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MPs face restrictions as

constitution debate looms
Members of parliament will be
restricted to 10 minutes each while
discussing proposed constitutional
changes, and have been ordered not to
propose changes or additions to bills
tabled in parliament on June 10.
NEWS 7

Myanmar to repatriate
another 37 to Bangladesh
Ko Nay Lin Soe,
who lost the use
of his legs during
childhood due to
the effects of polio,
poses in front of
his car in Yangon
yesterday. Earlier
this month he
became the first
wheelchair-user
in Myanmar to be
granted a drivers
licence, aided by a
device that allows
him to operate the
cars brake and
accelerator pedals
using his left hand.

A second batch of migrants rescued

off the Rakhine coast last month will
return to Bangladesh today, Myanmar
officials say, while 187 of more than
700 found on a second boat have been
confirmed as from Myanmar.

BUSINESS 12

Electrification targets:
Too little, too late?
Myanmar, plans say, is 15 years from
having every household in the country
connected to power. Yet significant
challenges remain, and local opposition
to power plants is slowing down the
goal, according to officials.
BUSINESS 13

Critics question Central

Bank plan for imports
The Central Banks plan to get US
dollars to edible oil and fuel importers
has been criticised for being too
complicated and open to abuse.

MPs axe student demands

Parliament ends months of controversial debate in final vote on amendments to the National Education Law,
rejecting key student demands over recognition of university unions, prompting some to blame the NLD. NEWS 3

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THE MYANMAR TIMES June 19, 2015

Page 2

Kayleigh Long |
kayleighelong@gmail.com

THE INSIDER: Happy birthday

Panzagar
Well, theres been two particularly
outstanding articles that have come
in on my Google alerts over the past
few weeks (outstanding in the sense
that they stand out, because they were
so dumb), both of which lazily forged
a connection between the ongoing
persecution of the Rohingya and calls
to action by various extremist figures
including the Pakistani Talibans
Jamaat-ul-Ahrar faction and the
al-Qaeda affiliated Somali outfit alShabaab.
The Independents article began
Burmas worst nightmare came a
step closer to reality, referring to
an inciting statement by ehsanullah
ehsan of Pakistani Taliban fame, which
you can Google if you wish but I wont
quote it as Im not in the business of
providing a soap box to extremists of
any ilk.
now, that is a fear that has
gained traction in certain quarters in
Myanmar, and has been wielded to
great effect in shaping an alarming
number of peoples opinions despite
the fact that this is arguably the most
significant barrier to any sort of conflict
resolution.
What the article failed to mention
was that its not Burmas worst
nightmare.
In fact, Id venture to suggest that
any kind of misguided act of solidarityterrorism from members of groups like
those mentioned before would be the

absolute worst thing that could happen

to an already very persecuted people.
The rest of The Independents
article was fairly benign and I do
understand that, in an age where
something either needs the word
kitten, ISIS or something raunchy
in order to get the idiot masses to click
on it, that hatchet job of a lede may
well have been the work of an some
uninformed desk jockey paid to man
the website.
However, thats really neither here
nor there because theyve not only
written something fundamentally
misleading, but given the Pakistani
Taliban a platform they wouldnt have
otherwise had (something its generally
best to avoid doing, I find) as well as
giving ammo to those whod have you
believe the un is a subsidiary of the
OIC, and that ones religion can be
established with a blood test.
The newsweek article was equally
reprehensible, clearly written by
someone who had no idea what they
were talking about (quite possibly
an intern), who goaded so-called
regional security experts into forming
a cursory assessment on just how
likely it is the caliphate will extend
its odious tentacles into the region.
Its worth noting that there have also
been innumerable articles that have
appeared in foreign media that unfairly
portray Buddhists and thats every bit
as irresponsible, sloppy and ultimately
unhelpful.

In brief:
Foreign woman developing a complex
as a result of getting called sir all
the time
Ma Ba Tha strikes fear into the
heart of the property development
sector
Indian military leader embarrassed
after realising his grasp on the
meaning of the term covert operation
was completely off
Next week:
un considers adopting an ArtistFormerly-Known-As-Prince-style
symbol to refer to the stateless
minority in Rakhine in a bid to avoid
having to navigate problematic
nomenclature
Lotteria refuses to comment on
rumours the words on their in-store
decals were decided by picking words
at random from a cowboy novel

MILLIOn

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The number of convenience store

cheese sandwiches that dont get eaten
in Myanmar each day (n.B: estimate)

Once was Burma ...

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News 3

Ceasefire demands
violate national
causes: military
SANDAR LWIN
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Demonstrators march against the National Education Law in Yangon in November 2014. Photo: Thiri

Student unions left

out of education law
HTOO THANT

MRATT KYAW THU

THE joint houses of parliament yesterday rejected key student demands

in approving the final version of the
amended National Education Law,
ending months of controversy that
had led to protests and mass arrests.
After two days of debate, the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw ruled on 51 points
where the lower and upper chambers had differences. One of the key
changes in favour of the Pyithu Hluttaw, lower house, was to remove the
word union (thamaga) from the
final text covering the recognition of
teacher and student unions.
Lower house representative U
Phyo Zayar Thaw of the National
League for Democracy said the
change did not imply annulling the
existence of student and teacher unions on university councils. It was
aimed instead at including teachers
and students who were not union
members, he said.
Nonetheless students reacted
strongly against the final text, saying
parliament had negated agreements
they had reached in four-way talks
in February with the government,
MPs and experts. Student activists
say the law leaves the central government with too much power over
the school and university system.
Their own movement divided,
some students accused the opposition NLD of undermining them.
NLD members talked in parliament about union having a negative meaning. And now the bill is
approved without our role, our encouragement and our agreements,

said Ko Aung Nay Paing, executive

member of the All Burma Federation
of Student Unions, many of whose
activists are on trial following their
arrests during the police crackdown
at Letpadan in Bago Region on
March 10.
The bill came out of our efforts,
the students thamaga. But they destroyed it. So I have to say that they
are trying to destroy the history and
existence of students and thamaga,
he said.

The important
facts requested
by students have
disappeared.
Centralisation
is back in the
education law.
U Thein Lwin
National Network for
Education Reform

For many his words will conjure

images of resistance to British colonial rule in the 1930s led by Bogyoke
Aung San.
Pyithu Hluttaw representative U
Thein Nyunt of the opposition New
National Democracy Party backed
the inclusion of the term union
and defended the students.
The bill started from the student
movement for democracy education.
It is necessary to recognise student
unions and teacher unions, U Thein
Nyunt said.
Divisions within the student

movement over how to amend the

National Education Law, passed by
parliament last September, resurfaced earlier this month when members of the University Students Union (Ta Ka Tha) held talks with NLD
leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi at her
Yangon residence.
Since the meeting Ta Ka Tha
leaders have said they will focus on
engaging with the drafting process
of the separate higher education law,
which is headed in parliament by
the NLD leader.
The education budget was another area of dissent yesterday where,
as expected, more radical student
voices lost out. Students had wanted
a commitment to increase education
spending over time to 20 percent of
the government budget. The lower
house won a vote that said the education budget would aim to reach
up to 20pc.
U Thein Lwin, director of the
National Network for Education Reform, which took part in the four-way
talks, blasted the outcome of the parliamentary process. The important
facts requested by students have disappeared. Centralisation is back in
the education law. The law is as the
government wanted and not free. The
new one changes just words. It is like
the original law, said U Thein Lwin,
who was dropped by the NLD from
its leadership committee because of
his role in the NNER.
Some amendments will be popular, however. Students will have the
right to apply for the university and
program they wish. Universities are
also empowered to decide whom to
admit without necessarily considering the results of final high school
exams that are widely criticised for
their rigidity and promotion of rote
learning.
Translation by Thiri Min Htun

THE future of the national ceasefire

process was looking dim yesterday as
Tatmadaw Commander-in-Chief Senior
General Min Aung Hlaing made it clear
that the military would be unlikely to
accept all additional demands from the
ethnic armed groups.
Progress toward the long-awaited
signing of a national ceasefire agreement hit a roadblock earlier this month
as the leaders of the armed groups, at
their summit meeting at Law Khee Lar,
Kayin State, declined to sign the draft
approved for their final agreement, and
instead proposed 15 amendments. The
leaders also nominated a fresh team of
negotiators, signalling a more robust
approach to negotiations.
Senior General Min Aung Hlaing
set out his position in state-owned media, which covered a meeting he had
held with the departing Swiss ambassador, Christoph Burgener, who left on
June 17.
According to the report, the general
feared that the demands of some ethnic armed groups could hurt the three
main national causes: non-disintegration of the union, non-disintegration
of solidarity and perpetuation of sovereignty. He suggested the armed groups
attitude could undermine national stability, which the military considers its
bounden duty to defend.
Amplifying his remarks yesterday
on his Facebook page, the Commanderin-Chiefs Office posted, Ethnic groups
should understand all the countrys
objective conditions. The demands of
some ethnic groups may have different
interpretations. They are found to be
harmful to our three National Causes.
Some of the instigations are found to
be detrimental to peace and stability.

The wish of the Tatmadaw is to

firmly place the nation on the path towards peaceful and stable democracy.
It will do its best within the framework
of law, the post said.
The nationwide ceasefire agreement draft was signed in principle on
March 31 by the Nationwide Ceasefire
Coordination Team (NCCT), representing 16 ethnic armed groups, and the
governments negotiating group.
However, the government has said
it will not let three members of the
NCCT that are fighting the Tatmadaw
in the Kokang region of Shan State formally sign the agreement with the rest
of the groups.
U Min Zaw Oo, a director of the
Myanmar Peace Center, which is facilitating talks on behalf of the governments negotiating team, the Union
Peace-making Work Committee, said
yesterday that the matters the ethnic
groups wanted to negotiate further had
already been discussed.
We just presented to the government the issues the ethnic summit
wanted to change. These are not new.
All have already been negotiated in previous meetings, he said.
The ethnic groups have refused
to reveal their new demands, but U
Min Zaw Oo said they include inviting
more countries to witness the signing
ceremony of the nationwide ceasefire agreement and including them in
ceasefire monitoring committees.
But the main sticking points could
be the ethnic groups insistence on a
stronger commitment to change the
countrys structure to allow greater autonomy for the states and further progress toward a political dialogue. The
ethnic leaders also declined to sign an
agreement without the participation of
the three armed groups currently fighting the government in Kokang.

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THE MYANMAR TIMES JUNE 19, 2015

Police unit seeks better relations with media

KYAW PHONE KYAW
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THE Yangon Region Police Force has
formed a new media unit aimed at
building better relations between journalists and law enforcement officials.
It is the first such team to be organised
by police in the country in more than
two decades.
Police Colonel Win Naing, the chief
police officer for Yangon Region, told
reporters at a launch ceremony on
June 18 that police have long been
misunderstood by the people because law enforcement officials have
avoided dealing with the media.
Now we think that having good relations with the media is an essential
need for police, he said.
The new unit is one of the results of
community policing training provided
to Myanmar police by the European
Union, with funding support from several Europe-based non-government
organisations. Media training for police started in May 2014, and 120 officers have completed the program.
The Yangon Region media unit
is based in the regional government
office and includes a police colonel,
three majors, three captains, a lieutenant, two sergeants and a corporal.
Four police lieutenant colonels will
take responsibility for Yangon Regions
four districts.
Pol Col Win Naing said the first
unit is only for Yangon Region, but 14
more teams will soon be formed for
each of Myanmars other states and regions, as well as for Nay Pyi Taw.
At the June 18 launch ceremony,
the EU embassys first secretary, Andreas Magnusson, said the media
unit was not meant for propaganda

The Yangon Region Police Force unveils its media unit on June 18. Photo: Zarni Phyo

purposes.
It is a public service media unit.
This is a true police service, he said,
adding that the team will provide journalists with precise information in a
timely manner.
But Si Thu Zayya, a broadcast journalist from DVB, questioned whether
the media unit would be able to do
a good job if its members were also

obligated to fulfill other police duties.

The police might be burdened,
he said. If reporters want access to
archives of criminal cases or annual
summaries, the media team might not
have time to help because they also
have other duties.
Pol Col Win Naing admitted that
the new unit might have trouble with
the job at first, but said they would try

to keep improving.
I want to ask the media to please
cooperate with us and help us move
forward with clear vision, he said.
The duties of the media unit will
include maintaining an updated Facebook page in the event of unusual
cases or criminal cases, and distributing information to print and broadcast
media as quickly as possible.

MPs face restrictions in next

weeks constitutional debate
EI EI TOE
LWIN
eieitoelwin@gmail.com

SCORES of MPs have registered to

debate long-awaited constitutional
amendment bills next week but some
have expressed concerns over restrictions on what can be discussed and
the likely voting system.
Pyidaungsu Hluttaw Speaker Thura U Shwe Mann announced yesterday
that 75 MPs had registered to debate
proposed changes to section 436 and
59, which relate to the process of
amending the constitution and the
presidential eligibility requirements,
respectively.
Due to time constraints, 21 Union
Solidarity and Development Party
members were denied the chance to
discuss the bill, leaving 12 USDP representatives to debate the draft changes. Another 26 MPs from the National
League for Democracy and 16 from
other parties registered to discuss the
bill and were granted permission.
However, they have been told to
talk for no more than 10 minutes, and
cannot suggest changes or additions
to the bill. This has angered some
MPs, who say that for such important
legislation they should be allowed to
speak freely, and for an adequate period of time. The bills are the culmination of an amendment process that began almost two years ago and has been
closely watched and debated each
step of the way.
U Tun Aung Kyaw, a Pyithu Hluttaw representative from the Rakhine
National Party, said there should be

no restrictions on what MPs can say

in parliament.
Now we are warned that we must
follow these instructions. I feel more
like a robot than an MP, he told The
Myanmar Times yesterday.
We agree with some proposals in
the bill, but disagree on some other
points. So we should all have the
chance to say why we dont agree, he
said.
U Ye Tun, a representative for
Hsipaw from the Shan Nationalities
Democratic Party (SNDP), warned
that the Speakers approach to the debate could prompt some MPs to vote
against the proposed changes.
It seems like we can only say yes

Now we are warned

that we must follow
these instructions.
I feel more like a
robot than an MP.
U Tun Aung Kyaw
Rakhine National Party

or no to the proposed amendments

during the discussion we have no
right to put forward our suggestions,
he said.
Two constitutional amendment
bills were submitted to parliament on
June 10 by U Thein Zaw, a senior Union Solidarity and Development Party
official.
The first contains changes to two
sections 436 and 59 that would

require a nationwide referendum if

they are passed by parliament.
The second bill contains changes
to 31 other sections that would not require a referendum.
On June 16 the Joint Bill Committee submitted its report on the amendments, instructing MPs to register by
June 17 to discuss the shorter bill, and
by yesterday afternoon to discuss the
longer bill. The debate on the section
436 and 59 amendments will be held
from June 23 to 25.
In its report, the bill committee
said that the by-laws of the Union Parliament Law state that MPs are not
guaranteed the right to discuss a bill
and that their participation is at the
Speakers discretion.
However, MPs said it was the first
time that such restrictions had been
put in place during debate on a bill.
Nearly all National League for Democracy MPs have registered to take
part in at least one of the two debates,
representative U Zaw Myint Maung
said.
There are many provisions we will
discuss. Thats why we registered almost all representatives, he said.
Daw Dwe Bu, an MP from the
Unity and Democracy Party of Kachin
State, said she understood that not all
MPs could take part in the discussion.
Many MPs want to speak on the bill.
It is impossible for the Speaker to allow everyone to discuss it. I hope [the
Speaker] can manage it so the debate
is fair, she said.
Some have also expressed concern
over the voting system, an issue that
was also raised by the bill committee in
its report. The committee said that voting should be transparent, and warned
that using electronic voting could lead
to contention over the results.

The electronic system is described

as secret, but the results are logged
in a control room and can be made
available to the Speaker.
MPs said yesterday they thought
the Speaker, who has sole discretion
over which system be used, would
probably choose the stand-up voting
system, whereby representatives have
to stand if they oppose the bill.
The voting system is often an effective method for ensuring passage of
legislation through the parliament, as
some MPs are reluctant to stand up in
front of their peers.
I prefer the stand-up system to
electronic voting because people can
know easily how each MP voted. I also
think this system is the most transparent, said U Naing Gan Lin, an NLD
representative.
However, some MPs are calling for
a third option: the voting system used
to select the president in 2011, when
MPs wrote their choice on a piece of
paper and placed it in a box.
Nobody could know how we voted. I think this is true secret voting.
If possible I want to vote with this
system after the constitutional bill debate, said Daw Nan War Nu, an MP
from the SNDP.
Daw Khin Saw Wai, an MP from
the Rakhine National Party, said she
preferred this system, as the results of
electronic voting are logged and some
MPs feel uncomfortable standing up
in front of their colleagues.
It does not matter which system is
used for other laws, she said. But for
constitution, which is very important
for the state, I think the best way is a
genuine secret voting system like the
one we used to select the president.
All MPs can vote freely through this
system.

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Defiant U Ye Htut says

Yegu tender will continue
PYAE THET
PHYO
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IN apparent defiance of parliament,

the government says it will continue
with plans to sell off the 90-acre
transmitter site at Yegu, in Yangons
Mayangone township.
Parliament ordered the suspension of the tender process on May
27, five days after an urgent motion
to that effect submitted by the Union
Solidarity and Development Partys
representative for South Okkalapa, U
Aung Thein Linn.
Critics said the tender conditions
were highly restrictive, suggesting
that the tender had been tailored
to suit a small number of very large
companies. The tender was thought
to have been suspended, as the ministry stopped selling application
forms in early June.
But in the hluttaw yesterday Minister for Information U Ye Htut said
the government would proceed with
the tender and challenged MPs to indict him if his actions were found to
be in breach of the constitution.
After a brief debate, Pyidaungsu
Hluttaw Speaker Thura U Shwe
Mann announced that the discussion

Monsoon clouds hover over the transmitter site at Yegu. Photo: Thiri Lu

would be recorded, leaving the future

of the project unclear.
U Ye Htut told parliament he was
not acting in self-interest in permitting the tender process to continue.
If you think Im in breach of the
constitution, you can indict me. I am
ready to face it any time. If I breach
ethics or the law, I am ready to resign without having to be pushed,
he said.
He said the tender had been approved by cabinet. This year, the
president instructed us not to sign
contracts to let buildings for more
than one year because it is the last

year of the current governments tenure, U Ye Htut said. But for big projects, we can invite tenders and can
select the winner.
The debate centred around sections 221, 228(a) and (b), and 11(a) of
the constitution, and section 58(d) of
the Union Government Law. Parliamentarians argued that these sections
give the hluttaw the power to stop the
tender, and compel the government to
follow its decision on the matter.
Speaking to the media later, U Ye
Htut said, We are not sure about the
future of the project because Speaker
Thura U Shwe Mann recorded the

debate. No tenders have been received yet, but we have extended the
deadline into July.
So far, tender applications for the
Yegu site have been sold to six companies, including Shwe Than Lwin
Media, he said. Shwe Than Lwin runs
the Sky Net satellite television service.
MPs yesterday criticised the information ministers intervention.
If the government has no respect
for the hluttaws decision, what is
the point of the hluttaw? We MPs
have our responsibility to represent
the people. As long as the hluttaw is
weak, it will be hard to achieve democracy, said U Tin Maung Oo, MP
for Shwe Pyi Thar township, Yangon.
Representative U Kyaw Naing
Htay said that the ministry had continued to sell tender applications for
10 days after the hluttaws decision
to suspend the project. The constitution says the government shall
implement the administrative resolutions passed by the Pyidaungsu
Hluttaw and report back, he said.
The tender rules state that the
land should be used for a media business park, including a broadcasting
complex, a multimedia university,
zones for recreation, and indoor and
outdoor stadiums. The tender was announced on May 15, and gave applicants little more than a month to submit plans on proposed usage of the
site. Translation by Thiri Min Htun

IN BRIEF
NLD holds off on
candidate selection

The National League for Democracys

central executive committee will meet
in Yangon this weekend to review its
work over the past six months, but
selection of candidates for the 2015
election is not on the agenda.
The fifth central executive committee
meeting will be held on June 21 and 22,
with party leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi
delivering the opening remarks. Central
executive committee member U Tun
Tun Hein described the gathering as a
normal meeting for the NLD.
We will review our work and we will
discuss future plans for the party during the meeting, he said, adding that
the NLD had not yet started compiling
a list of potential candidates for the
November election.
We havent started to make a candidate list because the NLD has not yet
decided whether we will contest this
election, U Tun Tun Hein said. We will
decide whether to run only after the
election commission announces the
election date. Ei Ei Toe Lwin

Chinese man arrested at

airport with elephant tusks

A Chinese national has been arrested

at Yangon International Airport after
being caught with two elephant tusks
and a 163-gram piece of jade taped to
his left leg. The man, 42, was due to
depart for Kunming on a China Eastern
Airlines flight on June 16 when he was
arrested by forestry officials.
He faces charges under section 37(a)
of the Protection of Wildlife and Conservation of Natural Areas Law, which
carries a potential seven-year prison
term. Toe Wai Aung, translation by
Khant Lin Oo

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THE MYANMAR TIMES JUNE 19, 2015

Wheelchair-user gets drivers licence

I was able to answer all the questions about road and vehicles rules,
but I had trouble testing with the
driving simulator because it uses
manual gears. So I showed my abilities by driving a real car.
U Kyaw Aye Lwin, a director
from the RTAD, said Ko Nay Lin Soe
showed that he was able to answer
the questions about road rules, and
also proved his behind-the-wheel
driving abilities.
He passed the exams, so we gave
him a drivers licence, he said.

AYE
NYEIN
WIN
ayenyeinwin.mcm@gmail.com

KO Nay Lin Soe has been unable to

walk from an early age due to the
effects of polio, but that has not
stopped him from striving to live life
as an able-bodied person.
The 34-year-old resident of Mayangone township, Yangon, gets around
fine in a wheelchair, and earlier this
month he became the first wheelchair
user in Myanmar to be granted a
drivers licence by the Road Transport
Administration Department.
In August 2014 I started learning
how to drive once a week at the RTC
driving school in Insein township,
Ko Nay Lin Soe. I also learned the
road and traffic rules. In October, I
got a trainee drivers license.
He said he first got the idea of
driving while studying in Japan on a
scholarship in 2005, where he saw an
attachable device called a Sword that
allows physically disabled drivers to
operate motor vehicles using their
hands.
I asked the Nippon Foundation
whether they could get such a device
for me. Instead, they donated a normal car to the Myanmar Disabled Association, he said.
He eventually got his Sword, valued at US$2000, as a donation from
Kono Kaisha, a private company
whose executive director was introduced to Ko Nay Lin Soe through the
Nippon Foundation, a Japanese NGO.
The Sword allows drivers to control steering with the right hand,
while using the left hand to manipulate the brake and accelerator pedals.
The Sword can be used in every
car within a very short time. I need
only two minutes to install and adjust
it, he said. It took some practice,

Im disabled but I
have feelings like
other people, and I
want to do the same
things as everyone.
Ko Nay Lin Soe
Disabled driver

Ko Nay Lin Soe demonstrates the use of a device that allows him to drive using only his hands. Photo: Thiri Lu

but I soon became familiar with its

operation and could handle it well. I
quickly became comfortable, and after three days of learning I was able
to drive on the street.
But Ko Nay Lin Soe, a leader of the
Myanmar Independent Living Initiative Group a support organisation
for disable people admitted that he
has faced some negative reactions

over his determination to drive a car.

The responses from some people
have been a little harsh. They said
that a person who uses a wheelchair
cant drive well, and they questioned
my ability to handle a car, he said.
Some said it would be better if I
didnt drive. But Im not disappointed
by these comments. I can show anyone my driving abilities.

U.S. Soybean Export Council Southeast Asian Regional Office (USSEC SEA) Seeking
Applicants for a Full Time Aquaculture Technical Manager Position in Myanmar
Are you a professional in the Myanmar aquaculture industry and looking for an exciting and challenging new position? The
USSEC SEA Regional Office is seeking applicants for the position of USSEC Myanmar Technical Manager Aquaculture
(USSEC MM TM). Our aquaculture program has been in existence since 1985 and specifically growing in SEA since
2002 - and we are now expanding our professional staff in the SEA region. We are seeking someone who is wellconnected, self-motivated, and looking to continue to develop our national program for the USSEC in Myanmar. This
position will require an independent work approach, significant domestic and international travel, and will expose the
successful candidate to international experts, training and experiences. The USSEC SEA Office has an established,
long-term program and a strong team of experts that work to promote a profitable, sustainable, soy-optimized, feed-based
aquaculture industry in SEA.
We are seeking a person who is innovative, proactive, flexible and committed to helping the USSEC to develop a long
term program in Myanmar and region-wide.
The USSEC is a non-profit organization that promotes sustainable, feed-based aquaculture production approaches
through knowledge transfer, on-site trainings, seminars, workshops, conferences, industry tours and demonstrations.
The specific goal of the USSEC aquaculture program is to promote the use of soy, and specifically U.S. soy products,
in aquaculture feeds. However, as all aspects of aquaculture are interlinked, the work will include a broad variety of
responsibilities and knowledge, from broodstock and hatchery operations, to feedmill and production operation and even
up to the processing and marketing side of seafood.
Minimum applicant requirements:
Myanmar national with established aquaculture industry experience. Technical skills in the hatchery, feed, production
and health management aspects are desired, particularly for freshwater and marine fish. Undergraduate students and
non-Myanmar citizens should not apply.
Based in or near Yangon with a current passport and consistent good access to the internet. Drivers license is
appreciated but not needed.
Must have a desire to travel extensively domestically and internationally for training and work assignments and be
physically able to maintain an aggressive travel schedule and to conduct technical servicing in remote locations under
challenging conditions
Good English language ability (speaking/reading/writing). Ability to speak several national dialects is an advantage.
Ability to follow required accounting and administrative tasks. Contractors working for USSEC are expected to work on
a reimbursement model for project activities, therefore it is critical that accounting and administration be done quickly
and accurately (training will be provided by our Singapore office).
Ability to work largely independently with remote supervision by the USSEC SEA Technical Director Aquaculture
(USSEC SEA TD). Will also work on team activities with regional aquaculture staff.
The USSEC MM TM will be trained extensively and will be specifically expected to work with the Myanmar aquaculture
industry to identify where the USSEC can be most effective in promoting good aquaculture practices, feed-based systems
and use of U.S. soy. It is expected that the successful candidate will be hired on probationary basis during training until
October 31, 2015 after which a one year contract will be offered. An attractive/competitive compensation package will be
offered to the successful finalist.
Please send a brief introduction letter detailing experience that matches the requirements above, a current CV and two
English speaking references to Ms. May Myat Noe Lwin- Myanmar Aquaculture Local Technical Support
(noenoeinbk@gmail.com) with the words USSEC MM TM 2015 in the subject line. Applications that do not follow this
format and submit all required documents will not be considered - following this format is part of the application process.
Applications will be accepted until the position is filled, target start date is by or before June 30, 2015 if the appropriate
candidate is identified. USSEC plans to conduct in-country interviews on June 24, 2015 in Yangon.

He said resistance to his driving

actually started with the Road Transport Administration Department,
which at first did not want to allow
him to sit the exam for a drivers
licence.
They didnt want to allow it, but
after I explained myself they changed
their minds and accepted me, he
said.

Ko Nay Lin Soe said that driving in

the streets has been an eye-opening
experience.
All drivers must be patient. Even
if a driver is following the regulations,
others can be undisciplined and break
the rules. Good drivers must be clever
in avoiding these situations. I have
learned a lot of good lessons, he said.
He added that the Myanmar government needs to do more to help
disabled people.
Im disabled but I have feelings
like other people, and I want to do
the same things as everyone, he said.
But sometimes the government
blocks our chances. For example, they
will only give opportunities to strong
and healthy men. But we just want
people to see us as normal people and
give us normal chances.

Three-year study to
examine waterways
PYAE THET PHYO
pyaethetphyo87@gmail.com
A PROJECT to gather data on the
countrys freshwater resources and
the management of its river flows will
take three years, workshop participants
heard on June 16. U Bo Ni, director of
the Watershed Management Division
in the Ministry of Environment Conservation and Forestry, said the data
collection would be carried out by local and foreign experts in collaboration
with the ministry, concluding in 2018.

The aim is to
systematically
manage freshwater
resources in the
lakes and rivers.
U Bo Ni
Ministry of Environment
Conservation and Forestry

The initiative is part of the Research

Program on Water, Land and Ecosystems in the Greater Mekong project and
the data will be mainly collected along
the Ayeyarwady and Thanlwin rivers.
The data will be used to hone the
formation and implementation of a
national policy on water resources

management.
We will develop a policy on water
resources management and lay down
procedures for carrying it out, said U
Bo Ni. The integrated management of
all water resources in the country is
the responsibility of the National Water Resources Committee, headed by
Vice President U Nyan Tun.
Experts from the International Centre for Environmental Management,
the International Centre for Water Resources Management, the Myanmar
Institute for Integrated Development,
and the Ecosystem Conservation and
Community Development Initiative will
collect the data, supported by funding
from the Australian government.
We dont have a final figure for the
budget, which will be calculated once
the project details are finalised, said
U Bo Ni. We are now conducting a
basic needs survey that would help us
to set policies and adopt laws and procedures that cover the whole country.
The aim is to systematically manage
freshwater resources in all the lakes
and rivers across Myanmar.
The Ayeyarwady River, the countrys main artery, is a global-level river
that pumps more than 400 billion
cubic metres a year through the countrys heartland, and is home to the endangered Irrawaddy dolphin.
The Thanlwin River, which flows
down from China, supports a wide
range of biodiversity, and is the second-longest river in Southeast Asia
after the Mekong.
Translation by Thiri Min Htun

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Lawyers
allege
abuse as
eight freed
in Rakhine
YE MON
yeemontun2013@gmail.com

Migrants allowed to land by the Myanmar navy arrive at the Mee Tike temporary camp near Maungdaw, Rakhine State, on June 4. Photo: EPA

Myanmar to repatriate 37 more

migrants to Bangladesh today
Government officials say 187 of more than 700 people aboard a vessel rescued in late May are from Myanmar

NYAN LYNN
AUNG
29.nyanlynnaung@gmail.com

MYANMAR is to repatriate 37 more

Bangladeshis today, according to officials, the second group to be sent
back out of 208 migrants taken from
traffickers by the navy off the coast
of Rakhine State last month. The officials have also revealed that almost
200 people aboard a second vessel
rescued on May 29 have been confirmed as being from Myanmar.
U Saw Naing, a senior official of
the Maungdaw district immigration
department involved in the citizenship verification process, told The
Myanmar Times that Bangladesh
had agreed to take back the 37 migrants through the Maungdaw border crossing.
The government has come under pressure from Rakhine nationalists, including Buddhist monks,
demanding the swift repatriation of
two boatloads of migrants taken to
detention centres in the state after
being found at sea. They were among
several thousand Bangladeshi and
Myanmar migrants, many of them

Rohingya Muslims, abandoned by

human traffickers in recent months
after Thailand moved to shut down
smuggling routes.
The Bangladeshi embassy in Yangon did not respond to requests for
comment yesterday. The repatriation
process is going ahead despite the
start yesterday of the Muslim fasting
month of Ramadan.
On June 8, Myanmar sent back
a first group of 150 Bangladeshis
from the 208 people on board a boat
rescued on May 21 off the Rakhine
coast. U Tin Maung Swe, state executive secretary, said Bangladesh
had also agreed to take back 13 more
Bangladeshis from that boat once
further checks are completed.
According to officials, Myanmar
and Bangladeshi consular officials
are still discussing the repatriation
of more than 500 Bangladeshis who
were on board a second boat that the
navy seized further south, off Ayeyarwady Region, on May 29, and then
towed to Rakhine State in early June.
We are trying to repatriate them
as soon as possible, a senior foreign
ministry official said.
The official, who asked not to be
named, said 187 people crammed
into the boat had been identified as
Bengali from Myanmar, the name
the government used for those who

self-identify as Rohingya. Earlier reports cited officials as saying there

had been more than 700 people on
board, including about 120 women
and children.

We have to
repatriate them
once the Bangladesh
government gives
the green light.
U Tin Maung Shwe
Rakhine State executive secretary

U Tin Maung Swe said there could

be delays in repatriating the Bangladeshis from the second boat because
of the time needed by the Bangladeshi authorities to check identities
and addresses.
We have to repatriate them once
the Bangladesh government gives
the green light, he said.
Establishing which country
the migrants are coming from is a
complex and sensitive issue. Many
Rohingya are stateless in both

Myanmar and Bangladesh. Some

were born in Myanmar and then
fled inter-communal violence and
persecution by crossing the border
to Bangladesh before entrusting
their fate to human traffickers, who
in some cases abducted them for
ransom.
Myanmar rejects accusations of
persecution and insists most of the
boat migrants are Bangladeshis fleeing their country for economic reasons. The UN and independent activists have established however that
several hundred Myanmar Rohingya
were allowed off the first boat before
it was rescued by the navy on May
21.
International agencies, including
the UN, have not been involved in
the identity verification process, officials say. The UN refugee agency
says it is supplying humanitarian
aid to two detention centres set up
for the migrants in the north of Rakhine State close to the border with
Bangladesh.
U Saw Naing said the 187 Myanmar Bengalis were still in a temporary shelter in the area of Taung Pyo
Lat Wae. The plan was to return them
to their places of origin, he said.
Most of them were from
Maungdaw and Myebon. Some fled
and some were trafficked, he said.

DEFENCE lawyers for the 32 people

arrested in Rakhine State under the
colonial-era Unlawful Association Act
for alleged contacts with the Arakan
Army claim their clients were beaten
by the police while in custody.
Defence Lawyer U Oo Tun Hla, representing the defendants, complained
yesterday that some of them had
sustained injuries. He accused the
police of beating his clients during
interrogation.
My clients told me the police had
beaten them when asking if they had
links with the AA, said the lawyer.
Police Major Khin Maung from
Kyauktaw township declined to comment on the defences accusation.
The allegations came as eight ethnic Mro were released from Kyauktaw
township police station on June 16 at
the request of police, who said they
did not believe they had contact with
the AA.
Pol Maj Khin Maung said yesterday
that the township court had approved
their release under section 494(a) of
the Code of Criminal Procedure.
They were not involved in this
case so I submitted to the court to revoke the charges, he said.
However, the trial of the other 24
defendants is continuing. They include people suspected of being soldiers with the AA as well as civilian villagers supposedly linked to the force,
which is allied to the Kokang armed
group still engaged in fighting government forces in northern Shan State.
They were originally arrested by
the militarys Kyauktaw-based No
9 Military Operations Command in
April in sweeps conducted in Kyaukpyu, Minbya, Pauktaw, Rathedaung,
Sittwe, Mrauk-Oo and Kyauktaw
townships and handed over to the police in Kyauktaw township.
Pol Maj Khin Maung said that he
had been instructed by the Tatmadaw
to arrest another 31 people, but police
would make no further arrests. He
declined to say why not.
Hearings began at Kyauktaw Township Court on June 11, with the judge
questioning prosecution witness Lieutenant Min Aung Naing. Another
hearing is scheduled for today.
The Mrauk-Oo, Sittwe and Kyauktaw Lawyers Associations are conducting the defence free of charge,
saying public opinion in Rakhine State
demanded the release of their clients.
The villagers didnt break this law
and should not be charged, said the
lawyer, adding that the charges were
being pressed because of the intercession of the judge. The charges, under
sections 17 (1) and (2), carry a possible
sentence of eight years imprisonment.

