myanmar blogger nay phone lat arrested

Yangon , jan 29
Famous myanmar blogger nay phone lat was arrested this aftrenoon said mynamar bloggers society who based in yangon .Eventhough they knew he was arrested but still haven't known the reason of why .
One of the friends of nay phone lat said he live in thingangyun township and polices cirlced before sezieing.Blogger mg said that news she got from his aunt whose house is situated near nay phone latt office.
It was happened after visiting the famous joker zaganar he is also famous bloger otherwise blogger was accused by illegal bloggging online.
" when I heard the news about him,that news make me stun and shock" said myanmar bloggger.
however , we still haven't got any contact from nay phone lat or either his faimly.

Yangon passport office has banned for handbags carriers

Yangon passport office has banned for handbags carriers
Yangon, Jan 28
Yangon passport office officially started recently banning the handbags carriers who want to come inside of their office.
Handbags have not allowed carrying Yangon passport office inside, since jan16 because of the security‘s reason said the man who quoted the passport office official announcement.
“The person only documents and files have been passed from the office entrance gate that links to people who bring the handbags and consequently, crowded at the entrance.” He added.
“So many people are waiting outside with their handbags.”
Even though the office released announcement only at the entrance, there is no official announcement to the public by media.
Passport office situated at the Yangon downtown and from Monday to Friday always crowded with people who want to go to abroad by so many reason.
Before the serial bomb blasting, people could enter the office with handbags, which bring documents and file for to apply fro the passport.
“We usually took crowded bus to arrive here so it is not impossible to carry only files and documents without handbag on the Bus”.
Passport office is only one of the office in Myanmar that issue passport to citizen .it was took nearly two months to get a passport which are too many complicated steps before apply otherwise only nearly 800 passport can issue among 3000 application in daily.

Victims family will get compensation from government

Yangon, Jan 25
Yangon Authorities arrange to give nearly 1200s dollars for each of the family of 28 victims who were killed by bus crash approved the spoke man from aung mingalar high way bus station, Yangon.
Manager from government Insurance Corporation confirmed one for 11 lakh kyats; equivalent nearly 1000 dollars, per person who died in that bus crash.
"we really sorry for two kids ,under five years aged who didn't bought the ticket, we can't do anything for the kids". said to yangontoday.
The travel insurance, paid 100 kyats and whoever bought the bus ticket ii is already included .In Myanmar, most of the passengers are very superstitious for travel insurance .a According to the lack of insurance knowledge no one willingly buys the insurance ticket.
A bus plunged over the side of a road and flipped over, killing 27 passengers and injuring 10 others, state media said Monday.
The bus skidded off the road near the town of Kyaik Hto on Sunday as it traveled from Yangon to the southern state of Mon, about a seven-hour journey along bad roads, the New Light of Myanmar reported.

Yangon Polices inspects editors from 7 days new journal

Yangon Jan 20

Yangon special polices inspects and asked to the editors from 7 days new weekly journal on the evening of January 19 about the source who told the story about secret curfew in Yangon.
“ It took nearly 4 hours for the questions at our office sitting room, they said they are police officers from Latha Township, one of the downtown townships in Yangon” ,said the editor from 7 days new journal.
“What they asked to me is about the source who told about secret curfew but ethically journalist has to protect the source so that we couldn’t give then either by name or anything. That related to the source.
The story has not published but it will come out in January 22.That was written by junior reporter from this journal and getting the facts by phone from Kyauktada Township.
Last two days ago reporter send the fax to chief of police force who live at naypyidaw; 400 miles away from Yangon; but he did not know about the curfew in Yangon.
“The problem is who said these facts because police chief not permitted to answer the reporter question,” said the editor.
Instead of saying who said the facts, polices get the facts which is about when reporter get the secret curfew from 7 days new editor .
“We don’t know what sort of negative impacts fell on our source, we really worry about him”. The government press scrutiny board ordered the Myanmar language edition of the Myanmar Times not to publish this week and forced to resign the chief reporter and editors for having run a story earlier than that was not approved.

