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A man drinks a glass of
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HEARTBEAT OF THE NATION
Activists urge renewed
pressure over prisoners
Political prisoner groups write to President Obama and other world leaders calling on
them to raise the issue of political prisoners at an ASEAN meeting in November. NEWS 3
NEWS 9
Anger builds over bell
Salvaging teams calls of search as
donors question lack of clarity over
fate of donated funds.
BUSINESS 24
Local banks brace for
foreign competition
Myanmar banks are taking steps to
ensure they are ready for impending
arrival of foreign institutions.
IN DEPTH
Last drinks:
Do we need
a national
alcohol policy?
PUBLIC health campaigners are ramping up
their push for stronger policies to curb the
harmful consumption of alcohol, including
higher taxes for consumers and producers,
but have so far received only lukewarm sup-
port from the government and parliament.
A 14-point plan for reducing harmful
drinking drafted last month by public health
experts, parliamentarians, government of-
cials and other civil society leaders has been
submitted to the Union government, Py-
idaungsu Hluttaw, and regional governments
and parliaments.
The plan was written by participants at a
two-day seminar in Nay Pyi Taw last month
that aimed to develop policies and strategies
for reducing the harmful use of alcohol.
The plan calls on the government to in-
troduce a raft of reforms, including closer su-
pervision of alcohol production, the raising of
quality standards, a crackdown on illegal pro-
ducers and those avoiding tax, and increased
taxes on alcohol products.
It recommends excise be calculated based
on the alcohol volume rather than the price,
which participants said was the international
standard, and the income from excise be used
to fund programs aimed at reducing the im-
pact of alcohol consumption.
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2 THE MYANMAR TIMES SEPTEMBER 15 21, 2014
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THE INSIDER: The local lowdown & best of the web
Page 2 runs out of puns,
search for bell ends
The announcement that the
search for the Dhammazedi
Bell has been suspended has
elicited a range of reactions,
running the gamut of the
emotional spectrum from
total apathy to mild rage.
Many were disappointed
but perhaps not surprised.
Others wearily speculate that
this probably isnt over over.
However, those who donated
money to the search effort
were understandably miffed.
Fundraising efforts had
yielded a not-too-shabby
US$165,000. Now, just how
much a dredging operation
costs in Myanmar in 2014, I
cant say. However, the labour
side of things was presumably
pretty cheap. If youve ever
been out on the river youll
know that the water is opaque
and brown and you cant see
anything, so sending divers
down attached to garden
hoses supplied with oxygen
by bike pumps on the surface
was probably never going to
work sea gypsies or not.
Should the team decide
to take a more scientic
and (dare we say?) practical
approach next time around,
it might be more expedient
to ask politely for the navys
assistance they might be
able to lend a sonar-equipped
frigate or two to the cause.
Prison pawnography
According to the Assistance
Association for Political
Prisoners, 28 individuals were
handed down prison terms
for political activities last
month many of whom were
farmers protesting against
having their land conscated
for projects theyre almost
guaranteed not to benet that
much from.
The groups most recent
update estimates the number
of political prisoners behind
bars now stands at 84. The
ongoing detention of existing
political prisoners (as well as
conviction and incarceration
of new ones) has attracted
widespread criticism, with
President U Thein Seins
pledge to free all prisoners
of conscience before the
years end appearing to ring
a little hollow given that
he made it in 2013. One can
only hope theyre stocking up
for a major amnesty before
the next ASEAN meet, with
some set aside for Obamas
scheduled visit.
7-Day dacoits at it again
The merry band of marauders
behind 7-Day Daily have been
busted lifting stories directly
from other publications again,
this time running a word-for-
word translation (as well as
photographs) from a National
Geographic piece about oil in
Rakhine State. This comes
just weeks after they brazenly
repackaged a Wall Street
Journal article. The legality of
all this is not entirely clear, but
as my coworker observed, If
[National Geographic or Wall
Street Journal] wanted to sue,
I think they would have to sue
every journal in Myanmar
meaning, lifting stories without
proper licensing or attribution
is pretty standard practice
here which is brilliant news
for Page 2. Stay tuned for next
week, when its just verbatim
New Light content about
water pumps, felicitations and
ngerlings.
Media watch
The KIAs James Lum Daum
was last week forced to
defend against claims that his
organisation had taken part
in talks with the Rohingya
Solidarity Organisation.
Rumours began after
a YouTube video went viral
over the weekend, showing
a conversation between RSO
representatives and KIO Col.
James Lum Daum. A member
of the RSO appears at one
point to be requesting that
the KIO accommodate the
RSO in the event of an armed
struggle, wrote DVB.
Here we learn two things:
one being that the threshold
for a video to go viral in
Myanmar is apparently 5000
views, and the other being
that context should never get
in the way of a good story.
One of the RSO
representatives in question
(and coincidentally, the
uploader of the video)
is Maung Kyaw Nu of
the Burmese Rohingya
Association of Thailand.
The conversation was held
over dinner in Sukhumvit
on March 2 one in a series
of Interfaith Caf events
hosted by Bangkok-based
journalist Lance Woodruff.
Mr Woodruff is a member
of Thailand Friends of
Thomas Merton a group
that seeks to remember
the life and work of the
Trappist monk who died after
stepping out of the bath and
being electrocuted by a fan
in Bangkok in 1968, where
he had been attending an
interfaith summit.
Interfaith Cafe is just that:
I invite Buddhists, Hindus,
Christian, Muslims and other
to talk and eat together, he
told Page 2 by email. The Thai
and Burmese monks invited
apparently declined to attend
(possibly because it was an
evening event that centred
around a meal), however
there were also American
Buddhist monks and former
monks in attendance. Also
at this shadowy meeting of
would-be insurgents were
a British teacher, a group
of Pakistani Christians, and
some Kachin Baptists.
In brief:
Elderly woman bafes
scientists by moving so slowly
through downtown market
that she affects the opposite
of a sonic boom. Observers
say she was denitely moving
forward, but it was almost
imperceptible.
61% of expats left their home
country because everyone
hated them, study nds
Page 2
Socialist-era magazine Forward. Cover proclaims these The women of socialist democracy
From the Pansodan Gallery archives
Once was Burma ...
Irrawaddy dolphin that used
echolocation to nd the
Dhammazedi Bell then tried
desperately to communicate its
location to humans becomes
the victim of blast shing
Next week:
Foreigner takes roadside
palm reading too seriously
Columnist runs out of pithy
one-liners
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to you by oral
rehydration salts
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Rights groups write to
Obama over prisoners
ACTIVISTS say they will use the next
round of ASEAN meetings to highlight
the governments failure to release
all political prisoners, as new gures
show more than 200 people are in jail
or on trial for political activities.
The Assistance Association for Po-
litical Prisoners (AAPP) and Former
Political Prisoners Society (FPPS)
have written to international lead-
ers including US President Barack
Obama and asked them to raise the
issue which has largely fallen of the
radar since the end of 2013 at the
meeting in November.
FPPS spokesperson U Thet Oo said
it was important that international
leaders do not overlook those who are
still being locked up for political ac-
tivities, particularly because the gov-
ernment was no longer cooperating
with local organisations to facilitate
their release.
We want international leaders to
push the government to release po-
litical prisoners. The government al-
ways says Myanmar doesnt have any
more political prisoners and we want
international leaders to know thats
not the case and they shouldnt trust
the government, U Thet Oo said.
Activists are unhappy that the
Remaining Political Prisoner Scru-
tiny Committee, which was set up by
the government in February 2013 to
recommend the release of political
prisoners, has essentially ceased to
operate.
Chaired by Minister for the Presi-
dents Ofce U Soe Thein, the com-
mittee met monthly in 2013 but has
convened only three times so far this
year. Some representatives from the
government side, including U Soe
Thein, have failed to attend the more
recent meetings.
Activists say the committee ur-
gently needs to meet to agree on
a denition for the term political
prisoner so it can be submitted to
the president and parliament and
enshrined in law. Civil society groups
agreed on a broad denition for the
term at a two-day forum last month
but the government is yet to com-
ment on the issue.
Activists have also called for a new
committee to be formed to address
new cases that the government re-
fused to acknowledge.
We need to call a committee
meeting because we have many issues
to discuss, including the denition
of a political prisoner and the need
to organise a new committee. They
should call the meeting this month,
said U Ye Aung, a former political
prisoner who sits on the committee.
According to a review of the po-
litical prisoner situation conducted
by the AAPP in August, as of the end
of the month there were 84 political
prisoners behind bars. An estimated
122 individuals had been charged
for politically motivated actions and
were awaiting trial.
In August, 28 people new politi-
cal prisoners were jailed, one was re-
leased and ve were tortured, the
AAPP said.
On average the number of politi-
cal prisoners is increasing by about 10
individuals per month [in 2014], said
U Aung Myo Kyaw, a Yangon-based
spokesperson for the group.
The AAPP said many new politi-
cal prisoners had been jailed under
section 18 of the Peaceful Assembly
and Peaceful Procession Law for par-
ticipating in a demonstration without
ofcial permission.
Barring any signicant political
turnaround or change of policy, the
number of political prisoners is likely
to continue to increase throughout
the remainder of 2014, the AAPP said
in a September 8 statement.
The government, however, insists
there are no political prisoners in My-
anmar jails. During a visit to the Unit-
ed Kingdom in June 2013, President U
Thein Sein promised that all prisoners
would be freed by the end of the year.
The government said this promise was
achieved following several amnesties
in the second half of the year but more
than 30 political prisoners remained
locked up as of January 1.
Minister for Information U Ye
Htut, a spokesperson for U Thein
Sein, did not respond to requests for
comment by deadline.
Activist hope to make political prisoners an issue at the November ASEAN meetings
YE MON
yeemontun2013@gmail.com
The government
always says
Myanmar doesnt
have any more
political prisoners
and we want
international
leaders to know
thats not the case.
U Thet Oo
Former Political Prisoners Society
Jail time builds up
for oustpoken activist
AMNESTY International has called
on the Myanmar government to
cease its relentless persecution of
a prominent human rights activist.
Ko Htin Kyaw, leader of the Move-
ment for Democracy Current Force
(MDCF), has been sentenced to a
total of more than 11 years in prison
for alleged public order ofences in
recent months.
Ko Htin Kyaw was charged in 10
separate township courts for alleg-
edly inciting people to commit of-
fences against the state or against
public tranquillity. The latest guilty
verdict was handed down on Sep-
tember 11 at the township court in
Shwe Pyi Thar.
He has faced multiple trials for
the same charges in several town-
ships since his arrest last May. Add-
ed together, these sentences mean
he is now serving at least 11 years
and four months in prison. Amnesty
International said in a statement
last week that his crimes included
holding a candlelight vigil.
The relentless eforts of the My-
anmar authorities to silence a criti-
cal voice must end immediately, said
Rupert Abbott, Amnesty Internation-
als deputy Asia-Pacic director.
The charges [against] Ko Htin
Kyaw ... are farcical. He has done
nothing but peacefully express his
opinions he is a prisoner of con-
science and should be released im-
mediately and unconditionally.
Ko Htin Kyaw was rst detained
on May 5 in Yangon while delivering
a speech and distributing leaets
calling on the government to resign.
Sadly, Ko Htin Kyaws case is
just the tip of the iceberg scores of
peaceful activists and human rights
defenders have been targeted, ar-
rested and in many cases locked up
across Myanmar in 2014. All laws
used to silence critics must be re-
pealed or amended immediately to
comply with international human
rights law and standards, Mr Ab-
bott said.
Three fellow members of the
MDCF have also been detained for
criticising the government.
Translation by Thiri Min Htun
Police push a protesting Ko Htin Kyaw into a prison van outside Kyauktada
Township Court on September 8. Photo: Aung Htay Hlaing
TOE WAI AUNG
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4 News THE MYANMAR TIMES SEPTEMBER 15 - 21, 2014
Two-day media forum
scheduled for next month
A two-day forum to improve
communication between the
government and journalists is
expected to take place in the
rst week of October, a Ministry
of Information ofcial said last
week.
The conference has been
scheduled for October 4-5,
pending approval from Minister
for Information U Ye Htut, said
Daw Thidar Tin, director gen-
eral of the ministrys Depart-
ment of Information and Public
Relations.
The forum, which will be
held in Nay Pyi Taw, will bring
together parliament, the
executive, the judiciary and the
media with the aim of improv-
ing information ow to media
organisations.
Myanmar Press Council
(Interim) member U Thiha Saw,
who is also an editorial director
at The Myanmar Times, said
the Union Election Commission
will be invited to attend the
forum as an observer.
In preparation for the confer-
ence, 10 members of the Myan-
mar Press Council (Interim)
attended a meeting in Nay Pyi
Taw on September 13 with
senior parliamentary ofcials,
at the invitation of Pyidaungsu
Hluttaw Speaker Thura U Shwe
Mann.
The forum was organised in
response to a request from the
press council during an August
1 meeting with President U
Thein Sein because of com-
plaints from journalists that
government ofcials were
regularly failing to respond to
media inquiries. Sandar Lwin
Govt, parliament abstain
from proposed alcohol plan
The plan urges improved education on
the health efects of harmful drinking,
a strictly enforced ban on the sale of al-
cohol to minors and restrictions on the
advertising or promotion of alcohol,
including a ban on the sponsorship of
sporting or youth events.
Dr Than Sein, head of the Public
Health Foundation, which helped or-
ganise the seminar, said Myanmar ur-
gently needed a national action plan to
tackle what he described as a growing
culture of excessive drinking, particu-
larly among young people.
The report will give suggestions
on how to reduce alcohol consump-
tion and point out the alcohol problem
among young people, he said.
National policy not a priority
The seminar was opened by Minister
for Health U Than Aung and appears to
have ministry support. But there is less
interest among parliamentarians, with
a member of the Pyithu Hluttaw Health
Upgrading Committee telling The My-
anmar Times last week that reform of
law related to alcohol production, sale
and consumption was not an immedi-
ate priority.
Secretary U Nay Lin said the com-
mittee was working on overhauling 20
existing laws but had no plan to tackle
alcohol consumption.
The Ministry of Health has also not
proposed a bill for controlling alcohol
in Myanmar, he said.
Dr Than Sein said that if parliament
was not willing to act then the govern-
ment should force its hand.
The government can control alco-
hol consumption by taxing, regulating
and restricting alcohol consumption,
he said.
Speaking at the opening of the two-
day seminar, U Than Aung said the
government would rein in alcohol use
through a ve-point plan that involves
a crackdown on importing, buying,
selling and advertising alcohol, and
raising alcohol-related taxes.
However, Ministry of Health gener-
al director Dr Min Than Nyunt said his
ministry is not working on the issue.
We are not introducing any na-
tional policies or strategic plans on the
harmful consumption of alcohol and
have no plan to introduce restrictions
on alcohol products yet. At the moment
all the ministry is working on an alco-
hol treatment plan as part of a mental
health project, he said.
To tax or not to tax
Dr Than Sein said the Public Health
Foundation wants an overhaul of excise
rules, which were last updated in 1958
with an amendment to the Myanmar
Excise Act, to be a central plank of the
national policy. Under Myanmar law,
producers and retailers are both re-
quired to pay excise as well as commer-
cial tax, which is calculated at 50 per-
cent of the price of an alcohol product.
While the constitution enables re-
gional governments to set excise tax-
es, just four Yangon, Mandalay and
Ayeyarwady regions and Nay Pyi Taw
Union Territory have done so. If we
want to reduce local consumption of
alcohol products, we need to impose
higher taxes, Dr Than Sein said.
Tax avoidance is also a problem. Dr
Than Sein cited data from the Myan-
mar Liquor Association showed that
of the 40,000 businesses producing,
distributing and retailing alcohol only
about 100 pay both taxes, while 10,000
pay only excise.
While some regional governments,
including in Yangon and Ayeyarwady
regions, have also raised licence fees for
liquor shops, restaurants, importers,
distributors, distillers and brewers this
year, Dr Than Sein said the fees were
not high enough to impact on the price
of alcohol.
Because taxes are still low it
will not help to reduce alcohol con-
sumption, he said. In the hluttaw, a
proposal to increase commercial tax
on alcohol to 200 percent was also
rejected. It shows the government is
still weak on this issue.
A member of the Myanmar Liquor
Association said higher taxes should
only be introduced if they are com-
bined with a campaign to stamp out
rampant illegal alcohol production.
We can accept higher taxes but My-
anmar has many illegal alcohol produc-
ers who will not pay the tax, so it will be
a big disadvantage for legal businesses
to raise taxes but at the same time not
tackle illegal production, he said.
International research indicates
that the efectiveness of higher taxes
on discouraging problem drinking is
mixed.
A spokesperson for the WHO of-
ce in Yangon said taxation was one
of a number of steps that could be
taken to reduce the harm from alcohol
consumption.
Additionally, the government could
build the capacity of health services to
provide prevention and treatment, de-
velop or support community programs
aimed at curbing harmful drinking, re-
duce the impact of marketing, particu-
larly on adolescents, and tackle illicit or
informally produced alcohol.
The spokesperson declined to com-
ment specically on the proposed na-
tional policy.
Is drinking really a health problem?
There are also questions over the ex-
tent of harmful drinking in Myanmar,
where many people abstain from alco-
hol completely.
The most recent reliable gures
for alcohol consumption in Myanmar,
from the World Health Organizations
2009 Non-Communicable Disease Risk
Factor Survey, show that 12.9pc of the
population consumed alcohol, includ-
ing 31.2pc of men and 1.5pc of women
respondents. Among the drinkers,
about 15.7pc drank on a daily basis and
35.9pc drank less than once a month.
Meanwhile, 34.7pc of men and
93.7pc of women were lifetime abstain-
ers, according to the survey.
The survey was conducted on more
than 7000 people between 15 and 64
years of age and contrasted signi-
cantly with data from 2005, when the
WHO put the percentage of drinkers at
7.2-7.4pc of men and 4.4pc of women.
Dr Than Swe, vice chair of the Pub-
lic Health Foundation, said harmful
drinking was a bigger problem than
statistics indicate.
We see there are many alcohol-re-
lated health problems and risk factors
are increasing in the community. Our
foundation was set up to tackle com-
munity health problems and harmful
alcohol consumption is one of these,
he said.
Other research appears to sup-
port the Public Health Foundations
concerns.
At last months seminar, U Khin
Maung Gyee, a retired professor of psy-
chiatry, presented a rapid assessment
of alcohol use conducted in Yangon,
Mon State and Shan State in 2008 by
the Ministry of Health and WHO that
found 19-24pc of drinkers surveyed
were problem users. Meanwhile, in
September 2013, the Yangon Mental
Health Hospital reported a rise in ad-
missions for alcohol-related mental
health disorders, with a 60pc rise in
cases between 2008 and 2012.
Anecdotal reports suggest that
problem drinking is also on the rise,
particularly in Yangon.
U Myo Zaw Lwin, managing direc-
tor of pharmaceutical company in Yan-
gon, said that drinking seemed much
more common than a decade ago and
attributed it to a combination of low
prices, promotions by alcohol compa-
nies and the prevalence of shops and
restaurants that sell alcohol.
People drink alcohol for many rea-
sons to reduce work pressure, to have
fun and to socialise and some do it
almost every day, he said. Now some
of my friends who drink every day are
sufering liver disease and stomach
problems, and they are not old some
are barely 35.
Whisky is promoted at a Yangon wholesale market. Photo: AFP
IN BRIEF
SHWE
YEE SAW
MYINT
poepwintphyu2011@gmail.com
Private company to run
Mandalay-Myitkyina trains
Train services on the Mandalay-
Myitkyina line will be operated
by a private company from next
month, the government says.
U Htein Win, the Myanma
Railways general manager in
Mandalay, said Kachin Public
Company had been selected
to operate services starting
from October 1 following a
tender.
Some train schedules will
likely change, he said.
Myanma Railways conducted
the tender in June. A separate
tender to operate trains on
the Yangon-Mandalay line was
cancelled after no bids were
received. The company will pay
Myanma Railways K12 million
for each round trip it runs on
the line.
Kachin Public Company will
operate the service with Myan-
ma Railways staff, U Htein Win
said, adding that it had been
given permission to raise fares
by 10 percent. Maung Zaw,
translation by Khant Lin Oo
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Number of alcohol producers,
distributors or retailers, out of about
40,000 nationally, that are estimated to be
paying both excise and commercial tax
It will be a big
disadvantage for
legal businesses to
raise taxes but at the
same time not tackle
illegal production.
Myanmar Liquor Association
Chinese team joins
search as poor weather
frustrates rescue effort
AYE SAPAY
PHYU
ayephyu2006@gmail.com
GLOOMY weather and poor visibility
were preventing helicopters from join-
ing the search for two Myanmar climb-
ers missing in northern Myanmar last
week, as China sent a nine-member
rescue team to the area.
The two climbers failed to return to
base camp after reaching the summit of
Hkakabo Razi in Kachin State, ofcially
Southeast Asias highest mountain at
5881 metres.
U Tay Za, a US-sanctioned tycoon
with close links to the former military
government and a passion for moun-
taineering, has deployed a rescue team
with two helicopters and set up a base
in Panangdim, the gateway to Hkakabo
Razi National Park. However, as of Sep-
tember 11 poor weather had prevented
them from joining the search, Htoo
Foundation said on its Facebook page.
Before ying to Putao, the biggest
town nearest the mountain, the leader
of Chinas Blue Sky Rescue team spoke
to The Myanmar Times at Yangon air-
port. Although this mountain is not
very high, good techniques are needed
to approach it. We have gathered skilful
climbers in the group and have taken all
necessary equipment with us, An Shao
Hua said, adding that more members
would join the team if needed.
Ko Aung Myint Myat and Ko Wai
Yan Min Thu were last heard singing
the national anthem into their two-
way radios from the summit on Au-
gust 31. The two then began their de-
scent, telling the other six members
of their team waiting at base camp
that the batteries in their radio were
getting weak.
They were due back at base camp on
September 8, according to news agency
AP, and a rescue efort was launched
shortly after they failed to appear.
U Kyaw Naing, a spokesperson
for the University Hiking and Moun-
taineering Association, which sent
the eight-man team to the mountain,
said that the families of the missing
pair and support staf from the Htoo
Foundation were sent to Putao on
September 11.
Two helicopters also left to Panang-
dim on September 11 to nd the climb-
ers. Access to the Panangdim area is
very difcult on the ground. Lots of
mountains and forest need to be passed
on the way, he said.
The mountain, at the eastern edge
of the Himalayas, is close to where U
Tay Za narrowly survived a helicopter
crash in early 2011.
The Htoo Foundation reported on
its Facebook page that emergency com-
munications and hiking equipment,
medicine, food, doctors and hikers had
been deployed. It added that the foun-
dation was preparing to hire emergen-
cy rescue teams from other countries.
According to a statement posted on
the YHMAs Facebook page, Myanmars
military are also involved in the rescue
efort.
The remaining six members of the
climbing team are safe in Ngawa vil-
lage near Panangdim and are helping
coordinate rescue eforts.
The summit was the rst by an all-
Myanmar team. The mountain was rst
climbed in 1996 by Takashi Ozaki from
Japan and U Nama Johnson, an ethnic
Tibetan whom Ozaki recruited from a
remote village near Hkakabo Razi. Mr
Ozaki later died trying to climb Mt Ev-
erest in 2011.
U Nama Johnson, who still lives in
the area, is also involved in the rescue
efort.
Missing Myanmar climbers Ko Wai Yan Min Thu (left), 28, and Ko Aung Myint
Myat, 32. Photos: The Invitation of Natures Facebook page
Putao
Machanbaw
Naung Mung
Panangdim
Ngawa
Hkakabo Razi
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Thousands urge government
to name park after U Ottama
Military
shuffes
generals
MILITARY sources have conrmed
that Commander-in-Chief Senior Gen-
eral Min Aung Hlaing ordered a re-
shufe of senior ofcers on September
8, with a number of important posi-
tions changing hands.
Military sources said the reshufe,
which was not publicly announced,
occurred on September 8. Lieutenant
General Mya Tun Oo was the big win-
ner, promoted to full general and given
the posts of chief of military security
and chief of Bureau of Special Opera-
tions-6. Lieutenant General Kyaw Swe,
who previously held those positions,
took over Gen Mya Tun Oos former
post of chief of staf (army) and was
also appointed head of Bureau of Spe-
cial Operations-5.
Gen Mya Tun Oo, who is from the
25
th
intake of the Defence Services
Academy, is widely tipped to take over
as commander-in-chief when Senior
General Min Aung Hlaing retires.
Meanwhile, the commander of Yan-
gon Region Command, Major General
Sann Oo, was promoted to adjutant-
general, while the former adjutant-
general, Lieutenant General Khin Zaw
Oo, was shifted to the head of Bureau of
Special Operations-4. Northern Region
Command leader Major General Tun
Tun Naung was appointed head of Yan-
gon Region Command. Ei Ei Toe Lwin
RAKHINE politicians say more than
10,000 people are in favour of a pro-
posal to rename Kandaw Mingalar
Park in Yangon to again honour a
famed opponent of British colonial
rule.
The plea was made at a ceremo-
ny to mark the 75
th
anniversary of
the death of Sayadaw U Ottama, a
prominent monk who was born in
the Rakhine State capital Sittwe, on
September 9 at the Myanmar Con-
vention Centre in Yangon.
U Zaw Aye Maung, the Yangon
Region Minister for Rakhine Ethnic
Afairs said a vote was held at the
ceremony, with more than 10,000
people in favour of the change.
The government of Prime Minis-
ter U Nu ofcially named the Dagon
township park after U Ottama but
the General Ne Win regime renamed
it Kandaw Mingalar Park.
A 2012 attempt by Pyithu Hlut-
taw member U Maung Nyo to get
parliament to efect the name
change also came to nothing.
We asked the Presidents Ofce
to consider renaming the park, but
they didnt respond, U Zaw Aye
Maung said.
U Zaw Aye Maung said U Ne
Wins government destroyed a mon-
ument to U Ottama as well as sign-
boards bearing his name.
Sayadaw U Ottama, an ethnic
Rakhine, died in prison in 1939. He
was jailed on several occasions for
ghting British colonialism, and
his patriotic fervour and courage
inspired younger generations, who
nally won independence in 1948.
He is said to be the rst activist
imprisoned for making a political
speech.
Speaker
warns govt
not to play
volleyball
POLITICS aint beanbag, or so said
Mr Dooley, the character created by
American writer Finley Peter Dunne in
an 1895 newspaper column. He meant
that the running of a country isnt a
childrens game. Nor is it volleyball,
according to no less an authority than
the speaker of the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw,
Thura U Shwe Mann. The speaker was
calling on cabinet ministers to demon-
strate a more responsible attitude.
A good democracy cannot be built
as if youre playing volleyball, he
said in opening remarks to the par-
liamentary session in Nay Pyi Taw on
September 11.
He went on to explain his mean-
ing: that the cabinet takes too long
to respond to questions from parlia-
ment. Even when ministers do turn up
to answer members questions, their
responses can be unsatisfactory. The
speaker has also had to reprove some
ministers for delays in the enactment
of by-laws required for the full imple-
mentation of legislation passed by
parliament.
Though political conditions are
much better than they were 50 years
ago, the speaker admitted that the gov-
ernment still had not met peoples ex-
pectations. But we will try to move for-
ward by utilising those good chances
that we get for the sake of the country
and people, he said.
The speaker urged MPs to coop-
erate in building peace and stabil-
ity, and warned that history would not
look kindly on anyone who failed to
cooperate.
We will have much to discuss in
this session, including the amendment
bill of the 2008 constitution and other
important issues. Thats why I want all
MPs to not waste time and to try your
best, said Thura U Shwe Mann.
HTOO THANT
EI EI TOE LWIN
newsroom@mmtimes.com
YE MON
Ethnic Rakhine men and women pay tribute in front of a state of U Ottama at a ceremony to mark the 75th anniversary
of his death held in Yangon on September 9. Photo: Zarni Phyo
Lawyer says UEC may lack
power to cancel by-elections
THE Union Election Commission may
have broken the law when it cancelled
this years by-elections, according to a
prominent legal expert. The commis-
sion announced the vote, expected in
November or December, would not go
ahead after a meeting with registered
parties in Yangon on September 7.
The decision was made less than six
months after UEC chair U Tin Aye told
parliament that the by-elections would
be held before the end of the year.
U Ko Ni, a High Court lawyer, said
there is no provision in the Union Elec-
tion Commission Law that states the
commission has the power to call of
an entire election.
While it does say elections can be
cancelled in specic constituencies in
the case of natural disaster or security
concerns a clause that was invoked in
both the 2010 general election and 2012
by-elections the UEC did not cite this
as a reason for calling of the vote.
The commission is only respon-
sible for holding the elections, not for
cancelling them, said U Ko Ni, who
is closely connected to the National
League for Democracy.
But when U Tin Aye fronted the
media on September 7, he insisted the
commission had the power to organise
elections as it sees t. The law gives
me the authority to make [election-
related] decisions, he said.
Elections a burden
The UEC cited concerns over costs,
preparations for next years general
election and the chairing of ASEAN as
reasons for the decision.
U Tin Aye said that the by-elections,
which were announced in March to ll
35 vacant seats in national and region-
al assemblies, would also lack political
signicance as they would not result in
many major changes in the composi-
tion of parliament.
UEC ofcials told state media that
the cost of the elections would have
been more than K2 billion (US$2.06
million), with no telling whether the
spending would benet the country.
With no specic budget, the cost was
likely to be drawn from the money ear-
marked for the 2015 election.
The commission also said the by-
elections would have been a burden
for parties that have registered since
the April 2012 by-elections, as elections
rules would force them to compete in
at least three seats if they are registered
as a national party and one seat if set
up as a regional party. Twenty-ve of
Myanmars almost 70 registered par-
ties would have been required by law to
eld candidates.
The by-elections were meant to ll
slots vacated by MPs who have been el-
evated to the government or other posi-
tions that require them to resign from
the hluttaw, as well as a handful who
have passed away while in ofce.
The decision was welcomed by the
National League for Democracy (NLD).
Ofcials from the opposition party
were quoted as saying that holding by-
elections this year would have been too
rushed and cancellation means parties
will have more time to prepare for gen-
eral elections to be held next year.
U Myo Yan Naung Thein, a political
analyst and director of the NLD-linked
Bayda Institute, said the by-elections
would be both an unnecessary use
of time and money, and a burden on
smaller political parties.
What about constituents?
The decision means some in Kachin
State, where by-elections were can-
celled in three constituencies in 2012,
will have been without a Pyithu Hlut-
taw representative for ve years by the
time the next election is held.
U Kyaw Soe, 59, from Kachin States
Mogaung township, said he was sur-
prised and disappointed at the com-
missions decision.
He said residents had hoped to have
a representative who could help tackle
the problem of illegal taxation by both
Tatmadaw and Kachin Independence
Army soldiers.
We were hoping to have a repre-
sentative who really tried to address
some of our difculties, he said.
Mogaung is one of 13 Pyithu Hlut-
taw seats that would have been con-
tested in the by-elections, along with
six from the Amyotha Hluttaw and 16
from regional and state parliaments.
In the 2012 by-elections, the NLD
swept 43 of 45 seats, including in
Kawhmu, where Daw Aung San Suu
Kyi won a Pyithu Hluttaw seat.
While it is unlikely that the NLD
would have been able to repeat the
success this time around because of
the higher number of seats in ethnic
minority areas, observers said a strong
win over the Union Solidarity and De-
velopment Party (USDP) in non-ethnic
minority constituencies could have
prompted the ruling party to redouble
its eforts for the introduction of pro-
portional representation.
This may have contributed to the
NLDs decision to support the cancella-
tion, they said.
U Aung Shin, a central executive
committee member of the NLD, agreed
that another outsized win for his party
could hurt psychologically for the
USDP. He added, however, that it was
unfortunate that some areas, such as
parts of Kachin State, had been without
representation for years.
Concerns for 2015
While some are likely to consider the
cancellation of the by-elections as
a step back for democracy, the vote
would have been of little political sig-
nicance. The 2015 elections will be the
true indicator of the countrys progress,
Yangon-based political consultant Rich-
ard Horsey said, adding that enormous
efort will be required to ensure Myan-
mar is properly prepared for the crucial
vote.
The biggest test of the political di-
rection of this country is 2015 elections,
Mr Horsey said. I dont think this
should be taken as signalling any back-
tracking on the democratic process.
U Aye Maung, an Amyotha Hlut-
taw representative and vice chair of the
Rakhine National Party, said the ques-
tion of whether the UEC can cancel the
lections highlights the lack of clarity in
both the law and constitution about the
commissions powers.
He said the law should set a time
period within which a by-election must
be held after a seat falls vacant, and
also called for broader reform of the
commission. The election commission
chair should be someone who has not
been a member of a political party for
at least ve or 10 years, he said.
Political analyst U Sithu Aung My-
int said the constitution and law give
extremely strong powers to the com-
mission and these could be exploited to
tilt elections in favour of particular out-
comes. Because of this Im very wor-
ried, he said, about whether the 2015
election will really be free and fair.
WA LONE TIM MCLAUGHLIN
Election Commission Law states that elections can be cancelled because of natural disaster or security concerns
Union Election Commission chair U Tin Aye speaks at a meeting with political
parties in October 2013. Photo: Zarni Phyo
UN backs verifcation as step in right direction
A SENIOR United Nations ofcial has
ofered cautious support for the gov-
ernments controversial citizenship ver-
ication process in Rakhine State, de-
scribing it as a test case for the granting
of some rights to Muslims in the region.
The process has garnered criticism
for requiring individuals to register as
Bengali rather than Rohingya, a
term that is not recognised by the gov-
ernment, and some have warned that
the exercise could further deepen divi-
sions within the state.
Our position is that it is a step in
the right direction. What is important,
in our view, is not to focus excessively
and only on the issue of terminology.
If we only focus on that we are not
making progress, UN assistant sec-
retary-general Haoliang Xu told The
Myanmar Times.
Mr Xu also serves as assistant
administrator for the United Nations
Development Programme (UNDP)
and the agencys regional director for
Asia and the Pacic.
The Ministry of Information has
said that its latest verication eforts,
launched in July, could allow for thou-
sands of Muslims living in Rakhine
State to be granted some citizenship
rights. However, participants in the
Myebon area, where a pilot project is
being carried out, have been told that
they can only register as Bengali.
This registration is part of the veri-
cation process, which also includes a
review by a government committee of
evidence of each individuals eligibility
for citizenship.
Some Muslims in Rakhine have
expressed fear that accepting the Ben-
gali tag will hurt their prospects of
citizenship because, they argue, it sug-
gests they are illegal immigrants from
neighbouring Bangladesh.
The process has again highlighted
the bitter divide over the terms Roh-
ingya and Bengali, with the Myan-
mar government in recent weeks more
stridently asserting that it will not rec-
ognise the term Rohingya.
Mr Xu said that the debate over
the two terms threatened to derail
the governments verication program
and shift focus from the larger issue of
citizenship.
It is a very emotional issue. We
do not fully understand the emotions
on both sides. Lets see what practical
steps we can take to address the real
issue, which is citizenship, he said.
Mr Xu said that by starting the
verication process the government
had shown a willingness to confront
the problem. Though it remains un-
clear what will happen to those who
are deemed to not meet the criteria,
Mr Xu said that the pilot process was
an important starting point that could
provide an opportunity to nd a sus-
tainable solution to the issue.
John Ging, the director of the Co-
ordination and Response Division of
the UN Ofce for the Coordination
of Humanitarian Afairs (UNOCHA),
accompanied Mr Xu on his weeklong
trip to Myanmar.
Both called for increased humani-
tarian aid and development work to
be carried out in both the Buddhist
and Muslim communities in Rakhine
State.
UN agencies, along with interna-
tional NGOs, have been dogged by ac-
cusations that their work in the state
has favoured its Muslim community
and Mr Xu said there was some merit
to this argument.
In the past the humanitarian sup-
port has really concentrated on the
Muslims community that is a fact,
Mr Xu said.
He said the UN would endeavour to
change Rakhine perceptions it favours
the Muslim community by delivering
assistance in a more sensitive manner.
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THE tide appears to be turning
against those leading the expedition to
raise the fabled Dhammazedi Bell. The
team announced on August 26 that it
had located the bell at the bottom of
the Yangon River but has since failed
to ofer up any evidence to support
the claim, prompting some to ques-
tion whether donors to the efort have
been duped.
Adding fresh fuel to the re, a
spokesperson for the efort, U Kyi Win,
conrmed to The Myanmar Times last
week that the search had stopped and
all equipment would be returned to
the government on September 18.
The team had requested K180 mil-
lion to cover the initial expenses re-
lated to the search, and quickly raised
K150 million from businesses and
individuals.
The salvage efort began on August
9, with thousands of people watching
on from the banks of the river. Less
than three weeks later team leader
U San Linn declared they had found
their prize.
After asking permission from
all noble persons and saints, we de-
nitively declare that we have found
the Dhammazedi bell, he said in a
statement.
Since then, however, the team has
backed away from the claim. Prior
to conrming they had stopped the
search, rumours began spreading that
the divers brought to Yangon from
Kawthoung to hunt for the bell had
returned home, angering donors.
I donated to the project even
though I dont have a lot of money,
said U Aye Cho from Bago, who gave
K100,000. We cant do anything
about it now because we have already
given the money. [U San Linn] said
that he had opened a bank account for
the donated money but we dont know
if it is true I think the money has
already been spent.
The Myanmar Times called U San
Linns phone but no one answered.
Another member of the team, U Win
Myint, said he was visiting Kyaikkami
Pagoda in Mon State and was praying
that U San Linns search eforts would
be successful.
The lack of clear information since
August 26, however, has prompted a
storm of criticism, with public opinion
shifting quickly from optimism to an-
ger. U Naing Myint Thaung, a mem-
ber of the board of trustees at Bagos
Shwemawdaw Pagoda, where the
main donation ceremony was held,
said he had expected the salvage efort
to be controversial.
I warned the leaders U San Linn,
U Soe Thein and U Win Myint from
the start that they would be called
cheats for the rest of their life if the
project failed, he said.
When I asked them how they
would search for it, they said they
would use spiritual powers. Since then
I have avoided having anything to do
with them.
Then they announced that they
had found the bell but nobody knows
whether its true and theyre not say-
ing anything. The latest I heard from
them is that they would raise the bell
with the help of two airplanes.
Cast in the 15
th
century, the bell is
reputed to be the worlds largest, at
about 270 tonnes. However, it has laid
at the bottom of the river, near where
the Yangon and Bago rivers meet,
since a failed attempt in 1608 to take it
from Shwedagon Pagoda to Thanlyin,
where it was to be melted down and
made into cannons.
Several attempts to raise it since
the late 1980s ended in failure but U
San Linn told The Myanmar Times in
an exclusive interview in early August
that he was condent of success.
The largest donor to the project
was Kanbawza Bank, which gave K50
million. Deputy general manager U
Thet Ko Ko Myo, from the banks mar-
keting and service promotion depart-
ment, said the company had given the
money because it wanted to support
a project that could make the coun-
try proud of its heritage. He said the
project is one of many that Kanbawza
supports.
I have nothing more to say about
it and Im worried that what I say
might appear insulting to other peo-
ple, he said.
U Than Win, deputy director of the
Department of Archaeology, National
Museum and Library, suggested that
people had expected too much from
the search efort given the complexity
of the task.
Four hundred years is a long time
and its hard to know how the river
might have changed in that time, he
said. It will certainly not be easy to
nd the bell.
SHWEGU
THITSAR
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Hope turns to anger as bell search ends
Members of the salvage team stand on a dredger on the Yangon River. Photo: AFP
Questions raised over fate of hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of donations given to fund the search efort for 15
th
century bell
Lifting of
curfew
welcomed
RESIDENTS have welcomed the Ra-
khine State governments decision
to lift a 10pm-4am curfew in Sittwe.
The curfew had been imposed more
than two years ago following inter-
communal clashes.
Government spokesperson U Win
Myaing said the decision to lift the cur-
few, imposed in June 2012, was made at
a September 11 cabinet meeting.
He said the decision had been
made because residents said the situ-
ation had almost returned to normal.
Ko Thurein Tun, owner of IT
Nexus computer sales and services in
Sittwe, told The Myanmar Times by
phone on September 11 that residents
had requested the chief minister lift
the curfew, imposed under section 144
of the Code of Criminal Procedure, at
a meeting on August 27.
We lost some of our business be-
cause of the riots and under the cur-
few our income decreased as well. We
cant do business properly under sec-
tion 144, so we requested him to lift
the curfew, Ko Thurein Tun said.
Sittwe resident U Than Tun also
welcomed the news. Sittwe is now
stable and calm, he said. But people
are still afraid riots could break out
again, so we want the security forces
here to prevent anything that could
cause a riot.
The government declared a state
of emergency in Rakhine State to
maintain safety and security as inter-
communal conict spread in some
townships in 2012. Curfews were also
imposed on Maungdaw, Buthidaung,
Kyaukpyu, Myebon, Thandwe, Mrauk-
oo and Minbya but were lifted earlier
this year in Mrauk-oo, Minbya and
Kyauktaw.
We will lift section 144 in the re-
maining areas if local residents re-
quest it and if the area is really stable,
U Win Myaing said. But we have no
plans to decrease the security forces in
Rakhine State.
EI EI TOE LWIN
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Business dream turns to nightmare for
stranded Costa Rican entrepreneur
WHEN Gunter Otero rst arrived at
Ngapali Beach in 2012, he said it was
like stepping into a dream. It just re-
minded me so much of my childhood
in Costa Rica, what it was like before
the tourism boom, he said.
After decades working in the
tourism industry around the world,
he decided it was where he would set-
tle down and start his own business: a
restaurant and small lodge for tourists.
Like many entrepreneurs before
him, Mr Oteros dream quickly soured.
Having pumped more than US$100,000
into his venture, he wants to get out
the only catch is he cant leave.
In July, Mr Otero went on trial for
interrupting an ofcial on duty. The
charge stemmed from what he says
was a misunderstanding over the issu-
ing of a birth certicate at the hospital
in Thandwe, where his son was born
earlier this year.
The case was thrown out by the
township court on August 28, yet he
said he remains on a Ministry of Im-
migration blacklist and has been un-
able to leave the country. At the same
time, local immigration ofcials in
Thandwe are demanding explanations
for why he continues to overstay al-
most 70 days as of September 8 on
his multiple-entry visa.
Unable to travel abroad, Mr Otero
cant withdraw money from his for-
eign bank account or receive assis-
tance from the Costa Rican consulates
in Singapore and Bangkok, a situation
he described as outrageous.
Im exhausted physically, psy-
chologically, nancially, he told The
Myanmar Times last week. Im in
limbo. Ive been borrowing from all
my friends but I cant do it anymore ...
Ive never been limited like this before
in my life.
His problems started, he said,
when he tried to live at a house
that he built on a small hill set back
from the beach. In August 2013, he
received a late-night visit from the
immigration authorities who told
him he could not stay in the house,
and refused to register him at the
address.
Since then he has been living in a
hotel at Ngapali. His difculties wors-
ened considerably when he married a
Rakhine woman from the Thandwe
area, which he said attracted the at-
tention of local political activists. He
said they follow him when he travels
around Thandwe, harass his wife with
phone calls, and even pressure local
government and judicial ofcials to
take further legal action against him.
Its pure racism, he says. They
see me marry a local girl and they
dont like it.
THOMAS KEAN YE MON
Im exhausted -
physically,
psychologically,
nancially.
Gunter Otero
Costa Rican businessman
Cleared of a charge of interruption of duty last month, Gunter Otero says he is still blocked from leaving the country
Man accused of killing
girlfriend, attempting suicide
A 23-year-old man from San-
chaung allegedly killed his
girlfriend, also 23, with a knife and
then attempted to commit suicide,
police say.
