 30 percent, he said on January 16. He also added that demand from Asian investors for land in industrial zones was driving up prices, making it a sellers market. U Thant Sin said land at the Hlaing Tharyar industrial zones 1, 2, 3 and 4 is selling for about K500-600 million an acre, while more remote industrial zones can range from K350-400 million an acre. Hlaing Tharyar Industrial Zone 7 has the highest prices at K650-750 million an acre. Land prices in underdeveloped zones such as East Dagon and Dagon Seikkan are about K200-K250 million an acre, he said. U Win Maung from Koe Knat Huakwe real estate agency in Hlaing Tharyar township said new investors are following the lead of Chinese and Vietnamese companies that have rented land in recent years, and expected more would soon follow. China and Vietnam invested in [Myanmars] industrial zones many years ago. But now there are more investors from Japan and South Korea, and Cambodian companies are starting to invest here, he said. Investors are interested in the Shwe Lin Pan and East Dagon industrial zones because they are developing. If we had more developed industrial zones, we could attract more investors, he added. But some areas have missed the boom. Some industrial zones, like East Dagon and Kyan Sitha [in Hlaing Tharyar township], need twice as much infrastructure as they have. Were operating at under 50 percent of what we could be, U Khin Maung Aye, spokesperson for Myanmar Property said on January 10. With the exception of popular industrial zones like Hlaing Tharyar, Shwe Pyi Thar and Shwe Lin Pan, many industrial zones have been left undeveloped for years, he added. But U Khin Maung Aye also highlighted the effects of uncertainties surrounding the unfinished Foreign Investment Law and Myanmars ongoing ethnic conflicts on slowing the pace of development. The actual rules and regulations of the Foreign Investment Law have not been enacted yet, he said. The conflicts in the country might also be a barrier for investors. Many people wouldnt care about this as their business would be in Yangon [a safe area] but a lot of people care about the political situation in a country they are going to invest.

US home prices slip in November

WASHINGTON US home prices fell slightly in November from the previous month but were still 5.5 percent higher from a year earlier, according to the S&P/CaseShiller index released on January 29. The 20-city price index declined 0.1pc, after a 0.2pc month-on-month fall in October, according to data not seasonally adjusted, with the greatest weakness in Chicago, Washington and Cleveland, Ohio. Minneapolis, Minnesota; Phoenix, Arizona; and San Francisco showed the most strength, with all three also showing some of the best year-on-year price growth. Despite the monthly dip, David Blitzer, head of the index committee, said there were positive signs. The November monthly figures were stronger than October, with 10 cities seeing rising prices versus seven the month before. Winter is usually a weak period for housing which explains why we now see about half the cities with falling monthto-month prices compared to 20 out of 20 seeing rising prices last summer. The better annual price changes also point to seasonal weakness rather than a reversal in the housing market. Further evidence that the weakness is seasonal is seen in the seasonally adjusted figures: only New York saw prices fall on a seasonally adjusted basis while Cleveland was flat. AFP

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An interview with AMIDs patron architect U Sun Oo

As Beautiful Home and Interior Design Contest is planned to be jointly organized by The Myanmar Times, Nat Ray Co., Ltd and the Association of Myanmar Interior Design (AMID), property editor of The Myanmar Times Htar Htar Khin interviewed U Sun Oo, well experienced architect, Chairman of AMID and an architect of Design 2000 on the role of an interior designer and the changes in interior design profession and in the circle of interior designers: Q.How do you designate the role of an interior designer in Myanmar? How do you see their profession? A.In this case, I would like to compare it with a fashion designer. Now everybody embraces the role of fashion designers in Myanmar where there are many smart designers. Everybody accepts fashion design profession because it can be pursued as a successful career. In their area of work, there are fashion designers who become fashion designers by acquiring skills by themselves while there are professional designers who completed the course at an elite fashion school, may be from a foreign country. This is also the case in the area of interior design where everybody can embellish their own house. They tend to ornament their bedroom or flat. They can do so saying how this one is done that way when it is under construction. There are many beautiful shop rooms ornamented in that way. But they are not formally trained nor taught as an academic subject. Now there are two types of interior designers-self-taught and school-taught designers - like fashion design. Their numbers cannot be stated accurately. It is all mixed up. People do not realize that there are two kinds of interior professionals. For example, people who make curtains, people who make gypsum boards, people who sell furniturte and mattresses. Sometimes, they make drawings free of charge and decorator with their own equipment. These people are included in the Interior Decorator category. Their interest is to sell their equipment and they give advice and assistance on how to decorate with their equipment beautifully. With the Interior Designers, their number is still few compared to the number of Interior Decorators. An Interior Decorator, when performing his work, tries to sell his equipment e.g. (gypsum board) accompanied with his own drawing. It is like giving the design free of charge. Designs are shown with drawing or with catalogues. Sometimes drawings made in foreign countries are shown, so you do not need to make an order for a design. They make the decoration with their product, the main thing for them is to get their product sold out. But for the interior designers they represent no product. Like architect, he draws the model of the house. He gives the design. In developed countries, for important quality projects, they never use interior decorator. They usually make a contract with interior designer, because from the very beginning, interior designers together with architects and engineers, starts drawing interior designs simultaneously. For instance, in five star hotels, high-end restaurants and large stately mansions, they only use interior designers, In developing commercial buildings such as museums and shopping malls, they make contract with interior designer at the initial stage.

Q. If there are two kinds, how do you

categorize them? Internationally, a person who has attended the inferior class systematically is called an Interior Designer. A person who has not attented an interior course but who decorates his own shop or home and take money for services rendered is called an interior decorator.

Q. What should we do to produce many

Q. Oh I see. If that is so, of the number of Interior Designers and Interior Decorators in Myanmar, who has the greater number?

interior designers in Myanmar? We need training schools with qualified teachers to train competant interior designers. At the moment, there exist very few such schools. Some went abroad to study interior design. Many people in this country cannot differentiate interior designers from interior decorators. As the country becomes developed, we will have many interior designers available. (to be continued)

A HOME CONTEST THATS ALL ABOUT STYLE is jointly organized by The Myanmar Times, NatRay Co.,Ltd and the Association of Myanmar Interior Design (AMID).

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Mobile phones, for better and worse

by Pankaj Mishra
IN 2012, India had 925 million mobile phone subscribers. The phones have helped organise protests by middle-class Indians, most recently against the savage rape and slaying of a young woman in Delhi. They have also starred in one of Indias biggest scandals. The countrys most prominent politicians, journalists and businessmen were incriminated in a rigged auction of 2G spectrum; they were exposed by the secretly taped phone conversations of a corporate lobbyist. A superb new book, The Great Indian Phone Book: How the Cheap Cell Phone Changes Business, Politics, and Daily Life, by Assa Doron and Robin Jeffrey, reminds us how little we have explored the new landscape of opportunity, aspiration and, inevitably, disappointment that mobile phones have opened up in India. In the early 1990s, when I first started living in a village in the state of Himachal Pradesh, the local post office, which tellingly had a broken clock and a nonfunctional phone, was still the main centre of communications. Like most residents of Mashobra, I had no phone at home the governments waiting list for one extended indefinitely into the future. I went often to the bazaar to make calls from a public phone and to pick up my mail at the small post office, where a migrant labourer or two would invariably request I write brief messages on postcards and money-order forms to

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their loved ones. How is your health now? Did my last moneyorder reach you? Ill try to come home for Diwali. I wrote in Hindi, in a steadily deteriorating hand, and was relieved on days when I could ask my neighbour Daulatram, who printed a Sanskrit magazine below my house, to pick up my mail. My application for a phone was finally approved in 1999; and Daulatram, who had then started to officiate as a priest at weddings and funerals, become one of my Bakelites regular users. But the prohibitive cost of national and international calls meant that I had to monitor the conversations and put the phone in a padlocked wooden case, lest a reckless talker plunge me into penury. Mobile phones had arrived by then in India. But they hadnt reached our village. Doron and Jeffrey date their rapid proliferation to 2000, when the cost of mobile calls collapsed from 16 rupees a minute to 4 rupees (about 36 US cents to 9 cents). But I kept scribbling messages in awkward Hindi at the post office until the middle of the decade, when cheap, prepaid connections became widely available and known. Cold statistics tell the s t o r y o f t h i s dram at i c transformation much more vividly. Subscribers grew from 45 million in 2002 to almost a billion in 2012. Those who couldnt even dream of possessing a landline now have more than one mobile phone. My village has more migrants than before, many from the most impoverished states. But they are not to be found at the post office anymore. A missed call, a widely

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Activists demonstrate in New Delhi on January 26, Indias Republic Day, against violent crimes against women. Mobile phones have been used in India to mobilise protests and to provide market information and weather forecasts to farmers. Pic: AFP used form of communication lease or sell private land for among the poorest Indians phone towers. But what does the ubiquity that conveys information without incurring charges, of mobile phones mean for a can encode all the messages country where, as Doron and I used to laboriously write. Jeffrey point out, hierarchy Mobile phone retail and is more refined and more repair shops dominate deeply embedded in daily life bazaars throughout India, than anywhere else? As Indias most garish set apart from pre-modern clutter and grime by their totem of an ostensibly perky billboards and shiny egalitarian consumerism, display cases. Millions the phone can deceive, of Indians manufacture and its potential can be mobile phones (India hosts exaggerated. After all, Nokias largest factory), Indians have greater access erect and maintain the to mobile connections than c o u n t r y s n e a r l y h a l f to working toilets. Happily, the authors of a million towers, or sell new connections. More The Great Indian Phone lucratively, others write Book quickly step away catchy advertising copy and from such extravagant

claims as the poor, lowstatus boatman on the Ganga can conceivably ring Indias equivalent of Carlos Slim. Technology, they warn, does not eliminate political and social structures, though it may modify them. As an example one of the many in this lively book they offer smallscale fishermen in Kerala, who could cooperate more closely on prices while out at sea. But so, it turns out, could the traders back on the shore. Certainly, mobile phones did not help the young men who used my landline to transcend their mediocre education and find jobs in rising India. Their real beneficiary, ironically, has been Daulatram, who, after the Sanskrit magazine ceased publication, used a phone bought with a little help from his friends to build a wide network of clients and carry on the tasks of his Brahmin ancestors. A live connection in his pocket not only helps him return to his ancestral village more often to look after his cultivable land, it also provides him news about weather and crop blight. Thus, mobile phones can help rebuild traditional vocations of agriculture and priestcraft while doing nothing at all for those aspiring to join the modern world. Instant communication in the realm of politics reveals an even more ambiguous picture. The potential of mobile phones in exposing corrupt officials, and mobilising an irate citizenry, has been clearly demonstrated. Mobile phones can also help new parties to reach out to apolitical youth and boost their membership figures Imran Khan, one of Pakistans prime-ministersin-waiting, claims to have recruited millions to his

anti-corruption cause through text messages. But mobile phones alone cannot generate a coherent and viable political program. More than flashiness of any kind, mass politics still requires persistence and commitment. The purpose and politics of the phone, Doron and Jeffrey write, come from the people who use it. Indeed, faster than any other medium, the phone can spread malign rumours and conspiracies, such as the threatening text messages allegedly from Muslim extremists that led to an exodus of migrant workers from southern India last year. No wonder the government wants to control and monitor mobile-phone and social-media networks in India now, after years of restricting access to them in insurgency-hit Kashmir. In a deeply unequal and volatile country, the disruptive potential of the cell phone is more profound than elsewhere and the possibilities for change more fundamental. But what kind of disruption and change can we expect? An older form of connectedness aided by road, rail and telegraph networks created the political and administrative entity that we know as India. It became very useful for both British colonialists and their successors, the postcolonial Indian elite, in controlling a vast territory. However, mobile phones, enlisted into Indias million mutinies, may stoke sectarianism rather than cohesion and facilitate anarchy rather than orderly democracy. Bloomberg News (Pankaj Mishra is the author of From the Ruins of Empire: The Revolt Against the West and the Remaking of Asia and a Bloomberg View columnist, based in London and Mashobra, India).

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Android out in front

WASHINGTON Android and Apple smartphones captured a whopping 92 percent of global sales in the fourth quarter, giving the two systems an effective duopoly, a research firm said on January 28. Strategy Analytics said global smartphone shipments grew 38pc annually to reach 217 million units in the fourth quarter, to bring annual sales to 700 million. Android, the free operating system developed by Google, grabbed 70pc of the market in the final three months of the year, while Apples iOS used on its iPhone held 22pc. The news bodes ill for rivals such as BlackBerry maker Research in Motion, which is launching its new platform this year, and Microsoft, which is pushing its Windows Phone system. Android is clearly the undisputed volume leader of the smartphone industry at the present time, said Strategy Analytics executive director Neil Mawston. Androids challenge for 2013 will be to defend its leadership, not only against Apple, but also against an emerging wave of hungry challengers that includes Microsoft, Blackberry, Firefox and Tizen. The survey noted that global shipment growth slowed from 64pc in 2011 to 43pc in 2012, as regions such as North America and Western Europe matured. Scott Bicheno, analyst at Strategy Analytics, said the latest trends showed the worldwide smartphone industry has effectively become a duopoly as consumer demand has polarised around massmarket Android models and premium Apple designs. AFP

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TIMBUKTU, Mali France said on January 31 its warplanes had hit Islamist command posts, training camps and depots at Kidal, a desert outpost in northern Mali that is the last rebel stronghold yet to be fully recaptured. Earlier report, P. 35. IN AMENAS, Algeria An Algerian gas facility attacked by Islamists on January 16 is set to reopen within a month, but foreign workers will not return for another three, a plant official said on January 31. US NAVAL BASE AT GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba A military judge overseeing September 11 pre-trial hearings revealed on January 31 the government had censored them from outside the courtroom and angrily ordered that this stop immediately. Earlier report, P. 34. TOKYO The United States pivot to Asia will not mean any new bases in the region, but existing alliances will be strengthened and modernised, the chief of US Pacific Command (PACOM), Admiral Samuel Locklear, told reporters on February 1 in a telephone news conference from his headquarters in Hawaii. WASHINGTON The Wall Street Journal said on January 31 its computers had been hit by Chinese hackers. The Journal said the attacks were for the apparent purpose of monitoring the newspapers China coverage. AFP Related report, P. 39.

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DAMASCUS Syria warned forces, Clinton said in Damascus will have grave consequences for Tel Aviv, on January 31 of possible Washington In her last media interview the state-run ISNA news retaliation over what it said was an Israeli air raid, which as secretary of state, Clinton agency reported. In the past, Tehran has threatened to take the conflict also noted that despite US beyond Syrias borders, as efforts to encourage Moscow said any Israeli attack on Washington warned that to work for an international Syria would be considered an Iran was stepping up support solution to the 22-month war attack on Iran. Russias foreign ministry in Syria that has claimed for Damascus. Israel maintained a stony some 60,000 lives, Russia said it was deeply concerned silence over Syrias claims, was continuing to prop up but was still trying to verify Syrias allegations. as well as over separate the regime. Late on January 30, Syria We have reason to believe reports that its jets had hit a weapons convoy near the that the Russians continue to accused Israel of launching supply financial and military a dawn strike on a military Lebanon border. Syrias foreign ministry assistance in the form of research centre in Jamraya, said Israel and the states equipment to Assad, she near Damascus. Israeli fighter jets violated that protect it are responsible said And the top US diplomat our airspace... and carried for the air strike, and affirms Syrias right to defend gave a grim assessment of out a direct strike on a itself and its territory and the progression of the war, scientific research centre in charge of raising our sovereignty, state news level of resistance and agency SANA reported. Israeli fighter jets self-defence, the army It called on all the general command said, competent UN bodies to take the necessary steps violated our airspace saying two workers were killed. given this grave Israeli The army denied separate violation, and to guarantee warning of the dangers of that it will not happen an increasing civil war and reports citing security sources that an Israeli strike had a potential proxy war. again. T h e w o r s t k i n d o f targeted a weapons convoy Meanwhile US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton warned predictions of what could from Syria near the border on January 31 that Iran was happen, both internally and with Lebanon. Israel has often warned stepping up its support for spilling over the borders of Syrian President Bashar Syria are certainly within the that if Syrias stockpile of realm of the possible now, chemical weapons fell into al-Assad. hands of the pro-Syrian The Iranians have made she said. R e a c t i o n f r o m c l o s e Lebanese militia group, it clear for some time that keeping Assad in power was Damascus ally Iran to the Hezbollah, it would be a casus belli. one of their highest priorities. air raid was strident. Israeli officials and the Deputy Foreign Minister We believe they have acted on that by sending in more Hossein Amir Abdollahian military on January 31 personnel, not only to help warned, without elaborating, refused to confirm or deny Assad, but to support and that the Zionist regimes any involvement in the advise military security attack on the outskirts of alleged attack. AFP

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An Indian student, his painted face decorated with Hindu, Christian and Muslim symbols, at a rally for peace and communal harmony in Mumbai on January 30. The rally was held to mark the 65th anniversary of the death of the father of the nation, Mahatma Gandhi. Pic: AFP

New Delhi urges China to respect river rights

NEW DELHI India urged China on January 31 to respect its river rights after a media report that Beijing plans to build new hydroelectric plants on a waterway that the neighbours share. The Hindu newspaper reported the previous day that China was considering building three new run-ofthe-river hydro projects on the Yarlung Tsangpo river in Tibet, which becomes the Brahmaputra when it flows into India. The government of India carefully monitors all developments on the Brahmaputra river, foreign ministry spokesman Syed Akbaruddin told a news conference. India urges China to ensure that the interests of downstream states are not harmed by any activities in upstream areas. A Chinese government document posted on the State Councils website the previous week said China will comprehensively promote hydropower base construction on a number of rivers including the middle reaches of the Yarlung Zangbo river. While the projects are said to be run-of-the river meaning they do not require large storage reservoirs or cause major disruption to the flow any new construction would alarm New Delhi. The 2900-kilometre (1800mile) Yarlung Tsangpo/ Brahmaputra river originates in the Himalayas, then descends onto the plains of Indias northeast and ends in the Bay of Bengal after its confluence with the river Ganges. Along the way, it supplies water to hundreds of millions of farmers and residents. AFP

Egyptian groups back talks move

CAIRO Rival Egyptian factions on January 31 condemned violence which has killed dozens of people in a week of unrest and pledged support for a national dialogue. Top Islamic scholar Grand Imam Ahmed al-Tayyeb chaired talks between liberal opposition heads, Islamists, youth groups, independents and church members at the headquarters of Al-Azhar, Sunni Islams highest seat of learning. They signed an Al-Azhar document vowing to support a serious dialogue and condemn all forms of violence and incitement to violence, and stressing the responsibility of the state and its security apparatus to protect citizens. Saad al-Katatni, head of the Freedom and Justice Party of the Muslim Brotherhood, stressed the need for compromise. All topics are up for discussion, he told reporters. Even with few concrete points agreed, the talks were a blow for Egypts Islamist President, Mohamed Morsi, whose calls for dialogue the previous week were snubbed by the opposition. AFP

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Officials censor Guantanamo hearing

GUANTANAMO BAY, CUBA US authorities censored part of a preliminary hearing on January 28 at a Guantanamo military tribunal that touched on CIA secret prisons where suspected 9/11 plotters say they were tortured. Reporters watched the proceedings against the five 9/11 suspects at the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba behind a thick, sound-proof glass wall and listened to piped-in audio with a 40-second delay. But when a defence lawyer mentioned the CIA secret sites at the hearing, the sound from the courtroom was cut off. The audio from the proceedings was replaced by white noise, preventing journalists from listening to the courtroom debate over evidence related to the CIA black sites, where the suspected September 11 attackers were detained and interrogated before being transferred to the Guantanamo facility. The feed went off after David Nevin, lawyer for the self-proclaimed mastermind of the September 11, 2001 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, uttered the word secret. The defence argues that these black sites, whose locations remain secret, should be preserved because they constitute potential evidence that the five were tortured at the prisons. Defence lawyers say the five accused were subjected to harsh interrogations at the CIA sites, with Mohammed subjected to waterboarding or simulated drowning dozens of times, as the CIA has acknowledged. Military prosecutors argue that any discussion of the CIAs detention program has to remain classified to protect intelligence sources and methods that could prevent a future attack. The pre-trial hearings resumed after a three-month break for the five suspects, who face the death penalty if convicted of the murder of nearly 3000 people on September 11, 2001 in the worst attack on US soil. AFP

Former dictator ordered to be tried for genocide

carnations and clutching photographs of their loved ones lit firecrackers in celebration after the ruling was read out. Rios Montt is accused of orchestrating the massacre of more than 1750 indigenous Ixil Maya people in Quiche department during his time in power. There are serious bases on which to put him on oral and public trial for his alleged participation in the crimes attributed to him, Galvez said in a small courtroom packed with relatives of victims and rights activists. Rios Montt is known for his scorched earth campaign against people the government claimed were leftist rebels, but who were often indigenous Maya community members not involved in the conflict. When the former strongman arrived at the court, a small group of retired soldiers stood at attention and saluted him. Once the judge issued his ruling and ended the hearing, activists in the courtroom clapped and cheered, to the visible anger of the retired soldiers. Rights advocates have worked for years to see Rios Montt tried, but he avoided court action, at one point by being elected to Guatemalas congress and thereby winning parliamentary immunity. We are beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel of impunity that Guatemala has endured over the past decades, said activist Iduvina Hernandez. Human Rights Watch called the decision to prosecute Rios Montt a major step forward for accountability in Guatemala. The fact that a judge has ordered the trial of a former head of state is a remarkable development in a country where impunity for past atrocities has long been the norm, said the groups Americas director, Jose Miguel Vivanco. Lawyers for Rios Montt, who came to power in a coup in March 1982 and ruled until August 1983, argued that he was never aware of the massacres committed by the army. They want to stick something to Rios Montt that he never did, said his lawyer, Danilo Rodriguez, who is a former guerrilla. Indigenous Maya communities comprise most of the population in rural Guatemala. AFP

GUATEMALA CITY A Guatemalan judge on January 28 ordered former dictator Efrain Rios Montt to stand trial on charges of genocide for the slaughter of more than 1750 native Maya people during his 1982-83 regime. The retired general, now 86, sat stoically as Judge Miguel Galvez ordered the opening of a trial for the crimes of genocide and crimes against humanity. The landmark decision marks the first time that genocide proceedings have been brought in the Central American country over the 36-year civil war that ended in 1996, leaving an estimated 200,000 people dead, UN figures show. Outside the courthouse in Guatemala City, relatives of victims some wearing red

A grief-stricken mourner with the coffin of one of the 234 victims of a blaze that engulfed a night club in the Brazilian university town of Santa Maria, on January 27. Police said on January 29 that they believed the blaze was caused by a member of a band using a flare designed for outside use during a pyrotechnics display in the Kiss night club, which was packed with students. It was the worlds deadliest night club fire since December 25, 200, when a fire in a shopping centre and disco in Luoyang, China, left 309 people dead. Pic: AFP

EU warns of extremism
BRUSSELS Violent extremism is at its highest level in Europe since World War II and is becoming the continents top security threat, the European Unions executive body said on January 28. In a speech on the eve of talks on how to detect and prevent extremism, the EUs commissioner for home affairs Cecilia Malmstroem urged the EU to stand up ... and protect our values that are now being challenged in many countries in Europe. We see a growth of extremism, xenophobia, anti-Semitism, hatred and nationalism, she said. Not since World War II have extreme and populist forces had so much influence on the national parliaments as they have today. In some countries even neo-Nazis have been elected, she added. Should the trend continue, next years European elections might further strengthen these forces, threatening the entire European project, Malmstroem said. The talks in Brussels on January 29, gathering home affairs ministers and counter-terror experts, were to consider suggestions to combat extremism based on a Europe-wide Radicalisation Awareness Network launched in September 2011. The grassroots network aims to spot potential terror recruits, from hardline Islamists to far-right lone wolves. It was set up after radical Islamist attacks in Madrid and London but also in the aftermath of Norways Lone Wolf bombing and shooting rampage in 2011 by a farright extremist. The EU Radicalisation Awareness Network brings together community leaders, teachers, police, victims and youth associations to prevent radicalisation from taking root at the local level. AFP

Trade Mark Caution

KAPMAN AB (a Swedish Company), of S-811 81 Sandviken, Sweden, is the Owner of the following Trade Mark:-

Reg. No. 792/1981 in respect of Hand tools. Fraudulent imitation or unauthorised use of the said Trade Mark will be dealt with according to law. Win Mu Tin, M.A., H.G.P., D.B.L for KAPMAN AB P. O. Box 60, Yangon E-mail: makhinkyi.law@mptmail.net.mm Dated: 4 February 2013

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Israel condemns UN rights report
JERUSALEM Israel on January 31 slammed as biased a report by the UN Human Rights Council calling on the Jewish state to halt all settlement activity. The report, written by three independent experts, calls on Israel to immediately stop building on occupied Palestinian land and to start pulling out its Jewish settlers, who number more than 500,000. The report was published two days after Israel became the first country to boycott a UN Human Rights Council review, in a move linked to the settlement report.

No talks with Islamists: Traore

BAMAKO Malis interim president ruled out talks with Islamist groups who ruled the north for nine months, but said he was ready to meet Tuareg activists from the region, in comments broadcast on January 31. President Dioncounda Traore set out his position in an interview with French radio station RFI after France called for peace talks between Malis government and legitimate representatives from the north. Traore said he was ready for talks with the secular Tuaregs of the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (MNLA). But he would not meet any of the three al-Qaeda-linked groups that seized northern Mali last year, including the homegrown group Ansar Dine, (Defenders of the Faith). On January 30, with French troops at Kidal, the last of the major northern towns still held by the Islamists, Paris called for the dialogue to start. Only a north-south dialogue will prepare the ground for the Malian state to return to the north of the country, foreign ministry spokesman Philippe Lalliot said. Bamako should talk to

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MADRID Spains ruling Popular Party flatly denied wrongdoing on January 31 after leading newspaper El Pais published purported secret, handwritten ledgers showing Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy and top party officials received regular payments from a party fund until 2008. The newspaper ran photographs of the ledgers on its front page, a potentially explosive story at time that Rajoys government is imposing steep spending cuts and higher taxes on a population suffering a jobless rate of 26 percent.

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Niger would be ready to accept a US drone base, Defence Minister Karidjo Mahamadou told AFP

non-terrorist armed groups that recognised the integrity of Mali, he said. Kidal, 1500 kilometres (930 miles) northeast of the capital Bamako, was until recently controlled by the Islamists of Ansar Dine. Now the newly formed Islamic Movement of Azawad (MIA) claims control of the city and on January 30 a spokesman said its leader was speaking to the French forces there. The MIA on January 28 said

it had split from Ansar Dine, saying it rejected extremism and terrorism and wanted a peaceful solution to Malis crisis. On January 30, it appealed to the international community to prevent the deployment of Malian and West African troops in the Kidal region before a political solution had been found. But Traore told RFI: This MIA story doesnt hold water.

Because fear has now changed sides, they are looking for a way out, he said. The only group we would consider holding negotiations with definitely is the MNLA, provided the MNLA waives all territorial claims, he said. It was the MNLA which launched offensive in the north of the country in January 2012 in pursuit of an independent homeland for

the Tuareg people. It quickly worked its way south, virtually unopposed after a March coup in Bamako. But it was quickly overpowered by former allies Ansar Dine and two other Islamist groups, which pushed its out of the northern cities and imposed a brutal form of Islamic law. France swept to Malis aid on January 11 after an Islamist advance south towards Bamako sparked fears the whole country could become a haven for terrorists. France has 3500 troops on the ground, but a lack of cash and equipment has hampered deployment of nearly 6000 west African troops under the African-led force for Mali (AFISMA). Meanwhile, Nigers Defence Minister Karidjo Mahamadou told AFP on January 30 it was ready to host a base the US wants in order to operate drones to monitor movements by the Al-Qaeda-linked groups in the region. A US official said on January 28 that the Pentagon was planning to station drones in the region most likely in Niger to bolster surveillance of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb and its allies. AFP

Donors pledge $1.5b in aid for Syrians

KUWAIT CITY International donors on January 30 pledged more than the targeted US$1.5 billion in aid for stricken Syrians, UN chief Ban Kimoon said, warning of a catastrophic situation in the war-torn country. I am pleased to announce that pledges have exceeded the target... more than $1.5 billion have been pledged including the $184 million pledged by non-governmental organisations, Ban told a news conference in Kuwait. The exact amount of the pledges are being calculated, said the secretary general. This is the largest response ever to a humanitarian pledging conference. Addressing the I n t e r n a t i o n a l Humanitarian Pledging Conference for Syria in Kuwait City, Ban had called for urgent financial aid, warning that if funds were not forthcoming more Syrians will die. The situation in Syria is catastrophic, he said as he urged all parties to the conflict to stop the killings. Ban said that based on UN reports half of Syrias hospitals and a quarter of its schools had been destroyed, and other vital infrastructure had been badly affected. He stressed that humanitarian assistance alone would not resolve the crisis, which he said required a political solution. Host Kuwait was first to make a pledge, offering $300 million, followed by similar promises from other oil-rich Gulf states -- Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. UN humanitarian aid chief Valerie Amos said that three million Syrians have fled their homes and at least 2.3 million need basic help. She said that $519 million of the funds to be raised are needed to assist those most affected by the conflict. As news emerged last week of another massacre, UN envoy Lakhdar Brahimi said the conflict in Syria had reached unprecedented levels of horror. Brahimi told the UN Security Council on January 29 that it must now act to halt the carnage epitomised by the nearly 80 young men killed with a single bullet and dumped in a river in the battlefront city of Aleppo. Syrian rebels blamed President Bashar alAssads government for the killings, but state media said an Islamist opposition faction was to blame. In Aleppo, rebel fighter Abu Seif said 78 bodies had been retrieved from the Quweiq River and that 30 more were still in the water but could not be reached because of the threat of Assad snipers. AFP

Polish is UKs second language

LONDON Polish is the second-most spoken language in England and Wales, new figures from the 2011 census revealed on January 30, followed by Punjabi and Urdu. More than 92 percent of residents spoke English as their main language, although 138,000 residents less than half of one percent did not speak English at all, the Office for National Statistics said. One percent of the population, or 546,000 people, listed Polish as their main language, 273,000 spoke Punjabi and 269,000 spoke Urdu, it said.

