This blog post provides an overview of the author's experiences as a Burmese exile living in Australia. It discusses the author's friendship with an Australian man named Jason who struggled with heroin addiction. It describes how Jason was arrested for petty theft at their workplace and spent months in jail. It also shares the author's encounter with a young addicted prostitute who reminded him of Jason and brought him to a run-down hotel where she offered her services for money. The post aims to shed light on the hardships faced by both the author and Jason as immigrants in Australia during a time of economic recession.
Mining is an important venture for the economy especially for resource rich countries like Zimbabwe. Often hidden behind these economic benefi ts are environmental, social and cultural impacts that fall on communities in mining areas.
The voices of these aff ected communities are normally hushed by our thrust for profit, development, direct foreign investment and overall economic benefi ts.
Here are some of the community voices on the impacts that mining has had in their lives and that of their communities.
Mining is an important venture for the economy especially for resource rich countries like Zimbabwe. Often hidden behind these economic benefi ts are environmental, social and cultural impacts that fall on communities in mining areas.
The voices of these aff ected communities are normally hushed by our thrust for profit, development, direct foreign investment and overall economic benefi ts.
Here are some of the community voices on the impacts that mining has had in their lives and that of their communities.
The Fortune Hunters : a journey of eternal love by aslam rahaman8981
Sample chapters of best-selling romantic fiction novel based on hindu-muslim love and marriage. This is a love story that breaks all religious barriers. Amir, a young Muslim once addicted to overnight romances is transformed into a staunch believer in the power of everlasting love, thanks to Ragini, a simple and cultured Hindu girl. Both belong to conservative families. Is their love strong enough to withstand the strong opposing currents that threaten to tear Amir and Ragini apart? 'The Fortune Hunters' is a touching saga about the quest for true love that has been corrupted by the cynicism of modern living. Amir, an MBA, finds that his life is empty in the midst of the alluring but elusive Sofi. He discovers that simplicity and sincerity is far more fulfilling that empty glamour when Ragini enters his life. But will the two families validate Amir's discovery of true love?
www.aslamrahaman.com
Burning Down the House Myanmar’s Destructive Charcoal TradeMYO AUNG Myanmar
Burning down the house: Myanmar’s destructive charcoal trade
Deep in the heart of the forests of Myanmar, a massive trade in illicit charcoal to neighboring China is feeding a multi-million dollar industry that connects the forests
and its people to industrial warehouses in China and the products they make for the world.
BY EMMANUEL FREUDENTHAL ON 26 OCTOBER 2017
Mongabay Series: Global Forests
https://news.mongabay.com/2017/10/burning-down-the-house-myanmars-destructive-charcoal-trade/
National League for Democracy party Guide & DisciplineMYO AUNG Myanmar
The National League for Democracy (NLD) is a democratic socialist and liberal political party in Myanmar (Burma), founded on 27 September 1988. Special Honorary President of the Socialist International and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi serves as its general secretary. The party won a substantial parliamentary majority in the 1990 Burmese general election. However, the ruling military junta refused to recognise the result. On 6 May 2010, the party was declared illegal and ordered to be disbanded by the junta after refusing to register for the elections slated for November 2010.In November 2011, the NLD announced its intention to register as a political party to contend future elections and on 13 December 2011, Burma's Union Election Commission approved their application for registration.
In the 2012 by-elections, the NLD contested 44 of the 45 available seats; winning 43, and losing only one seat to the SNDP. Party leader Aung San Suu Kyi won from the seat of Kawhmu.
In the 2015 general election, the NLD won an absolute majority in both houses of the Assembly, possibly paving the way to democracy after decades of military rule.
Land Confiscations and Collective Action in Myanmar’s Dawei Special Economic ...MYO AUNG Myanmar
Global governance/politics, climate justice & agrarian/social justice: linkages and challenges
An international colloquium-4‐5 February 2016
Colloquium Paper No. 59
Land Confiscations and Collective Action in Myanmar’s Dawei
Special Economic Zone Area: Implications for Rural
Democratization
Yukari Sekine
International Institute of Social Studies (ISS)
Kortenaerkade 12, 2518AX
The Hague, The Netherlands
Yukari Sekine is a PhD candidate in Anthropology at the Amsterdam
Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR), University of
Amsterdam. She has an M.A. in Global Studies from Sophia
University, Tokyo, Japan, and a B.A. in Journalism from Pontifícia
Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC‐SP), São Paulo, Brazil. Her
research focuses on land grabbing, collective action and
democratization in Burma/Myanmar.
http://www.irrawaddy.com/burma/a-visual-guide-to-burmas-new-parliament.html
BURMA-A Visual Guide to Burma’s New Parliament
By THE IRRAWADDY| Tuesday, February 2, 2016 |
On Feb. 1, Burma will have a new Parliament with a fresh political order. As the current session wound down on Friday, many lawmakers from the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP)—which held a majority of both houses over the past five years—left the assembly for good. Only 41 USDP members will sit in the new Parliament, which will convene on Monday, some old and a few new.
Aung San Suu Kyi’s party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), will assume 390 seats, enjoying a majority in both houses after a landslide win in the Nov. 8 general election. Those gains account for 80 percent of all contested races. The party only held 43 seats in the outgoing Parliament, which they won in a 2012 by-election.
The NLD-led legislature will bring an assorted set of lawmakers including ethnic minorities, academics and former political prisoners. The number of women in Parliament will have doubled from 31 to 65. Despite the drastic diversification of elected seat-holders, one thing will remain the same: The number of military representatives will be 166.
