Thursday, November 1, 2012

Daily Burma Related News (Nov 1 , 2012)


(1) Opium production in Burma on the rise: UN : Source : DVB

31-Oct-12
Opium production in Burma has risen for the sixth consecutive year, despite a government commitment to eradicate cultivation by 2014, according to a new UN report released on Wednesday.

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(2) Villagers File US Complaint : Source : RFA

2012-10-31
Cambodian families say a US refiner is purchasing ‘blood sugar’ from a company that seized their land.

More than 200 families in southwest Cambodia on Wednesday called on Washington to intervene in a long-running dispute with a Cambodian-linked consortium which they say did not pay them adequate

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(3) Camps overwhelmed during recent unrest : Source : DVB

31-Oct-12
Food, water and medical help are in short supply at camps in western Burma that are “stretched beyond capacity”, a UN agency said Tuesday, as authorities struggled to stem communal clashes.

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(4) Opium Output Jumps in Burma, Laos : Source : RFA

2012-10-31
A new report says tackling poverty will reduce poppy cultivation in Southeast Asia.

Opium cultivation in Burma increased for a sixth consecutive year in 2012 despite increased government efforts to eradicate the crop, while in Laos land devoted to poppy production rose by more than half of the previous year, according to a new report released Wednesday.
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(5) NLD members resign following row with party’s leaders : Source : DVB

30-Oct-12
More than 130 National League for Democracy (NLD) members have resigned in protest of alleged “cronyism” within its leadership over the selection of members to help organise the party’s upcoming national convention.

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(6) Govt Launches Fresh Arakan Strife Probe : Source : Irrawaddy

31-Oct-12
The Burmese government has launched an investigation into the causes of the latest violence in Arakan State which erupted last week, according to a Naypyidaw insider.

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(7) Overcrowded boat capsizes with Burmese passengers : Source : Mizzima
Wednesday, 31 October 2012 12:59 Mizzima News
A motorboat with 137 people believed to be from Burma on board has capsized in the Bay of Bengal near Shah Porir Island in Teknaf close to Bangladesh's southeastern border with Burma, Xinhua news agency reported on Tuesday.

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(8) Displacement Down in Eastern Burma: TBBC : Source : Irrawaddy

31-Oct-12
The level of hostilities and forced displacement has been dramatically reduced in ethnic Karen, Karenni, Shan and Mon communities in eastern and southeastern Burma following a series of ceasefire deals between the Burmese government and several ethnic armed groups, according to the leading aid agency at the Thai-Burmese border.

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(9) Kachin woman still missing after one year : Source : Mizzima
Wednesday, 31 October 2012 13:25 Mizzima News
More than one year on, Sumlut Roi Ja, an ethnic Kachin woman whose husband said she was abducted by the Burmese Army, is still missing, Burma Campaign UK (BCUK) noted in a press statement on Tuesday.

Sumlut Roi Ja, 28, who was arrested by Burmese Army soldiers on October 28, 2011, was abducted while

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(10) Myanmar Air expands its fleet : Source : Mizzima
Wednesday, 31 October 2012 13:41 Mizzima News
Myanmar Airways International (MAI) has received a leased Airbus A320-200 to expand its fleet of aircraft, in a lease arrangement with International Lease Finance Corporation (ILFC), a wholly owned subsidiary of American International Group, Inc.

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(11) Burma’s gov’t must honour protection of human rights : Source : Mizzima
Tuesday, 30 October 2012 13:03 Mizzima News

The sectarian violence in Burma’s Rakhine State has brought much-deserved international attention to the long-neglected situation of Burma’s Rohingya community, Refugees International said in a report released on Tuesday.
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(12) Wa will not become government militia : Source : Panglong

Wednesday, 31 October 2012 14:39 S.H.A.N.
Refuting earlier reports by SHAN and other news agencies that the United Wa State Army (UWSA), if push comes to push, would accept a Burma Army-controlled militia status, a source close to Wa authorities said the Wa would stand by its 21 August 2011 statement.

