ပေလာင္လူမ်ဳိးမ်ား အဓိက ပင္မ အသက္ေမြး၀မ္းေက်ာင္း

ပေလာင္လူမ်ဳိးမ်ားရဲ့ အဓိကပင္မအသက္ေမြးဝမ္းေက်ာင္းမွာ လက္ဖက္ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။ အေလာင္းစည္သူမင္းႀကီး မာလာယုကြၽန္းသို႔ ေရာက္ေတာ္မူစဥ္အခါက အဂၤတိေဒဝ၊ ေဇယ်၊ သၾသဳ၊ ဗါႏုဒိဗၺ အမည္ရွိေသာ နတ္ဘီလူးညီေနာင္ ေလးေယာက္တို႔က ဟသၤသာဇလုပ္အတြင္းမွရွိတဲ့ “နိလဗီဇ” ေခၚ “ရသာဝသီ” နတ္သစ္ေစ့ကို ဆက္သလိုက္ရာ ထိုနတ္သစ္ေစ့ကို ပေလာင္လူမ်ဳိးမ်ား စိုက္ပ်ဳိးစားေသာက္ၾကရန္ ေပးသနားေတာ္မူေလတယ္။ပေလာင္တို႔ကို မင္းႀကီးတြင္ပါလာေသာ “နိလဗီဇ” သစ္ေစ့ကို စိုက္ပ်ဳိးစားေသာက္ရန္ ေပးသနားေတာ္မူ၍ ပေလာင္လူမ်ဳိးတို႔က စိုက္ပ်ဳိးၿပီးေနာက္ အပင္အရြက္ျဖစ္သည့္အခါ ခူးဆြတ္၍ မင္းႀကီးထံဆက္သၾသေသာ္ မင္းႀကီးသည္ ထိုသစ္ရြက္တို႔ကို...

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Chief of Tunisian Army Pledges His Support for ‘the Revolution’

The general who may be both the most powerful and the most popular figure in Tunisia spoke publicly Monday for the first time since the ouster of the former dictator, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, pledging to uphold “the revolution” and urging patience until the interim government can hold new elections. “Our revolution is your revolution,” the military leader, Gen. Rachid Ammar, yelled through a megaphone to more than 1,000 demonstrators in a square...

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Burma boosts parliament security

Burma has stepped up security around its parliament in preparations for the grand opening on Monday.Cameras, mobile phones, electronic devices, bags and explosives are banned and uninvited visitors risk prison under rules spelled out to lawmakers.Lawmakers, who won seats in the country's controversial first election in 20 years in November, have begun to converge on the capital Naypidaw.The regime has yet to say whether...

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Human Rights Watch report blasts 2010 election

The US-based Human Right Watch (HRW) has issued a report saying the Burmese regime continually denied the public a fair election in 2010 and the human rights situation continues to deteriorate.The report said that the regime held the general election only after further limiting the rights of freedom of speech and the media and after promulgating undemocratic electoral laws which favoured the junta-backed political party in the election.HRW noted that the regime of taking ‘preventive measures’ to ensure the main opposition leader, Aung San...

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KIO and KNO agree to work together

The Kachin Independence Organisation (KIO) and the foreign-based Karen National Organisation (KNO) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to co-operate with each other while working for the rights of Kachin people.In the past, the two organisations have competed with each other in politics for 12 years. On January 21 and 22, the top leaders of both groups met to discuss ways to co-operate with each other for the sake of the Kachin,...

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Striking Burmese workers win demands

More than 800 Burmese migrant workers went on strike at the V & K pineapple factory in Bankha Township in Latburi Province in Thailand on Tuesday after a supervisor hit a worker with his fist.The supervisor, riding a motorcycle, accidentally struck a Burmese worker and then assaulted him, said striking workers.The next day about 800 Burmese workers staged a protest, saying they could not tolerate anymore violations of their rights and physical assaults against them.“The accident victim stared at the motorcycle driver when he was hit....

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Temperatures to drop below normal in northern Burma

In northern Kachin State, the temperatures will be at least 4 degrees colder than normal in February, according to Tun Lwin, a prominent Burmese meteorologist.Last year in February, Kachin State had temperatures in -10 to -8 degrees Celsius range. This year, during the first two weeks of February, the region could reach -14 to -10 degrees Celsius because of La Nina. 'I think Kachin State will have -14 to -10 degrees Celsius this year', Tun Lwin told Mizzima. Wind from the Arctic will move into inland areas and that will result in freezing...

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Hydropower plant opens in Kachin State

The Tarpein-1 Hydropower Plant, one of 18 hydropower projects built or under construction in Kachin State, opened on Sunday, according to state-run newspapers.Work on the Tarpein-1 Hydropower Plant in Momauk was begun in December 2007 in partnership with a Chinese company, Datang (Yunnan) United Hydropower Developing Co., Ltd. and the Ministry of Electric Power No. 1. The plant can generate 1,065 million KW hours a year. According to the development index of Burma that was compiled by the World Bank in 2010, the average Burmese uses 94...

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Mon Party to introduce farm ownership bill

The All Mon Region Democracy Party (AMRDP) will introduce a Parliamentary bill to allow farmers to own their farms.Party leader Nai Ngwe Thein said: ‘We heard recently about the land confiscation cases in Kyaikmaraw to build a cement factory. We discussed that case in our party’s central committee meeting. We want farmers to own their own farms, and we will propose it’.Last week, Mon MPs-elect traveled to Ye, Thanbyuzayat, Mudon, Chaungzon and Kyaikmaraw to conduct an informal survey of people’s opinions about private ownership of farms....