The Irrawaddy’s researchers put together a few visuals to illustrate the composition of the new legislature.
Research compiled by Wai Yan Aung.
MYANMAR (အစိုးရရုံးမ်ား) Government Offices 2015 (Burmese version)MYO AUNG Myanmar
Ministries in Myanmar
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
The Ministry Of Religious Affairs
Ministry of Commerce
Ministry of Construction
Ministry of Livestock-Fisheries
Ministry of Agriculature and Irrigation
Ministry of Co-Operatives
Ministry of Hotels and Tourism
Ministry of Home Affairs
Progress of order Areas and National Races and Development Affairs
Ministry of Education
Ministry of Health
Ministry of Culture
Myanma Posts and Telecommunications
Ministry of Finance and Revenue
Ministry of Forestry
Ministry of Immigration & Population
Ministry of Industry (1)
Ministry of Industry (2)
Ministry of Transport
Social Welfare, Relife and Resettlement
The Fortune Hunters : a journey of eternal love by aslam rahaman8981
Sample chapters of best-selling romantic fiction novel based on hindu-muslim love and marriage. This is a love story that breaks all religious barriers. Amir, a young Muslim once addicted to overnight romances is transformed into a staunch believer in the power of everlasting love, thanks to Ragini, a simple and cultured Hindu girl. Both belong to conservative families. Is their love strong enough to withstand the strong opposing currents that threaten to tear Amir and Ragini apart? 'The Fortune Hunters' is a touching saga about the quest for true love that has been corrupted by the cynicism of modern living. Amir, an MBA, finds that his life is empty in the midst of the alluring but elusive Sofi. He discovers that simplicity and sincerity is far more fulfilling that empty glamour when Ragini enters his life. But will the two families validate Amir's discovery of true love?
www.aslamrahaman.com
Burning Down the House Myanmar’s Destructive Charcoal TradeMYO AUNG Myanmar
Burning down the house: Myanmar’s destructive charcoal trade
Deep in the heart of the forests of Myanmar, a massive trade in illicit charcoal to neighboring China is feeding a multi-million dollar industry that connects the forests
and its people to industrial warehouses in China and the products they make for the world.
BY EMMANUEL FREUDENTHAL ON 26 OCTOBER 2017
Mongabay Series: Global Forests
https://news.mongabay.com/2017/10/burning-down-the-house-myanmars-destructive-charcoal-trade/
National League for Democracy party Guide & DisciplineMYO AUNG Myanmar
The National League for Democracy (NLD) is a democratic socialist and liberal political party in Myanmar (Burma), founded on 27 September 1988. Special Honorary President of the Socialist International and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi serves as its general secretary. The party won a substantial parliamentary majority in the 1990 Burmese general election. However, the ruling military junta refused to recognise the result. On 6 May 2010, the party was declared illegal and ordered to be disbanded by the junta after refusing to register for the elections slated for November 2010.In November 2011, the NLD announced its intention to register as a political party to contend future elections and on 13 December 2011, Burma's Union Election Commission approved their application for registration.
In the 2012 by-elections, the NLD contested 44 of the 45 available seats; winning 43, and losing only one seat to the SNDP. Party leader Aung San Suu Kyi won from the seat of Kawhmu.
In the 2015 general election, the NLD won an absolute majority in both houses of the Assembly, possibly paving the way to democracy after decades of military rule.
Land Confiscations and Collective Action in Myanmar’s Dawei Special Economic ...MYO AUNG Myanmar
Global governance/politics, climate justice & agrarian/social justice: linkages and challenges
An international colloquium-4‐5 February 2016
Colloquium Paper No. 59
Land Confiscations and Collective Action in Myanmar’s Dawei
Special Economic Zone Area: Implications for Rural
Democratization
Yukari Sekine
International Institute of Social Studies (ISS)
Kortenaerkade 12, 2518AX
The Hague, The Netherlands
Yukari Sekine is a PhD candidate in Anthropology at the Amsterdam
Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR), University of
Amsterdam. She has an M.A. in Global Studies from Sophia
University, Tokyo, Japan, and a B.A. in Journalism from Pontifícia
Universidade Católica de São Paulo (PUC‐SP), São Paulo, Brazil. Her
research focuses on land grabbing, collective action and
democratization in Burma/Myanmar.
http://www.irrawaddy.com/burma/a-visual-guide-to-burmas-new-parliament.html
BURMA-A Visual Guide to Burma’s New Parliament
By THE IRRAWADDY| Tuesday, February 2, 2016 |
On Feb. 1, Burma will have a new Parliament with a fresh political order. As the current session wound down on Friday, many lawmakers from the Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP)—which held a majority of both houses over the past five years—left the assembly for good. Only 41 USDP members will sit in the new Parliament, which will convene on Monday, some old and a few new.
Aung San Suu Kyi’s party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), will assume 390 seats, enjoying a majority in both houses after a landslide win in the Nov. 8 general election. Those gains account for 80 percent of all contested races. The party only held 43 seats in the outgoing Parliament, which they won in a 2012 by-election.
The NLD-led legislature will bring an assorted set of lawmakers including ethnic minorities, academics and former political prisoners. The number of women in Parliament will have doubled from 31 to 65. Despite the drastic diversification of elected seat-holders, one thing will remain the same: The number of military representatives will be 166.