Breivik complains of torture

OSLO Rightwing extremist Anders Behring Breivik, who is serving a 21-year jail sentence for killing 77 people, has complained to the Norwegian government that his prison conditions amount to aggravated torture, his lawyer, Tord Jordet, said on January 31. Breivik complained about being kept in isolation, frequent body searches and an almost total ban on expressing himself, all of which, said Jordet, violate Norways law that prohibits acts of aggravated torture. AFP

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Immigrants Farewell Hillary, for now Comment hail Obama reform plan
LOS ANGELES US (Obama) talked about immigrant groups hailed reuniting families. That is President Barack Obamas important, she told AFP. Her group plans to work immigration reform plan on January 29, but vowed with immigrant groups from to maintain pressure for other states to organise a action including by heading caravan of buses, to leave in to Washington to make their mid-February and arrive in Washington in March. voices heard. Their aim will be to put Obama symbolically unveiled his long-awaited pressure on Congress to push p l a n a t L a s V e g a s i n through legislation .. to make Nevada, one of Americas sure they dont forget that we states with a huge Latino voted in 2012, when Obama population, generations of was re-elected to the White whom have come from across House, she added. Member of the the southern border from Congressional Hispanic Mexico. Obama laid out principles Caucus as well as religious on the divisive issue which and other immigrant groups would nudge 11 million illegal welcomed Obamas plan to immigrants slowly towards move over 11 million illegal immigrants slowly citizenship within towards citizenship, stronger US borders requiring them and let prized foreign Now is to pay back taxes, students stay on after graduation the time. learn English, have background checks to boost the US and demonstrate familiarity economy. He also praised a bipartisan with US culture The National Association group of senators who on January 28 unveiled their o f Latin o Elected and own guidelines for legislation Appointed Officials said on an issue that would Obamas plan and that of represent a major legacy the senators showed the achievement for Obama at emerging consensus. The presidents remarks the start of his final White demonstrate consensus on House term. I believe we are finally at a key immigration reform moment where comprehensive principles that will bring reform is within our grasp, undocumented immigrants Obama said, at a time when out of the shadows and into Republicans want to thwart the fold of our American Democratic primacy among democracy, it said in a Hispanic voters, for whom statement. But there was criticism of immigration is a key issue. Now is the time. Now is some elements of Obamas the time. Now is the time, plan. We are saddened to hear Obama said. Obamas speech was very the President still believes positive, very powerful, said smart enforcement is a Petra Falcon of the advocacy priority, said Angelica Salas, group Promise Arizona, in head of the Coalition for a US-Mexico border state Humane Immigrant Rights with a 30 percent Hispanic of Los Angeles, citing a figure population and known of 1.5 million people deported for its tough stance on over the last four years, as part of an enforcementimmigration. I liked the fact that heavy policy. AFP

player, so long as it abides by multilateral rules. Of course, Clintons efforts by Yuriko Koike to revitalise Americas alliances made restoring confidence in US leadership an overriding priority, TOKYO F. Scott Fitzgerald which she achieved without famously said that there are seeking to militarise every no second acts in American international problem. Her lives. Hillary Clintons approach implicitly assumed stunning (and, I trust, that creating conditions of unfinished) career from cooperative strength can First Lady to United States make the search for lasting Senator to presidential peace self-reinforcing. candidate to US Secretary of Moreover, even as she State in the administration of emphasised the importance of the man who defeated her alliances, she did not neglect proves that Fitzgerald could diplomatic engagement with not have been more wrong. adversaries, though never As Clinton was preparing particularly with respect last week to leave office, there to Iran and North Korea was widespread speculation as simply an exercise in that she will seek to succeed splitting the difference. President Barack Obama in Clinton, the one-time 2016. She has had not only a legislator and practising second act, but a third as well US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at the Newseum in and millions of Americans Washington on January 29 during an hour-long interview politician, understood that a stateswomans real legacy is want her to write a fourth. with television networks throughout the world in an not found in todays headlines Clintons four years as event described as a Global Townterview by the State and opinion polls, but in lasting Americas top diplomat have Department. Pic: AFP policies and institutions. This given her iconic status around the world and deservedly public opinion; and managing mechanism of its foreign effort, she knew, requires a so. On her watch, two of the the actual practice of US policy. This renewed trust in willingness to achieve ones longest wars in US history diplomacy. Here, she was allies has been particularly goals in stages, however have been wound down, aided by the great confidence important in Asia and the imperfect. In her own words, Americas alliances have that Obama placed in her Middle East, where the US The challenge now is to been reinvigorated and young a remarkable outcome, has used cooperation with practice politics as the art of women everywhere have given their rivalry in the old partners such as Turkey, making what appears to be been encouraged to pursue 2008 presidential campaign. Japan, and South Korea, impossible, possible. Finally, less noted but of their dreams whether in Obamas decision attests not and new near-alliances with academia, business or politics. only to his judgment, but also India and Indonesia, to deter real long-term consequence, Clinton made the cause of aggression. Hers is a record that ranks to her character. Indeed, American foreign gender equality and not Clintons primary challenge her among the great postwar US secretaries of state Dean as secretary of state was to policys pivot to the Pacific only in the halls of power a Acheson, Henry Kissinger, recast the very nature of US could not be undertaken special focus of her diplomacy. involvement in global affairs. without the US having Wherever she travelled, she and James Baker. The position of secretary of The go-it-alone America of the f i r s t r e i n v i g o r a t e d i t s spoke out for equal rights. state is truly global in scope. It years of the war on terror had relationships with Asias In too many instances, demands not only a coherent alienated its closest allies, democracies. But it also could she noted, the march to conception of how the world and had proven insufficient not have been undertaken globalisation has also meant the marginalisation works and the place of women and girls. of US national And that must interests within Clintonunderstood that a stateswomans real change. the international Clinton has order, but also legacy is not found in todays headlines and opinion helped to bring extraordinary about such change, political skill, polls, but in lasting policies and institutions. not only for women stamina, timing, like her (and me), and, above all, courage. Clinton used all of both to resolving the wars in without Clintons resolve but, more important, for the these virtues to their highest Iraq and Afghanistan, and to to make China part of the worlds poor, disenfranchised creating a structure of peace solution, rather than merely and silenced women. Project possible effect. In the midst of two wars for an Asia struggling to cope a target of recrimination or Syndicate (Yuriko Koike, an and Asias rise, Clinton with Chinas new power and containment. As a result, China is being given the opposition leader in the confronted the three great assertiveness. W i t h C l i n t o n a t t h e opportunity to preserve Diet, is a former Japanese tasks that any US secretary of state must face: pinpointing diplomatic helm, the US once its dignity while receiving Minister of Defence and the challenges at hand; again made its alliances in incentives to integrate into National Security Adviser developing a viable strategy Europe, the Middle East, and a stable regional and and a former chairwoman that attracts the support of Asia both a core principle ultimately global order that of the Liberal Democratic the entire US government and and the key operational welcomes it as an integral Party).

Senate backs Kerrys nomination

WASHINGTON The US Senate on January 29 confirmed Senator John Kerry will be the next secretary of state, approving President Barack Obamas pick to replace Hillary Clinton as Americas top diplomat. Kerry a senator from Massachusetts best known outside the United States for his unsuccessful 2004 presidential campaign was nominated in December to take over the foreign affairs portfolio in Obamas second term team. The Senate voted 94-3 in favour of the veteran Democratic lawmaker after the chambers Foreign Relations Committee, which Kerry chairs, approved the nomination earlier in the day. His nomination was pushed through the Senate in a matter of days, given the clear bipartisan support for the 69-year-old veteran Democratic lawmaker, who spent 28 years in the Senate and has allies on both sides of the aisle. John has earned the respect of leaders around the world and the confidence of Democrats and Republicans in the Senate, and I am confident he will make an extraordinary secretary of state, Obama said in a statement. Kerry is known to have long coveted the job, but almost lost out to US ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice, seen as Obamas first choice. Rice withdrew from consideration for the post following Republican criticism over the administrations confused public response to the September 11 attack on a US mission in Libya that left four Americans dead. At his confirmation hearing on January 24, Kerry called for fresh thinking as he outlined his foreign policy agenda and plans for relations with Iran, China and the Middle East. American foreign policy is not defined by drones and deployments alone, he told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. We cannot allow the extraordinary good that we do to save and change lives to be eclipsed entirely by the role that we have had to play since September 11th, a role that was thrust upon us, he said. AFP

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China to run Pakistani port
ISLAMABAD Pakistan on January 30 approved a deal transferring from Singapore to China the management of the strategically located deep-sea Gwadar port on the Arabian Sea. China provided about 75 percent of the initial US$250 million in funding to build the port in Pakistans southwestern province of Baluchistan. Information Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira told reporters Singapores PSA International could not develop or operate Gwadar as desired. The Chinese will make more investment to make the project operational, Kaira said.

Japanese PM airs plan to amend constitution

TOKYO Prime Minister Shinzo Abe told lawmakers on January 31 he intends to change the post-WWII constitution that imposed pacifism on Japan, in a move likely to stir suspicion in China and beyond. Abe, who won a general election victory in December, has long harboured ambitions to re-write a document critics say hampers effective self defence, but supporters say is a bulwark against the militarism that blighted Asia last century. I will start with amending Article 96 of the constitution, Abe told upper house lawmakers, referring to a clause stipulating that amendments require a two-thirds majority in parliament. In the run-up to polls, Abe said he wanted to study the possibility of altering the constitutions definition of Japans armed forces. The well-funded and wellequipped military one of the worlds most technologicallyadvanced is referred to as the Self-Defense Forces, and barred from taking aggressive action. Abe said before the election that he would look into making the SDF a fullfledged military, but the suggestion sets alarm bells ringing in Asian countries subject to Japans brutal military adventurism of the past. US occupying forces imposed the constitution on Japan in the aftermath of World War II, but its warrenouncing Article Nine became part of the fabric of national life, engendering a pacifism that remains dear to many Japanese. Critics say a pledge that land, sea, and air forces, as well as other war potential, will never be maintained ties Tokyos hands at a time of growing regional unease and amid a sovereignty spat with China. It is unavoidable that we strengthen Japans security arrangements to protect our national interest and ensure the safety of our people in the increasingly complex international situation, Abe told parliament. Tensions have simmered between Japan and China during the last half-year over a disputed island chain in the East China Sea. Tokyo views Beijings military build-up with suspicion and says its vast trading partner should be more transparent about what it spends on its increasingly mighty forces and to what end, something Abe said on January 31 was a common concern for the entire region. Constitutional amendments in Japan require a two-thirds majority of lawmakers in both houses, and must be ratified by a referendum, where they can pass with a simple majority of those voting. The LDP and its coalition partner New Komeito have a more-than two-thirds majority in the lower house, but the dovish junior party is wary about amendments. AFP

US minesweeper to be dismantled
MANILA A badly damaged minesweeper stranded on a World Heritage-listed coral reef in the Philippines will need to be dismantled before it is removed, the US Navy said on January 30. The plan to dismantle the 68-metre (224-foot) USS Guardian was proposed to the Philippines authorities because it would involve the least damage to the reef, navy spokesman Lieutenant Commander James Stockman said in a statement. The Guardian became grounded on the Tubbataha Reef, in the Sulu Sea, on January 17. The US Navy has repeatedly apologised for the incident.

A golden royal float carrying the body of Cambodias late former King Norodom Sihanouk prepares to leave from near the Royal Palace in Phnom Penh on February 1 for a funeral procession through the city. The revered former monarch, who died in Beijing last October aged 89, will be cremated in an elaborate ritual on February 4. Pic: AFP

Hacking accusation is China convicts two of murder groundless: Beijing over Tibetan self-immolations
BEIJING China on January 31 dismissed accusations that it had hacked into the system of the New York Times, in a cyber attack the paper linked to its expose of the wealth amassed by the family of Premier Wen Jiabao. The competent Chinese authorities have already issued a clear response to the groundless accusations made by the New York Times, Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei told reporters in Beijing. Asked about cyberspying and hacking accusations made against China in general, he said: To arbitrarily assert and to conclude without hard evidence that China participated in such hacking attacks is totally irresponsible. China is also a victim of hacking attacks. Chinese laws clearly forbid hacking attacks, and we hope relevant parties takes a responsible attitude on this issue. The New York Times earlier announced it had fallen victim to hackers and said they were possibly connected to Chinas military. The hackers had over the past four months infiltrated computer systems and snatched staff passwords and their probing has been particularly focused on the emails of Shanghai bureau chief David Barboza, the newspaper said. A report by Barboza published on October 25 said close relatives of Wen have made billions of dollars in business dealings. Chinese hackers, using methods that some consultants have associated with the Chinese military in the past, breached The Timess network, the newspaper said, citing a wealth of digital evidence gathered by its security experts. The newspaper said the IT consultants believed the attacks started from the same university computers used by the Chinese military to attack United States military contractors in the past. AFP BEIJING A Chinese court convicted two Tibetans of murder on January 31 for inciting others to burn themselves to death, giving one a suspended death penalty and the other 10 years in prison, state media reported. The judgments were believed to be the first of their kind since judicial authorities were told to charge with intentional murder those accused of encouraging or helping others to carry out the gruesome act. In a similar case in a different province another six ethnic Tibetans were sentenced to between three and 12 years, staterun Xinhua news agency reported. Analysts said such prosecutions were unlikely to end the immolations. Nearly 100 Tibetans have set themselves on fire since 2009 in apparent protest against Beijings rule, which critics say represses Tibetan religious rights and erodes their culture as more majority ethnic Han move to Tibetan areas. The Tibetan government in exile says 83 of them have died. Beijing seeks to blame the Dalai Lama, the Nobel Peace Prize winner and exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, for the deaths. Lorang Konchok, 40, and his nephew, Lorang Tsering, 31, incited and coerced eight people to selfimmolate, resulting in three deaths, Xinhua said, citing the court in the Tibetanmajority prefecture of Aba, in southern Sichuan province. Lorang Konchok, who was also accused of working with a media liaison at what prosecutors called an overseas Tibet independence group, was condemned to death with a two-year reprieve, which is often commuted to life in prison. Five of the people recruited by the two defendants ultimately decided not to set themselves on fire, after willfully abandoning their plans or after police intervened, Xinhua reported. The second case, in the northwestern province of Gansu, involved six people convicted for their roles in a local villagers selfimmolation in October, it said, without specifying the precise offence. China rejects criticism of its governance in Tibetan areas, pointing instead to huge investment that it says has brought modernisation and a better standard of living to Tibet. The sentencing in these cases today also amply demonstrates this backdrop of incitement and abetting, foreign ministry spokesman Hong Lei said on January 31, saying the Dalai clique had a role in self-immolations. Beijing tightened its already firm grip on Tibet and neighbouring regions after massive protests erupted in March 2008, sending in reinforcements and cracking down on those suspected of creating dissent or fomenting unrest. AFP

Singapore seizes ivory worth $2m

SINGAPORE Singapore authorities said on January 30 they had intercepted 1.8 tonnes of ivory from Africa worth $2 million in the citystates largest such haul in over a decade. The seizure followed a tip-off, said Gerald Neo, executive manager of the quarantine and inspection department of the Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority. The ivory was in transit from Africa, a joint statement by the AVA and Singapore Customs said. The destination of the shipment was not mentioned. AFP

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Singapores PAP out of touch with voters: analysts

SINGAPORE Singapores ruling party needs to reconnect with voters or face more severe setbacks in national polls, analysts said on January 27 after a massive swing to the opposition the previous day in a by-election dominated by debate over the rising cost of living and immigration. It was the second by-election defeat in eight months for the Peoples Action Party (PAP), which has been in power for more than 50 years. The by-election in the suburb of Punggol East became a lightning rod for a national debate over the cost of living, immigration and other issues raging in social media. The opposition Workers Party won 54.5 percent of the vote exactly the same share garnered by the PAP when it last took the seat in the May 2011 general elections. The swing of votes has been massive, Reuben Wong, an assistant professor of political science at the National University of Singapore . Wong said defeated PAP candidate Koh Poh Koon, 40, a prominent surgeon who had never been in politics and was introduced by the party weeks before the vote, was seen as an elitist figure. By contrast, he said Workers Party candidate Lee Li Lian, 34, a corporate trainer running for a second time, was regarded as more representative of Singapores heartlanders the majority who live in public housing. The PAP is lacking grassroots candidates that are grounded in the communities, said Bridget Welsh, an associate professor at Singapore Management University. The formula of best and brightest is not working, she added, referring to the PAPs traditional approach of fielding academic achievers and successful professionals. Candidates do not have to live in the districts where they are running for office. The erosion of support in this contest is so significant that it cannot be dismissed as an anomaly. The PAP needs to reevaluate its engagement with the electorate and policies, and work to rebuild trust or it will face many more Punggols, Welsh said. The setback came less than two years after the PAP, which has been in power for more than 50 years, suffered its worst general election showing in May 2011 when its share of votes fell to an all-time low of 60pc. The Workers Party captured six seats, tripling the number of opposition MPs in the 87-member parliament a small presence by international standards but a major development in a city-state known in the past for rigid social controls. Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said after the January 26 by-election gave the Workers Party a seventh seat that reforms would take time to produce results, vowing to present a report card for voters to judge in the next general elections, which do not have to be called until 2016. AFP

Australian PM calls September election, tells voters to relax

SYDNEY Prime Minister Julia Gillard told Australians on January 31 to relax after giving them eight months notice of elections, insisting they will not be put through a marathon, bitter campaign. Gillard made the shock announcement the previous day that national elections would be held on September 14, breaking from the tradition of revealing the date only a few weeks in advance. She said it would force the conservative opposition led by Tony Abbott to reveal its polices and costings so the vote would be one not of fevered campaigning, but of cool and reasoned deliberation. Relax, relax, relax. This is not day one of the election campaign, she said on January 31. I made it perfectly clear yesterday, what I wanted to do was cut out all of the silly nonsense that goes with election date speculation. Let people know when the election is so that they can plan their year. Few on her frontbench were told she was making the announcement, apart from Treasurer Wayne Swan and the handful of Greens and independent MPs that ruling Labor relies on for its wafer-thin grip on power, it emerged on January 31. But the party fell into line, with Transport Minister Anthony Albanese insisting that the lack of consultation was not unusual. Never has a prime minister, whos always had the prerogative of calling an election, gone and consulted hundreds of people about election dates, he told ABC radio. Attorney-General Nicola Roxon praised Gillards move. I think thats in her nature, to be strong and bold and determined to do things in the best interests of the country, she said. Their comments seemed to be at odds with former Labor powerbroker turned political commentator Graham Richardsons account of how the decision was received within the party. I have run up the white flag. I am obviously past it because I simply dont understand Labor politics any more, he said. In the hours after the announcement so many senior Labor figures rang me to express their bewilderment, dismay and disgust that at least I had one consolation I was not alone in my ignorance and lack of understanding. Bewilderment was a recurring theme, with a Sydney Morning Herald editorial running the banner: The long march: crazy, brave and very Julia Gillard. The best effect may be the promise of less petty politics and more policy. The early signs are not promising. Voters will quickly tire of an eight-month soundbite, it said. The Sydney Daily Telegraph headlined its front page: Eight months hard Labor and in an editorial said: Brace for a long, strange ride. Opinion polls suggest Gillard will lose in September. AFP A three-month-old Borneo pygmy elephant with its dead mother in the Gunung Rara Forest Reserve in Malaysias Sabah State on January 29. Fourteen of the rare animals were found dead in the reserve last week, with officials suspecting they had been poisoned because they had entered oil palm plantations to eat the palm fruit. A wildlife official warned on January 31 that the calf was losing weight and may not survive. Pic: AFP/Sabah Wildlife Department

South Korea joins space club

SEOUL South Korea succeeded on January 30 in its third attempt to launch a satellite into orbit, meeting a high-stakes challenge to national pride a month after rival North Korea succeeded in the same task. A positive outcome after successive failures in 2009 and 2010 was critical to ensuring the future of South Koreas launch program and realising its ambition of membership of an elite global space club. The 140-tonne Korea Space Launch Vehicle (KSLV-I) blasted from the Naro Space Center on the south coast, reaching its target altitude nine minutes later and deploying its payload satellite. Scientists and officials at the space centre cheered, applauded and hugged each other as the satellite was released. This is the success of all our people, Science Minister Lee Ju-Ho told reporters at the space centre. South Korea was a late entrant into the high-cost world of space technology and exploration and repeated failures had raised questions over the viability of the launch program. AFP

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Freedom film festival returns for second year
By Lwin Mar Htun THE Art of Freedom Film and Music Festival was held in Yangon from January 29 to 31, with awards given to films on the birth of democracy in Myanmar, as well as to songs about independence hero Bogyoke Aung San. The 33 films were screened free of charge at Taw Win Centre in Yangon on January 29 and 30, while the awards ceremony was held at the same venue on January 31. Film awards were given in the documentary, short film, animation, photo essay and peoples choice categories. Four prizes were also given in the song contest, with the nine finalists broadcast ahead of the ceremony on Shwe FM radio station. The theme of the song contest was the life of Bogyoke Aung San. The festivals organiser, comedian Zaganar, said more than 100 films had been submitted to the festival. These were narrowed down to 55, and then cut to 33 by judges Daw Swe Zin Htike, U Win Phe and U Kyi Soe Htun. The best documentary award went to Shin Daewees Brighter Future, a 15-minute film whose topic was the use of the child-centred approach (CCA) to education in a monastery in Mandalay. The monastic school depicted in the documentary is open to children from poor families, and the CCA system encourages young students to learn for themselves rather than relying on the robotic rote approach favoured by government-run schools. To p r o d u c e t h i s documentary, I spent five days researching the CCA learning system and shooting with support from the Pyo Pin Foundation, said Shin Daewee. The award for best short film was nabbed by director Thu Ta (Maw Kunn) for his s e v e n - m i n u t e We l c o m e Democracy, which explores the plight of minority ethnic groups in Myanmar, and included an actor who performed as senior general Than Shwe. I wanted to make a statement about the present difficulties of different ethnic groups in Myanmar, including the Rakhine, Kachin, Karen and so on, said Thu Ta. I used new actors, including some staff from the National Races Village near Yangon. Some of my friends also helped with the small things, and we shot it only two days before the final submission date for the festival. Director Ye Win took the best animation prize with Puppet, in which even the audience members at a marionette performance are shown to be marionettes. In the final scene, the puppet master is also revealed to be a marionette. The best photo essay award went to Soe Zayar Htuns Dawn of the Nation, while a special award chosen by audience vote was given to Htun Htun Ayes Spring Hlegu. There was loud applause following the announcement of each winner at the award ceremony, but there was also some grumbling about the judges decisions. Some of the winners were a little strange. There were some very good films screened at the festival, but some of the best were not picked as winners, said Thiha, an audience member from Insein township. Instead, there were some films that won prizes that looked more like something that would be shown on MRTV, not something that should win an award at a legitimate film festival. But Zaganar said he was happy about the film festival because there were many women directors this year, and nearly all the submissions were from young people. The animation standard improved from last year, and the overall film quality also improved. Some directors are beginners and they dont have any experience but their ideas are amazing, he said. We will try to hold this festival annually, but when Im busy I hope young people can take over the organising. Zaganar said 177 songs by 118 composers were submitted for the song contest, and judges whittled the number down to 15 and then to the final nine. The Myanmar traditional song award went to composer Ye Naing Lin, whose song A Kyi Myat Sone Gon (The Greatest Pr i d e ) w a s p e r f o r m e d by Daw Yee Yee Thant. Aung San Myo Hey Myanmar written by Linn Htet won best contemporary song. The tune was performed by Linn Htet and his brother Lwin Ko Ko Oo. When I produced this song I dont have enough money, which is a big difficulty because Im not a rich guy. I have only art and I just wanted to be involved in the competition, said Linn Htet. Last year Linn Htet also won first prize in the contest to write the theme song for the SEA Games, slated to be held in Myanmar in December. Now I got a prize given by Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, so if I die now, I can die happy, he said, referring to Daw Suu Kyis patronage of the festival. Extra-T won the award for best hip-hop song, while the peoples choice award went to Sein Nyi Swe (Mann)s Pyi Thu Chit Thaw Dto Bogyoke (General Aung San Who Got Love from the People) sung by Daw Win Win Aung. By Bill OToole with AFP THE Irrawaddy Literature Festival was held in Yangon from February 1 to 3, bringing artists of all stripes to Inya Lake Hotel to discuss, debate and appreciate the power of words. The festival was the brainchild of Ms Jane Heyn, wife of the British ambassador to Myanmar, and organised by the British embassy and British Council in Yangon. Though nominally a festival for literature, panel discussions were designed to cover a wide variety of the arts. Interested parties could see talks on everything from poetry to movies to traditional marionette theatre. More than 120 Myanmar writers such as Thant Mint U, Zehar Lynn, and Ma Thida rubbed elbows with about 25 international authors, including James Byrne, Timothy GortonAsh and William Dalrymple. The centrepiece of the weekend was an appearance on February 2 of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, who is also a patron of the event. In many respects the weekend-long affair symbolised the changing face of the Myanmar governments changing relationship with the media, as well as with local and foreign culture. During one discussion, author and historian Thant Myint U marvelled, Two years ago we might not have thought a festival like this was even possible. There was no freedom at all before, said poet Saw Wai, who was jailed under the former junta for writing a satirical poem about the regime. As censorship has been abolished, we have become able to be more free and open, he told AFP, adding that poetry and cartoons were becoming increasingly bold with their satire.

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Literary festival encourages bolder writing, open debate

Myanmar author Pe Myint speaks during the opening ceremony of the Irrawaddy Literary Festival in Yangon on February 1. Pic: Aung Htay Hlaing In fact, organisers of the festival sought to exploit Myanmars new freedoms to encourage bolder writing and debate. When I saw how difficult it was to buy a book new books or modern literature at all thats what give me the idea, Ms Heyn told AFP. The main purpose of the festival is to provide a platform to exchange ideas, to exchange writing and discussion. Though the themes of the panels were broad, the discussions with audience members often came back to the subject of free speech and free expression, a subject that could only recently be discussed out in the open, to say nothing of a crowded ballroom. Poet and translator Ko Ko Thett, who came to the festival to promote his new anthology of Myanmar poetry Bones Will Crow and Other Works, said Its far away from when I was at university [in the 1980s], when we had to hand out our poetry magazines in secret. Additionally, various book merchants from around Yangon set up shop on the back lawn of the hotel and were openly selling a variety of books once banned in Myanmar, many of which were provided by publishers and authors as a gift to the festival, according to a worker from Monument Books near Golden Valley. But for all the talk of politics, organisers and attendees were keen to make sure the art and cultural heritage of Myanmar remained the focus of the weekend. So often the conversation about Myanmar [internationally] is solely focused on conflict and human rights, said poet and translator James Byrne. While thats certainly important, its also important to acknowledge the unique and wonderful art Myanmar has to offer. To this end, organisers included performances of classical Myanmar dancing and marionette shows in the courtyard, to the delight of local and foreign attendees. Other authors shared Mr Byrnes feelings, and agreed that one of the biggest goals of the festival was to bring Myanmar literature and poetry to the outside world, where historically it has had very little exposure. Author and activist Maung Maung San bemoaned the fact that not one Myanmar author had ever won a Nobel Prize for literature. Its because our books dont get translated into English and French and German, he explained, but we hope it will change soon. This festival is a big part of that. Organisers and authors looked forward in other ways as well, using the weekend to cultivate and train the next generation of Myanmar writers. Students aged 10 to 17 years were invited to take part in writing workshops run by volunteers from the British Council. Mr Byrne, who ran similar workshops in Yangon this past November, said he was amazed by the level of enthusiasm in the students. Theyre eager to express themselves and explore their new freedoms.