At about 9:30am on September 5
the pair were heard ghting in the
bathroom at the Hlaing township
ofce where the woman worked,
and where the accused had also
previously been employed until
resigning three months previously.
Colleagues reported hearing the
woman shout from inside the bath-
room, which had been locked from
the inside.
They called police who then
broke down the door and found the
woman dead with 20 stab wounds
to her upper body and hands. The
man is now recovering in Yangon
General Hospital and has been
charged with murder and attempt-
ed suicide.
Police raid alleged brothel
A man and ve women have been
arrested after a raid on an apart-
ment beside Bayintnaung whole-
sale market that police say was
being used as a brothel.
Police Lieutenant Than Htikes
team from Yangon Region Crimi-
nal Investigation Department
visited the apartment undercover
with K25,000 at 9pm on Sep-
tember 5. Later they returned
to arrest a man, 33, who was
allegedly the manager of the
operation.
They also arrested ve women,
aged 19 to 30, and found K32,000,
some paperwork, 20 condoms, six
beds and six pillows.
Garbage truck in
six-vehicle crash
The driver of a municipal garbage
truck has been charged with rash
driving after hitting a parked car
on Strand Road, prompting a six-
vehicle pile-up.
The accident occurred about 1am
on September 9 when the Fuso
truck hit a parked car. The driver of
the truck lost control and collided
with four other stationary cars,
including a BMW and Toyota Hilux
Surf. Police have estimated the
damage for the six vehicles at K5.5
million (US$5670).
Man stabbed in road rage attack
A man is being treated for injuries
at North Okkalapa Hospital after a
motorcyclist allegedly stabbed him
following a verbal altercation.
The man was driving home at
9:30pm on September 6 when he
passed a motorcyclist stopped on
Lan Thit Road in Mingaladon town-
ship. The 26-year-old motorcy-
clist swore at him, prompting the
driver of the car to stop. When he
approached him, the motorcyclist
allegedly pulled out a 20-centime-
tre (8-inch) knife and stabbed him
in the head. The driver was stabbed
again in the elbow, chest and back
as he tried to run away.
Insein Prison breakout foiled
Two women are facing charges of
resistance to lawful apprehension
after allegedly trying to escape
from Insein Prison on September 9.
The women, who were on
remand while facing trial, used two
chairs and two longyi to escape
from a toilet, police said. They were
spotted by sentries attempting to
cross the prisons brick wall and
were apprehended.
Five under investigation for
human trafcking
Five people are under investiga-
tion for alleged human trafcking
offences after a woman from Shwe
Pyi Thar township, who had recently
returned from Thailand, said she had
been tricked into working as a prosti-
tute there by employment brokers.
The 33-year-old victim told
police that a woman in her village
had offered to arrange work for the
month of April at a restaurant in
the Tanintharyi Region border town
of Kawthoung, for which she would
be paid K80,000.
The victim then met a man and a
woman at Melamu Pagoda in North
Okkalapa township who sent her by
plane to Kawthoung. Another man
picked her up and took her over the
border to Ranong by boat, where
a Myanmar woman forced her to
work as a prostitute.
She and another woman, from
Insein township, escaped when the
woman left the ofce and managed
to return to Yangon with the help of
ofcials from a Kawthoung car toll
gate. Toe Wai Aung, translation by
Khant Lin Oo
CRIME IN BRIEF
Costa Rican businessman
Gunter Otero reviews a court
document clearing him of a
charge of interruption of duty.
Photo: Zarni Phyo
Rampant battery fshing
threatens river fsh stocks
ILLEGAL battery shing the use of
an electrical current to stun and catch
sh is a serious threat to sh stocks
on the Ayeyarwady River, a workshop
run by the Zoology Department of
Mandalays Yatanarbon University and
the MYFish environmental organisa-
tion concluded last week.
Fishermen from Kyayt Myaung vil-
lage in Singgu township in Mandalay
Region told the workshop that battery
shing had depleted the number of
juvenile sh in the river, which sher-
men using traditional techniques had
avoided catching.
The shermen also said they were
too scared to tackle the rogue sher-
men who use powerful motorboats
with a crew of 20 to 25 men and a
generator to power the battery be-
cause they fear reprisals if they inter-
vened.
U Nyunt Wai from Kyee Ta Pa Linn
Wae sheries in Singgu township said
battery shing rst became a problem
in 2000 and, despite sending a letter of
complaint to the district sheries de-
partment, he has yet to receive a reply.
Another sherman, U Win Bo, said
he believes that based on current rates
of decline some species of sh could
disappear within three years.
The battery shing groups come
to our place every time. For shery
tenants like us, we avoid shing when
the baby sh are born. But they never
avoid it, and because of the shocks
from the battery the growth and birth
rates of sh have declined, he said.
We dont know where these battery
shing groups comes from some-
times they come out from the upper
river and sometimes the lower.
The head of Pyin Oo Lwin districts
Department of Fisheries, U Soe Na-
ing, acknowledged the problem but
said a lack of resources made it hard
to tackle.
To threaten the barking dog, you
need to have a stick. But we dont have
any stick for this, he said.
He added that when sheries of-
cials stop boats suspected of battery
shing there is usually no evidence left
on board.
They may have dropped their
items in the river, he said, adding that
the department believed the larger
groups come from the Taloke area of
Myingyan township.
U Soe Naing said he had previously
been attacked while trying to stop one
large group of seven boats.
When I tried to defend myself, a
local man stopped me because he was
worried that they would later hurt
him, U Soe Naing said. One of our
staf and some local men were injured.
We informed the police and gave them
detailed information but after three
years there have still been no charges
against them.
Another Department of Fisheries
ofcer said that even when ofcials
put their own personal safety at risk
to catch the battery shermen the
ofenders normally receive light sen-
tences. Even from a legal perspective,
there are [few efective options], U
Zaw Kaing said.
Business dream turns to nightmare for
stranded Costa Rican entrepreneur
U Myint Oo, a spokesperson for
the Thandwe branch of the Rakhine
National Party, said that while he was
aware of Mr Oteros case none of the
partys members were personally in-
volved. He rejected suggestions the
RNP had pressured government of-
cials or been following Mr Otero. We
have never discussed [his case] at any
of our party meetings, he said.
The head of the immigration de-
partment in Thandwe, U Aung Tun
Naing, said he was unaware that the
authorities would not allow Mr Otero
to leave the country.
If a foreigner has been found
guilty [of a crime], the government
will deport them. But [Mr Otero] was
found not guilty, so he should be able
to leave freely, U Aung Tun Naing
said on September 8.
Mr Oteros Thandwe-based lawyer,
Daw Nway Nway Nyeint, said she was
similarly perplexed by the travel ban.
If a foreigner is on trial, they dont
have permission to leave the country.
But Mr Otero hasnt committed any
crime. I dont know why the govern-
ment wont let him leave, she said.
A district-level immigration de-
partment ofcial based outside Rakh-
ine State said it was possible that Nay
Pyi Taw had not rescinded the ban be-
cause it had not yet received a copy of
the judgement. Mr Otero said he has
asked the judge in the case to provide
a letter of recommendation for immi-
gration authorities but the judge told
him he could not because it was not
standard procedure. A director gen-
eral in the Ministry of Immigration in
Nay Pyi Taw said he was too busy to
comment on the case.
With time and money running out,
Mr Otero says he is close to breaking
point. He describes his problems over
the past year as a cautionary tale for
prospective foreign investors, par-
ticularly those considering running a
business in Rakhine State.
Im sure this is not the rst case,
he says. All I want to do is get some
of my money back and leave with my
wife and son. Its very sad because I
wanted to run a small business that
would have created jobs for local
people.
Cleared of a charge of interruption of duty last month, Gunter Otero says he is still blocked from leaving the country
Fishermen using batteries to catch fish row on the Ayeyarwady River near
Mandalay. Photo: Khin Su Wai
KHIN SU
WAI
jasminekhin@gmail.com
Anger over cemetery destruction
A DISPUTE over the ownership of
land used as a cemetery has forced
villagers to cremate the bodies of
their loved ones by the roadside.
They say the former cemetery is
now fenced in, and the tombs of
those buried there have been de-
stroyed by the person who claims to
owns the land.
Villagers called a press confer-
ence in Mandalay earlier this month
to protest against the proposed sale
of the land, which they say is owned
by the residents of Letkaung village
in Patheingyi township, Mandalay
Region. They complain that their
attempts to involve local ofcials
have gone unanswered.
Weve been using this ceme-
tery for 150 years. We cremate the
bodies of the villagers there but
we have not been allowed to bury
there since April. Then the tombs
were destroyed, U Hla Thaung,
a member of Letkaung villages
Township Assistance Committee,
told The Myanmar Times.
There is nothing left in the cem-
etery now, and it has been fenced
of. We are not allowed to perform
cremations there, so four bodies
had to be cremated at the roadside.
The dead are not peaceful when
they are on the way to their next
existence,
Government ofcials at the
township and regional levels say
they are investigating the situation.
The investigating is proceeding.
They said they would settle it in a
week, but its already been more
than a month. We have not got an
answer. We used to collect K1 per
house in 1965 to cremate bodies
in the ceremony, and now we col-
lect K500 per house as a member-
ship fee. We just want to get our
cemetery back. We dont want to
take legal action, U Nyi Maung, an
87-year-old Letkaung resident, told
reporters.
According to village archives, 137
bodies have been buried in the cem-
etery since 1982.
According to the land regis-
try, this land is not a cemetery. It
is owned by a farmer. But we have
not issued a land use right certi-
cate for it because it was used for
the burial and cremation of bodies,
Patheingyi township land records
department ofcial U Tun Tun Win
told The Myanmar Times.
Residents said the owner of the
0.5-acre plot has been trying to sell
it for about K100 million.
Law schools to
introduce moot
court in classes
LAW students are to study for an extra
year in order to deepen their knowl-
edge of practice, including moot
court, where they will play the roles
of litigants, advocates and judges, edu-
cational authorities have announced.
The four-year program to earn an LLB,
Bachelor of Laws, has been in place
since 2000.
Daw Mon Mon Tar, a professor
and head of the Department of Law at
Dagon University, told The Myanmar
Times that the ve-year curriculum
had been already developed in con-
sultation with court staf, attorneys
and government ofcials, and would
be introduced in the coming 2015-16
academic year.
The changes are designed to give
students practical experience in addi-
tion to their theoretical studies.
Graduating students now have
to work without any chamber expe-
rience. They only have theoretical
knowledge. This new curriculum will
help them earn practical experience,
said Daw Mon Mon Tar.
The Department of Law at Dagon
University has been exposing law
students to moot court for some
time. Last year, the Yangon Bar As-
sociation was involved in organis-
ing a moot court with the students,
but this year second- and third-year
students created their own civil law
case in which they took on the roles
of lawyers, judge, plaintif and de-
fendant, and arrived at a judgement
in accordance with the law and court
procedure. The University of East
Dagon has also organised a moot
court.
The lack of practical experience
is one factor in the low number of
graduates who end up working in the
industry.
Only 15 percent subsequently prac-
tise law, with most working in other
elds, said U Htein Linn Oo, a lawyer
with Myanmar Trademark and Patent
Law Firm. He welcomed the curricu-
lum changes as a indication of the ed-
ucation reforms initiated by the new
government.
Moot courts are needed for our
studies because theory alone is not
enough. Our education system has
been all about learning by heart for the
past 30 years. In my opinion, this moot
court program highlights the reforms
in the education system, he said.
The ve-year course will help
not only students but also lecturers
expand their legal knowledge ... The
law plays a vitally important role in a
country, so its very important to make
an improvement like this to raise
prociency.
Second-year law student Ma Thi Thi
Han said she was also pleased at the
change. Getting to study law in such a
practical way is great ... The experience
will help a lot when I start working.
Translation by Myat Su Mon Win
An 87-year-old resident of Letkaung village (second right) speaks out against the confiscation of land where the
villages cemetery lies at a press conference in Mandalay. Photo: Si Thu Lwin
SI THU LWIN
sithulwin.mmtimes@gmail.com
We are not
allowed to perform
cremations there,
so four bodies had
to be cremated at
the roadside.
U Hla Thaung
Letkaung village resident
SHWEGU THITSAR
MAY THINZAR NAING
Revised curriculum to be introduced next year will seek
to better prepare law graduates for a career in the sector
15%
Law graduates who subsequently
become practising lawyers
Elephant camp gets upgrade ahead of VIP visit
MANAGERS of an elephant camp
near Nay Pyi Taw are racing to
complete renovation work before
a planned visit by ASEAN agricul-
ture and forestry ministers later this
month.
The ministers are scheduled to
visit Pho Kyar Elephant Camp in Ye-
dashe township on the sidelines of
their September 23-25 meeting in the
capital.
The camp, in Bago Regions Ye-
dashe township, about 30 minutes
south of Nay Pyi Taw, is home to 60
state-owned elephants that work in
the timber industry, while another six
resident elephants have been trained
to perform for the tourists.
U Nay San Lin, a manager at the
Myanma Timber Enterprise, which
owns the camp, said the upgrades
were being made in order to preserve
Myanmars dignity ahead of the
ministerial visit. The work will see
bungalows and other buildings reno-
vated and some additional landscap-
ing carried out.
But the improvements could have
the added efect of drawing more visi-
tors to the ecotourism site, which is
visited by just 700 foreign tourists
and 2000 locals each year. A few
hardy travellers stay overnight at the
camps rustic wooden bungalows.
A local travel rm, Asia Green
Travel and Tours, has been working
with the Ministry of Environmental
Conservation and Forestry since 2005
to attract more tourists to the site by of-
fering packages through major hotels.
Most visitors come to the camp in
November to February. All of them just
visit on a day trip because it is located
between Taungoo and Pyinmana,
said U Myat Min Htet, the manager of
Asian Green Travel and Tours said.
Transport difculties those with-
out a car have to alight on the Nay Pyi
Taw Highway at the 173-mile point,
and hire a motorcycle taxi for the re-
An elephant drags a teak log through the Bago mountains near Taungoo, Bago Region. Photo: Thomas Kean
EI EI THU
91.eieithu@gmail.com
MSF signs new work
agreement with govt,
eyes Rakhine return
AID group Mdecins Sans Fron-
tires-Holland has signed a new
memorandum of understanding
with the Ministry of Health, a step
the group says it hopes will speed up
its eforts to begin working again in
Rakhine State.
MSF is committed to fully devel-
op this agreement and stands ready
in cooperation with the MoH [Minis-
try of Health] to resume operations
in Rakhine at any time, the group
said in a September 9 statement.
We hope this measure translates
into an early resumption of our ac-
tivities in Rakhine and provides the
opportunity to engage with the com-
munities on the ground.
MSF declined to comment fur-
ther on the MOU but state media
reported on September 12 that the
agreement would run for two years,
during which MSF would spend
US$29.7 million on healthcare pro-
grams in Yangon Region and Rakh-
ine, Kachin and Chin states.
MSF was invited to return to the
state in late July, ve months after
it was abruptly forced to shutter its
operations there.
An announcement from the Ra-
khine State government and a Myan-
mar News Agency article based on a
Ministry of Health report, both pub-
lished in the July 24 edition of the
state-run New Light of Myanmar,
said the group would be allowed to
resume operations in the state.
But the announcement provided
few details on when MSF could re-
turn or what it would be allowed to
do, and MSF has yet to resume op-
erations in Rakhine.
U Aye Nyein, the head of Rakh-
ine States Health Department, told
The Myanmar Times in August that
Nay Pyi Taw had not issued any in-
structions to allow MSF to resume
operations. He said that this would
likely only occur after a new MOU
was signed.
MSF conrmed it submitted the
latest draft of its MoU on July 4. We
have submitted two previous drafts
of our MoU to the ministry regard-
ing its renewal in November 2012
and January 2014, it said in an ear-
lier statement.
In the July announcement the
Rakhine State government invited
UN agencies and INGOs, including
MSF, to participate in develop-
ment, humanitarian, education and
healthcare programs in accordance
with the wishes of the Rakhine peo-
ple. It was published shortly before
the arrival of US Secretary of State
John Kerry and during a visit by the
UN special rapporteur for human
rights in Myanmar Yanghee Lee.
The invitation was made in order
to implement the Rakhine Action
Plan, which was developed following
meetings on June 26-27 with mem-
bers of the Emergency Coordination
Centre, UN ofcials, civil society rep-
resentatives and ofcials from the
Myanmar Peace Centre, it said.
In late February the government
ordered the Nobel Prize-winning
organisation to leave Rakhine State
amid accusations it was biased in
favour of the states Muslim popula-
tion. A month later, all INGOs pulled
out of the state after their ofces
were targeted by Rakhine extrem-
ists. All were later allowed to return
but the state government said it
would not allow MSF to resume its
activities in Rakhine.
Prior to its eviction from the
state, MSF had angered the gov-
ernment and Buddhist Rakhine
residents by reporting that it had
treated 22 Rohingya Muslims fol-
lowing an outbreak of violence in
Maungdaw township in January.
During ASEAN meetings in Nay
Pyi Taw last month, Minister for
Information U Ye Htut, a spokes-
person for the Presidents Ofce,
said MSF had made some mis-
takes in the past, including failing
to be transparent about its activi-
ties, and it was the responsibility
of MSF to nd a solution to run
their operation smoothly in Rakh-
ine State.
TIM
MCLAUGHLIN
Dutch aid organisation was invited back to Rakhine State by the government
in late July but is yet to resume its health activities in the troubled region
A health official examines medicine at the Thetkyalpin IDP camp in Rakhine
States Sittwe township. Photo: Staff
Govt rents Mandalay station to private rm
MYANMA Railways has signed a 15-year contract with a private company to
rent out four oors of Mandalay Railway Station as a hotel, said U Thet Soe,
assistant manager of Myanma Railways for Mandalay.
Adventure Myanmar Tours and Incentives won the tender that the depart-
ment invited this year, and the contract was signed on July 28.
The contract covers the fourth to the seventh oor of the station. The cur-
rent contract is for 15 years, after which the company can extend another 15
years, with further options for ve-year extensions, said U Thet Soe.
The annual rental is US$448,284 for 160,948 square feet, or around 23 US
cents per square foot per month.
We cant say how many hotel rooms it will have. The rent will increase 10
percent every ve years, U Thet Soe said.
No date has yet been set for the hotels opening. Cars can park on the rst
oor, and buses in the Myanma Railways compound.
Rental revenue will be used to support other railway functions, U Thet Soe
said.
Maung Zaw, Translation by Thiri Min Htun
Elephant camp gets upgrade ahead of VIP visit
An elephant drags a teak log through the Bago mountains near Taungoo, Bago Region. Photo: Thomas Kean
Activist arrested for
planting mangroves
maining 5 kilometres (3 miles) to the
camp entrance means it receives few
independent travellers.
With no internet access and only
an unreliable landline telephone
at the camp, tourists nd that even
making a booking is challenging.
U Nay San Lin acknowledged that
more needed to be done to attract
visitors.
We need an investor to build a
website and also a communications
tower. The camp is located at the foot
of a hill so there is no network cov-
erage for mobile phones, U Nay San
Lin said.
Entrance fees are K1000 for lo-
cals and US$50 for foreigners and
include an elephant dance show and
the opportunity to ride and feed the
elephants, he said.
The bungalows are $50 a night for
a single and $80 for a double for for-
eigners, and K40,000 for a single and
K50,000 for a double for locals. All
rooms include breakfast.
CHERRY
THEIN
t.cherry6@gmail.com
I think the arrest
could be related to
his leading a protest
in support of [the]
former minister for
religious afairs.
U Aung Kyaw San
Mangrove-planting campaigner
A LEADING environmental activist
has been arrested for public order of-
fences after planting mangroves in an
area devastated by Cyclone Nargis.
U Tun Tun Oo, a member of Hu-
man Rights Watch and Defend Net-
work, was charged under section 61
of the forestry law by a Dedaye town-
ship forestry ofcer and has been de-
tained in Pyapon prison. The arrest,
in Ayeyarwady Region, took place on
August 29. He is scheduled to appear
in court on September 12.
U Aung Kyaw San, who joined
the defendant and others in the
mangrove-planting campaign, told
The Myanmar Times that police had
accused U Tun Tun Oo of destroying
state-owned crops on a sandbank in
Kyone Ka Nat village used by grazing
cattle, but most of the plants were
already dead. This is ridiculous. Ko
Tun Tun Oo didnt do anything to the
plants, he said.
The mangrove planters group
met Ayeyarwady Region Chief Minis-
ter U Thein Aung and legal and for-
estry experts on April 9 to seek per-
mission to plant mangroves on the
grazing land. The group said it would
help to protect the village from future
natural disasters. The minister gave
us verbal permission, said Ko Aung
Kyaw San.
Led by U Tun Tun Oo, the group
started planting on May 12, and
wrote to the state and regional gov-
ernments to inform them when
planting was complete. However, on
June 3 a group opposed to the plant-
ing destroyed the mangroves.
U Aung Kyaw San said the oppos-
ing group instead wants to use the
land to plant crops. But he suggested
there may be other reasons for local
ofcials taking action against U Tun
Tun Oo. I think the arrest could be
related to his leading a protest in sup-
port of the former Minister for Reli-
gious Afairs U San Sint, said U Aung
Kyaw San.
U Tun Tun Oo had already been
charged under the peaceful protest
law because police said he had no
permit for the protest, which took
place in Pathein on July 1. U San Sint
was sacked by President U Thein Sein
on June 19 and charged with alleged-
ly misusing state funds.
HRWN member U Tun Shwe
said the network would petition the
regional and union governments to
reconsider U Tun Tun Oos case. We
have already met with the forestry
minister, U Soe Myint, who said that
section of the law was not relevant
and the matter should be reconsid-
ered. We expect Ko Tun Tun Oo to
be freed [when he appears in court]
on September 12, and were prepared
to take action if we get no response
from the authorities, he said.
U Myint Soe from the Dedaye
township administrative ofce said
he supported the mangrove planting
project. He said the removal of man-
groves for grazing in the area had
resulted in about 600 acres of land
being lost to erosion and left villages
vulnerable to natural disaster.
We proposed several times for
permission to plant mangroves but
never got a reply, he said. We were
happy when the group got verbal
permission. About 200 people helped
plant the mangroves but now they
have all been changed to crops.
IN PICTURES
PHOTO: SI THU LWIN
Rural development dept to expand
THE Rural Development Department
will recruit about 3000 new staf to
carry out rural infrastructure projects,
a department ofcial said last week.
The projects include building and
maintaining roads and bridges, ex-
panding water and electricity supplies
and undertaking some model housing
projects. All will be funded by an allo-
cation from the national budget.
The recruits are not for one spe-
cic project but the regular ones that
our department is conducting to
supply rural people [infrastructure],
said U Thin Oo, deputy director
of the Rural Development Depart-
ment, which is under the Ministry
of Livestock, Fisheries and Rural
Development.
The ministrys recruitment drive
seeks to ll more than 1000 engi-
neer positions, about 1000 posts
for administrative staf, and more
than 500 for computer profession-
als and desktop publishing (DTP)
operators.
The DTP operators are mainly for
ofce documentation but we are also
thinking about future e-government
programs, U Thin Oo said.
The rural infrastructure projects
are based on township plans set by
general administration department in
cooperation with township-level sup-
port committees made up of civilians.
Regional governments oversee ten-
ders for carrying out elements of the
projects.
We divide [the national budget]
between the states and regions, U
Thin Oo said. Then the delivery unit
led by deputy minister U Tin Win de-
cides on the priority projects based on
applications from the people and the
requests of parliamentarians.
The department also repairs in-
frastructure damaged by natural
disasters.
The Rural Development Department
was established in 2012 and expanded
to 284 of Myanmars 330 townships in
2013. The department is still yet to open
ofces in some small townships and
sub-townships, U Thin Oo said.
Students from the
Mandalay National
University of Arts
and Culture perform
at their graduation
ceremony at
Mandalays National
Theatre on September
8. The performance
included singing,
dancing and the
playing of traditional
instruments, including
the harp (pictured).
Si Thu Lwin
SANDAR LWIN
sdlsandar@gmail.com
3000
Number of new staff the Rural
Development Department plans to hire
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CSOs find
deceased on
electoral roll
CIVIL society groups said last week
that they had uncovered many errors
on electoral rolls that the Union Elec-
tion Commission has allowed them
to scrutinise in the lead-up to next
years national election including the
names of dead people.
The electoral roll pilot project in-
volved 17 civil society groups sepa-
rately visiting three locations in July
and August to assess electoral knowl-
edge and the state of the rolls. Ahlone
township in Yangon, Tiddim township
in Chin State and Myitkyina township
in Kachin State were chosen to re-
spectively represent urban, rural and
ceasere areas.
In some places, the voters
name lists contain many errors, in-
cluding a mismatch between resi-
dents names and their National
Registration Card numbers. In one
ward we observed that the lists
mistakenly included those who has
passed away, said U Thant Sin of the
New Myanmar Foundation.
In one case, we found that the
names of the voters had been written
in very small font and it could not be
seen if viewed from even a little dis-
tance, he said.
Outdated electoral rolls were prob-
lematic in both the 2010 general elec-
tion and 2012 by-elections, resulting in
thousands of eligible voters not being
able to cast a ballot.
In March, UEC chair U Tin Aye
promised that the commission would
work with civil society organisations
to ensure the 2015 general election is
free and fair, adding that they would
help to raise awareness about the elec-
tion process.
The pilot project was rst an-
nounced in May, with assessments tak-
ing place throughout August.
The groups said they also found
that while there is information avail-
able about the election in Myanmar
language, the UEC has yet to provide
any written information in ethnic mi-
nority languages.
We suggested to the UEC that it
publish pamphlets containing infor-
mation about the election in the lan-
guages of ethnic residents, U Thant
Sin said.
In an indication of the logistical
challenges the authorities face in pre-
paring for the election, the groups said
that their work, which covered just
three of Myanmars 330 townships,
was constrained by a lack of both time
and resources.
In Tedim in Chin State the main
challenge is transportation It took
us two to three days to travel from one
village to another village, said U Chan
Lian of the civil society group Hornbill.
Research revealed that few voters
had previously checked they were on
the electoral roll: In Ahlone, 1000 of
about 40,000 voters had done so.
We also found out that in some vil-
lages in Tedim township, the election
sub-commissions at township and
village level didnt know the electoral
dos and donts. Volunteers were not
familiar with the vote-counting sys-
tem, said U Thant Sin.
The groups met with the UEC at
the end of August to discuss their nd-
ings, as well as the suggestions from
the International Federation of Elec-
toral Systems (IFES).
One IFES suggestion is to set up a
formal system for the UEC to better
coordinate its work with civil society
groups.
A resident inspects lists of registered voters in Tarmwe township in September 2010, prior to the general election. Photo: Staff
LUN MIN MANG
Commission
to draft code
of conduct
for observers
NEXT years elections will be under
scrutiny by both national and interna-
tional observers and media, the Union
Election Commission has announced.
The presence of observers, a common
practice throughout much of the world,
is intended to assure voters and the in-
ternational community that the vote is
free and fair, and the result valid.
UEC chair U Tun Aye told a press
conference on September 7, after a
meeting with political parties, that the
commission was drawing up a code of
conduct for the observers.
We have been sending our observ-
ers to many countries where elections
are being held and observing them as
much as we can. We are also drafting a
code of conduct for observers. Through
the experience that we gained from dif-
ferent countries, we will start discuss-
ing this within a few weeks. We must
be sure that the observation does not
interfere with the secrecy of the ballot,
he said.
At the same time, local civil soci-
ety organisations have also announced
that they will draw up a code of con-
duct for election observers.
We will draft the code of conduct
on our own and present it at our next
meeting with the UEC later this month,
said U Thant Sin, program manager of
the New Myanmar Foundation. Even
if the UEC does not want to take our
code into account, we will ask them to
include civil society representatives.
In March, the UEC allowed civil so-
ciety organisations to conduct a pilot
observation project in the three town-
ships of Ahlone, Tiddim and Myitkyina.
U Tin Aye also announced that
within the next four months the com-
mission would start to generate lists of
eligible voters, to be uploaded on the
UEC website. We are reviewing the
weaknesses and challenges observed
during the pilot project as presented to
us by the CSOs, he said.
LUN MIN MANG
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Women-
only buses
to resume
in Yangon
WOMEN-ONLY buses will be oper-
ated by ve bus lines starting later this
year, Yangon regional government has
announced. The aim is to safeguard
female passengers dignity, said Daw
Nyo Nyo Thin, a representative of the
Yangon Region parliament.
Daw Nyo Nyo Thin said the ve
lines, which she did not identify, had
agreed to carry out the project, but
only in one direction as they fear los-
ing too much money. I think other
bus lines will participate once they
see that this is a success, she said.
The fare will be xed at K200, and
will only run one way, into downtown
Yangon. The same service heading
back to the suburbs however will car-
ry both male and female passengers.
Yangon Region Minister for Trans-
port U Aung Khin told parliament
on September 2 that the government
would assist bus line owners who
want to run services for women.
In 2013, ve bus lines ran services
for women only, including 10 buses
operated by Bandoola Transporta-
tion in Yangon Region on weekdays.
Two schedules of 7-10am and 4-7pm
were services by two buses. However,
the service was shut down for lack of
customers.
People travelling with their fami-
lies could not use the service. The bus
lines lost money, said U Aung Khin
said.
Ma Thel Soe, who lives in South
Okkalapa township, said she already
rode a special bus for women, but
couples would not be able to use such
a service.
According to data of transport
agency Ma Hta Tha (Central), more
than 2 million people ride Yangons
buses daily in more than 4000 buses
belonging to 17 bus lines.
Cooperatives loans top K200b
THE Ministry of Cooperatives has
loaned nearly K200 billion to coop-
erative associations across the coun-
try since launching a micronance
program in 2006, deputy minister U
Than Tun says.
The loans have been distributed
through the more than 22,700 co-
operative associations set up in 306
townships across all regions and
states, he told farmers at a meeting
in Dekkhinathiri township in Nay
Pyi Taw.
More than K61 billion has been
generated from shares and associa-
tion savings nationwide, he added.
The ministrys latest plan to de-
velop the agriculture sector is to bor-
row US$100 million from a South
Korean rm to buy agriculture
machinery that it would then sell
to farmers under a hire-purchase
program. The proposal has been
controversial, however, with MPs
rejecting the loan plan because of a
lack of detail and concerns about the
ministrys ability to implement the
project.
U Than Tun said the ministry
wants to help farmers industrialise
and hopes to extend its support to
more households.
Farmers cant pay for machinery
cash down so the ministry has ar-
ranged this loan [from South Korea]
to help them get the agricultural ma-
chinery they need on installment,
he said.
About 8 million [households] in
Myanmar are relying on agriculture
for their earnings but only 2 million
have received support from the min-
istry so we need to continue to give
aid to the remaining farmers.
But farmers said the high price
of the South Korean machinery
made them reluctant to give up their
cheaper Chinese tractors.
These Korean machines are
twice as expensive as the Chinese
ones, said U Nay Soe, a farmer from
Thapyae Hla village in Pyinmana
township. Even if the Korean com-
pany provides a warranty, the Chi-
nese tractors can be used for at least
one year.
A farmer works in a field on the outskirts of Nay Pyi Taw. Photo: AFP
YMBA patrons
halt activities
amid inquiry
LEADERS of the Young Mens Buddhist
Association have halted its activities
until a tribunal has resolved allegations
of corruption against some members
of the venerable organisation, which
played a prominent role in Myanmars
independence struggle.
The century-old YMBA has been
under investigation by a tribunal led
by the deputy head of the General Ad-
ministration Department for Yangons
eastern district since late June.
In response to the investigation, the
ve YMBA patrons formed a guardian
committee together with nine mem-
bers of its central executive committee
on August 30.
All members [of the new body] are
already central executive committee
members. The committee is designed
to keep the organisation running with-
out carrying out any activities until
the inquiry process is nished, said U
Khin Maung Lay, a YMBA patron who
is also deputy chair of the Myanmar
Press Council (Interim).
The patron groups decision has
prompted the spread of rumours that
the CEC had been abolished and those
members under inquiry expelled.
However, U Khin Maung Lay said
this was not the case. Whenever there
is a complaint and inquiry into an or-
ganisation its regular activities are
stopped temporarily. That is normal.
The Yangon Region government
launched the investigation after four
former CEC members alleged that ve
CEC members, including the president
and secretary, had misused association
funds.
The allegations concern the reg-
istration of two SIM cards valued at
K500,000, the purchase of a used car
for K30 million, the changing of results
of exams administered by the associa-
tion and the use of association funds
for the travel of family members.
Because of the conict between the
CEC members, the organisation has
been unable to hold its annual confer-
ence, which was originally scheduled
for June.
The Young Mens Buddhist Associa-
tion was formed in 1906.
YE MON
HTOO THANT
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SANDAR LWIN
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In praise of moderate Islam
EVERY time September 11 arrives,
as it did last Thursday, memories of
the terrorist attacks on the World
Trade Centre in New York and the
Pentagon in Washington ood back.
We return to that moment when
we rst heard the news and how we
were told that after 9/11, as it is uni-
versally known, nothing would be
the same again. That the world had
somehow been altered by the event.
Even today that message is still
being peddled, for instance, in a
video in which the lm star Robert
de Niro urges everyone to [t]ake
a day to remember the day that
changed us forever.
Of course, it did not change us
at all, as was instantly proved by
the way people, particularly in this
region, continued to go about their
daily lives as usual.
Yes, security checks at airports
were beefed up often in a hap-
hazard and sloppily handled way
but little else afected the average
citizen.
Misconceived and counterpro-
ductive ofensives were launched by
the United States against Afghani-
stan and Iraq, basically to show
that no one could attack America
without getting hit back.
Unfortunately, those hit back
were not those responsible for 9/11.
Indeed, of the 19 hijackers, 15 were
from Saudi Arabia, two from the
United Arab Emirates and one each
from Egypt and Lebanon.
None were from Afghanistan or
Iraq.
The latters ruler, Saddam Hus-
sein, had nothing to do with 9/11
and had no weapons of mass de-
struction. In fact, until his ill-fated
attempt to reclaim Kuwait in 1990,
he had been a close ally of the US.
In many ways, he was like Syrias
President Bashar Assad today:
publicly reviled but tacitly condoned
because of his staunch opposition to
Islamic radicalism.
And that further shows how 9/11
has changed little, except hopefully
to teach America that invading Syria
today would be as disastrous as
invading Iraq was in 2003.
Even if that can be counted as
progress, it is tempered by the way
Saudi Arabia, home to most of the
9/11 perpetrators, still nurtures
Islamic radicals, not only in Iraq
and Syria but also in this region,
in places like Basilan and Brunei,
Kelantan and Pattani.
As London-based scholar Ed
Husain of the Council on Foreign
Relations said recently after visiting
Mecca and Medina, I am anguished
at the power of extremism running
amok in Islams birthplace.
Well, we are not here to rehash
the impact of 9/11 on this region,
but the anniversary does allow us to
pause and give thanks to Indonesia
for showing how a tolerant Muslim
nation can prosper without embrac-
ing extremism.
It is a lesson that Brunei and
Malaysia should keep in mind and
that Myanmars non-Muslim major-
ity should appreciate more, unless
they want to descend into endless
social strife.
If the barbaric bigots who cloak
themselves in Buddhist robes are
not careful, they may precipitate a
new 9/11 in which the Twin Towers
become the Shwedagon Pagoda.
It is an image that does not bear
thinking about but after 9/11 it
cannot be easily dismissed.
Curiously, when the atrocity hap-
pened, it did not afect me person-
ally for the simple reason that I was
on top of a 4566-metre mountain in
northern Tanzania.
Relatives watch as Thai Muslim pilgrims depart for the annual Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca on August 27. Photo: AFP
ROGER
MITTON
rogermitton@gmail.com
The anniversary
of 9/11 allows us
to pause and give
thanks to Indonesia
for showing how
a tolerant Muslim
nation can prosper.
Whats behind the
KNU-KIO split?
THE rift within the United
Nationalities Federal Council
(UNFC), an alliance of eth-
nic armed groups, dominated
headlines last week. The leader
and representatives of the most
powerful ethnic group, the
Karen National Union (KNU),
walked out of the UNFC confer-
ence on August 30. The group
then submitted a letter, signed
by KNU chair Saw Mutu Say
Poe, saying it has suspended its
participation in the UNFC. What
prompted the decision and what
is likely to happen next for the
UNFC?
The divisions arose from sev-
eral disagreements between the
two most powerful groups, the
KNU and the Kachin Independ-
ence Organisation (KIO). These
disagreements have occurred
almost since the UNFC was
established three years ago.
Comments from ethnic groups
and the nine-point presentation
given by the KNU highlight that
while the groups have many
diferences there are two main
reasons for the falling-out.
The rst is the constitution of
the UNFC. The KNUs presenta-
tion labelled the constitution
unhelpful in the current political
situation and also detrimental
to the political goals of each
individual member.
It is a way for the organisa-
tion to seize power and establish
red tape or bureaucratic regula-
tions, the KNU said.
At present the Nationwide
Ceasere Coordination Team
[NCCT] is trying to reach a
nationwide ceasere agreement
and ... a structure suitable for
both the current situation and
possible future political dialogue
is seriously needed. We need
to think about setting up an
organisation based on parallel
cooperation rather than vertical,
top-down [command].
We would like to suggest
with special consideration that
the basic principles and policy
making should be made after
taking approval from all mem-
bers. We should create a mode
of cooperation that encourages
power-sharing for all members
while holding discussions from
a position of allied cooperation.
The KNU also strongly criti-
cised the UNFC prohibition on
individual groups signing cease-
res, as well as the order that
aid can only go to members after
rst passing through the UNFC.
The KNU says the UNFC has
overstepped the mark and is
infringing on members sover-
eignty. Unsurprisingly, the KIO,
which holds the lead position on
the UNFC, did not welcome the
KNU suggestions to reform the
groups power structure or the
criticism of its activities.
There is another point to this
rivalry. The KNU is the strong-
est advocate among the armed
ethnic groups that now is the
right time to make peace with
the government.
That means: signing a na-
tionwide ceasere agreement;
starting political dialogue;
resolving problems afecting
communities, such as land mines
and refugee resettlement; and
bringing development to ethnic
communities.
In contrast, the KIO believes
that the ghting will end only
when political dialogue occurs.
As a result, it has not signed a
ceasere agreement with the
government.
Additionally, the UNFC
has considered inviting new
members. This has been blocked
by the KNU, which argues that
only groups supported by the
entire Kayin ethnic should be
represented in the UNFC.
This means that the KNU
does not accept any other Kayin
groups being members of the
UNFC.
Given these divisions in the
UNFC, there are likely to be con-
sequences for the NCCT, which is
negotiating the ceasere on be-
half of 16 armed ethnic groups,
including the KNU and KIO. Ne-
gotiations with the government
and the military will be difcult
if the KIO mindset of not want-
ing to sign a ceasere inuences
others in the NCCT.
Recent months have brought
renewed optimism for the chanc-
es of signing a ceasere agree-
ment before the end of the year
but this latest conict could
prove to be another setback for
those ambitions.
Translation by Zar Zar Soe
SITHU AUNG
MYINT
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In praise of moderate Islam
Relatives watch as Thai Muslim pilgrims depart for the annual Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca on August 27. Photo: AFP
When the news nally reached
me, I was so drained that I dis-
missed it and thought more about
having a hot shower and a slap-up
dinner. And thats just what I did.
In Arushas Hotel Impala, the air
was full of chatter and laughter, the
smell of incense, curry and perfume,
the chink of glasses and cutlery and
the swoosh of ames from the open
ovens.
At one table, a family of Muslims
in owing robes and silken shawls
delved into mounds of dishes with
their right hands, each new plat-
ter being double-checked by the
patriarch.
Beside them, a Hindu couple and
their children laughed and ate and
babbled into their mobile phones,
while nearby a quartet of executives
drank red wine and discussed busi-
ness with consuming intensity.
It was the day after 9/11. Every-
one knew what had happened. Yet
they continued to dine and revel
in the atmosphere, as I did too,
feasting on sh tikka, dal makhani,
garlic naan and a big bottle of cold
beer.
Next day, I ew to Zanzibar,
where I joined a tour to Kizimkazi, a
small town whose mosque is among
the oldest on the East African coast,
and there I went swimming with
dolphins.
It was a laughing, chatty, cosmo-
politan tour group Dutch, British,
Kenyan, Canadian, Israeli and Tan-
zanian and we all knew what had
happened in America, but no one
mentioned it.
We sailed far out and when the
dolphins appeared, I was the rst to
jump in and swim with them. It is
not easy, because they get frightened
and dive down deep but once or
twice I came almost within touching
range. They look whiter under the
water and oddly human. They have
been swimming of Kizimkazi for as
long as anyone can remember and
doubtless always will.
When I returned to Bangkok,
a Western ambassador who had
once been posted to Tanzania told
me how much she loved going to
Zanzibar.
I used to sit on the terrace of
Africa House overlooking the Indian
Ocean and almost every day around
dusk the dolphins would appear and
play along the sea front, she said.
But while she agreed that the
dolphins would remain, she was
not sure that Southeast Asia would
remain untouched by 9/11.
There is reason to worry, she
told me. I am sure we could have
an interesting debate about it, much
as we did about Daw Aung San Suu
Kyi and the generals.
She was right, of course. Political
leaders here, like the world at large,
have not really changed. That is why
there is reason to worry.
Knowledge is power arm yourself
JEAN-
FRANOIS
RANCOURT
HOW can a people make their
country a better place? If there is
no miracle solution, one thing is
clear: The more preoccupied and
aware a people are about their
potential to improve themselves
through education, the brighter
the countrys future. On that point,
Myanmar is no diferent from any
other.
A look at the past supports
this. During the reign of military
governments, the education system
was reduced to a rote learning
system, whereby everything was
memorised. Once among the best
in the region, Myanmar universi-
ties lost their prestige, trading a
mind-opening system to one geared
toward mind control. As the Greek
philosopher Socrates said, Strong
minds discuss ideas, average minds
discuss events, weak minds discuss
people. Isnt the main objective
of the education system to forge
strong minds?
So why are students of Myan-
mar learning by heart? Because
maintaining control over the way
people think was an objective of
former rulers. Previous leaders
were well aware of the potential
risks posed by an educated and
strong-minded people. Who led the
independence struggle and 1988
uprising? Students.
Asking questions. Debating.
Asking more questions. These are
the keys to success. Rote learn-
ing does little to help once youre
outside the walls of a school, facing
real-life problems. There are no
books to tell you what to do.
Today, Myanmar needs efective
leadership, such as the coun-
trys father of independence. But
who was General Aung San? An
educated man, interested in ideas
and not only basic facts. This is
precisely what Myanmar needs
right now. Yes, there are some very
intelligent leaders in the political
leadership. But what about the
younger generations? Why should
students need to study abroad to
ensure themselves wider perspec-
tives? Universities need to forge
strong minds, not average minds.
A degree should never be bought,
only earned.
Criticising is easy. But what are
the solutions? First of all, thinking
about new ways to teach. If the
role of primary and high schools
is to give basic knowledge about
various subjects, they should also
support the formation of critical
and rational minds. Multiplication
tables cannot be learned by any
other way than by memory, but
what about history? Is reciting the
past a good way to understand it? I
doubt it. Understanding the past is
not only to know it but also to have
the ability to explain it.
Second, higher education must
be reformed in order to reach
international standards and to get
Myanmar back where it deserves
to be within the global academic
world. There are multiple ways to
do this: allowing students greater
access to professors; encouraging
them to participate to debate ac-
tivities; and pushing them to think
outside the box.
A graduate student should
never learn to think the same way
professors do but instead learn to
think in his or her own way, based
on the lessons professors gave
them. As a professor in Canada
once told me, A good student
is a student who will teach me
something. Higher education must
teach ways of thinking.
