Ethnic association visits Japan to discuss aid, ceasefires

The UNFC hold a press conference at an undisclosed location
in Thailand in April 2012. (DVB)
By Zaw Zaw Hlaing | 26 April 2012 | DVB

Leaders from the United Nationalities Federal Council arrived in Japan yesterday to discuss Burma’s on-going peace process with Japanese lawmakers.

The group will also be meeting with NGO concerning humanitarian aid in conflict zones.

တုိင္းရင္းသားေခါင္းေဆာင္အခ်ိဳ႕ ဂ်ပန္ေရာက္ရွိ


၀ဲယာမွ - ခြန္ဥကၠာ၊ ေစာေဒးဗစ္သာကေပါ၊
ေဒါက္တာလဂ်ာ
ေဇာ္ေဇာ္လိႈင္ | ဧၿပီလ ၁၂ ၊ ၂၀၁၂ | ဒီမုိကရက္တစ္ျမန္မာ့အသံ

တိုင္းရင္းသားလက္နက္ကုိင္ အဖြဲ႔ေတြနဲ႔ ဖြဲ႔စည္းထားတဲ့ညီညြတ္ေသာ တုိင္းရင္းသားလူမ်ိဳးမ်ား ဖက္ဒရယ္ေကာင္စီ (ယူအန္အက္ဖ္စီ)ေခါင္းေဆာင္တခ်ိဳ႕ဟာ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးကိစၥနဲ႕ ဂ်ပန္အစုိးရက ေပးအပ္မယ့္ အကူအညီေပးေရးကိစၥေတြ ေဆြးေႏြးဖုိ႔ ဒီကေန႔ ဂ်ပန္ႏုိင္ငံ တုိက်ိဳၿမိဳ႕ကုိ ေရာက္ရွိလာပါတယ္။

Pa-Oh armed group to hold peace talks

By NAW NOREEN | April 24, 2012 | DVB

The PaO National Liberation Organisation is set to hold another round of talks with top government negotiator Railway minister Aung Min in mid-May.

Khun Myint Htun, general secretary of the PNLO, said the group had reached an agreement with the minister during a phone conversation on Sunday and the two sides would meet next month.

Ruling Military Myanmar Snare

By Kanbawza Win | April 24, 2012

Greetings from the persecuted and the marginalized people of Burma

I am a Burmese but not a Myanmar. i.e. I do not belong to the major ethnic group call Myanmar, a country’s name that was deliberately change by the dictators to justifies their ethnic cleansing that has been going on with might and main for more than half a century up to this day, somewhat similar to Bosnia and Rawanda.


ပအုိ၀္းအဖြဲ႕နဲ႔ အစုိးရၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးကုိယ္စားလွယ္ ေမလမွာျပန္ေတြ႔မည္

ေနာင္ခမ္းခါ | ဧၿပီလ ၂၃ ရက္၊ ၂၀၁၂ | ေတာင္ႀကီးတုိင္းမ္

ပအုိ၀္းအမ်ိဳးသားလြတ္ေျမာက္ေရးအဖြဲ႔အခ်ဳပ္ PNLO နဲ႔ ဦးေအာင္မင္းေခါင္းေဆာင္တဲ့ အစုိးရၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးကုိယ္စားလွယ္အဖြဲ႔တုိ႔က ဒီလာမယ့္ ေမလအလယ္ေလာက္မွာ ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရးအတြက္ ထပ္မံ ျပန္လည္ေတြ႔ဆံုၾကမယ္လို႔ သိရပါတယ္။

Ethnic alliance ready to meet government negotiator


UNFC Press Conference on 19 April 2012 (Photo: SHAN)