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Golden Valley trishaw driver shatters gender stereotypes

By Zon Pann Pwint TRISHAW drivers are a common spectacle in many areas of Yangon, but anyone passing through Golden Valley might be surprised by an unusual sight: a trishaw powered not by a man, but by a middle-aged woman. Ma Khin Hnin Wai, 43, started her stereotype-challenging career in 2007 to help her sick husband, who had also earned his living pedaling patrons from point to point. Six years ago I worked as a garbage collector. Every evening I took my husbands trishaw to collect bags of garbage from homes in Golden Valley in Bahan township, said Ma Khin Hnin Wai, who now waits for customers with her trishaw near the Quarter Administration Office on Golden Valley Road. At first I just pushed the trishaw, which I used to carry loads of garbage. I did it to ease the financial burden on my family at a time when my husband was sick and confined to bed. Ma Khin Hnin Wai said she quickly grew impatient with pushing the trishaw, and decided that it would be easier to actually get on the saddle and pedal. She quickly adapted and was soon zooming around the neighbourhood. Since then I have earned a living as a trishaw driver, she said. Her husband passed away in 2010, and she has continued pedaling the trishaw to support her two small sons. I dont feel shy or uncomfortable about picking up male passengers, but some men feel shy about riding a trishaw driven by a woman, so they avoid me, said Ma Khin Hnin Wai. What mainly concerns me is carrying passengers to their destination safely, and not to cause danger to them. She said residents in Golden Valley are accustomed to seeing her at work, but strangers passing through often look surprised when they see her. She works from 5am to 9pm, earning a total of about K3000 to K4000 a day. At times when she is waiting her turn in the lineup of neighbourhood drivers, she often rushes home to cook for her sons or wash clothes. Ma Khin Hnin Wai said she has no special feelings about her job as a trishaw driver. I regard it as doing the regular work that I have to do. I dont want to change my career. If I sold vegetables, I would need a small investment, she said. Driving a trishaw requires no investment; I get to keep all the money I earn, except paying K700 to the trishaw owner each day. Among the downsides are the occasional aches and pains she feels from pedaling around all day long. But Im not downhearted. I asked my sons whether they feel embarrassed when I drive the trishaw and they said no. They told me they enjoy eating the fish paste and vegetables I cook for them with my small income, she said. Ma Khin Hnin Wai said that although she sometimes feels physically tired, driving a trishaw never causes stress and worry. I dont think theres any difference between men and women drivers. Most people think driving a trishaw is mens work, but I disagree, she said. If I were too busy to cook, I would ask my husband to cook. If he were too sick to do his job, I would take his burden without hesitation. That is my belief.

Books on display at the International Holocaust Commemoration Day 2013 ceremony held at Yangon University on January 28. Pic: Ko Taik

Holocaust ceremony educates Yangonites

By Nuam Bawi and Lwin Mar Htun INTERNATIONAL Holocaust Commemoration Day 2013 was marked with a ceremony a t Ya n g o n U n i v e r s i t y s Diamond Jubilee Hall on January 28, organised by the Israeli embassy in Yangon. It was the fourth time such a commemoration was held in Myanmar, with the aim of raising awareness of, and promoting education about, the Holocaust in which six million Jews were murdered in Europe under the Nazi regime in the 1930s and 1940s. The commemoration included photo exhibitions, book displays and a documentary film screening, which together showed how millions of victims were killed, how some people resisted the Nazis, and how they were captured and executed, alongside harrowing testimonies of survivors. Avigail Oz, cultural attach at the Israeli embassy, said at the ceremony that what happened in the Holocaust should never, ever happen again. We are living in a time in which human nature is not that good. This is something we need to be aware of. If you learn about history, it can help you deal with the future and prevent this kind of thing in the present as well, she said. Ms Oz said experiences with previous Holocaust commemoration ceremonies in Yangon revealed the limitations of language, so this year Myanmar-language translations were prepared to make sure local guests would have a clear understanding about the Holocaust. One teacher from Yangon University of Foreign Language (YUFL) said the history of the Holocaust is included in the syllabus for final-year German majors at her school. Learning about the tragic events of the Holocaust is so pitiful because we know we cant change history, she said. YUFL student Ei Pann Phyu said it was important to learn about the history of other countries along with learning their languages. I already known about the Holocaust from books, but I wanted to know more about it so I came to this event, she said. Another attendee, Yoon Mhuu Eain, said she also gained new knowledge at the ceremony. Historians and researchers explained about the Holocaust in-depth, so we learned some new things that were different from books. We were also able to compare our history with the history of the Holocaust, she said.

Ma Khin Hnin Wai. Pic: Zon Pann Pwint

Tin Zar Maw in concert

SINGER Tin Zar Maw will hold a concert at the National T h e a t r e i n Ya n g o n o n February 9, featuring more than 30 duet songs with surprise guests. I havent performed in concert since the Four Ladies Show [in January 2012], which included me, Phyu Phyu Kyaw Thein, Htun Eaindra Bo and Chan Chan, Tin Zar Maw said at a press conference at Central Hotel in Yangon on January 29. I consulted with concert promoter Ko Pee Paw and we decided to organise the Tin Zar Maw + ? 2013 Duet Tour concert, she said. Ko Pee Paw said the guest singers who will perform w i t h Ti n Z a r M a w w i l l be kept secret until the concert. We want it to be a surprise for the audience, but its certain that they will be satisfied after they see the concert, he said. Tin Zaw Maw added that about 15 guest singers will appear at the concert, which will also include a special program for Valentines Day. I will sing 35 songs, and 33 of them will be duets with guests. I will sing my famous older songs, as well as one new song, she said. Lwin Mar Htun

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the US state of Maryland, was interviewed via email. Do you come from a musical family? Yes. My father isnt much of a singer, but he did recordings for local singers in the town of Haka [in Chin State], built a guitar, and was one of the first people in town to own a radio and recording equipment. My mom loves singing, and I think I got my love for singing from her. She never missed choir practice at church, and when she was about 17 years old she won first prize in a singing contest. My brother taught himself how to play guitar at the age of 13. Hes now a recording arts graduate from Full Sail University [in Florida]. Ive looked up to my brother since I was a teen, and I wanted to learn how to play different musical instruments like him. Where do you get your songwriting inspiration? I can get inspired anytime and anywhere to write a song. I can be in a conversation with someone and get an idea for a song. What I usually do is I take out my phone and go somewhere where no one is near, hum the melody or tune I have in my head and record it. I later go back to that recording and make it into a song. Some other times, I can be sitting at a restaurant and from thinking about something or someone I write down some lyrics on a napkin, and I make sure to save that napkin so I can go back later and make it into a song. Mostly I write from the heart, when I feel an emotion or feeling emerging from a certain situation or event thats happened in my life. What is the most trouble youve ever been in? I am very close with my family, and getting into trouble doesnt really happen. Everything I do is pretty much monitored, not because my family is strict

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A shining star with crutches and guitar

By Nang Non MILLA Hniang, a 22-year-old singer-songwriter and polio survivor from Myanmar, has recently released her first country music album, titled Gone, in the United States. The album is now available on iTunes and Amazon. Ms Hniangs childhood was not as simple and enjoyable as that of many other children. Born in an underdeveloped region of Chin State, she was diagnosed with polio at the age of one. She was unable to walk and had to crawl around the house until she was five years old. Because of her disability, Ms Hniang was not allowed to go to school, and spent most of her time in hospitals or her bedroom. She remembers looking out the widow and seeing other children playing and having fun with their friends, prompting endless questions to flood into her mind: Why cant I join in? Why me? At an early age singing became Ms Hniangs only true source of happiness. With no television in her household, she would sing for her neighbours who would, in turn, invite her in to watch TV shows. She enjoyed these performances, and soon developed a burning desire to one day become a professional country singer. Ms Hniang moved to the US with her family in 2000, where she was able to enjoy the rights denied her in Myanmar: going to school, meeting friends and being treated equally regardless of her physical disability. Her passion for music continued to grow, and at the age of 16 she started playing guitar and singing at weddings and church events. She also uploaded cover songs and videos to YouTube and eventually caught the attention of Oklahoma-based Tate Music Group, which has released her debut album. Ms Hniang, who lives in Pic: Supplied

Milla Hniang Pic: Supplied or anything; I tend to have a habit of making sure to tell my family anywhere I go, any time of day. So I dont really get into trouble I am a rather boring person for my age. I dont really go out with friends, party and drink. I am usually at home, eating dinner with my family, and watching movies together. Whats your favorite thing to do when you arent writing or singing? I love drawing and reading. When I am free, these are the two things that I do most. I love reading novels li k e t h e Tw i li gh t S a ga , Hunger Games Saga, Dear John etcetera. I developed a love for drawing when I was nine years old. I used to draw all the time, especially when I was back in elementary and middle school. I loved drawing designs of dresses, shoes and outfits. Is there someone in your life who believed in you even when you doubted yourself? Yes and no. My family is so supportive of everything I want to do in my life, so theyre the only people whove ever believed in me. But the reason I say no is because before my music career started, school was a big issue for my family, which I understood 100 percent. I understand that education is the way to life. When I told my family that music is what I want to do for life, of course it took them a short time to really accept it. My parents and family want the best for me and of course they only have good intentions. Once things started taking off, then they started seeing my true passion for music. Why you have achieved success while so many thousands of others have not? I think what makes me different from other people is that all the difficulties Ive faced have actually helped me develop a strong heart. Ive learned to deal with a really difficult situation and look at the positives. I know I am not the only person with a visible disability, but at the same time no one in the world went through exactly what I went through. So as a 22-year-old polio survivor, I went through so many challenges that taught me so many life lessons. I also feel that I developed a mature mindset because of the difficulties I went through. I had to grow up fast because of my disease. I learned to tolerate being can have many negative qualities as well as good ones. If you dont accept yourself for who you are, no one in the world will. Only YOU can change how people look at you; if you accept yourself, people will accept you. Even if there are people who wont and cant accept you? It is all okay because this is part of life. Not everyone is going to like you no matter what. You cant move on with your life if you focus on the negatives, you have to learn to accept the negatives and make new positive qualities about yourself. You cant change your situation; it all depends on how you deal with your situation. Learn to love and accept yourself, for who you are, because there is no one like you in the world, youre one in a billion. Be yourself, follow at all. Thats the huge difference between the US and Myanmar. Here in the US disabled people have the same rights and chances as people with no disability. They are treated how they should be treated. What is your future plan? First of all, I want this debut album to be successful and Im hoping people will like and accept my music. I am also touring this year so I really hope the touring will go well. And you can definitely expect a second album. I am always writing and I am already working on my second album tracks, now that my debut album is released nationwide. I am also planning on getting an album out in Myanmar this coming year. Anything you want to say to fans of your music, or to aspiring musicians? I want my supporters and fans to know that in everything you do, always put God first. Believe in yourself, no matter what situation youre in. Especially for those who may have a visible d i s a b i l i t y, l i k e m y s e l f , you have to learn to love yourself and believe that you can achieve your goals. One must learn to have a strong heart to endure pain. In life, you will always have some people who will try to get you down, but in return you should always be good to people. You must learn to accept that you must fail first to be successful. No matter how long it takes you to reach your goals, never give up. Dont dwell on the negatives in your situation. If someone like me can actually start a dream journey like this, then you can do it too!

so theyre the only people whove ever believed in me.

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made fun of since I was young. These situations taught me how important it is to be good to people. No matter how difficult or ugly a situation gets, Ive learned that its important to deal with it only with a good heart. Is there anything you would tell a teenager who feels humiliated because of a physical disability? I would explain the meaning of this quote to the teenager: It is good to focus on your ability and not your disability. Everything has bad and good sides. Just like that, a human being

your heart and go after your dreams! What is the most challenging problem disabled people face in Myanmar? I honestly feel like disabled people in Myanmar are not looked at as human beings. Theyre looked down on and people dont expect much of them. And I feel that this is a huge problem; just because a person has a certain disability does not make him or her less of a human being. Disabled people in Myanmar are not given any chances to do anything or to achieve anything for themselves

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Lending brain power to the enjoyment of wine and fancy food

By Douglas Long WHERE once there were few, now there are, well, a few more. Im referring here to wine-tasting dinners in Yangon, which lately have been occurring with increasing frequency at various venues around town. This is, of course, not a bad thing. How could one argue against the proliferation of gatherings that showcase not only the growing diversity of wines available on the local market, but also the gradual emergence of a somewhat more adventurous gastronomic scene, compliments of chefs both old and new? One recent wine-tasting event was held at Strand Hotel on January 19 and featured an all-Myanmar menu: The wines were from Red Mountain Estate in Shan State, and all the food ingredients from the meat and vegetables, down to the salt, spices and herbs were local as well. The evening started in the Strand Bar with canaps and Red Mountains 2010 sauvignon blanc. The wine was on the plus side of satisfactory, but willful temperance was required at this point, as the wait staff were quite zealous about refilling empty glasses, and there were still many hours of tasting on the horizon. The canaps were first-rate, although I did get off to a rough start by excitedly chomping down on some Ngapali lobster, oblivious to the presence of a hard shell beneath the tender meat. Napkins were proffered for spitting, but I bit the bullet, so to speak, and munched my through the crunchy chitin its a great way to overcome soluble protein deficiencies. We eventually moved to Strand Grill for the main event. The dinner was attended by a greater number of normals with hyperconventional coifs than would have been seen at such a gathering even one year ago, but my wife and I were shown to a table with a respectable contingent of intrepid abnormals of the sort that have long been a staple of Myanmars expat scene. After we were seated there was a bit of reluctant speechifying by Francois Raynal the head winemaker at Red Mountain Estate who, in response to helpfully leading questions from Quarto Products managing director Rene Buhlmann, explained that the cool nights and sunny days of Shan State provided particularly good conditions for cabernet sauvignon and pinot noir. Before we tasted those, however, we were treated to the winerys barrel-aged, very oaky chardonnay; only 900 bottles had been produced, and they are not available on the consumer market. Being American, and therefore enjoying an occasional glass of woody wine, I appreciated the opportunity to get my timberland fix. More wines followed: a dark, medium-bodied pinot noir meant, according to the menu, to be from 2011 but actually of 2010 vintage according to the label; a reasonably crisp and refreshing 2011 cabernet sauvignon; the surprisingly nice 2011 syrah, which turned out to be my favourite of the reds; and a sweet, lateharvest muscat followed by a tokaji-style dessert elixir. As we sipped these highly varied offerings, we took delivery of persistent salvos of dinner plates, each with an artfully inscrutable dollop of food placed near the centre. With each new arrival I was compelled to consult the menu to determine precisely what it was that I was about to consume. Most of the evenings cuisine, created by the Strands executive chef Chris Parsons and his crack team of food-whipper-uppers, fell into the category of what I have come to label excessively engineered foodstuffs (EEFs). By this I mean that its a bit like contemporary art, which cannot be understood at a glance but requires slowing down and taking a long, intimate, even meditative look before insight begins to dawn (think Rothko). In the case of food, it means making a serious effort to discern the gustatory particularities of what youre ingesting. Short of indulging in Gwyneth Paltrows silly macrobiotic rule of chewing each bite at least 13 times an exercise in misdirection and crass enumeration that only serves to establish a nettlesome impediment to experiencing and enjoying the food this is one of the prime directives of the slow food movement. So I ate without counting, but with brow furrowed in concentration as I attempted to parse the flavours of the EEFs with my unpractised taste buds. There was definitely seafood p r e s e n t i n t h e Ay e y a r w a d y butterfish and mud crab tureen, but Im not sure I could descry the ginger-spiked mango. And the presence of poultry in the freerange cherry duck risotto became increasingly apparent as I strained to focus an ever-greater portion of my cerebellum in the general direction of my palate.

A waiter at Strand Hotel displays a bottle of Red Mountain Estate sauvignon blanc on January 19. Pic: Ko Taik The organic rabbit that followed provided a decidedly unfamiliar but not unpleasant taste experience, while the delicious 48-hour baby mutton shoulder was an 11 th-hour highlight. The evening was rounded out by very nice goats milk cheese (with Shan honey, toasted walnut and caramelised apple), followed by organic strawberries. One guest I observed at the dinner spent a good portion of the evening complaining about the relatively low quality and high cost of locally produced wine, and the inadequacy of the evenings food, his self-reverential assessment being that the fancy food preparation was too big a challenge for the Strands kitchen. (These judgments were usually made after taking a single small bite of the food and pushing the plate away, and just before nose-diving back into the exciting world of urgent phone calls and text messages.) I disagreed. I thought the overall effort was quite respectable, and in some cases the baby mutton shoulder springs to mind the result was very good. At the very least, its a sign that Myanmars wine and food scene is heading in an interesting direction after a long period of constraint and stagnation.

Myanmar-made wine interesting in a good way

By Kelly Macnamara MYANMAR may be best known to outsiders for its decades of junta rule, but behind the so-called bamboo curtain maverick entrepreneurs have toiled for years to put the nation on the map for the quality of its wine. Vines cascade down terraces overlooking the vast mirror of Inle Lake in Shan State, an unlikely setting for a budding wine industry tempting the taste buds of tourists now flocking to the country as it opens up. Everybody is surprised to see a vineyard here in the middle of Myanmar with all this modern equipment, said Francois Raynal, winemaker at Red Mountain Estate in Shan State. The vineyard, which produces roughly 120,000 bottles a year that fetch about K10,000 (US$11) apiece, has itself become a draw for foreigners intrigued that vines could grow in the tropical country. Many visitors are Europeans with a strong wine culture who want to try the local tipple, said Mr Raynal, a Frenchman who has worked at the winery for a decade. Myanmars wine pioneer was German Bert Morsbach, who spearheaded the countrys original vineyard, Aythaya, after a colourful career in Southeast Asia. He began working in Myanmar from 1989 exporting organic basmati rice, but turned to vines after the business was confiscated by a government minister. In 1998 he planted 4000 vines imported from France in eastern Karen State, but a simmering insurgency between the army and ethnic rebels flared in the area and the government forbade him from tending his vineyard. That was my first experience with wine. Then I said I like it here, so much that I will give it another chance with another region up there in Shan State, Mr Morsbach said. The challenges of wine growing in Myanmar are not just related to its complex found that shiraz grows well. It is also testing German dornfelder, tempranillo and chianti. Myanmars winemakers have by necessity been very experimental and could develop well in the coming years, following in the footsteps of China, Thailand and India, said Denis Gastin, an Australia-based writer specialising in Asian wine. He said the success of M y a n m a rs t r a i l b l a z i n g vineyards has encouraged a number of smaller operations to bud a situation likely to please hoteliers clamouring for local wines. We are happy to present a product from our own land. Also it is a quality product. It is fantastic wine, said Yin Myo Su, who runs Inle Princess Hotel. I hope we wont be limited to two vineyards we could have 20. Red Mountain estate, owned by a Myanmar businessman, sells its wine predominantly at the countrys tourist hot spots like Yangon, Mandalay and Bagan. But rival Aythayas vineyard and restaurant is close to the bustling Shan State capital Taunggyi, where the majority of custom is from locals, including wealthy businessmen. The long-term nature of the business the number of bottles produced depends on crops planted several years before means that even if tourism soars, it will take years before it flows through into production. But is the wine good? Mr Gastin tested the Red Mountain range at a tropical wine symposium last year and was pretty impressed. I was quite shocked about the sauvignon blanc and pinot noir, I thought they were really very, very good, he said. At Red Mountain, Swiss vineyard owner Serge Heymoz who was visiting the estate while on holiday also gave the wine the seal of approval. It is very interesting indeed, but lets be clear interesting in a good way, he said. AFP

Workers walk past a vineyard at Red Mountain Estate near Inle Lake on August 5, 2012. Pic: AFP political history. Although it is known for its fertile soil, the countrys tropical climate and relatively short days during the June-July peak budding period mean only a few grape types are able to thrive. Fungus is our biggest e n e m y. G r e e n h o u s e conditions here mean it often grows much better than grapes, said Hans Leiendecker, the German director of wine operations at Aythaya, which expected to sell 100,000 bottles in 2012 and double that number this year. Shan States clouded hills give the vineyard an elevation of around 1100 metres (3600 feet) above sea level, meaning the vines enjoy cooler temperatures than in other tropical areas. I t s c o l d a n d t h a t produces the nice aromas, Mr Leiendecker said. Consumers, however, seem to have more of a thirst for red wines and Aythaya has

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Food & Drink

A little bit of Germany in your frying pan
THIS week I am sharing a very simple chicken schnitzel recipe with an herb-infused crust. Its easy to make and fun to eat, and the taste is anything but dull. The recipe calls for skinless and boneless chicken breasts, so if you buy them at the local wet market, its a good idea to ask the vendor to remove the bones for you. Traditionally, chicken schnitzel has been coated with bread crumbs and flour. I love the crunch but dont like the thick batter, which absorbs more fatty oil during frying process. And once you collect fat on your thighs, its not easy to shake it off. I prefer to seal the chicken using cooking butter with sage, and finishing off the schnitzel in the oven. But back to the reality of our kitchen, which forces us to resort to the frying method using vegetable oil. And I have not yet found sage in Yangon so I substitute thyme, which is available in a few places. It adds a nice aroma to the chicken. I use panko bread crumbs because they make the schnitzel crunchier. As an accompaniment to the chicken, I am also including recipes for a light sauted mushroom sauce and green bean salad. Enjoy the pan and lay them on kitchen paper to remove the excess oil.

Myanmar Times

Phyos Cooking Adventure

February 4 - 10, 2013

Phyo cuts through culture to reveal lifes true taste

Mushroom sauce INGREDIENTS (6 servings) 500g of ngwe hnin mho (silvery snow mushrooms) 2 cloves of garlic cup of white cooking wine A generous pat of cooking butter PREPARATION Gently wash the mushrooms and set them aside. Heat the butter over low-medium heat and saut the crushed garlic. Add the mushrooms and saut them, then splash the white wine into the pan. Simmer the mushrooms until the liquid has evaporated or is reduced by half the alcohol should be burnt out, but the vegetables should not be too dry. Salt and pepper to taste. Green bean salad INGREDIENTS (6 servings) 400-500g of green beans 1 tablespoon of olive oil 2 teaspoons of white vinegar 1 teaspoon of wholegrain mustard 1 big clove of garlic (crushed) A pinch of sugar Salt and pepper to taste PREPARATION Blanch the green beans in lightly salted boiling water for 3-4 minutes. Refresh in cold water and drain well. For the dressing, put the olive oil, white vinegar, garlic, wholegrain mustard, salt, pepper and sugar into a jar and shake well. Then toss the beans with the dressing in a bowl.

Main Tips
Add 1 teaspoon of salt into the bread crumb mixture for added taste, and break the big crumbs into smaller crumbs. Fry the chicken over low to medium heat and be careful with oil spitting from the pan. Using a deeper frying pan will help avoid this problem.
Quaffing Quote Its not the food on the table but the eyes across the table that matter Robert Castellani (chef at Melbournes Donovans restaurant)

Pic: Phyo 2 teaspoons of thyme (fresh or dried leaves) 250-300ml of vegetable oil for the remaining chicken. Mix the bread crumbs, thyme, salt and black pepper, and spread the mixture out on a big flat plate or tray. Beat the egg in a large, shallow bowl. Then brush the egg onto both sides of the chicken pieces, and coat them evenly with the bread crumb mixture. Place the crumb-covered chicken pieces in the refrigerator for 15-30 minutes. When the chicken is ready, heat half the vegetable oil in a nonstick frying pan over medium heat. Fry the chicken in the pan until the crumbs turn golden brown and the meat is cooked through. Fry one side first, then flip to the other side. If you need more oil, ladle one spoonful at a time to make sure it doesnt become too oily. Remove the chicken pieces from

Next Week Minty mutton mince on Indian naan bread

Pascal Jolivet Attitude Pinot Noir 2011 The label features a quote from imperialist bastard Churchill; downing a bottle of this spicy pinot noir might even inspire the drawing of wonky borders for faraway territories.

Red Wine

Chicken schnitzel INGREDIENTS (6 servings) 3 chicken breasts (skinless and boneless) 1 egg 2 cups of panko bread crumbs

PREPARATION Remove the skin and excess fat from the chicken, then use a sharp knife to slice the breasts into two or three layers depending on the thickness. Lay out clear wrap on a chopping board, and place a piece of cut chicken breast in the middle. The clear wrap should be three times as wide as the piece of chicken so that the excess can be wrapped around the top of the chicken. Use a meat mallet to slowly pound the chicken, making sure that it flattens out evenly. Unwrap the piece of chicken and set it aside, and repeat the process

Food Review

Holding the fort against pizza fundamentalism

FOR many people in Yangon, 2012 will be remembered as the year of the Great Ham and Pineapple Pizza War. Played out on internet forums, it was the ugliest of rows, with the openminded, pro-pineapple protectors of gustatory enlightenment facing off against the dark, regressive forces of anti-pineapple food fundamentalism, who would limit pizza toppings to wooly mammoth meat and other old-school ingredients favoured by civilisations long in decline. Throughout this protracted war of words, Pa Pa Pizza whose original outlet is located in block C of Pearl Condominium on Kaba Aye Pagoda Road courageously stood firm in its resolve to continue offering a wide range of choices to consumers in Yangon, and the Hawaii pizza has remained on the menu to this day. As I like to say, I dont agree with your toppings of choice, but I will defend to the death your right to eat them, and during a recent lunchtime visit to Pa Pas new location on Nawaday Street, no one in our party of four expressed the least interest in having pineapple on their pie. We were more interested in the Sicilian pizza that, according to the menu, could be ordered by the slice, but our attempt to do so was flummoxed by the fact that no slices were actually available for purchase. available, but we were too stuffed with pizza to consider dessert. (Note: four pizzas is way too much for four people.) The service wasnt too bad by local standards but still had its quirks. Upon entering we were greeted by four waiters, who all dashed back to the kitchen as soon as the first person in our group ordered a pizza. It would have been nice for at least one of them to stick around for a few seconds to see if anyone else in our party wanted to order something. DL

Ks 21,600

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White Wine
Ferraton Pere & Fils Cotes Du Rhone Samorens 2011 The unusual 60/40 grenache blanc/clairette blend in this medium-bodied white will attract the curious, who can expect to be won over by the crisp, fruity flavour.

Pa Pa Pizza
Instead, we ordered four pies: chicken (K8000), vegetarian (K7000), three cheese (K7500) and pepperoni (K9500). Its safe to say that Pa Pas is pretty much the best place to go in Yangon for reasonably priced pizza. Chicken isnt my favourite topping, as its usually a bit too dry and this one was no exception but the vegetarian and three cheese pies were beyond reproach. Even better was the pepperoni pizza, with thick chunks of tasty meat the likes of which are rarely seen on pizzas even in the West. The new venue could use some small improvements. The restaurant as actually located down a narrow laneway, and first-time visitors might have difficulty spotting the small, low-lying sign amid the visual clamour of Nawaday Street. The interior dcor is a bit spare, despite the artwork on the walls, and some low-volume music would also nice. The drink selection is quite limited, consisting of not much more than canned soft drinks, bottled beer and the dreaded Berri Estates boxed wine. Gelato Sole is

9B/F1 Nawaday Street, Dagon township, Yangon. Tel 09-42112-4373, 01-376-907

Food: Drink: Atmosphere: Service: X Factor: Value for Money:

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Ko Kyaw Kyaw Soe @ Misubishi Electric Seminar Chef @ Park Royal Hotel Chinese New Year Press Conference

Mr Zuiyu Matsumoto @

Misubishi Electric Seminar

Zaw Paing and Shwe Paing @

Shwe Paing 1st Birthday Party

U Thaung Po @ Misubishi
Electric Seminar

Yan Yan Chan, Dar Ta Yan and Chilli @ Shwe Paing 1st Birthday Party

U Khin Maung Myat @ Misubishi Electric Seminar

Nwe Nwe Htun Payinaya Beauty And

Spa Opening Ceremony

Mr Daisuke Murakami @
Misubishi Electric Seminar

Graham @ Shwe Paing 1st Birthday Party

Thandar Bo, Ms Apita and Chaw Yadana Payinaya Beauty And Spa Opening Ceremony

U Myitta and Nay Family @ Nay Brother Group of Companies 3rd Anniversary

Ko Phyo Si Thu and Ma Khin Than Tun @ emon

Day Spa Launch

Daw Thiri Kyar Nyo @ Park Royal Hotel Chinese New Year Press Conference

Ceremony

Aung Ye Lin Payinaya Beauty And Spa Opening

Ko Kyaw Soe Win @ Spaghetti

Italian Restaurant Opening

Shwe Htike @ Nay Brother

Group of Companies 3rd Anniversary

Ceremony

Aye Myat Thu Payinaya Beauty And Spa Opening

Hnin Htet Htet Wai @ emon Day Spa Launch

Spa Launch

Ma Nyein Nandar Htun @ emon Day

Chan Chan @ Nay Brother Group of Companies

3rd Anniversary

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SOCIALITE got a late start to the week because she was chained to her desk for a few days, but she got off to a doozy of a start with the indescribably glamorous WITH NYEIN EI EI HTWE Mitsubishi Electric Seminar at Sedona Hotel on January 23. I mean, you all know how Socialite loves electricity, right? Without it, how would she blow-dry her sparkling tresses three times a day? She simply did not want to leave this fascinating seminar, and had to be dragged out kicking and screaming to make her next engagements: the Spaghetti Italian restaurant opening at Myaynigone Junction, followed by the Chinese New Year press conference at Park Royal Hotel. On January 25 Socialite helped celebrate the first birthday of vocalist Zaw Paings daughter Shwe Paing at Sedona Hotel, and the week ended the following day with the amazing Silk and Shine cosmetics lucky draw at Central Hotel, as well as the Nay Brother Groups third annual dinner party at Mya Yeik Nyo Hotel. And now you know the rest of the story.