Finally, professors should en-
courage their students to ask ques-
tions, to test their understanding
and to push them to develop their
reasoning further. Most of the time
a curious person is a smart person
and asking questions is anything
but a sign of stupidity. One way to
make this possible is to use more
examples, instead of only teach-
ing what is written in textbooks.
By placing concepts in various
contexts, a student will improve
their comprehension, and gain the
ability to determine when and how
these concepts are valid.
Something like education can-
not be changed in a short period.
Fifty years of military dictatorship
cannot be erased easily, particular-
ly when it has impacted so dramat-
ically on the way people think. I
believe that if the older generations
in power now can lay the founda-
tions for making Myanmar a better
place to live, the younger genera-
tions can nish the job provided
the education system gives them
the tools they need to accomplish
this task.
Jean-Franois Rancourt is a masters
degree candidate at Universit de
Montral, Canada, with an interest
in Myanmars political and social
development.
Novices study at a school in Yangon. Photo: Kaung Htet
24 THE MYANMAR TIMES SEPTEMBER 15 - 21, 2014
Business
IN PICTURES
Photo:
Aung Htay Hlaing
Workers unload construction material at Thilawa Special Economic Zone last week. Construction work on the site is
ongoing, while company executives look to secure tenants. Thilawa has already attracted some 15 conrmed
tenants, with about 60 firms expressing interesting in the project so far. See Thilawa attracting foreign rms
as tenants on page 26
THE domestic nancial industry is
rife with speculation on which for-
eign banks will receive licences to
operate, though local banking play-
ers say little about the process has
been revealed to them.
The licensing process is expected
to conclude this month, with be-
tween ve and 10 foreign banks like-
ly to receive licences, out of the 25
banks still in the hunt in mid-July.
Yet foreign bank representatives
and Central Bank of Myanmar of-
cials are staying mum on the pro-
cess, leading to intense speculation
about who will eventually be de-
clared a winner.
Four banks from Japan, Thailand
and Malaysia, three from Singapore,
Taiwan and South Korea, as well
as one each from Australia, China,
France, India, Mauritius and Viet-
nam, were included on the central
banks mid-July list of shortlisted
competitors.
United Kingdom-based giant
Standard Chartered was a surprise
omission from the shortlist, as it
also has a Yangon representative of-
ce and was thought to be interest-
ed in a licence. The rms represent-
atives said they had decided not to
pursue a licence due to commercial
reasons, though left the door open
for future involvement in Myanmar.
Myanmar Bankers Association
ofcials told The Myanmar Times
the Central Bank has not extensive-
ly consulted them on the process or
openly shown the selection criteria.
The introduction of foreign
banks is contentious, with some lo-
cal bankers say they risk being out-
competed. They say they face too
many restrictions on their business,
and these should be eased before al-
lowing in foreign institutions.
However, Myanmar Oriental
Bank chair U Mya Than said foreign
banks will be issued limited licences
preventing them from retail bank-
ing, which causes less concern for
domestic banks.
Myanmar Oriental is also prepar-
ing for the introduction of foreign
Banks brace for September licences
I expect [foreign
banks] will be able
to draw 10 percent
of all staf from
domestic banks.
U Mya Than
Chair of Myanmar Oriental Bank
AYE THIDAR
KYAW
ayethidarkyaw@gmail.com
THE garment industry is looking to
Western orders to help it diversify,
as exports look set for a record year,
according to the president of the
Myanmar Garment Manufacturers
Association U Myint Soe.
When the industry was battered
during a decade of sanctions in the
2000s imposed by Western coun-
tries, it relied largely on orders
coming from Japan and South Ko-
rea, he said.
During the period of sanctions,
the market in the West was de-
stroyed and exporters had to sur-
vive with markets in Eastern coun-
tries, he said.
However, eased sanctions and
improved access to the United
States and European Union mar-
kets is reinvigorating the garment
industry to a level not seen in 10
years, he said at the associations
second annual meeting, held at
UMFCCI on September 7.
A US trade embargo imposed in
2003 closed the door to the largest
buyer of made-in-Myanmar gar-
ments, and Japan soon emerged
as the largest export market. Ship-
ments also continued to some Eu-
ropean countries, though were de-
nied the preferential market access
enjoyed by other least developed
countries such as Cambodia.
After earning more than US$800
million in 2001, the garment sector
was in crisis due to sanctions, said
U Aung Win, vice president of the
Myanmar Garment Manufacturers
Association.
Yet competition in the sector is
intensifying, and this fiscal years
exports look set to hit $1.8 billion,
well above the high in 2001 and
later peaks of $1.2 billion in 2012-
13, said MGMA secretary general
Daw Khine Khine Nwe. American
apparel chain Gap Inc announced
in June it would source from Myan-
mar factories, with its wares on US
shelves sporting the label Made in
Myanmar (Burma). Businesspeople
have said they hope more Western
firms follow suit.
While garment factories em-
ployed about 80,000 people four
years ago, the number has since
jumped to more than 250,000 gar-
ment workers.
The garment manufacturing in-
dustry also welcomes 100 percent
foreign investment, which ought to
prove helpful in garnering renewed
international interest.
Daw Khine Khine Nwe said com-
petition is only going to intensify,
as Japan is looking to source rela-
tively fewer garments from China
and is eyeing ASEAN, while the US
and EU markets are more open to
Myanmar garment exports.
It is difficult yet to tell which
countries will be the most keen on
ordering from Myanmar garment
factories in the future.
Its hard to say if Japanese firm
will continue holding the largest
share, she said.
We cant say what the market
share will be for each country, but
the investment rate will increase
more and more.
MGMA figures also show more
than 200 garment factories in the
country at present, up from 181 in
November 2012.
Garment industry
hopes for ordering
rush from the West
Changing fortunes in the garment industry
$800 million 2001 revenue a previous peak
$1.2 billion 2012-13 FY revenue
$1.8 billion 2014-15 FY revenue forecast
200+ Number of garment factories
181 Number of factories, Nov 2012
80,000 Garment sector employment, 2010
250,000 Garment sector employment, 2014
Source: Myanmar Garment Manufacturers Association
SU PHYO WIN
suphyo1990@gmail.com
The International Labour Organization Liaison Offce in Myanmar invites sealed
bids from eligible and qualifed bidders for the Conduct of Pre-Implementation
Knowledge, Attitude and Practice (KAP) Study on Child Labour (RFP-ILO-
YGN-14-MYPEC01) for the Myanmar Program on the Elimination of Child
Labor.
The KAP study will be conducted to measure the level of knowledge, attitude
and practices of the representatives of national and local governments, policy
makers, workers and employers organizations, the media, civil society groups,
and a sample of community members on child labour. It will also provide data
that will be useful for the development of context-appropriate awareness
raising activities and materials.
For more information about the bidding requirements, please visit this link:
https://www.ungm.org/Public/Notice/29200
No. 1 (A), Kanbae Rd., Yankin Township, Yangon
Tel No. +95 1 566538
INVITATION TO BID
25 BUSINESS EDITOR: Jeremy Mullins | jeremymullins7@gmail.com
Thilawa attracts
foreign companies
to take up leases
Restaurants on the
move to avoid paying
high rental fees
Exchange Rates (September 12 close)
Currency Buying Selling
Euro
Malaysia Ringitt
Singapore Dollar
Thai Baht
US Dollar
K1244
K303
K770
K30
K980
K1262
K304
K776
K31
K986
BUSINESS 26 PROPERTY 34
SWISS food manufacturer Nestl
SA has confirmed that it is prepar-
ing to invest around US$50 million
in Myanmars food and beverage
industry over the next six years, in
the latest sign yet of the Myanmar
consumer markets attractiveness
to international firms.
A statement from the Presidents
Office issued on September 8 said
that the investment will be focused
on coffee, milk and dairy products,
drinking water and beverages. The
deal is pending approval from the
Myanmar Investment Commission,
which met Nestl representatives in
Yangon early last month.
A spokesperson for Nestl con-
firmed the statement but declined
to comment further on the nature
of the companys investment.
The statement came following
President U Thein Seins September
8 tour of a Nestl factory near Bern,
Switzerland. U Thein Sein was visit-
ing Switzerland as part of a larger
threecountry, 10day tour that
also included stops in Germany and
the Netherlands.
Nestl, the worlds largest food
company, formed a Myanmar
based subsidiary in September
2013 to explore opportunities in the
country. The Veveyheadquartered
company already exports a number
of its products to Myanmar.
Consumer goods manufacturers
have been eager to enter Myanmars
market of 51.4 million people since
reforms were initiated three years
ago and a new foreign investment
law enacted in 2012.
Nestl competitor Unilever
opened a production facility in
May 2013. In June 2013, softdrink
manufacturer CocaCola opened a
bottling factory outside Yangon. Ri-
val PepsiCo followed suit in March,
opening its own bottling facility.
Danish brewer Carlsberg is ex-
pecting to open its brewery by the
end of this year, as is Dutch beer
manufacturer Heineken. All major
projects to date have been joint
ventures with a Myanmar partner.
More largescale foreign manufac-
turers in food and beverages are likely
to follow suit, with one more brewery
likely to be announced this year.
Myanmar Investment Commis-
sion spokesperson U Aung Naing
Oo said that while Heineken and
Carlsberg have strong brands and
internationally recognised reputa-
tions, the MIC anticipates grant-
ing a licence to one more foreign
owned or jointventure brewery in
2014. The brewery must be built
outside of a city and follow strict
guidelines on food and drink safety,
he said.
The domestic breweries will help
meet growing demand for beer and
mitigate illegal imports, he said.
U Aung Naing Oo added two for-
eign companies have already sub-
mitted proposals to build brewer-
ies, and the MIC is now considering
the proposals.
Beer consumption is increasing
in Myanmar, currently sitting at
about 4 to 5 litres per capita per
year in Myanmar but is expected to
rise to 6 to 7 litres per year by next
year, he said.
Edwin Vanderbruggen, legal
partner at VDB Loit law and adviso-
ry firm, has also said that Heineken
has received a nationwide permit
for distribution from the MIC,
marking the first time a foreign
company is allowed to do distribu-
tion in Myanmar.
Additional reporting Aye Thi-
dar Kyaw and Jeremy Mullins
Swiss giant Nestl moves into
food and beverage production
TIM MCLAUGHLIN
A woman pours a Nestl product at a previous Yangon press event. Photo: Boothee
Workers unload construction material at Thilawa Special Economic Zone last week. Construction work on the site is
ongoing, while company executives look to secure tenants. Thilawa has already attracted some 15 conrmed
tenants, with about 60 firms expressing interesting in the project so far. See Thilawa attracting foreign rms
as tenants on page 26
Banks brace for September licences
banks by upgrading their services.
It is also aiming to receive techni-
cal support from the International
Finance Corporation as well as im-
proving staf capacity, he said.
I am worried that [foreign
banks] will attract skilled staf
[away from local banks] with sal-
ary incentives, said U Mya Than.
I expect they will be able to draw
10 percent of all staf from domestic
banks.
Other banks are already lining
up links with foreign banks in the li-
censing hunt to jointly ofer services.
U Than Lwin, vice chair of My-
anmars largest private bank, KBZ,
said it and other leading banks have
signed agreements with foreign
banks to cooperate in areas like re-
tail banking.
Cooperating is the only solution
at the moment, he said.
Although some partnerships are
lined up, the local banks are still
waiting on policies from the Central
Bank governing this kind of rela-
tionships.
Experts say that allowing foreign
banks could boost competition and
lead to consolidation among the
smaller domestic banks.
Park Cyn-Young, Asian Develop-
ment Bank assistant chief econo-
mist, said at an ADB press confer-
ence in Yangon on September 11
that increased banking competition
will be crucial for future economic
growth.
Introducing foreign banks is
in-line with gradually building the
capacity of domestic banks, she
said. Ms Park added that the ADB
supports the governments eforts
to bring foreign expertise to the do-
mestic banking sector.
ADB country director Winfried
Wicklein said foreign banks will
bring technology and funding to
the country, but added that the -
nancial industrys regulatory frame-
work needs work.
26 Business THE MYANMAR TIMES SEPTEMBER 15 - 21, 2014
THILAWA has attracted formal interest
from dozens of companies, but com-
petitors say local rms are reluctant
to commit to the long-term leases re-
quired by the special economic zone.
Myanmar Japan Thilawa Develop-
ment Company (MJTD) has received
letters of intent from 60 foreign com-
panies to participate in the zone and
reached formal agreements with about
15, according to the rms director Hi-
ronaka Masatoshi.
Foreign interest is coming from a
number of industries including gar-
ments, food processing and metal pro-
duction, he said. Mr Hironaka added
that while MJTD is responsible for pre-
paring the infrastructure, the timeline
for building factories at the SEZ are up
to the rms themselves.
We are going to deliver land to the
investors, and the investors are going
to build the factories, he said.
Thilawa is one of Myanmars three
SEZ projects, intended to generate em-
ployment and business opportunities
as well as take pressure of Yangons
strained infrastructure the SEZ has a
port and is about 25 kilometres south
of Myanmars largest city. The two
other SEZs, Dawei and Kyaukphyu,
are located in Tanintharyi Region and
Rakhine States respectively, and are at
diferent stages of development.
The potential for Thilawa has been
widely touted, and the international
participation in the project has helped
increase its international visibility.
However, competitors to Thilawa say
the SEZ is untenable for local compa-
nies, because the rms are uncomfort-
able with the longer-term leases the
SEZ is requesting.
Hlaing Tharyar Industrial Estate
chair U Myat Thing Aung said that
while prices are cheaper at Thilawa
than on other industrial projects, pro-
spective tenants must secure long-term
leases of up to 30 years.
If we have to agree to 20 or 30-year
terms, other industrial zones outside
the SEZ become more reasonable, as
we can secure land there for the short-
term, he said.
The requirement for a long-term
lease appears not to have been of-
putting for all local rms. Mr Hironaka
said several Myanmar companies have
already claimed interest in setting up at
Thilawa and submitted letters of intent,
though he did not name who they are.
MJTD has targeted the middle of
2015 to nish the projects rst phase. U
Set Aung, chair of the Thilawa manage-
ment committee, said in April that the
SEZ expects to have businesses operat-
ing by the end of 2015.
However, there is a lot of work to
do to nish the SEZs infrastructure
and get the factories up and running.
Local residents told The Myanmar
Times that so far most of the work
appears to be directed at building up
infrastructure.
Ofcials have so far declined to re-
veal exact prices for land at the site,
claiming business condentiality, but
U Set Aung in April also pledged that
Thilawa land would be competitive in
ASEAN and slightly cheaper then coun-
tries such as Vietnam.
Thilawa attracting
foreign frms as tenants
ZAW HTIKE
zawhtikemgm1981@gmail.com
Who owns Thilawa?
Thilawa is being developed by Myanmar Japan
Thilawa Development. The company is 49
percent owned by the Japanese side, 51pc by
the Myanmar side. Here is the breakdown:
Nine promoters are to own 45pc of Myanmar Thilawa SEZ Public Holdings. They are:
First Myanmar Investment Golden Land East Asia Development
Myanmar Agribusiness Public Corporation Myanmar Agricultural & General Development Public
Myanmar Edible Oil Industrial Public Myanmar Sugar Development Public
Myanmar Technologies and Investment National Development Company
New City Development Public Company Limited
The other 55pc of Myanmar Thilawa SEZ Public Holdings is to be owned by public shareholders
Source: Myanmar Thilawa SEZ Public Holdings prospectus and Myanmar Thilawa Development Company website
Myanmar Japan Thilawa Development
Japanese side (49pc)
MMS Thilawa Development Company
Japan government
(through JICA)
10pc
Japan consortium
(Mitsubishi, Marubeni,
Sumitomo Corp)
39pc
Myanmar consortium
(Myanmar Thilawa
SEZ Public Holdings)
41pc
Myanmar government
(Thilawa SMC)
10pc
Myanmar side (51pc)
THE word crony can be an unfair la-
bel for Myanmar companies working
toward greater transparency, according
to Vicky Bowman, director at the My-
anmar Centre for Responsible Business
(MCRB).
The term has been used to refer
to a wide array of businesses, some
of which are actively improving their
business practices, said Ms Bowman,
after presenting MCRBs Transparency
in Myanmar Enterprises report on
transparency last week.
Im hoping we can move away from
the word crony, because theres a huge
spectrum, she said. [Max Myanmar
Holding Company], which gets labeled
as a crony is doing more stuf than
most of the Myanmar companies Ive
come across in terms of internal com-
munication and external policies and
transparency.
Max Myanmar, the blacklisted My-
anmar group headed up by prominent
tycoon U Zaw Zaw, took third place on
the MCRB list ranking the transparency
of websites from 60 of Myanmars larg-
est companies. Founded in 1993, Max
Myanmar currently stands on the Unit-
ed States Specially Designated Nation-
als (SDN) list, a catalog of companies
and individuals Americans cant work
with unless they have specic approval.
The company scored in the top 5
percent of those included in the report
on transparency. Firms received scores
based on how much information they
made available on their websites about
their approach toward anti-corruption,
organisational transparency, human
rights and health, safety and the envi-
ronment.
But Max Myanmar group COO U
Thaung Hun said the score sheet from
the MCRB was a huge shock.
Everybody, when they talk about
Max, there is some [involving us] to
the crony or whatever, he says But we
want to change those impressions.
The company also amended many
of its policies on topics such as corpo-
rate social responsibility, while changes
to its human rights and anti-land-grab-
bing policies are still in the works. It
employs Deloitte for monitoring pur-
poses, according to U Thaung Hun.
I think we should start judging
companies on how theyre behaving,
what they are doing internally and ex-
ternally, Ms Bowman said.
Moving beyond the crony label
CATHERINE TRAUTWEIN
Thilawa SEZ
Yangon City
Sule Pagoda
Yangon
River
Kandawgyi Lake
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SINGAPOREAN rm NSP Holdings has
been selected to assist Myanmar with
setting up a credit bureau, said a senior
ofcial from the Credit Bureau Develop-
ment Committee.
The committee had whittled po-
tential partners in the project down to
Italys CRIF and NSP, but ultimately
chose the Singaporean rm on the basis
of its regional reach, nances, revenues
and technical capacity, said the ofcial,
who is also a member of a prominent
local bank.
The agreement with NSP had a
rocky start, as after being initially ac-
cepted in April 2013 it was invalidated
that October when approval was held
up. However, NSP and the committee
have 18 months to form a joint venture
and start setting up the agency once the
Central Bank approves the agreement.
The plan is for NSP to hold 40 per-
cent of the joint venture, with the rest
held by the Myanmar side.
We have already chosen NSP and
informed the Central Bank, but we have
not yet received approval from the Cen-
tral Bank, said the ofcial. As soon as
the central bank gives the green light,
we will submit the plan to the Myanmar
Investment Commission.
NSP Holdings could not be reached
for comment. Aye Thidar Kyaw
Credit
committee
selects
Spore frm
THE two latest production shar-
ing contracts for onshore oil and
gas includes the biggest share yet
for the local partner.
Myanmar company Young In-
vestment Group will have a 25
percent stake in onshore blocks
C-1 and H, with the majority
held by Youngs Canadian part-
ners Pacic Hunt Energy Corpo-
ration and Myanma Oil and Gas
Enterprise (MOGE) controlling
the rest.
The Ministry of Energy has
required that winners of last
years onshore oil and gas tender
partner with a local rm, though
most local partners have a stake
from 1 to 20pc.
The Pacic Hunt Energy-
led venture will spent at least
US$100 million over the next
three years of exploration, said
U Thiha Aung, chair of Young In-
vestment Group.
C-1 is located in western My-
anmar near the border with In-
dia, while block H is southeast
of Nay Pyi Taw and northeast of
Yangon.
Pacic Hunt Energy chair
Henry Aldorf said it has been a
long two-and-a-half year process,
including winning the rights to
the two blocks in a large tender
last year.
The rm will begin environ-
mental and social surveys soon.
We look forward to the suc-
cessful exploration of our newly
licensed acrerage, said Mr Al-
drof at the signing ceremony,
which was held in Nay Pyi Taw
last week.
U Kyaw Kyaw Hlaing, presi-
dent of the Myanmar Oil and Gas
Services Society, said the 25pc
stake is quite large for the local
partner.
Most local rms have a stake
in an oil and gas venture between
1 to 20pc, he said. The business
is quite risky, but we want devel-
opment opportunities for all lo-
cal companies.
U Thiha Aung said the coun-
try has a vast amount of natural
resources, and it will benet My-
anmar to see signicant invest-
ment in oil and gas.
It will be better to develop
our natural resources with high-
end technology from the West in-
stead of relying on imports, he
said.
MOGE will receive an $8.1
million bonus for signing the
production sharing contracts
when the two companies move to
the exploration stage. The sign-
ing of production sharing con-
tracts for the 16 awarded onshore
blocks only began in August after
delays of several months.
Myanmar also held a large
tender for ofshore blocks last
year. Production sharing agree-
ments for the ofshore blocks
need to be signed before explora-
tion can begin.
NAY PYI TAW
Biggest slice yet for
onshore local partners
AUNG
SHIN
koshumgtha@gmail.com
The business is
quite risky, but we
want development
opportunities
for all local
companies.
U Kyaw Kyaw Hlaing
Myanmar oil and gas expert
IN BRIEF
PTT starts scholarship program
for high-ying local students
Thai rm PTT Exploration and Produc-
tion International has begun a program
to grant scholarships to Myanmar
students.
Under the program, two high-ying
Myanmar students will be eligible for
overseas scholarships each year. PTT
has had a presence in Myanmar since
1996, and operates four offshore and
three onshore blocks.
Aung Shin
Change coming to rules of origin
The place of origin for goods could
soon be decided by the exporter rather
than a government agency if Myanmar
signs on to a pilot project, according
to U Kyaw Soe Thein, an ofcial from
the Ministry of National Planning and
Economic Development. Other ASEAN
countries have already signed on.
Rules of origin determine what
country created a product, which is rel-
evant for determining what tariffs apply
on goods for international trade.
U Soe Tun, chair of Myanmar Rice
Federation, said he supports efforts to
improve trade. Nyan Lynn Aung
Myanmar Build and Decor
conference coming this month
Myanmar Build and Decor will be held
from September 24 to 26 at Myanmar
Event Park, aiming to showcase build-
ing materials, interior design, furniture
and decorations. The event aims not
only to show equipment but also to
share technology, said Nucharin Pa-
radeevisut, managing director of expo
organiser ICVeX Company.
Tin Yadanar Htun
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IN BRIEF
Trading licences moving online
Traders will be able to apply for export
and import licences online in early
2015 after the Ministry of Commerce
upgrades its ICT system, said deputy
minister U Pwint San in a Yangon
meeting last week.
Traders currently can apply to Nay
Pyi Taw for the licence from Yangon
using a wholly online system, but still
need to go to Myanmar Citizens Bank
to make a cash deposit, he said.
Ministry of Commerce economic
advisor U Maung Aung said that even
though this system is available, take-
up has been slow as there is not much
use of infrastructure.
We inevitably face a little trade
misuse in this system, but we have to
move forward, he said, adding it is
important traders have strong ethics.
U Maung Aung added that traders
need company letterhead and invoices
only two documents where 10 had
previously been required.
U Maung Aung said the intention is
also to offer one-stop service next year
after the online application is up and
running.
Aye Thidar Kyaw
Jet fuel tender winner coming at
the end of September
There are four companies still com-
peting in the jet fuel tender, with the
winner to be announced by the end of
September, according to ofcials from
the Myanmar Petroleum Products
Enterprise (MPPE).
Two Singaporean rms Puma
Energy and Singapore Petroleum are
competing with two Thai rms PTT
and Bangkok Aviation Fuel Ser-
vices. All are being judged on criteria
including nancing, technology and
international experience, said an
MPPE ofcial.
A total of 23 international and local
companies submitted expressions
of interest in May, but only four rms
submitted ofcial invitation to tender
and are left in the competition.
The winning rm will enter into
a joint venture with MPPE as part of
a government plan to update state-
owned enterprises. MPPE holds a
monopoly for jet fuel in the country,
currently distributing jet fuel to 11
domestic airplanes.
Aung Shin
MPT revealed its joint management
team with its Japanese partners last
week as competition in the mobile
sector heats up.
State-owned MPTs joint opera-
tions agreement with Japanese tel-
ecoms provider KDDI and congomer-
ate Sumitomo took efect this month,
after being nalised in July following
months of negotiation.
MPT had a monopoly on mobile
phone services in Myanmar, but
Ooredoos launch in August heralded
its rst competitor. Another rival,
Telenor, is expected to enter shortly.
MPTs new CEO Takashi Na-
gashima who is from KDDI said
the Japanese and Myanmar sides
formally began working together on
September 1.
We have already started to bring
in our experience and expertise to ex-
pand and enhance MPTs infrastruc-
ture, he said at a September 12 event
in Yangon.
Mr Nagashima unveiled a man-
agement structure that includes both
a Japanese and a Myanmar person
lling the same senior position for
instance MPT managing director U
Khin Maung Tun will be on the same
level as Mr Nagashima.
The rm also has both a Myanmar
and a Japanese person listed as lling
other roles such as chief operating of-
cer and chief commercial ofcer.
Mr Nagashima did not provide details
about how having both a Myanmar and
a Japanese person at the senior levels
will work in practice.
However, the partners have
already begun working on improving
MPTs services. Much of MPTs cur-
rent backhaul is composed of micro-
wave antennas, which are ckle in
the rain, and the rm is replacing
many of them with bre connec-
tions. It is also improving its xed
line network for phones and inter-
net, looking to ease mobile network
congestion, and is adding more in-
ternational service.
With improved infrastructure we
will be delivering superior telecommu-
nications services, said Mr Nagashima.
Soon you will experience better mobile
voice services including quality, less
dropped connections, less busy network
and better coverage across the country.
Data, too, will be improved, he added.
The rm also has a new logo a
blue and yellow hollow diamond with a
tail as well as a Facebook and web page.
KDDI anticipates spending about 200
billion (US$1.86 billion) in Myanmar
over the next 10 years, with about half
of that being reinvested funds gener-
ated by the business, according to a
company ofcial on July 30.
Telecoms minister U Myat Hein
said the partnership will help MPT
improve its oferings.
MPT had about 6.83 million sub-
scribers in Myanmar in 2013, according
to KDDI. This equates to a penetration
rate of 13 percent using a population
of 51.4 million people, well below pen-
etration rates in nearby Thailand and
Cambodia which are above 100pc.
The new partnership aims to provide
top-quality communication services
for the people, U Myat Hein said at
the September 12 event. The govern-
ment aims to reach the remote areas
[with mobile services], only then will
the gap between urban and rural nar-
row down, he said.
KDDI and Sumitomo bring mar-
keting knowledge, technical and op-
erational knowhow, new facilities and
cash to the joint business, while MPT
brings licensing, human resources,
strong brand and customer base, and
existing facilities to the joint business,
KDDI said in a July presentation.
MPT selected the partnership from
from KDDI and Sumitomo after dis-
cussing potential partnerships with
France telco Orange and Singapores
SingTel.
A fourth operator government-
connected Yadanarpon Teleport is
also expected to nd a foreign partner
and start ofering mobile services.
MPT revamp begins with Japanese partners
JEREMY MULLINS
jeremymullins7@gmail.com
MPT CEO Takashi Nagashima
(right) and managing director
U Khin Maung Tun unveil
MPTs new logo. Photo: Thiri Lu
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APPLE Chief Executive Ofcer Tim
Cook, after three years of incremen-
tal changes to products created under
Steve Jobs, delivered on his promise
to take the worlds most valuable com-
pany into new categories including
wearables and payments.
Apple on September 9 revealed a
smartwatch with health and tness
capabilities, and smartphonelike fea-
tures such as maps and messaging. The
rm also introduced new biggerscreen
iPhones, along with ways to use Apples
latest gadgets to make payments at re-
tail outlets like Macys and McDonalds.
The moves showed how Mr Cook is
leading Apple already an entryway
into digital entertainment and com-
munications through its iPhones, iPads
and App Store further into changing
how people pay for goods and how they
care for themselves and exercise. He
called the new products the next chap-
ter in Apples story.
The strategy builds upon Apples
key product, the iPhone, which re-
mains the backbone of the companys
US$171 billion business and has given
it nancial exibility and a vast cus-
tomer base to pursue new initiatives.
Mr Cooks strategy is an extension of
the one started under Mr Jobs: to make
Apple the digital hub of peoples lives
for music, pictures, apps and more
because once they are tied in, they are
likely to remain loyal customers.
This was his biggest event, Rich-
ard Doherty, an analyst with Envi-
sioneering Group, said of Mr Cooks
product unveilings. To have them
synchronised, nobody else could have
come close to this.
Yet many questions remain about
the Apple Watch. Companies such as
Samsung Electronics and Sony havent
been successful with smartwatches.
Other than a few details, Apple didnt
provide much more information. The
price wasnt disclosed for versions cost-
ing more than the $349 basic model, or
how much it would cost to buy the vari-
ous bands that also will be available.
Apple didnt specify battery life, a
key detail for a product the company
said people can wear all the time.
They are deliberately not mention-
ing battery life, said Benedict Evans,
a partner at venturecapital rm An-
dreessen Horowitz and a former tech-
nologyindustry analyst. Bloomberg LP
is an investor in Andreessen Horowitz.
The products attempt to cement
how the iPhones 2007 debut helped
usher in an era in which technology is
ingrained into everyday life and popu-
lar culture. The average smartphone
owner looks at their device about 150
times a day, according to a report last
year from venture capital rm Kleiner
Perkins Caueld & Byers, with people
sending messages, making calls, check-
ing the time, browsing the internet,
playing games and more.
Apple held the event at the Flint
Center for Performing Arts to a stand-
ing room crowd of more than 2000,
including celebrities, Silicon Valley ex-
ecutives and media from around the
world. It was the same venue where
Apple unveiled the Macintosh in 1984
and the iMac in 1998.
We think at the end of the day that
you will agree that this too is a very key
day for Apple, Mr Cook said.
Apple Watch, which was met with a
standing ovation at the event, has a rec-
tangular watch face and a dial on the
side that can be turned to zoom in or
out, or scroll up and down. For some
users, the watch may be more about ap-
pearances. Apple has been adding em-
ployees from the fashion industry and
Mr Cook emphasised the watchs style
as much as its technological features.
We thought not only of the func-
tion but the way it looked, he said.
Apple Pay, the mobile payments sys-
tem, works by placing an iPhone next
to a terminal at a retail outlet equipped
with socalled neareld communica-
tion technology. A customer conrms a
purchase by using ngerprint reading
technology in the new iPhone 6 mod-
els. It will work with the Apple Watch
when its released, the company said.
The service, which will work with
the latest iPhones and the Apple Watch,
will be available starting next month.
Our vision is to replace this, Cook
said as a picture of an old wallet was
ashed on screen at the event.
Even with the hubbub over the new
smartwatch and payments products,
the iPhone remains the most important
piece of Apples business. The handset
accounted for about half of Apples $171
billion in revenue last year. With sales
of the iPad slowing, the company needs
to keep the iPhone a blockbuster to
maintain growth.
The new iPhones, called iPhone 6
and 6 Plus, will have rounded edges
and a thinner frame than earlier
models. Bloomberg
Apple CEO Tim Cook (left) greets the crowd at a product unveiling last week with
U2 singer Bono (right), as The Edge (centre) looks on. Photo: AFP
Tim Cook sets own path with Apple launch
SAN FRANCISCO
AUSTRALIA is the most expensive
place for an international student to
attend university, ahead of Singapore
and the United States, with India the
cheapest, a study showed.
The research report by banking
giant HSBC, which surveyed 15 coun-
tries, said an overseas student would
need US$42,000 a year to meet univer-
sity fees and living costs in Australia.
This was nearly $3000 more than
Singapore, and $36,000 greater than
a student heading to India.
Despite the cost, the United States
was regarded as ofering the highest
quality of education, followed by Brit-
ain and Germany with Australia only
ranked fourth, said the study released
last week.
The key reasons to send chil-
dren overseas are the acquisition
of foreign languages, international
experience and independence, said
HSBCs head of wealth management
Simon Williams.
But an international education
brings an extra dimension of com-
plexity to planning, particularly -
nancial planning. The majority of
overseas education is privately fund-
ed by parents, and while the concept
of a college fund is well established
in the US, it is still the exception else-
where.
The report, The Value of Educa-
tion, said that of the nearly 5000
parents questioned, 89 percent
wanted their children to go to uni-
versity and 74pc would consider
sending them abroad.
Indonesians were keenest on an
overseas education, followed by Ma-
laysia, Turkey and Hong Kong.
More than half of those ques-
tioned said that paying for a childs
education was the best investment
they could make, with many led by
Malaysia and China wishing they
had started saving sooner. AFP
Foreign
students
face high
costs in Oz
WITH change comes opportunity: an
apt maxim for Myanmar as it emerges
from decades of isolation. To exploit
this opportunity, Myanmar must make
tough choices to leverage its natural
advantages and build the new assets it
needs for a prosperous future.
Myanmar is experiencing sweeping
political, economic and social trans-
formations. The change has persuaded
many countries to lift sanctions and
spurred substantial ows of invest-
ment, aid and other forms of economic
cooperation.
Still, Myanmar remains one of Asias
poorest countries, with poverty reduc-
tion the single most important policy
challenge. The countrys potential is
vast, with abundant natural, cultural
and tourism resources, a young labour
force, and a strategic location.
But potential doesnt guarantee eco-
nomic success. The country needs to
identify and implement the right policy
mix to generate sustained long-term
growth and emulate the economic suc-
cesses of its neighbors.
Neighbours experiences may hold
lessons as Myanmar continues its jour-
ney of change. They suggest Myanmar
needs to maintain low ination and
sustainable budgets through efective
macroeconomic management, encour-
age domestic savings, invest in human
capital, modernise infrastructure and
create sound institutions.
This will require the right policies.
A new Asian Development Bank study
Myanmar: Unlocking the Potential
indicates that prudent policies could
lift the countrys potential annual GDP
growth rates from pre-2011 baseline lev-
els of 4.8 percent to as high as 9.5pc by
2030. This rate of growth would raise
Myanmars per capita income to nearly
US$5000 by 2030. It would also posi-
tion Myanmar to capitalise on Asias
emergence as the worlds next economic
center of gravity. Asia is expected to ac-
count for about half of global income
and more than 40pc of consumption
by 2050. Myanmar stands to gain enor-
mously if it can efectively leverage its
location as an economic corridor at the
intersection of the 10-member Associa-
tion of Southeast Asian Nations (ASE-
AN), the Peoples Republic of China and
India. The study nds that unlocking
Myanmars growth potential depends
largely on delivering improved human
capital, quality infrastructure and more
foreign direct investment (FDI).
On the rst point, Myanmar has a
relatively young population with the
15-29 age group accounting for nearly
40pc of working-age people. This is a
critical asset. Boosting the skills of this
young workforce will support industry
as the country moves up global value
chains. New technologies and ideas will
be absorbed and an entrepreneurial
culture nurtured, allowing the country
to retain more benets from FDI.
Raising qualications and skills of
the labor force is a huge task. The top
priorities should be to increase public
spending on education, update school
curricula, and enhance the quality and
relevance of higher-level education
programs including technical and vo-
cational education and training.
On infrastructure, attention to
transport links and transit corridors
is fundamental to successful economic
integration within and beyond Myan-
mars borders. Missing links and bottle-
necks in transportation infrastructure
are highly problematic, preventing the
country from exploiting its advantage
as a natural bridge between South Asia
and Southeast Asia.
Here, the rst step is to enhance
domestic connectivity, support local
businesses and enterprises, increase ac-
cess to employment opportunities and
provide access to basic social services
and economic centers. Better physical
connectivity with neighboring coun-
tries would enable Myanmar to more
quickly integrate with the rapidly grow-
ing regional economy and its produc-
tion networks.
Finally, Myanmar is well placed to
become a leading destination for local
and foreign investment, but to make
this happen its business environment
needs to keep improving. Myanmar has
recently become more business-friend-
ly due to the removal of business and
trade barriers, stronger legal protec-
tions for foreign investment, improved
public services and progress on govern-
ance and corruption issues.
But more efort is needed to build
the private sector capacity that will un-
leash the full power of trade and invest-
ment. The ADB study recommends an
industrial policy that supports cluster-
based development for small and me-
dium enterprises, and minimises trans-
action costs. The authorities should
also streamline processes for obtain-
ing construction permits, hiring staf,
registering property, accessing credit,
protecting investors, paying taxes, trad-
ing across borders, enforcing contracts,
and opening and closing businesses.
The progress of reform will ulti-
mately hinge on success in ending con-
ict in parts of the country, through
reconciliation. Poverty and conict are
interlinked in Myanmar. Ensuring that
a lasting peace is achieved, and minor-
ity rights are fully respected, will be
critical for peace and stability.
Reforms as seemingly disparate as
ending conict and streamlining busi-
ness processes are in fact pieces of the
same puzzle. If tackled through efec-
tive and well sequenced policies, and
with the support of the international
community and other stakeholders, the
country will reach its potential.
If that happens, Myanmar will once
again be a strong and important econo-
my in the region, with its people enjoy-
ing better living standards and a bright
future indeed.
Cyn-Young Park is assistant chief
economist at Asian Development Bank and
Winfried F Wicklein is ADB country director
for Myanmar.
Unlocking Myanmars potential
Buying into Alibaba means buying into Chinas darker side
OPINION
CHINESE e-commerce giant Alibaba
has launched the marketing road-
show for a US$21 billion-plus initial
public ofering to take place this
month. If all goes according to the
companys plans, it could be the big-
gest IPO in Wall Street history.
In New York, so many potential
investors ocked to see Alibaba
founder Jack Ma at a Waldorf Astoria
ballroom that the line to get on the
elevator ran through the lobby.
What Alibaba is selling, and
wealthy Americans would be buy-
ing, is a stake in the coming boom
in Chinese consumer spending; at
present, 80 percent of Chinese online
shopping goes through Alibaba. When
you include its business-to-business,
social media and other operations,
Alibaba had $248 billion in sales
during 2013, more than eBay and
Amazon.com combined, according to
The Wall Street Journal. As with so
many other aspects of Chinas rise,
however, Alibabas mega-IPO is cause
for ambivalence.
It is marvelous indeed that
hundreds of millions of Chinese are
prosperous enough to shop online
in a country where grinding poverty
reigned a generation ago. For US
rms and workers, Alibabas planned
growth is a hopeful sign because its
in their interest for China to shift its
emphasis from exports to domestic
consumption. And for those who
believe that economic interdepend-
ence can contribute to peace, there is
something encouraging indeed about
the worldwide web of advisers, inves-
tors and executives that Mr Ma is
spinning around his 15-year-old rm
from Goldman Sachs to Deutsche
Bank to Yahoo to Japans SoftBank to
Mas Taiwanese American right-hand
man, Joseph Tsai.
Alibabas dark side, though, is
apparent from its US securities
registration form. As that document
makes clear, the rm is beholden to
the Chinese state, and, by extension,
the Communist Party mandarins who
dominate it through means that can
charitably be described as non-trans-
parent. Alibaba plays ball with the
regimes internet censors. The rm
must be vigilant about troublesome
pictures and words though it may
be difcult to determine the type of
content that may result in liability to
us, which is just how Beijing wants
it, no doubt. Alibaba also appears
to have spread its newfound riches
around the upper echelons of the Chi-
nese power structure, buying political
inuence at the risk of making its
ownership structure more convoluted.
Crony capitalism, lobbying and
inuence-buying and peddling are
hardly unknown in the rest of the
world. What is special about China is
the vast extent of it, and the lack of
democratic checks.
The Washington Post
CYN-YOUNG PARK
WINFRIED F WICKLEIN
PERCENT
9.5
Possible annual GDP growth baseline by
2030: Asian Development Bank
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Property
RESTAURANTS are going mobile,
driven onto the streets in response
to high rental prices in the city.
Several food trucks are now ply-
ing their trade on Yangons roads,
with owners saying they have
abandoned expensive shop rentals
for the trucks.
I sold Myitkyina noodles and
snacks out of my apartment for
three years, but now I cant nd
a suitable shop and apartment
theyre too expensive, said the
owner of Myitkyina noodle food
truck, who did not give her name.
The cost of the truck is about
the same as a years rent, she said,
adding it brings the advantages of
being able to travel to where the
customers are.
She parks the truck overnight
on 46
th
Street in Botahtaung town-
ship to claim a space for the morn-
ing trade. In the evening, she often
relocates to a parking spot near
City Hall, where she pays for a
space.
We had loyal customers before
setting up, so they knew our shop,
she said.
The food truck is a modern
twist on traditional cart-based
vendors, who push their carts up
and down Yangons side streets,
advertising their presence by yell-
ing out often with the support of
loudspeakers. Long supported for
delivering food right to the door
and decried for preventing report-
ers from sleeping in, cart salespeo-
ple say they are counting on the
convenience to sell their wares.
Ko So Moe Kyi has been sell-
ing sugarcane juice from his cart
Restaurants grow wheels to
avoid paying rental costs
MYAT
NOE OO
myatnoe.mcm@gmail.com
Worlds largest airport coming to UAE
DUBAI has relaunched an ambitious
project to develop its second airport,
touted originally as the worlds larg-
est, to handle 120 million passengers
a year, its airports chief said on Sep-
tember 8.
The plan aims to expand Al-Mak-
toum International airport within
eight years to shift the growing op-
erations of Emirates Airlines from
Dubai International, said airports
chief Paul Grifths.
We have now launched the rst
phase, which is for a 120millionpas-
senger capacity [development] re-
quired to enable the Emirates hub to
relocate, to AlMaktoum Internation-
al in Dubai World Central economic
zone, he said.
Dubai ruler Sheikh Mohammed
bin Rashid alMaktoum has ap-
proved the US$32billion expansion
project, with a timeframe of six to
eight years to complete it.
This shows that the strategic de-
cision that was made some time ago
of Dubai World Central being the
airport for the future has been reaf-
rmed, the Dubai Airports chief said.
Al-Maktoum International airport
was launched before the global -
nancial crisis hit Dubai in 2009, with
plans to build the worlds largest air-
port, featuring a 160-million-passen-
ger capacity and six runways.
The ambitious plan appeared to
have been put on the back burner due
to the crisis, and the airport instead
opened operations for cargo only in
2010, while small passenger opera-
tions began in October 2013 after re-
peated delays.
The nal plan features ve run-
ways each stretching 4.5 kilometres
(2.8 miles), spaced wide apart in order
to allow for simultaneous use.
The airport could ultimately ex-
pand to accommodate 200 million
passengers annually.
The rst phase includes two satel-
lite buildings which could serve as
many as 100 A380 superjumbo aircraft
at any one time, Dubai Airports said.
Dubai International handled more
than 66.4 million passengers in 2013,
and is expected to host more than 100
million passengers by 2020, as it con-
tinues to build capacity.
Ranked among the worlds busi-
est airports, Dubai International
has established itself as a major
stop between the West and Asia and
Australasia. AFP
Two women stop for a late-night snack at a food truck. Photo: Zarni Phyo
THE mess of signboards and street ven-
dors outside are not enough to hide the
lordly appearance of Waziya cinema.
Its the last theatre standing on
what used to be Cinema Row on
Bogyoke Aung San Street, a cluster of
about six movie houses dating back to
before World War II.
Located just east of Sakura Tower,
the brown-hued Waziya still draws
the crowds for the latest Myanmar
icks, a reminder of the days when
cinema row was the place to see and
be seen in Yangon.
Most of the parts of the cinemas
interior are dilapidated now, said U
Htay Aung, secretary of the sub-com-
mittee that oversees the cinema.
We plan to repair everything, in-
cluding ceilings, chairs, the screen,
the audio system and lighting eve-
rything. But we need a lot of time to
repair everything as it will cost mil-
lions of kyat and the funds are not
yet enough.