လႊတ္ေတာ္ျပင္ပ ညီလာခံမွသာ ဖြဲ႔စည္းပံု ျပင္ႏိုင္မည္ဟု UNFC ေျပာ

ဖနိဒါ | ၾကာသပေတးေန႔၊ ဧၿပီလ ၁၉ ရက္ ၂၀၁၂ ခုႏွစ္

ခ်င္းမုိင္(မဇိၥ်မ) ။       ။ လက္ရွိ ႏိုင္ငံေတာ္ဖြဲ႔စည္းပံု အေျခခံဥပေဒအား ျပင္ဆင္ရန္မွာ တမ်ဳိးသားလံုးဆိုင္ရာ ညီလာခံႀကီးတရပ္ က်င္းပႏိုင္မွသာ ျဖစ္ႏိုင္မည္ဟု ညီညြတ္ေသာ တုိင္းရင္းသား လူမ်ဳိးမ်ား ဖက္ဒရယ္ေကာင္စီ UNFC တြဲဘက္ အတြင္းေရးမႉး (၂) ဗိုလ္မႉးႀကီး ခြန္ဥကၠာက ေျပာသည္။

ဒုသမၼတ ေဒါက္တာ စိုင္းေမာက္ခမ္းကို ဦးခြန္ထြန္းဦး ေဝဖန္

By Irrawaddy, April 20, 2012

ရွမ္းအမ်ိဳးသား တဦးျဖစ္သည့္ ဒုသမၼတ ေဒါက္တာ စုိင္းေမာက္ခမ္းသည္ အစုိးရအဖြဲ႔တြင္ လူမႈေရးလုပ္ငန္းမ်ားသာ လုပ္ကုိင္ေနရသည့္ ႐ုပ္ေသးသမၼတ တဦးျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း ရွမ္းအမ်ိဳးသားမ်ားဒီမုိကေရစီအဖြဲ႔ခ်ဳပ္ (SNLD) ဥကၠ႒ ဦးခြန္ထြန္းဦးက ေ၀ဖန္လုိက္သည္။

Burma oath standoff puts Suu Kyi's MP debut in doubt

By Aung Hla Tun | YANGON | Thu Apr 19, 2012

(Reuters) - Aung San Suu Kyi's planned debut in Burma's parliament next week could be shelved amid a standoff between her party and the government over one word used in the swearing-in oath for new lawmakers.

Exclusive: Suu Kyi to visit Norway, Britain after 24 yrs in Myanmar: party

By Aung Hla Tun | YANGON | Wed Apr 18, 2012

(Reuters) - Nobel Peace Prize laureate and newly elected lawmaker Aung San Suu Kyi will travel outside Myanmar for the first time in 24 years after accepting invitations to visit Norway and Britain in June, her party said on Wednesday.

ျမန္မာအေပၚ အေမရိကန္ အေရးယူမႈ ေလွ်ာ့ေပါ့ေရး စတင္

By VOA | အဂၤါ, 17 ဧၿပီ 2012

ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံမွာ လူသားခ်င္း စာနာမႈဆုိင္ရာ လုပ္ငန္းေတြနဲ႔ ဖြ႔ံၿဖိဳးေရး စီမံကိန္းေတြအတြက္ အေထာက္ အကူ ျဖစ္ေစမယ့္ ေငြေၾကးလဲႊေျပာင္းမႈေတြကုိ ခြင့္ျပဳတာလုိ အေရးယူဒဏ္ခတ္မႈ တခ်ဳိ႕ကုိ အေမရိကန္ျပည္ေထာင္စုက ေလွ်ာ့ေပါ့ေပးသြားမယ္လုိ႔ အေမရိကန္ ဘ႑ာေရး၀န္ႀကီးဌာနက ေၾကညာ လုိက္ပါတယ္။

US eases funding restrictions for Burma NGOs

By AFP | 18 April 2012

The United States on Tuesday eased financial restrictions to allow US-based non-governmental groups to operate in Burma, putting into place an incentive to encourage democratic reforms.

The Treasury Department said that it would no longer bar financial transactions in the country if the money is going toward projects that “meet basic human needs” or promote democracy.