SOCIALITE

Daw Myint Myint Khin and Nay family @ Nay

Brother Group of Companies 3rd Anniversary

Shwe Paing with guests @ Shwe Paing 1st Birthday

Moe Hay Ko Payinaya Beauty And

Spa Opening Ceremony

Cosmetics Lucky Draw

Ma Mya Thidar Aye, Ma Zin Mar Myint and Ko Aung Tay Za Htoo @ Silk and Shine

U Naing Gyi @ Spaghetti

Italian Restaurant Opening

Spaghetti Italian Restaurant Opening

U Aung Moe Kyaw and U Phone Kyaw @

Ma Tun Thu Win, Ma Yin Oo Lwin and Ma Nan Sandar Hla Tun @ emon Day Spa Launch

Ko Aung Myint Htoo, Ko Zaw Zaw Tun, Ko Aung Tay Za Htoo and Ko Htin Kyaw Aung @ Silk and Shine Cosmetics Lucky Draw

Sithu Lwin with family @ Shwe Paing 1st Birthday Party

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When dengue fe
By Erica Rosenberg DEET up! That was my mantra while travelling in Laos last summer with my husband, Daniel, and our 11-year-old son, Jonah. Theyd wanted to go to Maine, but I wanted exotic. I won. Nonetheless, after poring over websites on health risks in Southeast Asia before the trip, I became obsessed with a mysterious illness claiming the lives of scores of Cambodian children that made headlines right before we left and with dengue fever. I lived in fear of Jonah contracting some dreadful tropical disease (my mother would never forgive me) and insisted that everyone slather on insect repellent and cover up, despite the oppressive heat, to keep those dengue-bearing mosquitoes at bay. My pleas, though acquiesced to, were met with eye rolls from my kid. Oddly, I never thought Id be the one to get sick. But one night in Nong Kieu, a sleepy riverside town several hours ride from anywhere, I woke up shivering. Cold to the bone, I huddled beneath every layer I could grab. Then the sweats began. It slowly dawned on me that I had a fever. I woke Daniel. I think Im sick, I said. He felt my forehead, hid his alarm and brought me two Advil as it turns out, exactly the wrong thing to do. The next morning, I rallied and made it to breakfast. But back in the bungalow, I had an overwhelming desire to get prone and didnt leave my bed for two hours. I soldiered on mustering strength to take a bus back to Luang Prabang, the tourist mecca, where I sat beside a waterfall and watched the tourists splash around. Over the next few days, I stayed in our hotel room as my fevers came and went, my appetite disappeared, I developed gastrointestinal symptoms and I felt increasingly weak and queasy. I marvelled at my lethargy and lack of ambition. On day three, I managed a short flight to Siem Reap, Cambodia, and dragged myself around Angkor Wat at sunset, barely noting its wonders and exhausting myself in the process. I did, however, take note of a sign outside the Childrens Hospital about a dengue epidemic and the need for blood. By day four, I felt sufficiently sick and concerned to reluctantly seek medical attention. For serious illnesses, the guidebooks for both Cambodia and Laos steer you away from the nonexistent or substandard medical infrastructure and advise betaking yourself to Bangkok ASAP. I had my own visions of an ER in Cambodia: throngs of moaning, bleeding people, waiting amid gore and squalor and used syringes to be seen by untrained attendants completely unschooled in Western hygiene and lacking any modern medical equipment. But at least in Siem Reap, Lonely Planets assessment and my image of health care couldnt have been farther from reality. My husband found the Royal Angkor International Hospital, which Lonely Planet and the hotel staff had mentioned, endorsed on TripAdvisor. The lobby was spanking new, spotless and empty but for one expat. Within one hour, I was seen by a doctor, had blood drawn (by an English-speaking nurse skilfully using sterile equipment) and was going over test results with the doctor. To my shock, he explained to Daniel with great urgency and somewhat gruffly that my blood tests confirmed dengue fever and that I should check into the hospital immediately. Dengue is a leading cause of death and illness in the tropics and subtropics, with 100 million people infected annually. The disease is spreading rapidly around the world; now, 1 of 6 tourists returning home from the tropics with a fever has dengue. Treatment options are limited. The dengue virus attacks your blood, so as the disease progresses, you run about a 5 percent risk of haemorrhaging as blood thinners, Advil and aspirin only increase the risk or going into shock. Or you can recover. Hospital stays entail mostly monitoring fever, blood pressure, platelet and white blood cell

YANGON TO NAY PYI TAW

06:10 06:10 YJ 141/W97141 06:15 6T 401 06:20 YJ 901 06:30 YH 909 06:30 K7 222 06:30 Y5 131 08:00 8M 6603 09:00 YJ 211 10:30 YJ 751/W97751 11:00 YH 737 11:15 K7 622 12:00 6T 501 13:45 YJ 129/W97129 14:00 6T 341 15:00 YH 731 15:00

NAY PYI TAW TO YANGON

MON W9 501 YH 909 YJ 891 YH 917 6T 401 K7 222 Y5 131 YJ 911 W9 503 YJ 761 YH 727 YJ 201 W9 119 K7 622 6T 501 W9 109 6T 341 YH 731 TUE W9 141 YJ 891 YH 917 YH 909 K7 222 6T 353 W9 143 Y5 131 8M 6603 YJ 761 YH 729 W9 251 6T 351 K7 822 K7 622 W9 109

06:00 06:00 06:10 06:10 06:20 06:30 08:00 09:15 11:00 11:00 11:15 11:30 11:45 12:00 13:45 14:00 15:00 15:00 06:00 06:10 06:10 06:30 06:30 06:45 06:45 08:00 09:00 11:00 11:15 11:30 11:30 11:30 12:00 14:00 YJ 109/W97109 14:30 YH 731 15:00 6T 501 15:15 YJ 791 15:45 WED YH 909 06:00 YJ 891 06:10 YH 917 06:10 6T 401 06:20 K7 222 06:30 6T 331 06:45 W9 143 06:45 W9 201 07:30 Y5 131 08:00 YJ 911 09:15 YJ 751/W97751 11:00 YH 737 11:15 W9 119 11:45 K7 622 12:00 W9 501 12:00 YJ 129/W97129 14:00 6T 501 14:30 YJ 791 15:00 YH 731 15:00 W9 129 15:30 THUR W9 205 06:00 YJ 891 06:10 YH 917 06:10 6T 401 06:20 YH 909 06:30 K7 222 06:30 W9 143 06:45 Y5 131 08:00 8M 6603 09:00 YJ 791 10:45 YH 729 11:15 K7 226 12:00 6T 501 13:45 YJ 129/W97129 14:00 W9 129 14:30 6T 341 15:00 W9 501 15:00 YH 731 15:00 FRI YH 917 06:00 YJ 891 06:10 6T 401 06:20 YJ 901 06:30 K7 222 06:30 Y5 131 08:00 YJ 211 10:30 YJ 751/W97751 11:00 YH 727 11:15 K7 824 13:00 6T 501 13:45 6T 341 15:00 YH 731 15:00 SAT YJ 891 06:10 YH 917 06:10 6T 341 06:15 6T 401 06:20 YH 909 06:30 K7 222 06:30 K7 244 06:45 Y5 131 08:00 YJ 601/W97601 10:45 YJ 761 11:00 YH 729 11:15 YJ 109/W97109 14:30 6T 501 14:45 YH 731 15:00

YANGON TO MANDALAY

07:25 08:25 08:15 08:30 08:25 08:40 09:00 10:40 12:25 12:55 13:25 12:55 13:40 13:25 15:45 15:55 16:25 17:10 07:25 08:15 08:30 08:10 08:40 08:10 08:50 09:00 10:10 12:55 14:15 12:55 12:55 12:55 13:25 15:55 16:25 17:10 17:15 17:40 08:25 08:15 08:30 08:25 08:40 08:10 08:50 08:55 09:00 10:40 12:55 13:25 13:40 13:25 13:25 15:55 16:30 16:55 17:10 17:25 07:25 08:15 08:30 08:25 08:10 08:40 08:50 09:00 10:10 12:40 14:15 13:25 15:45 15:55 16:25 16:25 16:25 17:10 07:40 08:15 08:25 07:55 08:40 09:00 11:55 12:55 13:25 14:25 15:45 16:25 17:10 08:15 08:30 07:40 08:25 08:10 08:40 08:10 09:00 12:10 12:55 12:55 16:25 16:45 17:10

MON YH 910 YJ 892 YH 918 6T 402 K7 223 W9 502 Y5 132 W9 504 YJ 202 6T 502 W9 109 YH 728 YJ 762 K7 623 6T 342 YH 732 W9 120 TUE YH 910 YH 918 YJ 892 6T 353 K7 223 W9 143 Y5 132 W9 109 YJ 762 K7 623

MANDALAY TO YANGON

07:40 08:30 08:30 08:45 09:00 09:10 09:30 15:45 16:00 16:05 16:10 16:15 16:35 16:40 16:45 17:10 17:50 08:10 08:30 08:30 08:30 09:00 09:05 09:30 16:10 16:35 16:40 YJ 109/W97109 16:40 YH 732 17:10 8M 6604 17:20 6T 502 17:35 YJ 792 17:55 YH 730 18:00 K7 823 18:00 W9 252 18:35 WED YH 910 07:40 6T 332 08:30 YH 918 08:30 YJ 892 08:30 6T 402 08:45 K7 223 09:00 W9 144 09:05 Y5 132 09:30 YJ 129/W97129 16:10 K7 623 16:40 6T 502 16:50 YJ 752/W97752 16:55 YH 732 17:10 YJ 792 17:10 YH 738 17:25 W9 129 17:40 W9 120 17:50 THUR W9 205 07:40 YH 910 08:10 YJ 901 08:10 YH 918 08:30 YJ 892 08:30 6T 402 08:45 K7 223 09:00 W9 143 09:05 Y5 132 09:30 YJ 792 12:55 K7 227 15:50 6T 502 16:05 YJ 129/W97129 16:10 YJ 762 16:20 W9 129 16:40 6T 342 16:45 YH 732 17:10 8M 6604 17:20 YH 730 18:00 FRI YJ 901 08:10 YJ 892 08:30 6T 402 08:45 K7 223 09:00 YH 918 09:10 Y5 132 09:30 YJ 212 14:30 6T 502 16:05 YH 728 16:15 6T 342 16:45 YH 732 17:10 K7 825 17:40 YJ 752/W97752 17:50 SAT 6T 342 08:00 YH 910 08:10 YH 918 08:30 YJ 892 08:30 6T 402 08:45 K7 223 09:00 Y5 132 09:30 YJ 602/W97602 15:25 YJ 109/W97109 16:40 6T 502 17:05 YH 732 17:10 YH 730 17:35 SUN YH 910 08:10 YH 918 08:30 YJ 892 08:30 6T 402 08:45 K7 223 09:00 Y5 132 09:30 YJ 212 15:30 6T 502 16:05 YJ 129/W97129 16:10 K7 623 16:40 6T 342 16:45 YH 732 17:10 8M 6604 17:20 K7 823 17:20 YH 738 17:25 YJ 752/W97752 17:50 MON YJ 901 W9 501 YH 909 YH 917 YJ 891 6T 401

06:00 06:00 06:00 06:10 06:10 YJ 141/W97141 06:30 K7 222 06:30 YH 909 06:30 W9 143 06:45 6T 453 07:00 YH 711 10:30 W9 109 14:00 YH 731 15:00 6T 501 15:15 YJ 791 15:45 WED YJ 901 06:00 YH 909 06:00 YJ 891 06:10 YH 917 06:10 6T 401 06:20 YJ 141/W97141 06:30 K7 222 06:30 W9 141 06:30 W9 143 06:45 K7 242 06:45 YJ 911 09:15 6T 351 11:15 YJ 129/W97129 14:00 6T 501 14:30 YJ 791 15:00 YH 731 15:00 W9 129 15:30 THUR W9 205 06:00 YJ 891 06:10 YH 917 06:10 6T 401 06:20 YJ 141/W97141 06:30 K7 222 06:30 W9 141 06:30 6T 351 06:30 YJ 901 06:30 YH 909 06:30 W9 143 06:45 YH 711 10:30 YJ 129/W97129 14:00 W9 501 15:00 6T 341 15:00 YH 731 15:00 FRI YJ 901 06:00 YH 917 06:00 YJ 891 06:10 YH 909 06:10 6T 401 06:20 YJ 141/W97141 06:30 6T 351 06:30 K7 222 06:30 K7 242 06:45 6T 341 15:00 YH 731 15:00 YJ 791 15:45 SAT YJ 911 06:00 YJ 891 06:10 YH 917 06:10 6T 341 06:15 6T 401 06:20 YJ 141/W97141 06:30 K7 222 06:30 YH 909 06:30 6T 451 10:30 6T 501 14:45 YH 731 15:00 SUN YJ 901 06:00 YJ 891 06:10 YH 917 06:10 YJ 141/W97141 06:15 6T 401 06:20 K7 222 06:30 6T 351 06:30 YH 909 06:30 YJ 129/W97129 14:00 K7 224 14:15 6T 341 15:00 YH 731 15:00 MON YJ 141/W97141 06:30 YJ 902 07:35 YJ 901 07:35 YH 918 07:45 YJ 891 07:45 6T 401 07:55 YJ 141/W97141 08:05 6T 351 08:05 YH 910 08:25 W9 502 08:25 W9 144 08:35 YJ 911 11:40 K7 225 16:40 W9 109 16:55 YJ 762 17:20 6T 342 17:30 YH 732 17:55 TUE YJ 901 07:35 YJ 891 07:45 YH 918 07:45 YJ 141/W97141 08:05 W9 143 08:20 W9 141 08:25 6T 453 08:35 YH 910 08:55 YH 712 12:50 W9 109 16:55 YJ 762 17:20 YH 732 17:55 6T 502 18:20 YJ 792 18:40 WED YJ 902 07:35 YH 918 07:45 YJ 891 07:45 6T 401 07:55 YJ 141/W97141 08:05 W9 141 08:05 YH 910 08:25 W9 144 09:50 YJ 911 11:40 6T 351 12:50 K7 225 16:40 YJ 129/W97129 16:55 6T 502 17:35 YH 732 17:55 YJ 792 17:55 W9 129 18:25 THUR YH 918 07:45 YJ 891 07:45 6T 401 07:55 YJ 141/W97141 08:05 W9 141 08:05 6T 351 08:05 W9 143 08:20 W9 205 08:25 YH 910 08:55 YJ 902 08:55 YH 712 12:50 YJ 129/W97129 16:55 6T 342 17:30 YH 732 17:55

SAT

SUN

07:35 07:45 07:45 07:55 YJ 141/W97141 08:05 6T 351 08:05 YH 918 08:25 YH 910 09:35 K7 225 16:40 6T 342 17:30 YH 732 17:55 YJ 792 18:10 YJ 911 07:35 YH 918 07:45 YJ 891 07:45 6T 401 07:55 YJ 141/W97141 08:05 6T 342 08:45 YH 910 08:55 6T 451 12:05 K7 225 16:40 YJ 762 16:45 YJ 602/W97602 17:05 6T 502 17:50 YH 732 17:55 YJ 901 07:35 YH 918 07:45 YJ 891 07:45 6T 401 07:55 6T 351 08:05 YH 910 08:55 K7 225 16:40 YJ 129/W97129 16:55 6T 342 17:30 YH 732 17:55

06:00 06:10 06:10 06:20 06:30 10:30 YJ 751/W97751 11:00 YH 737 11:15 K7 822 11:30 6T 501 13:45 YJ 129/W97129 14:00 K7 224 14:15 YH 731 15:00 YJ 129/W97129 16:55

MON 6T 612 TUE K7 423 6T 606 WED 6T 608 THUR 6T 612 FRI 6T 612 SAT SUN 6T 612 K7 423 6T 612

SITTWE TO YANGON

MON W9 141

MON W9 503 YJ 201 K7 622 TUE W9 251 K7 622 WED K7 622 SUN YJ 211 K7 622

YANGON TO MYITKYINA
11:00 11:30 12:00 11:30 12:00 12:00 10:30 12:00 14:15 14:35 15:10 15:10 17:05 15:10 13:35 15:10

MON W9 504 YJ 202 K7 623 TUE K7 623 W9 252 WED K7 623 SUN YJ 212 K7 623

MYITKYINA TO YANGON

MON YH 909 YJ 891 YH 917 6T 401 W9 141 6T 351

NYAUNG U TO YANGON

YANGON TO NYAUNG U
06:00 06:00 06:00 06:10 06:10 06:20 YJ 141/W97141 06:30 6T 351 06:30 K7 222 06:30 W9 141 06:30 YJ 911 09:15 W9 143 07:00 W9 109 14:00 6T 341 15:00 YH 731 15:00

06:00 06:10 06:10 06:20 06:30 06:30 YJ 141/W97141 06:30 YJ 911 09:15 K7 828 10:00 YJ 761 11:00 YH 727 11:15 W9 119 11:45 6T 501 13:45 W9 109 14:00 K7 224 14:15 YH 731 15:00 TUE W9 141 06:00 YJ 891 06:10 YH 917 06:10 YJ 141/W97141 06:30 6T 353 06:45 W9 143 06:45 6T 453 07:00 W9 201 09:30 YH 711 10:30 YJ 761 11:00 K7 822 11:30 6T 351 11:30 W9 109 14:00 YJ 109/W97109 14:30 YH 731 15:00 6T 501 15:15 YJ 791 15:45 WED YH 909 06:00 YJ 891 06:10 YH 917 06:10 6T 401 06:20 YJ 141/W97141 06:30 W9 141 06:30 W9 201 07:30 YJ 911 09:15 YJ 751/W97751 11:00 YH 711 11:00 YH 737 11:15 6T 351 11:15 W9 119 11:45 K7 826 12:30 YJ 129/W97129 14:00 K7 224 14:15 6T 501 14:30 YJ 791 15:00 YH 731 15:00 W9 129 15:30 YJ 129/W97129 16:55 THUR YH 909 06:00 YJ 891 06:10 YH 917 06:10 6T 401 06:20 6T 351 06:30 YJ 141/W97141 06:30 W9 141 06:30 W9 143 06:45 YJ 902 08:55 K7 828 10:00 YH 711 10:30 YJ 761 10:45 6T 501 13:45 YJ 129/W97129 14:00 W9 129 14:30 YH 731 15:00 YJ 129/W97129 16:55 FRI YH 909 06:10 YJ 891 06:10 6T 401 06:20 YJ 901 06:30 6T 351 06:30 K7 242 06:45 YJ 751/W97751 11:00 YH 727 11:15 6T 501 13:45 K7 224 14:15 YH 731 15:00 SAT YJ 911 06:00 YJ 891 06:10 YH 917 06:10 6T 401 06:20 YJ 141/W97141 06:30 K7 224 06:45 YH 505 10:30 6T 451 10:30 YJ 761 11:00 K7 826 12:30 K7 224 14:15 YJ 109/W97109 14:30 6T 501 14:45 YH 731 15:00

YANGON TO HEHO

09:00 YJ 141/W97141 09:00 6T 352 09:00 YJ 892 09:15 YH 918 09:15 YH 910 09:20 6T 402 09:35 K7 223 09:50 W9 502 09:55 YJ 912 12:35 6T 501 15:10 W9 109 15:25 YJ 762 15:50 YH 732 16:25 K7 829 16:30 YH 728 17:00 W9 120 17:05 TUE YJ 902 08:30 YJ 141/W97141 09:00 YJ 892 09:15 YH 918 09:15 6T 354C 09:20 W9 141 09:20 6T 454C 09:30 W9 143 09:50 K7 223 09:50 W9 202 10:55 YH 712 11:55 6T 352 14:05 W9 109 15:25 YJ 762 15:50 YJ 109/W97109 15:55 YH 732 16:25 6T 501 16:40 K7 823 17:10 WED W9 141 09:00 YJ 141/W97141 09:00 K7 243 09:15 YJ 892 09:15 YH 918 09:15 YH 910 09:20 6T 402 09:35 K7 223 09:50 W9 201 09:55 YJ 912 12:35 6T 352 13:45 YJ 129/W97129 15:25 6T 501 15:55 YJ 791 16:25 YH 732 16:25 K7 827 16:30 YH 738 16:40 W9 129 16:55 W9 120 17:05 THUR YJ 141/W97141 09:00 6T 352 09:00 YJ 892 09:15 YH 918 09:15 6T 402 09:35 K7 223 09:50 W9 143 09:50 YJ 902 10:25 YH 712 11:55 YJ 791 12:10 6T 501 15:10 YJ 129/W97129 15:25 YJ 762 15:35 W9 129 15:55 YH 732 16:25 K7 829 16:30 FRI YH 910 08:40 YJ 902 08:55 YJ 141/W97141 09:00 6T 352 09:00 K7 243 09:15 YJ 892 09:15 6T 402 09:35 K7 223 09:50 YH 918 09:55 6T 501 15:10 YJ 212 15:15 YH 732 16:25 YH 728 17:00 SAT YH 910 08:25 YJ 912 08:30 YJ 141/W97141 09:00 YJ 892 09:15 YH 918 09:15 6T 402 09:35 K7 223 09:50 YH 506 11:55 6T 452 13:00 YJ 762 15:50 YJ 109/W97109 15:55 YJ 602/W97602 16:10 6T 501 16:10 YH 732 16:25 K7 827 17:10 SUN YJ 902 08:30 6T 352 09:00 YJ 892 09:15 YH 918 09:15 6T 402 09:35 YJ 141/W97141 09:40 K7 223 09:50 YH 506 11:55 6T 501 15:10 YJ 129/W97129 15:25 YJ 212 16:15 YH 732 16:25 YH 738 16:40 MON 6T 611 TUE K7 422 6T 605 WED 6T 607

HEHO TO YANGON

MON K7 319 TUE K7 319 WED K7 319 THUR K7 319 FRI K7 319 YJ 301 SAT K7 319 SUN K7 319

YANGON TO MYEIK

MYEIK TO YANGON
MON K7 320 TUE K7 320 WED K7 320 THUR K7 320 FRI K7 320 YJ 302 SAT K7 320 SUN K7 320

MON W9 141 6T 351

YANGON TO THANDWE
06:30 06:30 YJ 141/W97141 06:30 K7 420 06:45 YH 503 10:30 6T 601 11:15

TUE

06:00 06:45 YJ 141/W97141 06:30 YH 711 10:30 6T 605 11:00 6T 351 11:30 6T 607 YH 711 6T 351

W9 141 K7 422

WED W9 141

YJ 141/W97141 06:30 10:00

06:30 10:00 10:15 12:50 10:30 13:40 11:15 14:45 10:00 10:00 10:00 07:40 13:55 12:10 10:00 11:35 10:00 12:10

THUR W9 141 6T 351

06:30 06:30 YJ 141/W97141 06:30 K7 420 06:45 YH 711 10:30 6T 601 11:15

FRI

06:30 10:30 YJ 141/W97141 06:30 6T 601 11:15 YH 505 6T 451 6T 601

6T 351 YH 503

SAT

YJ 141/W97141 06:30 10:00

10:30 13:10 10:30 14:00 15:30 16:25 10:00 07:40 13:10 12:10

SUN

YJ 141/W97141 06:15 10:40

6T 351 K7 422 YH 505 6T 601

06:30 06:45 10:30 11:15

MON K7 421 W9 141

THANDWE TO YANGON
07:55 10:15 YJ 141/W97141 10:15 6T 352 10:15 YH 504 11:35 6T 602 12:25 YJ 912 13:50 W9 141 6T 605 YH 712 6T 352 10:35 12:15 13:55 15:20 08:50 11:05 11:05 11:10 12:25 13:20 14:45 11:25 14:50 14:45 16:15

TUE

YJ 141/W97141 10:15 11:05

K7 423

09:55 10:50

WED W9 141 6T 608 YH 712 YJ 912 6T 352

YJ 141/W97141 10:15 11:05

10:15 11:05 13:05 13:40 13:50 10:00 14:00 14:30 14:45 15:55

THUR K7 421

YJ 141/W97141 10:15 11:05

07:55 08:50 10:15 10:15 12:25 13:55 11:05 11:10 13:20 14:45

W9 141 6T 352 6T 602 YH 712

Domestic Airlines
Air Bagan Ltd.(W9)
56, Shwe Taung Gyar Street, Bahan Tsp, Yangon. Tel : 513322, 513422, 504888, Fax : 515102 Tel : (Head Office) 501520, 525488, Fax: 525937. Airport: 533222~3, 0973152853. Fax: 533223.

FRI

YJ 141/W97141 10:15 11:05

6T 352 K7 243 YH 504 6T 602

10:15 10:35 11:35 12:25

11:10 11:30 12:25 13:20

SAT

YANGON TO SITTWE
11:30 12:55 06:45 08:40 11:00 13:05 10:15 11:40

09:45 YJ 141/W97141 10:15 K7 245 10:35 YH 506 13:10 6T 452 14:15 6T 602 16:40 09:55 10:15 YJ 141/W97141 10:55 6T 602 12:25 YH 506 13:10 K7 423 6T 352

YJ 912

10:40 11:05 11:30 14:00 15:10 17:35 10:50 11:10 11:45 13:20 14:00

Asian Wings (AW)

Air KBZ (K7)

33-49,Corner of Bank Street & Maha Bandoola Garden Street, Kyauktada Tsp,Yangon, Myanmar Tel: 372977~80, 533030~39 (Airport) Fax: 372983

SUN

No.34(A-1), Shwe Taung Gyar Street, Bahan Township,Yangon. Myanmar. Tel: 951 516654, 532253, 09731-35991~3.Fax: 951 532333

Yangon Airways(YH)
166, MMB Tower, Level 5, Upper Pansodan Rd, Mingalar Taungnyunt Tsp, Yangon. Tel: (+95-1) 383 100, 383 107, 700 264, Fax: 652 533.