The Irrawaddy’s researchers put together a few visuals to illustrate the composition of the new legislature.
Research compiled by Wai Yan Aung.
MYANMAR (အစိုးရရုံးမ်ား) Government Offices 2015 (Burmese version)MYO AUNG Myanmar
Ministries in Myanmar
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
The Ministry Of Religious Affairs
Ministry of Commerce
Ministry of Construction
Ministry of Livestock-Fisheries
Ministry of Agriculature and Irrigation
Ministry of Co-Operatives
Ministry of Hotels and Tourism
Ministry of Home Affairs
Progress of order Areas and National Races and Development Affairs
Ministry of Education
Ministry of Health
Ministry of Culture
Myanma Posts and Telecommunications
Ministry of Finance and Revenue
Ministry of Forestry
Ministry of Immigration & Population
Ministry of Industry (1)
Ministry of Industry (2)
Ministry of Transport
Social Welfare, Relife and Resettlement
CONFLICT,CRIME AND CORRUPTION 2014-Bouncing back Relapse in the Golden TriangleMYO AUNG Myanmar
Conflict, Crime and Corruption
“Observers almost always blame the armed ethnic rebels as
the main culprits when talking about the drug trade. A case
in point is the upsurge in drug production and rising number
of seizures by law enforcement agencies in Thailand, Laos
and China during the past few years. Predictably, a number
of experts have concluded that the ceasefire groups, especially
the Wa, which have spurned Nay Pyi Taw’s call to forget their
self-rule ambitions and become Burma Army-run Border
Guard Forces (BGFs), are furiously churning out more drugs
to sell and buy weapons to fight. However, such analysis
ignores a number of glaring details.”
Corruption and ‘Markets of Violence’
The drug trade is a hugely profitable business, and it is
clear that corruption and the involvement of high-ranking
officials play an important role in the region. Until now,
however, there have been few efforts to address this. As a
Shan newsgroup, which regularly publicises drug issues,
wrote following Thailand’s indictment of three suspected
drug traffickers from Burma: “Drug businessmen, however,
conflicts – including Tatmadaw units – taxed opium
farmers.73 Exile media groups have also reported the
involvement of Tatmadaw units in the drug trade.74
Corruption and involvement of Tatmadaw in the drug
trade is also stimulated by the policy that local units have
to be largely self-reliant, meaning that they have to find
their own food and other supplies and enjoy less logistical
support from the army headquarters.
A humanitarian crisis (or "humanitarian disaster") is defined as a singular event or a series of events that are threatening in terms of health, safety or well being of a community or large group of people. It may be an internal or external conflict and usually occurs throughout a large land area.
Ruling Party MPs Return Guns, Alleged Drug Ties to 2015 Race BY Seamus Martov MYO AUNG Myanmar
ENGLISH VERSION
http://www.irrawaddy.org/election/feature/ruling-party-mps-return-guns-alleged-drug-ties-to-2015-race
BURMESE VERSION
http://mobile.irrawaddy.org/article/2015/11/03/98511.html
Mineral Deposits of SE Asia: Lessons for Myanmar from Adjacent -Dr Stuart Smi...MYO AUNG Myanmar
http://www.owenhegarty.com/wp-content/uploads/TigersStuart1.pdf
Presentation Outline
The Big Picture – Plate Tectonics
Mineral prospectivity is a function of plate tectonic setting
Myanmar has unusual and highly favourable tectonics
It shares tectonics with mainland Asia and Sumatra
The Concept of Mineral Deposit Models and Mineral Provinces
The mechanisms of mineral deposit formation are relatively well understood
Models derived from this understanding guide mineral exploration
Mineral deposits form provinces that reflect their tectonic setting
Details of selected mineral belts and deposits in adjacent regions
The mineral belts of adjacent regions are relatively well known
This knowledge can be transferred into Myanmar
Synthesis
Prospectivity & potential deposit styles in Myanmar
UMFCCI-NCRA Monthly Business Report Written by UMFCCI Administrator // July...MYO AUNG Myanmar
http://www.umfcci.com.mm/umfcci-ncra-monthly-business-report/
UMFCCI-Republic of the Union of Myanmar Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry
UMFCCI-NCRA Monthly Business Report
For full report, contact NCRA at +95 1 122 1673 or information@newcrossroadsasia.com
China’s “Realpolitik” Engagement with Myanmar
Pak K. Lee, Gerald Chan & Lai-Ha Chan
Conventional wisdom has it that the pursuit of energy resources is a primary driving force behind China’s foreign policy. One can attribute this claim to China’s growing ties with African countries in recent years, which hold approximately 10 percent of the world’s total oil reserves.1 First, China began to make inroads into the oil sector of Sudan in the mid-1990s, transforming the African country into an oil exporter since the end of the decade. An overwhelming majority (81 percent) of the total African output of Chinese national oil companies in 2006 came from Sudan.2 African oil-producing countries are now supplying about one-third of China’s crude imports. Second, China’s extensive oil interests in Sudan are widely believed to be the predominant factor that led China to thwart until July 2007 the United States and European countries from imposing United Nations sanctions on Khartoum and intervening into the infamous Darfur humanitarian crisis, which began in early 2003.3 Third, led by the then Chinese President Jiang Zemin in April 2000, Chinese senior leaders, including Hu Jintao, Li Peng, Wen Jiabao and Zhu Rongji, frequently visited the continent in recent years.4 Three ministerial conferences of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation have been held since October 2000. Peter Brookes of The Heritage Foundation has therefore asserted that “… nothing is driving China into Africa more than its quest to satisfy its insatiable appetite for oil and gas.