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THE MYANMAR TIMES JUNE 19, 2015

MAUBIN, AYEYARWADY REGION

CRIME IN BRIEF

Village for homeless takes

shape in Ayeyarwady delta
CHERRY
THEIN
t.cherry6@gmail.com

ACROSS the country, families are

grappling with joblessness, drought,
flooding, land-grabs and the effects
of migration. For many, securing a
place to sleep for the night is their
highest aspiration.
In Ayeyarwady Regions Maubin
township a regional government
team, civil society organisations and
well-wishers are working together
to provide low-cost housing in a 22acre housing project called Aung
Chan Thar. Located near Tha Man
Lay village on the Maubin-Thike
Kone road, it will accommodate
more than 350 families who meet
the conditions imposed by the management committee.
The secretary of the committee
and founder of the Pyo Khin Thit
Foundation, U Than Htike Aung, told
The Myanmar Times on June 8 that
120 families had already been accommodated, and 250 more had been
registered.
We will try to provide for all
registered families, and will buy
more land if the demand exceeds

Workers build low-cost houses near Tha Man Lay village, Ayeyarwady Region,
on June 9. Photo: Cherry Thein

our present 22-acre site, he said.

The committee considers applications from homeless families regardless of ethnicity or religion, but
bans gambling, alcohol, fighting and

swearing. Families must save K100 a

day, he said.
Each family receives a 20-by-60foot plot of land, in which they must
invest K8000 a month for two years,

for a total of K192,000.

The K200 million project is expected to be complete by the end of
the monsoon.
U Than Htike Aung said the committee would also provide microfinance to enhance tenants livelihood.
In early April, the foundation
launched a housing project on 3
acres of land in Ei Wine village, near
Maubin township, to house families
evicted from their homes because of
the rising value of the land that they
occupied. The original list of applications from 50 families has swelled to
900 families.
The regional government is supporting the foundations application
for a loan from the Ministry of Rural
Development, which is now under
consideration.
Ayeyarwady Region Chief Minister U Thein Aung has donated K1.5
million to the project and lent another K1.5 million.
District committee official U
Aung Kyaw Min said civil society had
played an important role in solving
homelessness issues.
I appreciate the governments
collaboration, but this project is
being driven by the CSOs, not the
government, he said, adding that
civil society was able to work faster
than government and he hoped they
would engage in more such projects.

Man dies after work fight

A man who worked as a driver at a

furniture store on Yaw Min Gyi Road
in Dagon township has died after an
altercation with a colleague, according to police.
The man called his sister in Insein
township on June 15, asking her to
come and collect him because he
was feeling ill.
When she arrived at his home,
he had died as a result of serious
injuries.
Dagon township police launched
an investigation and found he had
recently sought medical treatment
after hitting his head on a concrete
floor during a fight with a 33-year-old
work colleague.
When he had presented at hospital,
he said he had fallen down in an
elevator. He was apparently treated
and discharged, but died shortly
afterward.
Dagon police station has opened
a possible murder case in relation to
the death, according to police.

Driver of truck carrying timber

arrested in Yangon outskirts

A man from Kayah State, 35, has

been arrested by police after they
found 31 pieces of timber in a truck
he was driving.
A forestry team led by U Lin Htin,
the forestry head officer for Insein
township, inspected the truck while
it was stopped for repairs beside the
Khayaypin-Pyay Road on June 15, after receiving a tip-off from Mingalardon township.
The man has been charged under
section 43 of the Forestry Act.
Toe Wai Aung, translation by
Khant Lin Oo

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Celebrate
those fathers
who encourage
their daughters
FIONA
MACGREGOR
fionamacgregor@hotmail.co.uk

I COULD not as my fathers daughter

remain indifferent to what was going
on, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi said in one
of her most famous speeches in Yangon in 1988.
Daw Suu Kis father died when she
was a baby, but his ongoing influence
has been profound.
Sunday, June 21, is Fathers Day,
and its a good time to consider the
role that fathers and male caregivers
can play in shaping gender equality
in Myanmars future and across the
world.
My own father, who died earlier
this month, was a huge inspiration to
me. His compassion and determination to support those disregarded by
much of society particularly those in
prison shaped my views about fundamental human rights.
He also ensured that I was brought
up knowing that my gender should
not bar me from anything I wanted to
achieve. Whether the choices I made
were in line with any personal ambitions he may have had for me was secondary to his determination to make
sure I was brought up with the belief
that I had the right and the power
to choose how I lived my life.

When considering how best to

ensure that women are able to reach
their full potential and contribute to
society on an equal footing with men,
supporting girls self-determination
is key. Indeed, fathers who are proud
of their daughters achievements can
become champions of gender equality
simply by association.
In parts of India, for example,
widespread moves to boost girls attendance at school are relatively recent, but the impact has been swift
and powerful. Girls now outperform
boys in exams in a number of subjects,
in part due to cultural traditions dictating that girls are expected to work
hard.
As a consequence, particularly in
less-educated families, adolescent
girls are often the most proficient
at speaking English. This is giving
them a new role in public situations,
and one which gains them respect as
proud fathers push their daughters
forward when speaking to foreigners.
In Myanmar, Girl Determined is
an organisation that supports girls
through peer groups to develop the
confidence and skills they need to decide their own futures and stand up
for their rights. Many parents whose
children are involved describe gaining
a new realisation of what girls are able
to achieve as they see their daughters
developing the ability to speak out for
themselves.
There is also a trend at the moment among certain organisations

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi delivers a speech in Natmauk on February 13 in celebration of the 100th birthday of her father
Bogyoke Aung San, whose portrait is displayed in the background. Photo: AFP

promoting gender rights and equality to focus resources on teaching

men about how they ought to behave
toward women.
This is valuable work, particularly

Fathers who are

proud of their
daughters
achievements can
become champions
of gender equality
simply by association.

in helping address problems of domestic violence. Supportive male role models can also make a huge difference
in shaping girls futures. And while it
is always challenging to change longheld cultural beliefs, it is never too late
for people to put new ideas, including
those regarding gender equality, into
practice.
However, it is important that
in channelling efforts toward men,
women and girls are not inadvertently
disempowered. Of course men should
be encouraged to respect their daughters, but efforts to reach them to do
so should not imply that any man, including fathers, is entitled to grant or
deny girls their inherent rights.
Fathers do have the power to have
great influence on their daughters and
to encourage their daughters to do

great things. Daughters also have the

power to have great influence on their
fathers.
Some girls are fortunate enough
to have fathers who already recognise and encourage this. But many
girls will need outside support to help
them realise they have the right to determine their own future.
This Fathers Day, we should celebrate the fathers who are raising independent, self-confident daughters.
We should also support girls who
lack such supportive male caregivers
so that they are confident of their own
worth in dealing with their fathers
now, and in the future will be able
to encourage the fathers of their own
children and grandchildren to raise
confident girls who know they are
equal to boys.

10 THE MYANMAR TIMES JUNE 19, 2015

BUSINESS EDITOR: Jeremy Mullins | jeremymullins7@gmail.com

Business

Exchange Rates (June 18 close)

Currency
Euro
Malaysia Ringitt
Singapore Dollar
Thai Baht
US Dollar

Buying
K1245
K296
K820
K33
K1112

Selling
K1265
K309
K834
K36
K1114

US banks stay picky

on Myanmar transfers
JEREMY
MULLINS
jeremymullins7@gmail.com

IN PICTURES

Photo: Zarni Phyo

A railroad porter offloads

a train at Yangon station.
Rail transport may be
slow, but there are plans
for large-scale upgrades.

DICA invites comment

on draft Companies Act
AYE THIDAR KYAW
ayethidarkyaw@gmail.com
THE government has revealed a
draft of its much-anticipated Companies Act, an update to a law that is
over a century old.
Work has been under way on legislation to replaced the 1914 Companies Act since mid-2013. Critics say
the previous law, while expansive
and detailed, is out of touch with the
modern economy.
Businesspeople and members
of the public are invited to submit
opinions on the draft law, according
to state media.
Although the current draft has
only recently been released, experts
say they have seen positive changes
in the document. U Moe Kyaw, managing director of Win Tin and Associates audit firm, says the draft
allows for exemption from audit for
small and medium enterprises, while
the old law formerly required all
companies to hire auditors. It also
allows for online company registration, removing a need for company
officials to go to government offices
with hard copies of paperwork.
One of the most contentious issues around the Companies Act is
what constitutes a foreign company.
Currently, a single foreign shareholder in a company makes an otherwise Myanmar company into a
foreign company. This has significant
ramifications for instance, local
banks or local distribution companies
are not allowed to be foreign companies, officially precluding foreigners
from any share in the business.

U Moe Kyaw said there is still

discussion over what will constitute a Myanmar company or foreign
company, with some mooting a figure of 65pc local ownership as the
threshold to make a company locally
owned.
People are criticising that it
needs to be in line with international practices, and also discussing
that definitions could be confused,
he said.
U Moe Kyaws firm is participating in discussions around the law
in the role of auditor. The next discussions with companies, legislators
and related officials will be held this
week, he said.
Directorate of Investment and
Company Administration director
general U Aung Naing Oo said previously the government targets passing the law this year, though it must
still pass parliament.
The draft law has received support from the Asian Development
Bank as well as Baker & McKenzie
Yangon.
Inviting in the public allows
people to take part-ownership over
drafting various laws.
U Aung Thura, chief executive of
Thura Swiss research and consulting, said public discussion is a good
practice to follow when creating
laws, as people will be more satisfied
with laws in which they provided input and clearly know.
U Aung Thura said his current
understanding is the new law will
simplify government procedures for
companies and reduce the overloading of activities.

AMERICAN banks continue to hesitate on money transfers to and from

Myanmar, despite the removal of most
sanctions on finance in 2012 and 2013.
Businesspeople say that while
there are now few explicit rules preventing transfers, a fear of sanctions
and a shallow understanding of the
local market prevents the movement
of money between Myanmar and the
worlds largest economy.
Some say the continued existence
of the Specially Designated Nationals
(SDN) blacklist may also be dissuading American banks and companies
from doing business with Myanmar.
US banks, by-and-large, are steadfastly refusing to undertake any transactions with Myanmar, with few exceptions, said Eric Rose, lead director
at Herzfeld Rubin Meyer & Rose Law
firm in Yangon.
The result has been that businesses and even non-governmental
organisations (NGOs) are having
trouble getting bank transfers to their
Myanmar bank accounts, even to nonblacklisted banks, he said.
A number of US small and medium businesses looking to do business with non-SDN Myanmar entities have contacted Herzfeld Rubin
Meyer & Rose and followed its advice
to check with their banks before proceeding, said Mr Rose. Subsequently,
without exception, they chose not
to proceed even with sales transactions, as US banks, including a large
US bank which does limited banking
with Myanmar, will not transfer funds
from Myanmar to the US without an
OFAC license, even where no SDN is
involved, he said.
The main problem slowing transfers is not the letter of the law or the
remaining sanctions.
American financial exports to Myanmars non-sanctioned institutions
were specifically allowed under Burma General License 16, issued in 2012.
Two of the countrys roughly 25
private banks, Ayeyarwady Bank and
Asia Green Development Bank, and
five of the state-owned banks are still
on the American sanctions list. However, Ayeyarwady, Asia Green Development, and state-owned Myanma
Economic Bank and Myanma Investment and Commercial Bank were
covered in a subsequent General Licence issued in February 2013, which
allowed Americans to open bank
accounts and take part in financial
transactions with them.
A number of other American sanctions do remain in place. Prominent
entrepreneurs such as Steven Law
and U Tay Za and their businesses
are still on the blacklist. Americans
are also forbidden from doing business with military-owned companies,
such as Myanmar Economic Holdings
Limited and Myanmar Economic Corporation, two of the countrys largest
conglomerates.
The US State Department also
requires businesses investing more
than US$500,000 in the Myanmar
economy to file an annual report disclosing a range of different actions in

the country. So far, about 15 companies have filed the reports, including
Coca-Cola, Colgate Palmolive and
Western Union. Some, like Gap, do
not meet the requirements to file, but
do so voluntarily.
Although the sanctions have been
drastically scaled back since 2012, Mr
Rose said their continued existence
may have a chilling effect on inbound investment.
A US embassy spokesperson said
the banks themselves are best-placed
to reply to a question on their activities, but according to the bank representatives they have spoken with, the
reluctance does not stem from a misunderstanding of US sanctions.
Rather, banks, like other foreign
investors, are taking into account the
various political and economic factors
that form their cost-benefit analysis and risk profile of Myanmar, the
spokesperson said.
The Foreign Commercial Service
Officer at the US Embassy in Yangon
is actively engaging American businesses, including US banks that are
considering entering the market here.
The State Department has also provided information to the international
banking associations to educate the
industry about the current state of
play regarding sanctions.
Separately, at a briefing last month,
American officials also pointed to concerns over anti-money laundering that
entered the risk calculation of foreign
banks. Myanmar routinely shows up
on watch lists put out by anti-money
laundering and anti-terrorism finance
organisation the Financial Action
Task Force (FATF).

US banks, byand-large, are

steadfastly refusing
to undertake any
transactions with
Myanmar, with few
exceptions.
Eric Rose
Hertzfeld Rubin Meyer & Rose

They added that doing business

with Myanmar is an internal decision
made by banks, not one made by the
embassy.
Some say American officials may
be underestimating the impact of the
sanctions. Mr Rose said that while
FATFs reports do represent a concern,
there are number of other countries
listed in their reports alongside Myanmar that do not face the same restrictions. I dont remember any banks
having issues dealing with either Algeria or Ecuador, he said.
It is the enormous fines that
banks dealing with SDN countries are
being subjected to which have scared
them, and not FATFs position versus
Myanmar, he said.
Mr Rose added that if one looks
at the bank due diligence requirements and combines this with OFACs
strengthening of the SDN rules issued
on August 13, 2014, you can easily

see how the banks will run the other

way if Myanmar money is involved,
considering the huge fines potential
if one makes a mistake, and the small
transactions US companies engage in
with Myanmar at present.
Philippe May, chief business officer
at Ayeyarwady Bank, said some international banks go way beyond the level of scrutiny required by US rules. If
the country has the SDN list, the banks
dont do any business there, he said.
Part of the problem is a lack of
awareness about the nature of sanctions. Often, legal and compliance officials are tasked with running inward
and outbound Myanmar transactions
past computer databases.
These database queries can return
partial checks. Often, the people doing this have no clue about Burmese
names, said Mr May. If a person on
the list is named Maung Maung, and
the bank is querying the name Aung
Maung, it will receive a partial match,
even though these two people are entirely unrelated.
Banks are also able to go beyond
the law. If their compliance officials
are nervous about Myanmar, they
may skip the country altogether.
Banks dont say this openly, said
Mr May. Customers may get upset
when they transfer money [and it falls
foul of the banks compliance measures]. The money kind of disappears,
and it can take months to solve.
The best way to avoid this problem
is to avoid US banks, and use Singaporean dollars instead of the greenback.
Thats 95 percent of the trouble,
he said. People are too fixated on
USD.
Instead of moving the entire
amount at once and hoping it does not
get held up by overzealous banks, a
person could instead do a test transfer
of $100 or so. Although the amount is
small, banks still follow the same procedures when testing to see whether
or not it will be allowed.
On the whole, though, Mr May said
the continued existence of sanctions
does more harm to US companies
than to Myanmar.
The existence of the remnants of
the SDN list adds to the countrys risk
profile, he said.
Still, there appears to be no immediate end in sight for Myanmar sanctions. US President Barack Obama
last month renewed the remaining
sanctions for another year, and any
decision on their total removal must
likely wait for the Myanmar election
later this year.
American elected officials such
as senate majority leader Mitch McConnell have said US officials will be
closely watching the election. If the
Burmese government gets this right
if it ensures a transparent, inclusive,
and credible election, with results accepted by the competing parties that
would go a long way toward reassuring Burmas friends around the globe
that it remains committed to political
reform, he said in a speech on June 4,
according to website Roll Call.
But if we end up with an election
not accepted by the Burmese people
as reflecting their will, it will make
further normalisation of relations
at least as it concerns the legislative
branch of our government much
more difficult. Additional reporting
by Su Phyo Win

12 Business

THE MYANMAR TIMES JUNE 19, 2015

Business 13

www.mmtimes.com

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW

Plan
to
provide
USD
for
fuel
Ministry talks target of 100% electrification by 2030
and oil imports may backfire
AUNG
SHIN
koshumgtha@gmail.com

MYANMAR has one of the lowest

rates of electrification in Southeast Asia, with about 30 percent of
people drawing their lighting from
electricity. Yet the country is wellendowed with the resources that
are necessary to keep the lights on.
Transforming these resources
from potential energy sources to
powering the country will be tough
work. The government has been developing an array of strategies and
plans to get the sector going, with
significant international help. It is
not only generation that is due for
an upgrade transmission and distribution, off-grid energy, and areas
like planning, financial sustainability and regulatory developments
need to be worked on.
The countrys resources are vast.
There is the theoretical potential to generate 108,000 megawatts
from hydro, estimated reserves
of 711 million tonnes of coal, annual sustainable wood fuel yield
of 19.12 million cubic tonnes, and
theoretical wind power capacity of
365,100 terawatt hours (TWh) and
solar power capacity of 51,973TWh.
It also has proven oils reserves of
459 million barrels per day and 11.8
trillion cubic feet of proven natural
gas reserves, both on and offshore.
The Ministry of Electric Power
is tasked with taking advantage of
Myanmars possibilities to meet an
ambitious goal 100pc of the countrys population by 2030. It generates, transmits and distributes electric power.
The Myanmar Times Aung Shin

sat down with deputy minister U

Maw Thar Htwe and the officials
in charge of the ministrys different divisions to discuss what needs
to happen over the next 15 years to
reach this target.
First off, what is our current
generation capacity?
At present, we are generating from
39 power plants, including 25 hydropower stations, 13 gas-fired
power plants and one coal plant.
Total installed capacity is 4839.9
megawatts. Its the lowest capacity
rate [per capita] in Southeast Asia.
Our daily generation capacity is
around 43,500 kilowatt hours.

What are the difficulties in developing the electricity sector

to ensure Myanmar has enough
power?
The ageing transmission lines cannot load all electricity generated
from power stations. We need to install transmission lines, but at the
same time we are developing new
generation plants. The key issues
in electricity are capital investment
and technology.
Another major difficult is waiting a long time for public acceptance of implementing some major
generating projects, such as hydro
and coal.
What are the ministrys plans
on addressing these difficulties?
How are the electricity projects
going?
We have a number of plans and projects now being worked on. A key
one is the Electricity Master Plan,
drafting with the help of Japan International Cooperation Agency.
The drafting is almost done.
The master plans says to receive
electrification rates of 100pc by
2030 we will need installed capac-

Myanmars future electricity sources

65%

2%

33%

2015
4840 Megawatts
Hydro power

54%

22% 22%
2%

2020
8815 Megawatts
Gas-fired power

In the past, all electricity projects

were budgeted by state. Today, there
are three different methods, as the
state cannot afford all projects. The
first method is to implement projects
using the state budget. The second
is allowing domestic companies to
build based on build, operate, transfer principles. Thirdly, we allow foreign investments as part of joint ventures with the government or local
companies.

38% 20% 33%

9%

2030
23,594 Megawatts

Coal-fired power

Renewable power

Ministry of Electric Power deputy minister U Maw Thar Htwe. Photo: Supplied

ity of 23,594 megawatts. We have

to focus on a mix of generation, including hydro, gas, coal and renewable energy, because we cant rely
on only one source for power.
Coal and gas-fired generation
will be the base-load generation as
hydro and renewable are not available to generate the same load all
the time.
The objective of the master plan
is to produce electricity based on a
mix-generation system. The plans
ambition is to distribute a stable
supply at a reasonable price.
So what will be the future mix of
generation?
Hydro currently accounts for 65pc of
generation, gas power for 33pc and
coal for 2pc in the present installed
capacity of 4840MW. There is no renewable energy at the moment.
By 2020, that will change. Hydro
will be reduced to 54pc, gas and coal
power to 22pc each, and renewable
will account for 2pc of total capacity,
which will be 8815MW.
And in 2030, hydro will only be
38pc, while gas power will be 20pc,
coal power at 33pc and renewable
at 9pc. Total installed capacity will
climb to 23,594MW.
Here I would like to add more
about renewable energy. Many people believe we can generate enough
electricity from solar and wind, as
our country is very hot and frequently windy. But this is not technically
true.
It is very important we have a
controlled power system that has
stable electricity for transmission

and distribution. Otherwise we will

never be able to solve problems of
power cuts and line faults which
come from having an unstable
power supply. Thats why we are
going to push coal and gas-fired
power plants for stable power, supported by hydro and renewable
power at the same time.
No country in the world uses renewable energy for more than 10pc
of their electricity generation.
Can you share with us more about
the National Electrification Plan,
which is going to be implemented
with a loan from the World Bank?
The World Bank loan has already
been approved by parliament. The
Ministry of Electric Power will spend
US$310 million for expansion of
transmission lines and another $90
million by the Ministry of Livestock,
Fishery and Rural Development for
rural electrification [off-grid power].
It is a soft loan with no interest, but
we have to pay a service charge of
0.75pc over the 32-year repayment
period.
There are three steps to rural
electrification in the plan. The first
is electrification of the areas within
2 miles (3.2 kilometres) of the national grid. After that, this will be
extended to 50km (31 miles), and
in the third stage to create electricity access in areas far away from the
national grid.
Whats the annual state budget
for the Ministry of Electric Power each year, and how is the ministry spending it?

So how many build, operate,

transfer and joint venture projects are in the electricity sector
at present?
There are eight state-owned projects, six build, operate, transfer
projects and 41 joint ventures. At
this point, you might be surprised
to know there are so many foreign
investment projects, but there are
many steps in implement joint
ventures. Some of them are only
in memorandum of understanding
status. There have only between
two joint ventures that have been
allowed to be implemented on the
ground. These two are Myitsone in
Kachin State and Kunlon on the
Salween [Thanlwin] River in Shan
State. The others are still in the feasibility study stage.
We are still hearing about Myitsone, which Chinese company
CPI is trying to restart, and also
about Kunlon, which is being
opposed by local people and civil
society groups. What is the latest status of these two major hydropower projects?
As everybody knows, Myitsone was
suspended by President U Thein
Sein. We dont know what will come
with the next government.
For Kunlon, we asked to developer to conduct an environmental and
social impact assessment survey, as
the feasibility study is complete. We
asked for the environmental and
social impact assessment before the
project is implemented, because it
is a big hydropower project that is
1400MW. These surveys are conducted by third parties.
What are the environmental and
social impact assessment standards for hydropower, and how
are the surveys viewed?
Environmental and social impact
assessments must meet the standard of the Asian Development bank,
and we use World Bank standards
for coal power projects, but also
welcome the Japan standard for

coal projects. We have a number

of experts and technicians in our
ministry to view feasibility study
reports. But the environmental
and social impact assessments are
viewed by the Department of Environmental Conservation.
Also, for some big hydropower
projects like Kunlon, we ask international institutions to review them.

What are the impacts of opposition from public and civil society
groups on hydropower and coalfired power? What will the governments solution be on these issues?
We have asked companies to meet
with the public to explain, until they
understand or agree. So far we havent
started any project, as there isnt one
where everyone agrees totally.
What will the impact be? It is not
certain our master plan will be successful by 2030 if we take so much
time. It depends on people, and you,
the media, which can shape whatever
the understanding is, negative or positive, of any particular project.
How can the government protect
against possible negative impacts
of hydro and coal power projects?
First of all, you must be aware that
there is technology which can solve
some environmental impacts, for example from Japan. Secondly, people
have to understand how we are applying international standard rules
and regulations. If any power plant or
project causes negative effects on the
environment and society, we can shut
them down.
But how will businessmen dare to
invest in projects worth millions of
dollars if anything is unsure? People
have to understand that.
Im curious about income from
electricity sales after new the electricity price was approved, which
started in April. What are the losses and gains from electricity subsidisation at the present price?
We are still losing at present. In our
country,
electricity
consumption
comes mostly from low-income households. Around 56pc of consumers
are using electricity in households at
prices of K35 per kilowatt hour. Meanwhile, the cost of generation is from
K35 to K70 for hydropower and K120
to K130 for gas. On average, around
75pc [of the ministrys customers] use
K100 per kilowatt hour, and only 25pc
is industry, which uses a higher price.
So the income does not cover all
the costs of generation, transmission
and distribution, and one more thing
is power loss. Another reason there is
less income being earned is because
of the lessening ratio of hydropower,
even though production costs are low.
Electricity prices have increased
by 40 to 50pc [in the last year].
How much profit or loss is the
ministry making at present?
At the end of the last financial year,
profits were K3 to K4 per kilowatt
hour. But if we include our capital
expenditures, we cant say we are
making a profit.
Subsidisation of current electricity distribution is likely to continue at
current prices. For the longer term,
we [the government] cant stand
without profit.
When do you expect to increase
the electricity price to reduce subsidisation?
It depends on the consumers, on
when people can pay higher prices
and parliament can understand that.
Without parliaments agreement, we
cant change the price.
It is likely to happen once every
two years, if everyone agrees.
For the time being, subsidisation
of electricity distribution will continue for longer.

AYE THIDAR
KYAW
ayethidarkyaw@gmail.com

THE Central Bank is working out

a system to provide the foreign exchange necessary for importers of fuel
and palm oil to importers.
The foreign exchange will be settled in overseas accounts at the Central
Banks official rate, circumventing local
challenges in obtaining US dollars. Not
all experts are convinced the system
will work, however, with some expressing concern it could be open to abuse.
Central Bank officials at a June 17
meeting in Nay Pyi Taw decided Myanma Foreign Trade Bank and Myanma Economic Bank will start the
program on June 22. Meanwhile, Myanma Investment and Commercial
Bank and the private banks will start
this week, according to state media.
Traders have raised concern about
commodity imports with the Central
Bank. They have had trouble obtaining US dollars needed for imports, as
currency exchanges have restricted

sales of dollars due to a gap between

the exchange rate that the market
sets and the official reference rate for
exchange set by the Central Bank.
The Central Banks reference rate
has not kept up with market rates
as of yesterday, industry website
naungmoon.com had the market
rate at about K1173, while the Central
Banks official rate was K1105.
Authorities have also cracked
down on trading outside its legal
band of plus or minus 0.8 percent
around its reference rate, resulting in
banks and money exchanges becoming reluctant to sell dollars, rather
than selling at a rate below what they
would receive in an open market.
The new Central Bank program
aims to circumvent these problems
by making hundreds of millions of
dollars available to fuel and palm oil
importers.
U Set Aung said the Central Bank
has a responsibility to fulfil importers requirements, according to
Kyaymon.
Domestic banks will issue letters of
credit for importers of fuel and edible
oil. The Central Bank will then sell foreign exchange needed for the imports
to the offshore accounts of domestic

banks, which will clear the overseas

payments needed for imports.
The Myanmar importing companies, meanwhile, will pay with
kyat at the domestic bank inside
Myanmar which issued the letters
of credit.
Officials hope to protect against
exchange rate volatility as well as
prevent inflation with this system.
U Soe Tun, chair of the Myanmar Automobiles Manufacturers
and Distributors Association, which
imports large quantities of vehicles,
said fuel and edible oil are urgently
needed and have huge demand in
the country.
If someone must benefit from
the scheme, it should be importers, not the banks who are looking
to get cheap money from the Central Bank and then sell it at market
rates, he said.
U Soe Tun added he worries
whether the banks have enough dollars for the program.
Not all experts agree with the plan.
A former senior official with Myanma Economic Bank said the Central Bank should set the daily reference rate based on market flows
rather than becoming involved in

commercial affairs, as the program

risks being abused.
He said the question is how long
the Central Bank will be able to provide dollars to importers at its rate,
without charging the higher market
rate. It is also possible the letter of
credit system is open to abuse. It also
only stands to benefit fuel and palm
oil, and may make things worse for
other imported products, he said.
This not the Central Banks function. I suspect that it is the banks
decision only when they receive pressure [from a higher level], he said.
Other experts have urged a competitive official reference rate as a
way to end the problem.
U Mya Than, chair of the Yangon
Foreign Exchange Market Committee, said previously the banks had
suggested the Central Bank adopt a
competitive exchange rate to solve
the currency crunch in the long run.
The state-owned banks are
thought to have large amounts of US
dollars in their accounts generated
by exporters and incoming foreign
direct investment. Some commercial
banks have the appropriate amount
from exports as well as loans in their
foreign accounts.

14 International Business

THE MYANMAR TIMES JUNE 19, 2015

VIENTIANE

BEIJING

Laos agrees to launch

10 hydropower dams
within the next year

China quickens renovation of

run-down areas

HYDROELECTRIC power generation capacity in the Southeast Asian

country of Laos will boom with
the promise of 10 new dams to be
launched within a year, local media
reported yesterday.
The plans were confirmed by
the countrys deputy minister for
energy and mines, Khammany Inthirath, Lao News Agency KPL reported.
Hydropower development is the
best thing that could be done for
national development and povertyreduction in rural and remote areas, Mr Inthirath said.

Hydro-power
development is the
best thing that could
be done for national
development.
Khammany Inthirath
Deputy minister of energy and mines

This year, we will launch 10

more hydropower dams with an
additional capacity generation of
more than 2,000 megawatts.
This will bring Laos generating capacity to 5,000MW within the
year, he said.
Looking back at the period of
2006-2010, we had only a few dams
and capacity generation of only
about 1000MW. Now we can generate 3000MW and will soon be able
to generate an additional 2000MW
per year, he added.
Lao policymakers are putting faith in hydroelectricity to
spur rural economic development
by connecting previously underserved communities to affordable
power.
According to figures cited in the
media, power grid connection is
expected to be extended to communities representing between 80 to
90 percent of Laos majority-rural
population by 2020.
Under the Battery of Asia policy,
policymakers in the water-resource
rich country are also looking to rapidly increase cross-border hydropower
sales to its neighbouring countries.

CHINA has decided to initiate a

three-year national scheme to rebuild run-down areas in its latest
effort to speed up urbanisation and
improve peoples lives.
The State Council, Chinas cabinet, plans to build 18 million apartments in urban areas, and renovate
dilapidated rural houses for 10.6
million households, according to
an executive meeting on June 17
chaired by Premier Li Keqiang.
Supporting infrastructure, such
as transportation, communication,
and supply of water, natural gas
and heating will be completed in
the same period, the cabinet agreed.
Governments should channel
more money to renovation projects
and attract private investors to support the projects.
The program was dubbed as a
strong push to Chinas urbanisation
drive while the country has been
striving to expand urban areas,
build city clusters, improve housing
conditions and help farmer-turnedmigrant-workers settle in cities.
The central authority in 2014
unveiled the first top-down guideline to promote urbanization in the
worlds second largest economy,
which is struggling against an unrelieved economic downturn.
Given
the
slowdown,

policymakers have high hopes that

urbanisation will help revive sluggish investment, stimulate domestic demand and provide sustainable
impetus to economic growth.
Economists recognised urbanisations role in fueling the economy.
Li Shantong with the Development Research Center of the State
Council cited huge and growing
demand for infrastructure during
urbanisation, which will continue
to drive economic growth in the
period of the 13th five-year plan
[2016-2020].
There were 749.16 million urban inhabitants by the end of 2014,
making up 54.77 percent of the total
population.
The ratio, up from 26.41pc in
1990, was still markedly lower
compared with developed countries, indicating much room for
improvement.
Liu Hongyu, vice president
of the School of Civil Engineering, Tsinghua University, believes
Chinas urbanisation was still on a
fast track and expects the permanent resident population of cities to
grow by 15 million each year from
now to 2030.
In addition, the renovation
program aims to improve peoples
livelihoods.

This work concerns millions

of impoverished families thus, requires bolder steps, the cabinet
said.
Minister of Housing and Urbanrural Development, Chen Zhenggao
ordered swift and extensive renovation of buildings that were safety
hazards, after a number of collapse
accidents.
Local governments were urged
to check buildings as the country
enters rainy season, prioritise dangerous buildings in the renovation
scheme and provide financing aid.
Dilapidated
buildings
that
collapsed in southwest Chinas
Guizhou Province and north Chinas Tianjin city in the past week
killed dozens of people.

MILLION

18

The number of apartments that The

State Council, Chinas cabinet, plans
to build in urban areas.

ATHENS

Crisis deepens as Greek central

bank warns of painful euro exit
THE Greek central bank warned
for the first time on June 17 that
the country could suffer a painful
exit from the eurozone and even the
European Union (EU) if it fails to
reach a bailout deal with international creditors.
The warning came as negotiations over the release of the last
7.2 billion euros (US$8.1 billion)
in rescue funds from Greeces massive international bailout remained
deadlocked, with payment deadlines looming.
All eyes were on a meeting of the
19 eurozone countries to take place
yesterday in Luxembourg, but several officials including Greek finance
minister Yanis Varoufakis said they
were not expecting a breakthrough
in the cash-for-reforms standoff
there either.
Asked during a visit to Paris
whether he thought an accord could
be reached at the meeting of eurozone finance ministers in Luxembourg, he said late June 17: I dont
think so. Now it is up to political
leaders to arrive at an accord.
In a sign the EUs top financial
brass are seriously considering the
implications of a Grexit, the head
of Germanys central bank, Jens
Weidmann, said it would change

There is no room
for further cuts
without affecting
the core of the
[pension] system.
Alexis Tsipras
Greek prime minister

A protester holds a banner during a pro-government rally in front of the Greek parliament in Athens on June 17. Photo: AFP

the character of the monetary union but not destroy it.

And underscoring growing global
concern about the crisis, US Federal
Reserve chair Janet Yellen warned
the world economy could see significant turmoil if Greece and its
creditors failed to do a deal.
This is a very difficult situation.

In the event that there is not agreement I do see the potential for disruptions that could affect the European economic outlook and global
financial markets, Ms Yellen said.
Elected on an anti-austerity platform in January, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras warned that an
EU fixation on pension cuts would

scupper any hopes of reaching an

agreement to avert a catastrophic
default.
Mr Tsipras said his government
had gone as far as it could to meet
the demands of the International
Monetary Fund, the EU and the European Central Bank for tax hikes
and pension reform.