Like most of Cinema Row, Wa-
ziya began as a live theatre in 1950,
but later transitioned to a cinema. A
Yangon Heritage Trust article on the
theatre said it was later nationalised
in 1968 and moved back to being a
live theatre by 1985.
In 1999, the Ministry of Informa-
tion leased it to the Myanmar Motion
Picture Association (MMPA) to oper-
ate as a cinema a status it has since
retained.
Myanmar had one of the most
prolic and vibrant movie industries
in Southeast Asia during the rst half
of the 20
th
century; the result was a
cinephile culture that supported over
300 theaters throughout the country,
of which only a fraction remains to-
day, Yangon Heritage Trust said in
the online article.
Entering Waziya today means get-
ting past the gaggle of vendors out
front. For pedestrians passing by it
looks like a lthy place, but if they
take a glance from the entrance, they
can see the pearl that is inside.
The entranceway is well main-
tained, with teak art panels and
large doors showing the care that
went into the original work. But time
has taken its toll. Two large staircas-
es twirl from the cinema, but the left
one was taken out of use two years
ago when a portion of the ceiling col-
lapsed on it.
Guests mostly couples sit on
the other staircase, waiting for the
next show. After dodging them on the
trip up, there is a large, spacious cor-
ridor. More guests sit on the benches
along the corridor a well-lit, breezy
chamber with scenic curved win-
dows.
Yet there is more to attracting mov-
ie-goers than having a nice cinema.
Ko Aung Myin, a 20-year-old
cinephile, said he enjoys the atmos-
phere of the Waziya cinema, but
reckons the movies on ofer could be
improved.
I went to Waziya for a lm festi-
val, and I loved its style and decora-
tion. But old cinemas only show lo-
cal movies, so I have to go to modern
cinemas to watch foreign movies, he
said.
If old cinemas like Waziya shows
modern foreign movies, I would
watch them there instead of mod-
ern cinemas, as they have large open
spaces to wait before the show and a
nice atmosphere.
U Htay Aung said the MMPA is
keen to see the theatre enter the digi-
tal age, but the move would be expen-
sive at least K30 million.
It will be tough to make repairs
for at least six months, he said.
Yangon Heritage Trust is coop-
erating with MMPA to restore the
cinema, and have so far considered
renovating the interior, improving
the technology for movies and live
performances, and displaying histori-
cal artifacts from the history of Myan-
mars lm industry.
FEATURE
One theatre left standing on
Yangons Cinema Row
NOE NOE AUNG
noenoeag@gmail.com
Waziya cinema on Yangons
Bogyoke Aung San street still
maintains some of its former
splendour. Photo: Yu Yu
DUBAI
The branding applies
to the food, not the
truck. Photo: Zarni Phyo
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QUOTE OF THE WEEK
Im hoping we can move away from the word crony, because theres
a huge spectrum.
Vicky Bowman, Myanmar Centre for Responsible Business, on the problems of labelling big business
Thailand in a tizzle over
rise in lese majeste cases
WORLD 42
HOUSE OF THE WEEK
Staying aoat in Bahan township
Swimming is a divisive subject. House
of the Week has the aquatic prowess of
an average house cat, and so its views
on pools are shaped mostly by measur-
ing the lounge chairs proximity to the
bar. Others the more mer-person-like
among us who are keen on the pool
as a place to be in, rather than lounge
beside have a different take on the
subject that House of the Week doesnt
quite understand.
But no matter what group you fall in
to, this weeks Bahan township house
has a pool which is sure to be a prime
attraction. In its present state it cer-
tainly requires some cleaning, but after
sprucing up it is sure to be a focal point
of the home.
With four large bedrooms, as well as
a living room, a shrine room, a kitchen,
dining room, a reading room and at least
ve bathrooms, there is plenty of space.
Its a great place to host visitors in as
well. Theres large windows allowing lots
of natural light, and a balcony directed at
downtown that offers a pleasant place to
relax in the evening.
Built in a Western fashion, its a
brand-new house with a full range of
amenities. Its not totally furnished, but
a start has been made, include beds,
bureau and some table-and-chair sets.
Located in Bahan, it is near city cen-
tre, and quite convenient to get down-
town. Naturally, the price is high, but its
negotiable. Tin Yadanar Htun
Location : Thanlwin Street,
Bahan township
Price : $12,000 per month
(negotiable)
Contact : Estate Myanmar
Real Estate Agency
Phone : 09-43118787,
09-43031699
Restaurants grow wheels to
avoid paying rental costs
for three years.
I chose this business because
people dont want to go far for
food, and the food cart is easy and
makes people satised, he said.
Still, it can be tough having a
job that does not allow sitting, and
Ko So Moe Kyi said he is on his feet
all day.
Customers say they agree it is
the convenience bringing them to
mobile food shops.
Ma Su Myat is a 22-year-old
university student who says she
is often eagerly on the lookout for
her favourite hamburger fast food
truck. When she comes across it,
she stops to buy some foreign food,
but it is not always parked nearby.
The hamburger truck has a hab-
it of rapidly changing locations. Af-
ter one near-miss last week, local
residents said the truck would be
returning but probably not until
Saturday.
In the meantime, Ma Su Myat is
out of luck, even though she says
she considers the trucks food to be
clean and tasty.
Not everyone is so enamoured
of food from a truck, however.
Ma Ei Mon Htwe, a 23-year-old
ofce worker, said she dislikes not
having a place to sit after purchas-
ing food from a truck.
Sometimes I like the taste, but
I cant nd a place to sit. At a res-
taurant with my friends, we have
lots of space to chitchat, she said.
Running a food truck can be an
expensive business, said the Myit-
kyina food truck owner.
In addition to the costs of run-
ning the truck, there is the cost of
a restaurant licence to the Yangon
City Development Committee, as
well as parking fees and overnight
fees to secure a spot.
Still, the business is a good one
so far, the she said. Its a more
protable business than owning a
traditional restaurant.
Two women stop for a late-night snack at a food truck. Photo: Zarni Phyo
38
Science & Technology
Gadget Round-up by Myo Satt
Available: Wainford Myanmar, Junction 8 (1 oor). Ph: 01 223 804, 09 420261279, 09 31680000
G1000
The G1000 is a thin, light tablet with a 10.1-inch
display and full HD resolution. Its quad core
1.3GHz processor and 1GB of RAM make it quick
for game-play. Its internal storage stands at 16GB
and its memory can reach up to 32 GB. The main
camera is 5MP, while the front camera is 2MP.
K160,000
G801
This tablet, whose display stretches 7.8 inches, runs a
1.2GHz quad core processor and has 1GB of RAM. Itll
have plenty of room for your data thanks to its 8 GB
internal storage. The main camera is 2MP and the front
camera is 0.3 MP. Touch pen included.
K95,000
G703
This tablet is easy to carry wherever you go due to its 7-inch
display. It has a dual core 1.2GHz processor and 512 MB of
RAM. Internal storage is at 8GB and can reach 32 GB. The
main camera is 2MP and the front camera is 0.3 MP.
K60,000
G702
This tablet is kid-friendly. The display is 7 inches and
it has a dual core 1.0 GHz processor. The devices RAM
stands at 512 MB while internal storage is at 4GB. Both
cameras are only 0.3 MP. The back is made with rubber
and customers can pick the colour they want.
K60,000
David Madden is explaining to re-
porters what to expect at Myanmars
second-ever hackathon on Friday
September 5 when the power shuts
of.
The lights went out at Code for
Change Myanmars March NGO-
themed hackathon, too, and they
went out again more than 100 par-
ticipants prepare for the business-
oriented hacking marathon to begin.
But Mr Madden, the events
showrunner and founder of Code
for Change Myanmar, remains un-
rufed. Few moments in the dark
there, but its a hackathon, Mr
Madden says later on. Were going
to have a few little hiccups on the
way and keep on pushing through.
The temporary blackout doesnt
diminish the electrical energy ef-
fusing from the developers and de-
signers, either. Its not pitch black
with a few mobile devices giving off
white light in the Ooredoo office at
MICT Park, where the Business So-
lutions Hackathon will take place.
One seems to illuminates half a
hallway.
The most exciting thing is just
the energy here, says Leslie Marbury,
director at the United States Agency
for International Development (US-
AID). The American organisation is
one of nine sponsors supporting the
event along with Internews, Ooredoo
Myanmar, Ideabox Myanmar, Nesca-
fe, Red Bull, Xcite Noodles, Singtech
and Edulink Australia.
That last doubles as one of the
companies which presented business
challenges to participants on Fri-
day. The six enterprises Sharkys,
Yangon Bakehouse, Khaing Khaing
Kyaw, Fresco, Opportunities NOW
and Edulink Australia asked how
technology could help them with is-
sues like logistics and accounting.
The hackathon sees local My-
anmar businesses submitting tech
issues that need solving. Teams of
designers, developers and entre-
preneurs then have a set amount
of time, 48 hours, to put together
their best eforts at xing the prob-
lem, with the top solutions receiving
prizes.
On the line are cash prizes,
Singtech devices and scholarships to
Edulink Australia. First place wins
$2000 to share; second, $1000; and
third, $500. The kitty had doubled
since the rst hackathon.
Judges would evaluate solutions
according to four question-oriented
criteria. Did the tech x the enter-
prises issue? How creative and inno-
vative is the x? How much did the
team actually accomplish during the
hackathon? And how could a partic-
ular x apply to a market, not just a
business?
While the problems were specic,
the rubric urged developers to con-
Hackers present tech solutions cooked up in 48 hours Myanmars second-ever hackathon. Photo: Thiri Lu
By the glow of the screen, tech heroes emerge
CATHERINE TRAUTWEIN
callyt123@gmail.com
TRADE MARK CAUTION
Findus Sverige Aktiebolag, a company incorporated in Sweden, of
267 81 Bjuv, Sweden, is the Owner of the following Trade Mark:-
FINDUS
Reg. No. 4753/1996
in respect of Vegetables, game, fruit, meat, poultry, fsh and
alimentary products originating from the sea, all these products in
the form of extracts, soups, jellies, pastes, preserves, ready-made
dishes and frozen or dehydrated preserves, as well as in crisp form;
jams, eggs; milk and dairy products, condensed milk, dehydrated
milk, butter, cheese, yogurts and other food preparations having
a base of milk, milk substitutes, edible oils, and fats; protein
preparations for food. Coffee and coffee extracts; coffee substitutes
and extracts of coffee substitutes; tea and tea extracts; cocoa and
preparations having a base of cocoa, chocolate, confectionery,
sweets; sugar; bakery products, pastry; foodstuffs having a base of
rice, of four or of cereals, also in the form of ready-made dishes;
breakfast cereals; desserts mainly consisting of rice, semolina
and/or starch, puddings; ice cream, products for the preparation
of ice cream; honey and honey substitutes; sauces; aromatizing
or seasoning products for food; mayonnaise.
for Findus Sverige Aktiebolag
TRADE MARK CAUTION
NOTICE is hereby given that Kabushiki Kaisha Moonstar (also
trading as Moonstar Company) a company duly organized under
the laws of Japan and having its principal offce at 60, Shirayama-
Machi, Kurume-Shi, Fukuoka-Ken, Japan is the Owner and Sole
Proprietor of the following trademarks: -
(Reg: Nos. IV/692/1999 & IV/2354/2014)
(Reg: Nos. IV/691/1999 & IV/2355/2014)
in respect of : - Footwear and their parts and accessories- Class: 25
Any fraudulent imitation or unauthorized use of the said trademarks
for Kabushiki Kaisha Moonstar
(also trading as Moonstar Company)
th
September, 2014
TRADE MARK CAUTION
NOTICE is hereby given that DENYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
( also trading as Denyo Co., Ltd. ) of 2-8-5, Nihonbashi-
horidomecho, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, Japan is the Owner and Sole
Proprietor of the following trademark: -
(Reg: Nos. IV/454/1984 & IV/4857/2014)
in respect of:- Engine-driven welding machine, electric welding
machine, engine-driven compressor, grinding machine, generator,
engine-driven generator and trailer
whatsoever will be dealt with according to law.
for DENYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
( also trading as Denyo Co., Ltd. )
th
September, 2014
39
Science & Technology
MYANMAR Posts and Telecommuni-
cations (MPT) has launched a pro-
motion giving customers more bang
for their top-up bucks.
The deal marks a departure for
the state-owned telco, which has
recently ramped up eforts to com-
pete with the likes of Ooredoo and
Telenor.
The promotion, which ran Sep-
tember 13 and 14, boosts top-up
values by 40 per cent to 60pc. Users
buying top-ups for K5000, K10,000,
K20,000 and K30,000 will get K7000,
K16,000, K32,000 and K48,000 in
credit, respectively.
It accompanies a brand facelift
and corporate structural overhaul
at the company, which seems eager
to win customers in Myanmars new
era for telecoms.
Hello Myanmar! MPT is evolving
and had an extreme makeover, the
company said in a Facebook post to
its new page.
Not everyone was pleased to hear
details of the promotion, as it left
some mobile users out of luck. The
deal didnt apply to CDMA mobile
users, and instead benetted only
WCDMA and GSM users.
Htike Htike San, who works at
KKA Mobile, said hes seen a spike
in sales of K10,000 top-up cards due
MPT promotions, adding customers
cleaned out KKA Mobiles supply of
the cards in one day.
However, some CDMA users left
the shop without buying top-ups
when they heard promotions didnt
apply to them, Htike Htike San said.
The state-owned telco claims it
will make promotions available to all
users in the future, with later promo-
tions planned for CDMA users.
MPT has been selling K1500
WCDMA SIM cards, which come
without internet service, at 14 retail
mobile shops since September 1.
MPT gets competitive
with top-up promotion
CDMA handsets at a mobile shop in Yangon. Photo: Kaung Htet
AUNG KYAW NYUNT
aungkyawnyunt28@gmail.com
Hackers present tech solutions cooked up in 48 hours Myanmars second-ever hackathon. Photo: Thiri Lu
By the glow of the screen, tech heroes emerge
sider building tech that addressed
a common need rather than a sin-
gle enterprise, and to take a micro
challenge and create a macro solu-
tion.
Maybe the thing that youve
built or start building this week-
end could actually be used by
many, many other businesses.
One team chose to go big. Ye
Myat Min says his group didnt
pick a problem to address, and
instead decided to put together a
platform since many of the com-
panies faced a unifying challenge:
logistics in Myanmar. The idea was
to combine aspects of foodpanda,
the Rocket Internet delivery start-
up, and Uber, which gets its drivers
from local communities.
But big dreams can put cer-
tain realities of the Myanmar tech
infrastructure into sharp relief.
During Ye Myat Mins teams pres-
entation, one judge asked if the
solution would be powered by mo-
bile payment. The answer: as no
framework for mobile payment ex-
ists yet in Myanmar, drivers would
take cash on delivery making the
process of obtaining a 5 percent
commission from drivers a compli-
cated one.
Meanwhile, another participant
talked about an institutional issue
in Myanmars tech scene: the gen-
der gap. Twenty-year-old coder and
developer Shwee Yee Mya Win was
part of a group, Team ACE, made
up predominantly of women a
fact shes very proud of. Roughly 20
percent of hackathons participants
were women. Regarding women in
the tech community, there needs
to be more, Shwee Yee Mya Win
said. When David asks, Is there
any woman role model? I have
no idea.
I hope there will be someone to
guide us, she continued. Im try-
ing to be one of the role models.
Though the hackathon cant x
Myanmars infrastructure in one
weekend, the event does a lot to
foster community, according to at-
tendees. Mr Madden outlined par-
ticipants mission for the weekend:
to build tech solutions, learn from
each other, and have fun.
One of the hackathons young-
est participants, 17-year-old Nyat
Min Latt says the event helps con-
nect people. We have talent but
this community, its not out there.
Theyre in their own little rooms
and theyre doing these awesome
things, he said. These kinds of
events bring people out [you
try to] meet people who share the
same passions as you, and it makes
things much better.
A vast majority, more than 80,
of the attendees stayed over at the
Ooredoo ofce on Friday night.
Some could be seen catching some
shuteye in a resting room lled
with beanbags the next day; there
was one room apiece set aside for
men and women.
On Saturday, mentor Htoo My-
int Naung ew a drone up and
down the hallway. A little later,
participants became prime targets
for Nerf darts. Its really fun to get
a hold of all the people we know, on
the same oor, and spend 48 hours
doing something together, Htoo
Myint Naung said.
The hackers had been going for
45 hours when team presentations
began on Sunday before judges U
Tun Thura Thet of Myanmar In-
formation Technology, Mon Mon
Myint Thu of AcePlus Solutions,
Hugh Mason of JFDI.Asia and
Gwendolyn Regina Tan of Tech in
Asia. But the energy of the room
crackles when it comes time to an-
nounce winners a few hours later.
The awards ceremony is hardly
a horse race, with teams quickly
identied as rst, second and
third. The assembled groups pick
a Hackers Choice winner among
themselves; one team gets special
mention for a particularly cheeky
presentation; and the team of teen-
age developers receives $100 of air-
time each from Ooredoo Myanmar.
Thank you for abandoning your
homework, Madden joked.
Finally, U Tun Thura Htet reads
the rst-place winners like a pre-
senter at the Oscars. First prize
goes to ACE! The crowd erupts
in cheers and applause which
doesnt stop for half a minute. I
cant believe it, Shwee Yee Mya
Win said. Its like a dream.
If [people] want a female role
model specically, this is it, said
judge Gwendolyn Regina Tan.
Deputy Chief of Mission for the
US Embassy Virginia Murray said
she was deeply impressed by the
attendees work. To my mind, this
event is a matter of small things
and big things, she said.
The hackathon linked the
minute to the universal, as partici-
pants paid dual attention to details
necessary to design an app and
the required steps for delivering
that solution to a wider market-
place. Ms Murray said USAID also
saw the event in micro and macro
terms, as the organisation wants to
support SMEs in Myanmar to assist
the nation in facilitating growth in
IT and the economy.
Weekends like these mark a
beginning point for technologists
and entrepreneurs in Myanmar, es-
pecially the 117 participants in the
Business Solutions Hackathon. If
a teams solution appealed to com-
panies that participated over the
weekend, Mr Madden said, theyd
committed to moving forward with
those behind the x. If the hacking
team was on board as well, Ideabox
would follow closely on the heels
of this process, providing extra -
nancial resources and expertise, he
added.
Myanmars connectivity revolu-
tion, referenced at the hackathon,
is also in its beginning stages. And
while for now, the countrys tech
community might have to put up
with a few minutes in the dark
here and there, its developers and
designers are hacking on.
WorldWORLD EDITOR: Fiona MacGregor
EDINBURGH
BRUSSEL
THE eyes of the world are on Scotland,
the countrys rst minister Alex Sal-
mond has said ahead of a momentous
referendum that will decide whether
Scotland remains part of the United
Kingdom.
Speaking on September 11, a week
before the independence vote, Mr Sal-
mond said the poll would be a process
of national empowerment.
A record 4.3 million people have reg-
istered to vote higher than for any pre-
vious elections in Scotland. British me-
dia said new gures meant 97 percent
of the electorate had now registered to
vote.
Many nations with separatist move-
ments are following the campaign
closely, including Spain, where the gov-
ernment has ruled out a referendum for
Catalan independence or devolution.
Scotland is on the cusp of making
history. The eyes of the world are upon
Scotland, Mr Salmond, head of Scot-
lands current devolved government,
said.
On September 18, we the people
hold our destiny in our own hands.
But a new poll showed voters could
narrowly reject independence, putting
the No side four points ahead of the
pro-independence camp, with 52 per-
cent against independence and 48 pc
in favour when dont knows were ex-
cluded.
It was the rst time the No
campaign had gained ground in a You-
Gov poll since early August, when sur-
veys began to show the pro-independ-
ence side receiving a surge of support.
The previous YouGov poll on September
6 put the pro-independence side nar-
rowly ahead.
If the country votes in favour of inde-
pendence it would bring an end to the
307-year-old union between England
and Scotland and create Europes new-
est state since the disintegration of Yu-
goslavia in the 1990s.
About 100 journalists from around
the world were present at the Septem-
ber 11 press conference, with many ask-
ing about what Scotlands relation to
their country would be, including jour-
nalists from Catalonia.
The same day, hundreds of thou-
sands of Catalan nationalist demonstra-
tors, some waving the blue and white
Scottish ag, lled the streets of Barce-
lona in a mass rally to demand a vote
like Scotlands.
A Yes vote would put a huge pres-
sure on Madrid. Scotland is not a remote
country somewhere in the world. Its
just next door, said Carles Costa from
TV3 public television in Catalonia, who
was at Mr Salmonds press conference.
Even with a No, people in Catalo-
nia will say, Why is this not possible in
Spain?
But Shuhei Nakayama from Japa-
nese broadcaster NHK said most people
in Japan had a confused idea of the
situation.
Most dont know Scotland is already
a region with many powers. Some think
its a country already as they have a foot-
ball team, he said.
Its very interesting to see a nation
that might break away without any vio-
lence, he added.
The campaign, and the possibility
of greater devolution if the No camp
wins the vote, has also bolstered de-
mands from local authorities for greater
powers within England and Wales.
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg
was on September 12 expected to launch
a report calling for a major program
of devolution within England after the
next general election in May 2015.
Meanwhile, British opposition La-
bour leader Ed Miliband will lead an
anti-independence rally alongside for-
mer prime minister Gordon Brown in
Glasgow, while anti-European rebrand
Nigel Farage also plans a demonstration
in the city.
The International Monetary Fund on
September 11 said that a vote for inde-
pendence would raise complicated is-
sues and could upset nancial markets.
While this uncertainty could lead
to negative market reactions in the
short term, the longer term will depend
on the decisions being made during
the transition, IMF spokesperson Bill
Murray said. AFP
Scots prepare to vote on independence
NEW European Union sanctions target-
ing Russia came into force on Septem-
ber 12, despite the threat of retaliation
from Moscow, which said the measures
could hurt peace moves in Ukraine.
The punitive measures target ma-
jor oil rms, defence companies and
state-owned banks, denying them ac-
cess to nance in crucial European
markets.
They also add 24 individuals to a
blacklist of people facing a travel ban
and asset freeze, including allies of
Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The new round of sanctions, the
latest in a series passed by Brus-
sels since Russia annexed Crimea in
March, took efect after being pub-
lished in the EUs ofcial journal.
Russian oil giants Rosneft and
Transneft, plus the petroleum unit of
gas giant Gazprom, are specically
hit by the new measures, which also
target Russian deep sea and arctic oil
exploration.
The sanctions target United Air-
craft Corporation, the parent company
that produces MiG and Sukhoi ghter
jets among others, tank maker Uralva-
gonzavod, and state-controlled aero-
space holding company and helicopter
maker Oboronprom.
Small-arms maker Kalashnikov is
on a list of companies to which EU
nations are now barred from selling
technology that could be used for mili-
tary purposes.
The blacklist of Russian and
Ukrainian individuals includes Sergei
Chemezov, the head of state-owned
Rostec industrial corporation, de-
scribed as a close associate of Mr
Putin.
It also targets pro-Russian separa-
tist leaders in eastern Ukraine, where
Western nations say Moscow sent
troops to support an uprising against
the government in Kiev.
EU nations nally approved the
sanctions on September 11 after a
week of deep divisions about whether
they should be implemented despite a
ceasere in Ukraine.
European Council president Her-
man Van Rompuy said that the puni-
tive measures could be lifted after a
review of the Ukraine truce at the end
of September.
US President Barack Obama had
also announced the day before that
Washington would intensify punitive
measures against Moscow.
The latest EU sanctions are a
toughening up of measures adopted
in July after the shooting down of Ma-
laysia Airlines ight MH17 over rebel-
held east Ukraine.
Russia is a major trading partner
for the EU. Many member states, es-
pecially in eastern Europe, rely heav-
ily on Russian oil and gas supplies to
keep their economies going. AFP
EU places fresh sanctions on Russia
The sun shines on Edinburgh on September 10, eight days before Scotlands independence referendum Photo: AFP
THE United States tripled its estimate
for the number of Islamic State ght-
ers as it geared up for a more ag-
gressive air campaign and Arab na-
tions rallied behind President Barack
Obamas nascent coalition against the
jihadists.
French President Francois Hol-
lande travelled to Baghdad on Sep-
tember 12 to meet his Iraqi coun-
terpart Fuad Masum in a show of
support.
France has said it is prepared to
participate in air strikes against the
militants in Iraq if necessary, and
hosts an international conference on
Iraq on September 15.
Ten Arab states including Saudi
Arabia agreed to do their share in the
comprehensive ght against Islamic
State, said a statement after a meeting
on Semptember 11 between US Secre-
tary of State John Kerry and his Arab
counterparts.
The militants now have about
20,000 to 31,500 ghters on the
ground in Iraq and Syria, the Central
Intelligence Agency said, much higher
than a previous estimate of 10,000.
This new total reects an increase
in members because of stronger re-
cruitment since June following bat-
tleeld successes and the declaration
of a caliphate, greater battleeld activ-
ity, and additional intelligence, CIA
spokesperson Ryan Trapani said.
The vastly higher estimate under-
scored the scale of the challenge after
Mr Obama vowed to expand an of-
fensive against the extremists, a plan
that foresees new air strikes against IS
in Syria, expanded attacks in Iraq and
new support for Iraqi government
forces.
Iraqs new unity government and
the Syrian opposition welcomed Mr
Obamas plan against IS, which has
seized a swathe of Iraq and Syria and
committed horrifying atrocities. But
Syrian President Bashar al-Assads
regime and powerful ally Russia con-
demned it.
Any action of any kind without
the consent of the Syrian government
would be an attack on Syria, National
Reconciliation Minister Ali Haidar
said.
Mr Obama said he was sending
another 475 military personnel to help
train Iraqi forces, but stressed that the
campaign would not be a repeat of the
exhausting ground wars fought by US
troops in the past decade in Iraq and
Afghanistan.
Instead, Washington is looking to
empower partners on the ground such
as Iraqi and Kurdish forces, as well as
WASHINGTON
Three-fold rise in IS numbers: CIA
The kind of
support we will
be giving to Iraqi
forces will be more
aggressive from
the air.
Rear Admiral John Kirby
Pentagon spokesperson
41
Tourists
unimpressed by
Kerala alcohol ban
WORLD 45
Cambodians battle it
out over martial arts
styles
WORLD 43
Free cows fail to
persuade Japans
young to stay home
WORLD 44
BRUSSEL
Oscar Pistorius guilty
of culpable homicide
Three-fold rise in IS numbers: CIA
Syrian rebels. US combat aircraft will
soon start ying out of a base in the
Kurdish region of Iraq as part of the
campaign, the Pentagon announced.
The kind of support were going to
be giving to Iraqi forces will be more
aggressive from the air, said Pentagon
spokesperson Rear Sdmiral John Kirby.
Mr Obama called on Congress to
swiftly authorise an operation to train
and equip moderate ghters, but sev-
eral House Republicans said after a
caucus meeting on September 12 that a
quick vote on that was unlikely.
House Speaker John Boehner said
they were worried that the broader
strategy was insufcient.
Along with the Saudis, Bahrain, Ku-
wait, Oman, Qatar and the United Arab
Emirates, as well as Egypt, Iraq, Jordan
and Lebanon, are Arab parties to the
coalition agreement. A nal statement
declared a shared commitment to
stand united against the threat posed
by all terrorism, including the so-called
Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant.
AFP
A Kyrgyz
stuntman
performs a daring
feat during
the rst World
Nomad Games
in the Kyrchin
(Semenovskoe)
gorge some 300
km from Bishkek,
on September
10. Teams from
Azerbaijan,
Kazakhstan,
Belarus,
Mongolia and
Tajikistan are
taking part in the
games.
IN PICTURES
Photo: AFP
ATHLETE Oscar Pistorius has been
found guilty of culpable homicide in
shooting dead his glamorous girlfriend
Reeva Steenkamp, a conviction that
could result in up to 15 years in prison.
On September 12, a day after ac-
quitting Mr Pistorius of a more serious
charge of murder, South African judge
Thokozile Masipa said that the athlete
had acted negligently when ring four
hollow-point rounds into a locked toilet
door in the early hours of Valentines
Day 2013.
On the charge of murder, Ms Masipa
said, The accused is found not guilty
and is discharged. Instead he is found
guilty of culpable homicide.
The athletes sentence will be deliv-
ered at a later date, expected to be sev-
eral weeks from the verdict date.
A reasonable person, Ms Masipa
continued, would have foreseen that
possibility that whoever was behind the
door might be killed by the shots and
would have taken steps to avoid the con-
sequences, and the accused in this mat-
ter failed to take those consequences.
The sportsman stared straight ahead
as the conviction was read, showing lit-
tle emotion.
From the gallery there was a sound of
snifes and shallow breaths of 29-year-
old Ms Steenkamps friends crying.
Ms Steenkamps father Barry ran his
hand over his head while her mother
June pursed her lips and shook her
head.
With no mandatory sentence for
culpable homicide, Ms Masipa will have
a great deal of discretion over the pun-
ishment.
Legal experts had earlier voiced sur-
prise that Mr Pistorius was found not
guilty of murder, and predicted the case
would likely not rest with the verdict.
Wits University criminal law profes-
sor James Grant said the state could ap-
peal if they believe there has been a legal
error.
Everyone is a little surprised, said
lawyer Audrey Berndt, focusing on Ms
Masipas nding that Mr Pistorius could
not have known that ring four hollow-
point bullets through the bathroom
door would have killed someone.
She should have explained her rea-
soning a little more, said Ms Berndt.
Ms Masipa, whose career has taken
her from a childhood in a poor Johan-
nesburg township to the countrys high
court, had described Mr Pistorius as a
very poor witness who was evasive
when questioned.
Mr Pistorius was also convicted of
one of three gun charges.
Ms Masipa said Mr Pistorius was
guilty of negligently handling a gun in
A restaurant, but acquitted him on two
other rearm charges.
Mr Pistorius was found guilty of ask-
ing to see a gun in Tashas restaurant,
and while handling it under the table
the rearm went of.
He may not have intentionally
pulled the trigger ... that does not ab-
solve him of the crime of negligently
handling a rearm, said Ms Masipa.
Mr Pistorius, who had appeared
emotionless throughout the morning,
started clenching his jaw during the rul-
ing.
Ms Masipa had, however, cleared Mr
Pistorius on charges of illegally possess-
ing ammunition, which the sprinter said
belonged to his father.
She also said there was not enough
evidence to suggest he was guilty of an-
other count of shooting a gun through a
car sunroof.
Full of high drama, the trial has fed
intense media interest worldwide, with
live broadcasts veering into the realm of
TV reality.
During proceedings Mr Pistorius
has broken down, weeping and at times
vomiting as he heard details of Ms
Steenkamps wounds. AFP
Oscar Pistorius listens to the verdict in
his trial at the high court in Pretoria on
September 12. Photo: AFP
42 World THE MYANMAR TIMES SEPTEMBER 15 - 21, 2014
BANGKOK
AN unprecedented number of peo-
ple have been charged with insulting
Thailands monarchy since the coup,
Amnesty International has said, with
14 Thais indicted under the contro-
versial lese majeste law in less than
four months.
Revered King Bhumibol Aduly-
adej, 86, is protected by one of the
worlds toughest royal defamation
laws. Anyone convicted of insulting
the king, queen, heir or regent faces
up to 15 years in prison on each count.
An unprecedented number of
people have been charged with lese
majeste ofences ... with 14 charges
or prosecutions initiated since the
coup, Amnesty said in its September
11 report about rights since the mili-
tary takeover on May 22.
The rights group said commen-
tators calling for reform of the law
or those previously jailed for royal
defamation appear to have been tar-
geted in the lists of people the junta
required to report to them after seiz-
ing power.
Last month two activists were
charged with breaching the law dur-
ing a university play, which featured
a ctitious monarchy, staged in Oc-
tober 2013 on the anniversary of a
student-led uprising.
In another recent case, a 28-year-
old musician was sentenced to 15
years in jail for writing insulting Fa-
cebook posts about the monarchy be-
tween 2010 and 2011.
Junta chief and recently appointed
prime minister Prayut Chan-O-Cha,
has said he was forced to take power
after months of protests against Yin-
gluck Shinawatras administration
left 28 people dead and hundreds
wounded, efectively paralysing her
government.
In the days following the coup
more than 570 people were ofcially
ordered to report to authorities, ac-
cording to Amnesty, which estimates
the number would be higher if infor-
mal orders were recorded.
Three months since the coup, a
picture emerges from our investiga-
tions of widespread and far-reaching
human rights violations perpetrated
by the military government that are
ongoing, said Richard Bennett, Am-
nesty Internationals Asia-Pacic
director. In his weekly televised
speeches, Mr Prayut has reiterated
the importance of the royal defama-
tion legislation.
The laws are aimed at protect-
ing the royal institution. Thailands
strength is based in the monarchy
institution and stability, he said on
September 5.
Some experts believe that a strug-
gle is unfolding to decide who will
run Thailands government when the
more than six-decade reign of the ail-
ing king eventually ends.
The succession is a taboo topic in
Thailand and its discussion is restrict-
ed under the royal defamation law.
But critics says that law has been
politicised, noting that many of those
charged in recent years were linked
to the Red Shirts protest movement,
which is broadly supportive of fugitive
former premier Thaksin Shinawatra.
Mr Thaksin clashed with the
royalist establishment before his
overthrow in a coup in 2006, and
shortly before Mays army takeover
his younger sister Ms Yingluck was
ousted as prime minister in a contro-
versial court decision.
Rights activists have also voiced
concern over the fate of suspects un-
der martial law, imposed by the army
two days before the coup, as this
means they could face military courts
with no right of appeal.
He has ruled out holding new
elections before October 2015, despite
international appeals for a return to
democracy. AFP
Fears over rise in lese
majeste cases: Amnesty
Junta chief and newly-appointed Prime
Minister General Prayut Chan-O-
Cha sits in front of a portrait of King
Bhumibol Adulyadej at Government
House in Bangkok on September 9.
Photo: AFP
PRAYUT Chan-O-Cha, Thailands coup
leader and premier, will visit Myan-
mar on his rst ofcial overseas trip,
an ofcial said on September 12, as the
junta seeks to strengthen ties with its
former military-ruled neighbour.
Mr Prayut will travel to Myanmar
as soon as possible, Deputy Foreign
Minister Don Pramudwinai said,
adding that the trip could take place
by the end of this month or early Oc-
tober.
The Prime Minister is scheduled
to visit Myanmar as his rst foreign
country because Myanmar currently
chairs ASEAN, Mr Don said, referring
to the 10-nation Association of Sou-
wheast Asian Nations of which Thai-
land is also a member.
Mr Prayut is next expected to visit
other ASEAN member states begin-
ning with Malaysia, he added.
For decades, former military-ruled
Myanmar was treated as a pariah state
by the West, but since a nominally ci-
vilian government took power in 2011,
the nation has been lauded for its dra-
matic reforms.
Thailands coup makers, mean-
while, have been chided by the United
States and the European Union for
grabbing power from an elected gov-
ernment in May, spurring the junta to
boost relations with Asian neighbours
instead.
In July, when Myanmars army
chief Min Aung Hlaing visited Bang-
kok, the Thai military said it had won
the countrys backing. AFP
BANGKOK SINGAPORE
Thai pm
to visit
Myanmar
Artists condemn film ban
LEADING Singaporean artists and ac-
tivists have urged the government to
allow the exhibition of a documentary
about the city-states political exiles
which has been banned on grounds of
national security.
They expressed deep disappoint-
ment at the decision by the Media
Development Authority (MDA) to ban
the public showing of To Singapore,
With Love by local lm director Tan
Pin Pin.
We would like to emphasise that
censorship does nothing to promote
a vibrant, informed society. We thus
urge the MDA to reconsider its deci-
sion, said the September 11 statement
signed by 39 artists and activists.
They include director Anthony
Chen, a winner of the prestigious Cam-
era dOr prize at the Cannes Film Fes-
tival, as well as theatre directors Ivan
Heng, T Sasitharan and Ong Keng Sen,
all winners of the Cultural Medallion,
Singapores top state award for artists.
The MDA, Singapores media regu-
lator, on September 10 banned the
70-minute documentary, saying it pro-
vided a distorted and untruthful ac-
count of nine former political activists
and student leaders.
They ed Singapore from the 1960s
to the 1980s and currently live in Brit-
ain, Thailand and Malaysia.
MDA said the lms contents
undermined national security be-
cause legitimate actions of the security
agencies to protect the national secu-
rity and stability of Singapore are pre-
sented in a distorted way as acts that
victimised innocent individuals.
It said a number of the exiles were
former members of the Communist
Party of Malaya (CPM), which had
sought to overthrow governments in
Singapore and Malaysia in the 1950s
and 1960s.
The lm, made from interviews of
the exiles, was classied as not al-
lowed for all ratings, meaning it can-
not be screened publicly or distributed
in Singapore.
A description posted on the lms
ofcial website said the documentary
explores how the exiles lived their
lives away and how they still view the
Singapore of their dreams.
In their statement, the Singapore-
an artists suggested that rather than
banning the documentary, authorities
should release their version of the
events in question, so that viewers can
make up their own minds.
Banning the lm will only rein-
force the view that our government
is trying to limit discussion around
our very own history, they said, add-
ing that the lm was screened at the
Berlin International Film Festival and
won multiple awards all over the
world.
It has received high praise from
lmmakers, critics and festival pro-
grammers. Many commentators have
described it as essential viewing for all
Singaporeans, they added. AFP
Censorship does
nothing to promote
a vibrant, informed
society.
Statement by Singapore artists
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PHNOM PENH
Old and new martial arts come to blows
Traditional Cambodian martial arts fighters train in techniques of mixed martial arts at a gym in Phnom Penh on April 21. Photo: AFP
HE is schooled in ancient Cambodian
martial arts, but Tok Sophon hopes
to turn his pugilism skills into wealth
and international glory in the mod-
ern cage-ghting arena a transition
some ghters fear will wipe out their
craft.
Heavy thuds ll the room as Mr
Sophon aims ferocious kicks into
pads held by his coach, one of a grow-
ing number of Cambodians learning
mixed martial arts (MMA), a combat
sport where competitors use anything
from kickboxing to wrestling to take
down their opponent.
I can make more money ghting in
the cage [where MMA is often fought]
than through traditional martial arts,
according to the 21-year-old, who joined
the lucrative global circuit last year.
In his rst bout in Malaysia he
earned US$1,000, nearly 30 times
more than an average contest in kun
Khme, Cambodian kickboxing, which
is similar to muay Thai in neighbour-
ing Thailand.
The MMA boom stems from a recent
revival in the Cambodian martial arts of
kun Khmer and bokator after centuries
of neglect and near extinction under the
Khmer Rouge regime of the late 1970s,
which outlawed both disciplines and
murdered their masters.
Bokator is the older of the ghting
styles, believed to go back more than
1000 years to the armies of the Khmer
empire who based elements of the
style on animal movements.
It barely survived the hardline
communist Khmer Rouge, who
tried to wipe out Cambodian his-
tory in a bid to establish an agrarian
utopia, but has since won new follow-
ers among Cambodians keen to learn
the art and preserve a unique strand
of their culture.
With its elbow and shin strikes,
locks and grapples, the sport deploys
techniques which can cross over into
MMA and Cambodian ghters have
found it relatively easy to adapt their
moves to the cage.
In the three years since boka-
tor practitioners rst competed in
an MMA tournament in Malaysia,
formally marking Cambodias entry
into the sport, it has skyrocketed in
popularity.
According to the association, there
are around 100 Cambodians who can
now compete professionally in the sport.
On September 12 nine of them
were due to take on challengers from
across the world as the ONE Fighting
Championship, Asias largest MMA
organisation, was due to hold its rst
global competition in Phnom Penh.
While their training in tradi-
tional martial arts provides a solid
foundation, ghters must learn new
techniques and MMA rules to com-
pete internationally. Spotting a gap
in this nascent market, Cambodian-
American Chan Reach traded his job
as a paramedic in New York in 2011 to
train ghters in Phnom Penh on how
to compete in the cage.
I was watching a match on You-
Tube with Cambodian ghters being
thrashed by foreigners, and knew I
had to come to help train them, said
Mr Reach, who is Mr Tok Sophons
trainer and himself a practitioner with
13 professional ghts under his belt.
A few months ago the coach-
turned-entrepreneur set up one of a
growing number of gyms in the capital
specialising in MMA.
It is a new twist in an old sport ... and
ofers an exciting opportunity for bokator
and kun Khmer ghters, he said.
But an older generation of ght-
ers are concerned the thriving MMA
industry poses a threat to their
centuries-old practice, long-hailed as
a symbol of Cambodias past military
might.
We are struggling to preserve our
ancient martial arts. If the young gen-
erations and government ofcials do
not support them, they will disappear,
said 63-year-old Chan Bunthoeun, a
Khmer martial arts coach who learned
the trade as a teenager from his father.
But with his own son now
preparing to compete in the upcoming
Phnom Penh contest he recognises the
lure of an industry ofering far greater
nancial rewards and fame.
The Cambodian MMA Association
is condent the sports international
reach can also redouble interest in
traditional martial arts.
We are integrating our ancient
martial arts with MMA... The world
will know our martial arts through
MMA, said Vath Chamroeun,
president of the association. AFP
Young combat sportsmen in Cambodia are turning to new styles of ghting to boost their income, but some fear old traditions will be lost
44 World THE MYANMAR TIMES SEPTEMBER 15 - 21, 2014
Kashmiri men transport
a stranded girl on a
makeshift raft through the
oodwaters in Srinagar
on September 10. Anger
mounted over the slow
pace of rescue operations
in Indian Kashmir as
ofcials said they were
overwhelmed by the
scale of ooding that
has claimed at least 350
lives and left hundreds
of thousands stranded in
the Himalayan region and
neighbouring Pakistan.
IN PICTURES
Photo: AFP
THE tiny Japanese community of Mishi-
ma was desperate to reverse its shrink-
ing population so ofcials came up with
what they hoped would be a game-
changing plan: free cows.
Anyone willing to pack up and move
to the remote southern village of 379
residents would get a no-cost calf or
500,000 yen (US$4900) in cash.
Mishimas bovine brainwave has fall-
en well short of expectations, however.
The program has been going for
more than 20 years, and so far there has
only been one person who took us up
on the cow, and that was two decades
ago, village ofcial Shingo Hidaka said,
adding the cash had only a handful of
takers.
The towns plucky bid to reverse its
demographic drain may be unusual, but
it is not alone.
In an efort to lure newcomers, small
communities across Japan are ofering
new arrivals everything from sacks of
rice and school lunches to no-cost medi-
cal care and free entry at the local hot
spring, a hugely popular pastime.
But the mostly inefective moves
have proved no match for the twin
threats of a rapidly ageing population
and one of the worlds lowest birthrates.
As a result, Japans countryside is
emptying out at an alarming rate, in a
demographic shift that by government
estimates will see the population drop
to 86 million over the next four decades
from about 127 million now.
A remarkable 40 percent of the pop-
ulation is expected to be over the age
of 65 in the coming decades, up from
around a quarter now.
The problem has left some com-
munities overwhelmingly populated by
elderly people or on the brink of becom-
ing ghost towns.
School rolls are badly diminished
and local services are increasingly too
costly to maintain due to the shrinking
tax base, while the problem also hurts
the wider economy and exacerbates an
already severe public debt crisis.
The privately run Japan Policy Coun-
cil warns that by 2040 about half of
Japans communities, from the biggest
cities to tiny hamlets, are at risk of tip-
ping into an irreversible decline, mainly
due to the sharp drop in the number of
young women in remote areas.
But it is not only an issue for the
countryside, as overpopulated cities
sufer from worsening social services,
warned Hiroya Masuda, a former
internal afairs minister and the policy
councils chair.