Myanmar military government plans to move Yangon again

Yangon, Jan 20
Myanmar military government has plan to move back 5 ministries offices from Naypyidaw to Yangon ,former capital city far nearly 400 miles away , according to the source which is doing the IT projects for government.
The source who requests not to use his name, ministry of foreign affairs is including in the list and, the next one is ministry of commerce said to Yangontoday.
“Actually, It was not too long ago ,only 2 years from now ,government moved quietly to Naypyidaw anyone didn’t know the reason of moving” said the local businessmen who live in Yangon.
2005 November 6 ,all of the ministries from Yangon moved to Naypyidaw and after two months latter nearly 32 ministries office operated there.
Most of the business in Yangon, which are dealing like bargain with high ranking military officers ,couldn’t doing themselves so that they had to go Naypyidaw when they want to get privilege from government.
“Officers bribe and give permits or licenses to the businessmen despite they are doing so called clean government project. What we called this place is negotiating field for business.”
“Interesting thing is why they plan to move back Yangon”
A state –within-a-state as well as a privileged class, the military provides good schools, health facilities, housing and jobs at Naypyidaw, while the public copes with a shattered infrastructure less
than US 1 dollar a day.

diesel import resumes again in private sector

After nearly 2 year banned, Myanmar government allowed diesel import license to private sector to undertake the business in a bid to increase said the local businessperson who closed to the trade council.
Only fishery, gems and timber business sector get that sort of diesel import licenses, like 2 years ago, But we haven’t know how many diesel tons can import together he added by quoting the export and import supervising committee .
“One of the problem to import disel is export earning, officially earning exchanged is going down till 1270 kyats for 1 fec” he said.
He didn’t mentioned about the quantity of diesel tons but he said the price per diesel gallon is quite reasonable that lat time ,it is equivalent 3-3 fec for one gallon of diesel.
Last time they cashed to government 3-53 fec for one gallon of diesel.
Myanmar mainly imports diesel from Malaysia, Thailand and Singapore and figures from the official shoe that Myanmar produces about 80 millions of gallons of diesel annually for domestic demand.

vietnam compete chinese in yangon

yangon ,jan 17
vietnam tyres ,named CASUMANI now compete and enter in yangon tyre market said by the sale agent of the byaintnaung market which is the biggest car spare market in myanmar.
before it enter ,chinese tyres are very popular in market they headed for nearly decade.
" quality is not quite different but the vietnamese tyre are cheaper than chinese" said the sale agent.
In upper burma, madalay ,most of the car owners rather prefer vietnamese tyre.For truck one of the vietnam tyre is nearly 300000 kyat .

another bomb blasts in myanmar today

yangon jan 11
Another bomb blasts in Yangon today afternoon 2- 10 pm at the downtown railway station toilet, After 46 hours of explosion in naypyidaw .
“I heard the sound of big explosion and loud bang, it is very clear from here,” said the woman who is sitting the PCO public communication service quite close to the station.
Vendors and passer by told Yangon today that hey heard what sound like an explosion at about 2 pm.
Polices and soldiers cordoned off the area and blocking the access to the site of the incident until evening.
A woman wounded a little bit and no one killed by a bomb. A woman killed by a bomb Friday at the railway station near the new capital district, which killed a woman, and four people wounded.

Government imported immediately 5000 tons of diesel from Singapore

Yangon Jan 9

Myanmar military government, has been facing with targeted American sanction after last September ,imported nearly 5000 tons of diesel from Singapore immediately to move the military troops said the business man who is closely related with the juntas.
“These diesels were imported by local business for military use only. He also confirmed, it was general myint swe who gave that sort of special chance to business man, means that did not have to apply import license or either letter of credit from official."
it was imported by ship tanker from Singapore, one of the Aseain country which is standing like a moderator between Myanmar and US or either EU.
Since a crackdown on pro-democracy protests in September, in which at least 31 people were killed, the US and Europe have pushed for tighter international sanctions against Myanmar's ruling military junta.
Besides tightening their own trade embargoes, analysts suspect Washington in particular is also bringing quiet pressure to bear on other smaller countries, such as Singapore, that do business with Myanmar.
Most Asian countries remain officially opposed to sanctions against the junta, arguing that pushing the generals even further into isolation would be counterproductive.
The price of the diesel is going up a little than last week in Yangon illegal market.