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(13) Burma ready to push rice production higher : Source : Mizzima
Tuesday, 30 October 2012 13:12 Mizzima News
Burma is looking at turning its rice-growing sector into a major source of income over the next five years, with plans to double rice production, according to officials.

For decades, prior to the suffocating grip of a series of coups and military regimes, Burma was the world’s No. 1 rice importer.
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Daily Burma Related News (Oct 31, 2012)


(1) NLD members resign following row with party’s leaders : Source : DVB

30-Oct-12
More than 130 National League for Democracy (NLD) members have resigned in protest of alleged “cronyism” within its leadership over the selection of members to help organise the party’s upcoming national convention.

 

(2) Unrest in Burma could destabilise region: ASEAN : Source : DVB

30-Oct-12
The Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) Secretary General Surin Pitsuwan has warned that sectarian bloodshed in Burma could radicalise minority Rohingya Muslims there and destabilise the whole of Southeast Asia.

 

(3) Gunshots Fired to Stop Huge Mob : Source : RFA

2012-10-30
Several thousand Rakhine residents are prevented from trying to oust Muslims from a village in Burma's restive state.

 

(4) Naypyidaw Promises Kachins Political Dialogue : Source : Irrawaddy

30-Oct-12
The Kachin Independence Organization (KIO) said it was promised political dialogue by a Burmese government delegation during talks at the Sino-Burmese border town of Ruili on Tuesday.


(5) As death toll rises, UN calls on Bangladesh to open border : Source : Mizzima
Tuesday, 30 October 2012 12:34 Mizzima News
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has called on Bangladesh to open its borders to Rohingyas fleeing sectarian violence in Burma.

(6) Govt Troops Kill Two, Arrest 48 Accused of Belonging to Ceasefire Group : Source : Irrawaddy

30-Oct-12
A Burmese military-owned newspaper said that government troops killed two people and arrested 48 others in an attack last week on a base run by the Shan State Army-North (SSA-North), an armed group that recently signed a ceasefire agreement with Naypyidaw.


(7) Rakhine State ‘humanitarian community’ target of threats: UN : Source : Mizzima
Tuesday, 30 October 2012 12:49 Mizzima News
Although the figures are likely to increase, as of  Sunday 28,000 people have been displaced and up to 86 people killed, according to the latest reports from Rakhine State.

 

(8) Burmese Celebrate End of Lent : Source : Irrawaddy

30-Oct-12
Millions of Burmese Buddhists celebrated the end of Lent on Tuesday, a national holiday when devotees donate food and money to monks at their local temples.

 

(9) Police Fire on Buddhists on Ramree Island  : Source : Irrawaddy

30-Oct-12
Tensions are rising amongst the Arakanese population of Ramree Island’s Kyauk Ni Maw Village after security forces fire into protesters on Tuesday resulting in one death and one injury.


 

(10) Traders Demand Official Border Exchange Rates  : Source : Irrawaddy

30-Oct-12
Burmese traders in Myawaddy, across from the Thai border town of Mae Sot, want the Naypyidaw government to boost business by expanding the country’s new official rate of currency exchange to include the Thai baht.

(11) Burma ready to push rice production higher : Source : Mizzima
Tuesday, 30 October 2012 13:12 Mizzima News
Burma is looking at turning its rice-growing sector into a major source of income over the next five years, with plans to double rice production, according to officials.


(12) Thein Sein describes gov’t rice farming plan : Source : Mizzima
Tuesday, 30 October 2012 13:23 Mizzima News
Burma’s President Thein Sein spoke to local rice farmers and officials on Sunday in Alyinlo Village in Pyinmana Township of Naypyitaw, focusing on government plans to boost the country’s rice sector.