The exodus has seen younger people
ock to bigger cities, including Osaka
and the capital Tokyo, whose metro-
politan area is home to about 30 million
people, or nearly one-quarter of the na-
tions population.
The country is going to lose its
balance if Tokyo is overcrowded and
there is no one in the countryside, Mr
Masuda said.
We have to look at this issue as to-
days problem.
Case in point is Nanmoku village,
100 kilometres (62 miles) northwest
of Tokyo, home to the countrys oldest
population.
A record 57 percent of its residents
are 65 or older, and the government esti-
mates that there will be just 700 people
living in Nanmoku by 2040, plummet-
ing from just over 2200 now.
The village is ofering free school
lunches and student medical care to
anyone willing to move to the area.
Hida in central Japan is giving new-
comers an annual gift of 60 kilograms
(132 pounds) of rice for a decade, while
Nikaho in the north will hand out free
admission to the local hot spring.
But the situation has been getting
worse and worse we havent found the
kind of radical steps needed to stop the
trend, a Nanmoku ofcial said.
The once-bustling whaling town of
Ayukawa is now a shell of its former self
after a ban on commercial whaling deci-
mated the economy, with the population
plummeting by 75 percent since its peak
in the mid-1950s.
Those were the good old days, said
Kinji Suzuki, a 77-year-old retired whal-
er, as he stood on the town wharf with
a whale-tooth necklace dangling from
his neck.
Without whaling, people will leave
and this town will die out.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has
pledged to unveil an action plan by the
end of this year to halt the decline and
stabilise Japans population at around
100 million.
Mr Abe last week shufed his cabi-
net, creating a new ministerial job dedi-
cated to revitalising local economies.
Our government is feeling a sense of
crisis about this lack of a vibrant coun-
tryside, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshi-
hide Suga, the governments top spokes-
person, said recently.
Building strong communities in ru-
ral areas is a crucial job for us.
AFP
YUKAWA
Free cows fail to halt Japanese exodus
BY SHINGO ITO
Villages and towns across Japan are falling empty despite a variety of innovative incentives aimed at encouraging young people to live there
KOVALAM
BRITISH tourist John Packer ew out to
the tropical beaches of Kerala for a lei-
surely six-month break, but news of an
imminent alcohol ban across the south-
ern Indian state has made him rethink
his destination.
It wont cut it for me, said the
41-year-old tiler, drinking a beer at one
of the laid-back seafront restaurants in
the resort town of Kovalam.
When I come away I want a nice
few beers, to enjoy myself. Ive worked
hard for it, he said.
With its sweeping coastline, river-
boats and emerald tea plantations, Ker-
ala has become a leading tourist draw
in India, promoting itself as Gods Own
Country.
But behind the paradisiacal slogan,
the state has a damaging drinking prob-
lem among its 34 million population.
Now the government has chosen to opt
abruptly for almost complete prohibi-
tion in a move that has alarmed the
tourism industry.
As of September 12 more than 700
Keralan bars were to lose their licences.
Only ve-star hotels will be allowed to
keep serving alcohol and even they will
have go dry on Sundays.
Government-run liquor stores,
where men queue up for their daily x,
will be phased out at a rate of 10 percent
a year for the next decade, leaving a big
hole in the state cofers after alcohol tax-
es and fees generated more than US$1
billion in the 2012-13 nancial year.
Kerala should get ready to imbibe
the essence of [a] total liquor ban, said
Chief Minister Oommen Chandy last
month as he announced the plan.
Temperance activists may be happy
but Suman Billa, a top civil servant in
the tourism ministry, said the ban was a
major concern.
We take about a million international
tourists every year for whom wine and
beer is a part of their diet, said Mr Billa.
Along with holidaymakers spend-
ing, the state has been raking in earn-
ings from conferences and other busi-
ness events at hotels.
Theres always a cocktail and din-
ner that goes along with it. So I think
it would be particularly unattractive if
we were to say, Do come, but sorry, we
wont be able to serve you any alcohol,
he said.
His fears were backed up by a recent
survey from travel portal HolidayIQ.
com, based on 5000 Indian respondents,
of whom 58 percent said the booze ban
would afect their travel plans.
Bar owners have taken the matter
to court, fearing tourists will start opt-
ing for the beaches of nearby Goa or Sri
Lanka.
However, with the government
standing rm on the issue, they are only
hopeful the law might be moderated
somehow.
Weve got a lot of competition, said
G Sudhiesh Kumar, chief executive at
the Hotel Sea Face in Kovalam, which
has already started getting cancellations
from repeat European customers.
Mr Kumar worries that youngsters
in Keralas crucial IT sector may start
looking for work in other regions, while
investors will be spooked by the sudden
change to the laws.
Whos going to come and invest his
hard-earned money here in Kerala? That
is the wrong message, Mr Kumar said.
There is little denial of an alcohol
problem in rum-and-brandy-loving
Kerala, which has the highest consump-
tion levels in India owing to its relatively
high living standards, while the region
also has a long tradition of home-brew-
ing.
The Alcohol and Drug Information
Centre, an NGO to prevent substance
abuse, links 69 percent of crimes, 40
percent of road accidents and one in
four hospitalisations to alcohol.
The women have been sufering,
the homes have been sufering, said its
director Johnson J Edayaranmula.
But even he believes the move to pro-
hibition, although popular with most lo-
cals, has been ill thought through.
The government went into a hasty
decision and they dont know what to do
next, he said.
In Kovalam, many restaurants al-
ready do not go to the expense of pay-
ing for a licence and instead serve beer
illegally in mugs, listing it as pop on
the bill. This clandestine system is now
widely expected to grow, with money
once headed for the government simply
going into bribes.
People really like to drink here, said
Cyril de Montaigu, a 31-year-old French
backpacker, undeterred by the ban.
Prohibition never works; theres always
an underground market.
As for Mr Packer, he has decided to
y out of Kerala and instead spend his
beer money in Cuba. AFP
Prohibition sees Kerala tourism dry up
RACHEL OBRIEN
British tourist John Packer, a 41-year-old tiler, watches a waiter pour his beer at a
restaurant in the resort town of Kovalam, in Kerala on September 9. Photo: AFP
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for brakes used for railway cars; brake cylinders for
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automobiles and their parts and fittings; brakes for
automobiles; air brakes for automobiles; brake chambers
for automobiles; hydraulic clutches for automobiles; air
dryers used for brakes for automobiles; brake valves for
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hose couplings for automobiles; pneumatic control
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automobiles; automobiles and their parts and fttings;
clutch systems for automobiles and their parts and fttings;
clutches for automobiles; clutch operation cylinders for
automobiles; master clutch cylinders for automobiles;
hydraulic dampers for clutches for automobiles; orifce
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clutch shaft for automobiles; automatic doors for land
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th
September, 2014
CHINAS president was due to kick of
his rst South Asia tour with a visit to
Beijings latest investment in Sri Lanka,
a US$1.4 billion port city development
with marina and Formula One track:
all just 250 kilometres (150 miles) from
Indias coast.
Xi Jinpings trip to the site, next to a
major Chinese-funded commercial port,
will provide a vivid reminder of Beijings
growing economic clout in Indias back-
yard ahead of his maiden visit to New
Delhi this week.
Despite his hardline nationalist rep-
utation, Indias new Prime Minister Nar-
endra Modi moved quickly to engage
with traditional rival China after taking
ofce in May, inviting Mr Xi to India.
But he has also sought to stop Indias
neighbours falling further into Chinas
embrace, choosing Bhutan and Nepal
for his rst foreign trips as prime min-
ister and extending an olive branch to
arch-rival Pakistan.
That may not worry China too much.
Mr Modis close relationship with To-
kyo, on the other hand, is likely to raise
alarm bells in Beijing that analysts say
he may be able to use to his advantage.
Mr Modi enjoys a particularly warm
friendship with his Japanese counter-
part Shinzo Abe, who welcomed him
even as he was shunned by Western
powers over claims he failed to stop
deadly religious riots in Gujarat, the
state he used to run.
Both India and Japan are wary of
what many see as Beijings growing ter-
ritorial assertiveness, and Washington is
eager for them to step up their coopera-
tion by way of counterweight to China.
China is concerned that we would
get closer to Japan and to the US under
Mr Modi. They dont want that to hap-
pen, said Jayadeva Ranade, president of
the Centre for China Analysis and Strat-
egy in New Delhi.
Mr Ranade said this could give New
Delhi valuable leverage in its negotia-
tions with Beijing, after Japan pledged
during a recent visit by Mr Modi to dou-
ble its investment in the country over
the next ve years.
Liu Jianchao, assistant minister of
foreign afairs, said last week that Mr
Xi would discuss investment in Indias
railways as well as nuclear cooperation
during his visit.
Developing Indias crumbling infra-
structure is a key priority of the Modi
government, which has said it will up-
grade existing railways and build the
countrys rst high-speed train line. Mr
Liu also said the two sides would seek to
push forward negotiations on their dis-
puted border during Mr Xis visit.
While the frontier between China
and India has never been formally
demarcated, the two sides have signed
accords, and analysts said Beijing was
eager to maintain the peace with its
western neighbour.
Both sides will emphasise the points
of convergence during Mr Xis visit, fo-
cusing on trade and investment as well
as international cooperation, political
analyst Shyam Saran said.
It is quite apparent that China is
looking at India under Modi as a serious
and credible partner as well as potential
adversary, said Mr Saran, a former for-
eign secretary and senior fellow at the
Centre for Policy Research in New Delhi.
China ofered reassurances ahead
of the visit that it is not seeking to en-
circle India a long-held fear in some
quarters given Beijings closeness to
neighbouring Pakistan and growing in-
vestment in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and
the Maldives.
China sees India as a development
partner, Mr Liu told reporters in Bei-
jing. China has not and will not encir-
cle India.
Relations between the nuclear-armed
neighbours are still characterised by mu-
tual suspicion, in large part as a legacy of
a brief but bloody war in 1962. But India is
rolling out the red carpet for Mr Xi, who
will begin his visit in the prime ministers
home state of Gujarat on September 17, Mr
Modis 64th birthday. AFP
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Creative collective
Myanmar Fashion
Designer Group is
preparing to unveil
a host of original
creations from
wedding gowns to
cocktail dresses
at a one-of-a-kind
fashion fair
F
ASHION watchers are about to get a great chance to check out the latest
in contemporary Myanmar looks in an event featuring fashion accessories,
cosmetics, costumes and collections by top designers.
The nest and only collective in the domestic fashion industry, Myanmar
Fashion Designer Group (MFDG), will host their biggest event yet with the
2014-2015 Fashion Fair set for September 19-20 at Myanmar Event Park and produced
with the help of Forever Group.
The 28 members of MFDG include Ma Myint Zu (Zu Zu Collection), Ma Pont,
Moegyoke Pauk Pauk, Pyae Soe Aung, San Bauk Yar (SHAYI), Thet Hnin Aye (Dozo
Collection) and others. Each will show 17 original creations over the course of the
two-day event, presented by over 50 models from the local talent academies including
Stars & Models, Talent Models, Myanmar Model Management, Super Star Model
Agency and the Model Academy.
Out of the 28 designers, Ma Pont stands out with her collection that features
evening gowns nished with black lace, black sequins, oral arabesques and golden-
yellow satin edging. To make them, she used local fabrics as well as materials that she
purchased in Bangkok. She is also showing matching handmade masks, tiaras and
belts. Her work will be presented on opening day September 19.
Everybody has their own fashion taste and sense, but we dont always know how
to use it. Even among our group we have diferent ideas about what makes a good
design, Ma Pont, 37, said. So we decided to each create our own collections for the
show.
She stepped into the fashion eld after she graduated in 1994. She opened her
own store, My Favourite, in 1999 at 6 Mile, Kamaryut township. Now she is making
costumes for Miss Grand International Myanmar, M Ja Seng, who will compete in the
pageant in Bangkok next month.
Another notable female designer is Ma San Bawk Rar, 33, who has attracted a
following based on her fusion of traditional Kachin and modern looks. The clothing
she will present at the fair will be available in her 2015 collection, she said.
Fashion is always changing every year. It is not even the same from today to
tomorrow, she said. I grew up with tradition, which is why every design I create
incorporates the traditional. For this event, I created dresses with detailed designs
and I hope everyone will like that.
In her creations she uses cotton and printed cloth featuring cute designs. Most
are decorated with accessories such as buttons, braided or crocheted jute and wool
pompoms. The combination of elements result in classic yet trendy pieces, all made
with local materials, which have caught the eyes of many foreigners as well as
Myanmar shoppers.
Ma San Bawk Rar chose fashion as her career in 2005 when she was 25 years old.
At rst, she wanted to create her own designs and become famous without opening a
fashion or tailoring shop. But now she is well known with her ready-to-wear fashion
shop SHAYI. There are two stores in Yangon and one in Mandalay.
Pyae Soe Aung, 40, is famous for his elegant wedding designs both in Western and
traditional style. He is preparing 20 dresses but will pick out 17 for the show.
I used lots of accessories in my collection and also changed the cuts of my
designs in a way Ive never done before, he said.
Pyae Soe Aung started to work in fashion when he was 16. In 2005, he opened
Pyae Soe Aung fashion shop near Yuzana Garden Hotel. This year it moved to
Waizayatar Street. He has plans to make another fashion show just for wedding attire
with make-up artist Khin San Win next year.
The Myanmar Fashion Designer Group was formed in 2010 with 18 members and
hosted their rst event, The Fashion Phenomenon, in 2011. After three years their
numbers increased to 33 and they prepared to organise the upcoming event.
As we accepted many new designer members, we decided to make a big fashion
show for them and show their talent together with the work of senior designers, said
Ma Myint Zu, chair of MFDG.
We put lots of money, precious time and also our strength into this. I think this
is the rst time that such a magnicent and grand fashion show will be seen in
Myanmar, she said.
The fair will go for two full days, 10am to 9pm, and entry is free. Each of the
designers will also display and sell items from their collections. If you cant get there
in person, not to worry: the event will be broadcast as a delayed program one or two
days later on MRTV-4.
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Ma San Bawk Rars designs are inspired by Kachin traditional costumes. Photo: Aung Htay Hlaing
52 the pulse THE MYANMAR TIMES SEPTEMBER 15 - 21, 2014
F
ROM the start of his
career as an artist, U Aung
Myint has favoured free
expression over cautious
conformity.
It all began when he met Ko
Khin Maung Yin, a pioneering
experimental artist well known for
his relentless pursuit of creativity at
the expense of material comforts.
I liked his works, so I asked him
how to paint, U Aung Myint said
in an interview at Inya Art Gallery,
which he cofounded in 1989.
He told me that you can do
what you want to do. It is your
artwork, he said. Dont copy the
work of other artists. Whatever your
inspiration, you can do what you
want to do. I liked this idea very
much, so I tried to create my own
work.
U Aung Myint, 68, has made
a career out of doing just that:
The self-taught painter eschewed
traditional gurativism and instead
began experimenting with various
styles and media as a means of
exploring social, political and
economic issues.
As a result of this adventurous
approach to his work, U Aung
Myint became a well-respected,
groundbreaking contemporary artist
in his own right.
In 2002 he won the Jurors
Choice Award at the ASEAN Art
Award in Bali, Indonesia, for his
Mother and Child series, and his
works have been collected by the
National Art Gallery of Malaysia,
the Singapore Art Museum and the
Fukuoka Asian Art Museum.
Im always searching for more
and more experiences. Many kinds
of artworks have developed in
other countries, but not here. So I
want to look and search for new art
experiences, he said.
Over the years, his work has
included both representational
and abstract images, and easily
discernible inuences range from
the whorls of the Myanmar alphabet
to abstract expressionism.
The latter inuence is most
apparent in a series of works he
created in the early 2000s that
strongly evoke the mid-20
th
century
drip or action paintings of
American artist Jackson Pollock.
One of U Aung Myints drip
canvases from 2001 is currently on
view at the 14 AM solo show at TS1
Gallery at Lanthit Jetty, but the main
focus of the exhibit is the more recent
Faces series, which was started in
2012 and is still ongoing.
The Faces paintings tread the
line between representational and
abstract, and they help illustrate
the breadth of U Aung Myints
experimentation by hearkening
back to early 20
th
century modernist
expressionism in both their style
and the somber aura they project.
This melancholic mood stems
from the artists use of black paint
and indelicate brushstrokes to
create facial expressions that are
predominantly and disquietingly
neutral in aspect.
While the bleakness of some of
the paintings is broken by swaths of
red, others are so dark that the faces
are barely discernible.
A statement from TS1 Gallery
informs us that this series of
paintings ofers a reection on the
personal intrigue and trauma of a
changing populace coming face to
face with the global.
U Aung Myint provided a
simpler interpretation of his work
by explaining that he was inspired
by looking around and seeing the
many diferent expressions on
peoples faces, and by his desire as
an artist to show these diferences.
In other words, they are the
product of keen observation of the
physical world.
Thats not to say that the images
can be considered purely objective.
The artist said that much of his
inspiration is rooted in the intuitive
impulses of his own mind.
When I paint, my hands and
my mind are diferent. They express
diferent things. It depends on my
mood, he said. The painting comes
out while I work. I paint without
intention. Sometimes Im surprised
by what I create.
U Aung Myints self-professed
inspiration for these paintings
observation and personal mood
calls into question whether the third
ingredient suggested by the gallery
statement (Myanmars transition)
is pertinent, or whether its merely
a symptom of the current madness
for imposing contextual meaning in
light of the provisional liberalisation
under way in the country.
Its not much of a stretch
to accept the relevance of this
third element U Aung Myint
is no stranger to tackling social
or political issues but doing so
raises questions about the ne line
between objectivity and subjectivity
that, at least on the surface, seem
difcult to reconcile.
How can an artist determine
what thoughts are behind the faces
observed in the street?
If a passerbys brow is furrowed,
is it because hes mulling the
implications of coming face to face
with the global, or is he concerned
that his teenage daughter has just
eloped with the punk next door?
Would the Faces series have
turned out diferently had it been
created, say, 10 years ago, long
before Myanmars accelerated
collision with the rest of the world?
It might be posited that while U
Aung Myint is observing physical
faces, he is choosing (consciously or
unconsciously) to depict only those
he believes to best represent the
zeitgeist of the so-called transition
period.
Such an interpretation would
help explain why most of the
paintings depict a sea of subjects
rather than a single portrait, and
also why there is a certain sameness
to so many of the faces.
If this is indeed the case, the
mood as ltered through these
angst-infused images is fairly bleak.
But even this explanation is
belied by U Aung Myints own take
on why the facial expressions lack
dynamic range.
You can look at peoples faces,
and some are sorrowful and some
are happy. I tried to show this, but
I cannot now. I dont think Im a
qualied artist, he said. Faces are
very difcult to catch. I think I will
try to create more artworks in the
series to catch these faces.
U Aung Myints professed lack
of self-assurance is not uncommon
among artists who are happily and
heavily involved in the throes of the
creative process.
As such, it is clear that the
Faces series is a work-in-progress
that will continue to evolve, and
that its place in the artists own
canon, and more broadly in
Myanmars contemporary art scene,
is yet to be ascertained.
U Aung Myints 14 AM solo show
runs through September 20 at TS1
Gallery at Lanthit Jetty, Seikkan
township, Yangon.
Facing the collision
between observation
and intuition
WEEKLY PREDICTIONS
SEPTEMBER 8 - 14, 2014
PISCES | Feb 19 March 20
Positive thinking is
not enough to face
the truth, and
optimal thinkers
acknowledge and
respect negativity as an authentic
expression of reality. Are you
condent in your day-to-day life?
What is the best thing you can do
now?
CAPRICORN | Dec 22 Jan 19
Refusing to listen to
grievances produces
explosive conditions.
Its a danger signal
when there are no
complaints in social
communication. Give special care
to the inexperienced. Offer only
constructive criticism.
SCORPIO | Oct 23 Nov 21
Simple problems can
sometimes take a
long time to resolve.
A problem should
engage your sharp
intelligence. Believe that a logical
and reasonable answer will
present itself at the right time,
and you will recognise it.
TAURUS | April 20 May 20
You will remain
carelessly unknown
to yourself without
realising how
harmful this
ignorance is, and you will know
nothing about the value of
awareness. Your own actions are
the cause of whatever you
experience.
CANCER | June 21 July 22
Social complaints
cannot be escaped,
but your
compliments that
cost nothing and
come from the heart will be
remembered with a smile. Know
that everyone wants to be
acknowledged and appreciated.
VIRGO | Aug 23 Sept 22
Knowledge is
not obtained
without effort
and
enthusiasm.
Organise what
you hear to get
emotional or missing facts. You
must recognise that the excuses
and rationalisations that men give
for their actions are designed to
conceal rather than reveal.
AQUARIUS | Jan 20 Feb 18
Spirituality is
available to all. Find
inner and outer
peace through
meditation and
empower yourself to recognise
the merits of optimism.
Well-managed time is the surest
mark of someone who lives with
discipline.
SAGITTARIUS | Nov 22 Dec 21
Know that you are
only playing with a
representation of
reality and not with
reality itself. Art will
help you to see something
differently and to nd new
meaning. You can think of how to
use a mistake to create
something better.
LIBRA | Sept 23 Oct 22
You are a self-
organisation system.
Know that you can
only grow in
consciousness as
long as you can maintain the ability
to see beyond your conditional
judgments. Do you like to listen for
an idea that could spark a new line
of thinking?
ARIES | March 21 Apr 19
Work toward
handling your
emotions rather than
letting the emotions
handle you. Know
that happiness is often an illusion
because all appearances are
more interesting for the average
person than reality itself.
GEMINI | May 21 June 20
Moral accountability
is a certain step
toward social trust,
since truth is the
substance of all
morality. Nothing can happen
without goodwill. You need fertile
ground to put down roots and
build the fabric of your life.
LEO | July 23 Aug 22
Things turn out best
for the people who
make the best of the
way things turn out.
Know that a problem
is a chance for you to do your best,
and doing the best at this moment
puts you in the best place for the
next moment.
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A painting from U Aung Myints Faces series. Photo: Supplied
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L
IFE aboard trains has long
captured the imaginations
of writers and poets. The
passengers often become
characters across diferent
genres of literature. But do these
characters have a chance to enjoy
writing in which their lives have been
portrayed?
Writers from PEN Myanmar
initiated a pilot project that will see
a rotation of three or four writers
occasionally read poetry and books
on the circular-line trains that are
heavily used by low-class commuters
with the aim of triggering the desire
to read.
On September 6, PEN members
nearly 30 writers, journalists
and students from the Institute of
Theology, BARS bought round-trip
tickets and lled a whole cabin of one
air-conditioned train.
They set of from Yangon Railway
Station at 12:25pm and, during the
three-hour ride, writers read their
own short stories and excerpts from
novels as well as a famous poem by
the late poet Maung Chaw Nwe in
which he portrayed the train.
In the beginning, the commuters
will think that we are making noise in
the train. But I hope the novels and
short stories that capture their lives
may catch their interest bit by bit if
we regularly read on the train, said
writer Ma Thida (Sanchaung).
Minutes after the train left the
station, Michelle Aung Thin, a visiting
writer, read the rst few paragraphs
from her novel The Monsoon Bride
while Ma Thida gave impromptu
translation of what she read. Then
writers Mi Chan Wai, Nay Phone Latt,
Khin Mya Zin, A Phyu Yaung (Shwe)
and others took their turn reading.
The idea for the project emerged
when Ma Thida, on a trip abroad, saw
stickers bearing quotations from well-
known novels on public transport like
buses and trains.
When Myanmar Railway
allowed us to hire the whole cabin,
I immediately took this chance, she
said.
The air-conditioned train swayed
from side to side, making it difcult
for the writers to keep their balance
while standing and holding up books.
Whenever the train passed another
train, the deafening roar made it hard
for the audience to concentrate.
A Phyu Yaung, however, drew
inspiration from the experience. She
composed a short poem on the spur
of the moment and read it aloud.
Many people have lost interest
in reading for various reasons.
Especially low-income people cant
read much when they have to work
from dawn to dusk. Thats why we
are in the train to read for them, said
poet Saw Wai.
He appreciated that Myanmar
Railway pulled together with the
NGO for the success of the project.
They cooperated closely. I notice
that the government has become
more constructive. In the past, the
government had a habit of labelling
NGOs as political opponents, he said.
Poet Saw Wai and writer Su Mi
Aung also entertained the audience
with performance art.
It was very exciting, writer Khin
Mya Zin said of the unique train ride,
though she noted that sometimes she
couldnt hear clearly from her seat at
the back of the train.
Ma Thida said PEN will continue
with the project as long as the train
commuters show their interest in it
and Myanmar Railway allows them to
proceed.
Poetry in
motion
PEN writers recite literature on trains
to promote reading
ZON PANN PWINT
zonpann08@gmail.com
Ma Thida (right) reads aloud to passengers on the circular train on September 6. Photo: Yu Yu
NEW YORK
Bowie to come out with new music for
hits collection
Rock icon David Bowie, who broke a decade of
silence with an album last year, will release more
new music in November as part of a greatest-hits
collection.
The 67-year-old pioneer of glam rock will
release a nearly 8-minute song entitled Sue (or In
a Season of Crime) recorded with his long-time
producer Tony Visconti, his label said September 9.
The track will appear on Nothing Has Changed,
a career-spanning compilation in editions of two
or three CDs or a double-vinyl set that will be
released on November 17 in Britain and November
18 in the United States.
It marks the rst new music for Bowie since
March 2013 when he released the album The Next
Day.
The compilation comes ahead of the release
of the movie David Bowie Is, which is based on
an exhibition on the inuential artist at Londons
Victoria and Albert Museum. The exhibition travels
to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago
from September 23.
NEW YORK
Musical all-stars take up Paul
McCartney in new album
Bob Dylan, BB King and The Cure have all been
covered extensively in their own right, but the
artists have come together to interpret a giant
Paul McCartney.
The Art of McCartney, to be released on
November 17, will feature 42 covers from The
Beatles and the songwriters solo career, an
announcement said September 9.
The project began in 2003, when Los Angeles
producer Ralph Sall approached McCartney
about the idea and recruited his band.
In the album announcement, Sall said that he
knew he was ambitious to approach Bob Dylan
as he was one of the very few artists whose
own work rivals The Beatles. But he agreed to
perform Things We Said Today, a track off A
Hard Days Night in 1964 the same year Dylan
released The Times They Are a-Changin.
Other contributers include country legend
Willie Nelson, Smokey Robinson, Beach Boys
frontman Brian Wilson, Kiss and Def Leppard.
LONDON
Long tongues, leaping cats
among 60
th
World Records
A host of weird and wacky landmarks
have made the cut for 60
th
anniversary
edition of the Guinness World Records
book out on September 11.
The new edition will reect on six
decades of record-breaking, while
also featuring the latest additions to
the oddball hall of fame.
They include Californian Nick
Stoeberl, possessor of the worlds
longest tongue at 10.1 centimetres
(4 inches).
British lm buff Nick Bennett earned a place for having the largest collection
of James Bond memorabilia, with 12,463 items from model cars to posters
contained in a shine in his house.
In Japan, Akiko Obata has the largest collection of plastic food, with more
than 8000 items including giant plastic burgers, donuts and dishes of everything
from soup to desserts lling her apartment.
Meanwhile Alley, of the United States, takes the longest jump by a cat
record, at an impressive 6 feet (1.83 metres). The white, black and ginger cat
leapt the distance between two small platforms.
This cat leapt a record-breaking 6
feet (1.83 metres). Photo: Guinness
World Records/James Ellerker
TORONTO
Raw looks are hot in Hollywood
A no-fuss, no-makeup look at the Toronto lm
festival last week redened beauty as raw.
And established stars including Jennifer
Aniston and Reese Witherspoon lapped it up.
I loved every minute of it, said Aniston,
45. In her new lm Cake, she plays a greasy-
haired unpleasant woman in chronic pain who
has lost all reason to live.
It was an extraordinary experience seeing
one of the most beautiful women in the world
without a stitch of makeup on, director Daniel
Barnz said. Ive never found [Aniston] more
beautiful.
Earlier in the week, Witherspoon described
how Wild director Jean-Marc Vallee had
ordered the actors not to wear any makeup in
his lm adaptation of Cheryl Strayeds best-
selling memoir of self-destruction and renewal
on a 1100-mile trek.
It was raw, said Witherspoon of her
rumpled look in the movie.
Actress Keira
Knightley attends
The Imitation Game
premiere during
the 2014 Toronto
International Film
Festival at Princess
of Wales Theatre on
September 9. Photo:
Jason Merritt/Getty
The Global Gossip
Serena Williams poses for
a photo backstage during
Style360 Spring 2015 at
Metropolitan West in New
York City on September
9. Photo: Monica Schipper/
Getty
Actor Benedict
Cumberbatch attends The
Imitation Game premiere
during the 2014 Toronto
International Film Festival
at Princess of Wales
Theatre on September 9.
Photo: Jason Merritt/Getty
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Labourers at work in Yangon. Photos: Naing Win Tun
W
HEN social
networking sites,
particularly Facebook,
rst became popular
in Myanmar in the
late 2000s, people mostly used them to
connect and share photos with friends.
As the technology has advanced and
speedy network connections improve
access, however, social networking sites
have grown also to be powerful tools
for social activism.
Blogger and writer Nay Phone
Latt will discuss how users can
efectively and constructively employ
social media at the Ubud Writers and
Readers Festival (UWRF), the biggest
literary festival in Southeast Asia,
to be held October 1-5 in Ubud near
Bali, Indonesia.
When the technology advanced,
writers started experimenting with
social networking sites, particularly
Facebook and blogs, as a new
medium for expressing their political
views and ideas, Nay Phone Latt
said.
He will be the only festival
participant from Myanmar, and his
main subjects of conversation will be
activism and the disappeared, on
October 3 and 4 respectively.
Nay Phone Latt was arrested
under the Electronic Transactions
Act and sentenced to 20 years and
six months of imprisonment in 2008.
In 2009, while he was in prison, his
friends opened a Facebook account
in his name and, after he was freed
under terms of the amnesty in 2012,
he started to use it frequently. He
usually posts his views about the
current political and social situation
as well as original poetry.
Although hes an advocate for
internet activism, however, he
laments that more people havent
embraced its potential in that regard.
Though the technology advances,
peoples prudence in balancing
out the good and bad efects of the
content they post hasnt developed,
he said.
Before Nay Phone Latt used
Facebook, he tried his hand at
blogging. He started to post short
stories on a page he called The City
That I Have Dropped after hed faced
rejection by editors and censors. He
had also been writing stories for a
local print publication since the early
2000s.
He said the country needs a
good education system and raise
awareness of how the internet can be
used efectively for social good. It has
to be done urgently, he said.
When the peoples philosophy
of technology is undeveloped, there
are many hate messages, photos and
BALI, INDONESIA
Writers festival raises debate
on internet activism
ZON PANN PWINT
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Nay Phone Latt (centre) will speak in Ubud on September 19-20. Photo: Staff
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ART
Aug 15-Sept 20 14 AM TS1 Gallery,
Lanthit Jetty, Seikkan Township 10am-5pm
Sept 13-21 For the Peace paintings,
installations and performances by over 70
artists. River Ayeyarwaddy Gallery, 134 35
th

Street, middle block, Kyauktada 9am-6pm
Sept 16-22 The Wet Canvas solo show
by Mg Mg Hla Myint. Yangon Gallary,
Peoples Park, Ahlone Road, Dagon 5-6pm
Sept 13-20 The Parasol Project
fundraiser for Better Burmese Health Care.
Pansodan Scene, 144 Pansodan Street, 2
nd

Floor, Kyauktada 6-11pm
FILM
Start times at Mingalar (1, 2), Thwin,
Shae Shaung (1,2) and Nay Pyi Taw
cinemas are 10am, noon, 2pm, 4pm,
6pm and 8pm.
Start times at Junction Square and Maw
Tin are 10am, 1pm and 4pm daily and
7pm and 9:30pm on Friday and Saturday.
Start times at Mingalar San Pya are 10am,
12:30pm, 3:30pm, 6:30pm and 9:30pm.
Nay Pyi Taw Cinema, near Sule pagoda
The White-Haired Witch of Lunar Kingdom.
Directed by Jacob Cheung. A Chinese
fantasy flm.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Directed by
Jonathan Liebesman. The heroes in the
half-shell are back in 3D.
Step Up All In. Directed by Trish Sie. The
ffth installment of the American dance
series.
Mingalar Cinema 2, Dagon Center 2,
Myaynigone
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
Shae Shaung Cinema, Sule Pagoda
Road, Kyauktada
Into the Storm. Directed by Steven Quale.
A flm of disaster footage.
The Swimmers. Directed by Sophon
Sakdaphisit. A Thai horror flm with English
subtitles.
Junction Square Cineplex, Kamaryut
Swelter. Directed by Keith Parmer.
American action flm with Jean-Claude Van
Damme.
Threesome. Directed by Tanwarin
Sukkhapisit. A Thai romantic comedy with
English subtitles.
Mingalar San Pya Cineplex, Phone Gyi
Street and Anawrahta, Lanmadaw
The White Haired Witch of Lunar Kingdom.
The Swimmers.
MUSIC
Sept 5-Dec 31 Live music. Thiripyitsaya
Sky Bistro, 20
th
Floor, Sakura Tower
7-10pm
Sept 15 Monday blues. Mojo Bar, 135 Inya
Rd, Bahan 9:30-11:30pm
Sept 16 Jazz and blues. Gekko, 535
Merchant St, Kyauktada 7pm
Sept 20 Rock Resistance with Htoo
Ae Lin, G-Latt, Naw Naw, Htun Eaindra
Bo, Irene-Zin Mar Myint and Eaint Chit.
Tickets at Manthiri, Sun Music, Ko Ko Nyi
Nyi (Dagon Center) for K7000-K25,000.
National Theatre, Myoma Street 6:30pm
MISC
Sept 16 Gallery conversation and drinks.
Pansodan Gallery, 289 Pansodan Street,
Kyauktada, 7pm-late
Sept 16 Wine tasting. Mojo, 135 Inya Rd,
Bahan 7-9pm
Sept 16-17 International Comedy
Showcase with Luke Ashlocke (NBC,
Comedy Central) and Graham Wooding
(Edinburgh Fringe). Free entry, email
rsvp-events@50thstreetyangon.com. 50
th

Street Bar, 9-13 50
th
Street, Botahtaung
8pm
Sept 18 Tipsy Travel Talk Thursdays.
Discuss alternative travel in Myanmar
over drinks. Off the Beaten Track Caf,
Kandawgyi Oo Yin Kabar, Kandawgyi Park,
Mingalar Taung Nyunt
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SEPTEMBER 15 - 21
Min Min Hein hopes to change attitudes toward the elderly. Photo: Supplied
Directors old-age drama
competes at Nepal fest
CHIT SU WAI
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rumours that provoke protests. Those
are obvious bad efects, he said.
There are a few political activists
using Facebook, but not many of
them use it well, he said.
For example, the NLD Facebook
account just posts photos of their
activities across the country but
rarely posts their views, he said.
Nay Phone Latt said it depends
on the result that activists want to
achieve whether online or ofine
means will be most efective. If they
want political and social change or
parliamentary change, they need to
do ofine activities, he said. If they
just want to develop the publics
awareness of an issue, he said print
media, Facebook and broadcast is
helpful.
I dont think young people and
activists spend too much time on
online. Whether they read posts
and news, or use Google, or search
Wikipedia, they might gain a bit of
knowledge, he said.
The young generation has
changed reading habits. They prefer
to read posts that are short and to
the point rather than thick books,
he said.
The Ubud Writers and Readers
Festival will feature over 150 writers
from more than 25 countries,
including the Indian novelist Amitav
Ghosh, Chinese ction writer Can
Xue, British travel writer Colin
Thubron and Arabic writer and lm
director Hassan Blasim. The program
includes debates, conversations,
workshops, cocktail evenings and
more.
More information is available at
www.ubudwritersfestival.com.
AN old woman takes a shower in
front of a house surrounded by paddy
elds. The wrinkles on her hands
and face show her old age. She sits
in front of the house, appearing to
wait for someone to greet her. People
pass by, but no one comes. She
whispers something, but makes no
sound. Gradually, a candle she has lit
becomes dim, and as the ame dies,
so does she.
This scene plays out in At the
Horizon, a short lm by Min Min
Hein highlighting the predicament of
senior citizens in the 21
st
century. The
5-minute lm was recently selected
for screening at the 3
rd
Eka Deshma
Festival of Contemporary Cinema,
which takes place in Kathmandu
from September 19-21. It will be
shown during a competitive program
called Changing Perspective.
In Min Min Heins view, the elderly
are too often forgotten in modern
society. They often have no one to
spend their time with because the
younger generation is too busy, he
said.
My 89-year-old grandmother
was sick due to her age. Our family
looked after her, but at the same time,
my sister-in-law gave birth. Then the
whole family looked after both, but
diferently, he said, explaining his
inspiration for the lm. We were
eager to wait upon a newborn baby,
but we felt weary of my grandmother.
I felt so sorry, but I understood it. Its
just human nature.
In the lm, the old woman
whispers in front of a Buddha image,
but Min Min Hein said it isnt meant
to signify religious belief, just the fact
that she has no one to talk to.
I want young people to know that
the old people are not outcasts, and
they are human beings in our society,
he said.
He said that his lm is difcult
to understand at rst, and he
acknowledged that this didnt make the
lm very popular among audiences.
I prefer it that way because the
audience needs to think to get the
message I want to give.
The Eka Deshma Festival will
show 70 lms from 27 countries.
Judges will make awards on the last
day of the event.
Writers festival raises debate
on internet activism
TOKYO
Japanese male porn stars
rarer than Bengal tigers: actor
JAPANS vast pornography industry
is desperately short of men, one actor
claims, insisting even the endangered
Bengal tiger is more numerous.
A veteran porn star known only
as Shimiken says he is one of only 70
male actors, with just a few of them
doing all the heavy lifting.
Every day I meet the same
people and see the same names on
scripts, he said on Twitter under his
username @shimiken last month,
adding the number was lower than
that of Bengal tigers.
Quite why there arent enough
willing participants is a mystery
to Shimiken. This job is like an
Aladdins Cave, in many senses, he
said.
In contrast, the number of porn
actresses is as high as 10,000, with
4000 movies released every month,
he continued. We lack porn actors
here.
The huge imbalance in the eld
stands in marked contrast to other
areas of employment in Japan, where
men outnumber women. Prime
Minister Shinzo Abe has declared he
wants 30 percent of senior positions
occupied by women by 2020.
The number of tigers in the world
has fallen drastically from around
100,000 in the early 20
th
century to
about 4000 today, according to the
international conservation body,
World Wildlife Fund.
Most Bengal tigers live in India,
where a little over 1700 are found,
according to another conservation
group, the IUCN Global Species
Programme. AFP
A species less endangered than the
male Japanese porn star eyes visitors
at the New Delhi zoo. Photo: Ali Arsh
Protect
that smile
How parents can prevent
childrens tooth decay
through early and daily use
of uoride
I
TS safe to say that oral
hygiene has room for
improvement in Myanmar.
Most people are not in
the habit of brushing and
ossing their teeth daily, while
many chew betel nut and smoke
cigarettes or cheroots. The
uoride content of water sources
is largely unknown, and as people
climb out of poverty they tend to
switch to drinking bottled water.
Last week I saw a 6-month-
old expatriate patient at my
clinic in Yangon and had to
raise dental health as an area of
concern. It wasnt something the
parents seemed to have put much
thought into. From a preventative
medicine standpoint, the doctors
primary job in taking care of
healthy children is to get them
vaccinated, look out for their
nutrition and try to prevent tooth
decay.
Fluoride is essential to
dental health. It improves the
mineralisation process of tooth
enamel, meaning it enhances the
strength of the outermost layer
of our teeth. The US Centers
for Disease Control has called
uoride one of the greatest public
health interventions of the 20
th

century.
Protecting kids teeth
is slightly more dif cult in
Myanmar, however, given the
probable lack of uoride in tap
water and the tendency of the
middle class and international
residents to drink bottled water,
from which uoride is removed
through reverse osmosis.
The US Preventative
Services Task Force recently
updated its uoride guidelines,
recommending that doctors
prescribe oral uoride
supplements starting at 6 months
for children whose water supply
is lacking in uoride (less than
0.6 parts per million) and that
they apply uoride varnish
to the teeth of all children
as soon as baby teeth arrive.
These guidelines are based on
evidence that shows oral uoride
supplements and varnish prevent
cavities in children up to 5 years
old.
When doctors and parents
give children supplemental
uoride it needs to be done
carefully during the rst 4
years of life, since excessive
uoride can occasionally lead to
uorosis a lacey white or brown
discolouration of the teeth. Daily
additional uoride should be
started at 6 months of age with
kids getting 0.25mg per day. At
3 years old the amount can be
raised to 0.5mg per day.
Making sure kids get the
right amount of uoride is easy
when a doctor prescribes daily
drops, but these are dif cult to
nd in Myanmar. An alternative
approach is to start placing a
small amount of toothpaste in
a childs mouth at 6 months
old. An average 170g tube of
toothpaste contains about
40g of sodium uoride, which
means that for a child under
3 years old it should provide
about 160 doses (0.25mg) of
uoride. That means that a
parent need only apply a squirt
of toothpaste the size of a grain
of rice, or a very thin layer of
toothpaste that covers less than
half of the bristles of a child-size
toothbrush. After age 3, to get
closer to 0.5mg of uoride per
day, the amount of toothpaste
should be increased to the size
of a pea. (See accompanying
illustrations.)
Parents in Myanmar should
start providing daily uoride at
6 months of age, whether their
child has teeth or not. Because
the safe amount of uoride is
quite specic, parents need to
patiently help their children with
tooth brushing until they are 5 or
6 years old.
Some children need an
additional uoride varnish to
help prevent cavities. In my
Yangon clinic I talk to parents
about eating and drinking habits,
bottle usage and their own
history of cavities in order to
determine whether their child is
at risk of dental decay. If we agree
that the danger is high, I suggest
a uoride varnish to be applied
in the doctors of ce every six
months.
Christoph Gelsdorf is an American
Board of Family Medicine physician
who sees patients in Yangon and
California (www.gelsdorfMD.
com). He is a member of the
Myanmar Medical Association.
Reader thoughts and questions are
welcomed.
Living well in Myanmar
Photo: Helgi Halldrsson/Wikimedia Commons
NEW York Fashion Week transported
the woman of spring/summer 2015
into another world on September
9, with shades of Marie-Antoinette
at Vera Wang, ocean mermaids at
Rodarte and Picassos muse at Tory
Burch.
With blonde or jet-black hair
hanging in the eyes and in short,
spangled dresses with matching tulle
foam or cascades of embroidered
rhinestones, the Rodarte models took
on an almost slimy but still very
feminine appearance.
Tide pools and underwater
worlds, designer Laura Mulleavy told
AFP. So we were thinking about sea
life, like sea anemones, sea urchins,
like little rocky areas, ocean
mermaids.
Wang, 65, one of Americas
most popular fashion designers,
loves black and her collection for
spring/summer 2015 is no
exception.
She decked out a
Chelsea gallery in a
striking take on the
famous Tuileries Garden in
Paris, the models coming
out from behind a wall
of black box trees and
striding down a gravel-
strewn runway.
Its a bit my version
of the Tuileries... done
in a very New York way,
notably in the lack of
colour, she explained.
It may not have
been Versailles, but Wang
said her collection had the spirit,
extravagance and femininity, but
also the weakness and pride of
Marie Antoinette.
There were ruf es, ruching,
wide pleats belted at the waist, mini
dresses, crepe trousers, bandeau tops
and asymmetric jackets.
There were trapeze dresses heavily
embellished with stones and crystals
before as well as a lighter, freer
silhouettes of owered silk to the
ground and tulle skirts.