Behind the red brown cigarettes packs

A young seller, Sann KO stepped up to the upper deck of boat with a pleasant smile. He had sold a number of his cigarettes to the passengers on the Yangon- Dala (a small town opposite side of Yangon) ferryboat.
‘It is great! Three London (popular cigarettes brand in Myanmar) cigarette packs and one pack of tissue paper are sold before afternoon,’ San Ko whispered himself with joy. Some peppermint candies, chewing gums, colored tissue packs were in the plastic baskets orderly. It also could be seen Thai made inhalants and the lemon flake bottles.
Among them, his No. 1 selling items are London and Vailant cigarettes. San Ko had to earn his daily income from selling these cigarettes. He estimated that he could get net income 400 kyat (nearly 40 cent) if he had sold one cigarette pack. He had to earn his living 1500 kyat by selling two valiant cigarettes packs and one London cigarette pack.
Not only Sann KO, other boys on the ferryboats are earning their daily income by selling the cigarettes.
In Myanmar, it has started last month may, the government enacted the tobacco control law said one of the officer of non-smoking project, ministry of health. According to this law, youth whose age not over 18 years prohibited selling cigarettes .As a child who breaking law may be imposed a fine amount to 10,000 kyat that fine may be imposed on him or his guardian.
However, the cigarettes are available every places of Yangon city area.
“My mom told me sell cigarettes carefully. If someone tries to arrest me, throw the packs,’ said a young seller.
Though police do not arrest him until now, the crews from ferryboat often drive them away from boat. Yangon- Dali ferryboat carries 59000 passengers per day and the ferry fare is just only 20 kyat.
2.5millions of world population died every year because of smoking. World Health Organization warned that the number of people who was died because of smoking could reach 10 millions in coming 2020.
Though we made education of smoking is dangerous for our health, the number of smoking is still growing .The market does not depend on the retail seller like Sann Ko, its market depend on the production of industries. The profit of trading makes more incentives to the producers.
The statistics showed 1.6% of world population is smokers and 800 millions people are from the Developing countries. Myanmar Ministry of health announced 31% of Myanmar citizens are smoking among 56.5millions of Myanmar population
The advertising of cigarettes are limited in Myanmar Radio and Television since 1997and non- smoking areas are extended to education centre, health centre and stadiums. At the beginning of 2003, the government ordered the advertising of cigarettes not to put in printed media.
Among the 129menber countries, Myanmar is eleventh country, which enacted the controlling of smoking law .Last month Myanmar news papers urged to enable more effective and speedy investigation to expose and take action against the law.
Sann KO, who is wearing pale white shirt and grey green short pink, told that he could earn the net income between 500 kyat and 1000 kyat by selling cigarettes.
“The selling of Valiant brand cigarettes is better than London cigarette. A valiant brand cigarette per tube costs 40 kyat in retail and it is cheaper than London brand”, said the cigarettes seller.
Even he got net income 1000 kyat per day from selling cigarettes, San Ko admitted that he felt guilty because that sort of earning, it is not good for health.
.But it is an easy earning for him to support his family for 13cyears old street children. Some observers analyzed the comparison of the push factor and the pull factor, the pull factor is stronger because of profits. They said if government could expand the non- smoking zone to the ferryboats, which several hundred people every day take due to Tobacco law, the exact result, might come out.

If San Ko could not earn income by cigarettes selling, it might be problem for his family living.
However, he could not be cigarettes seller for the whole life. Push factor force him to earn income for family by using different ways.
An NGO officer who works for reducing of smoking in Myanmar advised the broadcasting of radio and television shows and the micro finance programs to the poor families would enhance both the knowledge and support their basic needs.
The educators need to educate more cigarette seller as San KO about smoking can short our life expectancy rate. They have to count the conflicts between health and poverty of poor family like San Ko.
San Ko told that he dose not sell the cigarettes to a child at same age with him. He added that knows the smoking is very dangerous to health.” Young beggars from boat try to buy cigarettes from me. However, I will not sell cigarettes to them because it is not good for their health,’’ he said.
It is after noon. The sky become very cloudy .The wind from the south-west is blazing. San KO decided to go home if he sells cigarettes worth 1000 kyat. At the time Yangon –Dala ferryboat is going to approach the jetty of Dala town ship.
“If authorities try to arrest me while I am selling, I will throw the packs, but I won’t give it up,” said young cigarette seller.