Domestic
6T = Air Mandalay W9 = Air Bagan YJ = Asian Wings K7 = AIR KBZ YH = Yangon Airways UB = FMI UB Charter Y5 = Golden Myanmar Airlines

Subject to change without notice

Air Mandalay (6T)

146, Dhammazedi Road, Bahan Tsp, Yangon

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Dep Arr
14:15 14:15 14:15 14:15 14:15 21:55 21:55 21:55 21:55 21:55

Days Flight
MON 8M 336 TG 303 PG 701 TG 301 PG 703 TG 305 8M 332 PG 705 TUE 8M 336 TG 303 PG 701 TG 301 PG 703 TG 305 8M 332 PG 705 WED 8M 336 TG 303 PG 701 TG 301 PG 703 TG 305 8M 332 PG 705 THUR 8M 336 TG 303 PG 701 TG 301 PG 703 TG 305 8M 332 PG 705 FRI 8M 336 TG 303 PG 701 TG 301 PG 703 TG 305 8M 332 PG 705 SAT 8M 336 TG 303 PG 701 TG 301 PG 703 TG 305 8M 332 PG 705 SUN 8M 336 TG 303 PG 701 TG 301 PG 703 TG 305 8M 332 PG 705

Dep Arr
06:40 08:00 09:05 13:00 17:05 17:55 19:20 20:15 06:40 08:00 09:05 13:00 17:05 17:55 19:20 20:15 06:40 08:00 09:05 13:00 17:05 17:55 19:20 20:15 06:40 08:00 09:05 13:00 17:05 17:55 19:20 20:15 06:40 08:00 09:05 13:00 17:05 17:55 19:20 20:15 06:40 08:00 09:05 13:00 17:05 17:55 19:20 20:15 06:40 08:00 09:05 13:00 17:05 17:55 19:20 20:15 07:25 08:45 09:55 13:45 17:55 18:40 20:05 21:30 07:25 08:45 09:55 13:45 17:55 18:40 20:05 21:30 07:25 08:45 09:55 13:45 17:55 18:40 20:05 21:30 07:25 08:45 09:55 13:45 17:55 18:40 20:05 21:30 07:25 08:45 09:55 13:45 17:55 18:40 20:05 21:30 07:25 08:45 09:55 13:45 17:55 18:40 20:05 21:30 07:25 08:45 09:55 13:45 17:55 18:40 20:05 21:30

Days Flight
TUE DE 2368

Dep Arr
12:40 04:25+1 08:00 11:15 15:00 16:45 08:00 11:15 15:00 16:45 08:00 11:15 15:00 16:45 08:00 11:15 15:00 16:45 08:00 11:15 15:00 16:45 08:00 11:15 15:00 16:45 08:00 11:15 15:00 16:45

YANGON TO BANGKOK

YANGON TO BEIJNG

BANGKOK TO YANGON

FRANKFURT TO YANGON
06:55 10:05 14:00 15:40 06:55 10:05 14:00 15:40 06:55 10:05 14:00 15:40 06:55 10:05 14:00 15:40 06:55 10:05 14:00 15:40 06:55 10:05 14:00 15:40 06:55 10:05 14:00 15:40

WED DE 2369 MON TUE WED THUR FRI SAT SUN CZ 3056 8M 711 CZ 3056 8M 711 CZ 3056 CZ 3056 8M 711

YANGON TO FRANKFURT
17:40 08:40 11:20 08:40 17:40 11:20 08:40 10:50 10:50 11:35 10:50 10:50 10:50 11:35 10:50 11:35

05:35 16:40 22:15 13:15 15:50 13:15 22:15 15:50 13:15 16:10 16:10 17:20 16:10 16:10 16:10 17:20 16:10 17:20 18:00 17:35 18:00 17:35 18:00 17:35 18:00 18:00 17:35 18:00 17:35 18:00

YANGON TO GAUNGZHOU

MON CI 7916 TUE CI 7916 BR 288 WED CI 7916 THUR CI 7916 FRI CI 7916 BR 288 SAT CI 7916 BR 288

YANGON TO TAIPEI

MON MU 2032 TUE CA 906 MU 2032 WED CA 906 MU 2032 THUR CA 906 MU 2032 FRI MU 2032 SAT CA 906 MU 2032 SUN CA 906 MU 2032 MON AI 234 FRI AI 234 AI 228

YANGON TO KUNMING
14:40 14:15 14:40 14:15 14:40 14:15 14:40 14:40 14:15 14:40 14:15 14:40

MON AK 1424 MH 740 8M 502 AK 1420 TUE AK 1424 MH 740 8M 502 AK 1420 WED AK 1424 MH 740 8M 502 AK 1420 THU AK 1424 MH 740 8M 502 AK 1420 FRI AK 1424 MH 740 8M 502 AK 1420 SAT AK 1424 MH 740 8M 502 AK 1420 SUN AK 1424 MH 740 8M 502 AK 1420 MON TUE WED THUR FRI SAT SUN CZ 3055 8M 712 CZ 3055 8M 712 CZ 3055 CZ 3055 8M 712

KAULA LUMPUR TO YANGON

GUANGZHOU TO YANGON
14:45 14:15 08:40 14:15 14:45 08:40 14:15 07:00 07:00 07:30 07:00 07:00 07:00 07:30 07:00 07:30

Aedes aegypti mosquito. Pic: US Department of Agriculture counts, fluid intake and the somewhat predictable course of the disease. Short of a transfusion, nothing can halt the assault on your blood or ameliorate the telltale rash or joint pains (dengue is also known as breakbone fever), both of which, mercifully, I was spared. I couldnt have picked a better place to have dengue. Affiliated with Bangkok Hospital, Royal Angkor caters to foreigners; unfortunately, most Cambodians, with an average annual income of only about US$800, cant afford the rates. The staff and doctors speak flawless English. The private rooms are clean and large, with bathrooms, balconies, cable TV and phones. Most importantly, of course, the care was superb. For the next five days, nurses tended to me every four hours like clockwork: taking my temperature and blood pressure, changing my IV, administering compresses, Tylenol and sleeping pills and offering reassuring words and pats. They responded to call buttons within seconds. They brought in delectablelooking Asian meals (catered by a nearby hotel) and gently prodded me to eat. But since Id developed a characteristic bad taste in my mouth and had no energy, I ate nothing. They took blood daily, and my Thai-trained doctor came promptly at the appointed hour to review my chart and examine me. With a much better bedside manner than the admitting physician, this doctor patiently answered questions and outlined the course of the disease; he assured me that plummeting blood counts notwithstanding, my recurring fevers would abate in a few days, my strength would eventually return and I would fully recover. What US hospital could boast such a reliable, attentive, knowledgeable and organised team of medical experts? Certainly, none for the price: less than $600 a day. Throughout my stay, my family heroically handled paperwork and sat with me for hours on end, making occasional forays into the city and to temples. Truth be told, my boy was quite content to watch unprecedented amounts of TV in air-conditioned comfort, ride tuk-tuks back and forth to the hotel and help me manoeuvre my IV instead of traipsing among the ruins in the heat. For the most part, he refrained from making fun of my piggy eyes fluid retention being yet another unpleasant symptom of dengue. I was released after five indistinguishable days, marked only by calls from my sister and the presence of my spouse and kid, flipping channels and playing games. When my fevers stopped and my platelets began to rise from a frighteningly low level, the doctor declared that I was on the mend and could fly home. I asked whether I could do something to show my gratitude to the fabulous nurses. He said decidedly not; they were just doing their jobs. Back in the States, I quickly regained the 10 pounds Id lost. My lethargy and headaches gradually resolved after a few weeks. For a follow-up with my primary physician (who understandably wasnt very familiar with dengue), I waited hours for a blood test and four days for the results. They were delivered in a 30-second voicemail, later followed by an incomprehensible letter: The gist was that my liver function was nearly back to normal. Just when I thought that I could finally put my dengue experience behind me, two months after the first fever in Laos, my hair started falling out a common side effect that no one had mentioned. More significant, if I get dengue again, my odds of getting hemorrhagic complications increase dramatically. Now my mantra is, Next summer in Maine. The Washington Post

YANGON TO KOLKATA

16:35 15:50 10:30 15:50 16:35 10:30 15:50 09:50 09:50 10:35 09:50 09:50 09:50 10:35 09:50 10:35 14:00 13:15 14:00 13:15 14:00 13:15 14:00 14:00 13:15 14:00 13:15 14:00

13:40 16:55 13:40 16:55 18:45 19:45 16:50 18:40 14:50 16:20 21:30 21:30 21:30 21:30 21:30 21:30 21:30 17:10 17:10 17:10 17:10 11:50 15:00 11:50 11:50 15:00 11:50 11:45 11:45 11:45 11:45 11:45 11:45 11:45

THUR W9 7607 SUN W9 9607 MON TUE WED THUR FRI SAT SUN TUE THUR SAT SUN VN 956 VN 956 VN 956 VN 956 VN 956 VN 956 VN 956 VN 942 VN 942 VN 942 VN 942

YANGON TO CHIANG MAI YANGON TO HANOI

19:10 19:10 19:10 19:10 19:10 19:10 19:10 14:25 14:25 14:25 14:25

MON CI 7915 TUE CI 7915 BR 287 WED CI 7915 THUR CI 7915 FRI CI 7915 BR 287 SAT CI 7915 BR 287

TAIPEI TO YANGON

MON FD 2752 FD 2756 FD 2754 TUE FD 2752 FD 2756 FD 2754 WED FD 2752 FD 2756 FD 2754 THUR FD 2752 FD 2756 FD 2754 FRI FD 2752 FD 2756 FD 2754 SAT FD 2752 FD 2756 FD 2754 SUN FD 2752 FD 2756 FD 2754

YANGON TO DON MUENG

08:30 12:50 17:35 08:30 12:50 17:35 08:30 12:50 17:35 08:30 12:50 17:35 08:30 12:50 17:35 08:30 12:50 17:35 08:30 12:50 17:35 00:25 08:30 10:25 11:30 11:30 16:40 08:30 10:25 11:30 11:40 11:40 16:40 08:30 10:25 11:30 11:30 16:40 08:30 10:25 11:30 11:40 11:40 16:40 08:30 10:25 11:30 11:40 11:40 13:45 16:40 08:30 10:25 11:30 11:30 13:45 16:40 00:25 08:30 10:25 11:30 11:40 11:40 13:45 16:40 08:30 08:55 12:15 17:15 08:30 08:55 12:15 17:15 08:30 08:55 12:15 17:15 08:30 08:55 12:15 17:15 08:30 08:55 12:15 17:15 08:30 08:55 12:15 17:15 08:30 08:55 12:15 17:15

10:20 14:40 19:25 10:20 14:40 19:25 10:20 14:40 19:25 10:20 14:40 19:25 10:20 14:40 19:25 10:20 14:40 19:25 10:20 14:40 19:25 05:00 13:00 14:45 16:05 16:05 21:15 13:00 14:45 16:05 16:25 16:25 21:15 13:00 14:45 16:05 16:05 21:15 13:00 14:45 16:05 16:25 16:25 21:15 13:00 14:45 16:05 16:25 16:25 18:15 21:15 13:00 14:45 16:05 16:05 18:15 21:15 05:00 13:00 14:45 16:05 16:25 16:25 18:15 21:15 12:45 12:55 16:30 21:30 12:45 12:55 16:30 21:30 12:45 12:55 16:30 21:30 12:45 12:55 16:30 21:30 12:45 12:55 16:30 21:30 12:45 12:55 16:30 21:30 12:45 12:55 16:30 21:30

YANGON TO HO CHI MINH

MON 8M 601 AI 234 WED 8M 601 FRI 8M 601 AI 234 SAT 8M 601 MON TUE WED THUR FRI SAT SUN QR 619 QR 619 QR 619 QR 619 QR 619 QR 619 QR 619

YANGON TO GAYA
10:30 13:40 10:30 10:30 13:40 10:30 08:00 08:00 08:00 08:00 08:00 08:00 08:00

YANGON TO DOHA

International Airlines
Air Asia (FD)
33, Alan Pya Pagoda Rd, Ground Flr, Parkroyal Hotel, Yangon. Tel: 251 885, 251 886.

Condor (DE)

Air Bagan Ltd.(W9) Air China (CA)

56, Shwe Taung Gyar Street, Bahan Tsp, Yangon. Tel : 513322, 513422, 504888, Fax : 515102 Building (2), corner of Pyay Rd and Kaba Aye Pagoda Rd, Hotel Yangon, 8 miles, Yangon, Myanmar. Tel : 666112, 655882.

Unit 10-05, 10th Flr, La Pyayt Wun Plaza, 37, Alanpya Pagoda Rd, Dagon Tsp, Yangon, The Republic of the Union of Myanmar, Tel: + 95 1 -370836 up to 39 (ext : 810)

Silk Air(MI)

MON MI 509 8M 231 SQ 997 8M 6232 3K 586 MI 517 TUE 8M 231 SQ 997 3K 586 8M 6232 3K 586 MI 517 WED 8M 231 SQ 997 8M 6232 3K 586 MI 517 THUR 8M 231 SQ 997 3K 586 8M 6232 3K 586 MI 517 FRI 8M 231 SQ 997 3K 586 8M 6232 3K 586 8M 233 MI 517 SAT 8M 231 SQ 997 8M 6232 3K 586 8M 233 MI 517 MI 509 SUN 8M 231 SQ 997 3K 586 8M 6232 3K 586 8M 233 MI 517 MON AK 1425 8M 501 MH 741 AK 1421 TUE AK 1425 8M 501 MH 741 AK 1421 WED AK 1425 8M 501 MH 741 AK 1421 THUR AK 1425 8M 501 MH 741 AK 1421 FRI AK 1425 8M 501 MH 741 AK 1421 SAT AK 1425 8M 501 MH 741 AK 1421 SUN AK 1425 8M 501 MH 741 AK 1421

YANGON TO SINGAPORE

WED 8M 403 SAT 8M 403 MON TUE WED THUR FRI SAT SUN KE 472 KE 472 KE 472 KE 472 KE 472 KE 472 KE 472

YANGON TO PHNOM PENH YANGON TO SEOUL

00:05 00:05 00:05 00:05 00:05 00:05 00:05

16:45 19:10 16:45 19:10 08:00 08:00 08:00 08:00 08:00 08:00 08:00

MON FD 2751 FD 2755 FD 2753 TUE FD 2751 FD 2755 FD 2753 WED FD 2751 FD 2755 FD 2753 THUR FD 2751 FD 2755 FD 2753 FRI FD 2751 FD 2755 FD 2753 SAT FD 2751 FD 2755 FD 2753 SUN FD 2751 FD 2755 FD 2753

DON MUENG TO YANGON

07:15 11:35 16:20 07:15 11:35 16:20 07:15 11:35 16:20 07:15 11:35 16:20 07:15 11:35 16:20 07:15 11:35 16:20 07:15 11:35 16:20 07:55 09:10 09:10 14:10 14:20 07:55 09:10 09:10 14:10 14:20 07:55 09:10 09:10 14:10 14:20 07:55 09:10 09:10 14:10 14:20 07:55 09:10 09:10 14:10 14:20 19:15 22:10 07:55 09:10 09:10 14:10 14:20 19:15 07:55 09:10 09:10 14:10 14:20 19:15 22:10

08:00 12:20 17:05 08:00 12:20 17:05 08:00 12:20 17:05 08:00 12:20 17:05 08:00 12:20 17:05 08:00 12:20 17:05 08:00 12:20 17:05 09:20 10:40 10:40 15:40 15:45 09:20 10:40 10:40 15:40 15:45 09:20 10:40 10:40 15:40 15:45 09:20 10:40 10:40 15:40 15:45 09:20 10:40 10:40 15:40 15:45 20:45 23:35 09:20 10:40 10:40 15:40 15:45 20:45 09:20 10:40 10:40 15:40 15:45 20:45 23:35

MON MU 2031 TUE CA 905 MU 2031 WED CA 905 MU 2031 THUR CA 905 MU 2031 FRI MU 2031 SAT CA 905 MU 2031 SUN CA 905 MU 2031 MON AI 227 FRI AI 227 AI 233

KUNMING TO YANGON
13:30 13:00 13:30 13:00 13:30 13:00 13:30 13:30 13:00 13:30 13:00 13:30

KOLKATA TO YANGON

10:10 12:55 10:10 12:55 13:30 16:00

THUR W9 9608 SUN W9 9608 MON TUE WED THUR FRI SAT SUN TUE THUR SAT SUN VN 957 VN 957 VN 957 VN 957 VN 957 VN 957 VN 957 VN 943 VN 943 VN 943 VN 943

CHIANG MAI TO YANGON HANOI TO YANGON

16:35 16:35 16:35 16:35 16:35 16:35 16:35 11:40 11:40 11:40 11:40

19:40 20:30 17:20 17:50 18:10 18:10 18:10 18:10 18:10 18:10 18:10 13:25 13:25 13:25 13:25

MON 8M 401 FRI 8M 401

YANGON SIEM REAP YANGON TO TOKYO

01:00 01:00 01:00 01:00

17:05 19:15 17:05 19:15 22:00 06:40+1 06:00 06:00 06:00 06:00

WED NH 914 MON TUE THUR SAT KA 251 KA 251 KA 251 KA 251

YANGON TO HONGKONG

MON NH 914 WED NH 914 SAT NH 914 MON TUE THUR SAT

YANGON TO TOKYO

22:00 06:40+1 22:00 06:40+1 22:00 06:40+1 11:05 11:05 11:05 11:05 13:30 13:30 13:30 13:30

MANDALAY TO DON MUENG

FD 2761 FD 2761 FD 2761 FD 2761

339, Bogyoke Aung San Rd, 2nd Flr, Sakura Tower, Kyauktada Tsp, Yangon, Myanmar. Tel: 255 287~9, Fax: 255 290

YANGON TO KUALA LUMPUR

Dragonair (KA)
Unit 1107, 11th Flr, Sakura Tower, 339 Bogyoke Aung San Rd, Kyauktada Tsp; Yangon. Tel: 95-1-255322

Thai Airways (TG)

MON MU 2030 MU 7524 TUE MU 2030 WED MU 2030 MU 7524 THUR MU 2030 FRI MU 2030 MU 7524 SAT MU 2030 SUN MU 2030 TUE 8M 603 THUR 8M 603 SUN 8M 603

MANDALAY TO KUNMING
14:40 18:20 14:40 14:40 18:20 14:40 14:40 18:20 14:40 14:40

17:20 21:00 17:20 17:20 21:00 17:20 17:20 21:00 17:20 17:20

MON SQ 998 3K 585 8M 6231 8M 232 MI 518 TUE SQ 998 3K 585 8M 6231 8M 232 MI 518 WED SQ 998 3K 585 8M 6231 8M 232 MI 518 THUR SQ 998 3K 585 8M 6231 8M 232 MI 518 FRI SQ 998 3K 585 8M 6231 8M 232 MI 518 8M 234 MI 520 SAT SQ 998 3K 585 8M 6231 8M 232 MI 518 8M 234 SUN SQ 998 8M 6231 3K 585 8M 232 MI 518 8M 234 MI 520 TUE WED THUR SAT SUN CA 905 CA 905 CA 905 CA 905 CA 905

SINGAPORE TO YANGON

HO CHI MINH TO YANGON

MON 8M 602 WED 8M 602 FRI 8M 602 AI 233 SAT 8M 602 TUE 8M 604 THUR 8M 604 SUN 8M 604 MON TUE WED THUR FRI SAT SUN QR 618 QR 618 QR 618 QR 618 QR 618 QR 618 QR 618

GAYA TO YANGON
12:50 12:50 12:50 15:00 12:50

16:00 16:00 16:00 16:00 16:00

GAYA TO MANDALAY

13:15 16:20 13:15 16:20 13:15 16:20 21:05 21:05 21:05 21:05 21:05 21:05 21:05 06:29+1 06:29+1 06:29+1 06:29+1 06:29+1 06:29+1 06:29+1

DOHA TO YANGON

WED 8M 404 SAT 8M 404 MON TUE WED THUR FRI SAT SUN KE 471 KE 471 KE 471 KE 471 KE 471 KE 471 KE 471

PHNOM PENH TO YANGON SEOUL TO YANGON

18:40 18:40 18:40 18:40 18:40 18:40 18:40

20:10 21:35 20:10 21:35 22:45 22:45 22:45 22:45 22:45 22:45 22:45

BEIJNG TO YANGON
8:05 8:05 8:05 8:05 8:05

MON 8M 402 FRI 8M 402

SIEM REAP TO YANGON TOKYO TO YANGON

20:15 21:25 20:15 21:25 11:10 17:05 11:10 17:05 11:10 17:05 23:35 23:35 23:35 23:35 10:35 10:35 10:35 10:35

Room No. 1101, Sakura Tower, 339, Bogyoke Aung San Rd, Kyauktada Tsp, Ygn. Tel : 255491~6, Fax : 255223

MANDALAY TO GAYA

11:10 12:15 11:10 12:15 11:10 12:15

13:15 13:15 13:15 13:15 13:15

MON NH 913 WED NH 913 SAT NH 913 MON WED FRI SUN KA 250 KA 250 KA 250 KA 250

HONGKONG TO YANGON
21:20 21:20 21:20 21:20 09:10 09:10 09:10 09:10

Malaysia Airlines (MH)

335/357, Bogyoke Aung San Rd, Pabedan Tsp, Yangon. Tel : 387648, 241007 ext : 120, 121, 122 Fax : 241124

Vietnam Airlines (VN)

International
FD & AK = Air Asia TG = Thai Airways 8M = Myanmar Airways International PG = Bangkok Airways MI = Silk Air VN = Vietnam Airline MH = Malaysia Airlines CZ = China Southern CI = China Airlines CA = Air China KA = Dragonair IC = Indian Airlines Limited W9 = Air Bagan 3K = Jet Star AI = Air India QR = Qatar Airways KE = Korea Airlines NH = All Nippon Airways SQ = Singapore Airways DE = Condor Airlines MU=China Eastern Airlines BR = Eva Airlines DE = Condor

Air India

75, Shwe Bon Thar St, Pabedan Tsp, Yangon. Tel : 253597~98, 254758. Fax: 248175

#1702, Sakura Tower 339, Bogyoke Aung San Rd, Kyauktada Tsp, Yangon. Fax 255086. Tel 255066/ 255088/ 255068.

Bangkok Airways (PG)

#0305, 3rd Fl, Sakura Tower, 339, Bogyoke Aung San Rd, Kyauktada Tsp, Yangon. Tel: 255122, 255 265, Fax: 255119

Myanmar Airways International(8M)

Qatar Airways (Temporary Office)

MON TUE THUR SAT MON TUE WED THUR FRI SAT SUN

DON MUEANG TO MANDALAY

FD 2760 FD 2760 FD 2760 FD 2760

KUNMING TO MANDALAY
MU 2029 MU 2029 MU 2029 MU 2029 MU 2029 MU 2029 MU 2029 14:00 14:00 14:00 14:00 14:00 14:00 14:00

08-02, Sakura Tower, 339, Bogyoke Aung San Rd, Kyauktada Tsp, Ygn. Tel : 255260, Fax: 255305

33, Alan Pya Pagoda Rd. 2nd Flr, Parkroyal Hotel, Dagon Tsp, Yangon. Tel: 01-250388, (ext: 8142, 8210)

Subject to change without notice

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Risk Only Money translation launched

By Zon Pann Pwint THE Myanmar-language version of American businessman Jack DeBoers 2011 book Risk Only Money w a s l a u n c h e d a t Pa r k Royal Hotel on January 29, translated from the original English by Wint Pyone Myint. The businessman first visited in Myanmar in 1988 as part of a journey across 39 countries in his private jet. Mr DeBoer said at the book launch that he wrote Risk Only Money to recount the role that ethics and morality have played in his life, and to highlight the importance of paying attention to the right things. He said that while travelling around on speaking tours and delivering numerous talks at colleges, universities and business organisations, young people were more interested in hearing him talk about the bad things he had done in his life, rather than the good things. Im not an author, Im a businessman from the United States. I have given speeches not because I love talking but because I want to tell about my real life, he said. It quickly became clear that audiences wanted to hear about the good and bad, but they told me they wanted me to talk about the bad things I had done more than the good things. DeBoer served as a military police officer in the 1950s, and afterward set up a construction company to build single-family homes and apartment buildings. Risk Only Money opens with a description about Mr DeBoer suffered great hardship after his business crashed, even to the point of receiving death threat from one of his creditors. The business crashed and I went bankrupt. I had to relinquish the entire business and start over, he said. I spent two days in bed, not knowing what to do next. But I still had my family, my friends, my health and a reputation for telling the truth. This is all at the beginning of the book. He said the title comes from a recurring thought that came into his head at the time, that he should risk only money in his life. I thought money can be gained, and it can be lost. So, risk only money without giving up who you are, he said. As the book proceeds, Mr DeBoer tells of how he was able to do the right things by letting go of his ego and learning from his failures, which also led to new success in the hotel business. In 1987 he sold his hotel business, bought a private airplane and started exploring the world with his family. They left Kansas in April 1988 and travelled the world for four months. We went to 39 countries because we wanted to see where the most disadvantaged people live and who they worked for, he said. When they arrived Yangon during the tense buildup to the pro-democracy protests in August 1988 the country was largely closed to foreigners. Because it was closed, I wanted to go in. When we arrived at the airport, we were told that I could not bring my video camera in, so I had to leave it on the plane, Mr DeBoer said. He added that his 24-hour visit to Myanmar changed his life, and the situation in the country induced a desire to provide continuing support for its people. We were rushed into the city from the hotel, where we were only allowed to stay for 24 hours. We visited Shwedagon Pagoda and then went to Twante, he said, adding that he met two young people on a boat in Twante who told him about the situation in Myanmar at the time. After Twante we went back to the hotel, where we were given a note from the US embassy that said the country was coming apart. So we left, he said. It was the rainy season, and it poured down rain when we departed. After we returned home, we asked ourselves why God allowed us to make this trip, and why he allowed us to see the needs of the people in this country. We thought that we had to do something. Mr DeBoer said he immediately approached the US-based nongovernment organisation World Vision and offered to help support their healthcare projects in Myanmar. As part of this ongoing support, proceeds from sales of the translation of Risk Only Money will go toward World Vision projects in Myanmar, he said.

Jack DeBoer. Pic: Aung Htay Hlaing

YOUR STARS
By Astrologer Aung Myin Kyaw
Aquarius

human resources are unqualified to fill their roles. Love is based on relative emotions and therefore does not belong to the individual.
Leo

Tolerance is a species of humility that should be used be in opposition to pessimistic attitudes and misconceptions. Use your social position for the benefit of others. Rely on your education and advice from trusted family members to make the right decisions in important matters. Love will help fulfill your emotional needs.
Pisces

(Jan 20 - Feb 18)

Never go beyond your capacity. Know that the real seat of taste is not the tongue but the mind, and restraint is more important than quantity when it comes to thought and speech. Make an effort to correct social incompatibility or you might become deranged. Dont allow pessimism to overwhelm your attitude and outlook. One of your close friends is prone to fall in love with you.
Virgo

(July 23 - Aug 22)

Events Flash
Bagan Deco
Painter Pe Nyunt Way will show his artwork in a show titled Bagan Deco at Lokanat Gallery (62 Pansodan Street, First Floor, Kyauktada township) from February 4 to 9.

Calle de la Salsa
Tuesday is salsa night at 50th Street Bar, featuring free dance classes (salsa, bachata, mambo, meringue and more), plus dance shows and drink specials. With music by DJ Mani and special guests.

Man will ever remain imperfect, but it will always be his role to strive for perfection. Welcome the increasingly difficult struggles that are an inevitable component of upward progress. Build relations by focusing on harmony and dissent-free social communication, which can lead to hidden opportunities. Your egocentric attitude will serve only to keep love at bay.
Aries

(Feb 19 - Mar 20)

Make restraint the law of your being; the highest perfection is unattainable without the highest restraint. Life requires freedom for the development of strong mental and physical conditions. Despite difficulties, maintain sympathy for your parents, and help them as much as you are able. Making a pilgrimage or a journey for a good cause will soothe your soul.
Libra

(Aug 23 - Sept 22)

Urban art
T h e Re n d e z v o u s I I Southeast Asian Urban Art Event will be held from February 4 to 9, at 10 Damayone Street, Hlaing township. The event will include many local street artists, as well as visiting artists from the Philippines, Malaysia, C a m b o d i a , Vi e t n a m , Singapore, Thailand and Indonesia. The opening party on February 4, from 5pm to 7pm, will feature live graffiti.

Wednesday wine
The Wednesday Wine Club meets every (you guessed it) Wednesday at the QP Inya Shop (30 Inya Road). Taste four or five wines for K10,000 a person. Contact chad.quarto@gmail.com or 09-7321-8711.

Life is governed by a multitude of forces. Sailing would be smoother if you could determine the causes of action by using sound judgment and cultivating reasonable general principles. The world will learn to apply to you the standards that you apply to yourself. Strive for greatness by pursuing your social duties and responsibilities. You can learn about love by studying the conflict between sex and Eros.
Taurus

(March 21 - April 19)

Use your intellectual prowess to perceive the wrong behind the right, and take swift action to correct the situation. The way of love sustains faith and hope, and gives abiding meaning to human life. Create your life by living in loving imagination.
Scorpio

(Sept 23 - Oct 22)

Live music
Friendship Band belts out classic rock tunes at 50th Street Restaurant every Wednesday and Friday night.

Silence is an essential component of the spiritual discipline of truth, which can help cure the natural weakness of humans. Through this technique, what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clarity. Pay attention to yourself, and make the time to reflect on what you want your life to stand for, what you have learned for your years, and what your legacy will be. A love that progresses slowly will increase emotional satisfaction.
Gemini

(April 20 - May 20)

Learn to modify the peculiarities of your spiritual constitution so you can understand yourself clearly, and realise that accidents will happen even in the best of all possible worlds. You should be the maker of your own destiny, in the sense that you must learn more about the value of everybody and everything around you.
Sagittarius

(Oct 23 - Nov 21)

What art
A group exhibition titled What and featuring the work of artists WPM, Htay Lwin, Augn Kyaw San and Tin Min Aung will be held at Lokanat Gallery (62 Pansodan Street, First Floor, Kyauktada township) from February 11 to 16.

Thurs night jam

Enjoy an eclectic mix of free-form music upstairs at 50th Street Restaurant, starting at 8pm. If you would like your event listed in Event Flash, please email editors@ myanmartimes.com.mm.