ရန္ကုန္မွာ ပအုိ၀္းအမ်ိဳးသားတစ္ေယာက္ စစ္သားရုိက္လုိ႔ ေဆးရံုတက္ရ

ေနာင္ခမ္းခါ  | ဧၿပီလ ၁၀ ရက္ေန႔၊ ၂၀၁၂ |  ေတာင္ႀကီးတုိင္းမ္

ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕မွာ လာေရာက္အလုပ္ လုပ္ကုိင္တဲ့ ပအုိ၀္းအမ်ိဳးသားတစ္ေယာက္က ျမန္မာစစ္သားမွ ကုိယ္ထိလက္ေရာက္ ရုိက္ႏွက္မႈေၾကာင့္ သြားႏွစ္ေခ်ာင္းႀကိဳးၿပီး ဦးေခါင္းမွာဒဏ္ရာရလုိ႔ ေဆးရံုတက္ၿပီး ရွစ္ခ်က္ ခ်ဳပ္ရတယ္လုိ႔ သိရွိရပါတယ္။

ေဒၚစုနဲ႔ KNU အဖြဲ႔ ေတြ႔ဆံု

ျမန္မာ့ ဒီမိုကေရစီေခါင္းေဆာင္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ KNU ကိုယ္စားလွယ္အဖြဲ႔နဲ႔
ေတြ႔ဆံုအၿပီး ေနအိမ္ေရွ႕ သတင္းေထာက္မ်ားနဲ႔ ေတြ႔ဆံုေနစဥ္။ (ဧၿပီလ ၈၊ ၂၀၁၂)

In his own words: the rise and fall of Khin Nyunt

In a rare interview since the lifting of his house arrest, the ex-spy boss and former prime minister talks about the events leading to his downfall, peace deals with ethnic groups, his 'brotherly' admiration for Aung San Suu Kyi and the awakening of his faith.

Former Myanmar prime minister and military intelligence chief Khin Nyunt
arrives to cast his vote at a polling station in Yangon on April 1

တိုင္းရင္းသားေတြနဲ႔ တန္းတူဆက္ဆံေရးမူ ဦးသိန္းစိန္လက္ေတြ႔က်င့္သံုး

သမၼတဦးသိန္းစိန္ KNU ၿငိမ္းခ်မ္းေရး ကိုယ္စားလွယ္အဖြဲ႔နဲ႔ ေတြ႔ဆံုႏုတ္ဆက္စဥ္။
ေနျပည္ေတာ္၊ ဧၿပီလ ၇ ရက္၊ ၂၀၁၂ ။ ဓာတ္ပံု Reuters

Burma President Thein Sein meets Karen rebels



Karen rebels fighting the government in Burma have confirmed to the BBC that their leaders have met Burma's President Thein Sein.

With the new exchange rate Burma need the World Bank

By Kanbawza Win | April 4, 2012

After the second military coup in 1962 (first was a caretaker government in 1959) the Burmese Military Junta under Ne Win used to boast about their finances as how much exchange they have saying that the exchange rate of Kyat 6.4 to one US dollar would never depreciate. Since then it has become an unwritten law as the country economy has gone down slowly due to the dunderhead of the Generals as one Junta after another have little or no idea of what is wrong with the economy, little realizing that they themselves are the wrong persons to be in power. The people of Burma label them as Ché Brain (shit brain) just like what most MP of the USDP is today. Slowly after more than half a century theses men in uniform realized that Burma’s multiple exchange rate is the most noticeable of the maladies that have characterized the country’s economy, hence they opted for the change.

ကေလာမဲဆႏၵနယ္ ပအုိ၀္းအမ်ိဳးသားအဖြဲ႔ခ်ဳပ္ PNO ပါတီ ရႈံးႏွိမ့္

ေတာင္ႀကီးတုိင္းမ္ | ဧၿပီလ ၂ ရက္ေန႔၊ ၂၀၁၂

၂၀၁၂ ခုႏွစ္၊ ဧၿပီလ ၁ ရက္ေန႔က က်င္းပခဲ့တဲ့ ၾကားျဖတ္ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲမွာ ပအုိ၀္းအမ်ိဳးသားအဖြဲ႔ခ်ဳပ္ (PNO) ပါတီကုိယ္စားလွယ္ေလာင္း ခြန္သန္းေမာင္က ရွမ္းျပည္နယ္ေတာင္ပုိင္း ကေလာၿမိဳ႕နယ္အတြင္းရွိ မဲဆႏၵနယ္မွာ ၀င္ေရာက္ယွဥ္ၿပိဳင္ခဲ့ရာမွာ အမ်ိဳးသားဒီမုိကေရစီအဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္ NLD ပါတီမွ ေဒါက္တာ ေဒၚသန္းေငြကုိ ရံႈးႏွိမ့္သြားခဲ့ပါတယ္။