Map telling the technical story of Nepal earthquake precaution lesson to MyanmarMYO AUNG Myanmar
Myanmar's geographic position exposes its 60 million inhabitants to a variety of natural hazards. The low-lying south coast was struck by the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, and again in May 2008 by Cyclone Nargis, which caused the country's worst natural disaster, killing 140,000 people.
The highly active tectonic plate boundary passing through Myanmar means that earthquakes are also a significant hazard.Recent large earthquakes in Nepal we need to precaution effect to Myanmar.Highlight the need to more fully understand the country's tectonic faults and to minimise the impact of future events on this extraordinary country.
Cervantes 8
Kandyce Cervantes
Cullom
WR 121 (Friday)
Ethnog. 4 Rough draft
Vietnam from the Outside
Flying high over the Andaman Sea, Gulf of Thailand, and finally the plane swings around into Vietnam. Coming down, getting closer and closer to land, I see beautiful turquoise water with shades of brown rippling through it. I cannot believe the reef is visible. All I can imagine is how the reef is a completely different underwater world than what I am used to seeing back home on the Pacific Ocean. I look out further onto the land and see large mountain ranges covered with every water loving tree and plant out there. The rainforest is incredibly dense with jungle, and I cannot even see where we could possibly land the plane. Not to mention that I can only see the tops of buildings. Where are the roads? The plane finally comes to a stop and the doors open.
Stepping off the plane I see an old run down building that is the terminal. It has finally, come to the end of the ride, after twenty hours of sitting! It is midday now and the sun is beating down. It feels as if it is 120 degrees out even though it is only 80 degrees, it is extremely humid. I am walking around trying to find baggage claim and cannot figure out at all where to begin to walk, I am already lost in translation, and I haven’t even left the airport. Deciding to ask someone, because I cannot understand the signs for the life of me, I say, “Excuse me where can I find bags!” as I hold up my backpack and point vigorously at it. The middle age couple points with their finger straight ahead, then to the left, right, right, and then straight again. I continue to say this over and over in my head trying my best not to get the rights and lefts mixed all around. At last, I have my bags and I am off to now find a taxi.
I arrive to the hotel and wave and say “hello” to the women at the front as she hands me a telegram from the organization I will be working with. I will start my new adventure tomorrow with someone who is picking me up in the morning. I head up to my room exhausted from my day. Whether it was figuring out where to find my bags at the airport or feeling like my cab driver was going to kill someone, it was something I appreciated to the fullest. I cannot wait to have more amazing meals or actually go back to the woman I received my meal from and ask her how to make it myself. Maybe she would even be so gracious to show me how to make it. As I clean up and put my bags away, I pull out my blanket and head off to bed. My sight-seeing day comes to an end and the real reason I am here begins.
My shoulder shakes, and I quickly snap out of my day to dream on a brief adventure to Vietnam. My husband said he had been calling my name, “Kandyce, Kandyce, K---andyce for a little over two minutes. Which is not long, but when you think of the normal span of day dream, which is about fourteen seconds, that was intense. I have always wanted to travel, and heading towards my goal to go into mid ...
“Wheel Tracks” is the official monthly publication for Vermont Automobile Enthusiasts (VAE) by the VAAS. Wheel Tracks is a monthly newsletter published in print and electronically for the public and it’s membership in ten states and two provinces. The newsletter began in May 1953.
“Wheel Tracks” is the official monthly publication for Vermont Automobile Enthusiasts (VAE) by the VAAS. Wheel Tracks is a monthly newsletter published in print and electronically for the public and it’s membership in ten states and two provinces. The newsletter began in May 1953.
Essay On Fair Housing
Descriptive Essay About A Fair
Essay about The County Fair
Fair Is Foul And Foul Is Fair Essay
Essay on Fair Housing
Essay On Career Fair
Career Fair Experience
Fair Description
Why Do Life Be Fair Essay
Essay On Life Is Not Fair
“Wheel Tracks” is the official monthly publication for Vermont Automobile Enthusiasts (VAE) by the VAAS. Wheel Tracks is a monthly newsletter published in print and electronically for the public and it’s membership in ten states and two provinces. The newsletter began in May 1953.
Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (Burma) AAPP report in Burmese The Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (Burma), also known as AAPP,
is a non-profit human rights organization based in Mae Sot, Thailand. AAPP was founded in 2000
by former political prisoners living in exile on the Thai/Burma border.
Since then, the organization has been run by former political prisoners,
with two offices being opened inside Burma in 2012, one in Rangoon and the other in Mandalay.
AAPP advocates and lobbies for the release of remaining political prisoners and
for the improvement of the lives of political prisoners after their release.
The various assistance programs for political prisoners and their family members
are aimed at ensuring they have access to education, vocational trainings, mental
health counseling and healthcare.