There is no room for further

cuts without affecting the core of the
[pension] system, Mr Tsipras said
after meeting with visiting Austrian
Chancellor Werner Feymann, one of
the few European leaders supporting Greece in the talks.
If Europe insists on this incomprehensible fixation, it must accept
the cost of a development that will
benefit no one in Europe.
In one of the starkest warnings
from a Greek institution, the Bank
of Greece said failure to reach an
agreement would start a painful
course that would lead initially to a
Greek default and ultimately to the
countrys exit from the euro area
and most likely from the European
Union.
Leaving the single currency
would lead to a deep recession,
dramatic declines in incomes and
a spike in unemployment in the
southern European nation, the
bank said.
Greek bank deposits had already
dropped by nearly 30 billion euros
between December and April, to 128
billion euros, it said.
On the other side of the fence,
Bundesbank chief Mr Weidmann
warned that while failure to reach
a deal would cause some contagion, the eurozone did not depend
on Greece.
A Grexit could change the character of the monetary union, he
said in an interview with French,
Italian and Spanish media. But
this also changes when individual
countries do not live up to their
responsibilities to ensure a stable
currency.
Responsibility for Greeces future
lies entirely with its government, he
said, adding that the consequences
of it leaving the euro would be
hard to control for Athens. AFP

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World

17

World editor: Kayleigh Long

pyongyang

Hungary to erect fence to

keep would-be migrants
and refugees out

Chad bans burqa

following suicide
bomb attack

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World 19

Hong kong

SEoUl

North Koreas worst drought in a

century to exacerbate food shortages
NORTH Koreas food supply faces
a gloomy forecast this year due to
a damaging drought which has
sparked fears of worsening shortages in the impoverished Communist
country, experts said on June 17.
Concern grew after Pyongyangs
official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported on June 16 that
North Korea has been hit by its
worst drought in a century.
The worst drought in 100 years
continues in [North Korea], causing
great damage, it said, adding more
than 30 percent of paddy fields
across the country were parching
up.
The Norths main rice-growing
provinces South Hwanghae,
North Hwanghae, South Pyongan
and South Hamgyong have been
badly damaged by a severe drought,
KCNA said.
It is hard to get reliable information on the reclusive state, but
South Korean meteorologists said
this years rainfall across North
Korea has been far lower than the
annual average, especially in its traditional rice belt.
It is true that the northern part
of the peninsula has been battered
by a severe drought so far this year,
Kim Young-Jin, an official at the Korea Meteorological Administration,
told AFP.
The Norths traditional rice belt
encompassing South and North
Hwanghae provinces has been hit
hard, receiving less than half the
rain of an average year, he said.
Last week the Souths unification
ministry predicted North Koreas
food production this year could fall
by as much as 20 percent from last
year if the shortage of rainfall lasts
until early July.
The prospects for this year are

distinctly gloomy, given a prolonged

drought and lack of fertiliser, it said.
North Korea has imported a
large amount of fertiliser from China each year but fertiliser imports
this year have dwindled significantly from a year ago, said Kwon TaeJin, a researcher at GS&J Institute,
a Seoul-based think tank on agriculture.
I dont think the Norths exaggerating ... The situation looks pretty serious, he said, adding drought
has already damaged the spring
harvest of wheat, barley and potatoes, which account for 10 percent
of total production.
In the past two years, North Korea has managed to avoid a food
crisis despite a damaging drought,
largely because of no summer flood
and a favourable weather ahead of
the main harvest season in the fall,
Mr Kwon said.
But I see the likelihood for the
same luck to be repeated for three
years in a row extremely low, he
said.
The situation is serious in the
Norths western region near Pyongyang, which produces nearly 70pc of
its entire crop production, he said.
North Korea has suffered regular chronic food shortages hundreds of thousands are believed to
have died during a famine in the
mid-to-late 1990s with the situation exacerbated by floods, droughts
and mismanagement.
International food aid, especially
from South Korea and the United
States, has been drastically cut amid
tensions over the Communist states
nuclear and missile programs.
UN figures show up to 70pc of
the country remains food insecure
and 28pc of children under the age
of five are stunted due to malnutri-

tion.
In April the United Nations
launched an appeal for US$111 million dollars to help 70pc of North
Koreas population now facing a
food crisis.
David Kaatrud, the regional
director of the World Food Programme, said in Seoul last week
that the UN agency was closely
monitoring the Norths weather
conditions in order to send emergency assistance in case of a protracted dry spell.
The concern is going to grow
week by week until we get closer to
the traditional July harvest, he told
the Souths Yonhap news agency.
North Korea has staged a
desperate campaign to overcome
drought and water shortages,
vowing to continue its push to ease
chronic food shortages.
Prime Minister Pak Pong-Ju told
a parliamentary session in April,
The main thrusts for this year are
to organise the economic work with
a main emphasis on solving the
food problem of the people.
The situation is not favourable
at all, but it is premature to say
whether North Korea may face a
food crisis, Kim Young-Hoon of the
Seoul-based Korea Rural Economic
Institute, said.
Last year there was no serious
food shortage in the North despite a
damaging spring drought, he said,
citing partial agricultural reforms
and refurbished irrigation facilities
which have improved crop yields.
Kim Jong-Un, who became leader after the death of his father, Kim
Jong-Il, in December 2011, allowed
farmers to keep 30pc of their production quota, plus any excess. Their
portion was raised to 60 pc last year.
AFP

MERS death toll continues to climb

SOUTH Korea reported three more
MERS deaths yesterday, bringing the
number of fatalities to 23 and amplifying fears authorities do not have the
virus outbreak under control after the
WHO criticised their response.
Three more cases of the virus were
also confirmed yesterday, despite authorities claims earlier in the week
that South Korea had weathered the
worst of the crisis.
The number of infections now
stands at 165, in what is the largest outbreak of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome outside Saudi Arabia.
Of those cases, 24 people have been
cured and released from hospital but 17
are in an unstable condition and further fatalities are feared.
The World Health Organization
(WHO) said on June 17 the South Korean outbreak was a wake-up call and
that a lack of awareness about the virus

among health workers and the public

was a major contributing factor to its
rapid spread.
MERS patients had been kept in
crowded emergency rooms for long
periods, it said, and the practice of
doctor shopping visiting multiple
hospitals for second and third opinions
was also a contributing factor.
The custom of many visitors and
family members staying with infected
patients in their hospital rooms also
facilitated the spread of the virus, the
WHOs emergency committee meeting
in Geneva found. The number of new
infections in South Korea had fallen
steadily until June 16, when the health
ministry said it was cautiously optimistic the worst was over, but eight new
cases reported on June 17 dashed those
hopes.
The ministry also said on June 17
it was braced for new cases to occur

en masse in hospitals other than the

Samsung Medical Centre in Seoul,
which is considered the epicentre of
the outbreak with about half of confirmed cases originating there.
Health authorities said yesterday
that 35 percent of the total cases involved families and friends who had
visited patients or given them nursing
care, while another 18 percent were
medics.
More than 6700 people are currently being held in quarantine in a bid
to halt the spread of the virus, up 3pc
from June 17. Around 4500 others have
already been released from isolation.
But alarming news reports of infected people slipping through quarantine
measures have undermined government efforts to assuage public fear over
a virus that has already begun hurting
the countrys sagging economy.
AFP

pHnoM pEnH

Push to hit pause on border scrap

The sun sets on Hong Kong on June 17, as lawmakers debate a divisive political reform package ahead of a vote which pits democracy campaigners against the
government. Photo: AFP

Debate heats up ahead of Hong

Kongs key electoral reform vote
HONG Kong lawmakers made impassioned speeches as they went
into day two of a marathon debate yesterday ahead of a key vote
that pits democracy campaigners
against the government.
Legislators from both sides
of the political divide took turns
to make their case ahead of the
much-anticipated vote on a Beijing-backed electoral reform package which saw tens of thousands
of protesters take to the streets
last year.
All 70 lawmakers are permitted
to speak for 15 minutes with the
vote due by today.
Pro-democracy lawmakers are
widely expected to unite against
the bill, denying it the two-thirds
majority it needs to pass.
Although the Hong Kong governments plan would for the first
time give all residents the right
to vote for the chief executive in
2017, it adheres to a Beijing ruling
that candidates must be vetted by
a loyalist committee.
The proposal is derided as

fake democracy by opposition

lawmakers and campaigners.
Authorities in semi-autonomous Hong Kong have said repeatedly they cannot diverge from
Beijings ruling last August, which
sparked weeks of mass rallies and
road blockades that brought parts
of the city to a standstill.
Even if we dont win real universal suffrage, as long as we dont
give up we have not lost, said
Gary Fan of the Neo-Democrats,
speaking in the legislative council
chamber yesterday morning.
The ones that have lost here
are the Beijing and Hong Kong
governments because they have
lost the hearts of Hongkongers,
said Mr Fan.
Pro-establishment lawmakers
argued that pan-democrats are
depriving Hong Kongs electorate
of a chance to vote and destabilising the city.
If this [package] is vetoed today, then what next? Will there
be another Occupy? Or will more
bombs or weapons be made to

create a bloody revolt? warned

Elizabeth Quat, a member of the
pro-Beijing Democratic Alliance
for the Betterment of Hong Kong.
Security has been upped at the
legislature after an alleged plot
which saw 10 people arrested Sunday and Monday and six charged
with conspiring to make explosives.
The defendants accused police of assault and using threats
to force them to cooperate with
the investigation when they ap-

Even if we dont
win real universal
suffrage, as long as
we dont give up,
we have not lost.
gary Fan
neo-democrat

peared for the first time before

magistrates Wednesday, the South
China Morning Post reported.
There have been daily rallies
outside the legislature since Sunday ahead of the vote, which have
so far remained peaceful.
Around 300 protesters gathered there Thursday morning,
the vast majority of them proBeijing supporters shouting:
Support Hong Kong to pass the
reform.
A handful of pro-democracy
supporters watched a big-screen
broadcast of the debate with some
voicing fears the package could
still be passed.
I am really worried that
some democratic lawmakers will
change their stance, said construction worker Terry Chik, 44.
Chik added that the pro-government supporters had arrived
in coaches early Thursday morning.
They have the resources... We
are self-motivated. What we have
is determination, he said.
AFP

OPPOSITION lawmakers said they

will demand that Prime Minister Hun
Sen halt ongoing efforts to demarcate
Cambodias border with Vietnam until
after the 2018 election to guarantee a
consensus on the controversial boundary. This came as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs yesterday again moved to
reinforce its stance against Vietnamese
encroachment.
News of the request also came as
authorities confirmed a local border
police chief in Ratanakkiri provinces
OYadav district had been removed for
allowing the Vietnamese to build at
least nine irrigation ponds inside the
yet-to-be delineated white zone near
Pak Nhai communes Lom village.
The ponds, initially discovered by
rights group Adhoc and publicised by
Cambodia National Rescue Party lawmakers, have sparked a recent flare-up
in the long-running and politically sensitive border dispute.
Last week, the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs issued a rare public protest to
the Vietnamese Embassy in Phnom
Penh demanding the borderline be
respected, which it followed up later
when more ponds were discovered.
Yesterday, in a letter to the National
Assembly responding to CNRP concerns, Foreign Minister Hor Namhong
said that since 2013, the ministry and
the Cambodian Embassy in Hanoi had
protested eight times to Vietnam over
territorial violations.
Although welcoming the governments tougher stance, CNRP lawmakers continue to question whether
ongoing demarcation is based on the
wrong map they claim was drawn up
by Vietnam for treaties inked in 1985
and 2005, rather than boundaries set
forth by the UN map and former King
Norodom Sihanouk in the 1960s.
Accusing the government of ceding
land to Vietnam in Takeo, Svay Rieng
and Tbong Khmum provinces, CNRP
lawmaker Um Sam An said no more
border posts should be planted until
after the national election, when leaders from both parties could review the
process.
There is still controversy about the
map Post-election, let both [parties]
leaders talk about planting the border
posts with Vietnam to avoid more loss
of land, he said, adding a joint letter
would be sent to the prime minister
next week.
Responding, Cambodian People

Party spokesperson Sok Eysan yesterday said 70 to 80 per cent of the demarcation process had taken place under
the governments clear plan, although
it was unclear when it would be finished.
He declined to comment on postponing demarcation until seeing the
CNRP request.
Previous reports by the government
which has long been reluctant to publicly address long-running border tensions with Vietnam have stated that,
overall, 375 posts will be planted along
1270 kilometres of shared border.
Political analyst Ou Virak said the
recent condemnation of Vietnam including the deportation of more than
500 Vietnamese illegal immigrants in
the past six months looked to be an

attempt to counter the CNRPs populist

appeal on the issue.
Its always been very difficult for
the CPP to shake off the image of a
party that was installed by Communist
Vietnam in the 80s, Mr Virak said.
I think the only way to do that is to
address some of the legitimate issues
of immigration and border encroachment.
Defence expert Carl Thayer, professor emeritus at the University of New
South Wales in Australia, said local
factors were likely behind the flare-up.
He dismissed the notion that tensions linked to geopolitics, including
Cambodias pro-China stance on the
South China Sea dispute with Vietnam,
might be the drivers.
The Phnom Penh Post

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THE MYANMAR TIMES June 19, 2015

GENEVA

Peace talks stall as IS

launches bomb strikes
THE United Nations has extended
stalled Yemen peace talks taking
place in Geneva, with both the exiled
government and the Iran-backed
Yemeni rebels accusing each other of
trying to sabotage the process.
In the Yemeni capital meanwhile,
at least 31 people were killed and
dozens wounded in five simultaneous bombings claimed by the Islamic
State group at Shiite mosques and
offices.
The radical Sunni Muslim IS
group said the attacks were in revenge against Shiite Huthis who
have overrun Sanaa, and much of
the Sunni majority country.
The bombings took place as peace
talks in Geneva stumbled and delegates from both sides told AFP that
the talks initially due to wind up
yesterday had been extended until at
least later today.
UN special envoy for Yemen,
Mauritanian diplomat Ismail Ould
Cheikh Ahmed, met the rebel delegation in a swish Geneva hotel in the
evening after talks early in the day
with the exiled government delegation.
The third day of the high stakes
talks, launched by UN Secretary
General Ban Ki-moon with an appeal for a badly-needed two-week
humanitarian truce, also stumbled
over the makeup of the different delegations.
We discussed the truce but the
other side is setting unacceptable
conditions, rebel delegation member Hassan Zeid told AFP. They were
demanding a rebel retreat from
Aden and Taez, where fighting is
continuing.
Huthi rebels and their allies,
troops faithful to ousted president
Ali Abdallah Saleh, favour a truce

but are refusing to withdraw as demanded by the government in exile,

which is backed by Saudi Arabia.
The only positive point so far is
that the negotiations are continuing
and that no delegation has slammed
the door, said a Western diplomat
close to the talks.
The UN special envoy has urged
the warring sides to bend, stressing
the dire situation in Yemen where
more than 2600 people have been
killed since March and about 21 million people are in severe need of humanitarian aid.
But the positions of the two warring sides are so far apart that they
are not sitting in the same room and
the UN is holding separate consultations with them.
In a situation like this, the Yemenis need to talk among themselves,
not with the United Nations, Mr
Ould Cheikh Ahmed said.
He also said late June 16 that the
talks so far had focused on trying to
get the rebels to whittle down their
team from 22 to the pre-agreed 10.
We believe that in order to commence, the numbers need to be reduced and there has to be a balance
between the two teams, he said.
The rebels rejected that their delegation size was a sticking point.
Our main demand is that the UN
consider these talks as consultations
between different Yemeni political
parties, and not between different
camps, Faiwa Sayed, a leader of the
General Peoples Congress, the former ruling party still headed by the
former president told AFP.
The exiled governments delegation was also shrouded in controversy after it became apparent that a
man on the US blacklist of suspected
Al-Qaeda supporters was on its team.

Abdel Wahab al-Humayqani,

who heads the hardline Islamist AlRashad party in Yemen, took part in
the opening of the peace talks in the
Swiss city on June 15, where he was
photographed with Ban Ki-moon.
Mr Humayqani, who was added
to the US blacklist in December 2013
suspected of financing al-Qaeda in
the Arabian Peninsula, also figures
on a list of delegates of the government in exile, as a representative of
Al-Rashad.
I categorically deny these accusations and challenge the United
States to prove them, he told AFP.
The government delegation met
on the morning of June 16 with a
group of 16 diplomats from large
powers within the EU and the Gulf
countries, who are following the
talks.
As a sign of the chaos surrounding the talks, Yemeni Foreign Minister Riad Yassin and other delegation
members, including Humayqani,
marched into a scheduled news conference at the UN in Geneva and
told a room full of journalists the
conference was postponed because
we want these consultations to succeed.
Mr Ould Cheikh Ahmed has insisted that just getting the two sides
to Geneva at the same time was an
achievement.
Beyond being in the same city
though, neither side has shown any
signs they are prepared to budge on
the issues.
Mr Yassin repeated the exiled
governments stand that a rebel pullout was non-negotiable.
The rebels control a vast swath
of territory, including the capital
Sanaa.
On June 16 they accused Saudi

Yemenis shop at a market in the old city of capital Sanaa, as the faithful prepare
for the start of the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan, on June 17. Photo:
AFP

Arabia, behind coalition airstrikes

on the country since March 26, of
trying to torpedo the peace talks.
And Abdulmalek al-Huthi, the
leader of the Shiite rebels who bear
his name, said the government was
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budApEst

Hungary to erect migrant-proof fence on Serbia border

HUNGARY announced on June 17
it is building a 4-metre (13-foot)
fence on its border with Serbia
to keep out migrants, as the EU
struggles to deal with a massive influx of people trying to reach Europe.
Serbian
Prime
Minister
Aleksandar Vucic said he was surprised and shocked by the plan. We
will discuss this decision with our
Hungarian colleagues, he added.
Building walls is not the solution.
Serbia cant be responsible for the
situation created by the migrants. We
are just a transit country. Is Serbia responsible for the crisis in Syria? Mr
Vucic said on state television.
Hungarys announcement came as
Pope Francis hit out at nations that
close the door to those seeking a
safe haven from war, poverty and
persecution.
In Budapest, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said his government had
ordered work to start on the barrier
along the length of its 175-kilometre
(110-mile) border with Serbia.
Preparation work for the fence
should be completed by [June 24],
he said.
This decision does not break any
international treaty. Other countries
have opted for the same solution, he
added, citing similar barriers on the
Greek-Turkish and Bulgarian-Turkish
frontiers and around Spanish exclaves in Morocco.
Last year, Hungary received more
refugees per capita than any other
EU country apart from Sweden, re-

Migrants sleep in a Macedonian mosque in Kumanovo, 10 kilometres from the

Serbian border, on June 17. Photo: AFP

cording 43,000 arrivals in total.

So far this year some 54,000 refugees have entered Hungary, according to government figures, a sharp
rise from the 2000 who arrived in the
central European state in 2012.
As a European Union member
Hungary is in the passport-free
Schengen zone. Once inside Hungary,
migrants can therefore travel easily
elsewhere in the 26-nation zone.
Hungary says around 95 percent

of the migrants to have entered the

country so far this year came through
Serbia, which is not yet a member of
the EU.
Prime Minister Viktor Orban has
sparked accusations of xenophobia
over anti-immigration comments
and a poster campaign with slogans
such as If you come to Hungary,
you cannot take Hungarians jobs.
Serbias Interior Minister Nebojsa
Stefanovic called on neighbouring

Bulgaria and Greece both EU members to make more of an effort to

stop migrants entering the former
Yugoslav republic.
More than 100,000 migrants have
arrived in Europe this year, 60,000
through Italy alone, according to the
EUs border agency Frontex.
Mr Szijjarto said that with EU efforts towards a satisfactory joint approach proving to be long and timeconsuming, Hungary cannot afford
to wait any longer.
On Jun 16, European interior ministers failed to come to a decision on
European Commission proposals to
redistribute 40,000 Syrians and Eritreans who have arrived in Europe,
and to resettle 20,000 Syrians living
in camps outside Europe.
We have made progress today but
we are not there yet, EU migration
commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos said after the talks in Luxembourg. Words are not enough.
Leaders had promised action after
an estimated 800 migrants died in a
shipwreck in April, the worst disaster
yet in the Mediterranean in a year in
which 1800 people have perished trying to cross from Africa and the Middle East on flimsy boats.
Italy together with crisis-hit
Greece are receiving the bulk of the
migrants. Under the EUs Dublin accords, the country where migrants
are first registered is where they have
to stay.
Rome wants other countries
to take in some of the migrants,

with Prime Minister Matteo Renzi

warning of a plan B that would
hurt Europe if other countries fail
to help.
Italian media reported that
Rome could start issuing newly
arrived migrants with temporary
visas giving them the right to travel
throughout the Schengen zone.
The principle of responsibility
and solidarity are at stake, Italian Interior Minister Angelino Alfano said
June 16. We are working to prevent
Europe from becoming politically
bankrupt.
Britain, Ireland and Denmark are
already exempt from carrying out the
plans under EU treaties, but many
of the other 25 member states reject
quotas under pressure from anti-immigrant parties.
EU leaders will hold fresh talks at
a summit in Brussels on June 25-26
but a decision then is also unlikely.
UN rights chief Zeid Raad Al Hussein on June 15 called for the EU to
take in 1 million refugees, while Amnesty International slammed leaders
for condemning millions of refugees
to an unbearable existence.
On Junne 17 Pope Francis added
his voice to these calls, demanding
greater respect for our brothers and
sisters who seek refuge far from their
own lands.
And I invite everyone to ask Gods
pardon for those people and institutions who close the door to those who
are seeking a family, who are seeking
to be protected, he said.
AFP

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Chad bans face coverings after attack

CHAD has banned the full-face Muslim veil and ordered security forces
to seize burqas from markets and
burn them after 33 people were
killed in suicide bombings blamed
on Nigerian Islamist group Boko
Haram this week.
Wearing the burqa must stop immediately from today, not only in public places and schools but throughout
the whole of the country, Prime Minister Kalzeube Pahimi Deubet said in
a speech to religious leaders on June
17, the day before the start of the holy
Muslim festival of Ramadan.
Any type of clothing that leaves
only the eyes visible is a form of
camouflage and is now banned, he
added, asking the religious leaders to
spread the message in their mosques,
churches and holy places.
Mr Deubet said instructions had
been given to security forces to go
into the markets and to seize all the
burqas on sale and burn them.
Anyone found wearing a burqa
would be arrested, tried and sentenced in summary proceedings, he
added.
The June 15 bombings, the first
such attacks in the capital of Muslimmajority Chad, have been blamed on
Boko Haram jihadists who have previously carried out bloody assaults on
villages along the border with Nigeria.

ZaGaN, POLaND

NATO ups
defences
NATO head Jens Stoltenberg announced on June 17 the alliance was
implementing its biggest defence reinforcement since the Cold War, as the
region grapples with terrorism and an
increasingly assertive Russia.
He spoke a day after Russian President Vladimir Putin said Moscow
would add more than 40 new intercontinental ballistic missiles to its nuclear
arsenal this year.
NATO is facing a new security environment, both caused by violence,
turmoil, instability in the south ISIL
in Iraq, Syria, North Africa but also
caused by the behaviour of a more assertive Russia, which has used force to
change borders, to annex Crimea and
to destabilise eastern Ukraine, Mr
Stoltenberg told reporters.
And therefore NATO has to respond. We are responding, and we are
doing so by implementing the biggest
reinforcement of our collective defences since the end of the Cold War and
the Spearhead force is a key element of
this reinforcement, and its great to see
that its functional, and that its exercising here in Poland, he said.
He spoke in Zagan in western Poland while attending the first full exercise of NATOs new rapid reaction
force, created to deter Russia from
any action against nervous east European allies that were once ruled from
Moscow.
Around 2100 soldiers from Belgium, the Czech Republic, Germany,
Hungary, Lithuania, the Netherlands,
Norway, Poland and the US have been
taking part in the NATO exercise since
last week.
The drill is designed to test NATOs
Very High Readiness Joint Task Force
(VJTF), reinforcing the alliances eastern flank amid jitters over Russia.
Moscows 2014 annexation of
Crimea and its meddling in eastern
Ukraine have triggered concern in excommunist eastern and central European states that joined NATO after the
Cold War.
Tension is particularly high in the
Baltic states. AFP

The boots of people killed in a suicide bomb attack on June 15 remain outside the police headquarters in NDjamena, in
which 23 were killed and 101 wounded. Photo: AFP

The Islamist militants have used

female suicide bombers to launch attacks in the past by hiding explosive
devices under their clothes.
On June 16, Chads government declared three days of national mourning for the 33 people killed and more
than 100 others wounded in the
blasts.
President Idriss Deby said he was

not surprised the country has been

targetted because of the leading role
its army is playing in a regional offensive against Boko Haram fighters
operating out of northeastern Nigeria.
I have continually told the government to not drop its guard, he said,
urging the international community
to back the states in their struggle.
Nigeria, Chad, Niger, Benin and

Cameroon agreed last week to set up

a regional task force of 8700 soldiers,
police officers and civilians, based in
NDjamena.
Boko Harams leader Abubakar
Shekau had threatened several times
to attack Chad and other countries
that joined forces against the militants, whose bloody six-year insurgency is increasingly spilling across

Nigerias borders.
Although Boko Haram has yet to
claim responsibility for the bombings, France, which relies heavily on
NDjamena in the fight against jihadist groups in the Sahel region, accused
the militants of being behind the
attack.
UN Secretary General Ban Kimoon also condemned the attacks
and praised Chad for its courageous
role in the fight against Boko Haram.
Security was stepped up in
NDjamena on June 16, with scores
of police and soldiers patrolling the
streets and stopping cars for security
checks.
Vehicles with tinted windows had
been barred from the streets, and the
area around the presidential palace
and the police headquarters which
was one of the bombers targets, along
with a police academy had been
sealed off.
The burqa ban was ordered by a
crisis committee formed on June 16
after the president returned from an
African Union summit in South Africa. Prosecutors also arrested several
people on the same day.
Strict instructions have been
given to the government and security
services ... additional measures were
[also] taken by the head of state, said
Mr Deubet. AFP

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60 million displaced by conflict, says UN

CONFLICTS and violence raging
around the world sent the number of
people forced to flee their homes soaring to a record 60 million last year, the
United Nations said yesterday.
That is 8.3 million more refugees
and internally displaced people (IDPs)
in the world than in 2013 the highest-ever increase in a single year, the
UN refugee agency said in a report titled World at War.
We are witnessing a paradigm
change, an unchecked slide into an
era in which the scale of global forced
displacement as well as the response
required is now clearly dwarfing
anything seen before, UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres told reporters ahead of the
launch of UNHCRs annual report.
A whopping 59.5 million individuals were displaced from their homes
worldwide at the end of 2014, as a
result of persecution, conflict, generalised violence, or human rights violations, the report showed.
That is up from 51.2 million in
2013 and from 37.5 million a decade
ago, and if these people were lumped
together as a nation, it would be the
worlds 24th-largest.
Of the total, 19.5 million were refugees, 1.8 million were asylum seekers
and 38.2 million had fled their homes
but stayed in their country, the report

WASHINGTON

Octopus to
be officially
adorable
SOME say she looks like a ghost
from the Pac-Man video game, but
shes anything but spooky. In fact,
the fist-sized pink octopus is so cute
scientists may call her Opisthoteuthis
Adorabilis.
Researchers in California are looking for an appropriate Latin species
designation for the mysterious cephalopod and, while little is yet known
about it, few would deny that the
specimens found so far are adorable.
Stephanie Bush of the Monterey
Bay Aquarium Research Institute
said that after a year of study she
is preparing to submit a report to a
scientific review that would confer a
name on the species, a form of Flapjack octopus.
New species are discovered
every year. Not all of them get described. It can take a lot of time, years
someimes, she said.
Some other species have been
deemed adorable such as Lophornis
adorabilis, the White-crested Coquette hummingbird and Ms Bush
said, I dont see any obvious reason
why it would be inappropriate ... Its
easy to pronounce and popular with
the public.
Aside from how it looks, we dont
know much more about the new octopus. It lives in deep cold waters
and the 12 individuals that have been
studied so far have all been female.
They spend most of their time on
the bottom, sitting on the sediment,
but they need to move around to find
food, mates, Ms Bush said.
Ms Bush is trying to incubate a
batch of octopus eggs in her laboratory, but they develop very slowly because of the cold temperature of the
deep ocean and may not hatch for
two or three years.
Anyone charmed enough by the
cute creature to want to see one in
the wild would have to dive in the Pacific to between 200 and 600 meters
to where the water is only 6 degrees
Celsius (42 Fahrenheit). AFP

said.
More than half of the worlds refugees are children, up from 41 percent in 2009, while the total number
of people who fled their homes has
spiked by 40pc in just three years.
Things ... are getting out of control simply because the world seems
to be at war, Mr Guterres said, stressing that the conflicts in Syria and Iraq
alone had forced 15 million people to
flee their homes.
But they are far from the only
conflicts forcing people to seek safe
haven. In the last five years, at least
14 conflicts have erupted or resumed
worldwide -- more than half of them
in Africa.
We do not have the capacity, the
resources for all victims of conflicts.
We are no longer able to pick up the
pieces, the commissioner said, adding that impunity and unpredictability in war seem to have become the
name of the game.
Mr Guterres meanwhile urged European countries to keep the borders
open.
In Europe, more than 219,000
refugees and migrants crossed the
Mediterranean Sea during 2014. Thats
almost three times the previously
known high of about 70,000, which
took place in 2011, the report said.
Despite
fears
expressed
in

European countries and other wealthy

nations over the growing refugee and
migrant influx, the report showed that
developing countries are hosting a full
86 percent of all those who had fled
war or persecution in their countries.
At the end of 2014, the worlds top
host for refugees was Turkey, sheltering 1.59 million people, followed by
Pakistan (1.51 million) and Lebanon
(1.15 million).
The number of Syrian refugees taking shelter in Turkey has further risen
this year to more than 1.7 million, according to the latest UN data, since
war broke out in Syria in 2011.
The report said continued turmoil
in parts of North Africa following the
Arab Spring uprisings that toppled
several dictators saw huge numbers
risking dangerous Mediterranean
crossings to get to Europe.
UNHCR has received information of over 3500 women, men and
children reported dead or missing
in the Mediterranean Sea during the
year, clearly demonstrating how dangerous and unpredictable this situation has become, it said.
The Ukraine conflict meanwhile
led the number of refugees in Russia
to rise to 231,800 by the year end, up
from 3,400 only 12 months earlier.
Ukrainians constituted 98pc of all
refugees in Russia.

A Syrian refugee baby sits in front of a wall near the Turkish border post of
Akcakale, province of Sanliurfa, on June 17. Photo: AFP

In sub-Saharan Africa, the number

of refugees increased for the fifth consecutive year, standing at 3.7 million
in 2014, some 759,000 more than a
year ago.
Mr Guterres appealed to the world
to loosen its purse strings and provide shelter to those fleeing wars and
persecution.
For an age of unprecedented mass
displacement, we need an unprec-

edented humanitarian response and a

renewed global commitment to tolerance and protection for people fleeing
conflict and persecution, he said.
Facing a massive influx of
vulnerable migrants and refugees
risking their lives to reach Europe by
sea, Europe has so far failed to agree
on how to deal with the thousands of
new arrivals.
AFP

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Thingangyun,
Khayaymyaing
Rd,
4800sqft, 2 storey, 3
rooms, for rent 18 lakhs,
for sale 13000 lakhs,
negotiable. Ph: 09-260332121.
KaMayuT, Pyay Rd,
Diamond condo, 1650
sqft, unfurn or f f, nice
& newly apt. US$ 2500
pr IS$ 3000. Sale 4200
Lakhs. Call Maureen :
09-518-8320.
Thingangyun,
Thuwunna.
60'x80'
land. 2 storey house,
corner garden. 3 rooms
with bathroom attached.
4 aircons. 20 Lakhs per
month for rent/13.000
Lakh for sale. Negotiable.
Ph:09-2603-321212
KaMayuT,
Diamond
Condo, Pyay Rd, 1600
sqft, 1MBR, 2BR, 3A/C,
f.f, 4300 Lakhs & 35
lakhs, Call owner: 09518-8320

Housing for Rent

Pearl Condo (D),
15th Flr, 1410ft2, Corner
Room Fully furnished, 4
Air-con, 2BR, 1MBR,
2'000 US$ per month.
contact no: Burmese:
09-511-1032; English:
09-515-2532
MyinT Mou Thida
General Services Co.,
Ltd. Service Apartment
Available Units @ Chan
Thar Condo , Tamwe
Tsp., (a)1650sqft, 1
MBR, 2SR (3 Units)
(b)1750 sqft, 2MBR, 2SR
(2 Units). G.M.P Condo,
Kabaraye Pagoda Rd,
(a)1650 sqft, 1MBR, 2SR
(2 Units) (b)3500sqft,
3MBR, 2SR (3 Units).
Muditar
(a)650sqft,
1MBR, 1SR (2 Units)
We can provide service
apartment
for
you
according to your budget
& area. Ph:09-501-9648
heriTage
offiCe
space for rent, Fully
renovated office for
rent, based in a heritage
building in downtown
Yangon on Bogalay Zay
street. Total about 200
m2 (including mezzanine
and balcony) on the
first floor. High ceilings,
kitchen and 2 toilets. Ideal
for small organization
(10-12 staff) looking for
a representative and
tasteful office space
with character. 2500 Usd
/ month - 5 year contract
and monthly payment
possible.
Available
immediately. Contact:
edwinbriels@gmail.com
or 09-7319 9668
(1)MindaMa Condo,
2000sqft, 2MBR, 1SR,
fully furniture, USD 4000.
(2)Thein Phyu Rd, new
condo, 1500sqft, inside
2 stories, 2MBR, 1SR,
semi furniture USD
3500. (3) Po Sein condo,
1500 sqft, fully furniture,
1MBR, 2SR, USD 3000.
(4)Shine condo, near
Aung San Stadium,
1500sqft, 1MBR, 2SR,
USD 2500. (5)Beside
Dagon center , 1500
Sqft, 1 MBR, 2SR, semi
furniture , USD 3000. (6)
San chaung, 1200 Sqft, 2
SR, semi furniture. 1500
USD. (7) Near Aung San
stadium, G flr, 1000 Sqft,
3SR, 1 MBR, 1500 USD.
(8)Universtity Avenue
Rd, 1650sqft, 1MBR,
2SR, USD 3500. (9)
Yankin center , 1500
sqft, 1MBR, 2SR, semi
furniture , USD 3500.
Ph:09-2527-0 3331.
8th Mile, Kaba Aye Villa,
3 bed/3 bath flat in quiet,
exclusive residential

compound. 2360 sqft. To

rent unfurnished for long
term. Except furniture,
the flat has parquet
flooring, kitchen unit, hot
water system, curtains
and four a/c. 30 lakhs
per month (negotiable).
Available from 1 July
2015. No brokers. Ph
09-503-1380.
Mayangone
(1)0.8
acre land, Built on the
lake, deck with lake
view, Single storey nice
house with big lawn,
wooden flr, 3MBR, USD
10000 per month. (3)7
Mile, Pyay Rd. 0.7 acre
land, huge garden. 2
storey renovated house.
3 MBR, generator. USD
5000 per month. (4)
Parami Rd, 0.4 acre, 2
storey office building, 8
rooms, big car park. USD
10000 per month, Nego:
Ph: 09-97018-1144
Bahan (1)Golden valley,
Single storey nice house
with 2 bedrooms, fully
furnished, lawn. USD
3000 per month. (2)Near
Kandawgyi Rd, 0.3 acre
land. 2 storey, 3MBR,
2SR, ph, furnished,
Generator, nice beautiful
garden. maid rooms.
USD 6000 per month.
Nego:
Ph:09-970181144
Bahan (1)Thanlwin Rd,
Windermere part, 0.5
acre, single storey, 4
master rooms, ph line,
big lawn, 6500USD per
month, negotiable, (2)
Inya Rd, 0.3 acre land,
single storey, 3MBR, ph
line, nice garden, semi
furnished US 6000 per
month, negotiable, Ph:
09-2603-32121
(1)availaBle from the
start of July - a lovely
three bedroom second
floor, flat one minutes
walk from Aung San
Stadium City Mart. 2
double bedrooms & 1
single, with large sitting
room, 2 bathroom (1
with hot water). 3AC & 2
balconies. Parquet floors
throughout and off street
parking. Unfurnished
1200 USD per month. No
agent's fee. (2)Recently
available, on Botataung
Pagoda Rd, one minute's
walk from Yuri Miko
Shopping Centre. It has
one double bedroom &
1 single, fully furnished
and parquet floor. 700
USD per month. Pls call
Kyi May, 09-518-5794,
09-254- 043094
CondoMiniuM, Chan
Thar Gone Yaung Condo
at Upper Pazuntaung St,
Tamwe. 2nd flr, Gym,
24-hour Lift, Security,
Car Park, Generator,
Swimming Pool, 1MBR,
2SR, 4 Aircons, 1650sqft,
23 Lakhs (negotiable).
Ph: 09-9751-25218
KaMayuT, Pyi Yeik Thar
St, Apartment 15' x 60',
1MBR, Fully Furnished,
Changing Room, washer
& Drier, Cool and Hot
water, dry kitchen and
equipment. 3rd Flr / 4th
Flr, USD 3000 each.
Ph:09-4500-37300, 09788-408340
ChinaToWn, 1800sqft,
High floor two big master
bedroom with 3 toilets,
Veranda
270degree
with pagoda view. Fully
furnished, wooden floor,
aircons, lift, security,
move in condition,
US$2500per
month,
email : aspac@live.com
Or Ph (65) 96791331
aParTMenT
hostel
dorm avail. Behind
Sakura Tower. Tel: 092500-76812
Baha, Pearl condo
(1)Penthouse,
fully

furnished with bills

included. 5MBR. US$
5000 per month (2)
Apartment, 3 bedrooms,
fullyfurnished with fully
equippted kitchen with
bills included. US$3000
per
month.
Email:
J.meifang@gmail.com.
Ph: 09-732-50365, 09520-0654.
(1)lanMadaW
St,
refurbished apartments,
fully furnished bills
included,
1bedroom
US$1500. 2bedroom
US$1800. 3bedroom
US$ 2000. (2) Botataung,
Bo Myat Tun Rd, fully
furnished 2bedroom,
US$2000.
Email:
J.meifang@gmail.com.
Ph: 09-732-50365, 09520-0654.
Bahan, New University
Avenue Rd, walk up apt,
2 F, 1200 sqft, furn or
unfurn, US$ 1500. Call
Maureen : 09-518-8320.
ClaSSiC Strand Condo
suitable for office, 2280
sqft (2,500sqft with
mezzanine), 3rd floor,
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.
5,800 USD per month.
porntipawong@gmail.
com. 09420004585
ClaSSiC Strand Condo,
1,500 sqft, 8th floor, 3
bedroom corner unit
with excellent view
of river. New building
with gym, car park,
cafe, facilities. Prime
downtown location, close
to strand hotel/union bar.
3,600 USD per month.
porntipawong@gmail.
com. Tel: 09-4200-04585