One never can achieve anything lasting in this world by lacking in resolution. Remain an empty dream and try to become absolutely passion-free in thought, speech and action, to rise above the opposing currents of love and hatred, attachment and repulsion. You can show that you value your love relation by working had to keep romance alive.
Cancer

(May 21 - June 20)

Reduce the tensions and worries that are adding undue stress and strain to your life. Start by breaking your longrange goals down into more easily achievable short- or medium-range goals. Also, avoid contact with negative thinkers and those who spend too much time bemoaning their lot in life. Creating love means co-creating a history of mutual understanding.
Capricorn

(Nov 22 - Dec 21)

True happiness is impossible without true health, and true health is impossible without rigid control of the palate. Social interference will cause misunderstanding in your family relationships. Money is not easy to make when available

(June 22 - July 22)

Without adaptability and right observation, it was impossible to get people to do quality work. Your mind is anxious for social reform, but dont expect much from others except opposition, abhorrence and even persecution. Be graceful and charming, and take the time to learn how to value your close partners. Through this approach, you can start building a strong social community leading to a better future.
For a personal reading contact Aung Myin Kyaw, 4th Floor, 113, Thamain Bayan Road, Tamwe Township, Yangon. Tel: 0973135632, Email: williameaste@gmail.com

(Dec 22 - Jan 19)

General
Business
Hotel Investment Opportunity Malaysian Investor is seeking Myanmar Land Owner for JV Partner Malaysia public listed company looking for JV with Building owner to be convert as a 4 Star or 5 Star hotel at Yangon Area. Interested persons should email info@mmcc.com. my (or) zmlsjme@ gmail. com (or) contact 09500-0246 at the earliest convenience for further information. Teacher Solomon 99/101 B, HLedan, 09-541-7781. Email: ielts.consultant @ gmail.com weekdays & weekend also group or individual class) enquiry to teacher Nang 09-4210-11345. hlc: High Language Centre. Hindi, English & Myanmar. (Writing, Reading & Speaking) by an Expert Teacher. Ph: 09-4210-98790. myanmar Language Training Course For Foreigners. Contact: 09-518-1316 or 09-73127074 for Registration. global Enchanting Education Centre. English Class For MOM. Contact us: 09-731-27074. special Basic Plus Business Commu nicative English Course & others General English Courses, IELTS (foundation & preparation), Young learners (KET, PET), One to One, Special Class & Home Teacher Veronica (09-4004-94397). Inspiration, No(115), 1st Flr, Insein Rd, Near Thukha Bus-stop, Hlaing , Spoken Myanmar for every day. Saya Victor Hla Wai, a former tour guide with 15-year experience will teach to foreigners who want to learn spoken Myanmar. Ph : 09-421018410. English (home tuition) speaking, grammar, issue. letter, academic writing. SAT. TOEFL. IELT. GCE, IGCSE. GMAT four skills . local & international school, English , English for Japaneses children and adult - home tuition courses are availe now. you can contact to the following person & phone number Saya-UKyi-Sin (Mumyit Thar) Ph: 09-4210-67-375. Samsung P1000 Galaxy Tab 16GB (Wifi + 3G) Price : 150000 iPhone 3GS 32GB Black. Ph : 09-45003844 Samsung P1000 Galaxy Tab 16GB (Wifi + 3G) Price : 150000 iPhone 3GS 32GB Black. Price : 180000. Ph : 09-45003844 Original 3DS Game Cartridge (Spirit Camrea: The Cursed Memoir) - 20000 Kyats - Original 3DS Game Cartridge (Kid Icarus: Uprising) - 20000 Kyats Imation External Harddisk 320 GB (with cover) - 18000 Kyats - 2.5" External Harddisk casing + 2.5" Laptop Harddisk 320 GB - 16000 Kyats. Ph: 09-507-9980" Dell Core i3 (Black Color) Memory 2 GB Hard disk 500GB Very good condition Just Like New WithOriginalChargerPrice - 250000 Kyats HP Core i5 (Sandy Bridge) Second Generation Memory 2GB Hard disk 320GB With Windows 7 License Very Good Condition Just Like New With Bag and Original Charge Price - 350000 Ph - 09-73048106 MacBook Air 11' 1 No Intel Corei5, RAM 4GB S.S.D 64GB, Price : 690000 Ph : 09 - 450039844 ( HD {Game,app} install iPhone, iPod touch 6000ks, iPad 8000ks) iOS upgrade, jailbreak, (iTunes US account open- HD game, app download) Gmail account open, Android game, app install 5000ks, Ph : 09-5147480. iPhone 4G 16GB White With Original Box & Accessories (IOS 5.1.1) Price : 290000 iPhone 4G 16GB White With Original Accessories (IOS 5.0.1). Price : 270000. Ph : 09450-039844. Handset Huawei C 5600 & Huawei C 5900 Handsets (good second hand) Ph: 09-44-8006520. Mazda Demio (Sport Type) [ 2006 Model ] [AC, PS, PW, ABS, SRS, TV, Back Camera, Power Exhauster] Ph : 09-44800-6520 WiMax (Bagan), McWill Ph: 09-44-800-6520 iPhone 3GS 32GB Black With OriginalAccessories. Price : 190000. Ph 09450-039844. iPhone 4 32GB offical unlock amazing condition (original accessories packing box) 320000 ks. Ph : 09-514-7480 Samsung Galaxy Note 2 White With Original Box & Accessories Price :450000 Ph : 09-450-039844 Ipad 3 16GB Retina Display bought in USA Apple warranty till Dec 2013. Reasonable price. Ph: 09-514-2568.

Property
Travel
nyan Myint Thu, Car Rental Service, Ko Nyan Myint Win Kyi Managing Director, Add: 56, Bo Ywe St, Latha , Yangon. Tel: 095-01-246551, 095-01-375283, 09570-4335, Email: colwinkyi @ gmail.com, nyanmyintthu@gmail. com Real Estate or Landhousing investment in Myanmar. We coordi nately invite Myanmar citizens or nons to cooperate with us as w will take responsibilities with our citizenship scrutiny Forthosewhoareinterested and want to cooperate with us may contact Saya Bryan 09-4200-70692, Saya Htet (Engineer) 09-215-00 75

Public Notices
the united Nations Childrens Fund (UNICEF) in Myanmar, is looking for potential suppliers for the following main supplies and services: Supplies Printing of textbooks, exercise books, posters etc Classroom equipment including furniture - Emergency shelter including tarpaulin - Household and Kitchen equipment Blankets - Vehicle spare parts including tyres and batteries - Generators Hand and submersible pumps and spare parts - PVC and HDPE pipes - Galvanized pipes and fittings - Galvanized roof systems - Water storage including plastic jerry cans and buckets - Water treatement chemicals Soap - Sports and playing equipment - Bicycles - Communication and IT equipment. Service Communication and Marketing Services including road show: artwork/ pre-print

Housing for Rent

BAHAN, (1) Inya Lane, 60' x 60'. 2 RC. Newly house. US$ 4000. (2) Shwe Than Lwin Condo, 3600 sqft, 2 mB, 1BR, 6 A/C. US$ 3000 (3)Than Lwin Lane, 60 x 80 RC 1, US$ 2500. Maureen : 09-5188320 North Dagon, Shwe Pin Lone Housing, Good Estate, Located in 80' x 80', 2 MB, 2SB, Without Furniture, Fully Furnished, Good neighborhood, near Pinlone Hospital, Foreigner Welcome 5 Lakhs, Ph: 09432-00669 or email : nicerealproperty@ gmail.com Chan Thar Condo, 1650 sq ft, 1 master bed, 2 singles, maid room, living room, kitchen, dining area, free internet, tv, swimming pool, 24 hr electricity, water, security, parking. Gym, Spa & convienan ce store, playground in same compound. USD 1800, negotiable. Ph: 09-732-24316

Expert Service
Quick and Professional Translation: Tr. Daw Aye Mya Oo (B.A (Eng) YUFL) (Dip. ELTM) (Dip. DMA). Ph: 09-430-64296, ayemyaoo @ gmail.com. pyi myanmar, Air Con; Sale & Service, Special Promotion, (9 Jan to 3 Feb 2013), Sale, Installation, Servicing, Repairing, Ph: 09-4211-06509, 09-73067031. Business & Employment Facilitat ion U Khin Maung Win, Ph.D (Food Security Consultant) Ph: 643857, drkmw. foodsecurity @ gmail. com Train-theTrainer & Professional Training Services for Managers, QM Managers, Supervisors in Food Industry, Manufacturing Plant, Institutions, Training Centres, Medical services, Food Catering Centres, Wipassana Meditation Centresetc. Techno logy & Experience: GMP, HACCP Food Safety, ISO series, Food Sanitation, Hygiene. Joint Venture Business: V.A.P, R-T-E & Product R & D Translator Available speaking and writing English / Myanmar Call Mary @ 09-400-039 534 Golden sky Aluminum, stainless steel , Iron & Composite Work : We Want to do, Your are Sub Contractor We can do ! Following Work; Aluminum Decoration & Furniture, Aluminum partition & slide door, Glass, stainless steel home decoration & furniture, Iron work & composite decoration, sign board & Light Box, Concrete brick & block. Address: 10, Bo Moe St, Sanchaung. Ph: 09-43178764, 09-492-31696.

2 storey, 4 MBR, 1 Single Rm, 6AC, Ph, USD 4800. (2) Tawwin Rd , (70x 90), 2 storey, 3MBR, 1BR, 5AC, Ph, USD 4500. (3) 7 mile (Near Honda Showroom), (40x80), 2 storey, 2 MBR, 4 Bed Rm, USD 3000. (4) 9 mile (Maurawadi Rd), (80x90), 2 storey, 4 MBR, Swimming Pool, USD 2500. No Agts Pls. Call 09-4211-77105.

Housing for Sale

BAHAN, New University avenue Lane Condo, 2400 sqft, Newly Apt Maureen : 09-5188320 KYAUKTADA, MGW Tower (Bo Aung Kyaw Lane) 7th Flr, 1500 sqft, 2 WC. Ph, 3 BR. Ph : 09507-9048, 09-732-41848 Mayangone , 9 miles, Bonyarna Lane (50"x 70") garden with including house. 3500 Lakhs. no agent please. Ph : 09-5036519, 09421029911. Duplex penthouse for sale. The highest quality and most beautiful duplex penthouse in Yangon. Stunning scenery of Shwe Dagon Pagoda and Inya Lake, fully furnished with export quality wooden floors & furniture, central air-con system, state-of-the-art plumbing and electricity, all in accordance with Swiss standards. CCTV, internet, ... Two floors, total area 4057 sqft. Shwe Hintha Tower, 6 1/2 miles, Pyay Rd. For more info visit http:// yangon-penthouse. com. Southern Shan State, Kalaw, near B.O.C, One storyed brick building (36x36), 3 bed-rooms attached toilet and shower. Hot water-cold water, auto phone. Land (120x65), Flat, good views, quiet place. Ph: 09-4500-32258, 09-49244164. Pabedan, Classic Standard Condomini um, 28A, B 27 St x Merchant St, 2nd Fl,1756 ft , High 14 ft, 4000 Lakh , Hall Type, Ph: Bryan (Engineer) 094200-70692 . LASHIO : Ward 12, 2Acres Land including the main house and 2storey building. Near downtown and Very Good place for business. Price: negotiable. Ph: 09-49273629, 09-517-1377, 09515-8738

Computer
IT Consultant Please call meforyourITprojects.IdoIT consultant and networking projects. Computer System Engineer, Tel : (09-5105696) 5 years experience in Singapore.

Training center
Australian, 7 months in Myanmar, FRC ( S) visa, experienced Manager/Supervisor NGO, Welfare/Disability -& Aged Care - General Insurance - Pvte English tuition, seeking P/T, F/T or Contract work. Anything considered. Please call Graham 450046492, email: Grahamgoody @ gmail.com global Enchanting Education Centre. English Class for Mom. Fashion and Personal Grooming for Mom. Beauty and Skin Care for Mom. Registration Now. Contact: 09-731-27074. global Enchanting Training Centre. Office Safety, Management Course, 28th and 29th January 2013, 28th Jan - Lecture, 29th JanEquipment Practical, Contact: 09-731-27074. YCTC Business Institute of Yangon : Business Management,Managing in Organisations, Human Resources Management, Market ing Management, Financial Manage ment. Shwe Gone Taing Tower, Bahan. Tel: 01-558364, 09-420 118100 I dont teach art, but I mentor undeveloped creativity. Originality is the purest artistic quality.ZONCY (www. facebook.com/ artistzoncy) Art Mentor for Creative Kids and Teenagers Weekend art classes for kids aged bet. 6 to 12 & teenagers aged bet.13 to 17. Ph: 09-425025 432 Email: babyreporter @gmail. com Future Point : At least 5 or 10 persons in a section for Chinese & English Language (Basic, Intermediate, Advanced) & English Conversation. Course At least 1 or 2 persons in a class for Basic Computer and Graphic Design Course : Block 38/1, Baw Zin St, Baw Zin Lan Thwe (3), Thuwunna, Ph: 09-732-15521

Education
igcse, Secondary II, III, IV, Physics, Pure Maths, Maths (B), Ph: 09-450025213. saya Saw Aung (Ex.A.P) Chemistry Classes for Intl School (sec-levels), iGCSE, GCE A Level & SAT II, Ph: 2300441, 09500-5470. Learn IELTS from expert IELTS Teacher and achieve your desired Band With latest practice materials, unique test tips and techniques, Domo answers & special preparation By Teacher Pwintnee - 09-448026167 Teachers who have got Teaching experien ce in Singapore, Grade 10, 11 and Intl school , GCSE, SAT, IELTS, TOEFL, Sayar Bryan, ME (IT) (Leader) 09-420-070692, Sayar Htet Ph; 09-215-0075, Sayar Min Aung (B.E, IT) (09-492-80490) , IELTS Training School Register Now. No 10, Thirimingalar St, Aung Chan Thar Ward, Sanchaung . Ph: 09-425014011, 09-400- 449 779. maths Foundation Level, Grade IX, X and XI, Intl Students, Pre University level, courses: IGCSE A, O Level, Algebra, Geometry, Calculus, Integral, Teacher: Kaung Myat BE(PE), Ph: 09-731-42020, Kaungmyatoo251@ gmail.com, Add: 10, 1st Flr, Kwinchaung 2 St, Ahlone. EDUCATION To guide your child for primary level International school Subjects English, Maths Science, Geography History, English Language contact : candlelight295@ g m a i l . c o m Address : 12 , 7th flr,153 rd St, Tamwe Yangon. special Teaching (Individual or Group). Mathematics for GCE, Edexcel IGCSE (O & A Level). Mathematics for SAT (Grade 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12). Mathematics for Matric Exam. Teacher Kyi: B.Sc (Honours), M.Sc (Engg Maths), M.Res (Mathematics). Ph: 09731-48725. international Schools Subjects : English, Maths, Science,Hindi&Social.Will coach your kids with great effort. Contect :Teacher Fiona : 31, 6th floor , U Lun St, Tawme . Ph:09430-63590 IELTS (Basic, 7.5 & Above); Special IGCSE (Eng, Phy, Math, Chem, Bio); SATfor US Colleges; We are Hero-makers;

For Rent
Toyota Mark II , White Color, Grand Twincam 2.4 Octane, good condition Price USD 500 /month (exclude Driver) Price USD 800/month (Include Driver) Ph:09-500-8359 Daw Thitsa Wabo/ U Aung Hla Tun.

Language
SPANISH Language class with Spanish native in exchange of MYANMAR lenguage with native in Yangon. Pls interested ones contact me at rafamadrid2003@yahoo. es english class for Mom. Fashion and Personal Grooming for Mom. Beauty and Skin Care for Mom. Contact us: 09-73127074. 09-518-1316. myanmar Language Training Course For Foreigners. Contact 09-518-1316 or 09-73127074 for Registration. english Grammar 5-9th Standard. Ph: 09-5413847. myanmar, Thai, Shan & Russian. Ph: 09-73161269. home visit experienced Freelence Teacher for foreigners who is willingly learn Burmese Language. (4-skills). (Available for

For Sale
iPhone 4G 32GB Black Official Unlock (Excellent Condition) Price : 320000 iPhone 4G 16GB Black Official Unlock (Excellent Condition) Price : 280000 Ph : 09450039844 Samsung P1000 Galaxy Tab 16GB (Wifi+3G) Price : 150000 Ph : 09-45003844 iPhone 4S 64GB B/W : 450000 iPhone 4S 32GB B/W : 390000 iPhone 4S 16GB B/W : 350000 iPhone 4G 32GB B/W : 300000 iPhone 4G 16GB B/W : 250000 iPhone 3GS 32GB B/W : 170000 iPhone 3GS 16GB B/W : 140000 iPhone 3G 16GB B/W : 100000 iPhone 3G 8GB B/W : 70000 Ph : 09450-039844

design, development and maintenance of website, transit media (hoarding messages on buses, billboards etc), TV and radio production. Interpretation and translation services Financial assessment and auditing - Service and maintenance of computers, printers, UPS, PABX - Network cabling and wiring - Development of computer software Car and bus rental - High volume photocopying including high quality digital print - Transport & forwarding services. Pls contact Ms. Yin Win Khine (Y@unicef.org) for additional information.

Want To Buy
Secondhand Apple iPhone 5/4S/4/3GS/3G iPad 4G/Mini/3/2/1, iPod 5G/4G, Macbook Pro , Mac Air Samsung Note2 /Note1 /S3/S2 Samsung Tablets , Laptops Note Books , Net Books , Ultra Books, & More. Ph : 09450-039844

Kamayut, Thirimigalar Rd (Attia Rd), 2RC, 4MB+Hall type, 10,000 sqft compound. no agent. Ph: 389706, 09-2004467. e-mail: star85ster@ gmail.com Abuilding&acompound : One storey building with 2 bed rooms (bathrooms attached), a kitchen and a small hall in a big compound. Located on the road to Ngwe Saung Beach, twenty minutes drive from Pathein Bridge & 1 hour drive to Ngwe Saung. Ph: 09-520-1910, 09-421-114621, 09-422484745. Chantha Gonyaung Executive Condo miniums, Penthouse/ Rooms. 4 rooms, 5 rooms. Fully Furnished. Amazing serenity and satisfactory facilities, club restaurant. 24 hours electricity internet, cable TV. Brookers welcome. Interested parties Pls call: 09-73-85811, 09-73085844, 09-850-2055. (1) DAGON Tsp, Near Thai Embassy . (80x80),

Want to hire
for company office Bahan (Kabaaye Pogada Rd, Pyi Htaung Su Rd), Hlaing (Pyay Rd),Kamayut (Pyay Rd), Yankin 2RC or 3 RC, MB 5, 3 Phase Power Meter, Water-Cute well & YCDC, Compound 80x80, Fully Furnished, Pls contact by houseowneronly,556407, 540995, 4412580.

Employment
Ingo Positions
we are seeking qualified & experience Myanmar National for the following position for one year (renewable based on performance):Position: Partner Project Coordinator (YWCA position) Job Purpose to ensure effective coordination of the project planning, implementation, monitoring & evaluation and reporting between HelpAge International Myanmar and National YWCA Yangon office, as well as with the project teams based in Mawlamyaing and Hpa-An Townships. The Partner Project Coordinator will work under the direct supervision of HAI Project Manager (PM) and under the overall supervision of the General Secretary of the National YWCA. Responsibilities: Project planning and management. Identify target villages, 10 in each township. Maintain an indepth knowledge of key project documentation and ensure projects staffs based in Mawlamyaing and Hpa-An Townships are fully familiar with these documents. Guide the project team to ensure that OPSHGs are developed following HAI guidelines. Together with the project team in Mawlamyaing and HpaAn, develop Costed Work Plans (CWP) based on the project budget for submission to the PM. Facilitate the development of detailed activity implementation plan by the project team as per the approved work plan to achieve the project outputs (log frame). Provide coaching/ mentoring support to Township Coordinators and other team members to ensure effective and timely implementation of activities according to the work plan endorsed by the PCT. Together with Project Finance Officer, review monthly financial reports (monthly budget vs actual expenditures) to verify all activity related transactions are allocated correctly, and plan appropriate follow up actions. Ensure the project staffs follow sound financial management principles in compliance with the contractual requirements. Ensure submission of quarterly procurement plans to PM on time. Jointly with PM coordinate the organization of quarterly, annual and mid-term review, lessons learned workshops and final evaluation of the project. Ensure that all Project Coordination Team (PCT) meeting decisions are communicated to the project team in Mawlamyaing and HpaAn on time and that they are implemented. Staff management: Ensure that field team members have a good understanding of their roles and responsibilities. Encourage the development of a strong team ethos in the project team. Ensure that all the project staff fully understands and promotes accountability in general and to older people in particular; Responsible for performance management of Township Coordinators and Community D e v e l o p m e n t Officers and on the job training where appropriate. Jointly with the PM, conduct staff performance appraisal for Township Coordinators. Support/ guide the Township Coordinators in appraising performance (probation and annual) of the 4 Community Development Officers. Ensure overall programme cohesion through coordination and information sharing with and between all key staff. Oversight of township level coordination and relationship building with government, other agencies and NGOs working on livelihood issues Monitoring and reporting: Ensure that the monitoring and evaluation tools developed are used by the project team. Conduct monitoring and evaluation of the project implementation as per the M&E framework and coordinate with the M&E Officer. Ensure submission of a quality progress report to the PM. Coordination/ Networking: National and Township level coordination and relationship building with other organisations, and relevant government authorities at the National level coordination with other NGOs working on similar issues. Others: Any other duties as prioritised in discussion with Project Coordination Team members. Qualifications and competencies: University degree in social work, community d e v e l o p m e n t , agriculture or relate fields; At least 5 years project management including project budget management experience with NGOs. At least 2-year experience supervising/ managing staff. Demonstrated community mobilization, participatory techniques, training and facilitation skills. Strong interpersonal skills, soundjudgmentandteam building skills. Sound understanding of project cycle management and experience in monitoring and evaluation. Good report writing skills. An understanding of the importance of gender in development work and inclusion of vulnerable people. Proven track record of quality performance in remote locations and high pressure environments. Experience in facilitating training workshops and coaching. High degree of initiative and problem solving skills. Advanced written and spoken English and Myanmar language skills. Basic computer proficiency essential. Interested and qualified candidates are requested to send a Cover Letter and CV to the HR Unit of HelpAge International Myanmar Country Office, No.10, Kanbawza Avenue, Shwetaunggya Ward No.(1), Bahan Tsp., Yangon OR to hr. helpagemyanmar@ gmail.com no later than Sunday, 10 February 2013. Only shortlisted candidates will be invited for interview. MalteserInt'lisseeking (1) Procure ment Officer in Maungdaw, Northern Rakhine State : University degree in relevant field (Business Administration. Accounting, Finance or other relevant field). 3 years of experience in procurement for NGO or similar. Good command of English, fluent in the languages of the local commu nities. Excellent soft ware skills for MS Word, Excel. User skills with Database software. (2) Database Assistant Maungdaw, Northern Rakhine State. 10th Standard passed/ any degree holder with computer skills. 1 year experience in data entry. Excellent computer skills, including office applications, database management.Computer typing in Myanmar language will be an asset. Having some Public Health Know ledge of HIV, Malaria, TB and Primary Health Care indicators and its related data collection tool will be an advan tage. Excellent computer skills, including office appli cations, database management. Good written & spoken English. Pls submit application CV, 2 photos, copies of educational certificate, National ID & references to Malteser Int'l Office # 14-15 (6F), Pyi Taw Aye Yeik Thar St, Yankin, Email: hr.co. malteser@ gmail.com Closing date: 31st January, 2013 care Myanmar is seeking Cash Officer for its office in MaungdawNorthern Rakhine State: University Gradautes (B.Com or LCCI Level 3, Finance related Degree). 2 years experience in account ing field. Competence in using Microsoft (Microsoft excel, accounting system). Good oral and written English communi cation skills. Language: Myanmar (compulsory) & English (preferable). Pls send application letter outlining their claims against the matching indicators, along with a current C.V., passport photo, copies of any references or testimonials to HR Manager. CARE Int'l in Myanmar. 17-A, Pyi Htaung Su St, Sayarsan Rd, Bahan Email: recruitment@care.org. mm Closing date : 4th February 2013. myanmar Red Cross Society is seeking(1) Medical Doctor - 3 Posts : Medical degree with Valid license and official registration. 1 year experience. Effective command of English. Good computer skills (Microsoft Office Package),preferable.(2) Logistics Coordinator, 1 Post: Any degree. 3 years experience. Effective Myanmar and English language skills (3)Nurses - 6 Posts: University degree/ Diploma in nursing car. Valid license and official registration. Basic English. Able to speak local language preferable. Flexible & empathetic attitude. (4) Shelter Office 1 Post: completion of university education in civil engineering with expertise in/ focus on shelter construction or similar related fields. Good computer skill in Word & Excel. 2 years experience in constructing & rehabilitating shelter or infrastructure. Pls submit a letter of application, relevant documents & CV, 1 passport photo (Cover Letter CV documents only need to be sent via e-mail) to U Khin Maung Hla, Executive Director, Myanmar Red Cross Society, Nay Pyi Taw mrcshrrecruitment@ gmail.com before 1st February 2013, pls visit to www.myanmarredcross.org. solidarites Int'l (SI) is seeking (1) Logistics Coordinator in Yangon: 5 years of professional experience in Logistics field with INGO/ NGO. University Degree or Diploma (preferably in Logistics Or related proven experience in similar area.). Strong knowledge of IT management and MS office (excel, word, power point & network ing). Fluent English & good communication skills. Deputy Logistics Coordinator in Yangon: 4 years professional experien ce in Logistics field with INGO/ NGO. University Degree or Diploma (preferably in logistics Or related proven experience in similar area). Knowledge of IT management and MS office (excel, word, power point & network ing). Fluent spoken/ written English & Myanmar. Good writing & communication skills. Pls submit application (CV, cover letter, references) to : HR Unit- Application for Logistics Coordinator, Solidarites Int'l office -44-A, Tharyarwaddy Lane, Bahan, or email: recruitment @ solidarites-myanmar. org Closing date: 152-2013 Rd, Myittar Yeik Mon Housing, Tarmwe. Ph: 09-862-3381~3 ex-111. E-mail: bdt.hrassistant @gmail. com the center for Vocational Training, with school facilities and office in Yangon provides vocational training according to the dual apprenticeship model from Switzer land, which combanies Practice with Theory. CVT works closely with a wide range of training companies as a non profit organization. (1) Commercial Assistant Profession Teacher M/ F 1 Post : Bachelor Degree from University of Economic or relevance knowledge. Experience in Admini strative work. (2) Senior Cabinet Maker Profession Teacher - M 1 Post : Must know how to draw, design and produce the furniture in theoretical & practical knowledge. Must have relevance certificate concerned with making furniture. (3) Electri cian Profession Teacher - M/F 1 Post : B.E (EP), AGTI (EP), & CVT graduate. (4) Hotel & Gastronomy Asst Profession Teachers M/F 2 Posts : Must be a certificate holder of Room Divisions, F&B Production. (5) Metal Worker Profession Teacher - M/F 1 Post : AGTI (Machine Tools & Design). Must be skillful in machine shop subject in theory and practice. Must be skillful in using milling machine. (6) Media Officer - M/F Inventory Management & move ment from Regional spare parts of Automobile. Proficient in Microsoft Office and strong computer skills. Apply with application letter, Resume furnishing details of experience, expected salary, reocommenda tion from police force, copy of labor registration card and photograph to Greater Man Int'l Services Co., Ltd. HIGER Service Show Room :(Za Myin Zwe 4), Dagon Rd, Aung Mingalar Bus Station, Yangon.Closing Date : 30-1-2013. (1)Chief Engineer M.E / B.E (civil) degree holder, Age 35 ~ 45 years, 7 years and above experence, Prepare monthly project progress reports which related cost control materials and project expenditure, work schedule. Using Microsoft, Auto Cad and other related software. Must have experienced in high rise building. Manage entire project and lead engineer team to meet with deadline. (2) Project Manager M.E / B.E (civil) degree holder, Age 40 ~ 50 , 8 years above experience, Assist in preparation for project tendering, Must have experience in high rise construction, Having knowledge of require ment and ability of machinery, Using Micro soft , Auto Cad & other related software. Pls submit full resume with expected salary to Live Life Co.,Ltd 440, Waizayantar Rd - South Okkala, Ph: 565911, 8551294, 09-73117666 A M&E engineering company is looking for (1) Electrician 3 posts (2) Welder 3 posts: BE (or) AGTI (or) THS (or) Certificate in Electrical and Welding fields will be an added advan tage.At least 5 years experience in related fields. Good written & verbal communication skill in English. Willing to travel extensively within the country. Pls submit CV with relevant documents to : myrcitraelect@ g m a i l . c o m Ph: 521 214 For English Learning Center (1) Experienced 4 skills English Teachers (Native speaker) (2) Experienced Pre school teachers (3) Experienced Market ing Persons (4) Must be Bachelor graduates (5) Must know basic computer. Pls contact : tun.john@ gmail.com Ph: 09-5241687. Savoy Hotel is urgently looking for (1) Reservation - 1 post, must have at least 1 year experience in hotel field and good English skill. (2) European Chef - 1 post, mush have at least 2 years experience and good English skill. Application letter by email to savoy. hra @ gmail.com or 129, Dhammazedi Rd, Yangon. Tel: (95-1) 526298, 526289. ALBA is looking for (1). Local English Teacher (Full time/ Part time) (2). Local Re-leaving Teacher (Full time) The candidate must be: University Graduate, Fluent in spoken and written English, Must have the experienced in related filed, Must have excellent commu nication & interperso nal skill. Interested applicants should send the curriculum vitae together with a recent photo and copies of testimonials to 66, Shwedagon Pagoda Rd, Dagon Township. Ph: 376236, 376314, Email: admin@ albaedu.com Urgently Required Executive Assistant To provide professional support to the company CEO through. Effective communication prioriti zation & organization. Liaise between company department/ offices, managers. Manage meetings and appointments, travel schedules, invitations, meeting minutes. Arrange travel (flights, hotel bookings, visas, etc.) Develop and maintain categorized filing and document systems. Maintain high level of discretion and confidentiality Qualifi cations: University degree, Fluent in Myanmar and English (ability to translate highly desirable), Excellent interpersonal skills & ability to liaise effectively with high level & foreign clients, overnment officials. Experience in similar position preferred. Attractive salary based on experience & qualification. Pls submit CV and a cover letter to kthanda@ capital8. com. sg within two weeks. capital Automotive has been appointed as the official distributor and dealer for several international automo tive brands. They will sell new vehicles from a showroom and support their customers with internationally trained staff working in the state of the art workshop and parts facilities. Capital Automotive are search ing for the best people to work with these automotive vehicles and to provide their customers with the highest level of service. Today we have the following positions available: (1) Sales Managers - 2 posts. (2) Parts Manager - 1 post. (3)Workshop Manager - 1 post. (4)Marketing Manager - 1 post. (5) Accountant - 1 post. (6) Workshop mechanics 6 posts. (7)Sales people - 4 posts . Customer Service staff - 6. Pls send CV to aungthu. winmg @ rmagroup. net, Pls put contact ph or hand deliver to 27(A), Kaba Aye Pagoda Rd, Yankin, Yangon, Pls kindly put your detail address on CVs. Clos ing date : 28 Jan 2013. KELVIN CHIA Yangon Ltd is a foreign legal consultancy firm is seeking (1) Lawyers who will work on a variety of corporate & commercial matters & transactions in Myanmar. If you are a Myanmar-qualified lawyer with strong English language skills, you are invited to apply to join our Myanmar practice group. Myanmar nationals admitted to intl bars are also welcome to apply. Training will be provided. Applicants may email to klm@ kcyangon. com and submit your curriculum vitae. (2) Corporate Affairs Executive/ Assistant As a corporate affairs executive/ assistant, you will be involved with business development, networking, market research and liaison work. Applicants should be proficient in English, energetic and self-motivated. All nationalities are welcom (Myanmar, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Taiwanese, etc). Pls email application & curriculum vitae to kk@ kcyangon.com. (1) admin Manager - M 1 Post : Age 40 to 50. Bachelor Degree in Administration or Management. 5 year experience. (2) Chief Accountant - F 1 Post : Bachelor Degree in B.Com (or) ACCA Part 2/ CPA. 3 year expeiren ces. (3) Marketing Executive - M/F 2 Posts : Bachelor Degree in Business Management/ English (or) Petro engineering. Age 2328. 2 year experience. (4) Invoicing Officer (Account Receivable) - F 1 Post : B.Com or Diploma in Accounting (LCCI Level 3). 2 year experience. For all posts : Must have good English speaking, reading and writing. Pls send CV 2 passport photos, copy of NRC card, academic transcripts (copy and testimonial documents. Admin staff officer - F/M 2 Posts : Any graduate. Age 25 ~ 35. Must have good in English, active & pleasant personality. Must have knowledge in import & export. Must have good M.S office & Internet. Must under stand in customer communication skills. Add: Bldg 5, Rm 2, Aungthabyae St, Yuzana Plaza, Mingalar Taung Nyunt. Ph: 202467, 4411553, REQUIRED urgently by a foreign company Public Relation Officer. Myanmar Citizen, Any Gender. Minimum Age 30 plus Years. Good Knowledge of English (both Spoken and Written). Job Profile includes PR Work with various ministries national, & international agencies. Good salary. Ph: 09-511-8453. YIUS (Need Native English Teacher) FullTime (M/F) 1 Post. Responsible person, focus on learning at least 5 years experien ces in teaching-must have Study English Language Teacher. Bldg 7, Rm 4, Myanmar ICT Park, Hlaing University Campus, Ph:652311, 652297 For English Learning Center: (1) Experienced 4 skills English Teachers (Native Speaker). (2) Experien ced Pre-School Teachers (Local). (3) Experienced Market ing Persons. (4) Reception :Must be Bachelor Graduates. Must know Basic Computer. Email: tun.john@. gmail.com, Ph: 09-524-1687. Savoy Hotel is urgently looking for (1) Receptionist - 2 posts must have at least 1 year experience in hotel field. Application letter by email to operations @savoyhotel-yangon. com or 129, Dhamma zedi Rd, Yangon. Tel: (95-1) 526298, 526289. (1). Accounts and Admin Manager 1 post (2). Export/Import Manager 1 post (3). Korean Interpreter 2 posts. Ph: 09-431-6 6071. Myanmar DYC Co.Ltd, Mingaladon Industrial Park I nte r nati o nal Law Firm required Expatiate Lawyer Graduate of foreign law school. At least 1 year experience Send CV to Su Su Hlaing, email - suhlaing07@ gmail.com. Ph. 540995, 556692 Kelvin chia Yangon Ltd is a foreign legal consultancy firm. We invite motivated and committed individuals to join us as: Admini strative Executive. Requirements: Good written and spoken communication skills in English. Interested applicatns are invited to send their full resume stating their current and expected salaries, together with a recent photograph to klm@ kcyangon.com . KELVIN CHIA Yangon Ltd, Unit 1508-1509, 15th Flr, Sukura Tower, 339 Bogyoke Aung San Rd, Kyauktada, Ph: 255-399, 255033 Email: csg@ kcyangon. com