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Political parties urge Than Shwe to investigate electoral fraud

The Union of Myanmar Federation of National Politics (UMFNP) has sent an official letter to Senior General Than Shwe urging him to establish a commission to investigate electoral fraud in the recent elections, according to the party. The letter was sent on January 10.Union of Myanmar Federation of National Politics chairman Aye Lwin (above) says there has been inaction in 29 cases submitted by police to courts last week involving alleged electoral...

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Than Shwe appoints military representatives to parliament

Burma’s Commander in Chief of Defense Services, Senior General Than Shwe, has appointed 388 parliamentary representatives from the military as per constitutional quota, according to an announcement by the Union Election Commission (UEC).A brigadier general, colonels, lieutenant colonels, majors and captains account for the parliamentary seats. In total, 110 military representatives were appointed to the People’s Parliament, 56 to the National Parliament and 222 to the State/Region Parliament. Of the delegates, 353 are from the army, 19 ...

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USDP loses lawsuit filed against the White Tiger Party

The Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) has lost its lawsuit filed against the Shan Nationalities Democratic Party (SNDP), or White Tiger party, alleging electoral fraud.USDP candidate Dr. Sai Kham Hlaing from Kunhein constituency No. 1 in southern Shan State filed a lawsuit against elected MP Sai Mon, a.k.a. Sai Kyaw Tun, alleging electoral fraud and improper polling booth activities. The election tribunal in Naypyidaw dismissed the case on Thursday, citing a lack of evidence.In the election, defendant Sai Mon won over plaintiff...

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Ta’ang Students and Youth Organization -TSYO[MISSION] The Ta’ang Students and Youth Organization (TSYO) is working for peace, justice, to build a Democratic country, and to improve the lives of Ta’ang students, youth, and all people. [GOALS]1. To work for peace and to develop the Ta’ang region.2. To increase the number of Ta’ang youth who can participate as leaders.3. To promote gender equality.4. To end the military dictatorship system.5. To build a federalist democratic country with equality and self-determination. [OBJECTIVES]1. To promote...

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Revenue from Refugees?

Sombat couldn’t understand why Nypyidaw gave him the shivers. Perhaps it was because it was the only place in Burma where the electricity worked all day long.He was glad to be back in the broken-down bustle of Rangoon. He used to enjoy the unofficial meetings with his opposite numbers in the ministry before they moved to the new capital.With no flight back to Bangkok till the next morning, Sombat had time to relax and go for a shave.He eased into the barber’s chair, emitting a weary sigh.The barber remembered this Thai gentleman from before....

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Bush policy speech

Laura and I are delighted to be back in Bangkok. We appreciate the gracious welcome extended by His Majesty the King and Her Majesty the Queen.Above all, I bring America's warmest wishes to our oldest allies in Asia, the people of Thailand. Our friendship began 175 years ago this spring, when President Andrew Jackson dispatched an envoy to Siam. Negotiators soon concluded a treaty of peace and commerce and sealed it with a lotus flower on one side and an eagle and stars on the other. Generations of close friendship followed. At one point,...

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ခ်ဳပ္ရိုးျပတ္ ဇာတ္သိမ္း

. . . စကၠဴညစ္ညမ္းညမ္းေလးေပၚမွာမၿပီးဆံုးေသးေသာ အခ်စ္ဇာတ္လမ္းတစ္ပုဒ္ကၽြန္ေတာ္ေလ ..ကၽြန္ေတာ္...ဘယ္လို ဇာတ္သိမ္းေပးရပါ ့အလြမ္းကိုတစ္ခန္းရပ္ရင္လည္းခပ္ဆန္းဆန္းေလးၿဖစ္ခ်င္တယ္။ေပါင္းစပ္ၾကစတမ္းဆိုရင္အဝါေရာင္ႏွင္းဆီႏွလံုးသားမွာပြင္ ့လႊာေပၚရပ္ေနတဲ့ လိပ္ၿပာအနမ္းေလးနဲ႔ေကာင္းကင္ကိုလိေမၼာ္ေရာင္နံနက္ခင္းေလးေပးၿပီးခန္းနားတဲ့ဇာတ္သိမ္းေလးဖန္ဆင္းေပးခ်င္တယ္။ကဗ်ာဆရာတဲ့လားႏွလံုးသားကို...

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An ethical and legal perspective on the role of school counselors in preventing violence in schools - Special issue: legal and ethical issues in schoo

Recent, highly publicized school shootings have had a tremendous impact on the public's perception of school safety (Vossekuil, Reddy, Fein, Borum, & Modzeleski, 2000). These events have prompted school officials to consider prevention strategies for targeted violence in schools. School officials are increasingly turning to school counselors for help in identifying and providing interventions for students who may pose a danger to others...

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NGOs, INGOs in Burma to Pay Withholding Tax

RANGOON — Domestic and international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in Burma, including the UN, will be subject to the military regime's newly introduced system of Withholding Tax, according to sources in Rangoon.An official from the Internal Revenue Department (IRD) told The Irrawaddy that the new tax system, which took effect on Jan. 1, encompasses both NGOs and INGOs working inside the country.“International organizations such as the UN, and domestic agencies such as the Free Funeral Service Society are subject to this new system....

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Ta'ang (Palaung) Background

BACKGROUND Description of the Palaung Location Brief History of the Palaung People The Palaung People in Burma The Palaung People in ChinaThe Palaung People in Thailand The Palaung Hill Tribe in Chiang Mai Tea Production On the Periphery of the British Empire Background of The Palaung people in Thailand The Palaung People in Kalaw Village in Northern Shan StatePalaung People in Moegoke Description of the Palaung Location The various Palaung groups of Myanmar live in Shan State. Some are located in the northwestern corner around Tawngpeng,...

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