No change to Myanmar parliament oath: Thein Sein

TOKYO - Myanmar's president said Monday he has no plans to change the loyalty oath that provoked democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi to sit out the opening session of parliament, media in Japan
reported.

Thein Sein told reporters in Tokyo he would like to "welcome" the Nobel Peace prize winner into the chamber, but that it was up to her whether or not she took the seat she won earlier this month.
"She has to decide whether he will enter the parliament or not," he said, according to the Nikkei newspaper.

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The president, who is on a five day visit to Japan that ends Tuesday also affirmed that the process of democratisation in the country would not be reversed.
"There won't be any U-turn," Thein Sein said. "We would like to cooperate (with Aung San Suu Kyi) by heading in the same direction, in the interest of the people," the Mainichi Shimbun reported.
Thein Sein also left open the door for Suu Kyi to enter government, but said she had to decide where her priorities lay.
Noting that the constitution does not allow lawmakers to become members of the cabinet, he said: "Suu Kyi has to make her own decision."
"Suu Kyi should work for the people, rather than her own party," Jiji press cited him as saying.
Asked about any change to the constitution, the president was emollient.
"It will be decided by the wishes of the people, the opinions of the people," he said.
Thein Sein's comments, on a visit to Japan that has seen Tokyo promise to forgive US$3.7 billion (S$4.6 billion) of debt and restart aid programmes, are his first since Suu Kyi's party threatened to boycott Monday's opening parliamentary session.
The Nobel laureate, who spent much of the past two decades locked up by the former junta, had been set to make her debut in parliament on Monday after her party's decisive win in by-elections earlier this month.
Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) - the main opposition force after securing 43 of the 44 seats it contested in the by-elections - has appealed to the president directly over the stalemate, asking that the wording of the oath be changed from "safeguard" to "respect" the constitution.
It is the first sign of serious discord between Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) and the reformist regime since April 1 by-elections that gave the former political prisoner her first-ever seat in parliament.
The authorities have rejected the NLD's appeal to change the wording of the swearing-in oath.

Thingyan Image in Myanmar(Burma)

အထက္ေဖၚၿပပါဓါတ္ပံုသည္ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ.မဟာသၾကၤန္ကာလအတြင္းရိုက္ကူးလိုက္ေသာဓါတ္ပံုမ်ားၿဖစ္ပါသည္။မဟာသၾကၤန္ကာလအတြင္.ၿမန္မာယဥ္ေက်းမွဳနွင္.မကိုက္ညီသ ည္.အရာမ်ားစြာေတြ.ၿမင္ေနၾကရသည္ကိုေတြ.ၿမင္ရနိုင္ေစရန္အတြက္တင္ၿပရၿခင္.ၿဖစ္ပါသည္။

ၿမန္မာမွဳမ်ားနွင္.မကိုက္ညီသည္.

၀တ္စားဆင္ယင္မွဳမ်ား၄င္းအၿပင္သၾကၤန္ကာလအတြင္.ကေလးသူငယ္ေလးမ်ားသည္တၿခားသူမ်ားေပ်ာ္ရြင္ခ်မ္းေၿမ.စြာေရကစားေနၾကရပါေသာ္လည္းဆင္းရဲမွဳမ်ားနွင္.ၾကံဳေတြ.ေနၾကရသည္.ကေလးမ်ားသည္အမ်ားသူငါေသာက္သံုးၿပိးစြန္.ပစ္ထားသည္.ဘီယာပုလင္းခြန္မ်ားဘီယာဘူးခြံမ်ားအခ်ိဳေရဘူးခြန္ေလးမ်ားအားမိမိတို.မိသားစုစား

၀တ္ေနေရးအတြက္ေပ်ာ္ရြင္စရာကေလးဘ၀ကိုစြန္.ခြာကာလိုက္လံေကာက္ယူေရာင္းခ်ေနသည္ကိုေတြ.ၿမင္ေနၾကရပါသည္။ထိုသို.ကေလးမ်ားမွမိမိတို.မိသားစုစား

၀တ္ေနေရးအတြက္ေနရာအနံွအၿပားတြင္လိုက္လံေကာက္ယူစားေသာက္ေနလွ်ပ္

၇ိွၾကၿပီးခ်မ္းသာၾကြယ္၀ေနေသာအာဏာပိုင္အခ်ိဳ.မိသားစုသားသမီးမ်ားစီးပြားေရးလုပ္ငန္းရွင္မ်ားမွာေတာ.ေဖၚၿပပါဓါတ္ပံုအတိုင္းၿမန္မာယဥ္ေက်းမွဳႏွင္႔ မဆီေလ်ာ္သည္.သေဘာအေၿခအေနသို.ပင္ေရာက္ရိွေနသည္။

