Ndai bat Yangon kaw galaw ai lung seng dut poi da, Myen Asuya hte shan hte a rau lu rau sha hpaga la ni kawn, lungseng dut lu gumhpraw American US dollar 2,800,000,000 $ lu la ma ai lam, chye lu ai.
Ndai gaw myen gumhpraw hku n'na sawn dat yang, 2,800,000,000,000 Kyat (Jing hpaw hku, "Wan Wan Lahkawng Sen Matsat") lu la ma ai lam chye lu ai. Ndai gaw laning mi hta 3/4 lang galaw ai Lungseng dut poi hta na, ndai bat galaw ai alang kaw na sha rai nga ai.
Daini Wunpawng buga na, manu dan ai lung seng gaw, Dagam dala tai nga sai. Lamu ga madu Wunpawng Amyu ni gaw Jalungseng kawn lu ai Akyu ara hpe tsep kawp nlu hkap sha nga ai. Grau n'na, ndai Lungseng dut la lu ai Gumhpraw hte lu su ai Myen Asuya gaw, dai gumhpraw ni hte sinat lak nak hpyen la bau n'na, Wunpawng Amyu sha ni hpe zingri nga ma ai.
Myen gaw wunpawng Amyu ni a hpyen jet dik nga sai. Anhte Wunpawng Amyu ni tinang mungdaw tinang up hkang ai ni tai n'na, tinang lamu ga kaw nga ai n'hprang rai ni hpe, tinang Amyu sha ni hpe, garan jaw ya ai Asuya ra nga saga ai.
Ndai ten hta Myen Asuya hte jinghku hku n'na, tinang Amyu masha ni a shingma n'tsa, mangting Amyet tam lawm ai ni, kaw, anhte Wunpawng Amyu sha ni n'lawm na, ahkyek nga ai. Wunpawng mungdan Self-autonomy lu na rawt malan hkrun lam hta, pat dut dang ai ni, n'tai na, anhte ahkyek nga ai.
Hpyen a akyu ara hte tinang Amyu sha akyu ra hpe gin hka n'na, Wunpawng Amyu sha ni a rawt malang hkrun lam hta, pan dung langai, myit hkrum myit ra, lata gindun sa wa nga nga ai.
http://www.burmanet.org/news/2011/03/25/reuters-myanmar-gems-sale-nets-record-2-8-billion-%E2%80%93-official-aung-hla-tun/
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Friday, March 18, 2011
Scholarship available for Master Degree in Water Engineering and Management
I am pleased to inform you that there is one available full-Scholarship from Germany namely DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst) for Master Degree in Water Engineering and Management at Asian Institute of Technology for coming August intake, 2011.
Please kindly see the brief requirements for the applicant of this scholarship;
To apply, applicants:
1) Must be a citizen of Myanmar
2) Should be not more than 28 years of age at the time applying
3) Preferably Background - Civil Engineering (others such as Mechanical/Chemical Engineering are also encourage to apply)
3) Must obtain minimum GPA of 3.00/4.00 (or equivalent (75%)).
4) Should have TOEFL of at least 550 (paper based) or 213 (computer based) or IELTS of at least 6.0 is mandatory.
The official website of Asian Institute Technology can be accessed through ~
www.ait.ac.th
Course catalog and all you need to know about ‘Water Engineering and Management can be accessed from ~
http://www.set.ait.ac.th/wem/
All detail information of DAAD Scholarship can be seen from ~
http://www.ait.ac.th/AIT/admissions/Current_Scholarships
(For those who have difficulties in accessing those links, please see the attached files)
As this is urgent calling, the applicant should submit all the required documents to the school not later than this month, March 2011.
For those who are interested to apply for this scholarship or any information, question you have, you are welcome to access me by mail or phone anytime.
Please kindly forward this mail too, if your friend or somebody from your network group who is interest in this subject.
Thank you very much.
Best Wishes,
Thang Za Khai
Ph: 0880896744
Email: Thang.Za.Khai@ait.ac.th
htzkhai@gmail.com
School of Engineering and Technology,
Asian Institute of Technology,
Bangkok, Thailand,
Please kindly see the brief requirements for the applicant of this scholarship;
To apply, applicants:
1) Must be a citizen of Myanmar
2) Should be not more than 28 years of age at the time applying
3) Preferably Background - Civil Engineering (others such as Mechanical/Chemical Engineering are also encourage to apply)
3) Must obtain minimum GPA of 3.00/4.00 (or equivalent (75%)).