(13) Poppy crop substitution agreement in Shan State : Source : Mizzima
Tuesday, 30 October 2012 14:03 Mizzima News
The Burmese government, the UN Office of Drug Control (UNODC) and the Restoration Council of Shan State (RCSS) reached an agreement in Tachilek on Sunday on a crop substitution program in Mongnai and Mongpan townships in Shan State.
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(14) Up to 4,600 homes destroyed in latest Rakhine unrest : Source : Mizzima
Monday, 29 October 2012 12:41 Mizzima News
The Burmese government has said up to 86 people have died, 22,500 people have been displaced from their homes and over 4,600 houses have been burnt in Rakhine State villages in at least eight townships, the UN said in a statement.
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Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Daily Burma Related News (Oct 30, 2012)


(1) Karen National Union reinstates dismissed leaders : Source : DVB

29-Oct-12
The Karen National Union (KNU) reinstated the Karen National Liberation Army’s Commander-in-Chief Mutu Say Poe and the KNU’s Social Welfare Department head Roger Khin after the two were dismissed last month after opening an unauthorised liaison office with the government.

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(2) More than 26,000 people displaced during recent clashes : Source : DVB

29-Oct-12
Homeless people fled to packed camps or clustered near their charred houses in western Burma on Sunday, amid ongoing unrest that the UN said displaced 26,500 from mainly Muslim communities.

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(3) Calm Restored as Security is Beefed Up in Arakan : Source : Irrawaddy

29-Oct-12
Calm has been restored to western Arakan State after a significant increase in security forces in the streets of affected towns and villages, according to state media on Monday.

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(4) Burma’s gov’t must address ‘root causes’ of violence: HRW : Source : Mizzima

29-Oct-12

Burma’s government urgently needs to provide security and aid for the Rohingyas and Arakanese in the Rakhine State, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said this weekend.
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(5) Whole Rohingya enclave burned to the ground: HRW : Source : Mizzima
Monday, 29 October 2012 12:56 Mizzima News
The 57-nation Organisation of Islamic Cooperation has condemned the newest attacks on Muslim Rohingyas in Burma as reports arrived that an entire Rohingya section in Kyauk Phyu – up to 811 homes – was burned to the ground.

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(6) Background to Arakan State Strife : Source : Irrawaddy

29-Oct-12
An eruption of communal violence in Burma this past week is a reminder that the Southeast Asian country still faces serious problems even as it institutes major political and economic reforms after almost five decades of repressive military rule.

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(7) Turkey sends humanitarian aid to Arakan State : Source : Mizzima
Monday, 29 October 2012 13:30 Hinthani
Sangkhlaburi (Mizzima) – Humanitarian aid from Turkey arrived in Burma last week for victims of sectarian violence in Rakhine State.

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(8) Up to 4,600 homes destroyed in latest Rakhine unrest : Source : Mizzima
Monday, 29 October 2012 12:41 Mizzima News
The Burmese government has said up to 86 people have died, 22,500 people have been displaced from their homes and over 4,600 houses have been burnt in Rakhine State villages in at least eight townships, the UN said in a statement.

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(9) Tripartite Agreement reached in Tachilek (Unofficial translation) : Source : Panglong

Monday, 29 October 2012 14:10 S.H.A.N.
Tripartite Agreement reached in Tachilek
(Unofficial translation)
(28 October 2012)
  1. Government, UNODC and RCSS will undertake survey in Mongnai and Mongpan townships
  2. Based on the data gathered, government, UNODC and RCSS will choose the sites for crop substitution pilot project

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(10) Ethnic violence survivors blame Myanmar government : Source : 3news

30-Oct-12
Survivors of ethnic clashes in western Myanmar have lashed out at the government for failing to prevent violence between Muslims and Buddhists that has displaced more than 28,000 people over the last week.

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(11) Myanmar: A power play on the Irrawaddy River : Source : Glogalpost

29-Oct-12
Myanmar. The people get nothing — not even the power generated by the projects — but lose their land, their livelihoods and in the case of Yeywa, an ancient religious site to boot.

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