ေနာက္ဆုံးျပဳျပင္ခဲ့သည့္ အခ်ိန္မွာ ( Sunday, 22 June 2008 )
Burmese exiles call for Suu Kyi’s release on her birthday
ပုိစ့္တင္ေပးသူမွာ ေနလ
Friday, 20 June 2008
By Hseng Khio Fah (S.H.A.N)
Burmese exiles call for Suu Kyi’s
release on her birthday
Burmese exiles in Thailand yesterday called for the
release of Aung San Suu Kyi and all other political prisoners in Burma on
her 63rd birthday.
Various Burmese NGOs based in Chiang Mai celebrated Suu Kyi’s birthday at
Chiang Mai University calling for not only the release of Suu Kyi but
also demanding the Burmese military junta to allow the international aid
into the country to help 2.4 million victims of Cyclone Nargis. They also
called on the junta to hold genuine dialogue with Suu Kyi to solve the
political problem in Burma.
The regime last month extended Aung San Suu Kyi’s detention for another
year.
The junta still restricts aid to reach the cyclone victims even though
the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon met with the junta chief Senior
General Than Shwe on 23 last month to allow international aid workers to
conduct their relief efforts to Cyclone victims freely and without
hindrance.
“The SPDC regime did not dare to release her amidst the turmoil following
Cyclone Nagis and they extended her illegal detention for another year
last month. So, this shows how much fear the regime has been experienced
with regards to the changes inside Burma,” criticized Charm Tong from
Shan Women’s Action Network (SWAN).
Charm
Tong
“Free Suu Kyi and free the people of the Burma,”
she concluded.
It is time for the brutal generals to make the right choice and release
Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma's democratic leader, and start meaningful
dialogue, or face being charged at an international court for crimes
against humanity. Such crimes include the killing of monks last September
and the ongoing blocking of aid to cyclone victims, which is causing
further unnecessary suffering and death, particularly of women and
children, according to the Women's League of Burma
(WLB).
ေနာက္ဆုံးျပဳျပင္ခဲ့သည့္ အခ်ိန္မွာ ( Thursday, 12 June 2008 )
Air Mandalay stops Thailand flights
ပုိစ့္တင္ေပးသူမွာ ေနလ
Wednesday, 11 June 2008
Air Mandalay stops Thailand flights
By Hseng Khio Fah ( SHAN News)
Air Mandalay has temporarily stopped its Thailand flights due to fewer passengers and tourists coming to Burma after Cyclone Nagis hit southern Burma on 2-3 May, according to a regular traveler.
There used to be more than 60 passengers each flight from Chiang Mai or Bangkok to Rangoon, but the number of passengers has significantly dropped, sometimes to 5 or 6, said the source.
“Before, there were no less than 50 passengers. Today, we just have 23 people. I heard that they [Air Mandalay] will stop flights until the end of August. This was the last flight,” said a passenger who flied from Rangoon to Chiang Mai on 5 June.
A staff from Air Mandalay office in Chiang Mai confirmed that Rangoon-Thailand flights will stop until 7 August 2008.
The number of border-cross tourists has also dropped, said a tourist guide from Mae Sai-Tachilek border.
After cyclone Nargis devastated the Irrawaddy delta and some parts of southern Burma, tourists who had often visited Burma in the past stopped coming, said the source.
"We used to receive guests at least 3- 4 times a month. Right now, those who had made bookings earlier have canceled their trips. Even though it is high season there are no tourists because of unstable situation in Burma," the source said.
Since November, 2007 some foreign tourism companies based in Rangoon have also closed their businesses, according a Rangoon-based tourist guide.
On 2 -3 May tropical Cyclone Nargis hit the coast of Burma and devastated large parts of the low-lying Irrawaddy delta, leaving at least 134,000 dead or missing and up to 2.5 million people homeless.