4) Should have TOEFL of at least 550 (paper based) or 213 (computer based) or IELTS of at least 6.0 is mandatory.
The official website of Asian Institute Technology can be accessed through ~
www.ait.ac.th
Course catalog and all you need to know about ‘Water Engineering and Management can be accessed from ~
http://www.set.ait.ac.th/wem/
All detail information of DAAD Scholarship can be seen from ~
http://www.ait.ac.th/AIT/admissions/Current_Scholarships
(For those who have difficulties in accessing those links, please see the attached files)
As this is urgent calling, the applicant should submit all the required documents to the school not later than this month, March 2011.
For those who are interested to apply for this scholarship or any information, question you have, you are welcome to access me by mail or phone anytime.
Please kindly forward this mail too, if your friend or somebody from your network group who is interest in this subject.
Thank you very much.
Best Wishes,
Thang Za Khai
Ph: 0880896744
Email: Thang.Za.Khai@ait.ac.th
htzkhai@gmail.com
School of Engineering and Technology,
Asian Institute of Technology,
Bangkok, Thailand,
Saturday, March 12, 2011
China should halt Myitsone Dam Project in Burma
March 4, 2011
Ethnic Kachin people in Kachin State, northern Burma and their fellows in Thailand, Japan, US and UK in early February held a world-wide prayer service seeking to halt the unwanted Myitsone Dam being built in their hometown by the governments of Burma and China. Back in their homeland, particularly Tang Hpre Village which locates at the construction site of the Myitsone Dam, over a hundred participants from Baptist, Roman Catholic and other Christian denominations joined in the February 9th prayer in the hope of escape from forced relocation and halting the dam project, a local media Kachin News Group has reported.
The dam that the people in northern Burma are opposing is the largest among seven dams currently implemented on the Irrawaddy River by the Burmese military regime’s Burma’s Ministry of Electric Power No 1 and China state-owned China Power Investment Corporation (CPI). The dam is reported to be 152 m (about 500 foot) in both height and width, locates about 3.2 km below the confluence of the Mali Hka River and N’Mai Hka River and about 42 km north of Myitkyina, the capital of Kachin State. It is estimated that Myitsone Dam would produce 3,600 megawatts of electricity by 2017 for China’s Yunnan province. Research by environmentalists suggested that the dam will inundate 300 square miles, flooding 47 villages and displacing more than 10,000 native people including their historical heritages sites and farm lands.
One may wonder why these people in northern Burma conducted such unrealistic or superstitious prayer to seek halt the unwanted dam in their hometown, instead of holding a public demonstration to expression their opposition views to the regime and China. The fact is that freedom of speech; the rights to protest are forbidden and punishable if conducted in Burma (Myanmar), the military-ruled Southeast Asian. Yet here people still come up with different forms of expressing their views which is to hold a prayer service quietly and tell the media that they are doing this because they don’t want such plan of the government.
According to news reports, these native people learnt about this huge hydropower dam to be built right at their village only after when they witnessed several groups of Chinese engineers began to drill their surrounding lands with huge machines and the government deployed a army battalion for security in early 2007. The Burmese regime and China state-owned China Power Investment Corporation (CPI) including several contractors signed agreement for the construction of these dams several years ago, without revealing any information about the plans to native people in the affected areas. “Villagers even find difficult to figure out what is going on their surroundings. Many people simply thought it was another kind of mining,” a pastor in Myitkyina told the author on online interview. From media reports and my direct observation with people in the affected areas, there has been no transparency, no consideration of human rights, respect for stakeholders interest, and respect of international norms of business behaviors by the Burmese regime, Chinese government and their contractors with regard to these dams. According to ISO 26000’s Principle No.2, “an organization should be transparent in its decisions and activities that impact on society and the environment.” Business enterprises are expected to disclose information of the purpose, nature and location of their activities, their impact on society and the environment, and the relationships with their stakeholders. However none of these principles have been taken into consideration by the Burmese government and Chinese companies.
Worse, the Burmese and Chinese governments not even bother to respond when the local community leaders and human rights organizations sent letters in May 2007 asking Chinese companies operating in Burma to conduct environmental and social impact assessments, publicly release information, and include affected communities in the decision-making process.