ၿမန္မာယဥ္ေက်းမွဳမဟာသၾကၤန္မွဟုတ္ရဲ.လားဟုေမးစရာပင္ၿဖစ္ေနသည္ကိုကၽႊႏ္ေတာ္တို.ၿမန္မာၿပည္ဖြံ႔ၿဖိဳးတို.တက္ေရးကြန္ယက္မွဓါတ္ပံုအေထာက္အထားမ်ားနွင္.အတူအမ်ားၿပည္သူမ်ားသိရိွနိုင္ေစရန္ေရးသားတင္ၿပလိုက္၇ပါသည္။ 

 ၿမန္မာၿပည္ဖြံ႔ၿဖိဳးတို.တက္ေရးကြန္ယက္

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ကေလးငယ္မ်ားမွဘီယာဘူးခြံံ႕နွင္.အရက္ပုလင္းမ်ားၿပန္လည္ေရာင္းခ်ရန္အတြက္ေကာက္ယူေနပံု

အထက္ေဖၚၿပပါဓါတ္ပံုမ်ားသည္ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ.မဟာသၾကၤန္ကာလအတြင္းရိုက္ကူးလိုက္ေသာဓါတ္ပံုမ်ားၿဖစ္ပါသည္။ ၾကၤန္ကာလအတြင္.ကေလးသူငယ္ေလးမ်ားသည္တၿခားသူမ်ားေပ်ာ္ရြင္ခ်မ္းေၿမ.စြာေရကစားေနၾကရပါေသာ္လည္းဆင္းရဲမွဳမ်ားနွင္.ၾကံဳေတြ.ေနၾကရသည္.ကေလးမ်ားသည္အမ်ားသူငါေသာက္သံုးၿပိးစြန္.ပစ္ထားသည္.ဘီယာပုလင္းခြန္မ်ားဘီယာဘူးခြံမ်ားအခ်ိဳေရဘူးခြန္ေလးမ်ားအားမိမိတို.မိသားစုစား၀တ္ေနေရးအတြက္ေပ်ာ္ရြင္စရာကေလးဘ၀ကိုစြန္.ခြာကာလိုက္လံေကာက္ယူေရာင္းခ်ေနသည္ကိုေတြ.ၿမင္ေနၾကရပါသည္။ထိုသို.ကေလးမ်ားမွမိမိတို.မိသားစုစား၀တ္ေနေရးအတြက္ေနရာအနံွအၿပားတြင္လိုက္လံေကာက္ယူစားေသာက္ေနလွ်ပ္၇ိွၾကၿပီးခ်မ္းသာၾကြယ္၀ေနေသာအာဏာပိုင္အခ်ိဳ.မိသားစုသားသမီးမ်ားစီးပြားေရးလုပ္ငန္းရွင္မ်ားမွာေတာ.ခ်မ္းသာၾကြယ္၀ေနၾကသည္ကို အေျပာင္းလဲတခုဟု ယူႏိုင္ပါမည္ေလာဟု ေမးခြန္းအၾကီးက်ယ္ထုတ္စရာျဖစ္ေနပါသည္ ကိုကၽႊႏ္ေတာ္တို.ၿမန္မာၿပည္ဖြံ႔ၿဖိဳးတို.တက္ေရးကြန္ယက္မွဓါတ္ပံုအေထာက္အထားမ်ားနွင္.အတူအမ်ားၿပည္သူမ်ားသိရိွနိုင္ေစရန္ေရးသားတင္ၿပလိုက္၇ပါသည္။

                ၿမန္မာၿပည္ဖြံ႔ၿဖိဳးတိုးတက္ေရးကြန္ယက္

 BURMA DEVELOPMENT NETWORK (BDN)

                       မွတ္ခ်က္၊

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Daily Hardship In Myanmar(Burma)