Housing for Sale

STar CiTy (Thanlyin
Tsp), is relatively matured
condominium sitting on
a vasst piece of land
with full condominium
facilities. The unit is
about (905) square feet
big. Will be completed
rougly within next three
months. Please contact
the owner for futhur
informations.
Ph:097999-77699
ShWe Pyi Tha, 21
quarter, Lein Kone
north side of the river
Boaungkyaw St, 40x60
ft, 28 lands (one big
blog together). Want to
sell. Contact number09-517-9645, 09-421043939, 09-4201-81730.
Bago, Myo Shout Rd, 3
acre land , 30 year grant,
with iron fence around,
three way Rd, for sale
15000 lakh, negotiable,
Ph:09-2603-32121

Want to Hire
WanTed
Factory
building, Dimension:
Length: 140 meters
x Width: 45 meters x
Height: 8 9 meters
Use: Immediate / Heavy
Industry With Electricity
Power of 500 Kva (11Kv)
minimum & water supply
Area: Yangon / Bago area
Preferable from direct
owner. Please contact
: mtrajahkl@gmail.com,
tinhlaing2167@gmail.
com, chohlaingnyein@
gmail.com Tel: 09 -421135261, 09-507-8834, 094250-15876
exPaT
working
in
Yangon looking for
accommodation to share
with other Expats. If you
want to rent a bedroom in
your house or flat please
contact me through my
email at biscay.world@
gmail.com

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THE MYANMAR TIMES june 19, 2015

Employment
Ingo Position
DM Officer - 1 Post.
Please send application
letter, CV and related
documents to Myanmar
Red Cross Society (Head
Office)
Yazatingaha
Rd,
Dekkhinathiri,
Nay
Pyi
Taw.
Ormrcshrrecruitment@
gmail.com
www.
myanmar
redcross
society.org
MyanMar Red Cross
Society is seeking
Logistics Officer 1
post in Nay Pyi Taw:
Myanmar
National.
University
graduate.
3 years experience in
a logistics and supply
change management.
Proven computer skills
(MS Word, Excel, Page
Maker, Power Point,
respective application
software).
Effective
English language skill.
Red cross volunteers
are preferable. Please
send
application
letter, CV & related
documents to Myanmar
Red Cross Society Head
Office, Yazathingaha
Rd,
Dekkhinathiri,
Nay Pyi Taw. Or
mrcshrrecruitment@
gmail.com Closing date:
24-6-2015.
(1)LOgistics Officer
- 1 Post (2)Clerk-1 - 1
Post (3)First Aider - 2
Posts. Please send
application letter, CV
related
documents
to
Myanmar
Red
Cross Society (Head
Office)
Yazatingaha
Rd,
Dekkhinathiri,
Nay
Pyi
Taw.
Ormrcshrrecruitment@
gmail.com
www.
myanmar
redcross
society.org.
MeDecins
Sans
Frontieres - Switzerland
(MSF-CH) is seeking
Nurse 2 posts in Wa
Special Region 2, Shan
State : Nurse degree/
diploma a recognised
by National Authorities.
Valid license required.
Experience - Non is
required.
Myanmar,
Wa or Shan speaking
required.
Chinese
speaking is an asset.
Basic English would
be advantage. Please
submit
application
(motivation letter and
updated CV) to: msfchrangoon-web@geneva.
msf.org with the following
code "2015 15 Nurse".
MeDecins
Sans
Frontieres - Switzerland
(MSF-CH) is seeking
(1)Deputy
Field
Coordinator 1 post in
Pang Kham/ Ling Haw/
Pang Yan, Wa Special
Region 2 Preferably a
medical or paramedical
qualification or univer
sity-level
studies.
Success ful experience in
the field of humanitarian
aid, preferably with MSF,
or other organisations.
Experience in manage
ment of health project
is an assest. Fluent
in English. Chinese/
Wa speaking is an
strong asset. (2)Hr
&
Administrative
Officer 1 post in Dawei,
Tanintharyi Region :
Diploma or certificate
in human resources
management & business
administration. 2 years
experienced.
Fluent
in English. Computer
literate.
(3)Deputy
Medical Coordinator
1 post in Yangon
Coordination Office :
REcognized & registered
(SAMA) medical doctor.
Master in Public Health
is an asset. Fluent in
English.
Computer
skills. (4)Laboratory
technician 2 post in
Dawei,
Thanintharyi
Region : A Laboratory
Technician
diploma/
degree
recognized
by the state.
Able
to work in a generic/
basic laboratory; no
experience is required
but it is an asset, 1 year
experience.
Please
submit
appilcation
(motivation letter &
updated CV as soon as
possible to email: msfchrangoon-web@geneva.

msf.org
MeDecins
Sans
Frontieres - Switzerland
(MSF-CH) is seeking
Medical Doctor 2 post
in Wa Special Region 2,
Shan State : Recognized
medical doctor degree
(plus inscription to the
national register of the
country of the mission,
if there is one). Valid
SAMA licence required.
(the experience coming
from the long months
of
"stage"
during
medical studies is
already considered as
a practical experience).
Myanmar, Wa or Shan
speaking
required.
Chinese speaking is
an asset. Basic English
would be advantage.
Please submit applicat
ion (motivation letter &
updated CV) to: msfchrangoon-web@geneva.
msf.org
AgenceFranaise de
Dveloppement (AFD)
is seeking Project
Officer. The principal
duties & responsibilities
include: Support to AFD
operational activities in
Myanmar within AFD and
with local stakeholders
&
authorities
at
every phase of AFD
decision process for a
financing (identification,
evaluation, approval)
as well as during
project
negotiation,
formalization,
imple
mentation & portfolio
management: contribu
tion to due diligence,
internal reviews &
reporting, organization &
participation to missions
from experts from AFD
headquarters, meetings
with local stakeholders,
support. Relations with
Myanmar interlocutors,
especially central & local
government authorities,
public companiesand
civil society organizations
in relation with the
identification, evaluation,
approval process and
implementation of AFD
projects in Myanmar.
Relations with other
donorsbasedinMyanmar
and participation to aid
coordination meetings
on
topics
covered
by AFD. Contribute
to the elaboration of
background or strategic
notes
about
AFD
activities in Myanmar,
Contribute to the commu
nication plan of AFD in
Myanmar. Qualifications
&
requirements:
Advanced
university
degree in business,
finance or engineering,
Financial & credit skills,
Project preparation &
management, Notion in
procurement, 5 years
relevant professional
experience, Ability to
work in multi-cultural
organization
&
to
interact & negotiate
with
colleagues,
clients & public bodies,
Strong commitment to
development & environ
mental goals, Fluent
in Myanmar language
& English, French
notions would be aplus.
Expected start: as soon
as possible. Contact:
Ms Julia de Pierrepont,
depierrepontj@afd.fr Ph:
95 01 2302167
acteD
is
seeking
Cashier post in Yangon:
University degree in
any area and/with
preferably finance and
accounting knowledge.
1 year experience.
Strong computer skills
especially on Microsoft
windows 2000, MS
Word, Excel and Access.
Good in Myanmar &
English. Applications in
the English language,
including a resume of
not more than 3 pages;
a cover letter expressing
the
motivation
to
work with an NGO &
addressing each of the
required qualifications
with vivid examples;
Copy of the university
degree & Contact details
of 3 references should
be submitted by email
to yangon.adminfin@
acted.org.
MyanMar Red Cross

Society is seeking
WASH
Consultant
1 post in Ralam &
Matupi (Chin), Mogok:
University
Degree
in Civil Engineering,
Geology, Hydrology, or
related fields. 2 years
experience. Effective
computer knowledges
& English language skill.
Knowledge of AutoCAD
(2D). Please submit
consultancy proposals.
Proposals should include
consultant profile/ CV
with description of
experience
relevant
to this consultancy &
outline consultancy fees
(per day and total) &
availability of consultant
for indicated timeframe.
Please note that costs
for travel to field sites
including transportation
& accommodation will
be covered by MRCS
based on actual costs.
Electronic proposals
should be submitted to
mrcshrrecruitment@
gmail.com

Local Positions
gLOMeD Pharmaceu
tical Co., INC. is seeking
(1)Sales Manager - M/F
in Yangon. Excellent in
English. Knowledge &
experience of pharma
ceutical market. Deter
mines sales plans by
implementing marketing
strategies; analyzing
trends
&
results.
(2)Medical
Sales
Representative (MSR):
M/F 4 posts in Yangon,
2 in Mandalay, 1 in each
other States in Myanmar.
Approaching & making
good relationship with
customers.
Recom
mending & selling
products to customers
in pharmacies/clinics
in appointed area. (3)
Office Executive - F 1
post in Yangon. English
speaking. Coordinates
administrative activities
& supports the offices
daily operations to
ensure
efficiently
office admin function.
For all posts : Salary
negotiation. Please sent
CV by email to Email:
giang.glomedvn@gmail.
com; C/c to: truonggiang.
nguyen@glomedvn.
com HP: +95 92 5200
2759 Mr. Giang
(English speaking) Add.:
35th str., 1st flr, middle,
Kyauktada,
Yangon.
www.glomedvn.vn
MM interpLase Co.,
Ltd is seeking Driver
1 post : Basic English
communication skills,
Good area knowledge of
Yangon. Please apply to
42/A, Pantra St, Dagon
Tsp, Yangon, Bet : 9 am
to 5 pm. Ph: 09-421021654.
sUccessfUL
asia
Travels & Tours Co.,
Ltd is seeking Inbound
Tour (or) Operation
Executive 2 Posts Job
Description : Understand
local
inbound
(or)
outbound tour market
& competitors, Design
exciting & competitive
inbound (or) outbound
tour packages, Craft
itinerary & work out
costing, Able to contact
& negotiate with market
customer, Able to work
in challenges. Required
skills : Must have good
personality and good
command in English
(Especially in written
English), Able to use
Microsoft office, Email
& Internet perfectly, Any
graduate with at least
2 years experience.
Please submit resume
with recent photo within
3 month, ID copy, police
recommendation, labor
card, other qualification
documents, last drawn
salary, expected salary
and available date to
Rm (2A-408), Muditar
Housing-2, Phan Chat
Set St, Insein. (Near
Pauk-taw-wa Bus-stop)
Ph : 09-7952-28293,
09-2615-07430. Email
: successfulasiatravel@
gmail.com,
sales@
successfulasiatravel.
com Closing date :
3.6.2015.

city star HOteL is

seeking (1).Front Office
Department - M/F (2).
Waiter/ Waitress - M/F
(3).Security - M (4).
Sale & Marketing M/F (5).Reservation
Department - M/F (6).
Kitchen Department
- M (7).Bell Service
Department - M (8).
Accountant - M/F (9).
HR Department - M/F
(10).Admin Staff - M/F
(11).M&E Department
- M. Please submit
with CV, photo with
necessary documents
to our hotel by directly
or by Email. 169/171,
Mahabandoola Garden
St, Kyauktada, Yangon.
Email:
citystarhotel.
yangon@gmail.com Ph:
01-370920~924
We are seeking Assistant
Coffee Shop Manager 1
Post : F&B Shop / Coffee
Shop Management : 1
year, Good interpersonal
skills, Highly motivated
and can lead the team,
Must be able to work on
weekends and public
holiday. To apply : send
your CV with photo to
wai.strategypartner@
gmail.com

for a Part-Time Local

Correspondent,
Local
journalists,
university students or
young graduates are
encouraged to apply.
Priority will be given to
those affiliated with or
interested in media and
journalism. Having basic
English-language and
computer skills would be
advantageous. Training
to commence first week
of July. Interested,
please send a one-page
CV by June 21, 2015 to
Takayuki KASUGA, Asia
General Bureau Chief
at: kasuga-t@mainichi.
co.jp
c H ry s a n t H e M U M
WeaLtH is seeking (1)
Production Assistant
Manager - M 1 post (2)
Machining Supervisor M 1 post (3)Maintenance
& Safety Engineer - M
1 post (4)Lath Machine
Operator - M 2 posts (5)
Machanic - M 6 posts (6)
Components Washing
& Sand Blasting - M
2 posts (7)Machanic
Helper - M 1 post (8)
Welder - M 1 post (9)
Painter - M 1 post (10)
Helper - M 2 posts (11)

We areseekingforJewelry
shop, Sales girls - F 3
posts : Any graduate,
Good
interpersonal,
communication skills &
honesty, Strong customer
facing experience and
good job knowledge
jewelry. Interested and
qualified candidates are
interesting to submit
applications with detail
and complete CV, recent
photo, copy of NRC card,
certificates of other
qualifications, certificte
of
graduations,labor
registration card, copy
of census, credential
of polices station with
expected salary. Closing
date : 27.6.15
We are seeking (1).
Office Secretary 1
Post
(2).Assistant
Supervisor 1 Post (3).
Driver 3 Posts (4).
Admin/HR Manager 1
Post (5).Counter Girl
2 Posts (6).Showroom
Staff 1 Post (7).Cashier
1 Post. 01-245925/01246304 Ext-13. Email:
h r. m y a n m a r k o w a @
gmail.com
LOLc
Myanmar
Microfinance Co Ltd
(LMM) is seeking it
Officer in Yangon:
Degree in IT or equal
qualification.
Strong
Knowledge in Operating
System platforms/ SQL
Server/ Software &
Hardware.
exposure
to Networking/ PABX
& troubleshooting is
advantageous.
Pls
submit a Cover letter &
CV to Email at: Carrers@
lolcmyanmar.com or by
delivery to the LOLC
office : 163, Shwe Hnin
Si Kan St, (5) ward,
Mayangone, Yangon.
UrgentLy reQUireD
for Sales Promoter:
Microsoft
Office
Essential, Email &
Internet
knowledge,
Smart personality, honest
& willing to hard working.
Any graduate. Good
commend of English &
able to write in English.
Please send CVs to
jobs@myanmars.net,
admin@myanmars.net
or Contact to Myanmars
NET 3/1, Myanmar ICT
Park, 11052, Yangon.
Ph: 652250, 652323,
tHe
MainicHi
Newspapers (Japan)
Hiring! Paid Internship

Traning Manager M 1 post (12)Trainer

- M 2 posts (13)Qa
Machanic - M 4 posts
(14)QA Admin - F 1
post (15)Salesman - M
2 posts (16)Inventory
Assistant - M 1 post (17)
Warehouse Assistant M 1 post (18)Driver - M
1 post (19)Tools Keeper
- M 1 post. Please
submit CV, photo with
necessary documents
to 898, Thudamar 4/6,
Anawrahta Industrail
Zone, Yangon Pathein
Highway Rd, near
Tamargone bus stop.
Ph: 09-799-502621, 01645410. Emai : ramanhr-rec@winstrategic.
com.mm,
remanadmhd@winstrategic.
com.mm
LaWyer : Bachelors
degree in law (or Masters
degree in law is a plus),
1-3 years experience
in related filed, Good
command of both written
& spoken English, Able
to work independently
and as part of a team.
Responsibilities
:
Conducting trade mark
search & advising client
on registrability of trade
marks, Preparing & filing
trade mark application
up to grant, Advising
clients on examiners
office actions, Advising
clients on contentious
matters
including
filing
cancellation
action, sending cease
and desist letter and
negotiating in relation
to conflict, etc. Advising
clients on registration of
trade marks in foreign
countries. Please send
full resume with all

details of qualifications &

experience, educational
certificate,
expected
retainer fee and recent
photo to chadarat@
rouse.com. www.rouse.
com Ph : 01 1222352,
01 371385
cHatriUM
HOteL
Royal Lake Yangon
Leading Five Star Hotel
in Yangon, Myanmar
with its headquarter
in Bangkok, is now
seeking highly energetic
& motivated candidates
for (1).Duty Manager
- M/F 1 Post (2).Chief
Steward - M 1 Post
(3).Receptionist
M/F 1 Post. Interested
candidates should apply
with full CV/Resume
indicating position of
interest, qualifications,
educational background,
employment records and
recent photo not later
than 20.6.2015. Only
short-listed candidates
will be notified by phone
for interview. Email :hr.
chry@chatrium.com Ph:
01-544500, 01-544500
HR Dept. Chatrium Hotel
Royal Lake Yangon,
No.40, Natmauk Rd,
Tamwe. Yangon
aUng cHan tHar
TradingCo.,Ltdisseeking
(1)Sales Executive - M
5 posts: Any graduate,
Preferable BE or B
Tech(Mechanical) 3 year
experience, Age 20 ~ 30,
(2)Sales Executive - M
5 posts : Any graduate,
Preferable BE or B Tech
(Mechanical) Age 20 ~
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A final round-up of SEA Games stories that made news across Southeast Asia and beyond

Canoeing
A Singaporean kayaker struck SEA
Games gold with the partner who
helped her shake off a debilitating
eating disorder and self-harming
problem.
Suzanne Seah, 24, starved herself for
years and used to cut herself when in
a bad mood, before partner Stephenie
Chens intervention on their way to K2
500m gold.
Seah earlier told Singapores New
Paper that her disorders started at high
school and continued even after she
was drafted into the national program.
My eating problem affected
training because I was not as strong
as I should be, said Seah, going public
with her story in the hope that it would
help others.
My cutting problem also meant
that the wounds would re-open when
doing weights and, because we are
often in the water, they get infected and
never healed properly.
Chen resorted to physical violence
to help Seah, with her parents and
coach also become increasingly
concerned.
I used to smack her damn hard,
and told her: You want pain? Ill smack
you, Chen was quoted as saying.
She needed to realise for herself and,
thankfully, she did.
Seah said her problem started at
age 15, when she felt she needed to be
thin to fit in and ate only one apple a
day, drinking large amounts of water to
keep hunger at bay.
In junior college, she started
self-harming. When something bad
happens and I cant do anything about
it, Ill cut myself, she said.
But the story had a happy ending
when the pair finished narrowly ahead
of Thailands Woraporn Boonyuhong
and Kanokpan Suansan in their race.
Stop telling yourself no one
cares, Seah said, in advice for fellow
sufferers. Go and get more friends,
surround yourself with more positive
people, and you will see that life isnt
so bad.
Eat what makes you comfortable,
and work your way up from there. Its
difficult, but it will be worth it.

Wakeboarding
Eleven-year-old Aaliyah Yoong
insisted she was already a veteran
in competitive wakeboarding as she
became the Singapore SEA Games
youngest winner.

The Malaysian prodigy has

some justification for the claim as
in 2011, she won SEA Games gold
aged only eight to set the record
as the tournaments youngest-ever
champion.
And despite her tender years and
angelic appearance, Yoong tightened
her iron grip on the sport with an
emphatic womens tricks win at
Singapores Bedok Reservoir.
Yoong shrugged off stormy weather
in Singapore to score 4850 points,
finishing way ahead of 16-year-old
Indonesian Nur Alimah Prambodos
2930.
I think I could have done a little
better but overall I am still proud of my
performance today, she said, according
to the New Straits Times.
To complete two passes standing
up was really tough because the waves
were big and there was also quite a lot
of backwash.
Surprisingly Yoong was not the
youngest wakeboarder at the SEA
Games and in fact, she was not even
the youngest from her family in the
competition.
Seven-year-old Adam Yoong
competed in the mens event and Aiden
Yoong, nine, earned a bronze in the
mens tricks final.
Aiden finished two spots ahead
of his elder brother, Alex Yoong, 38,
who has already found fame through
his career as a racing driver and TV
commentator.
But given the presence of her
younger siblings, its not surprising
that Aaliyah considers herself a
wakeboarding doyenne at the age of
only 11.
I have been training a lot for the
SEA Games, she said. My dad says I
am already a veteran and I guess I am
already quite experienced at this level.

Swimming
Joseph Schooling completed a
perfect haul of nine SEA Games
swimming titles and all in eventrecord time as hosts Singapore
celebrated a golden pool performance.
Schooling-led Singapore smashed
the Games 4x100m medley relay record
by more than three seconds with a time
of 3min 38.25sec, in a rousing finish to
the swimming competition.
Home fans celebrated exuberantly
as Singapore ended with 23 of the
38 swimming golds, while Schooling
will now leave for next months world
championships in buoyant mood.
Its just a small stepping stone
to what I am trying to achieve, said
Schooling, who is expected to swim a
much-reduced schedule at the worlds
in Kazan, Russia.
The SEA Games, I know its a big
deal to Singapore and stuff but I think

a lot of the guys in the team have to

look past the SEA Games.
We are on a different platform
right now than where we were a couple
of years ago and were gonna have to
start looking at Commonwealth Games,
Asian Games and then slowly worlds
and ultimately the Olympics.
Singapores swimming success
contributed a significant share of their
table-topping gold medal haul of 66
titles so far at the Southeast Asian
Games.
Vietnams pool medal haul owed
much to their Iron Girl Nguyen Thi
Anh Vien, who without a full swim
team behind her had no opportunity to
add relay events to her eight individual
gold medals.

Netball
Malaysian journalists accused their
Singaporean counterparts of jeering
teenage netball players and slammed
the SEA Games hosts for a lack of
decorum.
The Malay Mail rounded on
Singaporean journalists after the hotly
contested netball final, which the home
side won 46-43 against neighbours and
fierce rivals Malaysia.
Simmering tensions between the
countries often bubble into anger in the
heat of sporting occasions, but usually
it is football rather than netball which
raises temperatures.
The head of the Sportswriters
Association of Malaysia said he
was shocked after hearing that
Singaporean journalists yelled, Go
home to your village! in Malay during
the final.
I am shocked by the behaviour
of the Singaporean journalists at the
press box, said SAM president Ahmad
Khawari Isa, according to the Malay
Mail.
It created a negative impression on
the professionalism of journalists as a
whole.
The newspaper ran the story with
a graphic saying Shame on you and
commented that Singapore was a
nation known to be a global financial
centre and not for etiquette and a fine
sense of decorum.
Emotions ran high in the final,
where Singapore avenged a narrow
loss to Malaysia 14 years ago, the last
time the sport was held as part of the
Games.
Aside from netball, football-related
flashpoints between Singapore and
Malaysia are legion.
At the 2012 AFF Suzuki Cup football,
massed ranks of Malaysian fans
chanted Singapore are dogs! and last
month, fans of Terengganu rioted after
losing a Malaysia FA Cup semi-final to
Singapores Lions XII.
The 28th SEA Games was held on
the 50th anniversary of Singapores
independence, after it was expelled
from the federation of Malay states in
1965.

Athletics
Eric Cray shrugged off an
embarrassing error involving the
Filipino flag when he clinched his
second SEA Games gold in two days
in the mens 400m hurdles.
The US-based runner was sporting
an upside-down Filipino flag on his
vest, which officially means the country
is at war, when he won the 100m in
10.25secs.
But a day later Cray, 26, got both his
flag and his performance right as he
clocked a Games record of 49.40 to win
the hurdles from Quach Cong Lich of
Vietnam.
Cray wasnt the only Filipino to

wear an upside-down flag, with 100m

womens winner Kayla Richardson
also caught out. It is unclear who was
responsible for the error.
But Cray said the inverted flags were
hurriedly covered up or re-stamped,
and he apologised to his fellow
countrymen for the mistake at the
tournament in Singapore.
We dont make the jerseys so
there was nothing we can do about it,
but just tell our fellow Filipinos and
Filipinas that we are sorry that we
didnt recognise it beforehand and it
wont happen again, he said.
We have fixed them since then,
either cover them up or stamp a new
flag on it. This was actually fixed
correctly.
Cray added We just got them [the
running vests] the day we got here so
there was no time for inspection of
them. We are just so excited to be here
we forgot about inspecting them.
Cray, 26, began representing the
Philippines in 2011 and he has already
qualified for next years Olympics in the
400m hurdles after running a personal
best of 49.12 last month.
I feel great, good time, secondfastest time of my life, he said after
the hurdles race, setting his sights on
the August world championships in
Beijing.
I just want to progress over here
and go to world champs and hopefully
make the final and hopefully bring a
medal home.

Cycling
SEA Games organisers launched
an investigation into feared food
poisoning after a bout of loose
stools struck several athletes in the
cycling competition.
Cyclists complained their
performance had been affected as the
competition in Singapore got under
way with the mens and womens
individual time trials.
The Singapore Southeast Asian
Games Organising Committee has
received a report of an incident
involving a bout of loose stools that has
affected a few athletes, a statement
said.
We are investigating the matter
with the relevant authorities and
reinforcing hygiene practices.
The Straits Times newspaper said
the cyclists were staying at Resorts
World Sentosa, a hotel, casino and
funpark complex popular with
tourists.
Malaysian rider Muhammad
Fauzan Ahmad Lutfi blamed his
dinner of chicken and curry egg for his
performance after he finished 11th in
the mens time trial.
Two other riders, including my
roommate, are down too. I think it was
the chicken and the curry egg at dinner.
I felt sick at around 1am last night, he
said.
The incident follows a food
poisoning outbreak at the 2010 Youth
Olympic Games in Singapore, which
affected more than 20 people working
for the organising committee.

Diving
Olympic medallist Pandalela
Rinong completed Malaysias cleansweep of all eight SEA Games diving
titles, and then said she was preparing
something special for next months
world championships.
The 2012 Olympic bronze medallist
was head and shoulders above the
competition on the 10m platform
in Singapore, scoring 353.00 with

compatriot Loh Zhiayi a distant

second on 305.25.
Pandalela, the first Malaysian diver
to win an Olympic medal, briefly
looked vulnerable after a messy entry
on her third dive, with Loh still in
close attendance.
But she nailed her third dive
an armstand backward double
somersault with one-and-a-half twists
scoring 78.40 and drawing a blast of
horns and cheers from her Malaysian
fans.
She rounded it off with another
belter, scoring 81.60 for a backward,
piked, two-and-a-half somersaults
with one-and-a-half twists on her fifth
and final dive.
With some of her competitors
diving from lower platforms, and
several landing awkwardly to gasps
from the crowd, it was a simple
outing for the confident Malaysian.
Pandalela said she was working on
a new dive for the worlds, where she
will take on the favoured Chinese in
an attempt to improve on her haul to
date of two bronze medals.
I feel that they have improved
a lot compared to the last few years
so I never underestimate them and
I still have to do my best, she said
of her competitors from Myanmar,
Vietnam, Indonesia, the Philippines
and Singapore.
My target this year is to learn
a new dive. I dont have much time
to learn it so I just continue my old
routine, she added.
But I hope for this world
championship, I will try to learn a
new dive and change it with the back
two-and-a-half somersault with pike
[her second dive].
I will try to use it if the new dive
is good enough for me.

Hockey
Malaysia grabbed mens hockey
gold in a thrilling shoot-out after
hosts Singapore forced penalties
with a last-gasp equaliser.
Nor Azrul Abdul Rahman was the
hero with a confidently taken decisive
penalty as Malaysia won the shootout 4-3, after the scores finished 2-2
in regulation time.
Singapores Sengkang Stadium
crowd was packed for the game
between the neighbours and arch
sporting rivals, with some fans lining
the perimeter fence.
But there was to be no fairytale
finish for Singapore against the
regional hockey giants, even after
they clawed back from 2-0 down to
force the shoot-out.
The team dealt brilliantly with
the pressure, Malaysia coach Arul
Anthoni told AFP.
I had four or five of the younger
players who were shivering earlier
because of feeling the atmosphere.
Fair play to Singapore for coming
back hard and fighting ... Definitely
the crowd makes a bloody big part
of it.
Malaysia, who fielded their U21
side, dominated from the start and
went ahead in the 14th minute with
a well-executed penalty corner by
Aminudin Mohd Zain.
They doubled their lead early in
the second half with another set-piece
by Azwar Abdul Rahman.
But Singapores Hafiz Abdul scored
a field goal in the 51st minute, before
Enrico Marican raised the roof with
his 69th-minute equaliser following a
goalmouth melee.
Singapore coach Solomon Casoojee
said his side made a fair fist of it.
We gave a good contest to
Malaysia who quality-wise are a
better side than us, he told reporters.
They [Singapore] showed a lot
of composure, a lot of guts and stuck
with it and didnt let the pressure of
the home crowd get to them. AFP

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US OPEN GOLF

Englands Rose scents

second major crown

UStin Rose says he is entering the peak of his career and the upward climb
he has been on lately has
him hopeful of claiming
his second major title at this weeks
115th US Open.
im doing all the right things, its
just a matter of everything lining up
again in one week, said Rose.
Rose, who was born in Johannesburg but grew up in England, broke
through to win the 2013 US Open at
Merion Golf club for his first major
title.
He has won a PGA tour event in
each of the past seven seasons and
this year claimed the Zurich Classic after tying for second in the
Masters.
i feel like ive kicked on from
winning my first major. Sometimes
its difficult to live up to that, he said
following his June 17 practice round.
ive maintained my world ranking. ive won tournaments. ive done
all the right things.
Having won one now gives you
more confidence to get it done again.
there are going to be opportunities to win more. Youve got to be
patient.
the performance i put in at Augusta would have won many of those
championships and i got beat by a
better player [Jordan Spieth] on the
week.

Rose, a three-time European Ryder Cup team member, may be one

of the nicest guys on the PGA tour,
but dont expect him to give an inch
to his opponents at the Chambers
Bay golf course, and that the same
goes for American playing partner
Spieth.
Rose teed up on yesterday in a
group with the reigning Masters
champ and two-time US Open runner-up Jason Day, of Australia.
ive got to learn his game pretty
well, Rose said of Spieth. We were
paired in Houston, the final rounds
of Augusta, two rounds at the Memorial. Pretty fresh in my memory.
So two great young players.
Yeah, its going to be a fun three
ball, he said before the round.
Rose introduced himself to the
golfing world with a splash at the 1998
British Open when he tied for fourth
as a 17-year-old amateur. He capped
his round in dramatic fashion by holing out from 50 yards from the rough.
Rose turned professional the
next day, then missed his first 21 cuts
as a professional.
But he persevered, and other than
a stretch in 2014 when he battled injuries and early in 2015 when he was
low on confidence and fell out of the
top 10, he has been, for the most part,
on a steady forward progression.
Since 2010, i feel like ive been
on a nice upward trend, said Rose,

who now holds 17 international

wins, seven of which have come on
the USPGA tour.
Winning a playoff event in the
FedEx Cup, and the following year
winning a World Golf Championship and the following year winning
a major championship. i feel like the
progression is really going nicely.
Asked if he was frustrated because he hadnt won a major since
his first one, Rose said not at all.
im 34. Lets say the next six to
10 years are going to be more of my
prime. i think from 30 to 40 i always
felt was going to be the time where i
was going to have to step up and win
a major. to get that done relatively
early in that time frame has been
great, he said.
Lets call it six years. thats
24 majors that are going to come
around. i feel like if i just keep doing
what im doing, thats going to throw
up quite a few opportunities.
Europeans now have captured
four of the past five US Opens, a reversal from the 40-year drought between tony Jacklins victory in 1970
and Graeme McDowell in 2010.
Roses share of 12th last year made
him just the fourth US Open winner
since 1991 to place higher than 30th
in his title defence.
He credits the European success
to simply having more players in the
north American mix. AFP

Chipping in ...
JUSTIN ROSE
on toughness of US Opens in general:
Would you want to play 20 of these a
year? Probably not. But I think for the one
tournament that it is its very special
and its a test that I certainly relish.
JORDAN SPIETH
asked to describe Chambers Bay in one word:
One word. You know, I cant do one word.
Inventive. Thats one word!
RORY MCILROY
asked to compare the US Open to the Masters:
Its much quieter!