The contrast between controlled
black tailing and a uid look paid
tribute to the diferent personalities
of women, she said, summing up the
collection as boyish boudoir, baby
bohemian.
Its a voyage. Even inside the
woman, there is not only one
personality, Wang said.
Tory Burch used the impressive
backdrop of the Lincoln Center
skyline to showcase a simple, elegant
and fresh collection.
The billionaire head of the
eponymous afordable luxury
brand told AFP that she was
inspired by the spirit of French
painter Francoise Gilot, a
mistress of Pablo Picasso.
Texture came in the form
of raf a tweeds, graphic
smocking and knits
paired with digital print
counterparts, worn with
oversized earrings, woven
leather ats and colour-
blocked bags.
I love the idea of
her being such a strong
woman, Burch told AFP
when asked why Gilot
had been such an
inspiration. She was
also an incredible
artist in her own
right. AFP
NEW YORK
Bohemian, oceanic looks
mark fashion week
BRIGITTE DUSSEAU AND
PRUNE PERROMAT
A model wearing Marc By
Marc Jacobs walks the
runway at Pier 94 in New
York on September 9. Photo:
Peter Michael Dills/Getty
Images/AFP
The daily amount of toothpaste recommended for children ages 6 months to 3 years, and 3-6 years. Photo: UpToDate
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Warm up
with a clear
and simple
soup
I
WAS a food stylist on a
commercial photo shoot last
week, which meant I had to visit
many markets and supermarkets
across Yangon to chase down
beautiful veggies. Along the way, I
found a Japanese mushroom thats a
bit like the shimeji but longer, called
bunapi-shimeji or white beech in
English. They looked beautiful, and
some chefs use them in stir-fries. I
bought a bunch for the photo shoot
and more for my test kitchen.
The taste of the bunapi mushroom
is milder than the shimeji, and I used
them to prepare a clear soup. Its very
simple and turned out to be a hit
with my family. Just adding a bit of
salt and freshly ground black pepper
makes the mushrooms delicious. This
is a perfect dish for when you come in
wet and chilled from the rain.
The second dish I made is a stir-
fry of ginger and shallots with grilled
pork strips. The aroma of smoke
and ginger will surely warm up your
appetite.
SIMPLE MUSHROOM SOUP
Serves 6
500g bunapi-shimeji mushrooms
(available at Pro Mart)
1 clove of garlic
1 tbsp vegetable oil
1 tsp vegetable stock powder
(mixed with 2 cups of water)
2 tsp ground black pepper and
more for serving
Take the mushrooms out of the bag
gently and wash under slow running
water. Drain well. Cut the base of the
mushrooms and carefully separate
them.
Crush the garlic at. Add the oil
to a pot and saut the garlic on high
heat. When the aroma comes out, add
the mushrooms. Stir-fry for 2 minutes
or more, until the liquid comes out.
Add the vegetable stock mixed with
water to the pot and bring to a boil.
Then turn the heat down and simmer
for 10 minutes to infuse the avours.
Salt to taste and serve with extra
freshly ground pepper.
PORK AND GINGER-SHALLOT
STIR-FRY
Serves 6
500g pork strips (slices)
1 tbsp Kikkoman soy sauce
4 small onions
1 tsp brown sugar
2 tbsp vegetable oil
4cm x 1cm piece of ginger
Wash the pork and cut it into slices
1-1.5cm thick. Pat dry with kitchen
paper. Marinate with soy sauce,
sugar and 2 teaspoons of oil for half
an hour.
Slice the onions. Peel the ginger
and julienne it.
Heat the grill pan on high, then
grill the pork slices. Turn them
every 30 seconds. When the pork is
cooked, transfer to a plate.
Add the remaining oil to a
wok and heat on medium. Saut
the onions. When they become
translucent, add the ginger and fry
1 minute. Add cup of water to the
wok and fry another minute. When
its bubbling, remove the wok from
the heat. Pour the sauce over the
grilled pork slices.
Serve with rice.
PHYO ARBIDANS
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Photos: Phyo
Restaurant Review
Spice- and price-shock mark visit to ethnic
Wa restaurant with great atmosphere
THE ethnic foods of Myanmar tend to
match well with the climate of their
place of origin. But how would Wa
food, from northern Shan State, go
down in Yangon? The Wa are one of
the countrys nationalities who are
self-governed, and their foods are not
familiar to people in the south. My
colleagues and I visited Ha Tai Wa
to nd out, lured by some attractive-
looking photos that a friend had
showed us.
The restaurant looks inviting,
with bamboo huts in the yard in
front of a two-storey building,
though we didnt get to sit in a
hut because all were reserved in
advance. We were seated inside,
which was decorated with objects
of Wa traditional culture so that it
had the feel of a large kitchen. All
the chairs and tables were made of
cane and photos of Wa rituals and
ceremonies hung on the walls.
We ordered a rice set for two,
which included chicken curry, fried
lobsters with dried chillies and fried
bean and sour vegetable salad. It cost
K20,000, and that was the cheapest
set. The largest and most expensive is
priced at K40,0000 and comes with
two more curries. A medium set is
K30,000. Needless to say, this came
as a bit of a shock, although lobster,
admittedly, is never cheap.
We were able to set aside our
concern about the bill, however, as
we admired the silver bobbles that
decorated the hostesses red shirts,
skirts and crowns. They welcomed
posing for photos with customers,
and a waiter told us also that the
traditional costumes were for sale.
A rattan tray covered with banana
leaves arrived at our table. On it
were two heaps of rice and sticky rice
arranged with fried chicken, lobster
and fried beans, but no bowls or
plates. Only the sour vegetables came
on the side in a bowl.
The fried chicken was mostly
bones with no oil, no curry paste and
no smell or avour. The ve fried
lobsters were lost in crispy red chillies
and peppers. The fried green beans
werent so bad, though they were also
tough to chew. The sour vegetables
were indeed sour and mixed with
sesame seeds and sliced onions.
We also ordered a big bowl of
pumpkin soup cooked with pork ribs
and were disappointed to nd only
two ribs sunk in the broth.
We perused the menu further:
steamed bamboo for K9800, cooked
sh with salad for K10,500. Finally
we came upon Wa-style pounded
potatoes, K3500. We put in an order.
The soft and sour potatoes were
mixed with fried chillies, and we
gazed at the plate in awe because
wed asked the waiter to tone down
the heat.
In sum, Wa food is spicy, sour
and paired with sticky rice. There
was no juice on the menu, so we
gured that matching fruit with
food was not in the tradition. A pot
of hot green tea, however, made
the perfect complement to our
pioneering dinner.
Food 7
Beverage 7
Value for money 6
Service 7
X-factor 9
Restaurant Rating
Ha Tai Wa
10 Aung Thukha Street, 5 Quarter, 9 Mile, Mayangone
Phone 01-660376, 09-2045283
food
NYEIN EI EI HTWE
nyeineieihtwe23@gmail.com
Photo: Thiri Lu
THE MYANMAR TIMES SEPTEMBER 15 - 21, 2014
Socialite
Japanese expat party
Chatrium Hotel hosted a gathering for
Yangons Japanese expats on September 5.
It was a full house, with Embassy staf and
family members in attendance as well as
friends and fans of Japanese culture.
Shangri-La
thank-you party
Sule Shangri-La hotel
invited its clients to
enjoy a delectable
dinner on the house
on September 3 as part
of a thank-you for the
business party.
Ma Phyu, Ma Nang, Ma May, Ma Theint and Ma Mee Ms Denise
Shali, Ma Kalyar Thin and April
U Sein Htay, Mr Masato, Mr Yutaka, Mr Katsushi, Mr Shuichi and Mr Shokhi
Ma Thet Thet Linn Han and Ryugo Kawasakt
Caroline Cheah
U Win Aung and Ma Wint Theingi
Ma May Myat Mon Win, U Myint Aung and Mr Toshiaki
Phillip Couvaras
Jonko Kikochi
Ma Khin Sandar Win and Ko Wanna San Maung Ma Lwin Mon Aung, Ma Yadanar, Ma May Thazin and Ushio
Ma Mee Mee
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Socialite
AFMA dinner
The French Myanmar Chamber
of Commerce and AFMA held
their monthly business dinner
at Strand Hotel on September
11. Investors and representatives
of French private groups,
delegates of various embassies
and local business partners
joined the event, which focused
on Service Providers for
Industrial Projects (Oil & Gas,
Infrastructure, Construction)
and included presentations by
Vinarco and Vivablast.
Javier Serrano and David Levrat
George Davies
Pascal-Marie Ranger, Soe Thaung Myint and Aung Naing
Julien Garraud
Andreas Pinter, Sann Thawdar Htun and Xavier Monard
Wendy Ou, Paul Poh and Alexandre Besson
Josep Maria and Edouard Sauvant
Patrick Mueller and Yasemin Derviscemallioglu
Shwe Sin, Win Tin, Aye Thet Paing and Yaman Win
Douglas Smith and Jean Martial Boris Vivares, GM of Vivablast and its country director
Yann, Damien with the representative of CGG
Hay Mann Zu Zu and Ye Kyaw Thu
60 the pulse travel THE MYANMAR TIMES SEPTEMBER 15 - 21, 2014
DOMESTIC FLIGHT SCHEDULES
Airline Codes
6T = Air Mandalay
7Y = Mann Yadanarpon Airlines
FMI = FMI Air Charter
K7 = Air KBZ
W9 = Air Bagan
Y5 = Golden Myanmar Airlines
YH = Yangon Airways
YJ = Asian Wings
Subject to change
without notice
Day
1 = Monday
2 = Tuesday
3 = Wednesday
4 = Thursday
5 = Friday
6 = Saturday
7 = Sunday
Domestic Airlines
Air Bagan (W9)
Tel: 513322, 513422, 504888. Fax: 515102
Air KBZ (K7)
Tel: 372977~80, 533030~39 (airport), 373766
(hotline). Fax: 372983
Air Mandalay (6T)
Tel: (ofce) 501520, 525488, (airport)
533222~3, 09-73152853.
Fax: (ofce) 525937, 533223 (airport)
Asian Wings (YJ)
Tel: 515261~264, 512140, 512473, 512640
Fax: 532333, 516654
FMI Air Charter
Tel: 240363, 240373, 09421146545
Golden Myanmar Airlines (Y5)
Tel: 09400446999, 09400447999
Fax: 8604051
Mann Yadanarpon Airlines (7Y)
Tel: 656969
Fax: 656998, 651020
Yangon Airways (YH)
Tel: 383100, 383107, 700264
Fax: 652 533
YANGON TO NAY PYI TAW NAY PYI TAW TO YANGON
Flight Days Dep Arr Flight Days Dep Arr
FMI A1 1,2,3,4,5 7:30 8:30 FMI A2 1,2,3,4,5 8:50 9:50
FMI A1 6 8:00 9:00 FMI A2 6 10:00 11:00
FMI B1 1,2,3,4,5 11:30 12:30 FMI B2 1,2,3,4,5 13:00 14:00
FMI A1 7 15:30 16:30 FMI A2 7 17:00 18:00
FMI C1 1,2,3,4,5 16:45 17:45 FMI C2 1,2,3,4,5 18:05 19:05
YANGON TO MANDALAY MANDALAY TO YANGON
YJ 891 1,2,3,4,5,6 6:00 8:05 Y5 233 Daily 8:05 9:15
YH 917 1,2,3,4,5,7 6:10 8:30 YJ 891 1,2,3,4,5,6 8:20 10:15
Y5 775 Daily 6:15 7:25 YH 918 1,2,3,4,5,7 8:30 10:25
W9 7143/YJ 143 Daily 6:20 8:25 W9 7143/YJ 143 Daily 8:40 10:05
YJ 891 7 6:30 8:35 YJ 891 7 8:50 10:45
K7 222/7Y 111 Daily 6:30 8:40 K7 223/7Y 112 Daily 8:55 11:00
7Y 851 1,3,7 7:05 11:20 W9 201 Daily 9:10 11:05
W9 201 Daily 7:30 8:55 W9 153/YJ 7153 7 12:45 19:30
7Y 741 2,5 9:00 13:45 W9 153/YJ 7153 2,5 12:45 18:50
7Y 841 4,6 10:00 14:15 7Y 742 2,5 14:00 18:18
YH 727 1 11:00 13:10 7Y 852 1,3,7 14:25 18:40
YH 729 2,4,6 11:00 14:00 7Y 842 4,6 14:30 18:15
YH 737 3,5,7 11:00 13:10 YJ 212 5 15:00 17:25
W9 151/YJ 7151 1,3,6 11:00 14:45 W9 7152/YJ 152 1,3,6 15:05 16:30
W9 7153/YJ 153 2,5,7 11:00 12:25 YJ 602 6 15:40 17:05
YJ 601 6 11:00 12:25 YJ 202 2 16:00 17:25
YJ 761 1,4 11:00 12:55 YJ 212 7 16:15 17:40
YJ 201 2 11:00 12:55 7Y 632 2,4,6 16:15 17:40
YJ 211 5 11:00 12:25 YH 728 1 16:30 17:55
YJ 211 7 11:15 12:40 YJ 762 1,4 17:45 18:55
7Y 631 2,4,6 11:15 12:40 K7 225/7Y 222 Daily 16:50 19:00
K7 224/7Y 221 Daily 14:30 16:35 YH 738 3,5,7 17:10 18:35
W9 211 1,2,3,5,6 16:00 17:25 YH 730 2,4,6 17:45 19:10
W9 7211/YJ 211 4 16:00 17:25 Y5 776 Daily 19:35 20:45
Y5 234 Daily 17:45 18:55
YANGON TO NYAUNG U NYAUNG U TO YANGON
YJ 891 1,2,3,4,5,6 6:00 7:20 YJ 891 1,2,3,4,5,6 7:35 10:15
YH 917 1,2,3,4,5,7 6:10 7:45 YH 918 1,2,3,4,5,7 7:45 10:25
W9 7143/YJ 143 Daily 6:20 7:40 W9 7143/YJ 143 Daily 7:55 10:05
YJ 891 7 6:30 7:50 YJ 891 7 8:05 10:45
YH 917 6 6:30 8:05 K7 222/7Y 111 Daily 8:05 11:00
K7 222/7Y 111 Daily 6:30 7:50 YH 918 6 8:05 10:10
K7 224/7Y 221 Daily 14:30 17:25 K7 225/7Y 222 Daily 17:40 19:00
W9 211 1,2,3,5,6 16:00 18:10 W9 211 1,2,3,5,6 18:25 19:45
W9 7211/YJ 211 4 16:00 18:10 W9 7211/YJ 211 4 18:25 19:45
YANGON TO MYITKYINA MYITKYINA TO YANGON
YH 824 1 7:00 9:40 YH 825 1 9:40 12:05
YH 828 2,6 7:00 10:00 YH 829 2,6 10:00 12:25
7Y 851 1,3,7 7:05 12:45 7Y 852 1,3,7 13:00 18:40
W9 7151/YJ 151 1,3,6 11:00 13:15 W9 7152/YJ 152 1,3,6 13:35 16:30
W9 7153/YJ 153 2,5,7 11:00 13:55 YJ 211 5 14:05 17:25
YJ 201 2 11:00 14:20 YJ 211 7 14:20 17:40
YJ 211 5 11:00 13:50 YJ 202 2 14:35 17:25
YJ 761 1,4 11:00 16:05 7Y 632 2,4,6 14:50 17:40
YJ 211 7 11:15 14:05 YJ 762 1,4 16:20 18:55
7Y 631 2,4,6 11:15 14:35 W9 7154/YJ 154 7 16:35 19:30
YH 826 4 14:00 16:40 W9 7154/YJ 154 2,5 16:35 18:50
YH 827 4 16:40 19:05
YANGON TO HEHO HEHO TO YANGON
YJ 891 1,2,3,4,5,6 6:00 8:50 YH 918 6 9:00 10:10
YH 917 1,2,3,4,5,7 6:10 9:15 YJ 891 1,2,3,4,5,6 9:05 10:15
YJ 891 7 6:30 9:20 YH 918 1,2,3,4,5,7 9:15 10:25
K7 222/7Y 111 Daily 6:30 9:30 YJ 891 7 9:35 10:45
YH 917 6 6:30 9:00 K7 223/7Y 112 Daily 9:45 11:00
7Y 851 1,3,7 7:05 10:35 W9 201 Daily 9:55 11:05
W9 201 Daily 7:30 9:40 YJ 201 2 12:25 17:25
7Y 741 2,5 9:00 13:03 YJ 762 1,4 12:25 18:55
7Y 841 4,6 10:00 13:30 7Y 741 2,5 13:15 18:18
YJ 201 2 11:00 12:10 7Y 841 4,6 13:45 18:15
YJ 761 1,4 11:00 12:10 7Y 852 1,3,7 15:10 18:40
YJ 751 3 11:00 12:10 YH 728 1 15:45 17:55
YH 727 1 11:00 12:25 K7 224/7Y 221 Daily 16:00 19:00
YH 737 3,5,7 11:00 12:25 YH 738 3,5,7 16:25 18:35
K7 224/7Y 221 Daily 14:30 15:45 YJ 752 3 17:15 18:25
YANGON TO SIT T WE SIT T WE TO YANGON
6T 607 1 11:15 12:40 6T 608 1 13:00 15:00
6T 605 5 11:15 13:15 6T 606 5 13:35 15:00
W9 7311/YJ 311 4 11:30 13:20 W9 7311/YJ 311 4 13:35 15:00
W9 311 2 11:30 13:20 W9 311 2 13:35 15:00
YANGON TO MYEIK MYEIK TO YANGON
YH 633 3,4,5,7 7:00 9:15 YH 634 3,4,5,7 11:25 13:25
K7 319/7Y 531 Daily 7:00 9:05 K7 320/7Y 532 1,3,5 11:20 13:25
K7 320/7Y 532 2,4,6,7 11:30 13:35
YANGON TO THANDWE THANDWE TO YANGON
6T 605 5 11:15 12:10 6T 605 5 12:25 15:00
6T 607 1 11:15 13:50 6T 608 1 14:05 15:00
YANGON TO DAWEI DAWEI TO YANGON
YH 633 3,4,5,7 7:00 8:25 YH 634 3,4,5,7 12:15 13:25
K7 319/7Y 531 1,3,5 7:00 8:05 K7 320/7Y 532 1,3,5 12:20 13:25
K7 319/7Y 531 2,4,6,7 7:00 8:10 K7 320/7Y 532 2,4,6,7 12:25 13:35
YANGON TO LASHIO LASHIO TO YANGON
7Y 741 2,5 9:00 10:38 YJ 762 1 15:55 18:10
YJ 761 1 11:00 15:40 YJ 752 3 16:10 18:25
YJ 751 3 11:00 13:15 7Y 742 2,5 16:40 18:18
YH 729 2,4,6 11:00 13:00 YH 730 2,4,6 16:45 19:10
YANGON TO PUTAO PUTAO TO YANGON
W9 7153/YJ 153 2,5,7 11:00 15:05 W9 7154/YJ 154 7 15:25 19:30
W9 7154/YJ 154 2,5 15:25 18:50
YANGON TO CHIANG MAI CHIANG MAI TO YANGON
W9 9607/ YJ 7607 4,7 14:20 16:10 W9 9608/ YJ 7608 4,7 17:20 18:10
the pulse travel 61 www.mmtimes.com
H
OT-AIR balloons, long
a feature in Bagan and
Mandalay, are coming to
Inle Lake, says Daw Ni
Ni Khaing, operations
manager for Oriental Ballooning
Company. The rst ights are
scheduled for November.
The company already operates
services in Bagan and Mandalay, for
which they charge US$380 per person
for the premier service. At Inle, the
cost will be $420 for a one-hour ight.
Daw Ni Ni Khaing said starting
November, the companys Mandalay
balloons would carry four passengers
and their Bagan balloons would carry
eight from next month.
All the balloon pilots are UK
nationals licensed by the Civil
Aviation Authority, said Daw Ni
Ni Aung, adding, Our pilots have
more than 1000 hours ballooning
experience.
U Kyaw Kyaw Aung, reservations
manager with Balloons Over Bagan,
told The Myanmar Times, The
number of tourists ballooning over
Bagan is going up year after year.
The company began operations in
1999 with 11 balloons and has an
accident-free record, he said.
Balloons Over Bagan: 01-240363
Oriental Ballooning: 09-31113116
Hot air
balloons
coming to Inle
EI EI THU
91.eieithu@gmail.com
Hot-air balloons float tourists over Bagan. Photos: Staff
Airline Codes
3K = Jet Star
8M = Myanmar Airways International
AK = Air Asia
BG = Biman Bangladesh Airlines
CA = Air China
CI = China Airlines
CZ = China Southern
DD = Nok Airline
FD = Air Asia
KA = Dragonair
KE = Korea Airlines
MH = Malaysia Airlines
MI = Silk Air
MU = China Eastern Airlines
NH = All Nippon Airways
PG = Bangkok Airways
QR = Qatar Airways
SQ = Singapore Airways
TG = Thai Airways
TR = Tiger Airline
VN = Vietnam Airline
Y5 = Golden Myanmar Airlines
Subject to change
without notice
International Airlines
Air Asia (FD)
Tel: 251885, 251886
Air Bagan Ltd.(W9)
Tel: 513322, 513422, 504888. Fax: 515102
Air China (CA)
Tel: 666112, 655882
Air India
Tel: 253597~98, 254758. Fax 248175
Bangkok Airways (PG)
Tel: 255122, 255265. Fax: 255119
Biman Bangladesh Airlines (BG)
Tel: 371867~68. Fax: 371869
Condor (DE)
Tel: 370836~39 (ext: 303)
Dragonair (KA)
Tel: 255320, 255321. Fax: 255329
Golden Myanmar Airlines (Y5)
Tel: 09400446999, 09400447999
Fax: 8604051
Malaysia Airlines (MH)
Tel: 387648, 241007 (ext: 120, 121, 122)
Fax: 241124
Myanmar Airways International (8M)
Tel: 255260. Fax: 255305
Nok Airline (DD)
Tel: 255050, 255021. Fax: 255051
Qatar Airways (QR)
Tel: 379845, 379843, 379831. Fax: 379730
Silk Air (MI)
Tel: 255287~9. Fax: 255290
Thai Airways (TG)
Tel: 255491~6. Fax: 255223
Tiger Airline (TR)
Tel: 371383, 370836~39 (ext: 303)
Vietnam Airlines (VN)
Tel: 255066, 255088, 255068. Fax: 255086
Day
1 = Monday
2 = Tuesday
3 = Wednesday
4 = Thursday
5 = Friday
6 = Saturday
7 = Sunday
INTERNATIONAL FLIGHT SCHEDULES
YANGON TO BANGKOK BANGKOK TO YANGON
Flights Days Dep Arr Flights Days Dep Arr
PG 706 Daily 6:15 8:30 TG 303 1,2,3,5,6,7 7:55 8:50
8M 335 Daily 7:40 9:25 PG 701 Daily 8:50 9:40
TG 304 1,2,3,5,6,7 9:50 11:45 8M 336 Daily 10:40 11:25
PG 702 Daily 10:30 12:25 TG 301 Daily 13:00 13:55
TG 302 Daily 14:55 16:50 PG 707 Daily 13:40 14:30
PG 708 Daily 15:20 17:15 PG 703 Daily 16:45 17:35
8M 331 Daily 16:30 18:15 TG 305 Daily 17:50 18:45
PG 704 Daily 18:20 20:15 8M 332 Daily 19:15 20:00
TG 306 Daily 19:45 21:45 PG 705 Daily 20:15 21:30
YANGON TO DON MUEANG DON MUEANG TO YANGON
DD 4231 Daily 8:00 9:50 DD 4230 Daily 6:20 7:05
FD 252 Daily 8:30 10:15 FD 251 Daily 7:15 8:00
FD 254 Daily 17:50 19:10 FD 253 Daily 16:20 17:00
DD 4239 Daily 21:00 22:45 DD 4238 Daily 19:30 20:15
YANGON TO SINGAPORE SINGAPORE TO YANGON
Y5 233 Daily 10:10 14:40 SQ 998 Daily 7:55 9:20
SQ 997 Daily 10:35 15:10 3K 581 Daily 8:50 10:30
3K 582 Daily 11:20 15:50 MI 533 4,6 11:35 12:55
8M 231 Daily 12:45 17:10 MI 518 Daily 14:20 15:45
MI 533 4,6 13:45 20:50 TR 2826 Daily 17:05 18:25
MI 517 Daily 16:40 21:15 Y5 234 Daily 15:35 17:05
TR 2827 Daily 19:05 23:40 3K 583 Daily 18:00 19:30
3K 584 Daily 19:15 23:45 8M 232 Daily 18:15 19:40
YANGON TO KUALA LUMPUR KUALA LUMPUR TO YANGON
8M 501 1,3,5,6 7:50 11:50 AK 504 Daily 6:55 8:00
AK 505 Daily 8:30 12:50 MH 740 Daily 10:05 11:15
MH 741 Daily 12:15 16:30 8M 9505 Daily 10:05 11:15
8M 9506 Daily 12:15 16:30 8M 502 1,3,5,6 12:50 13:50
8M 9508 Daily 15:45 20:05 8M 9507 Daily 13:30 14:40
MH 743 Daily 15:45 20:05 MH 742 Daily 13:30 14:40
AK 503 2,4,6 19:30 23:45 AK 502 Daily 17:50 19:00
YANGON TO BEIJING BEIJING TO YANGON
CA 716 3,7 23:50 0550+1 CA 715 3,7 19:30 22:50
YANGON TO GUANGZHOU GUANGZHOU TO YANGON
8M 711 2,4,7 8:40 13:15 CZ 3055 3,6 8:40 10:25
CZ 3056 3,6 11:25 16:15 CZ 3055 1,5 14:40 16:30
CZ 3056 1,5 17:30 22:15 8M 712 2,4,7 14:15 15:50
YANGON TO TAIPEI TAIPEI TO YANGON
CI 7916 1,2,3,5,6 10:50 16:15 CI 7915 1,2,3,5,6 7:00 9:55
YANGON TO KUNMING KUNMING TO YANGON
CA 906 Daily 12:15 15:55 MU 2011 3 8:25 11:40
MU 2012 3 12:20 18:25 CA 905 Daily 10:45 11:15
MU 2032 2,4,5,6,7 14:50 18:20 MU 2031 2,4,5,6,7 13:30 14:00
YANGON TO HANOI HANOI TO YANGON
VN 956 1,3,5,7 19:10 21:30 VN 957 1,3,5,7 16:50 18:10
YANGON TO HO CHI MINH CITY HO CHI MINH CITY TO YANGON
VN 942 2,4,7 14:25 17:15 VN 943 2,4,7 11:50 13:25
YANGON TO DOHA DOHA TO YANGON
QR 919 1,4,6 8:00 11:10 QR 918 3,5,7 20:20 6:25+1
YANGON TO SEOUL SEOUL TO YANGON
0Z 770 4,7 0:35 9:10 KE 471 Daily 18:45 22:35
KE 472 Daily 23:35 7:50 0Z 769 3,6 19:50 23:25
YANGON TO HONG KONG HONG KONG TO YANGON
KA 251 1,2,3,4,5,7 01:10 05:45 KA 250 1,2,4,5,6,7 21:45 23:30
YANGON TO TOKYO TOKYO TO YANGON
NH 914 Daily 21:45 06:50+1 NH 913 Daily 11:00 15:40
YANGON TO GAYA GAYA TO YANGON
8M 601 3,5,6 7:00 8:20 8M 602 3,5,6 9:20 12:30
YANGON TO DHAKA DHAKA TO YANGON
BG 061 4 19:45 21:00 BG 060 4 16:30 18:45
BG 061 1 21:45 23:00 BG 060 1 18:30 20:45
YANGON TO INCHEON INCHEON TO YANGON
8M 7702 Daily 23:35 8:05 8M 7701 Daily 18:45 22:35
8M7502 4,7 0:35 9:10 8M 7501 3,6 19:50 23:25
MANDALAY TO BANGKOK BANGKOK TO MANDALAY
PG 710 Daily 14:05 16:30 PG 709 Daily 12:00 13:20
MANDALAY TO SINGAPORE SINGAPORE TO MANDALAY
MI 533 4,6 15:55 20:50 MI 533 4,6 11:35 15:00
Y5 233 Daily 8:05 14:40 Y5 234 Daily 15:35 18:55
MANDALAY TO DON MUEANG DON MUEANG TO MANDALAY
FD 245 1,2,4,6 12:45 15:00 FD 244 1,2,4,6 10:50 12:15
MANDALAY TO KUNMING KUNMING TO MANDALAY
MU 2030 Daily 14:40 17:30 MU 2029 Daily 13:55 13:50
MU 7524 1,3,5 18:20 21:00
MANDALAY TO GAYA GAYA TO MANDALAY
8M 603 4 11:10 12:15 8M 604 4 13:15 16:20
NAY PYI TAW TO BANGKOK BANGKOK TO NAY PYI TAW
PG 722 1,2,3,4,5 19:30 22:30 PG 721 1,2,3,4,5 17:00 19:00
62 the pulse tea break THE MYANMAR TIMES SEPTEMBER 15 - 21, 2014
ACROSS
1 Diamond Head
island
5 Small amount of
23-Across
8 Fragrant rose oil
13 Architects
handiwork
14 It comes to a point
15 Bath sponge (Var.)
16 British lord
17 Appraise
18 Succeed
19 Late-night movie fare,
sometimes
22 Byproduct of
cheesemaking
23 Toothpaste
type
24 Treat
27 Pardon ___ dust
(renovation sign)
29 Early birds?
33 Intestinal tract
division
34 Spirally threaded
tack
36 Dig in!
37 Point out
40 Loudness increaser,
of a sort
41 Some bean plants
(Var.)
42 One-masted
sailboat
43 Eh
45 Home office locale,
perhaps
46 Some trees
47 You stink!
49 Half a picker-upper
50 Marathoners
injuries
58 Nigerian monetary
unit
59 Beetle, Jaguar or
Mustang
60 Bang-up
61 Under an assumed
name, briefly
62 ___-Team
63 Hardly genteel
64 Get in touch,
in a way
65 Be mistaken
66 Newsroom fixture
DOWN
1 Energy cartel,
in brief
2 Controversial
apple spray
3 Hounds quarry
4 Illicit
5 Anne Franks writing
6 A chip, at times
7 Grievance,
slangily
8 Kelp beds,
essentially
9 Fife sound
10 Vegetarian staple
11 Whence some worship
12 Broiled just a bit
14 ___ words were never
spoken
20 A Childs Christmas
in Wales poet
21 Snowy bird
24 12-point types
25 Locale of a famous
last stand
26 Dog park noises
27 Body of salt water
28 Fancy-footed
vases
30 Columbus called
it home
31 Florida athlete
32 Some airport
landings
34 Lid lump
35 Certain bison
38 Bustles
39 Theyre hardly
revolutionary
44 Moon of Uranus
46 Apres-ski
beverage
48 Inedible orange
49 Idaho product,
informally
50 Cut, as coupons
51 Trigonometric
term
52 Puerto ___
53 Inescapable
outcome
54 Essen basin
55 Philandering
fellow
56 Concludes
57 Run for,
as public office
Universal Crossword
Edited by Timothy E. Parker
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The Essentials
Emergency Numbers
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Ambulance tel: 295133.
Fire tel: 191, 252011, 252022.
Police emergency tel: 199.
Police headquarters tel: 282541, 284764.
Red Cross tel:682600, 682368
Trafc Control Branch tel:298651
Department of Post & Telecommunication tel: 591384,
591387.
Immigration tel: 286434.
Ministry of Education tel:545500m 562390
Ministry of Sports tel: 370604, 370605
Ministry of Communications tel: 067-407037.
Myanma Post & Telecommunication (MPT) tel: 067-
407007.
Myanma Post & Tele-communication (Accountant Dept)
tel: 254563, 370768.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs tel: 067-412009, 067-412344.
Ministry of Health tel: 067-411358-9.
Yangon City Development Committee tel: 248112.
HOSPITALS
Central Womens Hospital tel: 221013, 222811.
Children Hospital tel: 221421, 222807
Ear, Nose & Throat Hospital tel: 543888.
Naypyitaw Hospital (emergency) tel: 420096.
Workers Hospital tel: 554444, 554455, 554811.
Yangon Children Hospital tel: 222807, 222808, 222809.
Yangon General Hospital (East) tel: 292835, 292836, 292837.
Yangon General Hospital (New) tel: 384493, 384494,
384495, 379109.
Yangon General Hospital (West) tel: 222860, 222861,
220416.
Yangon General Hospital (YGH) tel: 256112, 256123,
281443, 256131.
ELECTRICITY
Power Station tel:414235
POST OFFICE
General Post Ofce
39, Bo Aung Kyaw St. (near British Council Library). tel:
285499.
INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
Yangon International Airport tel: 662811.
YANGON PORT
Shipping (Coastal vessels) tel: 382722
RAILWAYS
Railways information
tel: 274027, 202175-8.
UNITED NATIONS
ILO Liaison 1-A, Kanbae
(Thitsar Rd), Yankin Tsp,
Tel : 01-566538, 566539
IOM 318 (A) Ahlone Rd, Dagon
Tsp, Yangon.Tel 01-210588,
09 73236679, 0973236680,
Email- iomyangon@iom.int
UNAIDS 137/1, Thaw Wun Rd,
Kamayut Tsp.
Tel : 534498, 504832
UNDCP 11-A, Malikha St,
Mayangone tsp.
Tel: 666903, 664539.
UNDP 6, Natmauk Rd, Bahan
tel: 542910-19. fax: 292739.
UNFPA 6, Natmauk Rd,
Bahan tsp. tel: 546029.
UNHCR 287, Pyay Rd,
Sanchaung tsp.
Tel: 524022, 524024.
UNIAP Rm: 1202, 12 Fl,
Traders Hotel.
Tel: 254852, 254853.
UNIC 6, Natmauk St., Bahan,
tel: 52910~19
UNICEF 14~15 Flr, Traders
Hotel. P.O. Box 1435,
Kyauktada. Tel: 375527~32,
unicef.yangon@unicef. org,
UNODC 11-A, Malikha Rd., Ward
7, Mayangone. tel: 01-9666903,
9660556, 9660538, 9660398.
email: fo.myanmar@unodc.org
UNOPS 120/0, Pyi Thu Lane,
7 Miles, Mayangone Tsp.
Tel: 951-657281~7.
Fax: 657279.
UNRC 6, Natmauk Rd, P.O.
Box 650, TMWE Tel: 542911~19,
292637 (Resident Coordinator),
WFP 5 Kan Baw Za St, Shwe
Taung Kyar, (Golden Valley),
Bahan Tsp. Tel : 2305971~6
WHO No. 2, Pyay Rd, 7 Mile,
Mayangone Tsp, Tel : 650405-
6, 650416, 654386-90.
ASEAN Coordinating Of. for
the ASEAN Humanitarian
Task Force, 79, Taw Win st,
Dagon Tsp. Tel: 225258.
FAO Myanma Agriculture
Service Insein Rd, Insein. tel:
641672, 641673.
EMBASSIES
Australia 88, Strand Road,
Yangon. Tel : 251810,
251797, 251798.
Bangladesh 11-B, Than
Lwin Road, Yangon.
Tel: 515275, 526144, email:
bdootygn@mptmail.net.mm
Brazil 56, Pyay Road,
6
th
mile, Hlaing Tsp,
Yangon. Tel: 507225,
507251. email: Administ.
yangon@itamaraty.gov.br.
Brunei 17, Kanbawza
Avenue, Golden Velly (1),
Bahan Tsp, Yangon. Tel:
566985, 503978.
email: bruneiemb@
bruneiemb.com.mm
Cambodia 25 (3B/4B),
New University Avenue
Road, Bahan Tsp, Yangon.
Tel: 549609, 540964.
email: RECYANGON @
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Canada
9
th
Floor, Centerpoint
Towers, 65 Sule Pagoda
Road, Yangon, Tel :
01-384805 , Fax :01
384806, Email : yngon@
international.gc.ca
China 1, Pyidaungsu
Yeiktha Road, Yangon. Tel:
221280, 221281.
Denmark, No.7, Pyi Thu
St, Pyay Rd, 7 Miles,
Mayangone Tsp, Yangon.
Tel: 01 9669520 - 17.
Egypt 81, Pyidaungsu
222886, 222887,
Egyptembassy86@gmail.
com
France 102, Pyidaungsu
212178, 212520, email:
ambaf rance. rangoun@
diplomatie.fr
Germany 9, Bogyoke Aung
San Museum Road, Bahan
Tsp, Yangon.
Tel: 548951, 548952, email:
info@rangun. diplo.de
India 545-547, Merchant
St, Yangon. Tel: 391219,
388412,
email:indiaembassy
@mptmail.net.mm
Indonesia 100, Pyidaungsu
Yeiktha Rd, Yangon. Tel:
254465, 254469, email:
kukygn @indonesia.com.
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Israel 15, Khabaung
Street, Hlaing Tsp, Yangon.
Tel: 515115, fax: 515116,
email: info@yangon.mfa.
gov.il
Italy 3, Inya Myaing Road,
Golden Valley, Yangon.
Tel: 527100, 527101, fax:
514565, email: ambyang.
mail@ esteri.it
Japan 100, Natmauk Rd,
Yangon. Tel: 549644-8,
540399, 540400, 540411,
545988, fax: 549643
Kuwait
62-B, Shwe Taung Kyar St,
Bahan Tsp.
Tel : 01-230-9542, 230-
9543. Fax : 01-230-5836.
Laos A-1, Diplomatic
Quarters, Tawwin Road,
Dagon Tsp, Yangon.
Tel: 222482, Fax: 227446,
email: Laoembcab@
mptmail. net.mm
Malaysia 82, Pyidaungsu
220248, 220249,
email: mwkyangon@
mptmail.net.mm
Nepal 16, Natmauk
Yeiktha, Yangon. Tel:
545880, 557168, fax:
549803, email: nepemb @
mptmail.net.mm
Norway, No.7, Pyi Thu
St, Pyay Rd, 7 Miles,
Mayangone Tsp,Yangon.
Tel: 01 9669520 - 17 Fax
01- 9669516
New Zealand No. 43/C,
Inya Myaing Rd, Bahan Tsp,
Yangon.
Tel : 01-2306046-9
Fax : 01-2305805
Netherlands No. 43/C, Inya
Myaing Rd, Bahan Tsp,
Yangon. Tel : 01-2305805
North Korea 77C, Shin
Saw Pu Rd, Sanchaung
Tsp, Yangon.
Tel: 512642, 510205
Pakistan A-4, diplomatic
Quarters, Pyay Rd, Yangon.
Tel: 222881 (Chancery
Exchange)
Philippines 50, Sayasan
Rd, Bahan Tsp, Yangon.
Tel: 558149-151,Email: p.e.
yangon@gmail.com
Saudi Arabia No.6/S,
Inya Yeiktha St, 10
th
Qtr,
Mayangone Tsp, Yangon,
Tel: (951) 652-344, 652-344,
Fax: (951) 657-983
Russia 38, Sagawa Rd,
Yangon.
Tel: 241955, 254161,
Serbia No. 114-A, Inya
Rd, P.O.Box No. 943,
515283, email: serbemb @
yangon.net.mm
Singapore 238, Dhamazedi
Road, Bahan Tsp, Yangon.
Tel: 559001, email:
singemb_ ygn@_sgmfa.
gov.sg
South Korea 97 University
Avenue, Bahan Tsp,
Yangon. Tel: 527142-4,
515190, fax: 513286, email:
myanmar@mofat.go.kr
Sri Lanka 34 Taw Win Rd,
Switzerland
No 11, Kabaung Lane, 5
mile, Pyay Rd, Hlaing Tsp,
Yangon.
Tel: 534754, 507089.
Thailand 94 Pyay Rd,
Dagon Tsp, Yangon. Tel:
226721, 226728, 226824
Turkey
19AB, Kan Yeik Thar St,
Mayangone Tsp,Yangon.
Tel : 662992, Fax : 661365
United Kingdom 80 Strand
Rd, Yangon.
Tel: 370867, 380322,
371852, 371853, 256438,
United States of America
110, University Avenue,
Kamayut Tsp, Yangon.
Tel: 536509, 535756, Fax:
650306
Vietnam Bldg-72, Thanlwin
Rd, Bahan Tsp, Yangon. Tel:
511305
ACCOMMODATION-
HOTELS
No.7A, Wingabar Road,
Bahan Tsp, Yangon.
Tel : (951) 546313,
430245. 09-731-77781~4.
Fax : (01) 546313.
www.cloverhotel.asia.
info@cloverhotel.asia
Confort Inn
4, Shweli Rd, Bet: Inya Rd
& U Wisara Rd, Kamaryut,
tel: 525781, 526872
No. (356/366), Kyaikkasan
Rd, Tamwe Township,
Yangon, Myanmar.
Ph: 542826, Fax: 545650
Email: reservation@
edenpalacehotel.com
M-22, Shwe Htee Housing,
Thamine Station St., Near
the Bayint Naung Point,
Mayangone Tsp., Yangon
Tel : 522763, 522744,
667557. Fax : (95-1) 652174
E-mail : grandpalace@
myanmar.com.mm
Clover Hotel City Center
No. 217, 32nd Street
(Upper Block), Pabedan Tsp,
Yangon, Myanmar.
Tel : 377720, Fax : 377722
www.clovercitycenter.asia
Clover Hotel City Center Plus
No. 229, 32nd Street
(Upper Block), Pabedan Tsp,
Yangon, Myanmar.
Tel : 377975, Fax : 377974
www.clovercitycenterplus.asia
No. 12, Pho Sein Road,
Tamwe Township, Yangon
Tel : (95-1) 209299, 209300,
209343 Fax : (95-1) 209344
bestwestern.com/
greenhillhotelyangon.com
No. 205, Corner of Wadan
Street & Min Ye Kyaw
Swa Road, Lanmadaw
Tsp, Yangon. Myanmar.
Tel: (95-1) 212850 ~ 3,
229358 ~ 61,
Fax: (95-1) 212854.
info@myanmarpandahotel
.com http://www.
myanmarpandahotel.com
PARKROYAL Yangon,
Myanmar
33, Alan Pya Pagoda Rd,
Dagon tsp.
tel: 250388. fax: 252478.
email: enquiry.prygn@
parkroyalhotels.com.
Savoy Hotel
129, Damazedi Rd,
Kamayut tsp.
tel: 526289, 526298,
Sedona Hotel
Kabar Aye Pagoda Rd,
Yankin. tel: 666900.
Strand Hotel
92 Strand Rd. tel: 243377.
fax: 289880.
Summit Parkview Hotel
350, Ahlone Rd, Dagon
Tsp. tel: 211888, 211966.
Sule Shangri-La Hotel
223 Sule Pagoda Rd. tel:
242828. fax: 242838.
Royal White Elephant Hotel
No-11, Kan Street, Hlaing
Tsp. Yangon, Myanmar.
(+95-1) 500822, 503986.
www.rwehotel.com
Hotel Yangon
91/93, 8
th
Mile Junction,
Tel : 01-667708, 667688.
Inya Lake Resort Hotel
37 Kabar Aye Pagoda Rd.
tel: 662866. fax: 665537.
KH Hotel, Yangon
28-A, 7 Miles, Pyay Rd,
Ph: 95-1-652532, 652533
MGM Hotel No (160), Warden
Street, Lanmadaw Tsp, Yangon,
Myanmar. +95-1-212454~9.
www. hotel-mgm.com
ACCOMMODATION
LONG TERM
No.6, Botahtaung Jetty,
Botahtaung Township,
Yangon. Tel: (951)9010555,
9010535 Fax : (951) 9010536
info@vintageluxuryhotel.com
www.vintageluxuryhotel.com
Marina Residence
8, Kabar Aye Pagoda Rd,
Mayangone Tsp.
tel: 6506 51~4. fax: 650630.