In early February three bombs exploded in the Myitsone dam construction site leaving 4 Chinese workers dead and 12 other injured, it is reported. The explosions also caused severe damage to a construction company’s two-storey office and several company-owned trucks and bulldozers. Burmese authorities arrested several suspects of youths and community leaders. Authorities released some of the arrested youths, nevertheless warned that all youth and communities leaders in Tang Hpre Village would be held responsible if there is such accident in the future, without giving any solution to the community’s concern. After such warning, the government’s Burmese prime contractor Asia World Company together with the military authorities began forcing villagers to a designed area. According to Naw La of the Kachin Development Networking Group (KDNG) which published a report “Damming the Irrawaddy” in October 2007, Tang Hpre villagers are set deadline to move from their homes by the end of this month which had prompted them to hold prayer service since they have no other option.
Giving the fact of Burma’s poor human rights record and ongoing internal civil war conflict, Human rights and environmentalist activists warned China that it should not engage in such huge and controversial project. They also claimed that citizens will not benefit from the hydropower project since the military will only use income generating from the project to future grip on the country’s political power. From the side of Chinese government and companies, one may reason they have business interest because of profit and power hungry demand of China’s growing industries. However as a growing super power I realized that China’s involvement in the Myitsone Dam can undermine its reputation because the project involved extreme environmental consequence and human rights violation. It can be also costly because the dam construction site is right in the middle areas of political conflict between Burmese regime and the Kachin Independence Army which is one of Burma’s largest ethnic armed forced and which controls much areas of Kachin State. The KIA had officially stated to the Burmese regime that it did not want Myitsone Dam to be built because of huge social and environmental impact, and demanded to halt this plan. This also clearly signaled to Chinese government and companies involved in the project that such controversial plan could nowhere be completed amid such vulnerable arm conflict while majority of population in Kachin State oppose the Myitsone Dam likewise.
Other dam projects may be optional, but due to above mentioned reasons, China and Burmese regime should really consider if they are to precede the Myitsone Dam. The best solution is to halt this plan.
Ethnic Kachin people in Kachin State, northern Burma and their fellows in Thailand, Japan, US and UK in early February held a world-wide prayer service seeking to halt the unwanted Myitsone Dam being built in their hometown by the governments of Burma and China. Back in their homeland, particularly Tang Hpre Village which locates at the construction site of the Myitsone Dam, over a hundred participants from Baptist, Roman Catholic and other Christian denominations joined in the February 9th prayer in the hope of escape from forced relocation and halting the dam project, a local media Kachin News Group has reported.
The dam that the people in northern Burma are opposing is the largest among seven dams currently implemented on the Irrawaddy River by the Burmese military regime’s Burma’s Ministry of Electric Power No 1 and China state-owned China Power Investment Corporation (CPI). The dam is reported to be 152 m (about 500 foot) in both height and width, locates about 3.2 km below the confluence of the Mali Hka River and N’Mai Hka River and about 42 km north of Myitkyina, the capital of Kachin State. It is estimated that Myitsone Dam would produce 3,600 megawatts of electricity by 2017 for China’s Yunnan province. Research by environmentalists suggested that the dam will inundate 300 square miles, flooding 47 villages and displacing more than 10,000 native people including their historical heritages sites and farm lands.
One may wonder why these people in northern Burma conducted such unrealistic or superstitious prayer to seek halt the unwanted dam in their hometown, instead of holding a public demonstration to expression their opposition views to the regime and China. The fact is that freedom of speech; the rights to protest are forbidden and punishable if conducted in Burma (Myanmar), the military-ruled Southeast Asian. Yet here people still come up with different forms of expressing their views which is to hold a prayer service quietly and tell the media that they are doing this because they don’t want such plan of the government.
According to news reports, these native people learnt about this huge hydropower dam to be built right at their village only after when they witnessed several groups of Chinese engineers began to drill their surrounding lands with huge machines and the government deployed a army battalion for security in early 2007. The Burmese regime and China state-owned China Power Investment Corporation (CPI) including several contractors signed agreement for the construction of these dams several years ago, without revealing any information about the plans to native people in the affected areas. “Villagers even find difficult to figure out what is going on their surroundings. Many people simply thought it was another kind of mining,” a pastor in Myitkyina told the author on online interview. From media reports and my direct observation with people in the affected areas, there has been no transparency, no consideration of human rights, respect for stakeholders interest, and respect of international norms of business behaviors by the Burmese regime, Chinese government and their contractors with regard to these dams. According to ISO 26000’s Principle No.2, “an organization should be transparent in its decisions and activities that impact on society and the environment.” Business enterprises are expected to disclose information of the purpose, nature and location of their activities, their impact on society and the environment, and the relationships with their stakeholders. However none of these principles have been taken into consideration by the Burmese government and Chinese companies.