Identity crisis ethnicity and conflict in myanmar crisis groupMYO AUNG Myanmar
REPORT 312 / ASIA 28 AUGUST 2020
Identity Crisis: Ethnicity and Conflict in Myanmar
Ethnicity and conflict are tightly linked in Myanmar, as communal groups take up arms to press grievances for which they have found no other recourse. The problem calls for dialogue and deep reform, but meanwhile authorities can take smaller steps to indicate their positive intent.
https://www.crisisgroup.org/asia/south-east-asia/myanmar/312-identity-crisis-ethnicity-and-conflict-myanmar?utm_source=Sign+Up+to+Crisis+Group%27s+Email+Updates&utm_campaign=1732944c02-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_01_28_08_41_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_1dab8c11ea-1732944c02-359431769
Asia Foundation. Note that the data are from 2016, so this map does not represent the current situation on
CHINA IS PLAYING MYANMAR GROUND THE KYAUKPHYU SPECIAL ECONOMIC ZONE AND CHIN...MYO AUNG Myanmar
CHINA IS PLAYING MYANMAR GROUND THE KYAUKPHYU SPECIAL ECONOMIC ZONE AND CHINA STRATEGIC DEEP-SEA PORT PROJECT
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/chinas-strategic-port-project-moves-step-closer-reality-myanmar-oks-joint-venture.html
China’s Strategic Port Project Moves Step Closer to Reality as Myanmar OKs Joint Venture
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/construction-chinas-bri-deep-sea-port-start-soon-myanmars-rakhine-state-govt.html
Construction on China's BRI Deep Sea Port to Start Soon in Myanmar's Rakhine State: Govt
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/minister-rejects-fears-debt-trap-chinese-backed-port.html
Minister Rejects Fears of Debt Trap Over Chinese-Backed Port
https://www.irrawaddy.com/opinion/editorial/kyaukphyu-danger-slipping-hands.html
Is Kyaukphyu in Danger of Slipping Out of Our Hands?
http://www.thaibizmyanmar.com/th/news/detail.php?ID=2948
An industrial zone project within the Kyaukphyu Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in Rakhine State will be developed for US$30 billion
4 มีนาคม 2563
https://elevenmyanmar.com/news/first-phase-of-kyaukphyu-deep-seaport-project-expected-to-cost-13-bln
First phase of Kyaukphyu Deep Seaport project expected to cost $ 1.3 bln
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2020-01/18/c_138716099.htm
Xinhua Headlines: Kyaukpyu port to become model project in China-Myanmar BRI cooperation
Source: Xinhua| 2020-01-18 20:49:31|Editor: huaxia
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2020-01/20/c_138720186.htm
Feature: How the development of Myanmar's Kyaukpyu port won the hearts of locals
Source: Xinhua| 2020-01-20 11:27:42|Editor: Wang Yamei
https://www.thestar.com.my/news/regional/2020/02/17/china039s-citic-to-build-myanmar039s-huge-kyaukphyu-deep-seaport-first-phase-to-cost-us13-bln
China's CITIC to build Myanmar's huge Kyaukphyu Deep Seaport, first phase to cost US$1.3 bln
ASEANPLUS NEWS
Monday, 17 Feb 2020
1:35 PM MYT
https://splash247.com/china-inks-kyaukphyu-development-deal-with-myanmar/#:~:text=China%20has%20signed%20an%20agreement,visit%20to%20Myanmar%20last%20weekend.
China inks Kyaukphyu development deal with Myanmar
Jason Jiang Jason JiangJanuary 20, 2020
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyaukphyu
https://asiatimes.com/2019/07/china-led-port-project-inches-ahead-in-myanmar/
AT FINANCE, MYANMAR
China-led port project inches ahead in Myanmar
CITIC-led consortium this month started legally required impact assessments but the controversial $1.3 billion mega-project is still far from a done deal
By THOMPSON CHAU
JULY 15, 2019
The climate crisis and threats against land and environmental defendersMYO AUNG Myanmar
https://www.globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/environmental-activists/defending-tomorrow/
Report / July 29, 2020
DEFENDING TOMORROW
The climate crisis and threats against land and environmental defenders
The climate crisis is arguably the greatest global and existential threat we face. As it escalates, it serves to exacerbate many of the other serious problems in our world today – from economic inequality to racial injustice and the spread of zoonotic diseases.
For years, land and environmental defenders have been the first line of defence against the causes and impacts of climate breakdown. Time after time, they have challenged those companies operating recklessly, rampaging unhampered through forests, skies, wetlands, oceans and biodiversity hotspots.
https://youtu.be/FM7X1tnT4Sc
Download the full report Defending Tomorrow: The climate crisis and threats against land and environmental defenders (High resolution, 28.4MB, PDF)
Download the full report Defending Tomorrow: The climate crisis and threats against land and environmental defenders (Low resolution, 6.6MB, PDF)
User Privacy or Cyber Sovereignty Freedom House Special Report 2020MYO AUNG Myanmar
https://freedomhouse.org/report/special-report/2020/user-privacy-or-cyber-sovereignty?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=SPOTLIGHTFRDM_072720
Special Report 2020
User Privacy or Cyber Sovereignty?
Assessing the human rights implications of data localization
WRITTEN BY-Adrian Shahbaz-Allie Funk-Andrea Hackl
https://freedomhouse.org/sites/default/files/2020-07/FINAL_Data_Localization_human_rights_07232020.pdf
USER PRIVACY OR CYBER SOVEREIGNTY?
