Chinese PLA Navy warships visit Myanmar Yangon's Thilawa Port
BEIJING: Myanmar's president Thein Sein, a former military general, is in Beijing discussing a plan to allow the Chinese navy to dock in Myanmar ports and get direct access to the Bay of Bengal and the Indian Ocean. Thein Sein will have to consider New Delhi's apprehensions about China's naval expansion in its neighbourhood before acceding to Beijing's request, sources said.
Yangon - US senator John McCain, the Republican's unsuccessful presidential candidate in 2008, has been granted a visa to visit Myanmar next week, government sources said Friday.
'He will visit here in the first week of June,' said a government official who requested anonymity.
McCain is expected to meet with opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, but it was unclear whether he would be granted an audience with President Thein Sein or senior government officials, the source said.
The senator, a decorated Vietnam War veteran, has been one of the foremost critics of Myanmar's military junta that ruled the country from 1988 to 2010, before passing power to an elected government after a general election in November.
The election, labelled a sham by US President Barack Obama, was won by the pro-military Union Solidarity and Development Party.
Refugees sitting by a river at the Mae La refugee camp, located near the Thai-Myanmar border, some 550 kms northwest of Bangkok. Photo courtesy: AFP
Myanmar migrants illegally crossing the Thai-Myanmar border on an inner tube, in Mae Sot, some 500 kms northwest of Bangkok. Photo courtesy: AFP
by Daniel Rook
MAE LA CAMP, May 23, 2011 (AFP) - At first sight the bamboo huts nestled at the foot of soaring limestone cliffs in the jungle could be mistaken for an eco-tourism haven -- except for the barbed wire and armed guards.
Beyond the perimeter fence and security checkpoints, designed to keep the residents in and unwanted visitors out, tens of thousands of refugees from war-torn eastern Myanmar are living in fear of being sent home.
Thailand's announcement in April that it wants to close nine border camps, holding more than 140,000 displaced people, has sent ripples of anxiety through the traumatised communities after a more than two-decade presence.
"We're scared to go back," said Suai Pu, 27, who
FM Wanna Maung Lwin, leader Aung San Suu Kyi and Joseph Yun
Yangon - A senior US diplomat who visited Myanmar last week was asked to stop calling the country Burma if Washington wishes to promote bilateral relations with the new government, media reports said Sunday.
‘ေမာင္တို႔ခ်ယ္ရီေျမ’ ေတးစီးရီးထြက္ရိွစဥ္အခါက ဆဲြေဆာင္မႈရိွတဲ့ အသံေအးေအးေလးနဲ႔ ပရိသတ္ သတိထားမိေစခဲ့တဲ့ တိုင္းရင္းသူေလး တစ္ေယာက္လို႔ ဆိုလိုက္တာနဲ႔ ကခ်င္တိုင္းရင္းသူေလး Lဆိုင္းဇီဆိုတာ သိၾကၿပီးျဖစ္မွာပါ။ အဲဒီအေခြထဲက ‘လွည့္ၾကည့္ပါဦး’ သီခ်င္းေလးက ပရိသတ္အမ်ားစုရဲ႕ ရင္ထဲကို ထိုးေဖာက္သြားၿပီးေနာက္မွာ ‘မိုးရာသီထဲ’သီခ်င္းနဲ႔ Lဆိုင္းဇီက ေနာက္ထပ္မွတ္တိုင္တစ္ခု ထပ္စိုက္ႏိုင္ခဲ့သလို ဗီဒီယိုနဲ႔ ႐ုပ္ရွင္ဇာတ္ကားတခ်ဳိ႕ မွာလည္း ပီျပင္ေသာ သ႐ုပ္ေဆာင္မႈေတြနဲ႔ ပံုေဖာ္ျပႏိုင္ခဲ့ပါေသးတယ္။ ဒီေတာ့သူေျပာျပတဲ့ သူ႔ရဲ႕ လတ္တေလာ အႏုပညာေရးရာ အေထြေထြ၊ ပရိသတ္နဲ႔ သူ႔ၾကားက သေဘာထား၊ ခဏတာ ကင္းကြာသြားခဲ့ရတဲ့ အေၾကာင္းအရာေတြကို ေမးျဖစ္ခဲ့ရာမွာေတာ့ အခုလိုေျဖၾကားလာခဲ့ပါတယ္ . . .
ယခုႏႇစ္အတြင္း စတင္ခ်ထားေပးမည့္ GSM ဖုန္းမ်ားကို ကနဦး ေပးသြင္းခ ေငြက်ပ္ သုံးသိန္း ၀န္းက်င္ျဖင့္ ခ်ထားေပးႏိုင္ရန္ အစီအစဥ္ ရႇိေၾကာင္း ျမန္မာ့ဆက္သြယ္ေရး လုပ္ငန္းႏႇင့္ နီးစပ္ေသာ အသိုင္းအ၀ိုင္းမႇ သိရႇိရသည္။