Worse, the Burmese and Chinese governments not even bother to respond when the local community leaders and human rights organizations sent letters in May 2007 asking Chinese companies operating in Burma to conduct environmental and social impact assessments, publicly release information, and include affected communities in the decision-making process.
In early February three bombs exploded in the Myitsone dam construction site leaving 4 Chinese workers dead and 12 other injured, it is reported. The explosions also caused severe damage to a construction company’s two-storey office and several company-owned trucks and bulldozers. Burmese authorities arrested several suspects of youths and community leaders. Authorities released some of the arrested youths, nevertheless warned that all youth and communities leaders in Tang Hpre Village would be held responsible if there is such accident in the future, without giving any solution to the community’s concern. After such warning, the government’s Burmese prime contractor Asia World Company together with the military authorities began forcing villagers to a designed area. According to Naw La of the Kachin Development Networking Group (KDNG) which published a report “Damming the Irrawaddy” in October 2007, Tang Hpre villagers are set deadline to move from their homes by the end of this month which had prompted them to hold prayer service since they have no other option.
Giving the fact of Burma’s poor human rights record and ongoing internal civil war conflict, Human rights and environmentalist activists warned China that it should not engage in such huge and controversial project. They also claimed that citizens will not benefit from the hydropower project since the military will only use income generating from the project to future grip on the country’s political power. From the side of Chinese government and companies, one may reason they have business interest because of profit and power hungry demand of China’s growing industries. However as a growing super power I realized that China’s involvement in the Myitsone Dam can undermine its reputation because the project involved extreme environmental consequence and human rights violation. It can be also costly because the dam construction site is right in the middle areas of political conflict between Burmese regime and the Kachin Independence Army which is one of Burma’s largest ethnic armed forced and which controls much areas of Kachin State. The KIA had officially stated to the Burmese regime that it did not want Myitsone Dam to be built because of huge social and environmental impact, and demanded to halt this plan. This also clearly signaled to Chinese government and companies involved in the project that such controversial plan could nowhere be completed amid such vulnerable arm conflict while majority of population in Kachin State oppose the Myitsone Dam likewise.
Other dam projects may be optional, but due to above mentioned reasons, China and Burmese regime should really consider if they are to precede the Myitsone Dam. The best solution is to halt this plan.
National Dong Hwa University (Taiwan) Scholarship
Dear NDHU candidates,
Application for National Dong Hwa University 2011 Fall semseter has already started online http://web.ndhu.edu.tw/foreignstudents/login.aspx. We expect unique students from diversive backgrounds to join our vibrant and multicultural campus. Please visit our website http://www.iso.ndhu.edu.tw/ for detailed information on Internation Students.
We are looking forward to hearing from you! Please feel free to contact us if you would like to know more!
International Student Office
National Dong Hwa University
http://www.iso.ndhu.edu.tw/
TEL: 886-3-8632134
FAX: 886-3-8632130
Email:iso@mail.ndhu.edu.tw
Add: No.1, Sec.2, Da Hsueh Rd., Shoufen,
Hualien 97401, Taiwan, R.O.C.
Application for National Dong Hwa University 2011 Fall semseter has already started online http://web.ndhu.edu.tw/foreignstudents/login.aspx. We expect unique students from diversive backgrounds to join our vibrant and multicultural campus. Please visit our website http://www.iso.ndhu.edu.tw/ for detailed information on Internation Students.
We are looking forward to hearing from you! Please feel free to contact us if you would like to know more!
International Student Office
National Dong Hwa University
http://www.iso.ndhu.edu.tw/
TEL: 886-3-8632134
FAX: 886-3-8632130
Email:iso@mail.ndhu.edu.tw
Add: No.1, Sec.2, Da Hsueh Rd., Shoufen,
Hualien 97401, Taiwan, R.O.C.
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