Assessing the human rights implications of data localization
Freedom of Expression Active and Seeking Justice from MyanmarMYO AUNG Myanmar
Freedom of Expression Active and seeking justice from MYANMAR
https://progressivevoicemyanmar.org/2020/07/16/seeking-justice-an-analysis-of-obstacles-and-opportunities-for-civil-society-groups-pursuing-accountability-for-human-rights-violations-in-domestic-courts-in-kachin-and-northern-shan-states/
SEEKING JUSTICE: AN ANALYSIS OF OBSTACLES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR CIVIL SOCIETY GROUPS PURSUING ACCOUNTABILITY FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS IN DOMESTIC COURTS IN KACHIN AND NORTHERN SHAN STATES
Kachin Women’s Association – Thailand (KWAT) and Asia Justice and Rights (AJAR) are releasing a new report on access to justice in Burma, in which we identify strategies for local civil society groups, demand political and legal reforms, and call on donor agencies to better support assistance to victims of the most serious human rights violations.
https://progressivevoicemyanmar.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/EngA-Chance-to-Fix-in-Time.pdf
“A Chance to Fix in Time”
Analysis of Freedom of Expression in
Four Years Under the Current Government
https://progressivevoicemyanmar.org/2020/07/16/%e1%80%a1%e1%80%81%e1%80%bb%e1%80%ad%e1%80%94%e1%80%ba%e1%80%99%e1%80%ae%e1%80%95%e1%80%bc%e1%80%84%e1%80%ba%e1%80%86%e1%80%84%e1%80%ba%e1%80%81%e1%80%bd%e1%80%84%e1%80%ba%e1%80%b7-%e1%80%a1-2/
အချိန်မီပြင်ဆင်ခွင့် – အစိုးရသက်တမ်း ၄နှစ်အတွင်း လွတ်လပ်စွာထုတ်ဖော်ပြောဆိုခွင့်ကို ဆန်းစစ်ခြင်းအစီရင်ခံစာ
SHWE KOKKO BORDER KAYIN STATE PROJECT COLLECTIONMYO AUNG Myanmar
ALL ABOUT SHWE KOKKO PROJECT KAYIN STATE COLLECTIONS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shwe_Kokko Shwe Kokko https://www.frontiermyanmar.net/en/shwe-kokko-a-paradise-for-chinese-investment/ Shwe Kokko: A paradise for Chinese investment SEPTEMBER 5, 2019 http://karennews.org/2020/03/shwe-koko-big-winners-burma-army-and-international-crime-syndicates-at-expense-of-karen-people-knu-community-groups-want-it-stopped/ Shwe Koko: Big Winners – Burma Army and international Crime Syndicates at Expense of Karen People – KNU, Community Groups Want it Stopped Karen News Send an emailMarch 26, 2020 https://asiatimes.com/2019/03/a-chinatown-mysteriously-emerges-in-backwoods-myanmar/ A Chinatown mysteriously emerges in backwoods Myanmar Shwe Kokko, a remote town along Myanmar's Moei River, is the latest odd and bold outpost of China's Belt and Road Initiative By BERTIL LINTNER MARCH 1, 2019 https://www.crisisgroup.org/asia/south-east-asia/myanmar/305-commerce-and-conflict-navigating-myanmars-china-relationship https://d2071andvip0wj.cloudfront.net/305-commerce-and-conflict-myanmar-china%20(1)_0.pdf Commerce and Conflict: Navigating Myanmar’s China Relationship Asia Report N°305 | 30 March 2020 https://www.bnionline.net/en/news/chinas-thai-myanmar-border-investment-shwe-kokko-chinatown-mega-project CHINA’S THAI-MYANMAR BORDER INVESTMENT: Shwe Kokko Chinatown mega-project http://monnews.org/2020/03/28/gambling-away-our-land-kpsn-report-raises-questions-about-shwe-kokko-extension-project/ ‘Gambling Away Our Land’; KPSN report raises questions about Shwe Kokko Extension project https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=900Fzrn8DzY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Etlg2eYn7HM https://www.frontiermyanmar.net/en/the-mystery-man-behind-the-shwe-kokko-project/?f
Myanmar language version of the UN Charter.Yangon charter myanmarMYO AUNG Myanmar
Myanmar language version of the UN Charter.
Source: https://unic.un.org/aroundworld/unics/common/documents/publications/uncharter/yangon_charter_myanmar.pdf
https://unic.un.org/aroundworld/unics/common/documents/publications/uncharter/yangon_charter_myanmar.pdf?fbclid=IwAR3tttG9XprzHH4_yCQNOg8_u8g6z23fqYLqeCUvvIkHAqzTLKjSnB1OT3g
WORLD INVESTMENT REPORT 2020 BY UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE ON TRADE AND DEVELO...MYO AUNG Myanmar
WORLD INVESTMENT REPORT 2020
UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE ON TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT UNCTAD
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Global foreign direct investment projected to plunge 40% in 202016 June 2020
COVID-19 causes steep drop in investment flows, hitting developing countries hardest. Recovery is not expected before 2022, says new UNCTAD report.
Myanmar Amber traps scientists in ethical dilemma over funding warMYO AUNG Myanmar
Myanmar is a major producer of amber, a fossilized tree resin. Amber is valued for jewelry, and also serves as a sort of time capsule that provides scientific clues to prehistoric life with fossilized inclusions such as insects, birds and dinosaur footprints.