ACCOMMODATION-
HOTELS (NAY PYI TAW)
Tel: 09-7349-4483,
09-4200-56994.
E-mail: aahappyhomes@
gmail.com, http://www.
happyhomesyangon.com
happy homes
REAL ESTATE & PROPERTY
MANAGEMENT
17, Kabar Aye Pagoda Rd,
Yankin Tsp.
Tel: 650933. Fax: 650960.
Email : micprm@
myanmar.com.mmwww.
myanmar micasahotel.com
Golden Hill Towers
24-26, Kabar Aye Pagoda
Rd, Bahan Tsp.
tel: 558556. ghtower@
mptmail.net.mm.
Reservation Ofce (Yangon)
123, Alanpya Pagoda Rd,
Dagon Township
Tel : 951- 255 819~838
Royal Kumudra Hotel,
(Nay Pyi Taw)
Tel : 067- 414 177,
067- 4141 88
E-Mail: reservation@
maxhotelsgroup.com
Sakura Residence
9, Inya Rd, Kamaryut Tsp.
tel: 525001. fax: 525002.
Hotel Grand United
(Chinatown)
621, Maharbandoola Rd,
Latha Tsp, Yangon.
Tel: (95-1) 372256-58
(21
st
Downtown)
66-70, 21
st
Street (Enter
from Strand Rd), Latha
Tsp, Yangon. Tel: (95-1)
378201
(Ahlone Branch)
35, Min Ye Kyaw Swar
Rd, Ahlone Tsp, Yangon.
Tel: (95-1) 218061-64;
Email: grandunited.
head@gmail.com, www.
hotelgrandunited.com
No.1, Wut Kyaung St,
Yay Kyaw, Pazundaung Tsp,
Yangon, Myanmar.
Ph: 01-8610640, 01-202187,
www.mkhotelyangon.com
Winner Inn
42, Than Lwin Rd, Bahan
Tsp. Tel: 503734, 524387.
email: reservation@winner
innmyanmar.com
Yuzana Hotel
130, Shwegondaing Rd,
Bahan Tsp, tel : 01-549600
Yuzana Garden Hotel
44, Alanpya Pagoda Rd,
Mingalar Taung Nyunt Tsp,
tel : 01-248944
Real Estate Service
Selling, Buying, Renting,
Tel: 09 2500 08127, 09 2541
46420, 09 2541 46421.
ADVERTISING & MEDIA
FASHION & TAILOR
Sein Shwe Tailor, 797
(003-A), Bogyoke Aung
San Rd, MAC Tower 2,
Lanmadaw Tsp, Yangon,
Ph: 01-225310, 212943~4
Ext: 146, 147, E-mail:
uthetlwin@gmail.com
FOAM SPRAY
INSULATION
Foam Spray Insulation
No-410, Ground Fl,Lower
Pazuntaung Rd, Pazun
taung Tsp, Yangon.Telefax
: 01-203743, 09-5007681.
Hot Line-09-730-30825.
Diamond Palace Jewelry
Shop (1) - No. 663/665,
Mahar Bandoola Rd,
Tel : 01-371 944, 371 454,
Shop (2) - No.1103/1104/
1105, Ground Fl, Taw Win
Center, Tel : 01-8600111
ext :1103, 09 49307265
Shop (3) - No.B 020,
Ground Fl, Junction
Square Shopping Center,
Tel : 01-527 242 ext : 1081,
09 73203464
Shop (4) Ground Fl,
Gamonepwint Shopping
Mall, Kabaraye Pagoda
Rd, Tel : 01-653 653 ext :
8205, 09 421763490
Shop (5) - 229/230, 1st Fl,
Ocean Shwe Ghone Daing
Super Center, Yangon. Tel
: 09-312 91904, 09-732-
03376.
info@seinnandaw.com
www.seinnandaw.com
www.facebook.com/
seinnandaw
GEMS & JEWELLERIES
Best Jewels
No. 44, Inya Road,
Yangon, Myanmar.
Tel : 01-2305811, 2305812.
The Natural Gems of
Myanmar & Fine Jewellery.
No. 30(A), Pyay Road,
(7 mile), Mayangone Tsp,
Yangon, Myanmar.
Tel : 01-660397, 654398
spgems.myanmar@
gmail.com
Your Most Reliable Jeweller
Yangon : A-3, Aung San
Stadium (North East Wing),
Mingalartaungnyunt Tsp.
Tel : 245543, 09-73903736,
09-73037772.
Mandalay : No.(4) 73rd St,
Btw 30th & 31st St, Chan
Aye Thar Zan Tsp. Tel : 09-
6803505, 09-449004631.
Naypyitaw : Level (2),
Capital Hyper Mart,
Yazathingaha Street,
Outarathiri Tsp. Tel : 09-
33503202, 09-73050337
GAS COOKER &
COOKER HOODS
Worlds leader in
Kitchen Hoods & Hobs
Same as Ariston Water
Heater. Tel: 251033,
379671, 256622, 647813
GENERATORS
No. 589-592, Bo Aung
Kyaw St, Yangon-Pathein
highway Road. Hlaing
Tharyar tsp. Tel: 951-
645178-182, 685199, Fax:
951-645211, 545278.
e-mail: mkt-mti@
winstrategic.com.mm
CONSULTING
Shwe Hinthar B 307, 6 1/2
Miles, Pyay Rd., Yangon.
Tel: +95 (0)1 654 730
info@thuraswiss.com
www.thuraswiss.com
Myanmar Research | Consulting | Technology
Zamil Steel
No-5, Pyay Road,
7 miles,
Tel: (95-1) 652502~04.
Fax: (95-1) 650306.
Email: zamilsteel@
zamilsteel.com.mm
CONSTRUCTION
CO WORKING SPACE
No. (6), Lane 2
Botahtaung Pagoda St,
Yangon.
01-9010003, 291897.
info@venturaofce.com,
www.venturaofce.com
Crockery
No.196/198,
Ground Floor,
Shwe Bon Thar St(Middle),
Pabedan Tsp, Yangon,
Tel: 253214, 0973098782,
09420049459
DELIVERY SERVICE
CROCKERY
Express Courier & Cargo
One Stop Logistic Solution
Ygn, Hot Line: 01-374457
FLORAL SERVICES
Floral Service & Gift Shop
No. 449, New University
Avenue, Bahan Tsp. YGN.
Tel: 541217, 559011,
09-860-2292.
Market Place By City Mart
Tel: 523840~43,
523845~46, Ext: 205.
Junction Nay Pyi Taw
Tel: 067-421617~18
422012~15, Ext: 235.
Res: 067-414813, 09-492-
09039. Email : eternal@
mptmail.net.mm
FITNESS CENTRE
Balance Fitnesss
No 64 (G), Kyitewine
Pagoda Road, Mayangone
Township. Yangon
01-656916, 09 8631392
Email - info@
balancetnessyangon.com
Life Fitness
Bldg A1, Rm No. 001,
Shwekabar Housing,
Mindhamma Rd,
Mayangone Tsp. Yangon.
Ph: 01-656511,
Fax: 01-656522,
Hot line: 0973194684,
natraysports@gmail.com
No. 20, Ground Floor, Pearl
Street, Golden Valley Ward,
Bahan Township, Yangon.
Tel : 09-509 7057, 01-
220881, 549478 (Ext : 103)
Email : realtnessmyanmar
@gmail.com
www.realtnessmyanmar.com
Floral Service & Gift
Centre 102(A), Dhamazaydi
Rd, Yangon.tel: 500142
Summit Parkview Hotel,
tel: 211888, 211966 ext. 173
fax: 535376.email: sandy@
sandymyanmar.com.mm.
ENTERTAINMENT
Learn to dance with
social dancing
94, Bogalay Zay St,
Botataung T/S,
Yangon.
Tel : 01-392526,
01-1221738
DUTY FREE
Duty Free Shops
Yangon International
Airport, Arrival/Departure
Mandalay International
Airport, Departure
Ofce: 17, 2
nd
street,
Hlaing Yadanarmon Housing,
Hlaing Township, Yangon.
Tel: 500143, 500144, 500145.
24 Hrs International Clinic
Medical and Security
Assistance Service
@ Victoria Hospital
No.68, Tawwin Rd, 9 Mile,
Mayangon Township,
Yangon, Myanmar.
Tel: +951 651 238
+959 495 85 955
Fax: +959 651 398
www.leomedicare.com
24 Hours Laboratory
& X-ray, CT, MRI, USG
Mammogram, Bone DXA
@ Victoria Hospital
No. 68, Tawwin Rd, 9 Mile,
Mayangon Township,
Yangon, Myanmar.
Tel: (951) 9 666141
Fax: (951) 9 666135
Japan-Myanmar
Physiotherapy Clinic.
Body Massage - 7000 Ks
Foot Massage - 6000 Ks
Body & Foot Massage -
12,000 Ks
No.285, Bo Aung Kyaw Rd,
Kyauktada Tsp, Yangon.
09:00 AM - 09:00 PM
Tel : 09-8615036
Condo (C), Room (001),
Tatkatho Yeikmon Housing,
New University Avenue Rd,
Bahan Tsp, Yangon.
Tel: 09 8615162,
09 8615163, 542 375,
546 663, (Ext 1155)
HEALTH SERVICES
GLASS
98(A), Kaba Aye Pagoda
Road, Bahan Township,
553783, 09-732-16940.
Fax: 542979
Email: asiapacic.
myanmar@gmail.com.
The Lady Gems &
Jewellery
No. 7, Inya Rd, Kamayut
Tsp, Yangon, Myanmar.
Tel : 01-2305800,
09-8315555
Kham Le
22, Thukha Waddy St,
Suneyan Park, Yankin, Ph:
01-8605223, 8605224.
CAR RENTAL
No. 56, Bo Ywe St,
Latha Tsp, Yangon.
Tel : 01-246551, 375283,
09-2132778, 09-31119195.
Gmail:nyanmyintthu1983@
gmail.com,
Car Rental Service
COFFEE MACHINE
illy, Francis Francis, VBM,
Brasilia, Rossi, De Longhi
Nwe Ta Pin Trading Co., Ltd.
Shop C, Building 459 B
New University Avenue
01- 555-879, 09-4210-81705
nwetapintrading@gmail.com
CONFERENCE
The Best Conference,
Exhibition & Workshop at
Reasonable Cost in Yangon
MitaMyanmarInvestmentTrade
TechnologyConference.com
maizar@mitaservices.com.sg
09420110451,09420110666
Myanmar
Investment
Conference
25-27 Sept
BOOK STORES
150 Dhamazedi Rd.,
Bahan Tsp, Yangon.
Tel: 536306, 537805.
Email : yangon@
monument-books.com
15(B), Departure Lounge,
Yangon Intl Airport.
#87/2, Crn of 26
th
& 27
th

St, 77
th
St,Chan Aye Thar
Zan Tsp, Mandalay.
Tel : (02) 24880.
First Class VIP
Limousine Car Rental.
Professional English
Speaking Drivers.
Full Insurance for
your Safety and
comfortable journey
Call us Now for your
best choice
www.mmels.com
MYANMAR EXECUTIVE
LIMOUSINE SERVICE
HOT LINE:
09 - 402 510 003
01-646 330
AUTO LEASING
Vehicle Operating Leases:
Trucks

Semi trailers

Vans and Minibuses

Tractors

Pickups
aung@yomaeet.com
www.yomaeet.com
SAIL Marketing &
Communications
Suite 403, Danathiha Center
790, Corner of Bogyoke Rd
& Wadan Rd, Lanmadaw
Township, Yangon, Myanmar.
Tel: (951) 211870, 224820,
2301195. Email: admin@
advertising-myanmar.com
www.advertising-myanmar.
com
WE STARTED THE ADVERTISING
INDUSTRY IN MYANMAR SINCE 1991
MAR K E T I NG & COMMUNI CAT I ONS
A D V E R T I S I N G
The First Air conditioning
systems designed to keep
you fresh all day
Zeya & Associates Co., Ltd.
No.437 (A), Pyay Road,
Kamayut. P., O 11041
Yangon, Tel: +(95-1)
502016-18,
Mandalay- Tel: 02-60933.
Nay Pyi Taw- Tel:
067-420778, E-mail :
sales.ac@freshaircon.
com. URL: http://www.
freshaircon.com
AIR CONDITION
Strategic PR, Media
Monitoring, Media
Networking, Media
brieng for Executives
#17, ShweThaPyay
Housing 2, Nawaratt St,
10 Quarter, Thaketa Tsp,
Yangon, Myanmar.
Tel: +959 421027567, +959
5070524, pandpmedia.
com@gmail.com
ARCHITECTS &
MODULAR BUILDINGS
contactus@greenarc.net.au
Tel : 09-730-22820
BEAUTY & MASSAGE
Marina Residence, Yangon
Ph: 650651~4, Ext: 109
Beauty Plan, Corner of
77th St & 31st St, Mandalay
Ph: 02 72506
Lemon Day Spa
No. 96 F, Inya Road,
Kamaryut Tsp, Yangon.
Tel: 514848, 09-732-08476.
E.mail: lemondayspa.2011
@gmail.com
MYANMAR BOOK CENTRE
Nandawun Compound,
No. 55, Baho Road,
Corner of Baho Road
and Ahlone Road, (near
Eugenia Restaurant),
Ahlone Township. tel:
212 409, 221 271. 214708
fax: 524580. email: info@
myanmarbook.com
BOOK STORES
No. 52, Royal Yaw Min Gyi
Condo, Room F, Yaw Min
Gyi Rd, Dagon Township,
Yangon, Myanmar.
Tel: 09-425-307-717
YANGON
La Source Beauty Spa
80-A, Inya Rd, Kamayut Tsp.
Tel: 512380, 511252
Beauty Bar by La Source
Room (1004), Sedona Hotel,
Tel : 666 900 Ext : 7167
MANDALAY
La Source Beauty Spa
13/13, Mya Sandar St,
bet: 26_27, bet: 62_63,
Chanaye Tharzan Tsp.
Tel : 09-4440-24496.
www.lasourcebeautyspa.com
Beauty Spa & Reexology
42 (A), Amaka (10)
Kyaung St, Pyay Rd,
Hlaing Tsp, Yangon.
Ph: 01-507070, 01-507141,
09-51 09435, 09-51 43568
International
Construction
Material Co., Ltd.
No. 60, G-Fl, Sint-Oh-Dan St,
Lower Block, Latha Tsp,
Yangon, Myanmar.
Tel : 01-245112,
09-730-22820
Email : intconstruction
material@gmail.com
Room No. 1101, 16
th
Flr,
Tower B, Maw Tin Tower,
Corner of Anawrahta Rd
& Lanthit St, Lanmadaw
Tsp, Yangon, Myanmar.
Tel : (95-1) 218489. 218490
218491
Fax : (95-1) 218492
Email : marketing @
kaytumadi.com, contact@
kaytumadi.com,
kaytumadi@gmail.com.
web : www.rockworth.com
TRAVEL AGENTS
Get your Visa online for
Business and Tourist
No need to come to
Embassy.
#165. 35th Street,
Kyauktada Tsp, Yangon.
Tel: +951 381200, 204020
travel.evisa@gmail.com
VISA & IMMIGRATION
WEB SERVICE
WATER SOLUTION
Water Treatement Solution
Block (A), Room (G-12),
Pearl Condo, Kabar Aye
Pagoda Rd, Bahan Tsp.
Hot Line : 09-4500-59000
Aekar
Company Limited
Web Services
All the way from Australia
world-class websites/
web apps for desktop,
smartphone & tablets,
online shopping with
real-time transaction,
news/magazine site,
forum, email campaign
and all essential online
services. Domain
registration & cloud
hosting. Talk to us: (01)
430-897, (0) 942-000-4554.
www.medialane.com.au
WATER HEATERS
The Global leader in
Water Heaters
A/1, Aung San Stadium
East Wing, Upper
Pansodan Road.
Tel: 01-256705, 399464,
394409, 647812.
Shan Yoma Tours Co.,Ltd
Ph: 01-9010378, 9010382,
www.exploremyanmar.com
www.exploreglobaltravel.
com
Asian Trails Tour Ltd
73 Pyay Rd, Dagon tsp.
tel: 211212, 223262.
fax: 211670. email: res@
asiantrails.com.mm
Wat er Heat er
Made in Japan
Same as Rinnai Gas Cooker
and Cooker Hood
Showroom Address
No.(68), Tawwin Street,
9 Mile, Mayangone Tsp,
Yangon.
Hunt line: +95 1 9666 141,
Booking Ext : 7080, 7084.
Fax: +95 1 9666 135
Email:
info@witoriya hospital.com
www.victoriahospital
myanmar.com,
Facebook :
https://www.facebook.com/
WitoriyaGeneralHospital
Executive Serviced Ofces
www.hinthabusinesscentres.com
Tel : 01-4413410
SERVICE OFFICE
Capital Hyper Mart
14(E), Min Nandar Road,
Dawbon Tsp. Ph: 553136.
City Mart (Aung San) tel:
253022, 294765.
City Mart (47
th
St Branch)
tel: 200026, 298746.
City Mart (Junction 8)
tel: 650778.
City Mart (FMI City Branch)
tel: 682323.
City Mart (Yankin Center
Branch) tel: 400284.
City Mart (Myaynigone)
tel: 510697.
City Mart (Zawana Branch)
tel:564532.
City Mart (Shwe Mya Yar)
tel: 294063.
City Mart (Chinatown Point)
tel: 215560~63.
City Mart (Junction Maw Tin)
tel: 218159.
City Mart (Marketplace)
tel: 523840~43.
City Mart
(78
th
Brahch-Mandalay)
tel: 02-71467~9.
IKON Mart
No.332, Pyay Rd, San
Chaung. Tel: 535-783, 527705,
501429. Email: sales-ikon@
myanmar.com.mm
Junction Maw Tin
Anawrahta Rd, Lanmadaw,
Ph: 01-225244.
Junction Square
Pyay Rd, Kamayut,
Ph: 01-527242.
Junction Zawana
Lay Daung Kan St,
Thingangyun, Ph: 573929.
Ocean (North Point)
Pyay Rd, 9 mile,
Ph: 01-652959.
Ocean (East Point)
Mahabandoola Rd,
Ph: 01-397146.
SUPERMARKETS
STEEL STRUCTURE
Design, Fabrication,
Supply & Erection of Steel
Structures
Tel : (+95-1) 122 1673
Email : Sales@WEC-
Myanmar.com
www.WEC-Myanmar.com
English Education Centre
Nursery - Primary
(15 months - 12 years)
55 (B), Po Sein Road,
Bahan Township.
Tel : (951) 546097, 546761.
Email: imm.myn@gmail.com
I nternational
M ontessori
M yanmar
Executive Serviced
Ofce, Registered
and Virtual Ofce, Hot
Desking, Meeting Rooms
Tel: +(95) 1 387947
www.ofcehubservices,com
LUGGAGE
Carlton
No.196/198, Ground Floor,
Shwe Bon Thar St(Middle),
Pabedan Tsp, Yangon, Tel:
253214, 09420049459,
0931569998
150 Brand NEW
International Standard
Rental Apartments
Hotline : 09 43 200 845
09 250 516 616
email : rental.starcity@
gmail.com
www.starcityyangon.com
HOUSING
Pun Hlaing Golf Estate
Gated Golf Community
HOUSE RENTAL
APARTMENT RENTALS
SERVICED APARTMENTS
Available Immediately
RENTAL OFFICE
OPEN DAILY 9-5
PHGE Sales & Marketing,
Hlaing Tharyar Tsp, Yangon.
Tel : 951-687 800, 684 013
phgemarketing@gmail.com
www.punhlainggolfestate.com
HOME FURNISHING
22, Pyay Rd, 9 mile,
Mayangone Tsp.
tel: 660769, 664363.
Franzo Living Mall
15(A/5), Pyay Rd, A1(9miles),
Tel : 01-664026, 01-656970,
09-43205018
www.facebook.com/franzo
livingmall.
Email:palazzofurniture@
gmail.com
HOTEL SUPPLY
Premium Chef Uniform
Building B-1, Room 001,
Myittar Street, TamweLay,
TamweTsp, Yangon.
Tel: 01-556703, 09-
5408885, 09-5067816
Email:
theworkwearmyanmar@
gmail.com
INSURANCE
Fire, Motor and Life
Insurance
44, TheinPhyu Road,
Tel : 01- 8610656
Mob : 09-5055216
Email: maythet@gw-
insurance.com
www.gw-insurance.com
PAINT
TOP MARINE PAINT
No-410, Ground Floor,
Lower Pazundaung Road,
Pazundaung Tsp, Yangon.
Ph: 09-851-5202
Sole Distributor
For the Union of
Myanmar Since 1995
Myanmar Golden Rock
International Co.,Ltd.
#06-01, Bldg (8), Myanmar
ICT Park, University Hlaing
Campus, Hlaing Tsp,
Yangon. Tel: 654810~17.
Worlds No.1 Paints &
Coatings Company
Moby Dick Tours Co., Ltd.
Islands Safari in the Mergui
Archipelago
No.89-91, Rm No.2, Gr Fr,
32
nd
St (between Maha
Bandoola Rd and Merchant
Rd), Pabedan Tsp, Yangon.
Tel / Fax: 01-380382
E-mail: info@islandsafari
mergui.com. Website: www.
islandsafarimergui.com
PLEASURE CRUISES
REAL ESTATE
Re a l Es t a t e Age nt
No Fees for Cl i ent s,
Contact Us : 09 2050107,
robin@prontorealtor.com
Legendary Myanmar Intl
Shipping & Logistics Co.,
Ltd.
No-9, Rm (A-4), 3
rd
Flr,
Kyaung St, Myaynigone,
Sanchaung Tsp, Yangon.
Tel: 516827, 523653,
516795.
Mobile. 09-512-3049.
Email: legandarymyr@
mptmail.net .mm
www.LMSL-shipping.com
Japan Sushi Izagaya
81 (A), Latha St,
Latha Tsp, Yangon.
Ph : 01-371508, 09-51 0 9435,
09-51 43568, 09-312 93852
Schenker (Thai) Ltd.
Yangon 59 A, U Lun
Maung Street. 7 Mile
Pyay Road, MYGN. tel:
667686, 666646.fax:
651250. email: sche
nker@mptmail.net.mm.
a drink from paradise...
available on Earth
@Yangon International
Hotel, No.330, Ahlone Rd,
Dagon Tsp, Yangon.
Tel: 09-421040512
Quality Chinese Dishes
with Resonable Price
@Marketplace by City Mart.
Tel: 01-523840 Ext.109
Good taste & resonable
price
@Thamada Hotel
Tel: 01-243047, 243639-41
Ext: 32
RESTAURANTS
Bo Sun Pat Tower, Bldg
608, Rm 6(B), Cor of
Merchant Rd & Bo Sun
Pat St, PBDN Tsp. Tel:
377263, 250582, 250032,
09-511-7876, 09-862-4563.
Heaven Pizza
38/40, Bo Yar Nyunt St.
Yaw Min Gyi Quarter,
Dagon Township.
Tel: 09-855-1383
Horizon Restaurant & Bar
KH Hotel Roof top
No. (28-A), 7 Miles,
Pyay Road, Mayangone
Township, Yangon.
Ph: 95-1-652532, 652533
Crown Worldwide
Movers Ltd 790, Rm 702,
7
th
Flr Danathiha Centre,
Bogyoke Aung San Rd,
Lanmadaw. Tel: 223288,
210 670, 227650. ext: 702.
Fax: 229212. email: crown
worldwide@mptmail.net.mm
For House-Seekers
with Expert Services
In all kinds of Estate Fields
yomaestatemm@gmail.com
09-332 87270 (Fees Free)
09-2541 26615 (Thai Language)
REMOVALISTS
Relocation Specialist
Rm 504, M.M.G Tower,
#44/56, Kannar Rd,
Botahtaung Tsp.
Tel: 250290, 252313.
Mail : info@asiantigers-
myanmar.com
Mon - Sat (9am to 6pm)
No. 797, MAC Tower II,
Rm -4, Ground Flr,
Bogyoke Aung San Rd,
Lamadaw Tsp, Yangon.
Tel: (951) 212944 Ext: 303,
09-4200-91393.
info@centuremyanmar.
com.
www.centure.in.th
OFFICE FURNITURE
Tel : 01-9000712~13 Ext : 330
09-4200-77039.
direct2u@mmrds.com
Home Outdoor Ofce
99 Condo, Ground Floor,
Room (A), Damazedi Rd,
Kamayut Township,
Yangon, Myanmar.
Tel : 09-2504-28700
info@decorum.mm.com
Bldg-A2, G-Flr, Shwe
Gabar Housing, Mindama
Rd, Mayangone Tsp,
Yangon. email: eko-nr@
myanmar.com.mm
Ph: 652391, 09-73108896
Bld-A2, Gr-Fl, Shwe
Gabar Housing, Mindama
Rd, Mayangone Tsp,
Yangon. email: eko-nr@
myanmar.com.mm
Ph: 652391, 09-73108896
MARINE
COMMUNICATION &
NAVIGATION
Top Marine Show Room
No-385, Ground Floor,
Lower Pazundaung Road,
Pazundaung Tsp, Yangon.
Ph: 01-202782, 09-851-5597
LANGUAGE
Master Burmese Faster!
Professional Burmese
Language Course for All
Levels
436, Top r, Thein Phyu Rd,
Mingalar Taung Nyut Tsp,
Yangon.
Tel : 09-4316 8422
www.moemyanmar.com
Email: register.mmlc@
moemyanmar.com
Matrix System
No.77, Lanthit Street,
Lanmadaw Tsp, Yangon.
Tel: 01-221944, 225374.
matrixoffice.mm@gmail.com
Ofce Culture Co., Ltd
Taw Win Center, 3
rd
Flr,
Rm 4031/4033, Pyay Rd,
Dagon Tsp, Yangon.
Ph: 09-2540 14097
Email: bd1@bristol.com.mm
www.bristol.com.my
International
Construction
Material Co., Ltd.
Yangon, Myanmar.
Tel : 01-245112,
09-730-22820
material@gmail.com
WATER PROOFING
International
Construction
Material Co., Ltd.
Yangon, Myanmar.
Tel : 01-245112,
09-730-22820
material@gmail.com
Enchanting and Romantic,
a Bliss on the Lake
62 D, U Tun Nyein Road,
Mayangon Tsp, Yangon
Tel. 01 665 516, 660976
Mob. 09-730-30755
operayangon@gmail.com
www.operayangon.com
22, Kaba Aye Pagoda Rd,
Bahan Tsp. tel 541997.
email: leplanteur@
mptmail.net.mm.
http://leplanteur.net
G-01, City Mart
(Myay Ni Gone Center).
Tel: 01-508467-70 Ext: 106
G-05, Marketplace by
City Mart.
Tel: 01-523840 Ext: 105
Monsoon Restaurant
& Bar 85/87, Thein Byu
Road, Botahtaung Tsp.
Tel: 295224, 09-501 5653.
Delicious Hong Kong Style
Food Restaurant
G-09, City Mart (Myay Ni
Gone Center).
Tel: 01-508467-70 Ext: 114
No. 5, U Tun Nyein
Street, Mayangone T/S,
Yangon.
Tel : 01-660 612, 657928,
01-122 1014, 09 508 9441
Email : lalchimiste.
restaurant@gmail.com
UnionBarAndGrill
42 Strand Road,
Botahtaung, Yangon.
Tel: 95 9420 180 214, 95
9420 101 854
www.unionyangon.com,
info@unionyangon.com
SCHOOLS
World famous Kobe Beef
Near Thuka Kabar
Hospital on Pyay Rd,
Marlar st, Hlaing Tsp.
Tel: +95-1-535072
The Rih Lake
No. 67B, Dhama Yone St.,
near (Blazon) U Wisara Rd.,
Myaynigone, Sanchaung
Tsp. Tel: 01-502761
Orange
Myittar Yeik Mon Housing,
Tamwe, Ph: 09-8623381.
Orange
Mahabandoola St, 19
th
St,
Latha, Ph: 01-397146.
Orange Super Market
103, Thu Damar Rd,
Industrial Zone, North
Okkalar, Ph: 9690246
European Quality
& Designs Indoor/
Outdoor Furniture, Hotel
Furniture & All kinds of
woodworks
Ofce Tel: 01-380382,
09-509-1673, Show Room:
No. 123-124, Shwe Yin Aye
(2) Street, Industrial Zone
5 (Extension), Hlaing Thar
Yar Township, Yangon,
Myanmar. E-mail: contact@
smartdesignstrading.com,
www.royalbotania.com,
www.alexander-rose.co.uk,
Please call for any enquiry.
Horizon Intl School
235, Shukhinthar Myo Pat
Rd, Thaketa Tsp, Yangon,
Ph: 450396~7, 25, Po Sein
Rd, Bahan Tsp, Yangon,
Ph: 543926, Fax: 543926,
email: contact@
horizonmyanmar.com
Property General
HOW TO GET A FREE AD
BY FAX : 01-254158
BY EMAIL : classied.mcm@gmail.com
BY MAIL : 379/383, Bo Aung Kyaw St, Kyauktada Township, Yangon.
HOW TO GET MORE BUSINESS FROM
AS LITTLE AS K.5,000.
BUY SPACE ON THESE PAGES
CALL: Khin Mon Mon Yi - 01-392676, 392928
FREE
Housing for Rent
CLASSIC STRAND
Condominium, (1) suitable
for offce, 2280 sqft (2,500
sqft with mezzanine), 3rd
foor, wide open space,
14 ft ceilings, face river.
New building with gym,
car park, cafe, facilities.
Prime downtown location
between Strand Rd and
Merchant St, close to
strand hotel/union bar.
6,000 USD per month.
(2) 1,500 sqft, 8
th
foor, 3
bedroom corner unit with
excellent view of river.
3,600 USD per month.
wongyfj @gmai l .com.
Ph:09-4200-04585, 09-
4211-02223, 09-2544-
08789
M Y A Y N I G O N E ,
Sanchaung, Min St, First
Flr, All furniture. One bed
room, one kitchen, one
bathroom (The balcony),
1 RC, 1 (month) 600 US,
Shan Shan, Ph: 09-731-
92603, Moe Hein, Ph:
09-4250-18442.
BAHAN, Sayasan Rd,
In Pyidaungsu Lane,
conveniently located close
to schools, businesses,
restaurants & offces.
House is completely
renovated with beautiful
wood fooring, tiles &
all western style bath &
kitchen. 3,800sqft, 3MBR,
2SR, 4 bathrooms total,
located on over 7,500
sf of land. Also located
in quiet residential
neighborhood. Suitable
for residence or offce,
immediately available.
Please call Myat Thu at
09 2543 82482.
CONDO. Near Parkroyal
Hotel, Nawaday Rd,
Nawaday Condo,
25'x50', 1MBR, 1SR,
3AC, 1 Cable phone,
with lift, Car parking.
Ph: 09-312-87827, 09-
317-75734.
BAHAN,. Po Sein Rd, 2RC
House, 70 feet Compound,
3 Rooms, with Toilet, Teak
Parquet Flooring, with
Air Condition, one cable
phone, wide car parking,
Please Contact. Ph:
09-312-87827, 09-317-
75734.
TAMWE, No. 1139-1140,
Marlar Nwe St, 15'x50', 3
Air-cons, Floor covered
with tiles, Private parking
space, Very suitable
for opening the shop
& offce. Ph:09-723-
73209, 09-4500-49796
Contact: Aung Soe Lin
(1)Near Parami Rd,
Mayangone, Single
house, 4200 Sqft,
4MBR, no furniture
USD 3100 (2)Near
Chatrium hotel, Bahan,
Single house, 6300 Sqft,
3MBR, 1SR, USD 5600
(3)Near Sedona Hotel,
Mayangone, Single
house, 8100 Sqft, 4
MBR, USD 10,000 (4)
Near Pearl Codominum,
Bahan, Sigle house,
18,000 Sqft, 3 MBR, 2 SR
USD 8000 (5)Near China
Embassy, Dagon Tsp,
condominium, 2700
Sqft , 3MBR, 1SR , fully
furniture, USD 5500 (6)
Near by Yankin Center,
Apartment (3) stories,
600 sqft (for 1 stories)
USD 3600. Ph: 09-4921-
4276
"STAR CITY Condo For
Sale" One bed room
apartment for sales at
900L MMK. 622 Sqft,
not decorated. Rm 603,
BLK A-2 (in front of City
Mart and 50th Street Bar)
Contact at 09-520-8 455
to view the apartment.
(1). Offce Space for rent,
SOHO Diamond Towers,
Corner of Natnataw rd
and Pyay Rd. USD$3.50
psf. (2)Fully furnished
Apartments at Pearl
Condo for 3 bedrooms.
USD$3800 per month
Utilities bills included.,
min. 6 months contract.
Contact: 09-732-50368,
09-732-50365.
HLEDAN, Ground
floor with mezzi,
available for rent at
US$1000 per month.
Contact:09-520-0654
NEW APARTMENT
in good access Area
near Hledan! Good
atmosphere, shining
& bright for the area of
25x50. 2 rooms with
a big lounge.Contact
owner direct - 09 505
8276.
OFFICE SPACE TO LET
3100 sqm available over
5 foors in a 12-storey
building with car park,
restaurant, multi function
hall and apartments.
Please contact -
Ph : 09-431-34381.
Email : offce-mm@
uni t eammari ne. com,
web : www .facebook.
com/offcespaceyangon
Housing for Sale
CLASSIC STRAND
Condominium suitable
sqft with mezzanine), 3rd
foor, wide open space,
14 ft ceilings, face river.
wongyfj @gmai l .com.
09-4200-04585, 09-
4211-02223, 09-2544-
08789.
CLASSIC STRAND
Condominium suitable
sqft with mezzanine),
3rd foor, wide open
space, 14 ft ceilings,
face river. New building
with gym, car park,
cafe, facilities. Prime
downtown location,
close to strand hotel/
union bar. wongyfj@
gmail.com. 09-4200-
04585, 09-4211-02223,
09254408789
Business
SEEKING business
partners for a business
project from USA. Low risk,
low cost. Specialisation
in tested and proven
neutraceutical products.
By appointments only.
Call 01385977 or 09-
2504-17585.
Education
IGCSE - History, Contact:
09-730-30006
CHEMISTRY TUTOR
required for international
high school student.
Must speak English. Ph:
09-502-2834
TEACHER MYO (G.C.E
O/A, U.K) (1) Grade X.XI
(All Subjects). (2) IELTS,
Interview. (3)IGCSE, BCA
(All Subjects). No.37, 4
Flr, Yay Kyaw St. Ph: 09-
732-21317, 09-513-2373
HOME Tuition: For
students from Int'l
schools such as
Horizon, ILBC, YIES,
ISY, MIS, MISY, PISM.
All subjects for Primary
and Secondary Classes.
Tel: 09-4200-84493.
PHYSICS HOME
Tution, Saya U Myint
Thein, Physics, Yangon
University. Sule Pagoda
Rd, Kyauktada, Yangon.
(Since 1984) Ph: 09 730
52859. Email: umtedu@
gmail.com
SAT, TOEFL, Study in
USA Connect Institute.
Improve critical thinking
and English skills, win
scholarships and study
in US colleges. Learn
and consult with our US
graduates. Come check
out our free Discussion
in English every Sunday
9-11 am. Call 09-255-
959-944 or email at
info@connect.com.mm.
MGW Tower, Rm 503,
Lower Bo Aung Kyaw
St, Botahtaung, Yangon
INT'L MONTESSORI
Myanmar (English
Education Center),
Accredited by IMC
Bangkok (Since
1991). Our Montessori
curriculum includes:
Practical Life Exercises.
Sensorial Training.
Language Development.
Mathematics. Cultural
Studies. Botany and
Zoology. History. Creative
Art. Music and Movement.
Cooking. Physical
Development. Social &
Emotional Development.
Learning through play.
55(B), Po Sein Rd,
Bahan, Yangon. Tel:
546097, 546761. Email:
imm.myn@gmail.com
MATHEMATICS, Is
your child from ILBC,
YIS, ISY, ISM, Yangon
Academy, MIS, MISY,
SIS, PISM, ALBA, DSY
or all international schools
(KG to Sec 3 or Grade 9)
weak in Maths, doesnt
understand problem
solving, no one can help
him or her in practicing or
learning? If your child is
willing to learn & practise,
I will teach him or her to
develop the required skills
to improve in Maths from
present situation. Please
contact and come to Daw
Naing Naing Aung, B.Com
(Q), No.(6), Thuketa St,
Baukhtaw, Yankin. Ph:
09-500-4993, 544594.
ACCREDITED by
IMC Bangkok (Since
1991). Our Monstessori
curriculum includes:
Practical life exercises,
Sensorial training,
language development,
Mathematics, Cultural
studies, Botany &
Zoology, History, Creative
Art, Music and Movement,
Cooking, Physical
Development, Social &
Emotional Development.
Learning through play,
55(B), Po Sein Rd,
Bahan, Yangon. Ph:
546097, 546761, Email:
imm.myn@gmail.com
ACADAMY Teaching &
Study guide for (Intl
school students-primary
1 to 6, teach in Eng to
Eng also). Government
School students (Grade
4 to 11, teach Eng &
Maths only). Ph: 09-
2510-07406.
GRADE 10 & 11
English, Math, Physics,
Chemistry Teaching
and Guide. Ph: 09-731-
23045.
TEACHING & guide, Kg
to Primary6, Int'l school.
Tr. Hnin : 09-4200-
87050.
Expert Services
EFFICIENT Goldsmith
Software Effective for all
goldshops & goldsmiths
@ Effcient Soft. Ph: 09-
505-3762, 09-517-1061,
09-2503-54344.
BANKING service, HR
service, Local Travel
service (Flight or air
plane, hotel booking,
car service on trip
etc.), Wedding planner,
Household cleaning
service, Teaching
English to Myanmar,
Guide to High School
Student, Taxi service,
General service. Formal
learning Eng to Myan is
1:30 hr only Sunday,
10 weeks per course
charges is 100$. Ph:09-
4201-64934
GOLDEN LAND Real
Estate : For sale, buy
& rent, Pls contact to
Ph: 3940532, 09-730-
08848, 3920853
RENTAL Services
of Condos, Landed
Houses, Offces and
Commercial Properties.
Our lists can be checked
in http://goo.gl/tyCuoe.
Myat Estate Agency,
Hotline: 09-4308-3781.
I DO translate
English ~Myanmar &
Myanmar~English and
also teach Myanmar
language (4 skills) for
foreigners. If you want to
contact, call me, Katherine
Ph:09-516-8697.
REGISTERED Tourist
guide in English, French
is available for immediate
appoint ment, please
ring 09-3019-9028.
For Sale
HONDA FIT 2009 Model,
GE-6, 1300 CC, (White),
Auto Gear, 1H/3---
(YGN), 99 lakhs, Ph:
09-312-87827.
CAMERA from
Singapore, used Nikon
D-7000, Canon 60D,
600D, 550 D,450D &
Fujiflm S 9100 cameras
for sale. Ph:09-512-8713
TOYOTA Fielder, E E/....
Model 2002, 1500cc, 115
Lakhs. Ph: 09-516-5340,
09-4210-6276.
General
MK HOTEL, Myakyauk
Yangon City Hotel. No.1,
Wut Kyaung St, Yay
Kyaw, Pazun Taung Tsp,
Yangon, Myanmar. Ph:
01-297274, 01-202187,
01-8610640.
Language
I M AN experienced
Chinese (Mandarin)
teacher here in Yangon,
Myanmar. I have over
6 years teaching in
Singapore. Please do
not hesitate to contact
me for an evaluation. Im
a professional teacher
who will help you improve
your speaking, reading
and writing skills. I use
Singaporean text books
and Chinese speaking/
conversation books
for teaching speaking,
reading and writing in
Mandarin. Im available
Monday-Sunday with
a fexible schedule. I
also teaching Myanmar
language to all Foreigner.
For more details please
call the number below.
If I dont answer please
send me a SMS and I will
get back to you as soon
as possible. May: 095-9-
5162988.
PROFESSIONAL English
Teacher (MBA, UK), MA
(English), BA (English),
Dip: ELT 09-254214864.
Only Evening and
Weekend class available.
I AM available to teach
English to any and all
ages. I have experience
with students in primary,
secondary school and
Asian adults wanting to
enter the global workforce.
I can also do SAT prep
for secondary students
who are trying to build
their international college
resume. I am able to
design a curriculum based
on your particular needs.
Email: steffanilorraine@
gmail.com
TEACHING Myanmar
language for foreigners
Near Myay Ni Gone City
Mart, Sanchaung. Ph:
09- 4200-30 782.
TEACHING English
for adults Near Myay
Ni Gone City Mart,
Sanchaung. Ph:09-
4200-30782
MANDARIN (Standard
Spoken Chinese
Language). English
Speaking & Grammar
(Expert in English).
Horizon, Total, ILBC,
MLA, RV, ISM, MISY, (All
private School) from KG
to Secondary School. Mr.
Pit Kyin, Who guides the
Studies of a number of
students. Ph: 09-730-
11809, 09-2540-11654.
WE can teach Korea
language Basic & 4 skills
for all. Ph: 09-2505-
65793, 09-721-35423,
09-310-24812.
WE DO teach Myanmar
language 4 skills for
Foreigners by Teacher
TUN. Available home
& group class. Basic
Class - 3 months,
Intermediate Class- 3
months, Advanced
Class- 3 months. English
for adults and young
learners. We do teach
4 skills face or group
class. Available home
tuition or group class.
Chinese language for
all grades & classes.
Taiwan Teacher Mr. Lin;
William Lin (BM, IDCS
(UK), TW Civil (Taiwan),
USB Accounting, Yunan
Uni Dip (China)) teach
4 skills to be a native
speaker. Intend to go
abroad study or work
students. Can contact us.
Basic Class - 3 months,
Intermediate Class- 4
months, Advanced
Class- 6 months, Super
Advanced Class- 6
months. We do service
of interpreting Chinese-
Myanmar service.
Japanese for all students
who want to go to Japan
for work or study. We
do teach 4 skills and
practice very well. Mr.
William Lin : Ph: 09-
4211-47821.
MYANMAR Access
Int'l provides English
Language Training for
workplaces & Project
Management Training
Programmes in every
month by collaborating
with Project Manage ment
Institute from America &
Comprehensive English
Center from Malaysia.
We are offering,
English business
writing skills course
business writing
skills course. How to
make an impact with
your presentation.
How to communicate
better in English at
the work places.
English proficiency
from elementary to
pre intermediate
l evel s course
English profciency inter
mediate levels course
English proficiency
advance levels course
Project Management
Awareness Training
Project Management
Fundamental Training
If you are interested
in it, please feel free
to contact :09-731-
18749, 09-732-40764
or kaungsanthu1994@
gmail.com
HOME Tutuion in English,
Myanmar language.
Can be arranged at
learner's suitable time
and residences. Ph: 09-
3019-9028.
WANT TO LEARN
Myanmar Language?
group class and one
by one.you will got the
surprise within one
month can talk fuently.
Please contact Ms.May:
09-4921-4276.
Training
CUSTOMIZED Web
Developmen, Customi
zed Web Development
starting from as cheap
as 500USD. Pls contact
at 09-520-8455
WEB DESIGN Training
Sat & Sun: 8:00am -
10:00pm. Contact: 09-
4211-44937
WEB DEVELOPMENT
with Drupal CMS. Sat &
Sun: 1:00pm-3:00pm.
Ph:09-4211-44937.