ရန္ကုန္တိုင္းဒဂံုၿမိဳ.သစ္ေတာင္းပိုင္းၿမိဳ.နယ္(၁၀၇)ရပ္ကြပ္မွာၿဖစ္ပါသည္။ယခုေတြၿမင္ရေသာမွတ္တမ္းဓါတ္ပံုမွာေသာက္သံုးေရးမလံုေလာက္ေသာလူေနရပ္ကြက္တြင္စား၀တ္ေနေရးအတြက္ဆင္းရဲဒုကၡမ်ိဳးစံုခံစားေနရေသာမိသားစုမ်ားပံု၇ိပ္မ်ားၿဖစျ္ပီး၊ျမန္မာနိုင္ငံအတြင္းမွာဆင္းရဲမြဲေတမွဳအင္မတန္မွမ်ားၿပားေနၿပိး၊တတိုင္းၿပည္လံုးဆင္းရဲတြင္းသို့ေဇာက္ထိုးက်ေနၿပီဟုဆိုရမည္ၿဖစ္သည္၊တိုင္းၿပည္တြင္းရိွေသာသယံဇာတမ်ားမွာတိုင္းတပါးသိုစစ္အုပ္စုႏွင့္၄င္းတို့နီးစပပ္ရာစီးပြါးေရးသမားမ်ားမွလက္၀ါးၾကီးအုပ္အက်ိဳးၿမတ္မ်ားရရိွေနၿပီးနိုင္ငံတြင္းမွထြက္၇ိွေနေသာေရနံနွင္.သဘာ၀ဓါတ္ေငြမ်ား၊သစ္ေတာထြက္ပစၥည္းမ်ားကိုေနစဥ္ၿပည္ပသို႔ပို႔ေဆာင္ေရာင္းခ်ကာစီးပြါေရးလူတစုတို့နွင့္အက်ိဳးတူခံစားခ်မ္းသာေနၾကသည္။သို႔ေသာ္တိုင္းၿပည္တြင္းမွအေၿခခံလူတန္းစားဘ၀သည္ပို၍ပို၍ဆင္း၇ဲၾကပ္တည္းမွဳကိုေန႔တဓူ၀ခံစားေနၾက၇သည္ကိုဓါပံုႏွင့္တကြ တင္ၿပလိုက္ပါသည္။

                        ၿမန္မာၿပည္ဖြံ႔ၿဖိဳးတို.တက္ေရးကြန္ယက္

BURMA DEVELOPMENT NETWORK (BDN)

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Children are struggle for life in Yangoon(Rangoon)

This photograph discloses that the children are searching food among the rotten rubbish for their daily survival in Kyaut  Tadadar township, Yangoon, Myanmar(Burma).This photo -report expresses that the majority of the population in Myanmar is still suffering  and facing hardship daily while the international governments and diplomats are taking consideration that Myanmar has started to change to democratization. But it is not realism for grassroots.

Reported by Burma Development Network (BDN)

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Phone: Mr. Aung Naing Ht we 630 456 6517 (USA)

                Mr. Zaw Oo 09 430 64660  (Yangoon, Myanma)

ၿမန္မာနိုင္ငံရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ.ေက်ာက္တံတားၿမိဳ.နယ္တြင္ေက်ာင္းေနအရြယ္ကေလးငယ္မ်ားသည္စြန္.ပစ္အမိွဳက္မ်ားအတြင္းမွစားေသာက္စရာမ်ားရွာေဖြစားေသာက္ေနေသာပံုၿဖစ္ပါသည္.။ၿမန္မာနိုင္ငံသည္ယခုအခ်ိန္အခါမွာၿပဳၿပင္ေၿပာင္းလဲမွဳေတြၿဖစ္ေပၚေနၿပီဟုနိုင္ငံတကာအသိုင္းအ၀န္းကထင္ၿမင္မွဳမ်ားကိုနိုင္ငံတြင္းၿဖစ္ေပၚေနေသာပကတိအမွန္တိုင္းတင္ၿပၿခင္းၿဖစ္ပါသည္။

တိုင္းၿပည္အတြင္းဆင္းရဲမြဲေတမွဳမ်ားစြာကိုၿပည္သူအမ်ားခံစားေနၾကရၿပိးေန.စဥ္နွင္.

အမ်ွခက္ခဲၾကမ္းတမ္းေသာဘ၀မ်ားကိုၿဖတ္သန္းေနၾကရသည္မွာအပကတိအမွန္ပင္ၿဖစ္သည္။သို.ပါ

ေသာေၾကာင္.နိုင္ငံတကာအသိုင္းအ၀ိုင္းမွသိရိွနိုင္ေစရန္အလို.ငွာမွတ္တမ္းဓါတ္ပံုနွင္.တကြၿမန္မာၿပည္ဖြံ႔ၿဖိဳးတိုးတက္ေရးကြန္ယက္မွတင္ၿပပါသည္။

Myanmar Seeks Japan Debt Forgiveness in Tokyo Trip

Bloomberg NewsPresident Thein Sein today begins his first visit to Japan as head of state seeking a debt- forgiveness deal that opens the way for his nation’s biggest creditor to resume financing roads, bridges and ports.

Thein Sein and Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda will discuss a “comprehensive solution” to resolving Myanmar’s debt when they meet in Tokyo tomorrow, said Masaru Sato, assistant press secretary at Japan’s foreign ministry. Japan pledged 403 billion yen ($4.9 billion) in loans to Myanmar between 1967 and 1987, according to foreign ministry data.