Meanwhile, the main amber-mining areas in the country are located in an internal conflict zone where an ethnic minority is fighting against the national armed forces, and the amber also comes with problems of human rights violations and smuggling.
https://asia.nikkei.com/Location/Southeast-Asia/Myanmar-amber-traps-scientists-in-ethical-dilemma-over-funding-war
Myanmar amber traps scientists in ethical dilemma over funding war
Fossils like those in 'Jurassic Park' draw scrutiny as Kachin conflict drags on
https://www.facebook.com/MYOAUNGNAYPYIDAW/posts/2839212596177214
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မြန်မာ့ပယင်းရဲ့ သိပ္ပံပညာရှင်တွေကို စွဲဆောင်နိုင်မှုက ကျင့်ဝတ်ဆိုင်ရာ အကျပ်ရိုက်မှုဖြစ်စေပြီး စစ်ပွဲတွေအတွက် ငွေကြေးထောက်ပံ့ရာလမ်းကြောင်းဖြစ်နေ
SITUATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS OVERVIEW IN BURMA (JANUARY – APRIL 2020)MYO AUNG Myanmar
https://progressivevoicemyanmar.org/2020/04/21/situational-human-rights-overview-in-burma-january-april-2020/
SITUATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS OVERVIEW IN BURMA (JANUARY – APRIL 2020)
2019 country reports on human rights practices burma united state of america ...MYO AUNG Myanmar
Myanmar Aung
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https://burmese.voanews.com/a/us-state-depart…/5325155.html…
ကမ္ဘာလုံးဆိုင်ရာ ကန်အစီရင်ခံစာထဲက မြန်မာလူ့အခွင့်အရေး အခြေအနေ
https://www.state.gov/…/…/BURMA-2019-HUMAN-RIGHTS-REPORT.pdf
https://www.state.gov/…/2019-country-reports-on-human-righ…/
2019 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices
The annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices – the Human Rights Reports – cover internationally recognized individual, civil, political, and worker rights, as set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international agreements. The U.S. Department of State submits reports on all countries receiving assistance and all United Nations member states to the U.S. Congress in accordance with the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 and the Trade Act of 1974.
MARCH 11, 2020
https://www.state.gov/assistant-secretary-for-democracy-hu…/
Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor Robert A. Destro On the Release of the 2019 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices
SPECIAL BRIEFING
ROBERT A. DESTRO, ASSISTANT SECRETARY
BUREAU OF DEMOCRACY, HUMAN RIGHTS, AND LABOR
PRESS BRIEFING ROOM
WASHINGTON, D.C.
MARCH 11, 2020
Executive Summary of Independent Commission of Enquiry "ICOE" Final Report En...MYO AUNG Myanmar
Executive Summary Of Independent Commission of Enquiry-ICOE' Final Report ENGLISH-BURMESE
https://www.facebook.com/myanmarpresidentoffice.gov.mm/posts/2632138836833836
ENGLISH VERSION
Independent Commission of Enquiry (ICOE)
https://www.icoe-myanmar.org/
Executive Summary Of Independent Commission of Enquiry-ICOE' Final Report
https://www.facebook.com/myanmarpresidentoffice.gov.mm/posts/2632129370168116
BURMESE VERSION
လွတ်လပ်သောစုံစမ်းစစ်ဆေးရေးကော်မရှင် (Independent Commission of Enquiry-ICOE) ၏ အပြီးသတ်အစီရင်ခံစာ အကျဉ်းချုပ်\
2019 ANNI Report on the Performance and Establishment of National Human Right...MYO AUNG Myanmar
https://www.forum-asia.org/?p=29979&nhri=1
2019 ANNI Report on the Performance and Establishment of National Human Rights Institutions in Asia
7 October 2019 2:36 pm
https://www.forum-asia.org/uploads/wp/2019/10/3.0-Online-ANNI-Report-2019.pdf
https://www.forum-asia.org/?p=29931
Myanmar: Promote press freedom, and end reprisals against Development Media Group
3 October 2019 3:58 pm
https://www.forum-asia.org/uploads/wp/2019/10/Press-release-Myanmar-DMG.pdf
ALL ABOUT INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE (ICJ) AND MYANMARMYO AUNG Myanmar
ALL ABOUT INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE (ICJ) AND MYANMAR
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) is the principal judicial organ of the United Nations (UN). It was established in June 1945 by the Charter of the United Nations and began work in April 1946.
The seat of the Court is at the Peace Palace in The Hague (Netherlands). Of the six principal organs of the United Nations, it is the only one not located in New York (United States of America).
The Court’s role is to settle, in accordance with international law, legal disputes submitted to it by States and to give advisory opinions on legal questions referred to it by authorized United Nations organs and specialized agencies.
The Court is composed of 15 judges, who are elected for terms of office of nine years by the United Nations General Assembly and the Security Council. It is assisted by a Registry, its administrative organ. Its official languages are English and French.
https://www.icj-cij.org/en/court
https://www.icj-cij.org/en-basic-toolkit
INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE ICJ
Information Department
information@icj-cij.org
https://opiniojuris.org/2019/11/13/the-gambia-v-myanmar-at-the-international-court-of-justice-points-of-interest-in-the-application/
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/11/cases-brought-myanmar-deliver-justice-rohingya-191117174800430.html
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/nov/14/war-crimes-judges-approve-investigation-violence-against-rohingya-icc-myammar
https://www.ejiltalk.org/the-situation-of-the-rohingya-is-there-a-role-for-the-international-court-of-justice/
https://reliefweb.int/report/myanmar/gambia-files-lawsuit-against-myanmar-international-court-justice
STIMSON INNOVATIVE IDEAS CHANGING THE WORLD AND CHINA-MEKONG RIVER AND MYANMARMYO AUNG Myanmar
STIMSON INNOVATIVE IDEAS CHANGING THE WORLD AND CHINA-MEKONG RIVER AND MYANMAR
The Stimson Center is a nonpartisan policy research center working to protect people, preserve the planet, and promote security & prosperity. Stimson’s award-winning research serves as a roadmap to address borderless threats through concerted action. Our formula is simple: we gather the brightest people to think beyond soundbites, create solutions, and make those solutions a reality. We follow the credo of one of history’s leading statesmen, Henry L. Stimson, in taking “pragmatic steps toward ideal objectives.” We are practical in our approach and independent in our analysis. Our innovative ideas change the world.
