Week 22: 2010 Election Watch (3-9 August)

Developments

• Union Democracy Party Chairman Phyo Min Thein resigned over concerns that the upcoming elections would not be free and fair due to the oppressive SPDC election laws […]

Weekly Political Events Regarding the SPDC’s Election (028/2010)

In this week’s report , you will find:

* USDP party members and residents stated that USDP organizers in Yenanchaung Township, Magwe Division, were provided with funds to run a money lending business as a means to recruit more members.
ယခုအပတ္ NDD ၏သတင္းမွတ္တမ္းတြင္ –

* ေရနံေခ်ာင္းျမိဳ႕တြင္ ျပည္ေထာင္စုၾက႔ံခုိင္ေရးႏွင္႔ဖြံ႕ျဖိဳးေရးပါတီ USDP ကပါတီစည္းရုံးေရး လုပ္ငန္းတစ္ခုအေနျဖင္႔ စည္းရုံးေရးမႈးမ်ားအား ေငြေခ်းလုပ္ငန္းလုပ္ကိုင္ရန္ အရင္းအႏွီးထုတ္ေပးေနသည္ဟု ပါတီဝန္မ်ားႏွင္႔ေဒသခံမ်ားက ေျပာသည္[…]

Week 21: 2010 Election Watch (27 July – 2 August)

Developments

• The SPDC Election Commission told four leaders of the National Democratic Force that they must seek pardons for their past political activities if they want to participate in the upcoming elections […]

July 2010 Burma Bulletin

The Burma Bulletin is a short month in review of events in Burma, particularly those of interest to the democracy movement and human rights activists.

In the July 2010 issue you will find:

* 2010 elections: double standards, censorship, and coercion
* Military offensive in Eastern Burma
* Aid still needed in the delta […]

Weekly Political Events Regarding the SPDC’s Election (027-2010)

ယခုအပတ္ NDD ၏သတင္းမွတ္တမ္းတြင္ –

* လြန္ခဲ့ေသာ ေမလ (၂၄) ရက္ေန႔တြင္ မီးေလာင္ကြ်မ္းခဲ့ေသာ ရန္ကုန္တိုင္း မဂၤလာေတာင္ညြန္႔ၿမိဳ႕နယ္ မဂၤလာေစ်းဆိုင္ခန္းပိုင္ရွင္မ်ားသည္ ေခ်းေငြရယူလုိပါက ျပည္ေထာင္စု ၾက႕ံခိုင္ေရးႏွင့္ဖြ႔ံၿဖိဳးေရးပါတီ (USDP) မွေခ်းေငြခ်ေပးမည္ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္းႏွင္႔ (USDP) ပါတီဝင္အျဖစ္ ဝင္ရမည္ ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း ေစ်းသူေစ်းသားမ်ားက ေျပာသည္။
* ေဒၚေအာင္းဆန္းစုၾကည္က နအဖစစ္ေခါင္းေဆာင္မ်ားအေနျဖင္႔ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲက်င္းပမည္႔ရက္ကို ယခုအခ်ိန္ထိ မေၾကညာေသးျခင္းသည္ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ ဝင္ေရာက္ ယွဥ္ၿပိဳင္ၾကမည္႔ ႏုိင္ငံေရးပါတီမ်ား အတြက္ တရားမွ်တမႈမရွိရာေရာက္ေၾကာင္း ေျပာဆိုလုိက္သည္ဟု သူမ၏ေရွ႕ေန ဦးဥာဏ္ဝင္းက ေျပာၾကားခဲ႔သည္[…]

Week 20: 2010 Election Watch (20-26 July)

Developments

• The Union Solidarity and Development Party gave the Unity and Democracy Party of Kachin State 50 million kyat (US$52,814) as a start-up election fund […]

July 28, 2010  •  By Altsean-Burma  •  Tags: Altsean-Burma, ASEAN, ASEAN Ministerial Meeting, Indonesia, People's New Society Party, Union Democratic Party, Union Solidarity and Development Party, Unity and Democracy Party of Kachin State  •  Read more ➤

Weekly Political Events Regarding the SPDC’s Election (026-2010)

In this week’s report, you will find:

* News sources from Vietnam revealed that U Nyan Win, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, announced that the military government will allow Daw Aung San Suu Kyi to contest in the elections. U Nyan Win also reaffirmed that the 2008 constitution places no restrictions on Daw Aung San Suu Kyi to participate in the elections.
ယခုအပတ္ NDD ၏သတင္းမွတ္တမ္းတြင္ –

* ျပည္ေထာင္စု ၾက႔ံခိုင္ေရးႏွင္႔ဖြံ႕ျဖိဳးေရးပါတီ (USDP) သည္ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲအတြက္ မဲဆြယ္ရန္ စည္းရုံးေရး သီခ်င္းမ်ားကို နာမည္ေက်ာ္ အဆိုေတာ္မ်ားႏွင့္သြင္းယူျပီး စစ္အစိုးရပိုင္ရုပ္သံမီဒီယာမ်ားတြင္ ထုတ္လႊင္႔ျပသမည္ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း ၿမိဳ႔နယ္အဆင္႔ USDP အတြင္းေရးမႈးတစ္ဦးက ေျပာသည္။

Week 19: 2010 Election Watch (13-19 July)

Developments

• The SPDC granted permission for the pro-junta Union Solidarity and Development Association (USDA) to dissolve. All USDA assets have been transferred to the Union Solidarity and Development Party, led by SPDC PM Thein Sein […]

Extractive Industry Transparency Now United States Law

By Paul Donowitz, Campaign Director

Today, President Obama signed into law the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act passed last week by the U.S. Senate that includes a landmark provision requiring disclosure of payments from oil and mining companies to governments around the world. For the first time, communities who live in resource-rich countries will know how much their governments receive annually, and on a project-by-project basis for the extraction of natural resources […]

အာဆီယံ ရပ္တည္ခ်က္ ျမန္မာ့ႏုိင္ငံေရး အသုိင္းအ၀ုိင္း သံသယရွိ

လြတ္လပ္ၿပီး တရားမွ်တတဲ့ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ က်င္းပေပးဖုိ႔ အေရွ႕ေတာင္အာရွ ႏုိင္ငံမ်ားအသင္း (အာဆီယံ) က ေတာင္းဆုိလုိက္ေပမဲ့ ျမန္မာ့ အတုိက္အခံ အင္အားစုေတြကေတာ့ စစ္အစုိးရ က်င္းပေပးမယ့္ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲဟာ လြတ္လပ္ တရားမွ်တတဲ့ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ ျဖစ္မယ္ဆုိတဲ့အေပၚ သံသယ ရွိေနၾကပါတယ္။ အမ်ဳိးသား ဒီမုိကေရစီ အဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္ကေတာ့ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ မက်င္းပခင္ ၂၀၀၈ ဖြဲ႕စည္းပုံနဲ႔ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ ဥပေဒေတြကုိ ျပင္ဆင္ဖုိ႔ လုိအပ္တယ္လုိ႔ ေျပာပါတယ္။ အျပည့္အစုံကုိ ဆက္သြယ္ စုံစမ္းထားတဲ့ ကုိေဇာ္၀င္းလႈိင္က တင္ျပေပးထားပါတယ္ […]