The nation of 64 million between India and China wants a share of the investment that Japanese exporters have poured into neighbor Thailand, with Honda Motor Co. among companies expressing interest. Thein Sein has overseen a shift toward democracy over the past year that’s boosting the odds of re- engagement with developed nations that limited trade with Myanmar during five decades of military dictatorship.

“This is a first step” for strengthening business ties, said Yoshito Asano, director of the government-affiliated Japan External Trade Organization in Bangkok, referring to Thein Sein’s trip and the debt talks. “Many companies have an interest in Myanmar but so far there are not many concrete plans to establish factories.”

Japan will aim to finance infrastructure projects in Myanmar if the debt issue is cleared, Kimihiro Ishikane, a deputy director of Asian affairs at the foreign ministry, said on Nov. 16. Sato declined to comment on an Asahi newspaper report that Japan will forgive 300 billion yen ($3.7 billion) in yen-denominated loans.

Debt Compromise
Such an agreement would amount to about 60 percent of Myanmar’s debt, according to Kei Nemoto, a professor specializing in Myanmar at Sophia University in Tokyo. Cheap wages, natural resources, historical ties and concern over China’s influence in Myanmar makes the country important for Japan, he said.

Policy makers “are now thinking that the time is right to deepen engagement with Myanmar, otherwise Japan may lose in the competition with other countries,” he said, noting that China, India and South Korea have increased ties with the Southeast Asian nation.

European Union governments will probably suspend most sanctions against Myanmar to reward the country for progressing from military rule toward democracy, an EU official said. The decision will be confirmed by EU foreign ministers on April 23, the official told reporters in Brussels today on condition of anonymity.

The U.S. has announced that it will ease trade and financial restrictions on certain sectors, without providing details.

Regional Summit
Thein Sein plans to meet Noda after a regional summit involving leaders from Cambodia, Vietnam, Thailand and Laos. On April 22, Thein Sein will visit power plants run by Tokyo Electric Power Co. and Electric Power Development Co., known as J-Power, according to Japan’s foreign ministry.

Yangon, Myanmar’s largest city, had the cheapest wages among 31 cities in Asia, according to a Jetro survey last year. Workers in the former capital earned less than $2 per day on average, compared with $4 in Cambodia, $5 in Vietnam and $14 in Thailand, it said.

Italian-Thai Development Pcl (ITD), Thailand’s biggest construction company, is pushing Japan to provide financing for an $8.6 billion deep sea port and industrial estate in Dawei, a Myanmar coastal town less than 300 kilometers (186 miles) from Bangkok. The company has named Mitsubishi Corp. and Mitsui & Co. as potential investors.

US lawmaker says keep pressure on Burma အေမရိကန္ ဥပေဒျပဳ အမတ္မ်ားက ျမန္မာျပည္ကုိ ဆက္ျပီးဖိအားေပးရန္ ေျပာ

အေမရိကန္ ဥပေဒျပဳ အမတ္မ်ားက ျမန္မာျပည္ကုိ ဆက္ျပီးဖိအားေပးရန္ ေျပာ

A US lawmaker who has drafted sanctions against Burma says it's premature to ease pressure despite Aung San Suu Kyi winning a seat in parliament.
Representative Joe Crowley, a member of President Barack Obama's Democratic Party from New York, saluted the 'incredible perseverance and courage' of Aung San Suu Kyi but says it's 'important to keep things in perspective'.
'Far too many political prisoners are still locked behind bars, violence continues against ethnic minorities and the military dominates not only the composition but the structure of the government,' he said.
'Now is not the time for the international community to rush toward lifting pressure on Burma,' said Crowley.
President Barack Obama's administration has been seeking to encourage reforms in Burma. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, on a visit to Istanbul, said the United States is 'committed to supporting these reform efforts'.
But most of the two decades of sanctions on Burma are under the purview of the Congress, which has long shown sympathy to Burma's dissidents. Some other lawmakers, however, have been open to discussing easing some sanctions.
Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the top Senate Republican who has also spearheaded sanctions legislation on Burma, was cautious about the election.
'While much remains to be done in Burma, Suu Kyi's apparent election to parliament, like that of the apparent election of large numbers of her NLD colleagues, is an important step forward for the country,' he said, referring to Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy.
Suu Kyi, who spent most of the past 22 years under house arrest, is set to enter parliament for the first time after the opposition claimed victory.
The by-elections were the latest reform effort by President Thein Sein, a nominal civilian leader whose government has surprised even many critics by freeing hundreds of prisoners and seeking cease-fires with ethnic rebels.
Aung Din, a former political prisoner and executive director of the US Campaign for Burma, said that Western nations should wait to see how Suu Kyi and other NLD supporters are treated in parliament.
'The United States and EUshould not reward the regime simply because the NLD has some seats in the parliament,' he said.