Detainee kyaw tells how he caught him

Detainee kyaw tells how he caught him
Yangon October 6
Kyaw, who requested to use only his first name, had idea to go and watch at the shwedagon pagoda’s east gate, which was meeting point of the peaceful protestor monks at September 26. Even Myanmar government announced the curfew in Yangon last night; he had brave enough to go there.
Great shwedagon pagoda seemed to be holding its breaths that day before afternoon. Armed riot police units lined the streets to pagoda’s east .All roadside shops and restaurants were closed .Barbed wire was laid down across the approach of shwedagon pagoda and that police units kept watch on cars and passers –by.
When he came down from the pagoda’s hill to the Buddhist monks meeting point, the time was nearly noon. There were many people at the pagoda since morning some were sitting under the tree, some were at the teashops near pagoda. All of them want to watch and participate with peaceful demonstration . when he arrive there and he saw a lot of his friends , reporters, who are working in local news journal.
He really did not know he would have caught when he was watching the monks blessing the from Bahan market, near the meeting point. He thought himself he was safe because he saw many young reporters and crowded people were watching like him. After that hundred of Buddhist monks started blessing .In Buddhism, Buddhist monks are the son of Buddha, so that Burmese people traditionally believed in their mind that they are making preservation and missionary for Buddhism.
Then he was standing near that place, he said it was only a few minutes, suddenly the soldiers and polices came down burst into the group and “hands up”
Witness said security forces aggressively broke up a rally about 5000 people in front of the pagoda including the monks .Some said it was more than that and much higher. several people were seen being beaten and taken away in a truck.
“It was round about 70 people including me, who had been caught by this police team.
Around the same time Su one of kyaw’s friend who is working at 7 days news journal, woman reporter noticed that his friend kyaw was missing. Then Su run away there, because of police fired with tear gas to the watching group.
Gradually, Police and soldiers were crashing down the peaceful monks, people around there could not stand and then they protected the monks.
Armed riot police who had trained for that sort of crisis hit both monks, people by iron bar, and shoot tear gas very often; they seem to be aliens came down from other planet. Nevertheless, people and monks are still blessing to them.
Buddhist monks and people who appeal democracy and human rights made marching throughout the country since September 17, 2007. However, local journalists like kyaw could not cover the news, as he wanted.
It was the first misery in Yangon after 1988 strike, the biggest one. Latter they sealed the shwedagon pagoda, blocked the roads with barbed wire.
Kyaw”s, other friends, who was with their group got hits on his backbone, most escaped from that massacre.
At that, time kyaw did not know where they were taking to them. He saw aged people over 60 and also women on the trucks, nearly one hour drive, they arrived armed riot police troop no 7 compound that situated at pyinmapin,, mingalardon, township ,15 miles away from shwedagon pagoda
He and other men had to live in that police barrack; it is 15 feet width and 70 feet long, he said there were no clothes, no mosquito net, and no pillow. Police guarded thickly around that bar.
He also saw policital detainee s,u win nainig nearly over 80 years and 88 students ma Ohn mar ,Thandarmoe.
At September 30 morning the telephone was ringing at the 7 days new journal .It was calling from someone who didn’t mention his name to woman reporter Su . She is one of the kyaw’s closet friend , working at 7 days new journal. when she picked up the phone ”.Kyaw was dead in the prison ‘however she said to identified his name to messenger but she couldn’t reach it.
About half and hour latter, Su gave that message to chief editor of kyaw’s publication and then spread to throughout the country. However, getting accurately figure has been difficult.
It took him 6 days at that place .special branch of police asked questions to him 4 times .Basically; questions are concerned with national league for democracy {NLD) and 88 new generation bloods group.
“I have nothing to do with it, why I was watching that place is I am journalist, I have to know what happen, how it happened, however I couldn’t write that news”.
In October 2, the good new reached to kyaw’s mother ,60 years old widow, .His only son kyaw came back home safely .the government claims 10 people have been killed since violence began in this week. Yangon diplomats said the tool is likely to be much higher.
For hours, she had needed to stay near her son and touch his black hair and embrace him with tiny her arms tightly. Her deep joy clouded only by a wisp of guilt for celebrating among the dead in September misery, a son’s survival.