RYAN MOORE
on the nuisance of trains passing on an adjacent track:
It could definitely get you, because they dont
mind honking their horn or whatever you call it
on the train. They definitely do it at least a couple
of times going by.
COLE HAMMER
on at 15, being the third-youngest ever to play a US Open:
I dont like video games and I dont have any
extracurricular activities other than golf.
Its just golf after school.
JACK NICKLAUS
on what his immediate goals are at 75:
Well, Id like to win a couple more US Opens!
AFP

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28 THE MYANMAR TIMES JunE 19, 2015

SPORT EDITOR: Matt Roebuck | matt.d.roebuck@gmail.com

SEA Games
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MyanMaR naTiOnal league

Yangon object to rival eligibility

MaTT ROebuck
matt.d.roebuck@gmail.com
kyaw Zin Hlaing
kyawzinhlaing.mcm@gmail.com

HE Myanmar National
League has dismissed a
complaint from league leaders Yangon United over the
eligibility of newly signed
players to feature in championship rivals Ayeyawady Uniteds rescheduled
fixture with Chin United on June 22.
With one game in hand, Ayeyawady
sit in second place in the Myanmar
National League-1, five points behind
Yangon. A deficit victory on June 22
would cut the lead to just two points,
with the teams scheduled to meet at
the Yangon United Sports Complex on
June 27.
Yangon United FC disagrees with
the decision to permit players newly registered in the second player
transfer window to play in match 37
[Chin United vs Ayeyawady United],
reads a letter, dated June 11, sent to
the Myanmar Football Federation
by chief executive of Yangon United
Min Swe Oo.
The fixture originally scheduled
for February 20 was rearranged to
accommodate Ayeyawady Uniteds
overseas commitments as one of Myanmars representatives in the continental AFC Cup.
The letter of complaint, dated June
11 and posted to Facebook by the club
on June 17, specifically brings up opposition to the potential for Ayeyawady
to field a player not registered when
the game was originally scheduled to
occur.
However it makes no mention of
Myanmars other AFC Cup representatives Yadanarbon FC, who on June 22
will play their match with Zeyar Shwe
Myay rescheduled from before the
transfer window.
Yadanarbon, last years champions, have struggled this year, and although they sit in fourth, victory in
their June 22 fixture would still leave
them eight points off the pace. That
victory may also be harder-fought
than before the break as their op-

ponents, 10th-place Zeyar Shwe Myay,

were expected to have bolstered
their squad with up to 10 new players including three foreigners by
todays transfer deadline.
The 12-club Myanmar National
League-1 season is run on the basis
of two half-seasons, where each team
faces their 11 opponents once in each
period. It is in between these two
rounds that a transfer window allowing teams to refresh squads according
to injury and performance customarily falls.
However, this year the schedule
was cut short after nine weeks to take
a three-month preparation break for
the Southeast Asian Games squad,
which coincided with the national U20
sides visit to New Zealand for their
age-group World Cup and the senior
sides June 11 and 16 2018 World Cup
qualifiers with Laos and South Korea.
Yangon United posted their original letter of complaint, as well as the
June 12 response from the chief executive officer of the Myanmar National
League Jeysing Muthiah.
Please take note that the decision
was made taking into consideration
the three-months break in the MNL
League Fixture due to the commitments and preparation of the various
national teams in World Cup Qualifiers and the SEA Games in Singapore.
And in addition, some teams have also
made changes in registration of both
foreign and local players, read the letter.
The issue had already arisen at a
June 10 meeting to discuss the Myanmar National Leagues youth league,
where complaints were not heard
from Yangon United, but arose from
third-place Magwe FC.
We objected to this at the meeting,
and now Yangon United have joined
us in our objections, Soe Min of Magwe FC told The Myanmar Times.
In matches scheduled for the first
half of the season they must use players scheduled for the first half of the
season. Only in the second half may
they use players scheduled for the
second half. That is the real rule, he
added.

I have heard Yadanarbon and

Zeyar Shwe Myay have made a large
number of transfers for the secondhalf of the season. I think they must
respect the other teams. The Myanmar
Football Federations rules and regulations are ever-changing, said Soe Min.
Speaking to The Myanmar Times,
general manager of Yangon United,
Kyaw Lin Htwe again focused on the
teams championship rivals.
We object to the use of players
signed for the second season because

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this is the real rules of the Myanmar

National League. We followed the
same rules last year and believe that
the rules must remain the same for all
teams, said Kyaw Lin Htwe.
The team also posted a letter dating
from 2014, signed Ye Myo Hein, chair
of the Myanmar National League,
insisting two similarly rearranged
games involving that years AFC Cup
representatives Yangon United and
Nay Pyi Taw FC could not involve newly registered players.

In response to the letters general

manager of Ayeyawady United Zwe
Hlaing Hmee told The Myanmar
Times.
We will follow the guidelines as
the MFF determines them. We have
made five transfers with an eye for the
second half of the season, including
one foreigner. Despite Yangon Uniteds objections, we will field players
that are correctly registered within the
rules and prepare in the best way we
can, said Zwe Hlaing Hmee.

Myanmars U23 football team returned to a heros welcome on June 17.

Crowds of well-wishers congregated at Yangons Minglardon Airport with
posters with slogans that included Silver but Proud and a picture of
goalkeeper Kyaw Zin Phyo posing for a photo with Myanmar fans that
read Golden Hands with Golden Smiles.

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Superhero movies are ruining Ray guns and

cinema, says Exorcist director robots a light-

year too far for

Myanmar writers

BY ZON PANN PWINT

BY SOPHIE LAUBIE

ILLIAM Friedkin, the US director who made

the Oscar-winning movies The Exorcist and The
French Connection, is dismissive about the flood
of superhero and sci-fi movies that have taken over
todays box office.
Films used to be rooted in gravity. They were about
real people doing real things, the acclaimed 79-yearold filmmaker said as he attended the Champs-Elysees
Film Festival in Paris.
Today, he said, cinema is all about Batman,
Superman, Iron Man, Avengers, Hunger Games
in America: all kinds of stuff that I have no interest in
seeing at all.
That race by studios to appeal to the broadest
audience possible is why his own movies fell out of
favour after his peak in the 1970s, he admitted.
That is when my films went like that out of the
frame.
Friedkin says he saw the change happen in 1977
when he made what he considered his best movie the
largely ignored Sorcerer, about four men transporting a
cargo of nitroglycerin in South America only to see it
eclipsed by the huge hit of that year: Star Wars.
Now Friedkin reckons the best work for directors
is on television, on US cable and video-on-demand
services that produce quality series such as True
Detective and House of Cards. The shift to those outlets,
he said, is the new zeitgeist.
You develop character at a greater length and the
story is more complex and deeper than cinema, the
director said.
Many of the fine filmmakers of today are going to
long-form TV. It is the most welcoming place to work
for a director today.
Friedkin is looking to ride that wave, working on a
script for the HBO cable network about Mae West, the
American sex symbol and entertainer counted as one of
Hollywoods biggest-ever stars. He has spoken to Bette
Midler about playing the part.

He is also looking at turning another of his big films,

To Live and Die in LA, into a TV series, with different
characters and plot.
If his past work serves as inspiration for what hes
doing today, its in no small part due to the fact that he
has long been fascinated by the timeless theme of good
versus evil.
Most of my films are about the thin line between
good and evil that exists in everyone, he said.
I believe that within all of us there is a good side
and a dark side. And its a constant struggle to have your
good side triumph over the dark side. And sometimes
people dont and lose control of themselves.
Although his NYC-cop-in-France movie The French
Connection and the demon possession drama The
Exorcist made him a star director at the time, his later
films never scaled such heights.
But Friedkin resisted going back and doing the
sequels to his masterpieces, saying it would have been
purely about the money.
I am not interested in making movies just for the
pay cheque, Friedkin said. I have to love the film, the
story, the characters.
His Exorcist movie was enough, he said. There
were four sequels to The Exorcist and Ive seen none of
them, nor do I want to or intend to.
Likewise, with 1971s The French Connection, which
starred Gene Hackman and won five Oscars, there was
nothing more that could be said.
That demurral didnt stop the production of a 1975
sequel, also with Hackman and directed by John
Frankenheimer, who notably made the original The
Manchurian Candidate.
Friedkin, however, placed Sorcerer well above The
Exorcist and The French Connection as he looked over
his half-century career and 20 films.
That movie, starring Roy Scheider, was the one that
emerged closest to his original vision, he said, and dealt
with a theme that he holds dear fate.
If I am remembered at all for anything, I hope it
would be that, said the director.

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ESPITE the popularity of

blockbuster space fantasy
movies, critics agree that
finding a good Myanmar writer of
science fiction is pretty much a hunt
for The Invisible Man.
The genre barely broke the
surface in this country until 1960,
when Nat New translated Jules
Vernes Around the World in Eighty
Days. But even then, his translation
was from the original French to
English, not Myanmar, and the
original itself had come out in 1873.
Perhaps because of the 90-year
delay, Nat Nwes translation was an
instant smash hit, helping to bring
the genre into the mainstream. In
1964, Thakhin Ba Thaung (19011981) started to write a few sciencefiction stories that also became
popular.
He wrote science fiction stories
that were easy to understand and
interesting, like humans going into
space. His stories were targeted
at the young, recalled writer Pe
Myint.
Thakhin Ba Thaung is best
known for his novel Pan Thar Ma
Sar U, an adaptation of Thomas
Hardys Tess of the dUrbervilles and
his translation of One Thousand and
One Nights.
Kyaw Sein Min and Htay Oo
Kyaw started producing sci-fi 20
years ago.
We dont have particular writers
who specialise in science fiction at
the present time, except for a handful
who try their hand at writing short
stories, said Pe Myint.
Such writers would include
deceased comic and fiction author
Min Lu, who wrote Modern
Swan In (Modern Energy) about
a scientist who tries to produce
electricity from human tears.
The story is included in his
recent best-selling Myauk Lats
Literary Caricature, published last
November, and Myanmar Pyi Twin
Htoke Lote Thi (Manufactured in
Myanmar), a tale of the invention of
a machine that produces milk from
grass.
Ma Thida (Sanchaung) said
there were some popular childrens
comics like Kyant Ba Hone based
on science fiction stories, but that
otherwise, the Myanmar science
fiction author was a stranger in a
strange land.
Writers must have a sound
understanding of science and
develop creative ideas based on
science. When it comes to tales of
the impossible and fantasies of the

future, local writers cant produce

many books, she said, adding,
Those 20th-century Myanmar
authors didnt seem to have
thought very much of the genre. If
they thought science fiction was
important, they would have written
more books about it or translated
them into Myanmar. Perhaps its
a weakness of our educational
system.
Author Pho Ni said, Our authors
are not familiar with science and

Author Min Lus best-selling book Myauk Lats

Literary Caricature includes science fiction story
Modern Swan In. Photo: Thiri Lu

technology from an early age. HG

Wells and Jules Verne came from
science-friendly countries like
Britain and France. Most of our
authors write about things they
know about, like poverty and the
countryside. Pho Ni is the author of
the 2013 adventure novel Koloni Nae
Hma Lu Swan Kaung (A Hero from
the Colonial Period).
He enjoys SF classics like Around
the World in Eighty Days, The
Time Machine and The Invisible
Man, which are available at local
bookstores.
They are interesting, and easier
to understand than fiction novels,
he said.
Pho Ni studied philosophy
at the Ateneo de Manila, where
he acquired the habit of buying
and reading classic novels and
philosophy books. He had to
examine the characters in these
novels as part of the exams.
Bookstalls in Manila make a
healthy profit selling books to
college students. In Myanmar,
bookstores cant rely on students
for sales. They dont get into the
habit of browsing and reading
English-language books, he
said, adding that on the other
hand, movies like X-Men, Matrix
and Terminator attracted packed
houses.

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Film captures optimism

of war-weary Laiza

Still photo from Last Kiss. Photo: Facebook/Yangon Film School

BY ZON PANN PWINT

MID the fighting, a sense of optimism

prevails in the camps.
Prolonged war between the
Tatmadaw and the Kachin Independence
Organisation has separated soldiers from
their families, causing residents a great deal
of agony.
But the women go to church every
morning. At 5am, the sweet sound of prayers
fills every church in Laiza. Routinely
described as war-torn, Laiza is actually
rather peaceful.
Last Kiss, directed by Kachin-born filmmaker Seng Mai, captures the optimism
and hope of a woman who runs a womens
shelter near the headquarters of the Kachin
Independence Army (KIA).
Last week, her film won the Sungjoo Grand
Prize at the 17th Seoul International Womens

Film Festival.
Last Kiss is about a woman who turns the
agony of war to poetry. She writes and recites
poems when the civil war resumes.
It is not easy to be optimistic in tragedy.
But the women live in hope and trust in
prayer. Their prayers dont include any hint
of hatred. Prayer teaches them to love their
enemies as their loved ones, Seng Mai, who is
attending the Filmakademie Ludwigsburg in
southern Germany, told The Myanmar Times
by email. She once worked as a photographer
for the newspaper.
She added, Whenever I heard the sound
of prayers, I felt peaceful.
When fighting between the military and
the KIA in Laiza resumed, Seng Mai went to
help the residents. When she was in Laiza, the
idea to make a film struck her. She carried her
camera and started to film.
When I was there, I remembered that I
was a filmmaker, and I could use my talent to

Seng Mai attends the awards ceremony in Seoul. Photo: Supplied

help them. My film is dedicated to the women

of Laiza, she said.
There is no hatred between Kachin
residents and the enemy soldiers. When once
a wounded soldier got lost in Laiza, residents
nursed him back to health, fed him and freed
him.
They didnt beat or mistreat him, but
treated their enemy with kindness. The words
of the Kachin protagonist in my film, Ja Ing
Chying, are unforgettable. She said the soldiers
were innocent they fought because of the
orders they received from their senior officers.
They might not want to fight, she said.
She questions the use of the term tha
pone, rebels, as applied to the KIA.
Ive always found them to be very
peaceful in reality, she said.
Seng Mai believes in God. She prays
every day that the leaders of both sides
will be motivated by peace. I pray for
them to be able to love each other and to

end the fighting with compassion, she

said.
People living in IDP camps need
safety shelters and children need a good
education in order to learn to view the
world with optimism.
We are not born to hate each other.
Sadly, children in IDP camps live amid
trauma and pain. They carry these until
they grow old and pass the pain to their
children, said Seng Mai.
The film was screened at the festival
with English subtitles.
Visitors to the festival might not have
a deep understanding about the civil wars
going on in our country. But they know
about love between parents and children,
sisters and brothers. I think thats why my
film won the award, she said.
She will contribute half the prize
money to a childrens education fund and
put half toward making a new film.

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Di Vino
N

laced with gold for what its going to

cost you this isnt your everyday
dining kind of place. But, water
aside, you get a fair deal for your
dollar here with complementary
extras and exquisite service. A good
option, then, if youre looking for
something a bit fancy.
We selected a carafe of superb
Pinot Grichio (US$23) from the
extensive wine list, which includes
several wines available by the glass
and several pages of options by the
bottle. There is no better way to
activate the free stuff cortex of

the brain than with complimentary

breadsticks, especially if they come
in a fascinating array of colours and
flavours like the ones that arrived
with our drinks.
The menu doesnt offer much in
the way of novelty when it comes to
Italian food. My guest and I ordered
the beef carpaccio with mozzarella
($16) and rocket salad ($8) to start,
both of which were fine, though the
carpaccio was a little bland for my
taste. There are a range of mains on

offer, ranging from the ubiquitous

pizzas and pastas to seafood and
meat dishes. Never one to shy away
from clich, I chose the Pizza Zanotti
($20), a duet of mozzarella and
mascarpone cheese topped with
Parma ham and cherry tomatoes.
The thin crust was crisp and airy, and
the combination of sweet tomatoes
and salty ham was pleasant, though,
again, the dish seemed to be lacking
something. My guests braised beef in
red wine ($16) was rich, heavenly and
despite our agreement to share both
dishes disappeared pretty quickly.
My evangelical belief in the
remedial powers of tiramisu (which
translates as pick me up) is my
sole reason for visiting Italian
restaurants, so it is fortunate that
Di Vino serves an excellent one.
Admittedly, its a little pricey for
what is effectively a coffee-flavoured
pile of cream, but anything that
includes a pile of cream is good in
my book. Those more chocolateinclined will enjoy the velvety
chocolate and mango mousse ($9),
which has a perfect, slightly gummy
texture, backed up by a wallop of
pure dark chocolate flavour.
Di Vino also serves excellent
coffee to round off your meal. Our
advice? Drink as much of it as
possible youre going to want to
be high on something when the
bill arrives and you see how much
youre paying for that water.
Di Vino
61 University Avenue Road, Bahan
Restaurant Rating:
Food
Beverage
Service
Value
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8
8
10
6
7

Eating insects
Two billion people around the
world, primarily in Southeast Asia
and Africa, eat insects locusts,
grasshoppers, spiders, wasps, ants
on a regular basis. Now, with food
scarcity a growing threat, efforts
are being made to normalise the
concept of entomophagy, or the
consumption of insects, for the
other 5billion. In 2012, the UNs
Food and Agriculture Organisation
(FAO) published a list of more than
1900 edible species of insects; the
EU, meanwhile, offered its member
states US$3 million to research the
use of insects in cooking.
Why? Because insects, compared
to livestock and fish, are a much
more sustainable food source. They
are available in abundance: For
every human on Earth, there are 40
tonnes of insects. They have a higher
food conversion rate than even our
fastest-growing livestock meaning
they need to consume less to produce
the same amount of meat and
they emit fewer greenhouse gases.
As a fast-food option, which is how
people treat them in countries such
as Myanmar or Thailand, insects
are greatly preferable to the waterguzzling, rainforest-destroying,
methane-spewing beefburger. They
are nutritious too: rich in protein,
low in fat and cholesterol, high in
calcium and iron.
That leaves the issue of
palatability. Insects are generally
viewed with disgust in the West, but
attitudes are beginning to change.
Thanks to adventurous restaurants
Copenhagens Noma has served up
ants and fermented grasshoppers
and pioneering organisations such
as Ento in London, we are coming to
terms with the notion that insects
might actually be nice to eat.

Shakshuka:

Edible packaging
Our current food system is
monumentally wasteful. Last year,
a report found that almost half of
the worlds food is thrown away
each year. The fight against waste
has thrown up some intriguing
solutions.
For Harvard bioengineer

with the real thing. Meanwhile,

Hampton Creek Foods, founded
by 32-year-old entrepreneur Josh
Tetrick, is working on a plant-based
replacement for egg yolks to go in
muffins, mayonnaise and other
sauces.

Insects are a tasty snack in Southeast Asia and Africa. Photo: Charlotte Rose

David Edwards, the answer to the

packaging problem is simple, just
eat it. In 2013, Edwards launched
WikiCells, a company that makes
edible packaging for fruit juices,
coffee, ice cream and other
products. Mimicking the design of a
piece of fruit, the packaging consists
of a soft skin entirely comprised
of natural food particles held
together by nutritive ions encased
in a protective outer layer that is
edible or at least biodegradable.
Not only are the membranes more
environmentally friendly than
plastic, they are designed to taste
good too.
Other packaging innovations
promise to lengthen the shelf life
of perishables, which would mean
a reduction in food and drink
waste. Pepceuticals, a company
based in the UK, is developing an
antimicrobial film that it claims
should significantly prevent the
deterioration of fresh meat and
save waste.
Food replacement and eco-food
innovation
One of the hottest trends attracting

Copenhagens trendy Noma restaurant serves up ants and fermented

grasshoppers. Photo: Facebook

investors in Silicon Valley has a

lot to do with our future eating
habits. A growing number of young
entrepreneurs, driven by ecological
as well as profit motives, are seeking
to replace resource-hungry foods
such as meat with synthetic and
plant-based alternatives and
the likes of Twitter founders Evan
Williams and Biz Stone are giving
them financial support.
Their motives are well-founded.
With the global population expected
to reach 9 billion by 2050, and as
Western eating habits spread to
countries such as China and India,
more efficient and environmentally
friendly ways are needed to produce
protein-rich foods. Imitation meat
is not a new concept, but Bay Area
innovators, such as Beyond Meat,
are making a chicken substitute
good enough, they claim, to compete

RECIPE

As the global population rises and food prices do too, many scientists
are looking for alternatives to traditional foodstuffs

BY CHARLOTTE ROSE

recent revamp, which most notably

involved a change of name from
Vino Di Zinotti and a ridding of
the huge, ugly white balloons that
formerly marked its location on
University Avenue Road.
Unless youre the type of person
who doesnt secretly panic when
asked still or sparkling? a
question which, for some reason
worthy of study by anthropologists,
you cannot respond to with neither,
despite knowing it may as well be

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The future of food: insects,

GM rice and edible packaging

RESTAURANT REVIEW

EW Western restaurant
openings in Yangon generally
create a buzz in the expat
community, helped along by the
inevitable barrage of press releases,
online posts and fancy launch events
that tend to accompany them.
Amongst all this hype, a handful
of restaurants arrive quietly, going
almost unnoticed and quickly
becoming the kind of place that you
drive past everyday but never go
inside.
Di Vino is one such restaurant,
though not through any failing on
its part. Part of the Zanotti group
which has six other restaurants in
Thailand, it offers classic Italian
fine dining in a relaxed, elegant
setting even more so thanks to a

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Enhanced rice
Thirty years ago, scientists
announced the creation of the
worlds first genetically modified
plant. The new technology, it
was hoped, would increase crop
yields worldwide and ease global
malnutrition. Since then, the
fortunes of GM food have been
decidedly mixed. Its uptake has
been limited to just a few countries
and many of its promises
including, more recently, the hope
that GM crops would help reduce
climate change emissions have yet
to be realised.
But in spite of continuing
resistance to GM food among
environmentalists and those wary
of the corporations that control it,
breakthroughs are expected.
It is hoped that golden rice
normal rice modified to produce
beta-carotene, which the body
converts into vitamin A will
soon become a staple crop in
Asia. If successful, golden rice
will help counter blindness and
other diseases in children in the
developing world.
Meanwhile, another series of
enhanced rice varieties is being
developed using only conventional
plant-breeding techniques.
Zhikang Li, the Chinese plant
breeder behind green super rice,
which produces more grain while
proving more resistant to droughts,
floods and disease, hopes that his
innovation will feed an extra 100
million people.

The Guardian

eggs
in hell

EEKENDS guest chef Kevin

Ching is sharing another
Port Autonomy favourite
this week. Shakshuka, or eggs in
hell, is a popular North African
dish believed to have originated in
Tunisia.
At Port Autonomy, we slow-cook
the tomato sauce with spicy nduja
sausage, cumin and zaatar before
poaching the eggs to perfection, but
Ive simplified the recipe here for
easy cooking at home, Ching said.
The tomato sauce is meant to be
chunky and rustic and is best mopped
up with a piece of crusty bread. Its a
well-known fact that shakshuka is the
perfect hangover cure.
And if youre too hungover to
make it yourself, shakshuka is
served as part of Port Autonomys
new Sunday brunch package along
with a range of other comfort food
favourites.

Shakshuka
Serves 2
4 eggs
Crusty bread (Sharkys
sourdough, baguette or ciabatta
work well)
For the spicy tomato sauce
2 400g cans good-quality whole
peeled tomatoes
3 cloves garlic, chopped
3 tablespoons onion, chopped
1 teaspoon fresh medium chilli,
chopped
1 large pinch ground cumin
(from whole seeds preferable)
1 pinch dried oregano

Photos: Aung Khant

1 pinch chilli powder

Parsley, chopped
Mint, chopped
Feta cheese (optional)
Olive oil
Salt and pepper
Crush the tomatoes by hand in a
bowl until they are coarsely broken
up. Set aside.
Heat a few tablespoons of olive
oil in a medium pan (with a cover)
and saut the onions, garlic and
fresh chilli until soft. Add the
cumin, oregano and chilli powder
and, shortly after, the crushed
tomatoes. Season with salt and
pepper and simmer on a low heat for
10 minutes, uncovered.
Crack each of the 4 eggs into
separate quadrants of the pan and
cover with the lid immediately. Dont
worry if the yolks break its a rustic
dish. Simmer the eggs on a low heat
with the lid on until the whites of the
eggs have solidified and the yolks are
cooked to your liking. Around 2-3
minutes should be enough for solid
whites and a runny yolk.
Traditionally, shakshuka is
served in the cast iron pan in which
it was cooked. Serve it in the pan to
share at the table or gently spoon
out into shallow bowls, trying not
to break the eggs. Garnish with
chopped parsley and mint (cilantro
works too) and crumbled feta if you
have some. Drizzle with olive oil and
serve with toasted, crusty bread.
Goodbye hangover.

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wEEKEND | HEALTH&beauty

3D printed
human skin is
LOreals next
big thing
and its not
creepy at all

A customer is given a facial at Yangons Inya Day Spa. But is the future of perfect skin lab-grown? Photo: Staff

BY ABBY PHILLIP

IOPRINTED human skin has

been on the scene for some
time, but LOreal yes, the
cosmetics company is hoping to get
into the game.
The French beauty juggernaut
announced recently that it is
partnering with Organovo, a 3D
human tissue company, to print tons
of the stuff to facilitate animal-free
cosmetics testing.
Its an interesting and quite logical
next step for the technology, which
is already being explored for use in
human skin grafts that could treat
burns or for use in reconstructive
surgery. But this will be the first
application of the technology in the
beauty industry, the companies said
in a joint statement.
Decades ago, LOreal began
exploring skin culture technologies
that could hasten the companys move
away from animal testing with the use
of human skin samples. The current
technique involves incubating human
skin taken from willingly donated
plastic surgery scraps and growing
new cells from it.

Ever since the European Unions

ban on animal-tested cosmetic
ingredients in 2013, this lab-grown
skin has become an even greater
necessity in the world of cosmetics.
And the bioprinting process, which
the companies hope will eventually be
fully automated, is going to yield much
more skin for LOreal to work with.
The company says, however,
that at the moment their focus is on
refining the production process, not
speed.
Some of the biggest potential
advantages are the speed of
production as well as the level of
precision that 3D printing can
achieve, Guive Balooch, global vice
president of LOreals technology
incubator said in an e-mail to The
Washington Post. LOreals focus
right now is not to increase the
quantity of skin we produce but
instead to continue to build on the
accuracy and consistent replication of
the skin engineering process.
According to Bloomberg, with
Organovos technology and LOreals
expertise in synthesising human
skin, the two companies hope
to speed up the process of skin
production in the next five years:

Research for the project will take

place in Organovos labs and LOreals
new California research centre.
LOreal will provide skin expertise
and all the initial funding, while
Organovo, which is already working
with such companies as Merck to
print liver and kidney tissues, will
provide the technology.
Because the current process
is done essentially by hand, the
company has some 60 scientists
doing the work at its lab in France.
In a year, their efforts will produce
a cowhide worth of human skin
samples, according to Bloomberg. The
process yields nine different types of
human skin samples representing
different ages and ethnicities that
can be used to test various products.
An automated process using
Organovos 3D printing technology is
likely eventually to increase the pace
of production significantly. And in the
ultra-competitive world of cosmetics,
that could be a valuable advantage.
For now, the partnership is still
in the research phase, and it is
unclear how long it will be before
LOreal begins using the technology
in product testing.
The Washington Post

Lets get it on: the

race for the worlds
best condom
I

N 2013, Bill and Melinda

Gates announced that their
Foundation was making
condom innovation a priority,
alongside toilets, vaccines and
neonatal care. They offered a
US$100,000 grant to any team with a
strong proposal for a next-generation
condom that significantly preserves
or enhances pleasure, in order to
improve uptake and regular use.
The Foundation received more
than 800 submissions, which in 2013
they narrowed down to 11 winners.
The successful proposals ranged from
those using Nobel Prize-winning
materials (graphene) to those with
built-in applicators or lubricant.
Those proposals are now able to
apply for phase two funding of up to
$1 million each. The winners will be
announced later this year, with only a
handful likely to be successful.
A 90-minute drive from Los
Angeles, Gates Foundation grant
winner Danny Resnic is working
on a prototype that he hopes will
revolutionise the condom. A solid
grey, bullet-like phallus, ribbed

the Gates are looking for? Handling

Resnics sturdy, opaque, beige
sleeve so thick it can stand upright
feels distinctly unerotic, but my
hands are not the body part that the
Origami condom will need to please.
But Resnic himself has used them,
and assures me they do feel better
than sex with a regular condom
and better than sex without.
Apex is another Gates Foundation
winner. His, like almost every other
team, is trying not to reinvent the
wheel, but to make it lighter and
sleeker, with materials that are
thinner but stronger than latex. While
some are going hi-tech, Apex is going
back to basics with collagen, giving
animal intestines a makeover.
Lambskin condoms, fashioned
from the intestines of slaughtered
animals, have been used for centuries:
The oldest sheep gut condom,
recovered from a latrine in Dudley
Castle in the West Midlands, was
dated to around 1646. Todays versions
are still fashioned from intestine, but
sanitised with modern chemistry.
They dont account for a huge slice

vertically like a pleated skirt and

nicknamed the Master, hangs above
a mould, a white rectangular block
of silicone with a circular hole at one
end; the interior is a mirror image of
the grey master.
When I first said two decades
ago that I was inventing new kinds of
condoms, people asked, What could
be different? Resnic says. Nobody
was capable of imagining anything
else. We are all so accustomed to one
concept, we havent challenged it. But
consumers are looking for something
that is safe, and that actually
addresses their need for pleasure.
Resnic believes the reason we
havent seen anything like this from
the main condom manufacturers
Trojan, Durex, Skyn, Okamoto and
Ansell, who account for 96 percent of
the market is that the oligopoly
has no incentive to change. They
already control the market. True
change is going to have to come from
outside the industry, he says. From
the mavericks.
There have been several over
the years: Dutch inventor Jan
Vinzenz Krause caused a stir when
he announced a spray-on latex
version in 2006, inspired by the
mechanics of a car wash. (The main
problem: It took five minutes to dry,
which was a mood killer.) Last year
the designers of the Galactic Cap
an elfin latex hat that fits over the
tip of the penis raised more than
$100,000 on Indiegogo, and plan to
release it in 2017.
Resnic talks me through what
he believes will be the condom of
the future, an eccentric shape that
has taken him more than 25 years to
develop. Made of thick yellow latex,
it resembles a squeaky dishwashing
glove more than a condom. Yet, at
this very moment, 28 South African
couples half heterosexual, half male
homosexual are road-testing his
design. Hes testing it there, Resnic
says, because the approval process
was quicker and easier than in the US.
Will Resnics otherworldly,
ribbed, buckling and gripping
design prove the breakthrough that

of the market and are used by those

with latex allergies or who prefer the
feel of genuine flesh over synthetic
latex. McGlothlin thinks they are
disgusting. They stink like they
came from an animal and they look
like they came from an animal. Yet
they still have wonderful properties.
The collagen in the skin, for instance,
has far better heat transfer and water
content properties than latex. People
who use lambskin report that they
do indeed feel more natural, but they
are expensive, averaging $3 each, and
more damagingly are considered
too porous to protect against HIV.
Instead of using lambskin,
McGlothlins proposal is to
upcycle beef waste into
reconstituted collagen. By grinding
animal hide through a series
of high-powered blenders and
chemically treating the fluffy white
fibres with a variety of plasticisers,
surfactants and wetting agents, he is
perfecting a condom that meets all
the criteria: tactile, cheap and ready
for the assembly line.
On paper, it sounds perfect:
thoughtfully traditional yet hi-tech,
and made of recycled materials.
Unless youre a vegetarian, is there
anything else you could want from a
condom? In Apexs sunny San Diego
lab, handling the prototypes, I could
feel the creases in my fingers and
tiny bumps on my skin through the
condom. And it did not smell or look
as if it came from an animal.
Which of these new designs is
most likely to disrupt the industry?
William Potter is a British condom
consultant who has overseen
development in the research and
development departments of major
condom manufacturers since 1985.
What does he make of the Gates
Foundations mavericks?
The initiative has succeeded
in bringing in new ideas and more
speculative projects than the
industry would have been capable
of or willing to support. Whether or
not that is a good idea, we will have
to wait and see.

The Guardian

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wEEKEND | STYLE

Does the future of fashion

design lie in Africa?

Valentin

Mike Sylla

Martial Tapolo

HERE was a time when African

designs were perceived as
staying firmly within the realm
of traditional or ethnic. But as
African fabrics and fashion became
popular among Western audiences
and designers, fashion in Africa has
evolved into a rapidly developing
industry, with pundits increasingly
pointing to African fashion cities
like Accra and Lagos as the next big
thing.
If the catwalk shows at last
weeks 10th Afrik fashion show in
the Ivory Coast city of Abidjan
are anything to go by, it looks like
theyre right. Designers such as
Cameroons Martial Tapolo, Ivory
Coasts Angybell and Senegals
Mike Sylla stole the show with
their super-modern designs, while
hairstylist Dieudonne Senato wowed
the Africas fashion elite with his
breathtaking styles.
The 15th edition of the Dakar
Fashion Week was also held last
week at the Place de lObelisque
in Dakar, Senegal, where African
designers Neger Jah and Zak Kone
showcased their contemporary
designs, some with a nod to
traditional African styles.
Charlotte Rose

A model presents a
creation by British
designer Alexander
McQueen at the
Spring/Summer 2016
London Collections
Men fashion event in
London on June 14.
Photo: AFP/
Ben Stansall

Eloi Sessou

Tattoos and nautical

theme at Londons
mens fashion week

Neger Jah

Angybell
Dieudonne
Senato

Photos: AFP

HE Alexander
McQueen label
took centrestage
at Londons fashion week
for men on June 14 with a
collection that drew heavily
on tattoo art and nautical
themes.
At the Alexander
McQueen spring/summer
2016 show, men paraded
two-piece suits and pyjamastyle outfits. Some of the
pieces had a nautical theme,
with naval-style jackets.
Models wore creations
with wrestler jacquard
prints, while there was
plenty of royal blue on show
alongside the tattoo-inspired
collection, which featured
anchors and compasses on
the sleeves.

Sarah Burton became

the brands creative director
in 2010, having worked
alongside the labels late
founder Lee McQueen for
more than 14 years.
Sharp suits have been
vying with streetwear and
top brands during this
edition of Londons mens
fashion week, which opened
on June 12 with an eye
on boosting ties with the
lucrative luxury Chinese
market.
Mens fashion week,
officially known as London
Collections: Men, grew out
of the larger womenswear
event and is now in its
seventh edition, with 77
designers on the main
program. AFP

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wEEKEND | Family

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BY SHWE YINN MAR OO

Women still spend

between two and 10
times longer then
men on children
and other domestic
duties, according
to the State of the
Worlds Fathers
report.
Photo: Staff

the developed nations of the OECD

women undertake an average of twice
as much domestic duties as do men,
with the ratio rising to eight times as
much in South Africa and 10 times
more in India.
One study cited by the report
found that even between 1965 and
2003, married employed men in 20
industrialised nations, including the
UK and US, contributed on average
only an extra six hours a week to
domestic chores. Nowhere did the
time spent by men exceed 37pc of that
of women.

