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Tuesday, 29 January 2013 11:02 |
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Concluding Remarks
In this paper, I addressed to what extent the 2008 Constitution satisfies the aspirations of various Ethnic Nationalities in Burma but limit myself within the constitutional framework of “form of state”. In so doing, I first explored what ethnic nationalities have demanded in order to rebuild the Union of Burma based on what they call “the Panglong Spirit”, and what kind of political system they have chosen for their future.
Concluding Remarks
In this paper, I addressed to what extent the 2008 Constitution satisfies the aspirations of various Ethnic Nationalities in Burma but limit myself within the constitutional framework of “form of state”. In so doing, I first explored what ethnic nationalities have demanded in order to rebuild the Union of Burma based on what they call “the Panglong Spirit”, and what kind of political system they have chosen for their future.
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By Michael Moran
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Tuesday, 28 February 2012 15:43 |
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 We live in an era, according to many people I respect, in which tenets of capitalism that a decade ago seemed unshakably part of the 21st century are being challenged. Ian Bremmer’s upcoming book, “Every Nation for Itself: Winners and Losers in a G-Zero World,” builds on a theme we’re both fond of: that the competition between state capitalism and market economics is very real, but that it need not split the world into Cold War-like warring tribes if managed properly.
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Burmese Army (Tatmadaw) is Anathema to Democracy & Union |
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By Kanbawza Win
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Tuesday, 28 February 2012 15:37 |
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Daw Aung San Suu Kyi in her speech to Kachin State said, “Everyone must adhere to the spirit of Panglong, which is based on equality and unity, with respect, faith and belief in each other. All of these are essential for creating and maintaining a genuine democracy.” She seems to strike the right note because now the people of Burma had slowly discovered that it was the Tatmadaw controlled by the hard liners pulled by Than Shwe are really
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Myanmar military in the money |
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By Brian McCartan
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Monday, 27 February 2012 16:31 |
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Myanmar's military has seemingly faded to the background as former khaki-wearing military officers now wear civilian garbs in President Thein Sein's reformist elected government. Outside the halls of the new parliament, however, the military, known locally as the Tatmadaw, is still the country's chief ruling power judging by recent budget allocations.
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Is Burma Army against the President's Peace Plans? |
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By Zin Linn
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Monday, 27 February 2012 16:24 |
Naypyidaw, 27 February (Asiantribune.com):President Thein Sein led Burmese government and the Shan State Army to sign a ceasefire agreement as a major breakthrough at Taunggyi, the capital of Shan State, on 2 December 2011.However, armed conflicts between the Burmese army and the Shan State Army-South (SSA-S) cannot stop simply since Burmese soldiers have been combating uncontrollably so far.
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Saturday, 19 January 2013 10:56 |
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က်ေနာ္တို႔ ဒီကေန႔ရင္ဆိုင္တိုက္ခိုက္ရမည့္ အဓိကရန္သူကေတာ့ မဟာလူမ်ိဳးႀကီးဝါဒနဲ႔ က်ဥ္းေျမာင္းတဲ့ အမ်ိဳးသားေရးဝါဒ ပါပဲ။ ဒီလို ေသးသိမ္က်ဥ္းေျမာင္းတဲ့ ဝါဒႏွစ္ခုက က်ေနာ္တို႔တိုင္းျပည္ကို ဒုကၡေပးေနတယ္။ ဒါေၾကာင့္ က်ေနာ္တို႔ ဒုတိယအႀကိမ္ လြတ္လပ္ေရးတိုက္ပဲြကို ဆင္ႏႊဲတဲ့အခါမွာ အဓိကရန္သူျဖစ္တဲ့ ဒီဝါဒႏွစ္ခုကို မ်က္ေျခမျပတ္တိုက္ခိုက္သြားဖို႔ လိုတယ္။ ဒီဝါဒႏွစ္ခုကို အျပတ္တိုက္ထုတ္ၿပီး ဒီျပည္ေထာင္စုအတြင္း မွီတင္းေနထိုင္ၾကတဲ့ ျပည္သူလူထုအားလံုး လူသားပီသစြာ အသက္ရွင္ေနထိုင္ခြင့္ကို အာမခံခ်က္ေပးႏိုင္ၿပီး၊ ဒီမိုကေရစီႏွင့္ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရးကို အကာအကြယ္ေပးတဲ့ ႏိုင္ငံေတာ္ကို က်ေနာ္တို႔ထူေထာင္ၾကရမယ္။ ဒီႏိုင္ငံေတာ္ဟာ လူမ်ိဳးေပါင္းစံုတန္းတူရည္တူ ပူးေပါင္းတဲ့ စစ္မွန္တဲ့ျပည္ေထာင္စုစနစ္ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္းကို ဖဲြ႔စည္းပံုအေျခခံဥပေဒက အာမခံခ်က္ အျပည့္အဝေပးရမယ္။ ဒါဟာ က်ေနာ္တို႔ရဲ့ ပန္းတိုင္ပဲ။
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Myanmar vice president speaks highly of Sino-Myanmar pipelines project |
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By Xinhua
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Tuesday, 28 February 2012 15:40 |
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MADE ISLAND, Myanmar, Feb. 27 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar Vice President U Tin Aung Myint Oo on Monday spoke highly of a Sino- Myanmar oil and natural gas pipelines project on Made Island, Rakhine state's Kyaukphyu. The project is being implemented by the China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) and related companies. The Myanmar vice president also said that he appreciated the Chinese company's support for Myanmar's charity undertakings.
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Myanmar eases restrictions on media, vows full end to censorship as reporters test new limits |
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By AP
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Tuesday, 28 February 2012 15:31 |
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YANGON, Myanmar — It was a newspaper article that just months ago, Myanmar’s draconian state censors never would have approved. It told how prison authorities crudely attempted to cure a scabies outbreak by wiping down naked inmates with medicine-laden brooms — a demeaning act that revealed the poverty of the nation’s prisons and the decrepit state of its health care system.
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Union-level peace-making group and NMSP ink initial peace deal |
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By New Light of Myanmar
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Monday, 27 February 2012 16:28 |
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NAY PYI TAW, 26 Feb—As the government of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar offered the olive branch and New Mon State Party (NMSP) requested to engage in dialogue, Union-level Peace-making Group comprised of Union Minister for Rail Transportation U Aung Min, Union Minister for Industry U Soe Thein, Union Minister for Electric Power No (1) U Zaw Min,
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‘The Glass Palace’ as a Mirror of Myanmar |
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By Laksiri Fernando
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Monday, 27 February 2012 16:14 |
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Amitav Ghosh’s The Glass Palace is a magnificent historical novel that begins with the demise of the Konbaung dynasty in ‘Burma’ (1885) and ends with the emergence of a democracy movement in ‘Myanmar’ symbolised by Aung San Suu Kyi (1988). First published in 2000, the novel has a renewed significance today given the revitalisation of the democracy movement in the country.
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