Local Position
Bandoola Enterprises Ltd : We are looking for efficient & affluent candidates for the following posts,for arenowed multinatio nal company operat ions in Yangon (1) Business Develop ment Manager :Should have min.10 years of experience in Lubricants sector.Duties include over operations and marketing of the product.Must be able to speak, read & write English fluently. (2) Markety Executive: 3 years experience in marketing Lubricants and various Oil products. (3) Marketing Manager - 5 years experience in marketing tractors & other agricultural equipments. Applicants with experience in marketing generators, various

inductrial equipments & other vehicles can also apply.Must be able to speak,read & write English fluently. (4) Service & Marketing Executive : 3 years experience in servicing & maintence of tractors and various agricultural equipments.Applicants with experience in repairing generators can also apply. Eligible applicants must send in their CVs before 20th February 2013 to E-mail: gbg.tractors@ gmail. com or you contract us on Mobile : 09 4200 87374 business Development Team, a leading ship, dealing in high quality fashion is seeking (1) Accountant Executive - F 1 post: Age 25~30. Any graduate (B.Com or DA are more prefer). 2 years experience . (2) Auditor F 2 Posts : Age 22~28. Any graduate (who have experience in related field will be more preferred). (3) Management Trainee - M/F 3 Posts : Age 20~25. Any graduate (BBA, BBM are more prefer). Good health & enjoy working under stress. Can do English and Myanmar typing, Maths calculation and use Microsoft office well. (4) Driver - M 2 posts. Pls submit CV with labour registration card to HR (BDT), (Upper of Tamwe Orange Super Market) - No(15, 16, 17, 18), Thamain Bayan

1 Post : Any degree but prefer in computer subject. Must be skillful in computer, excel, graphic & prefer experience in media. Each and every post required 5 years experience and 2 years teaching experience for 1 to 5. Good command in written and spoken English (4 skills) is preferable and using a computer (MS Office). Pls submit an application letter with CV, recent passport sized photo and Copy of relevance docu ments to 3rd Flr, MRCS Bldg 42, Strand Rd, Botahtaung, Ph: 383676, 09-731-66206, or by e-mail within 3 weeks. Add: E-mail:cvtygn @ golden land. com. mm, cvt. 2001.2009@gmail. com (1) mechanical Engineering 3 Posts : Bachelor or Diploma in Mechanical Engineer ing.Over 1 years hands-on experience in trouble-shooting, repairing and servicing of automobile. Techni cal knowledge in Euro 4 diesel engine & electrical system. Computer literate with knowledge in Micrsoft Excel, Word and Power Point. (2) Inventory control Engineer - 3 Posts : Degree in Mechanical Engineer ing or other Engineer ing discipline. 2 years experience in inventory planning and control. Handle purchasing orders (local & oversea) analyze and evaluate supplier.

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EMBASSIES Australia 88, Strand Road, Yangon. tel : 251810, 251797, 251798, 251809, 246462, 246463, fax: 246159 Bangladesh 11-B, Than Lwin Road, Yangon. tel: 515275, 526144, fax: 515273, email: bdootygn@mptmail.net. mm Brazil 56, Pyay Road, 6th mile, Hlaing Tsp, Yangon. tel: 507225, 507251, 507482. fax: 507483. email: Administ.yangon@ itamaraty.gov.br. Brunei 317/319, U Wizara Road, Sanchaung Tsp, Yangon. tel: 526985, 524285, fax: 512854 email: bruneiemb@ bruneiemb.com.mm Cambodia 25 (3B/4B), New University Avenue Road, Bahan Tsp, Yangon. tel: 549609, 540964, fax: 541462, email: RECYANGON @mptmail. net.mm China 1, Pyidaungsu Yeiktha Road, Yangon. tel: 221280, 221281, 224025, 224097, 221926, fax: 227019, 228319 Egypt 81, Pyidaungsu Yeiktha Road, Yangon. tel: 222886, 222887, fax: 222865, email: egye mbyangon@mptmail. net.mm France 102, Pyidaungsu Yeiktha Road, Yangon. tel: 212178, 212520, 212523, 212528, 212532, fax: 212527, email: ambaf rance. rangoun@ diplomatie.fr Germany 9, Bogyoke Aung San Museum Road, Bahan Tsp, Yangon. tel: 548951, 548952, fax: 548899 email: info@rangun. diplo.de India 545-547, Merchant Street, Yangon. tel: 391219, 388412, 243972, fax: 254086, 250164, 388414, email: indiaembassy @mptmail. net.mm Indonesia 100, Pyidaungsu Yeiktha Road, Yangon. tel: 254465, 254469, 229750, fax: 254468, email: kukygn @indonesia.com.mm Israel 15, Khabaung Street, Hlaing Tsp, Yangon. tel: 515115, fax: 515116, email: info@ yangon.mfa.gov.il Italy 3, Inya Myaing Road, Golden Valley, Yangon. tel: 527100, 527101, fax: 514565, email: ambyang.mail@ esteri.it Japan 100, Natmauk Road, Yangon. tel: 549644-8, 540399, 540400, 540411, 545988, fax: 549643 Embassy of the State of Kuwait Chatrium Hotel, Rm: No.416, 418, 420, 422, 40 Natmauk Rd, Tarmwe Tsp, Tel: 544500. North Korea 77C, Shin Saw Pu Road, Sanchaung Tsp, Yangon. tel: 512642, 510205, fax: 510206 South Korea 97 University Avenue, Bahan Tsp, Yangon. tel: 527142-4, 515190, fax: 513286, email: myanmar@mofat.go.kr Lao A-1, Diplomatic Quarters, Tawwin Road, Dagon Tsp, Yangon. tel: 222482, fax: 227446, email: Laoembcab@ mptmail. net.mm Malaysia 82, Pyidaungsu Yeiktha Road, Yangon. tel: 220248, 220249, 220251, 220230, fax: 221840, email: mwkyangon@mptmail. net.mm Nepal 16, Natmauk Yeiktha, Yangon. tel: 545880, 557168, fax: 549803, email: nepemb @mptmail.net.mm Pakistan A-4, diplomatic Quarters, Pyay Road, Yangon. tel: 222881 (Chancery Exchange) fax: 221147, email: pakistan@ myanmar. com.mm Philippines 50, Sayasan Road, Bahan Tsp, Yangon. tel: 558149-151, fax: 558154, email: p.e. yangon@gmail.com Russian 38, Sagawa Road, Yangon. tel: 241955, 254161, fax: 241953, email: rusinmyan@mptmail .net.mm Serbia No. 114-A, Inya Road, P.O.Box No. 943Yangon. tel: 515282, 515283, fax: 504274, email: serbemb@ yangon.net.mm Singapore 238, Dhamazedi Road, Bahan Tsp, Yangon. tel: 559001, fax: 559002, 559922, email: singemb_ ygn@_ sgmfa. gov.sg Sri Lanka 34 Taw Win Road, Yangon. tel: 222812, fax: 221509, email: slembassy. yangon@gmail.com, info@slembyangon.org, www.slembyangon.org Thailand 94 Pyay Road, Dagon Township, Yangon. tel: 226721, 226728, 226824, fax: 221713 United Kingdom 80 Kanna Road, Yangon. tel: 370867, 380322, 371852, 371853, 256438, 370863, 370864, 370865, fax: 370866 United States of America 110, University Avenue, Kamayut Township, Yangon. tel: 536509, 535756, 538038, fax: 650306 Vietnam Building No. 72, Thanlwin Road, Bahan Township, Yangon. tel: 511305, fax: 514897, email: vnemb myr@ cybertech.net.mm Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia No.287/289, U Wisara Rd, Sanchaung Tsp. tel : 01-536153, 516952, fax : 01-516951 UNITED NATIONS ILO Liaison Officer Rm (M1212~1220), 12 Fl-A, Traders Hotel. 223, tel: 242 393, 242811. fax: 242594. IOM 12th Flr, Traders Hotel, 223, tel: 252560 ext. 5002 UNAIDS Rm: (1223~1231), 12 Fl, Traders Hotel. tel: 252361, 252362, 252498. fax: 252364. UNDCP 11-A, Malikha St, Mayangone tsp. tel: 666903, 664539. fax: 651334. UNDP 6, Natmauk Rd, Bahan tel: 542910-19. fax: 292739. UNFPA 6, Natmauk Rd, Bahan tsp. tel: 546029. UNHCR 287, Pyay Rd, Sanchaung tsp. tel: 524022, 524024. fax 524031. UNIAP Rm: 1202, 12 Fl, Traders Hotel.tel: 254852, 254853. UNIC 6, Natmauk St., BHN tel: 52910~19 UNICEF 14~15 Flr, Traders Hotel. P.O. Box 1435, KTDA. tel: 375527~32, fax: 375552 email: unicef.yangon@unicef. org, www.unicef.org/myanmar. UNODC 11-A, Malikha Rd., Ward 7, MYGN. tel: 666903, 660556, 660538, 660398, 664539, fax: 651334. email: fo.myanmar@unodc.org www. unodc.org./myanmar/ UNOPS Inya Lake Hotel, 3rd floor, 37, Kaba Aye Pagoda Rd, Mayangone Tsp. tel: 951657281~7. Fax: 657279. UNRC 6, Natmauk Rd, P.O. Box 650, TMWE tel: 542911~19, 292637 (Resident Coordinator), fax: 292739, 544531. WFP 3rd-flr, Inya Lake Hotel, 37, Kabar Aye Pagoda Rd. tel: 657011~6 (6-lines) Ext: 2000. WHO 12A Fl, Traders Hotel. tel:250583. ASEAN Coordinating Of. for the ASEAN Humanitarian Task Force, 79, Taw Win st, Dagon Township. Ph: 225258. FAO Myanma Agriculture Service Insein Rd, Insein. tel: 641672, 641673. fax: 641561.

General Listing
ACCOMMODATIONHOTELS
Avenue 64 Hotel No. 64 (G), Kyitewine Pagoda Road, Mayangone Township. Yangon. 09 8631392, 01 656913-9 Chatrium Hotel Royal Lake Yangon 40 Natmauk Rd, Tarmwe. tel: 544500. fax: 544400. Winner Inn 42, Than Lwin Rd, Bahan Tsp. Tel: 503734, 524387. email: reservation@winner innmyanmar.com Yangon YMCA 263, Mahabandoola Rd, Botataung Tsp. tel: 294128, Yuzana Hotel 130, Shwegondaing Rd, Bahan Tsp, tel : 01-549600, 543367 Yuzana Garden Hotel 44, Alanpya Pagoda Rd, Mingalar Taung Nyunt Tsp, tel : 01-248944

ACCOUNTANTS AND CONSULTANTS

Charted Certified, Certified Public Accountants. tel: 09-5010563. drtinlatt@matglobal.com

AIR CONDITION
Chigo No. 216, 38 Street (Upper), Kyauktada Tsp, tel : 373472

No.7A, Wingabar Road, Bahan Tsp, Yangon. Tel : (951) 546313, 430245. 09-731-77781~4. Fax : (01) 546313. www.cloverhotel.asia. info@cloverhotel.asia Confort Inn 4, Shweli Rd, Bet: Inya Rd & U Wisara Rd, Kamaryut, tel: 525781, 526872 Hotel Yangon No. 91/93, 8th Mile Junction, Mayangone. tel : 01-667708, 667688. Inya Lake Resort Hotel 37 Kabar Aye Pagoda Rd. tel: 662866. fax: 665537.

Reservation Office (Yangon) 123, Alanpya Pagoda Rd, Dagon Township Tel : 951- 255 819~838 Hotel Max (Chaung Tha Beach) Tel : 042-423 46~9, 042-421 33, E-mail: maxhotelsreservation@ gmail.com

The First Air conditioning systems designed to keep you fresh all day GUNKUL Engineer supply Co., Ltd. No.437 (A), Pyay Road, Kamayut. P., O 11041 Yangon, Tel: +(95-1) 502016-18, Mandalay- Tel: 02-60933. Nay Pyi Taw- Tel: 067-420778, E-mail : sales.ac@freshaircon. com. URL: http://www. freshaircon.com General 83-91, G-F, Bo Aung Kyaw St, Kyauktada Tsp, tel : 706223, 371906

ACCOMMODATIONHOTELS (Nay Pyi Taw)

(Nay Pyi Taw)

No. 205, Corner of Wadan Street & Min Ye Kyaw Swa Road, Lanmadaw Tsp, Yangon. Myanmar. Tel: (95-1) 212850 ~ 3, 229358 ~ 61, Fax: (95-1) 212854. info@myanmarpandahotel .com http://www. myanmarpandahotel.com Parkroyal Yangon, Myanmar 33, Alan Pya Pagoda Rd, Dagon tsp. tel: 250388. fax: 252478. email: enquiry.prygn@ parkroyalhotels.com Website: parkroyalhotels. com. Savoy Hotel 129, Damazedi Rd, Kamayut tsp. tel: 526289, 526298, Seasons of Yangon Yangon Intl Airport Compound. tel: 666699. Sweet Hotel 73, Damazedi Road, San Chaung Tsp, Ph: 539152 Sedona Hotel Kabar Aye Pagoda Rd, Yankin. tel: 666900. Strand Hotel 92 Strand Rd. tel: 243377. fax: 289880. Summit Parkview Hotel 350, Ahlone Rd, Dagon Tsp. tel: 211888, 211966. fax: 227995. Thamada Hotel 5, Alan Pya Phaya Rd, Dagon. tel: 243639, 243640, 243641. Traders Hotel 223 Sule Pagoda Rd. tel: 242828. fax: 242838.

Reservation Office (Yangon) 123, Alanpya Pagoda Rd, Dagon Township Tel : 951- 255 819~838 Royal Kumudra Hotel, (Nay Pyi Taw) Tel : 067- 414 177, 067- 4141 88 E-Mail: maxhotelsreservation@ gmail.com

ASTROLOGER
Saya Min Thoun Dara Astrologer No(2), Maha Wizaya Pagoda North Stairway, Dagon Tsp. tel: 296184

BARS
50th Street 9/13, 50th street-lower, Botataung Tsp. Tel-397160.

ACCOMMODATION LONG TERM

Espace Avenir No 523, Pyay Rd, Kamaryut. tel: 505213-222. Golden Hill Towers 24-26, Kabar Aye Pagoda Rd, Bahan Tsp. tel: 558556. ghtower@ mptmail.net.mm.

Green Garden Beer Gallery Mini Zoo, Karaweik Oo-Yin Kabar.

Emergency Numbers
Ambulance tel: 295133. Fire tel: 191, 252011, 252022. Police emergency tel: 199. Police headquarters tel: 282541, 284764. Red Cross tel:682600, 682368 Traffic Control Branch tel:298651 Department of Post & Telecommunication tel: 591384, 591387. Immigration tel: 286434. Ministry of Education tel:545500m 562390 Ministry of Sports tel: 370604, 370605 Ministry of Communications tel: 067-407037. Myanma Post & Telecommunication (MPT) tel: 067407007. Myanma Post & Tele-communication (Accountant Dept) tel: 254563, 370768. Ministry of Foreign Affairs tel: 067-412009, 067-412344. Ministry of Health tel: 067-411358-9. Yangon City Development Committee tel: 248112. HOSPITALS Central Womens Hospital tel: 221013, 222811. Children Hospital tel: 221421, 222807 Ear, Nose & Throat Hospital tel: 543888. Naypyitaw Hospital (emergency) tel: 420096. Workers Hospital tel: 554444, 554455, 554811. Yangon Children Hospital tel: 222807, 222808, 222809. Yangon General Hospital (East) tel: 292835, 292836, 292837. Yangon General Hospital (New) tel: 384493, 384494, 384495, 379109. Yangon General Hospital (West) tel: 222860, 222861, 220416. Yangon General Hospital (YGH) tel: 256112, 256123, 281443, 256131. ELECTRICITY Power Station tel:414235 POST OFFICE General Post Office 39, Bo Aung Kyaw St. (near British Council Library). tel: 285499. INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT Yangon International Airport tel: 662811. YANGON PORT Shipping (Coastal vessels) tel: 382722 RAILWAYS Railways information tel: 274027, 202175-8.

Happy Homes
Real Estate & Property Management

Tel: 09-7349-4483, 09-4200-56994. E-mail: aahappyhomes@ gmail.com, http://www. happyhomesyangon.com Marina Residence 8, Kabar Aye Pagoda Rd, Mayangone Tsp. tel: 6506 51~4. fax: 650630. MiCasa Hotel Apartments 17, Kabar Aye Pagoda Rd, Yankin Tsp. tel: 650933. fax: 650960. Sakura Residence 9, Inya Rd, Kamaryut Tsp. tel: 525001. fax: 525002. The Grand Mee Ya Hta Executive Residence 372, Bogyoke Aung San Rd, Pabedan Tsp. tel 951-256355 (25 lines).

No.(1), Inya Road, Kamayut Tsp. Tel: 01-527506 email: inyaone@gmail.com www.inya1.com

Strand Bar 92, Strand Rd, Yangon, Myanmar. tel: 243377.fax: 243393, sales@thestrand.com.mm www.ghmhotels.com

Lobby Bar Parkroyal Yangon, Myanmar. 33, Alan Pya Phaya Road, Dagon Tsp. tel: 250388.

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Traders Caf Traders Hotel, Yangon. #223, Sule Pagoda Rd. Tel: 242828 ext: 6519 Lemon Day Spa No. 96 F, Inya Road, Kamaryut Tsp, Yangon. Tel: 514848, 09-732-08476. E.mail: lemondayspa.2011 @gmail.com

EDUCATION CENTRE
MHR 905, 9th floor, Modern Iron Market(Thanzay Condo) Lanmadaw St. Tel: 707822. NLEC 82 Anawrahta Rd, Corner of 39 St, Kyauktada Tsp. Tel: 250225.

CHOCOLATE
CHOCOLATE HEAVEN G-A, Ground Floor, Pearl Center, Kabaraye Pagoda Road, Yangon. Tel: 09 500 6880 Email: chocolateheaven. sale@gmail.com

Traders Health Club. Level 5, Traders Hotel Yangon#223 Sule Pagoda Rd,Tel:951242828Ext:6561

Gems & Jewelleries

Diamond Queen 75, Oo Yin Lane, New University Avenue Rd, Bahan Tsp. Tel :01-548001, 704398 Diamond & Me Junction Square, Ground Floor, Kamayut Tsp. Tel :01-527242, (Ext : 1082)

Vibhavadi Hospital 214. 1st Floor, Waizayanter Rd, Thingangyun Tsp.Email: vibhavadimyanmar @gmail. com, Hot line: 09-2011-772, 09-731-650-45, 09-86-250-86 PHIH-Specialist Clinic FMI Centre (4th Floor) #380, Bogyoke Aung San Road, Pabedan Tsp. tel: 243 010, 243 012, 243 013

M a r k e t i n g & c o mm u n i c a t i o n s

A d v e r t i s i n g

SAIL Marketing & Communications Suite 403, Danathiha Center 790, Corner of Bogyoke Rd & Wadan Rd, Lanmadaw Township, Yangon, Myanmar. Tel: (951) 211870, 224820, 2301195. Email: admin@ advertising-myanmar.com www.advertising-myanmar. com

Electrical

cold storage
Spa & Boutique Fashion No. 24, Inya Road, Kamaryut Township, Yangon, Myanmar. Tel: 951 534 654, 09-73200147 theredscarf99@gmail.com Est. 1992 in Myanmar Electrical & Mechanical Contractors, Designers, Consultants. Tel: 09-504-2196, 09-73194828. E-mail: gei.ygn2@ gmail.com, glover2812@ gmail.com

Balance Fitnesss No 64 (G), Kyitewine Pagoda Road, Mayangone Township. Yangon 01-656916, 09 8631392 Email - info@ balancefitnessyangon.com

Art & Craft

BOOK STORES
25-B, Thirimingalar Street, (8) block, Kamayut Tsp, Yangon, Myanmar. Tel/Fax: 95-1-504290 Tel: 09-541-9459, 505409. Email: augustine@ myanmar.com.mm.

Est. 1992 in Myanmar Cold Storage Specialist, Solar Hot Water Storage Solutions. Tel: 09-504-2196, 09-73194828. E-mail: gei.ygn2@ gmail.com, glover2812@ gmail.com

Sports & Fitness Grand Meeyahta Executive Residence. Shop 4-5, Ph: 256355, Ext: 3015, 3204 09 731 94684 email: natraysports@gmail.com

Construction

ENTERTAINMENT

sales@manawmaya.com.mm www.manawmayagems.com

Ruby & Rare Gems of Myanamar No. 527, New University Ave., Bahan Tsp. Yangon.

24 hours Laboratory & X-ray No. 330, Ground Flr, Yangon Intl Hotel, Ahlone Road, Dagon Tsp, Yangon, Myanmar. Tel: (951) 218388, (951) 218292 Fax: (951) 218389

Tel: 549612, Fax : 545770.

BEAUTY & MASSAGE

A Little Dayspa No. 475 C, Pyi Road, Kamayut, Yangon. Tel: 09-431-28831.

Innwa Book Store No. 246, Rm.201/301, GF, Pansodan Street (Upper Block), Kyauktada Tsp. Tel. 389838, 243216, 374324, 514387 MYANMARBOOKCENTRE Nandawun Compound, No. 55, Baho Road, Corner of Baho Road and Ahlone Road, (near Eugenia Restaurant), Ahlone Township. tel: 212 409, 221 271. 214708 fax: 524580. email:info@ myanmarbook.com

Zamil Steel No-5, Pyay Road, 7 miles, Mayangone Tsp, Yangon. Tel: (95-1) 652502~04. Fax: (95-1) 650306. Email: zamilsteel@ zamilsteel.com.mm

Dance Club & Bar No.94, Ground Floor, Bogalay Zay Street, Botataung Tsp, Yangon.Tel: 392625, 09-500-3591 Email : danceclub. hola@gmail.com
(Except Sunday)

Mr. Betchang No.(272), Pyay Rd, DNH Tower, Rm No.(503), 5th flr, Sanchaung Tsp, Tel: 095041216

FLORAL SERVICES

CONSULTING

Aesthetic Medical Spa 5 (C), Race Course Condo, South Race Course Street, Tarmwe, Yangon. Mobile: 09-5202781 dr.face.Aesthetic@gmail.com

The Uranium Dance Studio Pearl condo Bldg (C), 2nd flr, Bahan Tsp. Tel: 09731-42624, 09-514-0404.

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CAFS
Acacia Tea Salon 52, Sayar San Rd, Bahan Tsp, Tel : 01-554739.

Shwe Hinthar B 307, 6 1/2 Miles, Pyay Rd., Yangon. Tel: +95 (0)1 654 730 info@thuraswiss.com www.thuraswiss.com

FASHION & TAILOR

LS Salon Junction Square, 3rd floor.

Pyay Rd, Kamayut Tsp. Tel 527242, ext 4001

DUTY FREE

FloralService&GiftShop No. 449, New University Avenue, Bahan Tsp. YGN. Tel: 541217, 559011, 09-860-2292. Market Place By City Mart Tel: 523840~43, 523845~46, Ext: 205. Junction Nay Pyi Taw Tel: 067-421617~18 422012~15, Ext: 235. Res: 067-414813, 09-49209039. Email : eternal@ mptmail.net.mm Flower Express For enquiries pls call tel: 685150.

Natural Gems of Myanmar No. 30 (A), Pyay Road (7 mile), Mayangone Tsp, Yangon, Myanmar. Tel: 01-660397, 654398~9. E-mail: spgems.myanmar @gmail.com

24 hours Cancer centre No. 330, Yangon International Hotel, Ahlone Road, Dagon Tsp, Yangon, Myanmar. Tel: (951) 218388, 218292 Fax: (951) 218389

GENERATORS

La Brasserie (International) Parkroyal Yangon. 33, Alan Pya Phaya Road, Dagon Tsp. tel : 250388. La Source Beauty Spa Kamayut Tsp, tel: 512 380, 511 252. www.lasourcebeautyspa.com
~80(A), Inya Rd,

Cafe47 47-A, Pyay Rd, 7 miles, Mayangone Tsp, Tel : 01-651774.

Duty Free Airport Shopping Yangon International Airport Arrival/Departure Tel: 662676 (Airport) Office: 17, 2nd street, Hlaing Yadanarmon Housing, Hlaing Township, Yangon. Tel: 500143, 500144, 500145.