Unless men and boys

participate equally
in unpaid work
in the home, and
unless governments,
employers and
families expect
and support this
involvement, gender
equality will not be
achieved
This disparity helped explain why
women earn on average 24pc less
than men around the globe, the report
noted. Fathers who participate in
childcare and other domestic duties
tend in turn to bring up boys more
likely to accept equality, it added,
while the daughters of men who share
domestic chores are more likely to
aspire to higher-paying jobs.
The reports authors call
for governments to introduce
more ambitious paternity leave
entitlements. While more than
two-thirds of fathers say they would
happily work less to spend more time
with their children, of the 92 nations

currently giving paternity leave about

half offer less than three weeks. More
generous provision has the potential
to transform gender relations, the
study argues, noting UK research
that found fathers who took time off
after their childrens birth were much
more likely to help with duties like
night feeds even a year later.
The report stresses the wider
beneficial effects of more paternal
involvement, saying involved fathers
have been shown to boost their
childrens cognitive development,
mental health and social skills. Men
who say they have close connections
with their children tend to live
longer, happier lives, and are more
productive at work.
More benefits still occur when
fathers are actively involved before
their childrens birth, the study found,
with mens presence at antenatal
visits being linked with fewer woman
dying in childbirth and, in more
developed nations, with better rates
of breastfeeding.
While 80pc of men around the
world will become a biological father
during their lives, the authors say, the
issue of more parental and domestic
involvement by men is virtually
invisible in public policies and in
public discourse.
Nikki van der Gaag, an academic
and author who co-wrote the report,
said the findings were crucial in
efforts to boost equality: When
fathers take on their fair share of the
unpaid care work, it can alter the
nature of the relationships between
men and women and children, as
both fathers and mothers will have
more time for their children, women
are released from some of their
double burden, and fathers get to
experience the joys, satisfactions, and
stresses of caring for their children.
Taking up roles as caregivers
also offers men the opportunity to
begin to break free from the narrow
concepts of manhood and fatherhood,
providing their sons and daughters
with positive role models, improved
health and development, and higher
hopes for the future.
The Guardian

HAT future do you want for

Yangon? The Yangon Heritage
Trust (YHT) believes this
question should be answered not
only by the authorities, but also by
residents.
Cities drive economic growth and
can attract investment, talent and
skills. Yangon will continue to be the
major economic hub of Myanmar.
There is potential for Yangon again to
be one of the most modern, beautiful
and liveable cities in Southeast
Asia, with modern infrastructure,
affordable housing and efficient
public transport which conserves its
unique cultural heritage.
Integrating Yangons unique
cultural heritage into a future
vision for the city is essential. This
includes its parks and gardens,
lakes, waterfront and proximity to
the sea, the Shwedagon Pagoda and
other religious monuments, and its
unparalleled collection of 19th- and
early-20th-century architecture
downtown.
New construction must be
undertaken so as to avoid damaging
this heritage. It is equally important
to identify which parts of Yangon
can be developed more intensively.
The city offers many opportunities
for increased density that would not
threaten its unique cultural assets.
This would allow communities in

Official measures such as paid paternity leave seen as

vital to getting men more involved in parenting and
easing burden shouldered by mothers
NCOURAGING men to become
more involved as fathers is
the key to achieving gender
equality, according to a landmark
international study that shows
women remain overwhelmingly
more responsible for childcare
and domestic duties despite their
increasing role in paid employment.
Hands-on fathers also help produce
happier and better-educated offspring,
as well as gaining significant benefits
to their own physical and mental
health, the inaugural State of the
Worlds Fathers report argues.
The 288-page report, an analysis
of almost 700 studies on the subject
from every nation for which data is
available, highlights the continuing
gender disparities over childcare and
other domestic duties.
Despite now being 40 percent of
formal workforce globally, women
still spend between two and 10
times longer then men caring for
children or older people, and there
is no country where men and boys
share unpaid domestic and care work
equally with women and girls.
A key part of the problem is a
lack of official support for involved
fatherhood, with paid paternity
leave either non-existent or very
brief in most counties, said the
report, produced by Mencare, an
international NGO campaigning on
fatherhood that has links to groups
including Promundo and Save the
Children.
Unless men and boys participate
equally in unpaid work in the home,
and unless governments, employers
and families expect and support this
involvement, gender equality will
not be achieved, it argues. Mens
emotional lives and their wellbeing
and happiness will continue to be
constrained, and they and their
children will miss out on one of the
most significant relationships of their
lives.
The study, published to coincide
with Fathers Day this June 21,
identifies the massive gender
imbalance in childcare and other
unpaid domestic work as a key
element of the problem. Even across

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A vision for the future of Yangon

Fathers need support to

spend more time on children
and chores, report says
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wEEKEND | HOME&GARDEN

Out of this world an impression of the Mars One settlement. Photo: Facebook/Mars One

Lets all move to Mars!

Weve had starchitects. Now weve got space architects.

Meet the people measuring up the red planet for
inflatable homes and farms made of moondust concrete
F

IFTY years from now, says

Brent Sherwood, there
will be a different kind of
honeymoon on offer. Imagine a
hotel with a view thats changing
all the time, says the NASA space
architect, where there are 18
sunrises and sunsets every day,
where food floats effortlessly
into your mouth and where you
can have zero-gravity sex. Who
wouldnt sign up for that?
Born the same year as NASA,
1958, Sherwood trained as an
architect and aerospace engineer.
Having spent the past 25 years
working on plans for everything
from orbital cities to planetary
settlements, he is convinced its only
a matter of time before space travel
becomes a regular holiday option
and were living and working on the
moon. Theres only one drawback.
Nobody knows how to cook in
space, he says. Until you can mix
a martini or make an omelette, you
cant have a space hotel. No one is
going to pay US$1m a night and put
up with microwave meals.
As civilian space travel inches
closer, from Richard Bransons
troubled but persistent Virgin
Galactic ambitions to the plucky
Dutch attempt to take realityTV contestants to Mars by
2024, architects are becoming
increasingly important. Until
now, says Sherwood, space
habitats have been about the
bare essentials: Whats the
research we have to do, whats
the equipment we have to carry
and whats the most cost-effective
thing we can stick it all in? But
as more people travel to space for
increasingly long periods of time,
their physical environment and its
psychological effects are becoming
more important.
Surprisingly, the US space
station Skylab, which orbited the
Earth from 1973-79, remains by
far the most generous habitat
ever launched. It was palatial
compared with the poky modules
of the current International Space
Station (ISS), but only because
it wasnt purpose-built: it was
recycled out of the fuel tank of
a huge Saturn V rocket. Thanks
to the insistence of designer
Raymond Loewy, a tiny porthole
was added which became the
most popular feature with the
astronauts, who were otherwise

trapped inside a grim tin can.

That was the biggest volume
weve ever had in space, says
Sherwood. Since then, the entire
US space program has had to be
squeezed through a 14-foot hole.
And we still dont know how to
make big windows. The diameter
of the rockets payload bay limits
what can go into space, in the same
way that many of the dimensions of
buildings on Earth are defined by
what can fit on the back of a lorry.
And, while a terrestrial building
site can have as many deliveries as
it likes, space is a different matter:
it would cost $500,000 to send a
single brick to the moon.
The current buzzword in NASA
circles is ISRU, or in-situ resource
utilisation, the space equivalent of
using locally available materials.
Only were not talking rammedearth and thatch, but moondust and
meteorites. The lunar surface is
an open mine of potential building
materials, says Madhu Thangavelu,
space architect at the University
of Southern California (USC) and
co-author of The Moon: Resources,
Future Development and Settlement.
It is full of readily accessible
minerals and compounds that
could be used to produce metals,
bricks, glass and paints. The moon
is also riddled with lava tubes,
great cavernous volumes under
the surface that could be made
habitable, offering protection from
radiation and solar storms.
So might a local lunar vernacular
end up being more Flintstones
than Elysium? It may happen in
caves, but it certainly wont be
low-tech. Thangavelu and Leach
have been working with Professor
Berok Khoshnevis at USC to
develop a method of moon-based
3D printing, extruding moondust
concrete, bound with sulphur,
through a computer-guided nozzle
without the need for moulds.
Their version of the technique,
known as contour-crafting, leads
to a kind of gothic structural logic,
using steeply pitched vaults and
a layering of parts. Across the
Atlantic, Norman Fosters office has
also been developing a technique
for 3D printing for the European
Space Agency, based on building
up a moondust shell over a network
of inflatable domes, forming
clusters of little molehills near the
Shackleton crater.

Moon architecture might not

have the futuristic materials and
characteristics youd expect, says
Sherwood, who has also worked
on plans for lunar settlements.
We find reduced iron on the
moon in a readily accessible form,
so we might be looking back to the
times we made buildings out of
rocks and iron. Forget blobs and
pods: Outer space might see the
next gothic revival.
To put boots on the red planet,
which is on average 225 million
kilometres (140 million miles)
away, is likely to cost $100 billion,
spread over several decades.
Mars is the new world, says
Robert Zubrin, president of the
Mars Society, who thinks we will
have all the technology we need for
the first piloted mission to Mars
much sooner, and will eventually
see millions of people living there,
adopting a travel light and live off
the land approach. He imagines
a world of inflatable greenhouses
protected by UV-resistant plastic
domes, initially transported from
Earth, but later manufactured on
Mars using indigenous materials,
opening up the surface of the
planet to both shirt-sleeve human
habitation and agriculture. It is
a plan the society has illustrated
with scenes of people in spacesuits
watering plants and holding hands
among radiant red rocks.
Trotti is optimistic about life
on Mars, arguing that deep-space
exploration will be the largest
industry in the world over the next
100 years, as well as the biggest
challenge for budding space
architects. The question is how
to build an environment in which
you can happily live for three years
in a confined space with the same
people, he says. Virtual reality
could be an answer, allowing
people to escape mentally, to go
back and visit their hometown, or
study remotely. You could take the
Library of Congress or the Louvre
up there with you and come back
with a PhD.
Attracting a flood of
investment from the worlds
super-wealthy, will these brave
astropreneurs be riding the
astronomical equivalent of the
dotcom boom? Not according to
the industry saying: The way you
become a space millionaire is by
starting off as a billionaire.
The Guardian

Yangon Heritage Trusts vision for the future of the Yangon waterfront. Photo: Supplied

conservation areas to enjoy the

increased patronage of high-rise
residents, who enjoy having cultural
assets on their doorstep.
YHT believes that Yangons docks
should be developed through a publicprivate mixture providing generous
green open spaces with limited
mixed commercial and residential
use. People should be reconnected
with Yangon River and Pazundaung
Creek through the creation of
extensive green, open public areas
on the waterfront. Kandawgyi Lake,
Inya Lake and environs must also be
protected to ensure they continue
to function as green lungs and are
not overshadowed by high-rise
developments.
Yangon should be a city where
a diverse range of economic
activities can take place and the
vibrant street-based economies can
continue to thrive under sensible
guidelines. Local residents should
have continuing access to traditional
local markets. The downtown area
can be home to the headquarters

of major businesses in restored

heritage buildings while being
overwhelmingly a mixed commercial
and residential core.
If Yangon cannot solve its
transportation woes, the city will
grind to a halt. The city must have a
safe, reliable and affordable public
transport system with a variety of
transport modes. Ample off-street
car parking at the edge of the historic
conservation areas can connect to
public transport into downtown.
Once blessed with broad footpaths
with plenty of room for pedestrians,
vendors, trees and teashops, the city
has removed almost all its original
footpaths to provide parking spaces,
without reducing congestion.
The diversity of cultures and
religions found in Yangon is one
of the most important aspects of
its heritage value and long-term
liveability. The downtown area
contains places of worship for all the
worlds major religions and this is
something the city can be extremely
proud of. Yangon must continue to act

as a beacon for tolerance of religious

and cultural diversity for the region.
If this vision of Yangon is to
become a reality, good planning
is required. The management of
the city should be regulated and
overseen by a stable, transparent,
strong and corruption-free planning
system. Public participation must
be meaningful and local residents
opinions must be heard in the
process.
The decisions we make in the next
two-to-three years will determine
Yangons future for the next 100
years. If future generations are to
live happily, healthily and profitably
in Yangon, we must make good
decisions that allow the city to
become one of the most liveable
in the region. Allowing the city to
modernise must not happen at the
cost of what makes it unique- its
cultural and built heritage, diverse
communities and generous green
spaces.
Planning is crucial.
Shwe Yinn Mar Oo is the Media
and Communications Manager
of Yangon Heritage Trust,
an independent organisation
working to promote and
integrate Yangons unique urban
heritage into a 21st-century
vision of Yangon as one of Asias
most liveable cities.

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A quest for higher living

standards and a lack of
opportunities at home is
driving the best and the
brightest to leave Myanmar
in search of better
opportunities abroad
BY CHIT SU

Chasingthe Asian dream

A young woman waits for her work permit outside the Thai Embassy. Photo: Aung Htay Hlaing

Students explore the options for studying in Korea at a study and work abroad event in Yangon. Photo: Staff

ROM the point of view of the international

economist, the close proximity of Myanmar
to Singapore resembles a huge pile of
iron filings within the force field of a giant
electromagnet.
The two countries seem almost made to supply
each others deficiencies, juxtaposing the highly
developed city-states thirst for foreign workers,
both intellectual and manual, with the flow of
young, bright, educated and eager graduates with
highly limited job prospects at home.
Khin Sandar, 27, is preparing to go to work
in Singapore. An architecture graduate from
Technological University, she has been working
for a local architect for five years. Now its time to
branch out.
I want to get more work experience and more
money to support my family. I think I will have
more opportunities here when I come back from
Singapore with more experience, she said.
Many Myanmar professionals have been living
and working abroad, some for decades. The best
and the brightest leave Myanmar for many reasons,
including the quest for further education, the need
to support their families, the desire for higher
living standards overseas, or simply because of the
lack of employment opportunities for them here.
Favourite destinations for Myanmar emigrants
are Singapore, the United Arab Emirates, Malaysia
and Thailand.
Khin Sandar is meticulous in her preparations,
working on her spoken Chinese as well as her
English. But she worries that adjusting her attitude
might prove harder.
Actually, Im not preparing myself properly
mentally. Im worried I wont know how to cope with
the difficulties I might face in Singapore. I even got
upset when the embassy took so long processing my
visa, she said.
Amid the thicket of difficulties emigrants face,
one dilemma stands out: whether to travel on a
visitors visa and look for a job yourself, or to apply
via an international employment agency.
I will find my own job. Agents are expensive,
and I dont think I need their help, said Khin
Sandar.
Agencies charge at least US$4000 to find a job,
payable either in a lump sum or by instalment.
A single person can expect to spend at least $340
a month on rent, while a professional salary could
exceed $1500. Ill need to take at least $1500 with
me to Singapore for initial living expenses, she
said. I dont plan to live there forever. I should be
able to meet my targets within two years.
Susan Bayath, 27, is juggling study for a masters
degree in Malaysia with work for an architecture
firm in Myanmar. She studied architecture in
Myanmar in 2006, but did not like the teaching
methods or the exams. She said that at that time
there were no private universities in Yangon, and
the courses were very restrictive.
The country was very weak in research. Nobody
studying physics or chemistry could expect to
become a good scientist at the end of the day. So
I started searching for scholarship programs so I

could pursue my dream of becoming an architect. It

wasnt easy. But Im glad I made that decision, she
said.
Susan said that despite its own problems,
more than three-quarters of Myanmars best
professionals are helping to build the societies of
foreign countries. She admits to being ready to
become one of them.
Right now I dont have any plans to resign or
work for a foreign company. I believe we have duties
as citizens, but everyone loves their country in
different ways. And of course home is always the
best, but it doesnt necessarily mean I will work
in Myanmar forever. I am a citizen of the world as
much as of Myanmar. Given the circumstances, I
am not afraid to explore the other side of the world.
Ive done it before, and maybe Ill do it again, she
said.
If you dont mind sharing, you can rent a room
in Malaysia for $50 a month, or spring up to $2000
for a condo.
Htwe Htwe, 53, has lived in Singapore since 2006
as a permanent resident. Both her children are
studying in Singapore.
Im doing this because I want my children to
have a good education. The Myanmar education
system is very poor, she said.
A civil engineer, Htwe Htwe worked in Myanmar
as a licensed registered engineer for 20 years, and
pursues the same profession in her new home.
At first there was a language barrier, but time
helped to solve that. A Myanmar person can do
anything a foreigner can do, she said.
She said she would come back one day, once her
childrens future is assured.
I love Singapore more than any other country,
but its not my home, she said.
Kyaw Myo Oo works for a travel and tour
company in Myanmar, having returned from Dubai,
where he worked in the hospitality industry from
2008 to 2011.
I chose to go to Dubai because finding an
employment agent for Singapore or Malaysia is very
expensive, he said.
At that time, he paid only $450 in agency fees to
work in Dubai, which covered the cost of the visa
and the air ticket. According to him, Dubai is safer
for emigrant workers than Singapore, Malaysia or
Thailand.
We enjoyed good standards of living and
didnt face any difficulties. There was a little bit of
discrimination in the workplace because we were
from a third-world country, but it didnt affect our
well-being, he said.
Back home again, his dream is to be able to put
to work in Myanmar the experiences he acquired
abroad. Three years was enough for me to earn
money and gain experience. I hope the reforms will
continue in Myanmar and there will be more job
opportunities then, he said.
Myanmar emigrants have many reasons for
returning to their home country, including family
matters, attachment to their own traditions, and
wishing to contribute to the countrys development.
Myanmar is among the 10 countries judged to
have the Lowest Capacity to Retain Talent Globally
2013, according to the Global Competitive Index
2013.

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THE MYANMAR TIMES ISSUE 14 I JUNE 19 - 25, 2015

Robotdoctors,onlinelawyersandautomatedarchitects:

Is this the future of the professions?

Advances in technology have

long been recognised as a threat
to manual labour. Now highly
skilled, knowledge-based jobs
that were once regarded as safe
could be at risk. How will they
adapt to the digital age?
Expert radiologists are routinely outperformed by pattern-recognition software. Photos: Shutterstock

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BY TOM MELTZER

AST year, reporters for the Associated Press

attempted to figure out which jobs were being lost
to new technology. They analysed employment
data from 20 countries and interviewed experts, software
developers and CEOs. They found that almost all the jobs
that had disappeared in the past four years were not lowskilled, low-paid roles, butfairly well-paid positions in
traditionally middle-class careers. Software was replacing
administrators and travel agents, bookkeepers and
secretaries, and at alarming rates.
Economists and futurists know its not all doom
and gloom, but it is all change. Oxford academics Carl
Benedikt Frey and Michael A Osborne have predicted
computerisation could make nearly half of jobs redundant
within 10 to 20 years. Office work and service roles, they
wrote, were particularly at risk. But almost nothing is
impervious to automation. It has swept through shop floors
and factories, transformed businesses big and small, and is
beginning to revolutionise the professions.
Knowledge-based jobs were supposed to be safe
career choices, the years of study it takes to become
a lawyer, say, or an architect or accountant, in theory
guaranteeing a lifetime of lucrative employment. That
is no longer the case. Now even doctors face the looming
threat of possible obsolescence. Expert radiologists are
routinely outperformed by pattern-recognition software,
diagnosticians by simple computer questionnaires. In
2012, Silicon Valley investor Vinod Khosla predicted that
algorithms and machines would replace 80 percent of
doctors within a generation.
In their much-debated book The Second Machine
Age, Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee argued that
we now face an intense period of creative destruction.
Technological progress, they warned, is going to leave
behind some people, perhaps even a lot of people, as it races
ahead Theres never been a worse time to be a worker
with only ordinary skills and abilities to offer, because

computers,
robots and other digital
technologies are acquiring
these skills and abilities at an
extraordinary rate.
So where does that leave the
professions, whose hard-won
expertise is beginning to fall
within the power of computers
and artificial intelligence to
emulate? The efficiency of
computerisation seems likely to
spell the end of the job security
past generations sought in such
careers. For many, what were once
extraordinary skillsets will soon be
rendered ordinary by the advance of
the machines. What will it mean to be a
professional then?
Well see what I call
decomposition, the
breaking-down of
professional work
into its component
parts, says leading
legal futurist
professor Richard
Susskind. Susskinds
forthcoming
book Beyond the
Professions, coauthored with his son
Daniel Susskind, examines
the transformations already
under way across the sectors
that once offered jobs for life. He
predicts a process not unlike the division
of labour that wiped out skilled artisans and craftsmen in
the past: the dissolution of expertise into a dozen or more
streamlined processes.
Some of these parts will still require expert trusted
advisers acting in traditional ways, he says. But many
other parts will be standardised or systematised or made
available with online service. In a previous book Tomorrows
Lawyers, he predicts the creation of eight new legal roles at
the intersection of software and law. Many of the job titles
sound at home in IT companies: legal knowledge engineer,
legal technologist, project manager, risk manager, process
analyst.
Many traditional lawyers will look at that and think:
Yes, they might be jobs, but thats not what Iwent to law
school for. And thats not what my parents generation did as

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lawyers. That, says Susskind, is not his concern:Whether

we call these new positions lawyers or not, the legal sector
will survive.
No one knows for sure what the careers of the future
will look like. But the people at the cutting edge are already
watching old jobs disappear and experimenting with the
technology that has begun to create new ones. Heres how
three of the professions medicine, architecture and the
law could be transformed, according to the people helping
to reinvent them.

Law

Five years ago, entrepreneur Charley Moore founded online

legal services provider Rocket Lawyer. It now boasts 30
million users. Subscribers pay a monthly fee for instant
access to pre-prepared documents and tutorials, as well
as online legal advice from experts at participating firms.
The work lawyers on the network do has already begun to
resemble the streamlined, one-to-many roles Susskind
predicted.
Moore is optimistic about the revolution computerisation
has unleashed in his sector. I dont think of [software]
as consuming the industry, as much as I think of it as
supporting the industry. So with software, certainly there
are mundane, routine tasks that will become more efficient,
but by making those tasks more efficient, lawyers will be
able to move up in the food chain and serve millions more
legal transactions than they currently can.
Even judges, he says, will need to move online. I
think we have to have virtual courts. Australia has
been experimenting with them. New York has been
experimenting with online parking-ticket adjudication. I
mean, give me a break who the heck thinks you should
have to go to some government building when you get a
traffic ticket? Its incredibly inefficient.

Architecture

Software firm Autodesk, founded in 1982, creates virtual

design tools used by millions of architects and designers
every day. Last year alone, the company produced revenues
of US$2.3 billion. British vice president Pete Baxter is
responsible for its architecture, engineering
and construction
operations in
Europe,
Asia and
the

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of design can apply their insight in several countries in the

space of a single working day.
The architectural profession absolutely will still exist,
he says. I think whats happening is were getting a more
collaborative approach. But ultimately somebody still makes
the decision.

Medicine

Dr Pete Diamandis is the chair and CEO of XPRIZE, a series

of competitions that offer $10 million awards for inventors
who manage to solve some of technologys most vexing
challenges. One such prize will be awarded to the first team
to produce a working tricorder the handheld device used
by the medical officers in Star Trek capable of diagnosing
a set of 15 diseases without the presence of a medical
professional.
He expects someone to succeed in the next five years.
After which, it will only be a matter of time before diagnosis
is something done primarily by machines. Its a matter of
providing the computer with the data. Once it has the data,
its able to consider thousands or millions of times more
parameters than a human can hold in their head. We will
still need medical professionals to guide us and provide
the human touch but doctors will have to accept that
computers are better at parts of the job than they are.
Its not just software and diagnosis, either: Surgeons
will have to make way for smarter machines. I think were
going to see the role of the physician changing significantly
through the use of robotics, says Diamandis. He cites the
work of Silicon Valley firm Intuitive Surgical, which has
created a surgical system named Da Vinci, which an expert
surgeon can control online from anywhere in the world. Just
as in architecture, such developments will allow specialists
to reach wider markets but unlike with architecture there
is no reason to assume they will stop there.
Eventually, where this is going, says Diamandis, is that
the robot will end up doing the surgeries on its own.Ican
imagine a day in the future where the patient walks into the
hospital and the patient needs, say, cardiac surgery, and the
conversation goes something like this: No, no, no, Ido not
want that human touching me. I want the robot thats done it
1000 times perfectly.
Yet, despite the large parts of the role that technology will
take from them, he does not expect a collapse in our demand
for doctors any time soon largely because we already need
so many more than we have. In the US alone, for example,
experts predict a shortage of up to 91,500 physicians by
2020. And thats low compared to the rest of the world, he
says. Africa, which has 25pc of the disease burden, has 1.3pc
of the health workers. Theres no way to ever build enough
medical schools or teach enough physicians for the demand
that exists even today.
Its about the economics, explains Diamandis. The
software and robots are already here or well on their
way but this unmet demand will remain until the
tech is not only more effective but cheaper than
the equivalent doctor. I call this process the
dematerialisation of technology. You used
to buy a GPS, you used to buy a camera, you
used to buy records. These things which
were physical have dematerialised on to
your phone, and de-monetised,
becoming effectively free. And
finally they democratise.
Healthcare is undergoing
the same process:
dematerialisation and
democratisation.
The Guardian

Middle East.
He believes architects have
little to fear from artificial intelligence.
Yes, you can automate. But what does a design look
like thats fully automated and fully rationalised by a
computer program? Probably not the most exciting piece of
architecture youve ever seen.
Technology wont destroy the profession, but it will, he
says, democratise it. Theres a paradigm shift now: the oneman architect working from home with a bright idea now
has access to an infinite amount of computing power in the
cloud. That means a one-man designer, a graduate designer,
can get access to the same amount of computing power as
these big multinational companies. So suddenly theres a
different competitive landscape.
Baxter is keen to highlight the many new opportunities
software creates for the savvy architect. Collaboration
across continents is growing ever easier, opening up projects
all over the world. This, in turn, has paved the way for
greater specialisation: The expert in the most minute aspect

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wEEKEND | TRAVEL

Monks take photographs at the entrance to the Pindaya caves. Photo: Charlotte Rose

Anunlikelytrail:
trekking in the Danu SAZ
BY CHARLOTTE ROSE

IKINI-CLAD backpackers posing for selfies with

exotic-looking war refugees, tourists in Beer Chang
vests clambering around on the heads of tired elephants
and long-neck women being gaped at in human zoos: This
is how the trekking experience across much of Southeast Asia
has come to be known, and the reason why many travellers are
now heading to Myanmar in search of uncharted landscapes
and unspoiled hill-tribe villages.
Most head to the Shan regions of Kalaw and Hsipaw, but as
tourism in the country continues to grow and with few other
established trekking destinations catering to travellers trails
in these areas are becoming crowded, increasingly unable to
provide the off-the-beaten-track experience sought by more
adventurous hikers.
With this in mind, other areas of the country are seeking to
increase their share of tourist dollars by developing new trails
in previously unexplored regions. One such project, developed
by the Myanmar Institute for Integrated Development (MIID)
in partnership with local community groups, has mapped 20
new heritage trails in the Danu Self-Administered Zone (SAZ),
comprised of Pindaya and Ywangan Townships in Shan State,
in an effort to jumpstart tourism in the region.
We could drive up the mountain, said Mr Doh, our guide,
but its better if we take the stairs so you can enjoy the view.
Only a few minutes into the long, steep climb up to the
Shwe U Min Pagoda overlooking Pindaya, I was already

cursing under my breath Myanmars fondness for building

pagodas at the top of mountains. But as I heaved myself up the
last few steps and caught sight of the breathtaking view over
the Pindaya valley and Pontalouk Lake, I secretly thanked Mr
Doh for doing things the hard way.
Despite its strategic location between Mandalay and Inle
Lake, Pindaya sees only a trickle of tourists each year. Most
visit solely for its famous Buddha caves the main reason for
climbing all these steps.
Set deep in the hillside hidden behind the pagoda, the
caves are brimming with over 6000 Buddha images brought
by pilgrims from all over the world, some dating back over 300
years. Its easy to get lost in the maze of statues as you wander
around the awesome complex: Except for a brief encounter
with two selfie-taking monks, I found myself wandering alone
in eerie silence among the glittering gold figures, disturbed
only by the sound of dripping stalactites.
The next morning we pulled on our walking boots and
set off from the town, joined by a group of locals who have
been involved in mapping the trails over the past six months.
Though they were clearly keen to attract tourists to their town,
the idea of ambling around in the mountains for no useful
purpose seemed somewhat alien to them.
I never walk anywhere, said one. Ive got a motorbike.
The trail took us deep into the hills, past tea plantations
and through old-world villages where we stopped to watch
Danu women processing tea leaves. Said to number only a
few thousand, the Danu people speak an archaic dialect of the
Myanmar language which they seemed keen to teach us,

unimpressed by our attempts to communicate in Myanmar.

The steep uphill hike was far from gentle, and after a
three-hour climb we were grateful when we stopped for tea at
a small mountain village. Temperatures in this area of Shan
State are far cooler than other parts of the region, and there
was something magical about drinking the warm, fragrant tea
while watching it being picked on the nearby hillsides, cloaked
in mist.
Like elsewhere in the county, home-stays are not allowed
in the Danu Zone. Our group stayed overnight in a village
monastery high in the hills, where we were welcomed by the
chief and only monk, except for two young novices who
promptly scarpered, only to be found later, enthralled in a
game of frisbee with members of our group.
It is hoped that, in the future, the Danu SAZ will be able to
offer bed-and-breakfast accomodation, similar to that of the
nearby Pa-O SAZ, south of Inle Lake, which allows tourists to
stay overnight in traditional houses (though a clear distinction
is made between these designated houses and private
homes). In the meantime, the monastery makes for a cosy
stay, though I awoke to find the top half of my body completely
numb from sleeping on the uneven floor there is only one
direction you can sleep with Buddha watching over you.
The next day we started out early on route to the town of
Ywangan, to find what we knew only as the blue lake. Mr Doh
chuckled when I said Id packed my swimsuit.
Swimming in the blue lake is impossible! You dont want to
upset the spirits, he said, as if I should have known all along.
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forgotten, however, as we started out on the trail and

were quickly reminded that what goes up must come
down. The ever-intrepid Mr Doh insisted we forgo
the road in favour of a shortcut through the forest,
and we spent most of the day sliding down a narrow,
muddy path only occasionally looking up to notice
the incredible mountains towering above us. All
around, jagged rock edges stuck out of the forest like
gravestones, and in the distance pagodas sat perched
on top of mountains, glittering through the mist. The
trail took us through Pa-O and Palaung villages, where
friendly locals smiled and waved and took photos of us
on their smartphones.
After several hours ploughing through dense forest
we found ourselves in a field of curious-looking buffalos,
who watched us calmly as we crossed the sun-drenched
valley that would take us to Ywangan.
When we first glimpsed the lake from the top of the
hill, we were convinced it was some sort of trick.
It must be fake, said one of our group. Its way to0
blue to be real.
Indeed, the water is so bright and so clear that
it is as if someone has poured blue food-dye into it.
Other than some vague mutterings about minerals and
a joke about a nearby Levis factory, no one was able to
explain it, though several hours of Googling told me it is
actually the clearness of the water that makes it appear
so blue. That, of course, or the spirits.
The Danu Trails project funded by Deutsche
Gesellschaft fr Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ)
as part of their sustainable development plan for the
Danu region is still in the early stages.
This area offers much more than Kalaw for
trekking, but we still have a way to go before large
numbers of tourists start coming here, said Mr Doh,
who has guiding tourists in Kalaw for over 15 years.
Finding the trails is just the first phase. They are not
perfect, and we still need to train more guides. There
are still many gaps.
He has a point: Occasionally the footpath we were
following would disappear completely, and we found
ourselves wandering around amongst a farmers
crops. Only a few hours into the trip we lost one of
our group for several hours when she took a wrong
turn with her guide, and it looked as if we were in for
a chilly night when the bus carrying our sleeping bags
to the monastery got stuck in the mud half-way up the
mountain. But it is the unrefined nature of the trekking

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experience here that makes it a refreshing change

from the organised, well-trodden routes of Kalaw and
Hsipaw.
How much longer the region will stay unspoiled,
of course, remains to be seen. Within two minutes of
arriving at the monastery, we heard Katy Perrys Roar
floating through the windows, only to find one of our
group holding an impromptu dance-party for a group
of spellbound children outside. Whether the Danu
people will benefit from such cultural exchange is
another question entirely, but one does wonder about
the impact a sudden cash injection will have on this
primitive economy. For now, however, the locals seem
unconcerned about an erosion of their traditional
culture.
We will be happy when tourists start coming here
because it will improve our town. There will be so many
opportunities to get jobs, said 36-year-old Ni Thu Yu
Naing, one of the community members involved in the
project.
Local people are excited about seeing visitors, said
Mr Doh, though he added that tourism to the area
should be controlled to prevent problems.
I asked him why he was so passionate about
attracting trekkers to the Danu region.
Everyone wants to be popular, he replied. Maybe
you want to be like Madonna or Michael Jackson. I want
tourists to come here and use my trails so local people
will say, Mr Doh! You did something for us!

I want tourists to come

here and use my trails so
local people will say,
Mr Doh! You did
something for us!
Photo: MIID/Robert Tyler

GETTING THERE
Pindaya is a short drive from Heho airport. Several airlines,
including Golden Myanmar Airlines, Asian Wings and KBZ,
operate daily flights to Heho from Yangon for around US$80
each way.
TREKKING
The Danu trails are located exclusively in the Danu SelfAdministered Zone and use Pindaya and Ywangan as a base.
Trails are of varying lengths and distances, and have been
graded according to their difficulty. For more information, or
to book a trek with a local guide, visit www.danutrails.com
SLEEPING
Surrounded by breathtaking landscapes outside of the town
centre, the Thahara Pindaya is a new farmhouse constructed
in the traditional Shan way, with five simple but elegant
rooms. The friendly owners can help with arranging trekking
and excursions, and they also serve excellent food. For
reservations, visit thahara.com
Golden Cave Hotel in the centre of Pindaya offers basic rooms
for around $30.