Remember the victims, also shooter

Yangon October 3
Young local journalist Ko Ko aung wants to tell his readers how soldier shoot to the Japanese reporter at suelay junction. He is also one of the eyewitnesses among thousands of people where it took place.
As a Myanmar journalist, he knows there is no way to release that sort of story in his country, which is under the government censorship board. He could not write and pass that story legally, nevertheless, he clearly remembered that scenes at September 27, the very loud gun shoots, huge smoke fire and fallen down the Japanese reporter orderly on and on.
“Now things are something like recover in Yangon, we can see the shooter soldiers everywhere in the streets. It seems to be controlled the situation but I want to say please remembers the victims in September Yangon misery.” said ko ko aung .
He asks vendors from the downtown to stay away from these soldiers, do not forget September victims and thousands of the monks who have arrested at the prison very recently.
Myanmar, famous Buddhist country, Buddhist monks and people who appeal democracy and human rights made marching throughout the country since September 17, 2007. However, local journalists like ko ko aung could not cover the news, as he wanted.
Here is just one of the 10 promising lives cut short at yangon’s melancholy in September last week, including the Japanese reporter that confirmed by authorities .Government said from their state own newspaper they shoot only the terrorist marchers not to the innocent public.
However, the reality is the Japanese reporter and nine peaceful protestors died on the spot in Yangon.
“There is no doubt on Japanese reporter, obviously he is not terrorist like our government said’ remarked the eyewitness.
When you think of the massacre that befell this crowded downtown. When you pass this business street those are memories of the ko ko aung wants his readers to remember this irony.
The city centre was closed in these days every early afternoon .The big square in font of the city hall was empty, except for several fire engines and military trucks. Army soldiers kept watch passers-by. They also smashed the camera and cell phones and beat people who were carrying them.
“We, local journalists, want the world to know that misery in Myanmar, How they shoot and how it is unfair to the monks,”he added.
Several news networks all over the world already put front-page headline about the peaceful Buddhist protest monks and government crash down by soldiers in that time of being. Around the same time and in this place sulay junction, on September 26, these solider killed 3 protestors on the spot.
At the Anawyahtar and Sulay corner, that it could be gunfire struck on the peaceful protest group while they were blessing.
It was nearly 1 pm of September 27 afternoon, Mr kenji Nagai ,52oyears old journalist was in the blessing group before half and hour of that shoot ,protest group was sitting peacefully on the street. Mr. Naggai did not know that it was the last sitting for his life on the street.
It was his first visit to Myanmar; he entered the country with tourist visa according to the Myanmar’s state run television. He was experienced in covering war –stricken area such as Israel ,Iraq and Jordan asahishimbun reported.
The photographer, who was visiting Bangkok for a different assigement, had entered the country on Tuesday, volunteering to cover the country pro-democracy movement. According record ,Mr nagai is the first foreign victim of the crack down on the anti government protests.

He was on the bridge that built across the sulay pagoda street September 26, the day before he shoot said witness; it situated 100 meter behind the place that he had been shooting.
There Buddhist monks were sitting in front of the sitting protest group, beside them candlelight glinted poorly under the sun. In addition, a girl was wearing Muslim traditional dress inside this group.
At 13:18 pm there, military light trucks with fully equipments drove towards the protests group against other side. Immediately, something clicked. It was not everybody think. Then two minutes latter the shot boomed over the ko ko aung’s head.
.At that time ko ko aung was under the bridge only 50 meters away from Mr Nagai lay dead. After nearly six another gunshots, and shooter soldiers were gone a few minutes latter.
ko ko aung talked to the girl lying nearby ,trying to figure out who was hurt and how badly.
She was brave enough that he has ever met .The shot hit foreigner reporter and then another shot from a few feet away from solider and the he was gone.
“We just know one of the victim is foreigner we did not know he is either Japan or American”
Before Mr. Nagai fallen down and dropped his camera on the street ,the place he laid down is quite close corner billboard in front of the Public communication office (PCO)the time is 1;20 exactly.
“There were two laid on the street”, she pointed toward the Japanese reporter and ko ko aung believed these two lay on dead.
Suddenly other solider and special police who were holding guns, shields sand sticks burst the protestors group.. He thought, security forces also moved quickly to disperse of 200 to 300 in other areas, sealing off the Anawyahtar road.
While these solider were following to these groups ko ko aung took picture with his old digital camera. Unfortunately, he could not take good picture; which is only the one that he will never forget in his life.
Then he crawled back toward the public rest room near by and run through over into the traders hotel fence.
He was gazing a few minutes behind the fence; he realized that four men wearing ordinary clothes carried Mr Nagai body to the traffic control room.
At 1;40 pm two army trucks arrived and announced split up to the protestors .It was silent and no one not dare to go out from their hiding place.

.Around 4 pm, ko ko aung made ph call to his parent said his mom about his safe and was doing fine but he could not talk about his grief over past a few hours ago.
It is too painful, too personal; he could not believe his eye when he sees the photos about Mr. Nagai from the blogs.
On October 3, Mr. Nagai went back his country without survive. All he took is only video records from protest group in September 27 but he scarified his life for that.
“When we do for the readers but we never won’t be afraid for our life, we, local Myanmar journalists delighted and honored on Mr. Nagai’ ko ko aung said.