Sein Shwe Tailor, No.797 (003-A), Bogyoke Aung San Road, Corner of Wardan Street, MAC Tower 2, Lanmadaw Township, Yangon, Ph: 01-225310, 212943~4 Ext: 146, 147, E-mail: uthetlwin@gmail.com

Winning Way No. 589-592, Bo Aung Kyaw St, Yangon-Pathein highway Road. Hlaing Tharyar tsp. Tel: 951645178-182, 685199, Fax: 951-645211, 545278. e-mail: mkt-mti@ winstrategic.com.mm

24 Hour International Medical Centre @ Victoria Hospital No. 68, Tawwin Rd, 9 Mile, Mayangon Township, Yangon, Myanmar Tel: + 951 651 238, + 959 495 85 955 Fax: + 959 651 398 24/7 on duty doctor: + 959 492 18 410 Website: www.leo.com.mm One Stop Solution for Quality Health Care

Heavy mechinary

HEALTH SERVICES
Flora Service & Gift Shop No.173(B), West Shwegonedaing Rd, Bahan Tsp, YGN. Tel: 09.731 800 30 No.75/77, Yaw Min Gyi St. Dagon Tsp, YGN. Tel: 09.431 432 34. Home: 01-577 387, Email: rosanafloral.ygn@ gmail.com ATC Co., Ltd. 27 (A), Kaba Aye Pagoda Road, Yankin TSP:, Yangon, Myanmar. T & F : 665610, 667498
atc-admin@wimaxmail.net.mm

FITNESS CENTRE
The Yangon GYM Summit Parkview Hotel 350, Ahlone Rd, Dagon Tsp. tel: 211888, 211966.

98(A), Kaba Aye Pagoda Road, Bahan Township, Yangon. Tel: 553783, 549152, 09-732-16940, 09-730-56079. Fax: 542979 Email: asiapacific. myanmar@gmail.com.

ATC Co., Ltd. 27 (A), Kaba Aye Pagoda Road, Yankin TSP:, Yangon, Myanmar. T & F : 665610, 667498
atc-admin@wimaxmail.net.mm

Floral Service & Gift Centre 102(A), Dhamazaydi Rd, Yangon.tel: 500142 Summit Parkview Hotel, tel: 211888, 211966 ext. 173 fax: 535376.email: sandy@ sandymyanmar.com.mm.

Professor Doctors, (Made in USA) Equipment Physio-therapists, Fully Aircon, At China Town. 96, Latha Street , Latha Tsp, Yangon. Ph : 01-395544, 246365

Home Furnishing

Foam spray Insulation

22, Pyay Rd, 9 mile, Mayangone Tsp. tel: 660769, 664363. Franzo Living Mall 15 (A/5), Pyay Rd, A-1, 9 Miles, Mayangone Tsp, Yangon. Ph: 664026

Foam Spray Insulation No-410, Ground Floor, Lower Pazuntaung Road, Pazuntaung Tsp, Yangon. Telefax : 01-203743, 09730-26245, 09-500-7681. Hot Line-09-730-30825.

Acupuncture, Medicine Massage, Foot Spa Add:No,27(A),Ywa Ma Kyaung Street, Hlaing Township, Yangon. Tel: 01-511122, 526765.

GAS COOKER & Cooker Hoods

Piyavate Hospital (Bangkok) Myanmar Represent ative (Head office) Grand Mee Yahta Executive Residences. No.372, Bogyoke Aung San Rd, PBDN. Ph: 256355, Ext: 3206. Hotline: 09-7377-7799. Email: piyavate@cnt.com. mm, piyavate.cnt@gmail. com, Website: www. piyavate.com

Yangon : A-3, Aung San Stadium (North East Wing), Mingalartaungnyunt Tsp. Tel : 245543, 09-730-37772. Mandalay : Room No.(B,C) (National Gas), 35th St, Btw 80th & 81st, Chanayetharzan Tsp. Tel : 09-6803505, 02 34455, 36748, 71878.

European Quality & Designs Furniture Suitable for Outdoor or Indoor Use No. 422 - 426, FJVC Centre, Ground Floor, Room No. 4, Strand Road (Corner of Botahtaung Pagoda Road), Botahtaung Township, Yangon 11161, Myanmar. Tel: 01 202063, 01 202064 H.P: 09 509 1673 Fax: 01 202063 E-mail: contact@ smartdesignstrading.com Website: www. wovenfurnituredesigns.com

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Paint
Crown Worldwide Movers Ltd 790, Rm 702, 7th Flr Danathiha Centre, Bogyoke Aung San Rd, Lanmadaw. Tel: 223288, 210 670, 227650. ext: 702. Fax: 229212. email: crown worldwide@mptmail.net.mm Enchanting and Romantic, a Bliss on the Lake 62 D, U Tun Nyein Road, Mayangon Tsp, Yangon Tel. 01 665 516, 660976 Mob. 09-4210-34875 operayangon@gmail.com www.operayangon.com Traders Gallery Bar Level 2, Traders Hotel, #223 Sule Pagoda Road. tel: 242 828. ext: 6433 Traders Lobby Lounge Level 1, Traders Hotel, #223 Sule Pagoda Road. tel: 242 828. ext: 6456 Western Park Thakhin Mya Park, Ahlone. Tel: 225143 Streamline Education 24, Myasabai Rd, Parami, Myangone Tsp. tel: 662304, 09-500-6916. No.35(b), Tatkatho Yeik Mon Housing, New University Avenue, Bahan Township, Yangon. Tel: 951-549451, 557219, 540730. www.yangon-academy.org Myanmar. Tel: 95-1-535783, 527705, 501429. Fax: 95-1-527705. Email: salesikon@myanmar.com.mm Junction Mawtin Bogyoke Aung San Rd, Cor of Wadan St. Lanmadaw. Ocean Supercentre (North Point ), 9th Mile, Mayangone Tsp. Tel: 651 200, 652963. Pick n Pay Hyper Market Bldg (A,B,C), (14~16), Shwe Mya Yar Housing, Mya Yar Gone St, Mingalartaungnyunt Tsp. Tel: 206001~3, Fax: 9000199 Sein Gay Har 44, Pyay Rd, Dagon Tsp. Tel: 383812, 379823. Super 1 (Kyaikkasan) 65, Lay Daunt Kan St, Tel: 545871~73 Victoria Shwe Pone Nyet Yeik Mon, Bayint Naung Rd, Kamaryut Tsp. Tel : 515136.

Myanmar Times
LEGAL SERVICE

U Min Sein, BSc, RA, CPA.,RL Advocate of the Supreme Court 83/14 Pansodan St, Yangon. tel: 253 273. uminsein@mptmail.net.mm

Marine Communication & Navigation

TOP MARINE PAINT No-410, Ground Floor, Lower Pazundaung Road, Pazundaung Tsp, Yangon. Ph: 09-851-5202

Printing
MAHARBANDULA
Printing House

SOLAR SYSTEM
Schenker (Thai) Ltd. Yangon 59 A, U Lun Maung Street. 7 Mile Pyay Road, MYGN. tel: 667686, 666646.fax: 651250. email: sche nker@mptmail.net.mm. Monsoon Restaurant & Bar 85/87, Thein Byu Road, Botahtaung Tsp. Tel: 295224, 09-501 5653. Pansweltaw Express Cafe: 228, Ahlone Rd, Ahlone Tsp. Tel: 215363 (1)-Rm-309, 3rdflr,Ocean, East Point Shopping Center, Pazundaung Tsp. Tel:397900 Ext: 309. (2)G-Flr, Ocean North Point Shopping Center. Tel:652959, 652960, Ext: 133. Royal Garden Nat Mauk Road, Kandaw Gyi Natural Park, Bahan Tsp. tel: 546202 Signature Near U Htaung Bo Round, about Bahan Tsp. tel: 546488, 543387. Spicy Forest Thai, Korean and European Food Rm-051/Basement-1 (B1), Taw Win Center, Pyay Rd. Tel : 09-7320-9566, 01-8600111 (1151) Summer Palace (Chinese) Restaurant Level 2, Traders Hotel, #223, Sule Pagoda Road. tel: 242828. ext:6483 1. WASABI:No.20-B, Kaba Aye Pagoda Rd, Yankin Tsp,(Near MiCasa), Tel; 666781,09-503-9139 2. WASABI SUSHI:Market Place by City Mart (1st Floor). Tel; 09-430-67440 Myaynigone (City Mart) Yankin Center (City Mart) JunctionMawtin(CityMart) The Brightest AC CFL Bulb 21, 9th St, Lanmadaw Tsp. Ph: 212243, 216861, 216864. spsolarstation@ gmail.com. www. spsolarstation.com

Top Marine Show Room No-385, Ground Floor, Lower Pazundaung Road, Pazundaung Tsp, Yangon. Ph: 01-202782, 09-851-5597

No. 177, U Chit Maung Road, Zay Kwayt Bus Stop, Bahan Tsp. Tel: (959) 4200 56166 Fax: (951) 860 3866 maharbandula1@gmail.com

STEEL CONSTRUCTION

PLEASURE CRUISES Media & Advertising

Bo Sun Pat Tower, Bldg 608, Rm 6(B), Cor of Merchant Rd & Bo Sun Pat St, PBDN Tsp. Tel: 377263, 250582, 250032, 09-511-7876, 09-862-4563.

SCHOOLS

Intuitive Design, Advertising, Interior Decoration Corporate logo/Identity/ Branding, Brochure/ Profile Booklet/ Catalogue/ Billboard, Corporate diary/ email newsletter/ annual reports, Magazine, journal advertisement and 3D presentation and detailed planning for any interior decoration works. Talk to us: (951) 430-897, 553-918 www.medialane.com.au 58B Myanma Gon Yaung Housing, Than Thu Mar Road, Tamwe, Yangon.

Road to Mandalay Myanmar Hotels & Cruises Ltd. Governors Residence 39C, Taw Win Rd, Dagon Tsp, Yangon. Tel: (951) 229860 fax: (951) 217361. email: RTMYGN@mptmail.net.mm www.orient-express.com

RESTAURANTS

Lunch/Dinner/Catering 555539, 536174

Horizon Intl School 25, Po Sein Road, Bahan Tsp, tel : 541085, 551795, 551796, 450396~7. fax : 543926, email : contact@horizonmyanmar. com, www.horizon.com ILBC 180, Thunandar 9th Lane, Thumingalar Housing, Thingungyung.tel: 562401.

PEB Steel Buildings 21/5, Thirimingalar Avenue, Kabaaye Pagoda Rd, Yankin Tsp, Yangon. Tel: 653410, 09-7325-7042, 09-5150332, 09-4016-01948. marketing@pebsteel.com. mm www.pebsteel.com.mm

TRAVEL AGENTS

SUPERMARKETS
Asia Light 106, Set Yone Rd.tel: 294074, 294083. Capital Hyper Mart 14(E), Min Nandar Road, Dawbon Tsp. Ph: 553136. City Mart (Aung San Branch) tel: 253022, 294765. (9:00 am to 9:00 pm) City Mart (47th St Branch) tel: 200026, 298746. (9:00 am to 9:00 pm) City Mart (Junction 8 Branch) tel: 650778. (9:00 am to 9:00 pm) City Mart (FMI City Branch) tel: 682323. City Mart (Yankin Center Branch) tel: 400284. (9:00 am to 9:00 pm) City Mart (Myaynigone Branch) tel: 510697. (9:00 am to 10:00 pm) City Mart (Zawana Branch) tel:564532. (9:00 am to 9:00 pm) City Mart (Shwe Mya Yar Branch) tel: 294063. (9:00 am to 9:00 pm) City Mart (Chinatown Point Branch) tel: 215560~63. (9:00 am to 10:00 pm) City Mart (Junction Maw Tin Branch) tel: 218159. (9:00 am to 9:00 pm) City Mart (Marketplace) tel: 523840~43. (9:00 am to 10:00 pm) City Mart (78th Brahch-Mandalay) tel: 02-71467~9. (9:00 am to 10:00 pm) IKON Mart IKON Trading Co., Ltd. No.332, Pyay Rd, San Chaung P.O (11111), Yangon,

Asian Trails Tour Ltd 73 Pyay Rd, Dagon tsp. tel: 211212, 223262. fax: 211670. email: res@ asiantrails.com.mm Tour & Car Rental Service English Speaking Driver Ph:09-510-7461,09-73046093.

Moby Dick Tours Co., Ltd. Islands Safari in the Mergui Archipelago 4 Days, 6 Days, 8 Days Trips Tel: 95 1 202063, 202064 E-mail: info@islandsafari mergui.com. Website: www. islandsafarimergui.com

Water Treatment

No.430(A), Corner of Dhamazedi Rd & Golden Valley Rd, Building(2) Market Place (City Mart), Bahan Tsp, Yangon. Tel : 01-523840(Ext-309), 09-73208079. Black Canyon Coffee & International Thai Cuisine 330, Ahlone Rd, Dagon Tsp. Tel: 0980 21691, 395052.

Office Furniture

REAL ESTATE

Win
Monday to Saturday (9am to 6pm) No. 797, MAC Tower II, Rm -4, Ground Flr, Bogyoke Aung San Rd, Lamadaw Tsp, Yangon. Tel: (951) 212944 Ext: 303 sales.centuremyanmar@ gmail.com www.centure.in.th Real Estate Agency Our Services - Office, House & Land (For Rent) (Agent Fees Free) Tel: 09-501-8250, 09-732-02480.

ILBC IGCSE SCHOOL No.(34), Laydauntkan Road, Tamwe Tsp, Yangon. Tel: 542982, 545720, 549106,545736,400156 Fax: 541040 Email: info@ilbc.net.mm www.ilbcedu.com International School Yangon 20, Shwe Taung Kyar St, Bahan Tsp. Tel: 512793.

Commercial scale water treatment (Since 1997) Tel: 01-2300086. H/P: 09-5161431, 09-43126571. 39-B, Thazin Lane, Ahlone.

REMOVALISTS

No.(1), Inya Road, Kamayut Tsp. Tel: 01-527506 email: inyaone@gmail.com www.inya1.com

Indian Fine Dining & Bar Bldg No. 12, Yangon Intl Compound, Ahlone Road. Tel: 01-2302069, 09-43185008, 09-731-60662. sales@corrianderleaf.com

Water Heaters

Relocation Specialist Rm 504, M.M.G Tower, #44/56, Kannar Rd, Botahtaung Tsp. Tel: 250290, 252313. Mail : info@asiantigersmyanmar.com Bld-A2, Gr-Fl, Shwe Gabar Housing, Mindama Rd, Mayangone Tsp, Yangon. email: eko-nr@ myanmar.com.mm Ph: 652391, 09-73108896 Legendary Myanmar Intl Shipping & Logistics Co., Ltd. No-9, Rm (A-4), 3rd Flr, Kyaung St, Myaynigone, Sanchaung Tsp, Yangon. Tel: 516827, 523653, 516795. Mobile. 09-512-3049. Email: legandarymyr@ mptmail.net .mm www.LMSL-shipping.com

Kohaku Japanese Restaurant Chatrium Hotel Royal Lake Yangon 40, Natmauk Road, Tamwe Tsp, Lobby Level, Tel: 544500 Ext 6231

The Ritz Exclusive Lounge Chatrium Hotel Royal Lake Yangon 40, Natmauk Road, Tamwe Tsp, Ground Floor, Tel: 544500 Ext 6243, 6244

Admissions Office: Than Lwin Campus: 44, Than Lwin Road, Bahan Tsp, Yangon. Tel: 951535433, 959-8503073. Email: rviacademygn@ rvcentre.com.sg Website: www.rvcentre. com.sg

The Global leader in Water Heaters A/1, Aung San Stadium East Wing, Upper Pansodan Road. Tel: 251033, 09-730-25281.

Same as Rinnai Gas cooker and cooker Hood Showroom Address

Water Heater

WEB SERVICES

22, Kaba Aye Pagoda Rd, Bahan Tsp. tel 541997. email: leplanteur@ mptmail.net.mm. http://leplanteur.net Little Tokyo 168-C, Dhammazedi Road, Bahan Tsp. Tel: 09-731-85168, 09-73178946.

Bld-A2, Gr-Fl, Shwe Gabar Housing, Mindama Rd, Mayangone Tsp, Yangon. email: eko-nr@ myanmar.com.mm Ph: 652391, 09-73108896

The Emporia Restaurant Chatrium Hotel Royal Lake Yangon 40, Natmauk Road, Tamwe Tsp. Lobby Level, Tel: 544500 Ext 6294 Traders Gourmet Corner Level 1, Traders Hotel, #223 Sule Pagoda Road, Kyauktada Tsp. Tel : 242828 ext : 6503

Yangon International School Fully Accredited K-12 International Curriculum with ESL support No.117,Thumingalar Housing, Thingangyun Township, Yangon. Tel: 578171, 573149 www.yismyanmar.net Yangon International School New Early Childhood Center Pan Hlaing Golf Estate Housing & U Tun Nyo Street, Hlaing Thar Yar Township, Yangon. Tel: 687701, 687702

World-class Web Services Tailor-made design, Professional research & writing for Brochure/ Catalogue/e-Commerce website, Customised business web apps, online advertisement and anything online. Talk to us: (951) 430-897, 553-918 www.medialane.com.au 58B Myanma Gon Yaung Housing. Than Thu Mar Road, Tamwe, Yangon.

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Obama concerned with impact of gridiron violence

WASHINGTON US President Barack Obama said fans of American football must accept that the sport is likely to change rules to reduce the violence and impact on players, including brain injuries. In an interview with The New Republic made public last week, before the Super Bowl gridiron showdown between San Francisco and Baltimore, Obama was asked if he took less pleasure watching the sport knowing the toll it takes on players. Im a big football fan, but I have to tell you, if I had a son, I would have to think long and hard before I let him play football, said Obama, who has two daughters. And I think that those of us who love the sport are going to have to wrestle with the fact that it will probably change gradually to try to reduce some of the violence. In some cases, that may make it a little bit less exciting, but it will be a whole lot better for the players and those of us who are fans maybe wont have to examine our consciences quite as much. Concussions have been a major issue for the National Football League, with the long-term impact of blows to the head on players a growing concern. The family of former NFL star linebacker Junior Seau has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the league for not doing more to protect players from head injuries, saying the NFL hid the risks of repeated head injuries. Seau died in May at the age of 43 after shooting himself. Post-mortem tests showed he suffered from chronic traumatic encephalopathy as a result of concussions and other blows to the head taken during his career. Obama said his major concern was for injuries suffered by players in collegiate American football, in itself a huge US sport that develops NFL talent seeking rich contracts and professional glory. I tend to be more worried about college players than NFL players in the sense that the NFL players have a union, Obama said. They are grown men. They can make some of these decisions on their own and most of them are wellcompensated for the violence they do to their bodies. The president made it clear he wants the National Collegiate Athletic Association to be concerned about player safety moving forward. You read some of these stories about college players who undergo some of these same problems with concussions and so forth and then have nothing to fall back on thats something that I would like to see the NCAA think about, he said. AFP

Mawrawady FCs troubles highlight MFF disorganisation

By Aung Si Hein ONGOING contractual issues at Mawrawady Football Club have underscored regulatory issues within the sports governing body, the Myanmar Football Federation (MFF). Signs of problems began for Mawrawady FC when club chief executive Nyein Win Aung submitted a complaint against his teams owner Wan Sein to the MFF on November 9, 2012. The complaint claimed that monthly salaries for players and coaches and other costs related to the team had not been paid. Mawrawady FC, which represents northern Shan State, was established in 2005 as part of the countrys Amateur League. After a successful and profitable seven year run, the club joined Myanmar National League (MNL) in 2012. But the jump to the pro level proved to be disastrous. Lacking both experienced and foreign players the club failed to produce results. The team is now scheduled to be relegated from the MNLs top division to its second tier when it is formed later this year. More problems began to arise at the club in November, the end of the Myanmar football season, when no salaries had been paid to players or coaches. I was asked by our players to put the case in the hands of the MFF. I was told I would be paid K500,000 when I assumed the role of chief executive of Mawrawady FC but I only received K100,000 a month and the owner said he would pay me the remainder at the end of the year, Nyein Win Aung told The Myanmar Times last week. He [Wan Sein] did the same thing to every player and the coaches. A player who was supposed to receive K300,000 a month got only K70,000. The player was told that the rest of the money was being saved to be distributed at the end of the year. In November, no one received a salary. When the players complained to me, I forwarded the case to the MFF. In response to the complaint, the MFF called for a meeting on December 10 with federation president Zaw Zaw working as an intermediary between the club owner and players and coaches. Zaw Zaw asked us what we wanted and we said we wanted our salaries for two months and we wanted to transfer clubs. I received K600,000 for two months of work. Initially I was told I would be paid K500,000 a month, said player Waing Chit Aung who has since transferred to Rakhine United FC. Ye Myo Hein, MFF tournament organisers said that the case has been solved and the dispute arose due to unclear contracts. It is a misunderstanding between the players and the owner. The owner has paid what is due to the players in their contracts. He just did not fulfill the spoken promises which are made outside of contracts. These promises sometimes make things problematic, Ye Myo Hein said. Unhappy with the MFFs response, Nyein Win Nain g , w h o h o lds no official contract from the team, filed a second complaint with the MFF on December 15. The MFF is not responsible. They called players and the owner to discuss the matter even though I filed the complaint. They say the case is finished but myself and four coaches have not been treated fairly. They are using the excuse that we do not have contracts. Wan Sein insists that he acted according to what was signed.

In November, no one receieved a salary.

From the start we did not intend to hire them as staff, he said of the coaches. We all had the same desire to form a football club and they were willing to help. So they do not need any contracts. As for the players, I never promised to give them increases in regular pay but promised them bonuses if they could draw or win a match or if they could save our team from relegation. People are exaggerating the case, he said. He added that he has other partners in the club ownership and he has assigned one, Aung Kyaw Kyaw Win, as the president of the club for the 2013 season. When Nyein Win Aung met again with MFF officials he was told that they knew he was right but they couldnt do anything for him because he does not have an official contract. I think Zaw Zaw was worried that Mawrawady FC might leave the MNL because it is too difficult run a football club in the league. That is why he was very anxious to please the owner of the club, Waing Chit Aung said. Nyein Win Aung added that only when the MFF begins to use a clear system to sign players and coaches, will the issue be fully resolved.

Chinas Li Na poses with former champion Margaret Court as she holds the runners up trophy after defeat in her womens singles final against Belaruss Victoria Azarenka at the Australian Open in Melbourne on January 26. Pic: AFP

Li Na plots extended spell at the top

HONG KONG Chinas Australian Open finalist Li Na said on January 31 she is confident she can use her hard-won experience to hold off the emerging generation of players as she chases more Grand Slam glory. The former French Open champion came up short against world number one Victoria Azarenka in the final of the years first major in Melbourne in January but predicts another two years at the top of the womens game. Turning 31 in February, Li is roughly the same age as Americas 15-time Grand Slam champion Serena Williams, which counts as old in a sport packed with aspiring youngsters. Right now Ive been playing for many years so Ive got some experience as well, said the world number five. And also, never give up. This for me is more important and also why I can keep the level for a couple of years. Li overcame Agnieszka Radwanska and Maria Sharapova on her impressive run to the final in Australia, where she twisted her ankle twice and briefly blacked out before losing to the Belarusian in three sets. But as well as success for some of the established names, the tournament also saw the new generation make their mark as American Sloane Stephens, 19, knocked out her idol and tennis great Williams in the quarter-finals. Britains Laura Robson, 19, continued her good progress by reaching the third round while the likes of Garbine Muguruza and Madison Keys have been tipped as stars of the future. Of course right now so many young players grow up. They play well as well. So you can still see everyones working hard. 2013 should be another fantastic year for all of them, said Li, whose win at the 2011 French Open made her the first Asian player to win a Grand Slam singles title. Unlike Williams, who has set her sights on defending her Olympic crown at the Rio Games in 2016, Li, speaking by teleconference from Wuhan in China, would not be drawn on how long she will continue. For me I didnt think too far. You never know how the body is feeling and everyone is different. Maybe one day after waking up I will feel my body cant handle it any more and I will retire. But Li, who has won seven WTA titles, said she would like to secure another Grand Slam after success came relatively late in her career. I wish it.... I will try the maximum and have hard working the whole team. Really looking forward for this year. With compatriots Zheng Jie and Peng Shuai also in the worlds top 50, Li is confident that tennis in China has a strong future. I know right now so many children want to take up the tennis racquet. Its not only because of Li Na, its because China tennis [is] growing up. Li, due to play an exhibition match in Hong Kong on March 4 as part of the BNP Paribas Tennis Showdown against Caroline Wozniacki, said she would see a doctor on Monday about her ankle before resuming training. AFP

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YANGON Myanmar said January 29 that it was excluding tennis and gymnastics from this years Southeast Asian Games, prompting accusations by rivals of cherry-picking events to help home athletes. The 2013 SEA Games will be the first major international event to be held in Myanmar since the end of junta rule almost two years ago. But the events list has angered some regional neighbours who say Olympic disciplines should take precedence over local events such as chinlone, a dance-like sport played with a rattan ball, and bodybuilding at which the hosts excel. There were many requests to add and remove [sports]. After discussion, we removed some and also added some, sports ministry official Htay Aung told AFP, saying hockey, table tennis and badminton were all reinstated after talks January 29 between officials from the 11 competing countries in Nay Pyi Taw. We also should not include some sports which our country cannot win, he added, apparently confirming suspicions Myanmar had selected some disciplines purely to boost its medal tally. Tennis is an Olympic sport which should be in the games but Myanmar said they dont have courts [for

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it], said Chaiyapak Siriwat, vice president of the National Olympic Committee of Thailand. Personally, I think they dont have tennis athletes, he said. Chris Chan, the secretary general of the Singapore National Olympic Council, said that it was Myanmars right to choose certain sports, but that other countries had pushed to have table tennis and badminton on the list. We argued that Southeast Asians were good at certain sports, and they understood that, he said. Gymnastics was dropped because it requires a lot of apparatus, and tennis, well, we dont do that well in that in Southeast Asia. Host nations are routinely accused of skewing the line-up of disciplines to favour their athletes as they eye medals table glory. Events such as martial art pencak silat , Vietnamese martial art vovinam and sepak takraw, a cross between football and volleyball, are among the disciplines unfamiliar outside the region that join the regular sporting line-up. Critics frequently decry their inclusion for diluting the quality of the events and handing host nations medals in their niche sports. The hosts normally top the SEA Games medals tally. AFP

Briefs
Kenyan wins Yangon marathon
A KENYAN runner took the top spot at Myanmars first international marathon. Kariuki Gitau crossed the finish line in two hours and 19 minutes on January 27 to become the winner of the Yoma International Marathon. Fellow Kenyan Onesmus Muendi finished second. Thaung Aye of Myanmar rounded out the top three. Myanmar runners dominated the womens division. Mi Mi Aye finished first with a time of two hours and 46 minutes. Pa Pa came in second. Nilar San finished third. A total of 1000 runners from 20 countries participated in three running events.

Mentally disabled have right to participate: Suu Kyi

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea Myanmar opposition icon Aung San Suu Kyi drew on her experience of decades under house arrest to appeal January 30 against the social isolation of the mentally disabled. In a keynote speech at a conference on the sidelines of the 2012 Special Winter Olympics in the South Korean ski resort of Pyeongchang, Suu Kyi said she knew too well how it feels to be isolated and removed from society. which many with mental disabilities find themselves locked. In her address, Suu Kyi stressed the importance of allowing disabled people to participate in decisionmaking and to be active in their communities, adding that participation was key to enjoying all human rights. I have never thought I had to make sacrifices. I always thought I made my choices, she said. And this is what many intellectually disabled people are denied. They are denied the rights to make their own choices... More choices must be open to them. Speaking later to reporters, Suu Kyi said she had been inspired and humbled by the resilience and commitment of the roughly 2,300 mentally disabled athletes participating in the Special Winter Olympics. The pro-democracy icon arrived in Seoul on January 28 for a four-day visit. On January 31, she visited the southwestern city of Gwangju to receive a human rights award that commemorates a prodemocracy uprising against military dictatorship in the city in 1980. Suu Kyi was actually awarded the prize in 2004 but was unable to receive it as she was under house arrest. AFP Aung San Suu Kyi speaks during a press conference of The Global Development Summit in Pyeongchang Seoul on January 30. Pic: AFP

Myanmar to play friendly match

MYANMAR will take on the Philippines in an international friendly match on February 6 at Yangons Thuwunna Stadium. The two teams last met in November 2012 during the AFF Suzuki Cup in Bangkok. The Philippines won the match 2-0. Myanmars last win came on October 11 when they defeated Cambodia 3-0 in Yangon. The match is a warm-up for the AFC Challenge Cup in March.

I had hope that one day things would change for the better.

Importantly, I had hope that one day things would change for the better... but too many people with intellectual disabilities are denied even such hope, the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize winner said. Suu Kyi spent the best part of two decades under house arrest prior to her release in 2010. She was elected to the Myanmar parliament last year. The Pyeongchang conference was focused on the theme of ending the cycle of poverty and exclusion in

Barcelona eyes match in Dhaka

DHAKA Spanish football giant Barcelona is pushing for a game in Bangladesh in August, nearly two years after its top star Lionel Messi dazzled a huge crowd in the countrys capital, officials said on January 30. Barcelona has approached us with a proposal that they are willing to play in Bangladesh, Bangladesh Football Federation president Kazi Salahuddin told AFP. AFP