It must be fake but the blue lake near Ywangan isnt. Photo: Charlotte Rose

Dagon Myothit

Mandalay

Tea growers process tea leaves for sale at the local market. Photo: MIID/Robert Tyler

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DOMESTIC FLIGHT SCHEDULES

YANGON TO MANDALAY
Flight

Days

Dep

MANDALAY TO YANGON
Arr

Flight

Days

Dep

Arr

Y5 775

Daily

6:00

7:10

Y5 233

Daily

7:50

9:00

W9 515

6:00

7:25

W9 201

Daily

8:40

10:35

YH 917

Daily

6:10

8:30

7Y 132

2,4,6,7

8:50

10:45

7Y 131

2,4,6,7

6:30

8:35

K7 223

1,3,5

8:55

11:00

K7 222

1,3,5

6:30

8:40

YH 918

Daily

8:30

10:25

6T 805

2,4,6

6:30

7:40

6T 806

2,4,6

10:30

11:40

YJ 201

1,2,3,4

7:00

8:55

YJ 202

1,2,3,4

12:00

13:25

W9 201

Daily

7:00

8:25

YJ 761

1,2,4

13:10

17:00

W9201

7:00

8:25

YJ 212

15:00

16:25

8M 6603

9:00

10:10

YJ 212

15:00

16:55

YJ 601

11:00

12:25

YJ 602

15:40

17:35

YJ 211

5, 7

11:00

12:25

7Y 242

1,3,5

16:40

18:45

YJ 761

1,2,4

11:00

12:55

K7 225

2,4,6,7

16:50

19:00

YH 729

2,4,6

11:00

14:00

YH 728

17:00

18:25

YH 737

3,5,7

11:00

13:10

W9 152/W97152

17:05

18:30

YH 727

11:30

13:40

Y5 776

Daily

17:10

18:20

W9 251

2,5

11:30

12:55

W9 211

17:10

19:15

7Y 241

1,3,5

14:30

16:25

YH 738

3,5,7

17:10

18:35

K7 224

2,4,6,7

14:30

16:35

8M 6604

17:20

18:30

Y5 234

Daily

15:20

16:30

8M 903

1,2,4,5,7

17:20

18:30

W9 211

15:30

16:55

YH 730

2,4,6

17:45

19:10

W9 252

2,5

18:15

19:40

YANGON TO NAY PYI TAW

NAY PYI TAW TO YANGON

YANGON TO HEHO
Flight
YH 917
YJ 891
7Y 131
YJ 891
K7 222
7Y 131
Y5 649
YJ 751
YJ 761
YJ 751
YH 737
YH 727
K7 224
7Y 241
W9 129

Days
Daily
6
2,4,6,7
1
1,3,5
Daily
Daily
3,5
1,2,4
7
3,5,7
1
2,4,6,7
1,3,5
1,3,6

Dep
6:10
6:20
6:30
6:30
6:30
7:15
10:30
10:30
11:00
11:00
11:00
11:30
14:30
14:30
15:30

HEHO TO YANGON
Arr
9:15
9:10
9:20
10:10
9:30
10:05
12:45
11:40
12:10
12:10
12:25
12:55
15:45
15:40
16:40

YANGON TO MYEIK
Flight
Y5 325
K7 319
6T 705
7Y 531
Y5 325
SO 201

Days
1,5
1,3,5,7
2,4,6
2,4,6
2
Daily

Dep
6:45
7:00
7:30
11:15
15:30
8:20

Flight
YJ 891
YH 918
YJ 891
W9 201
7Y 132
K7 223
YJ 761
YJ 752
YJ 762
7Y 242
K7 225
YH 728
YH 738
YJ 602
YJ 752
W9 129

Days
1
Daily
6
Daily
2,4,6,7
1,3,5
Daily
7
1,2,4
1,3,5
2,4,6,7
1
3,5,7
6
3,5
1,3,6

Dep
9:00
9:15
9:25
9:25
9:35
9:45
12:25
12:25
15:00
15:55
16:00
16:15
16:25
16:25
16:45
16:55

Arr
10:10
10:25
10:35
10:35
10:45
11:00
17:00
17:55
17:00
18:45
19:00
18:25
18:35
17:35
17:55
19:10

MYEIK TO YANGON
Arr
8:15
9:05
8:40
13:20
17:00
10:40

YANGON TO SITTWE

Flight
Y5 326
6T 706
7Y 532
K7 320
Y5 326
SO 202

Days
1,5
2,4,6
2,4,6
1,3,5,7
2
Daily

Dep
8:35
8:55
15:35
11:30
17:15
13:20

Arr
10:05
10:05
17:40
13:35
18:45
15:40

SITTWE TO YANGON

Flight

Days

Dep

Arr

Flight

Days

Dep

Arr

Flight

Days

Dep

Arr

Flight

Days

Dep

Arr

YJ 201

1,2,3,4

7:00

7:55

SO 101

Daily

7:00

8:00

K7 422

2,4,6

8:00

9:55

K7 423

2,4,6

10:10

11:30

ND 910

1,2,3,4,5

7:15

8:15

YJ 201

1,2,3,4

8:10

13:25

7Y 413

1,3,5,7

10:30

12:20

7Y 414

1,3,5,7

12:35

13:55

1,3,6

11:30

12:55

W9 309

1,3,6

13:10

14:55

Daily

11:45

12:55

6T 612

Daily

13:15

14:20

Domestic Airlines
Air Bagan (W9)
Tel: 513322, 513422, 504888. Fax: 515102

Air KBZ (K7)

Tel: 372977~80, 533030~39 (airport), 373766
(hotline). Fax: 372983

Asian Wings (YJ)

Tel: 515261~264, 512140, 512473, 512640
Fax: 532333, 516654

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

FMI Air Charter (ND)

Tel: 240363, 240373, 09421146545

APEX Airlines (SO)

Tel:95(1) 533300 ~ 311
Fax : 95 (1) 533312

Air Mandalay (6T)

Tel: (+95-1) 501520, 525488,
Fax: (+95-1) 532275

ND 105

1,2,3,4,5

10:45

11:40

ND 9102

1,2,3,4,5

8:35

9:35

W9 309

YJ 211

11:00

15:45

ND 104

1,2,3,4,5

9:20

10:15

6T 611

ND 107

11:25

12:20

ND 106

10:00

10:55

ND 109

1,2,3,4,5

14:55

15:40

ND 108

1,2,3,4,5

13:30

14:25

Flight

Days

Dep

Arr

Flight

Days

Dep

Arr

SO = APEX Airlines

ND 9109

1,2,3,4,5

17:00

18:00

YJ 212

16:00

16:55

K7 422

2,4,6

8:00

8:55

K7 422

2,4,6

9:10

11:30

ND 111

18:25

19:20

ND 110

17:00

17:55

7Y 413

1,3,5

10:30

11:20

7Y 413

1,3,5

11:35

13:55

7Y = Mann Yadanarpon Airlines

SO 102

Daily

18:00

19:00

ND 9110

1,2,3,4,5

18:20

19:20

W9 309

1,3,6

11:30

13:50

7Y 413

12:05

14:20

7Y 413

11:00

11:50

W9 309

1,3,6

14:05

14:55

W9 = Air Bagan

Y5 421

1,3,4,6

15:45

16:40

Y5 422

1,3,4,6

16:55

17:50

Y5 = Golden Myanmar Airlines

YANGON TO NYAUNG U

NYAUNG U TO YANGON

YANGON TO THANDWE

THANDWE TO YANGON

Flight

Days

Dep

Arr

Flight

Days

Dep

Arr

YH 917

Daily

6:10

7:45

YH 918

Daily

7:45

10:25

YJ 891

6:20

7:40

YJ 891

7:55

8:25

Flight

Days

Dep

Arr

Flight

Days

Dep

Arr

YJ 891

6:30

7:50

YJ 891

8:05

10:10

K7 319

1,3,5,7

7:00

8:10

YH 634

2,4,6

12:15

13:25

K7 222

1,3,5

6:30

7:50

7Y 132

2,4,6,7

8:05

10:45

YH 633

2,4,6

7:00

8:25

K7 320

1,3,5,7

12:25

13:35

7Y 131

2,4,6,7

6:30

7:50

K7 223

1,3,5

8:05

11:00

K7 224

2,4,6,7

14:30

17:25

K7 225

2,4,6,7

17:40

19:00

SO 201

Daily

8:20

9:40

6T 708

3,5,7

14:15

15:15

7Y 241

1,3,5

14:30

17:10

W9 129

1,3,6

17:50

19:10

6T 707

3,5,7

10:30

11:30

SO 202

Daily

14:20

15:40

7Y 242

1,3,5

17:25

18:45

7Y 531

2,4,6

11:15

12:20

7Y 532

2,4,6

16:35

17:40

W9 129

1,3,6

15:30

17:35

W9 211

15:30

17:40

W9 129

15:30

17:35

YANGON TO MYITKYINA

YANGON TO DAWEI

DAWEI TO YANGON

YANGON TO LASHIO
MYITKYINA TO YANGON

Flight

Days

Dep

Arr

Flight

Days

Dep

Arr

YJ 751

3,5

10:30

12:45

YJ 752

3,5

15:40

17:55

Flight

Days

Dep

Arr

Flight

Days

Dep

Arr

YH 729

2,4,6

11:00

13:00

YJ 752

16:10

17:55

6T 805

2,4,6

6:30

8:55

6T 806

2,4,6

9:10

11:40

YJ 751

11:00

13:15

YH 730

2,4,6

16:45

19:10

YH 826

1,3.5.7

7:00

9:40

YJ 202

1,2,3,4

10:35

13:25

YJ 201

1,2,3,4

7:00

10:20

YH 827

1,3,5,7

11:30

13:55

Arr

Flight

Days

YJ 233

11:00

15:10

YJ 234

15:25

W9 251

2,5

11:30

14:25

W9 252

2,5

16:45

Dep

PUTAO TO YANGON
Dep

K7 = Air KBZ

YH = Yangon Airways

LASHIO TO YANGON

YANGON TO PUTAO

Airline Codes

Flight

Days

18:15

Arr

YH 826

1,3,5,7

7:00

10:35

YH 827

1,3,5,7

10:35

13:55

19:40

W9 251

2,5

11:30

15:25

W9 252

2,5

15:45

19:40

YJ = Asian Wings
6T = AirMandalay
FMI (ND) = FMI Air Charter

Subject to change
without notice
Day
1 = Monday
2 = Tuesday
3 = Wednesday
4 = Thursday
5 = Friday
6 = Saturday
7 = Sunday

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INTERNATIONAL FLIGHT SCHEDULES

YANGON TO BANGKOK
Flights
Days
Dep
Arr
PG 706
Daily
6:15
8:30
8M 335
Daily
7:40
9:25
TG 304
Daily
9:50
11:45
PG 702
Daily
10:30
12:25
TG 302
Daily
15:00
16:55
PG 708
Daily
15:15
17:10
8M 331
Daily
16:30
18:15
PG 704
Daily
18:20
20:15
Y5 237
Daily
19:00
20:50
TG 306
Daily
19:45
21:40
YANGON TO DON MUEANG
Flights
Days
Dep
Arr
DD 4231
Daily
8:00
9:50
FD 252
Daily
8:30
10:15
FD 254
Daily
17:30
19:05
DD 4239
Daily
21:00
22:45
YANGON TO SINGAPORE
Flights
Days
Dep
Arr
8M 231
Daily
8:25
12:50
Y5 2233
Daily
9:45
14:15
TR 2823
Daily
9:45
14:25
SQ 997
Daily
10:35
15:10
3K 582
Daily
11:15
15:45
MI 533
2,6
13:45
20:50
MI 519
Daily
17:30
22:05
3K 584
2,3,5
19:15
23:45
YANGON TO KUALA LUMPUR
Flights
Days
Dep
Arr
8M 501
1,2,3,5,6
7:50
11:50
AK 505
Daily
8:30
12:50
MH 741
Daily
12:15
16:30
MH 743
Daily
15:45
20:05
AK 503
Daily
19:30
23:45
YANGON TO BEIJING
Flights
Days
Dep
Arr
CA 906
3,5,7
23:50 05:50+1
YANGON TO GUANGZHOU
Flights
Days
Dep
Arr
8M 711
2,4,7
8:40
13:15
CZ 3056
3,6
11:25
16:15
CZ 3056
1,5
17:30
22:15
YANGON TO TAIPEI
Flights
Days
Dep
Arr
CI 7916
1,2,3,5,6
10:50
16:15
YANGON TO KUNMING
Flights
Days
Dep
Arr
CA 416
Daily
12:15
15:55
MU 2012
3
12:40
18:45
MU 2032
1,2,4,5,6,7 15:20
18:40
YANGON TO HANOI
Flights
Days
Dep
Arr
VN 956
1,3,5,6,7
19:10
21:30
YANGON TO HO CHI MINH CITY
Flights
Days
Dep
Arr
VN 942
2,4,7
14:25
17:15
YANGON TO DOHA
Flights
Days
Dep
Arr
QR 919
1,4,6
8:00
11:10
YANGON TO SEOUL
Flights
Days
Dep
Arr
0Z 770
4,7
0:35
9:10
KE 472
Daily
23:30 07:50+1
YANGON TO HONG KONG
Flights
Days
Dep
Arr
KA 251
5
1:30
5:55
KA 251
1,2,3,4,6,7
1:10
5:45

BANGKOK TO YANGON
Flights
Days
Dep
Arr
TG 303
Daily
7:55
8:50
PG 701
Daily
8:50
9:40
Y5 238
Daily
21:30
22:20
8M 336
Daily
10:40
11:25
TG 301
Daily
13:05
14:00
PG 707
Daily
13:40
14:30
PG 703
Daily
16:45
17:35
TG 305
Daily
17:50
18:45
8M 332
Daily
19:15
20:00
PG 705
Daily
20:15
21:30
DON MUEANG TO YANGON
Flights
Days
Dep
Arr
DD 4230
Daily
6:20
7:05
FD 251
Daily
7:15
8:00
FD 253
Daily
16:20
17:00
DD 4238
Daily
19:30
20:15
SINGAPORE TO YANGON
Flights
Days
Dep
Arr
TR 2822
Daily
7:20
8:45
Y5 2234
Daily
7:20
8:50
SQ 998
Daily
7:55
9:20
3K 581
Daily
8:55
10:25
MI 533
2,6
11:35
12:55
8M 232
Daily
13:50
15:15
MI 518
Daily
15:15
16:40
3K 583
2,3,5
17:05
18:35
KUALA LUMPUR TO YANGON
Flights
Days
Dep
Arr
AK 504
Daily
6:55
8:00
MH 740
Daily
10:05
11:15
8M 502
1,2,3,5,6
12:50
13:50
MH 742
Daily
13:40
14:50
AK 502
Daily
17:50
19:00
BEIJING TO YANGON
Flights
Days
Dep
Arr
CA 905
3,5,7
19:30
22:50
GUANGZHOU TO YANGON
Flights
Days
Dep
Arr
CZ 3055
3,6
8:40
10:25
CZ 3055
1,5
14:40
16:30
8M 712
2,4,7
14:15
15:50
TAIPEI TO YANGON
Flights
Days
Dep
Arr
CI 7915
1,2,3,5,6
7:00
9:55
KUNMING TO YANGON
Flights
Days
Dep
Arr
MU 2011
3
8:25
11:50
CA 415
Daily
10:45
11:15
MU 2031
1,2,4,5,6,7 13:55
14:30
HANOI TO YANGON
Flights
Days
Dep
Arr
VN 957
1,3,5,6,7
16:50
18:10
HO CHI MINH CITY TO YANGON
Flights
Days
Dep
Arr
VN 943
2,4,7
11:50
13:25
DOHA TO YANGON
Flights
Days
Dep
Arr
QR 918
3,5,7
20:40 06:25+1
SEOUL TO YANGON
Flights
Days
Dep
Arr
KE 471
Daily
18:45
22:25
0Z 769
3,6
19:50
23:25
HONG KONG TO YANGON
Flights
Days
Dep
Arr
KA 252
4
22:50 00:30+1
KA 250
1,2,3,5,6,7 21:45
23:30

YANGON TO TOKYO
Flights
Days
Dep
NH 814
Daily
21:45

Arr
06:50+1

TOKYO TO YANGON
Flights
Days
Dep
NH 813
Daily
11:00

Arr
15:40

Arr
17:00
15:10

DHAKA TO YANGON
Flights
Days
Dep
BG 060
1,6
12:30
BG 060
4
10:40

Arr
14:55
13:05

Arr
16:10
15:05

Flights
W9 608
PG 723

YANGON TO DHAKA
Flights
Days
Dep
BG 061
1,6
15:35
BG 061
4
13:45
YANGON TO INCHEON
Days
Dep
4,7
14:20
1,3,5,6
13:10
YANGON TO CHIANG MAI
Flights
Days
Dep
Y5 251
2,4,6
6:15
7Y 305
1,5
11:00

Flights
W9 607
PG 724

YANGON TO GAYA
Flights
Days
Dep
8M 601
3,5,6
7:00
AI 236
2
13:10
YANGON TO DELHI
Flights
Days
Dep
AI 236
2
13:10
AI 701
1,5
14:05
YANGON TO KOLKATA
Flights
Days
Dep
AI 228
1,5
14:05
YANGON TO MUMBAI
Flights
Days
Dep
AI 773
1,5
14:05
MANDALAY TO BANGKOK
Flights
Days
Dep
PG 710
Daily
14:05

Arr
8:05
12:50

INCHEON TO YANGON
Days
Dep
4,7
17:20
1,3,5,6
11:05
CHIANG MAI TO YANGON
Flights
Days
Dep
Y5 252
2,4,6
9:25
7Y 306
1,5
13:45

All Nippon Airways (NH)

Tel: 255412, 413

Air Asia (FD)

Tel: 09254049991~3

Air Bagan Ltd.(W9)

Tel: 513322, 513422, 504888. Fax: 515102

Air China (CA)

Tel: 666112, 655882

Air India

Tel: 253597~98, 254758, 253601. Fax 248175

Bangkok Airways (PG)

Tel: 255122, 255265. Fax: 255119

Biman Bangladesh Airlines (BG)

Tel: 371867~68. Fax: 371869
Tel: 370836~39 (ext: 303)

Dragonair (KA)

Tel: 255323 (ext: 107), 09-401539206

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

Singapore Airlines (SQ) / Silk Air (MI)

Tel: 255287~9. Fax: 255290

Thai Airways (TG)

Tel: 255491~6. Fax: 255223

Tel: 371383, 370836~39 (ext: 303)

Vietnam Airlines (VN)

Tel: 255066, 255088, 255068. Fax: 255086

Airline Codes
3K = Jet Star
8M = Myanmar Airways International

BG = Biman Bangladesh Airlines

CA = Air China
CI = China Airlines
CZ = China Southern

Arr
18:10
12:00
Arr
10:15
14:35

DD = Nok Airline
FD = Air Asia
KA = Dragonair
KE = Korea Airlines

Arr
16:30
19:50
Arr
15:05

KOLKATA TO YANGON
Flights
Days
Dep
AI 227
1,5
10:35

Arr
22:35

MUMBAI TO YANGON
Flights
Days
Dep
AI 675
1,5
6:10

Arr
13:20

SQ = Singapore Airways

Arr
16:30

BANGKOK TO MANDALAY
Flights
Days
Dep
PG 709
Daily
12:00

Arr
13:20

TR = Tiger Airline

Arr
12:0
12:30

MH = Malaysia Airlines

Arr
12:20
13:20

MU = China Eastern Airlines

Arr
13:20

SINGAPORE TO MANDALAY
Flights
Days
Dep
Arr
Y5 2234
Daily
7:20
16:30
MI 533
2,6
11:35
15:00

MANDALAY TO DON MUEANG

Flights
Days
Dep
Arr
FD 245
Daily
12:45
15:00

DON MUEANG TO MANDALAY

Flights
Days
Dep
Arr
FD 244
Daily
10:50
12:15

Arr
16:40

NAY PYI TAW TO BANGKOK

Flights
Days
Dep
Arr
PG 722
1,2,3,4,5
19:30
22:30

KUNMING TO MANDALAY
Flights
Days
Dep
MU 2029
Daily
13:00

Arr
12:50

BANGKOK TO NAY PYI TAW

Flights
Days
Dep
Arr
PG 721
1,2,3,4,5
17:00
19:00

MI = Silk Air

NH = All Nippon Airways

PG = Bangkok Airways
QR = Qatar Airways

TG = Thai Airways

VN = Vietnam Airline
AI = Air India
Y5 = Golden Myanmar Airlines

Subject to change
without notice
Day
1 = Monday
2 = Tuesday
3 = Wednesday

4
5
6
7

The future of travel:

What will holidays
look like in 2025?

Hotels on the moon, hologram staff,

danger-zone tourism this is how
the experts think our holidays will
look in 2025
HAT does the future
hold for travel? Check-in
by robot? Budget space
flights? Virtual holidays? Flight
comparison site Skyscanner
offers a glimpse of what the future
holiday experience could be like
with its Future of Travel report.
Weve digested the findings and
come up with a few ideas that we
think would benefit the world of
travel.

more mainstream proposition by

2025 and underwater tourism will
certainly trump space travel. As
Skyscanner CEO Gareth William
says, I suspect you would get more
from it, because there is more to
see down there than in space. That
said, the Poseidon Underwater
Resort in Fiji, which was due to open
in 2008, is still nowhere near ready,
and when it does finally open, a
week at the resort will cost $14,000.

Hotel room of the future

Within 10 years travellers will
have no need to encounter a
single human being from the
moment they check in. Instead,
hotel rooms will be transformed
into digital, hyper-interactive
spaces in which even the
pillows will be embedded with
electronics to massage your neck
and wake you up in the morning.
The walls will display high
definition images of your friends
and family, hologram personal
trainers will hang out with you
and the shower will use sound
technology to agitate dirt from
your body, using a traffic light
system to indicate when youre
clean enough to get out.
Thanks shower, but were doing
just fine when it comes to washing
ourselves.

Local travel
Peer-to-peer collaboration will
take over the world, and within
the next decade between 5 to 10
percent of people could be renting
out their homes to travellers.
Increasingly, social travel
from accommodation to supper
clubs and other experiences will
become part of the traditional
travel industry. New tools will lead
to collaboration between tourists
and people in the destinations,
helping create more localised and
personal travel.

Tiger Airline (TR)

GAYA TO YANGON
Flights
Days
Dep
AI 235
2
9:20
8M 602
3,5,6
9:20
DELHI TO YANGON
Flights
Days
Dep
AI 235
2
9:20
AI 401
1,5
7:00

Arr
8:20
15:05

Underwater hotels, like the planned Poseidon Underwater Resort in Fiji (pictured), will
become more mainstream in the future but itll cost you. Photo: Facebook

Condor (DE)

AK = Air Asia

MANDALAY TO SINGAPORE
Flights
Days
Dep
Arr
MI 533
2,6
15:55
20:50
Y5 2233
1,2,4,5,6
7:50
14:15

MANDALAY TO KUNMING
Flights
Days
Dep
MU 2030
Daily
13:50

International Airlines

=
=
=
=

Thursday
Friday
Saturday
Sunday

Space travel
For the ultimate in serious
traveller bragging rights, how
about a brief time spent floating
weightlessly in low Earth
orbit? Its relatively affordable
(US$75,000) compared to the
cost of, say, an actual Apollo-style
excursion to the moon. That said,
architects Foster + Partners are
currently involved in a project
with the European Space Agency
exploring ways they could build
structures on the moon with the
help of 3D printers, so a lunar
hotel could be on the horizon.
Time to get saving.
Underwater experiences
Sub-aquatic hotels will be a far

Extreme travel
In the further pursuit of
bragging rights, tourists will
start pursuing adventures in
extreme destinations. Travellers
will want to be the first to drop in
on so-called forbidden zones,
destinations once rendered
inaccessible by conflict or
political instability or, conversely,
be among the last people to see a
habitat or species threatened with
extinction. Lebanon will become
the new Dubai, Angola could take
off too, and the chance to spot a
bare-faced tamarin before the
species dies out will be a lifetime
holiday highlight for a lucky few.
If youre thinking of travelling
to forbidden zones, bear in mind
the story of Matthew Miller, the
American who wanted to secretly
investigate the human rights
situation in North Korean prisons
and is now experiencing them
at first hand. In a nutshell: Dont
do it.

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SUDOKU PACIFIC

Universal Crossword
Edited by Timothy E. Parker

BAKED GOODS By Carla Azure

ACROSS
1 Evening hour
6 Golden Horde
member
11 Undergrad degs.
14 Candidates
concern
15 Make retribution
16 Farthest or highest
(Abbr.)
17 Jumpers
protectors
19 Prefix meaning
new
20 Software
holders
21 Become part of
history
23 Leg bones
26 Putting on airs
27 Jewelers aids
28 Yellow fruit
30 Has the deed to
31 Hulk in the ring
32 Scandinavian rug
35 Got ruined in
the wash
36 Utterly
unyielding
38 Commandment
count
39 ___ luck?
40 Emphatic denial
41 Engine knock
42 Hindu princesses
(Var.)
44 Burden bearers
46 Virtual-reality
pinch hitter
48 Home
49 Romes river
50 Add spice to
52 Tennis court ploy
53 Newborn, to
parents
58 Name among
boxing legends
59 Adult
60 Fast-growing
vine
61 Didnt strap-hang
62 Flyboys
agreement
63 Assassinated

5 It may be in a
groove
6 Mexican meal
items
7 Elementary
particle
8 Craggy hills
9 Go on ...
10 Full, as a voice
11 Con man
12 Alaska
native
13 Novel idea?
18 Important blocks
of time
22 Coquettish
23 Faunas
partner

24 Dubuque resident,
e.g.
25 Common
hopper
26 Gap to bridge
28 Apples, e.g.
29 Biology lab
supply
31 Possess
33 Gossipmonger
34 Apprehensive
feeling
36 Michigan town
37 Big game
41 Like some
realizations
43 Absorbed, as a
cost

44 Statue part
45 Downloadable
reading material
46 Book of maps
47 Kind of
concerto
48 Relatively
robust
50 Negotiation
problem
51 Narrowly defeat
(with out)
54 Alien craft
55 Kind of approval
56 Action film
weapon
57 Mother Teresa,
for one

DOWN
1 Bro, for one
2 Australian runner
3 Delivery vehicle
4 Breakfast dishes?

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PEANUTS

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WEEKLY PREDICTIONS

JUNE 19 - JUNE 25, 2015

AUNG MYIN KYAW

4th Floor, 113, Thamain Bayan Road, Tarmwe township, Yangon.
Tel: 09-731-35632, Email: williameaste@gmail.com
AQUARIUS
Jan 20 Feb 18
The stark reality of difficult
circumstances will require you to
confront important issues about
stability, integrity and authenticity. You
will have to put more effort into family
relationships to help you live a grounded
and productive life. A new course of
study may be possible but you might be
too busy to take advantage of it.
PISCES
Feb 19 March 20
Now is your time to shine with all the
originality and intelligence bestowed
upon you. It may be difficult to separate
truth from fantasy, so pay extra attention
to what others tell you about reality.
Drive yourself to be more assertive than
usual, even fighting for what you want.
Love will grant you the strength to stand
up for your beliefs.
ARIES
Mar 21 Apr 19
Define the fire line between your
illusions and the real world. You
will acquire the power to transform
mundane, even boring tasks into elegant
works of sheer genius. Dont try to
suppress your dreams, but draw power
from them. It is time to flood every
corner of your life with emotion. You
should be free from any limitations.
TAURUS
Apr 20 May 20
Thinking more and learning more is
strongly advised for those who seek new
creative powers. A positive outcome is
very likely, but you must take special
care over social interference. You
should assume that what you dream is
automatically worthy of being made real.
This is a magnificent time to seek love in
all the right places.
GEMINI
May 21 June 20
Think before you act so that your
brilliance and willpower outshine your
natural weirdness. A worthy adversary
seems to place obstacles in your path.
Take time to learn the lessons that are
now being revealed to you. The more
harmonious you are, the easier events
will be on you. Your lover may pop the
question.
CANCER
June 21 July 22
You may even surprise yourself now
with your openness to new concepts and
unconventional people. Changing your
mind is admissible, but dont lose track
of your overall goals. Be sure of your
next move, and be ready to jump into a
new venture. A unique solution can be
found if you trust in a higher power for
your inspiration.

CHRONICLES OF BEI KA STREET

A Scent of

LEO
July 23 Aug 22
Remind yourself of what needs to
be done at the present moment, and
challenge yourself to adopt the right
course of action. Stay open to your
emotions while settling on a sensible
plan of action. You can turn ideas into
practical reality. True intimacy may be
within your reach. Learn how to find the
answers in the questions.
VIRGO
Aug 23 Sept 22
Life will look much brighter and you can
be in good control of yourself. Social
affairs may become easy and enable
you to seize the right opportunity. Dont
worry about your financial status. Money
matters will present fewer problems
than usual this week. Life is now in
better perspective, thanks to a positive
change in love.
LIBRA
Sept 23 Oct 22
Luck is on your side, bringing
prosperity in business and replacing
conflict with harmony. Family clashes
could be resolved by your clever
compromise. Dont try to hurry things,
and pay attention to so-called minor
considerations. Dont let your personality
come into play. Keep yourself safe from
destructive forces.
SCORPIO
Oct 23 Nov 21
Decide what is most important for
your plans, whether for the long or the
short term, or the here and now. Lend
momentum to whatever you do. Ensure
that work is completed on schedule,
and that work is assigned only to those
best qualified to perform it. Realise
that listening is more important than
recounting your own experiences.
SAGITTARIUS
Nov 22 Dec 21
Enthusiasm is a good indicator of the
quality of the life you lead. Be urbane
and philosophical. Learn and apply the
essence of the art of motivation with a
positive mental attitude. Know that the
subconscious will come up with the
answer through repetition and repetition.
Knowing how and when to listen is crucial
to any relationship, or to leadership.
CAPRICORN
Dec 22 Jan 19
Thoughts are fragrant like flowers that
sweeten your life. You can accomplish
any amazing feat by believing in your
capacity to achieve anything you wish
to achieve. You should not try to set any
boundary on your knowledge. Reducing
stress and resistance will increase your
efficiency. Train yourself to live joyfully
only by thinking and practice.

21

CHAPTER 5: INTO ACTION

EDITED BY KO NAN DOI

O now you know something

of the ladys movement,
and her character, I said.
How does that help us recover
the pamphlet? Such a small thing
could be concealed anywhere.
Oh, you may be sure it is in
the house, U Sha Lok retorted.
Perhaps it is in the bedroom or
the boudoir; perhaps in the main
room on the ground floor. But
wherever it is, I mean to make her
show it to me.
How on earth will you manage
to do that?
That is the very purpose of
the plan I have been formulating
throughout today. And as I
promised, it features a very
prominent role for you.
I will do whatever I can.
U Sha Lok pulled a small
package from his pocket. Here
are some Chinese firecrackers,
of the kind used for the New
Year celebrations. They are quite
harmless, but noisy and dramatic,
and particularly rich in dense
black smoke. He handed me the
package.
We will carry out our plan
this very afternoon. I have made
all the arrangements, and I am
satisfied they are sound. Give me
a few moments, and we will go
together to Bo Aung Kyaw Street.
When we arrive, you will take up
your station just outside the large
front window of the house, which
is within a few paces of the public
street. You will find the locale
rather busy, but be assured that
nobody will take any notice of you.
Whatever happens, I pray you take
no action of any kind. Do nothing,
say nothing, merely wait. You will
see me enter the house. By then
it will be dark, and the interior
lights will be on. Keep a close
observation through the window,
and at some point you will see me
make this gesture. Here, he lifted
his right arm from the elbow and
slowly lowered it again.
When you see that, light
the firecrackers and toss them
through the window, which will
have been opened, and at the top
of your voice shout Fire! You
may shout the word twice, or even
three times, but no more. Then
walk calmly to the junction of Bo
Aung Kyaw and Anawrahta streets
and wait for me in the teashop on
the corner there, where I will join
you presently.

Scandal

With that, U Sha Lok

disappeared into his room and
emerged a few moments later in
yet another disguise. This time,
he was attired as a Christian
clergyman, with a long, rusty
black gown, gaiters and a black
silken shirt with a white reversed
collar. He was also wearing round
spectacles and had dusted his hair
with talcum powder, giving it a
silvery appearance. Some kind
of padding around the middle
completed the effect, for nobody
would have seen, in the portly,
elderly, mild-mannered Catholic
priest who now stood gently
blinking before me, the lean,
vibrant, sardonic and incisive
consulting detective I knew him
to be. Nor yet did he resemble
the horny-handed, betel-stained
jobbing carpenter whose identity
he had assumed earlier in the
day. Truly, mastery of disguise
was with U Sha Lok a skill just as
sharp as those of observation and
deduction.
It took but a moment to hail a
passing sidecar, and we arrived in
front of the cathedral, before Daw
Aye Linns mansion in Bo Aung
Kyaw Street, just as the sun was
setting.
The street seemed to me
surprisingly bustling. In addition
to the pavement tables set out
by the neighbouring teashops,
each occupied by laughing and
chattering patrons, I spotted at
least two cigarette sellers, a young
woman frying dumplings on a
makeshift kerbside stove, half a
dozen shirtless young men playing
an energetic bout of chinlone, and
a palmist. As U Sha Lok had bade
me, I took up my station in front
of the large window of Daw Aye
Linns front room. It was at that
moment that a silver luxury car
glided to a halt outside the house.
The chauffeur leapt from the
driving seat to open the rear door,
and a woman emerged.
I recognised her at once, of
course. U Sha Lok may not be a film
fan, but I myself have been known
to pop into the cinema from time
to time. Long after her premature
retirement, Daw Aye Linn was
still a beautiful woman, and an
imposing presence whether on the
stage or, evidently, in the street.
For her appearance at this juncture
provoked a kind of riot.
Two of the teashop patrons
decided to take their discussion of
the relative merits of Chelsea and
Arsenal to the point of violence,

knocking their plastic stools

backwards as they surged to their
feet and began grappling. As the
two swayed in violent embrace
dangerously into Daw Aye Linns
path, three of the chinlone players
joined in, hurling themselves on
top of the two tea drinkers, though
whether to separate them or support
them was unclear. In the centre of
this melee then wandered a gently
blinking priest, whose softly spoken
and ineffectual attempts to quell the
disturbance were entirely ignored.
Nothing daunted, he stepped
forward, apparently to shield the
actress as the fighters lurched
unheeding in her direction and
then, in a flash, he was down, his
face bloodied, and the angry men
suddenly dispersed in all directions.
In an instant their places were
taken, with the palmist and the
noodle-fryer hastening up to
minister to the fallen minister.
Hes hurt real bad, maam,
drawled the frying lady in a Delta
twang. Es out cold! piped up
the palmist, appealing to Daw Aye
Linn in pure Kyauktada township
cockney. Cant you take him
inside, Miss? E needs an ice pack
on that nose, and no mistake.
Amalei! Look at all that blood!
Alone in the madding crowd,
Daw Aye Linn retained her
cool demeanour. Turning to the
chauffeur, she said in a low voice,
Ko Naing, fetch Maung Zeya
and the two of you help this poor
gentleman into the house.
Within minutes it was done.
Faithful to my instructions, I had
taken no part in this pavement
drama, merely holding my station
at the window and observing. I
remained there now and, in the
deepening twilight, saw the light
come on in the front room of the
house as U Sha Loks recumbent
form was carried in and laid on
a sofa. A moment later the lady
appeared, accompanied by a maid.
Ma Sein, an ice-pack, hot water,
bandages, she said crisply.
The stricken priest then
appeared to revive slightly, feebly
clutching at his throat.
Zeya, the window, I heard
Daw Aye Linn say, and the
houseboy flung open the window
not two feet from me. As the
women busied themselves around
him, applying the ice-pack to his
nose, U Sha Lok slowly raised his
right hand, then lowered it. This
was my moment.
Next Week: The biter bit

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General Listing

The Essentials
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,
6th 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 @
mptmail.net.mm
Canada
9th 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
Yeiktha Road, Yangon. Tel:
222886, 222887,
Egyptembassy86@gmail.
com
France 102, Pyidaungsu
Yeiktha Road, Yangon. Tel:
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.
mm
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, 2309543. 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
Yeiktha Road, Yangon. Tel:
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 7, Gandamar
St, Yankin Tsp, Yangon.
Tel: 558149-151, Email:
p.e. yangon@gmail.com
Saudi Arabia No.6/S,
Inya Yeiktha St, 10th 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,
Yangon. Tel: 515282,
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,
Yangon. Tel: 222812,
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

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 : 6504056, 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.

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Emergency Numbers
Ambulance tel: 295133.
Fire tel: 191, 252011, 252022.
Police emergency tel: 199.
Police headquarters tel: 282541, 284764.
Red Cross tel:682600, 682368
Traffic 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: 067407007.
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 Office
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.