BASIC, DTP (Page
maker, Corel Draw,
Graphic Design (Page
maker, Corel Draw
(or) Illustrator, Photo
shop), Web Design,
AutoCad (2D/3D),
AutoCad (CIVIL Only),
AutoCad (Mechanical
Only), 3dsMax, Micro
station, Excel special,
Ms Access, LCCI I,II
(Mon, Tue 7-9 am, Fri,
Sat 6-8 pm), LCCI III,
MYOB, UBS, Peachtree,
Auto Count, Japanese
language (N-5, N-4,
N-3) ICTC Computer
Technology Center. Ph:
09-2540-86001, 09-
4925-5368
YOGA CLASS only
for females by Indian
instructor. Interested
persons pls contact
at shilpi_19sep@
rediffmail.com or shilpi.
19sep@gmail.com
Travel
SWAN SAUNG YEE
Travel & Tours Co., Ltd.
Bldg (D/B), Rm (002),
Thitsar Residence,
South Okkalapa,
Yangon. Kyaik Hti Yoe
( 1N/ 2D) - 80, 000/ - ks
per pax. Chaung Tha
( 2N/ 3D) - 93, 000/ - ks
per pax. Bagan-Popa
(3N/ 4D)-138, 900/ -ks
per pax. Mandalay-
S a g a i n g - I n n w a -
(3N/4D)-156,000/-ks per
pax. Ph: 01-562917, 09-
8611-864
TAXI, Service Near,
Parkroyal Hotel, Air
Conditioner Car, English
Speaking Driver, One
hour 5000 kyats, 09-
317-75734.
GO GO UP Travel & Tours
Limited : Hot price to
Thailand Bangkok -
Pattaya, USD 460 (Hot
Price) 4 days 3 nights.
Bangkok - Pattaya -
Ayuttaya, USD 560 (Hot
Price) 5 days 4 nights.
Honeymoon Package
@ Paradise Island USD
550 (Hot Price) 4 days 3
nights. Tel : (01) 523602,
09-732-07333, 09-4480-
13235
MYAT THU Car Rental,
Various types of car rent
for daily or monthly use.
Alphard, Surf, Prado,
Super Custom, Grand
Carvin. Ph: 09-4500-
20233, 09-540-1236
Email : mt.carbusiness@
gmail.com.
"ASIAN Bliss Myanmar"
Travel & Tour (Car Rental
Services) Bldg 289,room
3 east yankin 09-519-
1785, 09-731-18957
Public Notics
TRAINED Domestic
Helper available.
Knowledge of all
household works,
including infants and
elderly people care. Tel :
09-315-75765, 09-2506-
49927.
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Investment, Trade &
Technology Conference,
Workshop and Exhibition
will be held during
25-27 Sept 2014
UMFCCI, Yangon.
The Best Conference,
Exhibition & Workshop
@ Reasonable Fees
in Myanmar! for more
info, please visit: www.
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stmentTrade Technology
Conference.com, Ph:
09420110451, 09-4201-
10666, Email: maizar@
mitaservices.com.sg
We provide the following
Training, CISCO, CCNA,
CCNP, MICROSOFT,
MCSA, MCSE, LAB,
EC-COUNCIL CEH,
SECURITY ADMIN.
www. f acebook. com/
imcscompany, 09-4500-
16040.
Employment
FREE THE MYANMAR TIMES SEPTEMBER 15 - 21, 2014
UN Positions
THE UNITED Nations
World Food Programme
is seeking (1)Program
Offcer NO-A, Sittwe (Re-
advertise), please visit
to http://www.themimu.
info/jobs-for-myanmar-
nationals. Please Email
the applications with UN
P-11 to wfpmyanmar.
vacancy @ wfp.org<
mailto: wfpmyanmar.
vacancy@wfp.org> COB
22 September 2014
THE UNITED Nations
World Food Programme
is seeking (1) Program
me Assistant (VAM) GS-
5, Myitkyina, please visit
nationals. Please email
P-11 to wfpmyanmar.
vacancy @ wfp.org<
mailto: wfpmyanmar.
23 September 2014.
THE UNITED NATIONS
Offce on Drugs & Crime
(UNODC) is seeking
for Myanmar nationals:
National Project
Coordinator (XAPA07)-
(SC 8) UNODC
Country Offce - 1 Post in
Yangon: Masters Degree
or equivalent in Law,
Public Administration,
Economics, Political
Sciences, Social
Sciences or related
feld. 2 years of relevant
experience in managing
programmes or projects
of similar complexity
& nature, including
demonstrated capacity
to actively explore new,
innovative management
& fnanc ing mechanisms.
Knowledge & working
familiarity with UN rules,
regulations & procedures
are considered assets.
Proven ability to write
technical reports, reviews,
pr ogr amme/ pr oj ect
documents and conduct
presentations by clearly
formulating positions
on issues & defending
r ec ommendat i ons .
Excellent communi cation
skills to liaise negotiate
and advocate with the
Government, donors/
potential donors and key
stakeholders including
with other implementing
agencies. Profciency in
MS Offce and project
management software.
Experience & proven
capability of living and
working effectively in
remote rural and socially
and politically sensitive
areas. Fluency in
English: Knowledge of a
local working language
of the duty station is an
asset. Candidates should
clearly indicate the post
title in their application.
Application must include
a cover letter, CV, P11
form, copies of relevant
academic qualifcation
certifcates & a passport
photo to UNODC, 11A,
Maylikha Rd, Ward-7,
Mayangon, Yangon. (or)
C/O UNDP, POBox (650),
Yangon, Myanmar.
THE UNITED NATIONS
World Food Programme,
is seeking (1)Senior
Security Assistant GS-
6, Yangon, please visit
nationals. Please Email
P-11 to wfpmyanmar.
vacancy @wfp.org<
mai l t o: wf pmyanmar.
10 September 2014.
Embassy
REQUIRE URGENTLY
- A female who can
read and write Arabic
Language (properly/
effciently). Please Send
CV with recent photo to
email:tztztz780@gmail.
com
Ingo Position
THE INT'L RESCUE
Committee is seeking
Health Service Quality
Offcer post in Hpa-An,
Kayin State: B.NSc/
B.CommH/ Diploma
in Nursing. 2 years
experience in primary
health care and sexual
and reproductive health
care services. Good
command of English &
Myanmar. Kayin Ethic
language(s) written &
verbal skill is favorable.
Please submit a Cover
letter & CV to the HR
Department by email at:
MaiMyaMyintZu.Tin@
rescue.org or by delivery
to the IRC offce : 33/A,
Natmauk Lane Thwe
(1), Bocho (2) Quarter,
Bahan, Yangon. Closing
date : 19
th
September
2014.
AMDA is seeking
Community Develop
ment Facilitator - 1
post in Lashio Offce:
Any degree holder.
Fluency in Shan/ Palaung
languages is an asset.
Please enclose a C.V.,
copies of testimonials
(references) & a passport
photo to Senior Admin/
Finance Offcer, AMDA
Myanmar Country Offce,
19 B, Thukhawaddy
Rd, Block-6, Yankin,
Yangon, Tel: 01-578353,
Fax: 01-556741, Email:
sr. af o. amda@gmai l .
com Closing date : 25
th

September 2014.
(1)FINANCE OFFICER
(OPP) 1 Post. Please
send application letter,
CV & related documents
to Myanmar Red
Cross Society (Head
Office) Yazatingaha
Rd, Dekkhinathiri,
Nay Pyi Taw.
Ormrcshrrecruitment@
gmail.com www.
my a n ma r r e d c r o s s
society.org Please
mention Position Title
in subject if you apply.
TERRE des hommes Italia
is seeking Monitoring &
Evaluation Offcer in
(Magway & Mandalay
Regions): University
degree in related feld,
preferably in agriculture.
He/ she has proven
experience in rural
development and
agricultural project and
at least three years with
INGOs and related in
the same position or
equivalent. Command
of English. Please
submit application with
completed information
about current job and
expected salary incl. CV,
photo, references by
email or by postal service
to Terre des Hommes
Italia Main Offce: TDH
Italia Main Offce: 48,
Shwe Hinn Thar Rd, 11
Ward, Bahan, Yangon,
Emai l : hr. t dhi t . mya@
gmail.com
(1)ASSISTANT FIELD
Supervisor - 1 Post.
Please send application
letter, CV & related
documents to Myanmar
Red Cross Society (Head
Office) Yazatingaha
Rd, Dekkhinathiri,
Nay Pyi Taw.
gmail.com www.
myanmarredcross sociey.
org Please mention
Position Title in subject
if you apply.
(1)FINANCE & ADMIN
Offcer (Mindat) 1 Post (2)
Resource Mobilization
Offcer 1 Post (3)
Assistant Resource
Mobilization Offcer 1
Post. Application process:
Please send application
letter, CV & related
documents to Myanmar
Red Cross Society (Head
Office) Yazatingaha
Rd, Dekkhinathiri,
Nay Pyi Taw.
gmail.com For more
information & application,
please visit to www.
my a n ma r r e d c r o s s
society.org Please
mention Position Title
in subject if you apply.
Local Positions
CENTER for Vocational
Training (CVT),
Yangon is seeking (1)
Commercial Assistant
Professional Teacher
- M/F 1 post : Bachelor
Degree from University
of Economic or relevant
knowledge. (2) Cabinet
Maker Professi on
Senior Teacher/ HoP -
M/F 1 post : Have relevant
certificate concerned
with furniture making or
civil engineering degree.
Experience in wood based
industry is preferred. (3)
Election Professional
Teacher - M/F 1 post : B.E
(EP), AGTI (EP), or CVT
graduate in electrician.
Experience in Electrical
Installation field &
Engineer Degree holder
is preferred. (4) Hotel &
Gastronomy Assistant
Profession Teachers-
M/F 2 posts :Must be a
certifcate holder of Room
division (Housekeeping,
Front Offce). Experience
in hotel management. (5)
English Teacher- M/F 1
post : Graduated in B.A
(English) or Diploma in
ELTM (or) ELT (or) FCE.
Prefer the M.A (English)
with 3 years experience.
(6) Financial & General
A d m i n i s t r a t i o n
Assistant - M/F 1 post :
Bachelor of Commerce,
LCCI Level-3 degree
holder or the same
education. Working
experience in accounting
is preferred. 5 years
experience & 2 years
teaching experience for
1 to 5 positions. Good
command in English (4
skills) is preferable & using
a computer (Microsoft
Office). Periodically
revise the curricula and up
to date level of profession
know-how and actively
participate in Team
Work. Please submit an
application letter with
CV or CVT Application,
recent passport photo,
Copy of relevant
documents and labour
Card to the reception
counter or by email
before 30
th
September
2014. Contact: 3
rd
Flr,
MRCS Bldg 42, Strand
Rd, Botahtaung, Yangon.
Email: hrcvtmyanmar@
gmail.com
WE ARE looking for
sal es Engi neers
to fll the following
positions (1).Graphics
& Printing Supplies
(2).Food Processing
Equipment (3).Plastic
& recycling Equipment
(4). Pharmaceuti cal
Equipment (5).Build
ing Equipment &
Preparation Equipment
(6).Machine Tools
& Metal Production
Equipment. The
candidates should be
profcient in English
as well as Burmese.
Comprehensive training
will be given to the right
candidates. If you think
that you are the right
person please send your
CV to h.shweyeemg@
rieckermann.com
HYUNDAI MOTOR
Myanmar is seeking
for Yangon offce. (1).
Pl anni ng Manager,
Spare parts M/F 1 post (2).
Sales staff (Lubricant) -
M 1 Post (3).Translator
- F 1 Post (4).Operation
support Assistant - M/F
2 Posts (5).Auto-Lease
Engineer - M 1 Post (6).
Dealer Development
Engineer - M 1 Post
(7).Junior Technician
- M 1 Post (8).B to B
Executive - M/F 1 Post.
Mandalay Offce (1).Car
Sales Manager - M/F 1
Post (2).Car Sales Staff-
M/F 1 Post. Closing date
: 30.9.2014. Interested
applicants kindly email
updated resume in
MS Word format to:
fk.i ntermotor@gmai l .
com (or) Hyundai Car
Showroom No. 2/6,
2 Quarter, Corner of
Yangon-Insein Rd &
Thamine Station Rd,
Thamine Junction,
Mayangone, Yangon.
Ph: 654881 ~ 4, Ext.143.
VACANCY for An
Accountant: There is
vacancy for an accountant
post as Daw Khin Kyi
Foundation Office.
Applicant can come for
interview at Inya Lake
Hotel, Room No. (004)
during offce hours.
PREMIUM Distribution
Co., Ltd. Aung San
Stadium (North Wing)
(Near City Mart
Supermarket), (1)Sales
Senior Supervisor -
Taunggyi (1 Post)/ Bagan
(1 Post/ Mandalay (1
Post), (2)Auditor - Male
1 Post, (3) Marketing
Promotion Supervisor -
Female 1 Post) premium.
hr.recruitment@gmail.
com, Hot Lines: 01-
249192/ 249122.
LOLC Myanmar
Microfnance Company
Limited is seeking Admin
Executive (one position)
in Head Offce, Yangon:
Bachelor's degree with at
least two years relevant
experience. Must have
good planning skill,
organizing skill and
ability to manage and
prioritize tasks. Fluent
in written and spoken
English and translation
skills. Computer skills
in Microsoft Offce. Pls
submit a Cover letter
& CV to the LOLC
Microfnance Company
Limited. Applications: will
be accepted by email at:
Careers@lolcmyanmar.
com or by delivery
to LOLC Myanmar
Microfnance Company
Limited, 163, Shwe Hnin
Si Kan St, Mayangone,
Yangon.
INTER GROUP of
Companies is an int'l
management consulting
company is looking for
Assistant Accountant
- M/F 1 post ing Yangon:
B.Com or B.Act or LCCI
- DA or DMA (Level
-III passed). 5 years
experiences in accounting
field (final account
preparation knowledge
is required). Computer
literate, especially in
spread-sheet of excel
and MYOB accounting
software. English
language must be skilled
in four skills. Interested
applicants who meet the
above-mentioned criteria
are invited to submit
detailed CV in person
or by email, stating your
current & expected salary,
date of availability, reason
for leaving and a recent
passport photo to 7(D),
1st Flr, 6 Miles, Pyay
Rd, Hlaing, Yangon, Tel:
09-731-05353, 09-731-
05340 Email: hr-ygn@
icononline.net
( 1) M E C H A N I C A L
Engineer - M/F 1 post (2)
Electrical Engineer - M/F
1 post : Age 40~50, 5 ~ 10
years experience, Fluent
in English (4 skills) (3)
Project Manager - M/F 1
post : Age 30 ~ 45, Fluent
in English (4 skills), Good
Management & 5~10
years experience. Pls
contact to (10) (I) Pyithu
St, 7 Mile, Mayangone.
Ph: 09-2500-12054,
09-3038-7548, 09- 732-
00147.
(1)HAIR STYLIST - 1 post
(2)Professional Spa
Staff - 1 post (3) Nail
Artist 1 post (4) All round
- 1 post. Pls contact to No
(10) (I) Pyithu St, 7 Mile,
Mayangone. Ph: 09-
2500-12054, 09-3038-
7548, 09-732-00147
PRISTINE Group is
seeking (Urgent Position)
(1)Assistant Engineer -
M : BE / AGTI (Civil),
Age 25 ~ 30, Able to
use AutoCAD, 1 year
experience in construction
felds, Can be work
in anywhere regions.
Salary + Meal + Hostel (2)
Business Development
Execu tive - M/F : Any
graduate, Age 25 ~ 30,
Fluency in English, 2
years experience. Able to
perform in governmental
offces. Able to use
computer,admin section
& travel. (3) Executive
Offcer - F : Any
graduate, Age 20 ~ 25, 2
years experience. Fluent
in English. Excellent
communication skills
and specifed personality.
Able to use computer
& hr/admin section &
travel. Able to perform
in governmental offces.
(4)Offce Staff - M :
Any graduate, Age 20
~ 25, 1 year experience,
Use to computer. Able
to travel and perform in
governmental offces.
Can be work in Nay
Pyi Taw. (5)Site Store
/ Admin - M : Any
graduate, Age 20 ~ 30, 1
year experience. Able to
perform in governmental
offces. Can be work in
anywhere. (6)Senior
Accountant - F : B.Com/
CPA / ACCA / LCCI 3,
Age 25 ~ 35, 3 years
experience. Able to draw
up the statements (end-
of-the-month / annual
statement) and use to
computer. Can be work
in East Dagon (nearby
Dagon University). (7)
Computer Operator- F :
Any graduate, Age 20 ~
25. 3 years experience.
Excellent computer skill
& typing skill (Myanmar
/ English). Can be work
in East Dagon (nearby
Dagon University). Please
submit applications with
detail and complete CV
(personal history, a recent
photo, copy of NRC
card, labor registration
card, certificate of
graduations, census,
credential of police station
with expected salary to
No.(B7), Taw Win Rd, (9)
Mile, Mayangone. Ph:
651888, 651999 hr.ho@
pristinemyanmar.com.
Closing Date: 30.9.2014,
BLACKBOX MEDIA &
Advertising is looking for
outgoing Females to join
our team.(1)Marketing
Services Executive:
2 years experiences.
Must be fuent in both
spoken & written
English. Responsible for
marketing the companys
services. Must be able to
organize and manage
events independently.
Must be able to maintain
excellent customer
services to key client
contacts. (2)Accounts
& Admin Executive :
1 year similar working
experiences. Able to
handle full set of account
in MYOB system. Provide
general administrative
support & liaison between
suppliers. Interested
candidates, please state
expected salary and email
resume to blackbox.tp@
gmail.com or naychi-
mgt@myanmar.com.mm
VACANCY is available
and the qualified
applicant may submit an
application to HR Dept
of Golden Hill Tower No.
24-26, Kaba Aye Pagoda
Rd, Bahan Township, not
later than 12th September
2014. Bell Driver 1 post
(Male) Job requirement:
Profcient in English
conversational skills.
Skillful at driving and must
be valid Driving License
in hand. Matriculation
passed and 1-2 years
experience is required.
KH HOTEL Yangon is
currently seeking (1)
Receptionists - M/F
5 posts : Graduated
in any felds, Good
communication skills,
English language skill,
Computer literate, One
year experience in
hospitality industry (2)
M&E Technicians - M 3
posts : Must have related
certifcates or a Diploma or
B.Tech, 1 year experience
in hospitality industry,
Must work shift duty. (3)
Chief Accountant - F
1 posts : Degree holder
of B.com or ACCA with
LCCI level , 2 years
experience in related
feld, Good computer
literate and familiar with
accounting software,
Good management
& communication
skills, Previous hotel
experiences is preferable
but not essential, (4)
Inbound Tour Operator
- M/F 3 posts : 2 years
experience in same
position (or) in other
relevant field/Travel
industry, Computer
literate, Must be Degree/
Diploma holder, Good
communication skill to
deal with local suppliers
(Airline, Car Rental,
Hotels & Restaurant,)
(5)Driver - M 2 posts :
10th Standard passed
(or) Degree holder, Must
have valid licence, 2 years
experience, Good Driving
skill in downtown area (6)
Bartender - M 3 posts : 1
year working experience,
Good Bar Knowledge,
Please submit CV with
relevant documents to
28, 7Miles, Pyay Rd,
Mayangone, Yangon.
01-652989, 01-653358,
01-653359.
HORIZON Int'l School is
looking for qualifed and
energetic personnel for
the following positions.
All candidates should be
good in communication
and interpersonal skills.
(1)Assistant Teacher
- F 6 posts. For (Po
Sein, Shukinnthar)
Kindergarten, Age 22 to
30, University graduate,
Good command of
English, Basic computer
skills, Comfortable
working with young
learners, Able to devote
oneself to teaching,
Friendly, enthusiastic
& patient (2).Offce
secretary - F 1 posts :
Age under 30, Bachelors
Degree in any feld or
Diploma in the relevant
feld, Suffcient work
experience in the related
feld, Good command
of English, Computer
literate, Customer care
skills, Pleasant & helpful
personality. Interested
candidates can come
for between the offce
hours. Please bring your
CV along with a copy of
your credentials to 235,
ShukhintharMyo Pat Rd,
Thaketa,Yangon. Closing
date : September 19,
2014.
THE INTERNATIONAL
Montessori Myanmar
invites application
from suitably qualifed
local candidates for
the following positions
of Nursery/ Pre-K/
Ki ndergarten Lead
teachers and Assistant
teachers. A Kindergarten
teacher who is loving,
caring & understand early
childhood education with
ECCE certifcation is
preferred, but we will
traing the right person who
is willing to get certifed at
a later date. Both are full
time positions, Monday to
Friday from 8:00 to 4:00.
Please email CV through
imm.myn@gmail.com or
contact 55 (B) Po Sein
Rd, Bahan, Yangon. Ph:
546097, 546761.
01. Reqd. urgently in
Limited Foreign Company,
salary as per experiences
& market standard (Max.
up to 2,00,000Kyats/
month). Designation:
Receptionist(Female
only) cum Business Co
ordinator. Experience:
Desirable, but not
mandatory. Age: No
bar. Salary: As per
industry standards (Max.
up to 2,00,000Kyats/
month). Nationality: Any
with English ,Burmese
Speaking & Writing
Skills. Responsibility: To
manage Reception Area
with Punctuality, dignity,
honesty & act also as
Business Coordinator
as & when reqd.
Competencies: Must
have experience of Basic
computer skills with MS
Word, Excel, Power Point,
can arrange business.
Note : The candidate
must be very good
looking (send resume
with photographs) with
very cool personality
& always smiling with
problem solving attitude.
Contact details: Ph:09-
732-14472, 09-731-
64230. 01-391774,
391979, 393227, Fax-01-
391801. Email ID: jyoti.
b227@gmail.com, jyoti.
b227@rediffmail.com
GOLDEN SPIRIT Co., Ltd
(Alco/ Bev) is seeking
(1)Brand Manager -
Any graduate, 2 years
experience in liquor
feld. English written
and spoken skills. Able
to travel. (2)Sales
Manager -M/F - Any
graduate, Over 2 years
feld. Good knowledge in
sales analysis & reporting
system. Able to travel.
(3)Sales supervisor :
Any graduate, 2 years
feld. Collaboration and
dynamic. (4)Marketing
Manager - M/F : Any
graduate, 2 years
experience in liquor feld.
Good communication
skills with all levels. (5)
Marketing Supervisor
- M/F : Any graduate, 2
years experience in liquor
feld. (6)H.R Supervisor
- M/F : Any graduate
diploma or certifcate
in H.R or Business
administration is
preferred. Or experienced
in liquor feld. (H.R). 2
years experience. English
skills. Computer know
ledge. (7)Accountant
- M/F : B.Com or LCCI
level (III) certifcate. Over
2 years experience. Able
to travel. Excellent skill in
computer knowledge. (8)
Merchandiser - Age 18
~ 25 years. (9)Promotion
Girls Leaders (PG
Leaders) - Please send
detailed up to date CV
with 1 recent photo, with
necessary documents
by authorized person of
previous organizatioin to
: S-19/20, Gyo Phyu Rd,
Aung San Stadium (North
Wing), Mingalar Taung
Nyunt. Ph: 09-731-61128,
01-393431, Closing date
:30
th
September, 2014.
WE ARE seeking highly
suitable candidate
for the HR Head/ HR
Manager to take the
lead responsibility for
the human resource
management & admini
stration functions.
Requirements: Bache
lors Degree or higher
education in relating
Human Resource
Management field.
(From Foreign college or
university is preferred).
Well understanding of
Organizations aims,
values and principles.
Knowledge of
Myanmar labor Law.
Demonstrate the high
level of confdential at all
times. Age between 30
~ 40 years. Salary : US$
1500 ~ 2000 per month.
Please submit recent CV
& cover letter (English)
to ezytrading@mptmail.
net.mm. Closing date:
31.9.2014. Ph: 09-4211-
28700, 09-4311-9985.
OPASSA GROUP Co.,Ltd
is seeking (1)General
Manager - M/F 1Post
(2)Admin Manager -
M/F 1Post (3)Marketing
Manager - M/F 1post. For
all posts: Good command
in English & computer
skill. Only short list
candidate will be notifed
by phone for interview.
Interested Candidates
should apply with full
CV/Resume indicating
expected salary, position
of interest, qualifcations,
educational background
& recent photo to
172, Anawrahta Rd,
Kyauktada, Yangon,
Tel: 01-389277, 09-
4252-85331. Email :
thinthiri19@gmail.com
HEIN LWIN Enterprise
is now seeking for (1)
Sales Executives (2)
Admin Executives (3)
Marketing Executives
(4)Mechanics (Genera
tor) (5)Computer Opera
tors (6)Receptionists.
Contact Us: 09-250-
400 446. No.183, Baho
Rd (Khaing Shwe War),
Kamaryut, Yangon.
WANTED
Security Manager
For International Company
Previous security Experience is required
Must be fuent English and have good IT
skills Word, Excel.
Good Remuneration offered for the right
candidate.
Please send your CV to
aung.myothet@idg-security.com
JOB OPPORTUNITY
Tour Operations Manager M/F (1) Post
At least 5 years experience in tourism feld
Assistant Tour Operations Manager M/F (1) Post
At least 2 years experience in tourism feld
For both positions:
Any graduate with certifcate
English language (Four Skills) must be fuent
Good communication and skills social dealing
Computer literate (Very good knowledge of Excel/ PowerPoint/Word/Inter-
net/Email)
Fully give back the time on the job if necessary many working
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Interested candidate shall submit an application letter, CV with recent
photo, copies of NRC. Educational certifcate and other testimonial to
Essence of Myanmar Travels & Tours
No. 6, 1st foor, East Shwe Gong Daing Road
(Near SSC Women Center), Bahan, Yangon.
Tel: (+95) 01 86 04 279 or (+95) 01 40 15 89
Email address: zani@inspirationmyanmar.com.mm, znb197@gmail.com
68 Sport THE MYANMAR TIMES SEPTEMBER 15 - 21, 2014
THIS is my advertisement, mate,
says Julian Clark.
He tugs at his Cambodia Eagles
polo shirt with one hand, a mug of
cold beer recently poured from the
tap at Savoy Hotels Captains Bar in
the other. My job is to use this to re-
cruit people.
Well, not his day job. But Julian
Big Rooster Clark, a veteran of 20
Australian-rules football seasons as an
expat, has made something of a career
out of nurturing new teams wherever
his work as an engineer has taken him.
He left Australia for Singapore in
the mid-1990s, when the tail end of a
recession meant there were few jobs
at home for graduates and, football
in hand, has rarely looked back.
Fittingly, it was a chance meeting
at the Australian embassy in Malay-
sia while watching the 1995 Carlton-
Geelong Grand Final that rst got
him out onto the eld. A man behind
the bar was wearing a Malaysian Ti-
gers (now known as the Malaysian
Warriors) shirt, and explained the
team was playing a couple of weeks
later. Clark had no hesitation in pull-
ing on the boots.
From then on I was hooked, he
told The Myanmar Times in a recent
interview. The meeting dictated my
dress code from that point on ... in
the hope that just one bloke in a pub
seeing [my polo shirt] might result in
another player [for the team].
After starting out with Southeast
Asian sides, he helped established
the rst Australian football teams in
Finland (the Lions, now called the
Icebreakers), Dusseldorf (the Lions,
now the Rheinland Lions) and China
(originally the Blues, now known as
the Reds).
November 2013 saw him bring the
oval-ball game to Myanmar for the
rst time, overseeing the creation of
a national team, the Fighting Cocks.
When Clark ran out with the rest of
the Fighting Cocks to play the Thai-
land Tigers at Pun Hlaing in May for
the teams inaugural game, he was
representing his 24
th
national team
surely a record in a football code
that has a limited following outside
Australia. The list of Clarks former
sides includes giants of the sport
like the Austrian Dingoes, Pakistan
Markhors and Belgium Saints.
The Fighting Cocks went down
3.6.24 to Thailands 11.15.81 in April,
although in the process Clark se-
cured the distinction of kicking the
rst goal for the edgling side. (Like
teams, Clark is a collector of quirky
statistics: These include kicking the
rst democratic goal on communist
soil, for the Thailand Tigers in Sai-
gon, 1998, and the rst communist
goal on democratic soil, for the Viet-
nam Saints in Bangkok, 1999.)
The Fighting Cocks fared better
at the Indochina Cup last month,
where they beat the Cambodian Ea-
gles 3.3.21 to 2.6.18 to secure their
inaugural win albeit with the help
of a couple of players from the Vi-
etnam Swans. A few of the Swans
even played against their teammates
for the Fighting Cocks in the match
against Vietnam, which Clarks team
lost 5.1.31 to 3.3.21.
Playing on their home turf at the
Pattaya Polo Club, the Thailand Ti-
gers ran out winners in the August
15-16 competition, which also fea-
tured the Laos Elephants.
The Fighting Cocks were not the
only Myanmar connection at the
tournament. The nal game saw
former Australian Football League
(AFL) player Andrew Embley, whose
father was born in Yangon and mi-
grated to Perth in 1964, coach the
Indigenous All-Stars a combined
team made up of nationals from
Southeast Asian countries to victo-
ry against a regional expatriate team,
the Kangaroos. Embley even took to
the pitch for the Fighting Cocks in
one of their group matches.
A star of the game for more than
a decade, Embley played 250 games
for the Perth-based West Coast Ea-
gles between 1999 and 2013, winning
the 2006 Norm Smith Medal for best
on ground in that years grand nal.
Embley has treaded giddy heights
that the Fighting Cocks can only
dream of.
The challenge for the Myanmar
team is to build on the experience in
Pattaya and develop the skills of their
local and expatriate players, barely
half of whom have previous playing
experience. With a relatively small
expat community, attracting enough
players for the 18-a-side game is al-
ways going to be a challenge in a
country like Myanmar, but Clark
says it is a task made easier by the
internet.
In the past, people just didnt
know about [AFL] so you really had
to get into everyones face and let
them know. My job was basically to
start conversations wherever I went,
he says. If we were short wed go to
bars and pull in a few backpackers.
Its much easier now with the inter-
net but when youre going on a tour
theres still the chance of a mass col-
lapse, with people pulling out at the
last minute.
Aside from a score or so of will-
ing participants, the formation of
football teams outside Australia is
also largely dependent on the ec-
centricity of the expats. As Clark
tells it, the creation stories of
Southeast Asian national sides are
littered with a range of colourful
characters.
One of his favourites is mission-
ary Martin, who initially brought
some religious zeal to the team that
would later become the Jakarta Bin-
tangs. We eventually found out his
real name was Robert. It didnt take
him long in Indonesia to work out
that hed rather do the missionary
than be one, he laughs.
Those with a bent for maths will
note that Clark has represented, on
average, more than one national
team each year. This is made possi-
ble by the nature of the Australian
football season outside the games
homeland, which is a series of round
robin competitions and ad hoc exhi-
bition matches rather than a league
that allows players to oat between
teams. This means that between now
and November he is likely to repre-
sent Singapore, Thailand and Myan-
mar (as well as play in a rugby tour
in Bangkok and a 10s rugby tourna-
ment in the Philippines).
But the highlight of the annual
footy calendar is the Asian Cham-
pionships, which will this year take
place in the Philippines in October.
The competition brings together
the Southeast Asian sides as well as
heavyweights Japan, Hong Kong and
China.
At this stage Myanmar is not like-
ly to have a team at the tournament,
but Clark says he will be willing to
line up for both the Singapore Wom-
bats and the Fighting Cocks if Myan-
mar does make the trip.
Aside from the fun on the eld,
its a chance to socialise with fellow
players, both expatriate and local,
from across the continent. If you
can only do one tour, he says, you
do the Asian champs.
The Big Rooster brings
Aussie rules to Myanmar
THOMAS KEAN
tdkean@gmail.com
Julian Clark (centre) stands with members of the Fighting Cocks after a match in Yangon. Photo: Stuart Deed
Fighting
Cocks to
launch youth
program
GET them young: Thats the tactic
the Myanmar Fighting Cocks are us-
ing to build a competitive Australian
rules football team for the future.
The club, which was formed in
November 2013, will launch a pro-
gram known as Auskick during the
Australian Football League grand
nal broadcast at the Australian
embassy social club on September
27. First launched in the late 1980s,
it aims to promote participation in
Australian football through skills
sessions for kids.
A separate Auskick session will
then be held at Thuwanna Stadium
each Saturday from 2pm when the
senior team has its weekly run-out,
says club president Henry Cox.
Cox hopes the program can
introduce more youngsters to a
sport that has been of the radar in
Myanmar.
For now, barely half of the Fight-
ing Cocks squad has prior experi-
ence playing the code, which sees
two teams of 18 players try to kick
an oval-shaped ball through goals
at each end of the oval eld. On a
good day we have 10, players who
have played Australian football
before, says Cox.
Nevertheless, hes buoyed by the
sides display at the Indochina Cup
in Thailand in August, describing
it as, a really solid performance
given that it was our rst ever in-
ternational tournament.
We improved throughout the
day and even notched up a win
against Cambodia, he says.
With captain Andrew Romanin
and coach Byron Donnellon, he
hopes to build up a playing group
of seasoned veterans, as well as
develop the administrative side of
the club so it can conduct tours
to neighbouring countries and en-
courage more Myanmar to take up
the game. The club is also actively
looking for sponsors to support its
tours and development activities.
The teams next game is likely
to be against a visiting Hong Kong
Dragons side in late November, Cox
says, with a team from Vietnam ex-
pected to tour shortly after.
For more information visit
https://www.facebook.com/
myanmarghtingcocks.
The Fighting Cocks take flight in
Yangon. Photo: Stuart Deed
70 Sport THE MYANMAR TIMES SEPTEMBER 15 - 21, 2014
F
OR goalkeeper Ramzi Saleh,
representing his Palestinian
homeland on the football
eld is about far, far more
than simply playing the
beautiful game.
The veteran keeper gives the im-
pression that throwing his tall, power-
ful frame across the goal to block shots
is as much a political statement as a
sporting endeavour.
We want to send a message to the
world, to tell them that the Palestinian
people exist despite all the Israeli ob-
stacles, the destruction, the martyrs,
Saleh told AFP last week at a friendly
tournament in the Philippines.
Saleh, who was born in Egypt to
parents from Gaza, is a legend of
Palestinian football, having played a
record 103 internationals during a 14-
year career.
The 34-year-old was also captain
when Palestine won the Asian Foot-
ball Confederation Challenge Cup in
the Maldives in May, keeping a clean
sheet throughout the tournament.
The victory earned Palestine a
berth in next years Asian Cup in Aus-
tralia, propelling them to a best-ever
world ranking of 85 and triggering de-
lirious celebrations in their Gaza and
West Bank homelands.
Football is hugely popular in Gaza
and the West Bank, where the game
has been played since the 1920s dur-
ing the time of the British mandate.
The Asian Cup will be the Palestin-
ians rst major international tourna-
ment. Their under-23 team will also
play this months Asian Games in
Incheon.
But the euphoria at reaching the
Asian Cup was short-lived, as another
brutal phase of the Palestinians dec-
ades-long land struggle with Israel
erupted.
The ensuing 50-day war, in which
Israeli security forces demolished
large parts of Gaza, left more than
2100 Palestinians dead, mainly civil-
ians.
Seventy-two Israelis and one Thai
national also died before the two sides
agreed to a ceasere in late August.
Twenty-six Palestinian athletes
were among those killed in the con-
ict, according to Amri Hannoun,
the Palestinian Football Associations
press ofcer, who also travelled to the
Philippines.
The dead included ex-midelder
Ahed Zacqut, a Gaza legend who never
made it to the national team but was
one of the territorys most respected
football coaches.
Palestinian coach Jamal Mahmoud,
who resigned following the Peace Cup
tournament in the Philippines, said
the conict had sapped team morale
and distracted the players.
Many players have families in
Gaza, so maybe his home was de-
stroyed and maybe somebody from
his family is dead, or his friends may
be dead. So when he plays hes al-
ways thinking about the war in Gaza,
Mahmoud said.
The weight of the war showed dur-
ing the teams two matches at the invi-
tational Peace Cup in Manila.
Without any recognised strikers,
they were trashed 1-4 in their rst
game by Myanmar, ranked 72 places
below them.
In the second, they struggled to a
3-3 draw at full-time against Taiwan,
who are ranked even lower than My-
anmar, but then scored four goals to
nil during extra time.
Mahmoud and Saleh complained
that, aside from the emotional impacts
of the recent war, their team had again
had to endure many problems that
have long prevented the Palestinians
from achieving their full potential.
Mahmoud said Israeli policies
made it hard for players, coaches, ref-
erees, ofcials and equipment to get in
and out of the territories, even when
there is no ghting.
He said travel restrictions had pre-
vented him from selecting Gaza-based
players, while Gazans playing for West
Bank clubs as well as the national
team were unable to visit their rela-
tives back home.
For the Peace Cup, Mahmoud said
his players were short of match-tness
because the conict had delayed the
start of the two Palestinian profes-
sional leagues.
Five Gaza-based players who would
have been on the national team were
not allowed to leave for the Philip-
pines, according to Mahmoud.
The Palestinians were able to pull
together a squad of just 13 players,
mostly from the West Bank Premier
League, for their match against My-
anmar.
They were then reinforced by Javi-
er Cohene, a Paraguay-born defender
based in Europe who scored on his de-
but against Taiwan.
The Palestinians also promoted
three Asian Games-bound players to
their senior squad, including mid-
elder Ahmed Maher who scored four
goals in the two games.
Israel insists its restrictions on Pal-
estinian football are essential, alleging
militants use football facilities to re
rockets at its cities and take advan-
tage of the sport to spread anti-Israeli
propaganda.
In April, Israel also detained Pales-
tine striker Samah Maraabeh, 22, on
suspicion he delivered money, mes-
sages and a mobile phone in Qatar to
an exiled Hamas militant.
Nevertheless, Mahmoud said ad-
versity could also steel his side.
Yes, maybe the pressure allows
players to show their skills, because
they love sport. Our people love sport,
life, peace. Maybe the pressure makes
their energy burst out, the coach
added.
Saleh was unequivocal.
These obstacles just make us
stronger. Thats why were here, be-
cause we dont stay quiet in the face of
the Israeli occupation, he said. AFP
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following in the Golden Land
SPORT 68
NEW YORK
Independent probe to study
NFLs handling of Rice case
A
N independent investi-
gation led by former FBI
director Robert Mueller
will look into the NFLs
handling of the Ray Rice
domestic violence incident, NFL
commissioner Roger Goodell said
last week.
The probe, which will conclude
with a public report, will have the
full cooperation of the league in ob-
taining records and interviews with
league staf members.
The move came as pressure
mounted on NFL commissioner Rog-
er Goodell regarding exactly when
the league rst saw and obtained a
video showing star Baltimore Ravens
running back Rice knocking out his
then-ancee and now-wife Janay
Palmer, in a hotel elevator.
The probe will be overseen by
two NFL team owners who are at-
torneys, Art Rooney of the Pitts-
burgh Steelers and John Mara of
the New York Giants, and con-
ducted by Mueller, who ran the FBI
from 2001 to 2013.
Muellers investigation will look
into how the NFL handled its initial
probe of Rice, which Goodell said did
not produce the key video despite re-
quests to law-enforcement ofcials,
in part because it would have been
illegal interference in an ongoing le-
gal matter.
Rice avoided jail time for the inci-
dent by agreeing in May to a pre-trial
intervention program. In July, Good-
ell, who has guided the NFL since
2006, imposed only a two-game ban
on Rice, one that was to have ended
on September 12.
Last month, Goodell said that he
had given too soft a punishment, and
toughened NFL penalties for domes-
tic violence.
Only after video of Rices brutal
left hook was revealed on Septem-
ber 8 by celebrity website TMZ did
the Baltimore Ravens re Rice, a star
rusher who helped them win the
2013 Super Bowl, and Goodell sus-
pend Rice indenitely.
US lawmakers who oversee the
NFL and its anti-trust exemptions
regarding television deals criticised
Goodell and requested details on the
NFLs investigation of Rice.
US Senator Dean Heller, a Re-
publican on a Senate Commerce
subcommittee with jurisdiction
over the NFL, pressed for details
about how Goodell will address
the harm your league has inicted
on survivors of domestic violence
going forward.
Commissioner Goodell must un-
derstand the scope and severity of
domestic abuse acts, Heller wrote.
Judging from his actions, its time
for the NFL to step its game up on
this important matter.
I am highly disappointed the
NFLs reaction was only heightened
once the public witnessed the eleva-
tor video. By waiting to act until it
was made public you efectively con-
doned the action of the perpetrator
himself.
And the leader of Americas larg-
est womens advocacy group called
for Goodell, the boss of the worlds
richest sports league, to resign.
The NFL has lost its way, said
National Organization for Women
president Terry ONeill. It doesnt
have a Ray Rice problem. It has a vio-
lence against women problem.
The only workable solution is for
Roger Goodell to resign.
Goodell maintained no one at
the NFL had seen the brutal video of
Rice punching Palmer in am Atlantic
City casino elevator last February be-
fore September 8.
We did not see video of what
took place inside the elevator until it
was publicly released, Goodell said
in a September 10 memo to execu-
tives. None of the law-enforcement
entities we approached was permit-
ted to provide any video or other in-
vestigatory material to us.
An Associated Press report, cit-
ing an unnamed law-enforcement
source, said the video was in fact sent
to the league in April and arrival was
conrmed by a voicemail from an
NFL phone number.
We have no knowledge of this,
the NFL said in a statement. We are
not aware of anyone who possessed
or saw the video before it was made
public on [September 8]. We will
look into it.
TMZ reported later on September
10, citing an unnamed NFL source,
that no one at the league saw the video
or received the video, including about
475 employees at the NFL headquar-
ters in New York plus NFL Films in
New Jersey and cable televisions Los
Angeles-based NFL Network.
US Senator Richard Blumenthal
cited Goodells burgeoning, insur-
mountable credibility gap and said,
If these reports are true, Commis-
sioner Goodell must go.
Goodell said on September 9 in
an interview with CBS that he does
not believe his job is in jeopardy over
his handling of the Rice afair.
Im used to criticism. Im used to
that, Goodell said. Every day, I have
to earn my stripes.
Due to the controversy, Goodell
skipped an award ceremony on Sep-
tember 10 honoring Carolina Pan-
thers owner Jerry Richardson, who
broke down in tears when address-
ing the issue of his teams credibility
in opposing domestic violence.
When it comes to domestic vio-
lence my stance is not one of indifer-
ence. I stand rmly against domestic
violence, he said as he wiped away
tears. To those who would suggest
we have been too slow to act, I ask
that you not be too quick to judge.
Carolinas Chris Hardy is playing
while an appeal is pending on his
conviction for assaulting his former
girlfriend. AFP
MYANMARS national football team
was greeted with cheers at home last
week after it claimed its rst interna-
tional trophy in nearly a decade.
Players and coaches were met by
supporters on September 8 at Yan-
gon International Airport after they
captured the Philippine Peace Cup in
Manila with a win over the hosts on
September 6.
Myanmar downed the Philippines
3-2 with goals from Kyaw Ko Ko, Min
Min Thu and Soe Min Oo. Myanmar
defeated Palestine 4-1 to secure its po-
sition in the nals.
Members of the team were praised
by Sports Minister U Tint San.
Thank you to the national foot-
ball athletes for this success, he said.
Although Myanmar was successful at
other sports during the last Southeast
Asian Games, Myanmar fans were dis-
appointed at the football teams failure.
Myanmars last international tro-
phy was the Merdeka Cup, won in
2006.
We have not been successful at
international tournaments in seven
years. There was always pressure from
failing internationally, but now there
is some encouragement, said striker
Soe Min Oo.
The team will now set its sights on
qualifying for the Suzuki Cup, which
will begin next month in Laos.
NEW YORK
National
football team
ends trophy
drought
KYAW ZIN HLAING
kyawzinhlaing.mcm@gmail.com
Footballers celebrate on September 8.
Photo: Aung Htay Hlaing
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell addresses the media at the news
conference on February 1, 2008. Photo: AFP

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