ACCOMMODATIONHOTELS

Excel Treasure Hotel

Yangon

AsiA PlAzA Hotel

YANGON
No. 277, Bogyoke Aung
San Road, Corner of
38th Street, Kyauktada
Township, Yangon,
Myanmar.
Tel : (951) 391070, 391071.
Reservation@391070
(Ext) 1910, 106.
Fax : (951) 391375. Email :
hotelasiaplaza@gmail.com
Avenue 64 Hotel
No. 64 (G), Kyitewine
Pagoda Rd, Mayangone Tsp,
Yangon. Tel : 09-8631392,
01 656913-9

No.520, Kaba Aye Pagoda

Road, Bahan Township,
Yangon, Myanmar.
Tel: 01-559150 to 7
Fax: 01-559150

Excel River View

Hotel

No.(3) Block (1 to 4), Near

Thanlyin Bridge, Thanlyin
Township, Yangon Myanmar.
Tel: 056-22550, 09-8601892,
Fax: 056-22546,

Excel Palace Hotel

No.(25, D1), New University

Avenue Road, Bahan Township, Yangon, Myanmar.
Tel: 01-544491, 01-556601
Fax: 525028, 01-544604
excel@myanmar.com.mm
autospeed123@gmail.com
www.exceltreasurehotel.com

Novotel Yangon Max

459, Pyay Rd, Kamayut
Tsp, Yangon, Myanmar.
Tel.: +95(1) 2305858
Email: bqsales1
novotelyangon@gmail.com
Parkroyal Yangon,
Myanmar
33, Alan Pya Pagoda Rd,
Dagon tsp.
tel: 250388. fax: 252478.
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.

No. 12, Pho Sein Road,

Tamwe Township, Yangon
Tel : (95-1) 209299, 209300,
209343 Fax : (95-1) 209344
bestwestern.com/
greenhillhotelyangon.com
Chatrium Hotel
40 Natmauk Rd, Tarmwe.
tel: 544500. fax: 544400.
Confort Inn
4, Shweli Rd, Bet: Inya Rd
& U Wisara Rd, Kamaryut,
tel: 525781, 526872
Clover Hotel
No.7A, Wingabar Road,
Bahan Tsp, Yangon.
Tel : (951) 546313, 430245.
09-731-77781~4. Fax : (01)
546313.
www.cloverhotel.asia.
info@cloverhotel.asia
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. (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

153/159,Bogyoke Ag San Rd,

Botataung Tsp.Yangon,
Tel: 951-298986,296209,
www.grandlaurelhotel.com
Hotel Grand United
(Chinatown)
621, Maharbandoola Rd,
Latha Tsp, Yangon.
Tel: (95-1) 372256-58
(21st Downtown)
66-70, 21st 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

Winner Inn
42, Than Lwin Rd, Bahan
Tsp. Tel: 503734, 524387.
email: reservation@winner
innmyanmar.com

No.183, 35th St; Bet; 77th

&78th Street, Mahar Aung
Myae Tsp, Mandalay. Ph: 02
67 404, 67 405, 67 406, 67
407, 67 408, website:www.
yuanshenghotel.com,
Email: sale.yuanshenghotel
@gmail.com
Yuzana Garden Hotel
Alanpya Pagoda Rd, Dagon
Tsp. Tel: 503734, 524387.

ACCOMMODATIONHOTELS (NAy PyI TAw)

186, Lu Nge Thitsar
Street, on Thitsar Road,
Yankin Township, Yangon,
Myanmar. Ph: +951-8550
283, +951-8550 284,
+959-2540 63632, E-mail:
enquiry@hotelyankin.com,
www.hotelyankin.com

Excel Capital Hotel

Nay Pyi Taw

No.(23/24), Yarza Thingaha

Rd, Dekhina Thiri Township
Nay Pyi Taw, Myanmar.
Tel: 067-8106011 to 17,
Fax: 067-8106020,
excel@myanmar.com.mm
autospeed123@gmail.com
www.exceltreasurehotel.com

No.1, Wut Kyaung St,

Yay Kyaw, Pazundaung Tsp,
Yangon, Myanmar.
Ph: 01-8610640, 01-202187,
www.mkhotelyangon.com
Panda Hotel
Min Ye Kyaw Swa Road,
Lanmadaw Tsp, Yangon.
Tel: (95-1) 212850 ~ 3,
229358 ~ 61,
Inya Lake Resort Hotel
37 Kabar Aye Pagoda Rd.
tel: 662866. fax: 665537.

Reservation Office (Yangon)

123, Alanpya Pagoda Rd,
Dagon Township
Tel
: 951- 255 819~838
Hotel Max, (Nay Pyi Taw)
Tel
: 067- 414 177,
067- 4141 88
E-Mail: reservation@
maxhotelsgroup.com

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ACCOMMODATION
LONG TERM

ARCHITECTS &
MODULAR BUILDINGS

HAPPY HOMES
REAL ESTATE & PROPERTY
MANAGEMENT

Tel: 09-7349-4483,
09-4200-56994.
E-mail: aahappyhomes@
gmail.com, http://www.
happyhomesyangon.com
Hotel Yangon
91/93, 8th Mile Junction,
Tel : 01-667708, 667688.

BEAUTY & MASSAGE

contactus@greenarc.net.au
Tel : 09-730-22820

AIR CONDITION

Marina Residence
8, Kabar Aye Pagoda Rd,
Mayangone Tsp.
tel: 6506 51~4. fax: 650630.
Sakura Residence
9, Inya Rd, Kamaryut Tsp.
tel: 525001. fax: 525002.
Sule Shangri-La Hotel
223 Sule Pagoda Rd. tel:
242828. fax: 242838.
Yuzana Hotel
130, Shwegondaing Rd,
Bahan Tsp, tel : 01-549600

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
General Aircon
83-91, Ground Flr, Bo Aung
Kyaw St, Kyauktada.
Ph: 01-706223, 373462.
Hitachi Aircon
SA 7, Aung Zaya Housing,
Ahlone Strand Rd, Corner
of Ahlone Rd & Strand Rd.
Ahlone tsp.Tel: 01-2301267, 09-431-53423.

BOOK STORES

ADVERTISING & MEDIA

WE STARTED THE ADVERTISING
INDUSTRY IN MYANMAR SINCE 1991

MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS

A D V E RT I S I N G

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

Beauty 49
49 street (middle),
Botataung Tsp.
Tel:292650
California Skin Spa
NO 32.B, Inya Myaing Road,
Yangon. (Off University
Road) Tel : 01-535097,
01-501295. Open Daily :
(10 AM - 8 PM)

KH Hotel, Yangon
28-A, 7 Miles, Pyay Rd,
Mayangone Tsp, Yangon.
Ph: 95-1-652532, 652533

17, Kabar Aye Pagoda Rd,

Yankin Tsp.
Tel: 650933. Fax: 650960.
Email : micprm@
myanmar.com.mmwww.
myanmar micasahotel.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

150 Dhamazedi Rd.,

Bahan Tsp, Yangon.
Tel: (01) 536306, 537805.
Email: mbt.marketing.
mgr@gmail.com
15(B), Departure Lounge,
Yangon Intl Airport.
# 87/2, Crn of 26th & 27th
St, 77th St, Chan Aye Thar
Zan Tsp, Mandalay.
Tel: (02) 24880
ELT Showroom:
# 43, 165 St, Tarmwe Tsp,
Yangon.
Tel: (09) 5116687

YANGON
La Source Beauty Spa
12-E, Inya Rd, Kamayut Tsp.
Tel: 512380, 526653
Beauty Bar by La Source
Shop (1004), Sedona Hotel,
Tel : 860 5377 Ext : 7167
MANDALAY
La Source Beauty Spa
13/13, Mya Sandar St,
bet: 26 x 27, bet: 62 x 63,
Chanaye Tharzan Tsp.
Tel : 09-4440-24496.
www.lasourcebeautyspa.com

CAR RENTAL

CLEANING SERVICES

FASHION & TAILOR

CENTURION AUTO GROUP

Corporate Car Rental
Transfer | Daily | Monthly| Fleet

English Speaking Driver

On-board Wi-Fi
$1-million Insurance
Concierge & Refreshment
Defensive Driver Training
Tel: 571586, 09 250188232
www.centurionauto.com

Car Rental Service

No. 56, Bo Ywe St,
Latha Tsp, Yangon.
Tel : 01-246551, 375283,
09-2132778, 09-31119195.
Gmail:nyanmyintthu1983@
gmail.com,
Moe Car Rental
Than Thu Mar Rd,
Thuwunna, Thingangyun.
Tel: 09-2540-07712, 0949570697, 09-799658370.
MYANMAR EXECUTIVE
LIMOUSINE SERVICE

HOT LINE:
09 - 402 510 003
01-646 330
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

Commercial Cleaning
Services and Products
Carpet, Windows,
Upholsteries, Floor,
Buildings...We Clean It All!
For FREE estimates,
Contact: 09 730 35336,
09 7321 2220 or
ppcscleaning@gmail.com

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

COLD STORAGE

Est. 1992 in Myanmar

Cold Storage Specialist,
Solar Hot Water Storage
Solutions.
Tel: 951 663656, 951
665848, Email: sales@
glovermkm.com.mm

CONSTRUCTION

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

FITNESS CENTRE
Balance Fitnesss
University Avenue Rd,
Bahan Tsp. Yangon.
01-656916, 09 8631392
Email - info@
balancefitnessyangon.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, 01220881, 549478 (Ext : 103)
Email : realfitnessmyanmar
@gmail.com
www.realfitnessmyanmar.com

FLORAL SERVICES
Marina Residence, Yangon
Ph: 650651~4, Ext: 109
Beauty Plan, Corner of
77th St & 31st St, Mandalay
Ph: 02 72506
Yves Rocher
147, Shwe Gone Taing Rd,
West Yay Tar Shay Ward,
Bahan, Ph: 01-8604930~31

BUSINESS SERVICE

Self Drive Daily Rental

Brand New Left Hand
Drive
Comprehensive Insurance
Daily Rental (24 hours)
Unlimited Kilometres
24/7 Roadside Assistance
www.yomafleet.com
soe@yomafleet.com
+95 9 4500 35280

Zamil Steel
No-5, Pyay Road,
7 miles,
Mayangone Tsp, Yangon.
Tel: (95-1) 652502~04.
Fax: (95-1) 650306.
Email: zamilsteel@
zamilsteel.com.mm

CO WORKING SPACE

DELIVERY SERVICE

News & Business Ideas

facebook box.com.mm
http://box.com.mm

Express Courier & Cargo

One Stop Logistic Solution
Ygn, Hot Line: 011224270

No. (6), Lane 2

Botahtaung Pagoda St,
Yangon.
01-9010003, 291897.
info@venturaoffice.com,
www.venturaoffice.com

CONSULTING

Myanmar Research | Consulting

Capital Markets

Shwe Hinthar B 307, 6 1/2

Miles, Pyay Rd., Yangon.
Tel: +95 (0)1 654 730
info@thuraswiss.com
www.thuraswiss.com

DUTY FREE

Duty Free Shops

Yangon International
Airport, Arrival/Departure
Mandalay International
Airport, Departure
Office: 17, 2nd street,
Hlaing Yadanarmon Housing,
Hlaing Township, Yangon.
Tel: 500143, 500144, 500145.

ELECTRICAL

Est. 1992 in Myanmar

Electrical & Mechanical
Contractors, Designers,
Consultants.
Tel: 951 663656, 951
665848, Email: sales@
glovermkm.com.mm

Worlds leader in
Kitchen Hoods & Hobs
Same as Ariston Water
Heater. Tel: 251033,
379671, 256622, 647813

GEMS & JEWELLERIES

Kham Le
22, Thukha Waddy St,
Suneyan Park, Yankin, Ph:
01-8605223, 8605224.

Ruby & Rare Gems

of Myanamar
No. 527, New University
Ave., Bahan Tsp. Yangon.

sales@manawmaya.com.mm
www.manawmayagems.com

Tel: 549612, Fax : 545770.

Your Most Reliable Jeweller

The Natural Gems of

Myanmar & Fine Jewellery.
No. 30(A), Pyay Road,
(7 mile), Mayangone Tsp,
Yangon, Myanmar.
Tel : 01-660397, 666052,
666053,Fax:(95)-1-664574
spgems.myanmar@
gmail.com, www.facebook.
com/pages/SP-Gems

GENERATORS
Floral Service & Gift Shop
No. 449, New University
Avenue, Bahan Tsp. YGN.
Tel: 559011, 541217,
09-730-55660
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 :
eternalflowers99@gmail.
com

Genarator & Forklift

Sales and Rental
589-592, Bo Aung Kyaw
St, Yangon-Pathein
highway Rd. Hlaing
Tharyar tsp.Tel:-951645334;Fax:951-645211.
e-mail:mkt-pgis@
winstrategic.com.mm.
hot line +9595057182

HEALTH SERVICES
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.

GLASS

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

GAS COOKER &

COOKER HOODS

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 : 096803505, 09-449004631.
Naypyitaw : Level (2),
Capital Hyper Mart,
Yazathingaha Street,
Outarathiri Tsp. Tel : 0933503202, 09-73050337

98(A), Kaba Aye Pagoda

Road, Bahan Township,
Yangon. Tel: 542979,
553783, 09-732-16940.
Fax: 542979
Email: asiapacific.
myanmar@gmail.com.
Dent Myanmar
Condo (C), Room (001),
Tatkatho Yeikmon Housing,
New University Avenue Rd,
Bahan Tsp, Yangon.
Tel: 09 8615162, 09 8615163,
542 375, (Ext 1155)

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

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

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OFFICE FURNITURE
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

NO.61, 2nd Floor, 101 Street,

Kandawlay, Mingalar
Taung Nyunt Tsp, Yangon,
Myanmar.
Ph: 01-205102, 09 2603
60932, 09 2603 60933,
09 3334 6666

Tel : 01-9000712~13 Ext : 330

09-4200-77039.
direct2u@mmrdrs.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
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

99 Condo, Ground Floor,

Room (A), Damazedi Rd,
Kamayut Township,
Yangon, Myanmar.
Tel : 09-2504-28700
info@decorum.mm.com

HOTEL SUPPLY

Intl Quality Uniform &

Promo Gifts
for Corporate, Hotel, F&B
Tel: (959) 972 154 990,
Email: suchada@
stgroupholdings.com

Premium Chef Uniform

No. H-8, May Kha Housing,

May Kha St., Thingangyun
Tsp, Yangon.
Tel: 01 855 0105, 09 506
7816, 09 254443366
Email: theworkwear
myanmar@gmail.com
www.facebook.com/
workwearmyanmar

HOUSING

Sole Distributor
For the Union of
Myanmar Since 1995
Myanmar Golden Rock
International Co.,Ltd.
79-D, Bo Chein St, Pyay Rd,
6 Mile, Hlaing Tsp,
Tel: 654810~654819
654844~654848

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

01 9000 712~3, Ext 330/332,

Email: enquiries.HM@
mmrdrs.com, www.
hermanmillerasia.com

PERFECT SOLUTIONS FOR

YOUR OFFICE SPACE!
Taw Win Center, 3rd Flr,
Rm 4031/4033, Pyay Rd,
Dagon Tsp, Yangon.
Email: bd1@bristol.com.mm
web: www.bristol.com.my
Ph: 09-2540 14097,
09-259455550

Moby Dick Tours Co., Ltd.

Islands Safari in the Mergui
Archipelago
No.89-91, Rm No.2, Gr Fr,
32nd St, Pabedan Tsp, Ygn.
Tel / Fax: 01-380382
E-mail: info@islandsafari
mergui.com. Website: www.
islandsafarimergui.com

REAL ESTATE

European Quality
& Designs Indoor/
Outdoor Furniture, Hotel
Furniture & All kinds of
woodworks
Office 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.

PAINT

SUPPLIER of Quality Paints

DECORATIVE COATINGS
PROTECTIVE COATINGS
MARINE COATINGS
POWDER COATINGS
Jotun Myanmar (Services)
Co. Ltd.
G-7, May Kha Housing,
Lay Doung Kan Road,
Thingangyun Township,
Yangon-Myanmar
Tel: +95 1 566716, 566843
jotun.com

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

Real Estate Agent

N o Fe e s fo r C l i e n t s ,
Contact Us : 09 2050107,
robin@prontorealtor.com

Legendary Myanmar Intl

Shipping & Logistics Co.,
Ltd.
No-9, Rm (A-4), 3rd Flr,
Kyaung St, Myaynigone,
Sanchaung Tsp, Yangon.
Tel: 516827, 523653,
516795.
Mobile. 09-512-3049.
Email: legandarymyr@
mptmail.net .mm
www.LMSL-shipping.com

American best practices

Pabaedan Township.
09 253 559 848
info@PathwayMoving.com
www.PathwayMoving.com
Yangons premier mover

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.

62 D, U Htun Nyein Road

Mayangone Tsp, Yangon
Tel 01 665 516, 01 660 975
Reserv. 09 7703 0755
(facebook) operayangon
operayangon@gmail.com
www.operayangon.com

NAY PYI TAW BRANCH

Nirvana Hotel & Resort
No. MH-3,
4, Yar Za Thin Gaha Road
Datkhina Thiri Township
Hotel Zone 1, Nay Pyi Taw
Reserv. 09 795 915 540
Tel 067 422253, 067 422256

22, Kaba Aye Pagoda Rd,

Bahan Tsp. tel 541997.
email: leplanteur@
mptmail.net.mm.
http://leplanteur.net

G-05, Marketplace by
City Mart.
Tel: 01-523840 Ext: 105

Executive Serviced
Office, Registered
and Virtual Office, Hot
Desking, Meeting Rooms
Tel: +(95) 1 387947
www.officehubservices,com

Design, Fabrication,
Supply & Erection of Steel
Structures
Tel : +95 9 252399569
Email : Sales@WECMyanmar.com
www.WEC-Myanmar.com

WATER HEATERS

The Global leader in

Water Heaters
A/1, Aung San Stadium
East Wing, Upper
Pansodan Road.
Tel: 01-256705, 399464,
394409, 647812.

From Malaysia/Italy

RESORT

WATER PROOFING

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

WATER TREATMENT

SPORTS

Premium Trophies

No. H-8, May Kha Housing,

May Kha St., Thingangyun
Tsp, Yangon. Tel: 01 855
0105, 09 540 8885. Email:
trophystudio@gmail.com
www.facebook.com/
trophystudio.mm

Water & Wastewater

Treatment (Since 1997)
Amd Supply Package
Fiberglass Wastewater
System for Offices,
Condominiums & Hotels
Project. Can Design for
YCDC Permit Application.
39-B, Thazin Lane, Ahlone.
09-5161431, 09-43126571,
01-218437~8

WATER SOLUTION

Aekar

Company Limited

Reservation Office (Yangon)

123, Alanpya Pagoda Rd,
Dagon Township
Tel
: 951- 255 819~838
Max Resort (Chaung Tha)
Tel
: 042 42346~9
E-Mail: reservation@
maxhotelsgroup.com

SANITARY WARE

The Taj
Ph 09 972662518/09
252451353 Aung San
Stadium East Wing

www.exploremyanmar.com
www.exploreglobaltravel.
com

Made in Japan
Same as Rinnai Gas Cooker
and Cooker Hood
Showroom Address

SUPERMARKETS

World famous Kobe Beef

Near Thuka Kabar
Hospital on Pyay Rd,
Marlar st, Hlaing Tsp.
Tel: +95-1-535072

Ph: 01-9010378, 9010382,

Water Heater

G-01, City Mart

(Myay Ni Gone Center).
Tel: 01-508467-70 Ext: 106

Delicious Hong Kong Style

Food Restaurant
G-09, City Mart (Myay Ni
Gone Center).
Tel: 01-508467-70 Ext: 114

Heaven Pizza
38/40, Bo Yar Nyunt St.
Yaw Min Gyi Quarter,
Dagon Township.
Tel: 09-855-1383

Shan Yoma Tours Co.,Ltd

Tel : 01-4413410

STEEL STRUCTURE

Quality Chinese Dishes

with Resonable Price
@Marketplace by City Mart.
Tel: 01-523840 Ext.109

REMOVALISTS

Relocation Specialist
Rm 504, M.M.G Tower,
#44/56, Kannar Rd,
Botahtaung Tsp.
Tel: 250290, 252313.
Mail : info@asiantigersmyanmar.com

SERVICE OFFICE

Asian Trails Tour Ltd

73 Pyay Rd, Dagon tsp.
tel: 211212, 223262.
fax: 211670. email: res@
asiantrails.com.mm

www.hinthabusinesscentres.com

Monsoon Restaurant
& Bar 85/87, Thein Byu
Road, Botahtaung Tsp.
Tel: 295224, 09-501 5653.

Coffee & Snack Bar

Shop: No.150, Dhamazedi
Road, Bahan Township,
Yangon, Myanmar,
09-3621-4523, gustocafe.
yangon@gmail.com

Yangon International
School (YIS)
Grades, Pre-school Grade 12.
American Curriculum.
117, Thumingalar Housing
Thingangyun Tsp
Yangon, Myanmar.
Tel : 95 1 578171, 573149
Fax : 95 1 578604
Website :
www.yismyanmar.com

Executive Serviced Offices

For House-Seekers

with Expert Services

In all kinds of Estate Fields
yomaestatemm@gmail.com
09-332 87270 (Fees Free)
09-2541 26615, 09254392553

SC STORAGE YANGON
Monthly storage available
Transportation of goods
provided,
Mobile: 09-253 559 848,
Email: YangonStorage@
gmail.com

Enchanting and Romantic,

a Bliss on the Lake

Good taste & resonable

price
@Thamada Hotel
Tel: 01-243047, 243639-41
Ext: 32
Executive Serviced Offices
Contact : 09 301 66 888
sales777Lux@gmail.com

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,
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Come fly with me

Singer Sai Sai Kham Leng
was among the guests at Air
Asias flight promotion at
Junction Square on June 13.
He even donned a red jacket
for the occasion!

Tep Neeranatpuree

Crowd-surfing

Chonnikaran Bumrasarinpai

Pornrun Retanapitakkul

Sai Sai Kham Leng

A different kind
of music festival
While Voice of the Youth
got crowds rocking,
the Myanmar classical
music festival struck
a different tone at the
National Theatre on
June 14. The event was
held in partnership
with the Ministry of
Culture and the United
Nations in celebration
of their 70th anniversary,
and featured classical
music performances by
international artists as well
as Myanmar students.

Benjamin Schwartz

Sarah

Ko Khun Kyaw Win Myint and Ko Kyaw Zay Yar Win

Kevin and Steven

Ko Win Minn Htet

The Voice of the Youth music

festival, organised by nonprofit organisation Turning
Tables, saw thousands of
music fans cramming into
the very muddy grounds
of the Institute Francais on
June 13 and 14. Over 30
local bands performed at the
festival, including Side Effect,
Nightmare, Darkest Tears
from My Heart, and rappers
Cyclone and G Tone. Danish
rock band Dune, invited by
the Danish embassy to help
mark the 60th anniversary of
Danish-Myanmar diplomatic
relations, also performed to
an enthusiastic crowd.

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EVENTS
FRIDAY 19
ART
Should we play or should we rest?
Group art exihibition featuring works by
five progressive female Myanmar artists:
May Moe Thu, Ma Ei, Zun Ei Phyu, Zoncy
and Nwe. Gallery 65, 65 Yaw Min Gyi
Road, Dagon 9-5pm
Early Rain Art Show. Featuring various
artists. Golden Valley Art Centre, 54D
Golden Valley Road. Daily (until June 20)
9-6pm

MUSIC
Live music at Studio Bar. Are you ready
to Rock? Live band every Thursday, Friday
and Saturday. Studio Bar, 459 Pyay Road,
Kamaryut 7-10pm
Live music by the Aaron Gallegos Trio,

featuring vocalist Tom Barton. Gekko, 535

Merchant Road 7pm
Nightly live music. Kokine Bar and
Restaurant (next to Kokine Swimming
Club) 6-11pm

MISC
Human Rights Human Dignity
International Film Festival. Waziya
and Nay Pyi Taw cinemas. For more
information visit www.hrhdiff.org/
screening-events
Friday night bike ride around Yangon.
Ride is free of charge. Bike rental (if
required) K15,000. Start place is Bike World,
6 Mile, Pyay Road, Hlaing 9pm

NIGHTLIFE
The Yangon Vibe. Resident DJ Mr Y will
be spinning for your pleasure, with R&B,
party anthems and a dose of house to
dance and sing to all night. Mojo Bar, 135
Inya Road, Kamaryut 10pm

WHATS ON PICK OF THE WEEK

Yangon Yogis stretch

for International
Yoga Day on June 21
NYEIN CHAN MAY

BREATHE deeply and concentrate.

If youre not busy on Sunday, or
even if you are, why not make
your way down to Yangons
Thuwunna Stadium to watch and
practise yoga? For June 21 is
the International Day of Yoga, as
proclaimed by no less an authority
than the United Nations last
December.
Since yoga is also an ancient
tradition of India, the Indian
embassy has helped organise the
free event in collaboration with the
Ministry of Sport.
The UN said yoga provides a
holistic approach to health and

well-being, and encouraged the wider

dissemination of information about
its benefits for the health of the world
population. Enthusiasts say it helps
the practitioner achieve stress relief,
inner peace, improved immunity,
a happy mind, increased energy,
better flexibility and posture, better
intuition and weight loss.
The exhibition will demonstrate
the health values of each of the
exercises. But I think these will not
be difficult, Indian ambassador
Gautam Mukhopadhaya told a June
4 press conference to publicise the
event.
A similar event will take place
in Mandalay at Mandalar Thiri
Football Stadium.

Monsoon Umbrella Latin Spirit. Dance

the night away with Latin dance expert
Ghizzy and Latin tunes by DJ Bay Tar.
Chatrium Hotel Royal Lake Yangon, 40
Natmauk Road, Tarmwe 7pm

SATURDAY 20
ART
Yangon Echoes photo exhibition. Archival
prints from the book Yangon Echoes by
Virginia Henderson and Tim Webster.
Myanmar Deitta, 49 (3rd floor), 44th Street,
Botahtaung 5-8pm

MUSIC
Wine down with Mo-Town. Live music
from Soul Union. Union Bar and Grill, 42
Strand Road, Botahtaung 7-10pm
Unplugged music night. B2O Bistro Bar, 98
20th Street, Latha 8-10pm

MISC

Yangon Echoes by the authors themselves.

Rangoon Tea House, 77 Pansodan Road,
Kyauktada 3pm
International Yoga Day. Yoga
demonstrations. Thuwanna Stadium, Wai
Za Yan Tar Road, Thingangyun 8am (see
our pick of the week)
Sunday BBQ. Bring ID and US$. Australian
Club, 18 Shwe Taung Kyar Road 5-8pm
Yoga Class. Stretch your limbs in the
outdoor covered studio on the lake, with
a beautiful view and gentle breezes. Oneand-a-half hours for K7000. LOpera Italian
Restaurant, 62D U Htun Nyein Street,
Mayangon 9am

MUSIC
Ah Ngel: 90 Minute Solo Live show.
Tickets K50,000 (only 1000 tickets
will be sold). Tickets available at 5
NETWORK Showroom, 4 Digital The Sun
Music Production and 1876 Call Center.
Myanmar Event Park, Shin Saw Pu Street,
Sanchaung 8:30pm

The Fat Ox pool tournament. K5000 entry,

winner takes all! The Fat Ox, 50th Street
(middle block), Botahtaung 7-10pm

Weekly run. All levels of runner can join.

Balance Fitness, 103 University Avenue
(corner of Thanlwin Street), Bahan 7:15am

Salsa night. Learn some funky Latin

moves at Club 5, Park Royal Hotel, 33 Alan
Pya Phaya Road, Dagon 711pm

The Yangon Hash. A mixed, family-style

Hash runs usually take about an hour.
K4000. University Avenue (at the main
entrance to the old university) 2:45-8pm

Trivia Night. Free beer pitcher for round

winners and winning team gets a
K30,000 bar tab. 50th Street Bar, 50th Street
(lower block) 8-11pm

MUSIC
Live music at Studio Bar. Are you ready
to rock? Live band every Thursday, Friday
and Saturday. Studio Bar, 459 Pyay Road,
Kamaryut 7-10pm

MISC
Tea House Talk: Inside Yangon Echoes.
Come by for afternoon tea and hear
short talks on the making of the book

Salsa at Salud. K5000 entry includes free

Mojito, beer or cocktail of your choice.
Salud Salsa Club, 7C Wingabar Road (next
to Clover Hotel), Bahan 8pm
Daiquiri cocktails night. Try our new
seasonal flavored Daiquiris. Buy one get
one free. The Lab, 70A Shwegonedaing
Road, Bahan 5:30pm
Ladys Night. One free cocktail for ladies.
B20 Bar and Bistro, 96 20th Street, Latha
8-11:45pm

THURSDAY 25
MISC
Myanmar brewery tour. Obligatory
promo video, food and unlimited free
beer. K15,000-20,000, including food and
bus to the brewery. Myanmar Brewery,
Pyinmapin Mingalardon, Mingalardon.
3pm bus from the Central Train Station
(a stop further up-town can be arranged

Yangon Heritage Trust walking tour.

Tours offer two separate routes: From
Strand Road to Scott Market, and the East
Downtown and Secretariat tour. Tours
last 2.5 hours and require a minimum
of five participants, with a maximum of
15. Price is US$30 per person. Contact 01398105/095017010. 8:30-11am

SUNDAY 21

NIGHTLIFE

MONDAY 22
MISC

if required) RSVP to thefightingcocks@

bigroosterfooty.com

NIGHTLIFE
80s music night. Great gastropub food
and 80s music with DJ Bay Tar. Union
Bar and Grill, 42 Strand Road, Botahtaung
7-12pm

FILM
Start times at Mingalar (1,2), Top Royal,
Shae Saung (1,2) and Nay Pyi Taw
cinemas are 10am, 12:30pm, 3:30pm,
6:30pm and 9:30pm

Japanese Food & 90s music classics.

Music by DJ Bay. Gekko, 535 Merchant
Road, Seikkanthar 7pm-11:45pm

Start times at Junction Square and

Junction Maw Tin are 9:30am, 12:30pm,
3:30pm and 6:30pm daily and 9:30am,
12:30pm, 3:30pm, 6:30pm and 9:30pm
on Friday and Saturday.

Cocktail night. Unlimited cocktails offer

(K8000 per person). B2O Bar and Bistro, 98
20th Street, Latha 8-11:45 pm

Start times at Mingalar San Pya are

10am, 12:30pm, 3:30pm, 6:30pm and
9:30pm

NIGHTLIFE

TUESDAY 23
MISC
Tuesday Snippets. A gathering in which
all sorts of people interested in the future
of the country enjoy conversation and
perhaps some beer until late at night.
Pansodan Gallery, Pansodan Street,
Kyauktada 7-10pm
Tuesday Movies at the Connect Institute.
Free popcorn, chips and soft drinks; fun
games and quizzes; thought-provoking
discussions and more. Connect Institue,
3A Pansodan Business Tower (corner of

Nay Pyi Taw Cinema, near Sule Pagoda

Tomorrowland [2D]. Directed by Brad Bird.
American science-fiction film.
Mad Max: Fury Road [3D]. Directed by
George Miller. Action film.
Jurassic World [3D]. Directed by Colin
Trevorrow. American science-fiction
adventure film.
Shae Saung Cinema,
Sule Pagoda Road, Kyauktada
Jurassic World [3D].
Ghost Coins [2D]. Directe vvvd by Tiwa
Moeithaisong. Thai horror film.
Mingalar San Pya Cineplex, Phone Gyi
Street and Anawrahta, Lanmadaw
Jurassic World [3D].

Anawrahta Road and Pansodan Street)

Mingalar Cinema 2,

2:30pm-4pm

Dagon Center 2, Myaynigone

Jurassic World [3D].

WEDNESDAY 24
MUSIC
Jazz music and dinner. Enjoy jazz music
and a great dinner in a friendly musical
atmosphere. The Rendez-Vous Restaurant,
340 Pyay Road 7:30pm-9:30pm

Junction Square,
Kyun Taw Road, near Hanthawaddy Circle
San Andreas [3D]. Directed by Brad Peyton.
American disaster film.
Juntion Maw Tin, Corner of Anawrahta
Road and Lan Thit Street, Lanmadaw
San Andreas.

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FILM REVIEW

George Clooney is Mr Incredible in world-saver adventure

Brad Birds new Disney film may not kickstart a whole new franchise, but its enormous fun as
it hurtles through space, time, and other dimensions
I

TS a brave family movie

that invests in high-budget
thrills without the safety-net
of a franchise brand, mows down
a small child with a pickup truck
(its OK, shes a robot), and subjects
us to the sight of Hugh Laurie in
black leather jodhpurs. But bolder
still is Tomorrowlands sincere
attempt to jump-start humanitys
technological optimism, which it
reckons stalled with the decline
of the space race with potentially
planet-threatening consequences.
Whether or not thats the answer
to the planets current problems,
director Brad Bird deserves praise
for packing such big ideas into such
an accessible, rip-roaring, retrofuturist adventure.
What exactly Tomorrowland is, or
even where it is, is difficult to explain.
A prologue at the 1964 New York
Worlds Fair sees Frank, a boy-genius
inventor wholl grow up to be George

Clooney, given a Tomorrowland badge

by a mysterious little English girl. It
grants him access to a VIP themepark ride that whisks visitors to a
secret world of the future, or a parallel
present, or something. Anyway,
Tomorrowland itself turns out to be
a space-age utopia, full of slender
glass skyscrapers and flying trains
and citizens apparently dressed by
fashion students. If it looks like an
expensive airline commercial, there
turns out to be a good reason for that.
But then were catapulted to the
present day, where curious Nasa
engineers daughter Casey (Britt
Robertson, who could be Jennifer
Lawrences younger sister) is constantly
being told in class how doomed the
Earth is, but never how to fix it. She, too,
receives a Tomorrowland badge which,
when she touches it, immediately zaps
her to the same future city. Except shes
not really there: Shes just seeing it, like
a giant hologram. Again, its difficult to

explain but delightful to watch. Thats

pretty much the case throughout. As
Clooney says to her at one point: Do I
have to explain everything to you? Cant
you just be amazed?
The story proceeds at a brisk pace,
the answers to the riddles always one
step ahead and mysterious android
baddies one step behind. Athena, the
mysterious English girl, also turns
out to be an android, and is therefore
still a super-smart kid, 50 years on.
Frank, on the other hand, has grown
into an embittered, reclusive mangenius inventor. Once Casey pitches
up at his stronghold, this ad-hoc
family are pitched through a seamless
succession of chases, shootouts and
escapes, sending them hurtling
through space, time and possibly
other dimensions in everything from
a bathtub to a steampunk rocket ship
hidden inside the Eiffel Tower.
As he did with The Incredibles,
director Brad Bird strikes a playful

tone, revelling in retro references,

novel gadgetry and the reckless
momentum of the action. Its great
fun, at least until they finally arrive
in Tomorrowland and face Laurie
and his leather jodhpurs. Judging
by his penchant for monologuing,
Laurie hasnt watched The Incredibles,
though his big humanitys got a
problem speech is actually pretty
spot-on.
It may be named after a pre-existing
area of Disneys theme parks, which
technically makes it a shrewd piece of
product placement like Pirates of the
Caribbean, but Tomorrowland deals
with threats far closer to the real world
than, say, rogue superheroes or alien
robots. It understands that utopia and
dystopia are two sides of the same coin,
and its unafraid to ask big questions
about what we want the future to look
like and what were prepared to do
about it.

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