https://www.stimson.org/sites/default/files/file-attachments/Cronin-China%20Supply%20Chain%20Shift.pdf
https://www.stimson.org/sites/default/files/file-attachments/SC_EnergyPublication.FINAL_.pdf
https://www.stimson.org/content/powering-mekong-basin-connect
https://www.stimson.org/sites/default/files/file-attachments/WEB-FEB_Cambodia%20Report.pdf
https://www.frontiermyanmar.net/en/slower-smaller-cheaper-the-reality-of-the-china-myanmar-economic-corridor
Slower, smaller, cheaper: the reality of the China-Myanmar Economic Corridor
https://www.frontiermyanmar.net/en/peace-through-development-chinas-experiment-in-myanmar
Peace through development: China’s experiment in Myanmar
https://asia.nikkei.com/Opinion/China-walks-political-tightrope-in-Myanmar
China walks political tightrope in Myanmar
Beijing should leverage its influence with military
https://www.frontiermyanmar.net/en/why-china-is-sceptical-about-the-peace-process
Why China is sceptical about the peace process
https://www.stimson.org/content/%E2%80%98loose-end%E2%80%99-peace-process
The ‘loose end’ of the peace process
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THE ASSIATANCE ASSOCIATION FOR POLITICAL PRISONERS (BURMA)MYO AUNG Myanmar
The Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (Burma),
https://aappb.org/background/about-aapp/
The Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (Burma), otherwise known as AAPP, is a human rights organization based in Mae Sot, Thailand and Rangoon, Burma. AAPP advocates for the release of all remaining political prisoners in Burma and for the improvement of their quality of life during and after incarceration. AAPP has developed rehabilitation and assistance programs for those political activists who have been released while continuing to document the ongoing imprisonment of political activists in Burma.
As long as political prisoners exist inside Burma, Burma will not be free. They represent the struggle for democracy, human rights, equality and freedom for the people of Burma. This makes the immediate and unconditional release of all political prisoners an integral part of Burma’s drive for national reconciliation.
THE HUMAN RIGHT TO WATER A GUIDE FOR FIRST NATIONS COMUNITIES AND ADVOCATES MYO AUNG Myanmar
https://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/report_pdf/water1019_brochure_web.pdf
THE HUMAN RIGHT TO WATER A GUIDE FOR FIRST NATIONS COMUNITIES AND ADVOCATES
https://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/report_pdf/canada0616web.pdf
Make it Safe
Canada’s Obligation to End the First Nations Water Crisis
https://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/report_pdf/canada0616_brochure_web.pdf
SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS
Natural Resource Governance Reform and the Peace Process in MyanmarMYO AUNG Myanmar
NATURAL RESOURCE GOVERNANCE REFORM AND THE PEACE PROCESS IN MYANMAR
KEVIN M. WOODS
https://www.forest-trends.org/publications/natural-resource-governance-reform-and-the-peace-process-in-myanmar/
FORESTS OCT 18, 2019
Natural Resource Governance Reform and the Peace Process in Myanmar
By Kevin M. Woods
https://www.forest-trends.org/publications/executive-summary-of-natural-resource-governance-and-the-peace-process-in-myanmar/
https://www.forest-trends.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Forest-Trends_NRG_Peace_Myanmar_Final_ES.pdf
https://www.forest-trends.org/publications/forest-trends-comments-on-myanmar-draft-forest-rules-2019-regarding-land-rights/
Forest Trends Comments on Myanmar Draft Forest Rules (2019) Regarding Land Rights
https://www.forest-trends.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Forest-Rules-Brief-2019-FINAL-Letter.pdf
https://www.forest-trends.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Forest_Rules_Brief_2019_FINAL_A4_BURMESE-FINAL.pdf
https://www.forest-trends.org/publications/what-is-in-myanmars-first-eiti-forestry-reports/
An astonishing, first-of-its-kind, report by the NYT assessing damage in Ukraine. Even if the war ends tomorrow, in many places there will be nothing to go back to.
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El Puerto de Algeciras continúa un año más como el más eficiente del continente europeo y vuelve a situarse en el “top ten” mundial, según el informe The Container Port Performance Index 2023 (CPPI), elaborado por el Banco Mundial y la consultora S&P Global.
El informe CPPI utiliza dos enfoques metodológicos diferentes para calcular la clasificación del índice: uno administrativo o técnico y otro estadístico, basado en análisis factorial (FA). Según los autores, esta dualidad pretende asegurar una clasificación que refleje con precisión el rendimiento real del puerto, a la vez que sea estadísticamente sólida. En esta edición del informe CPPI 2023, se han empleado los mismos enfoques metodológicos y se ha aplicado un método de agregación de clasificaciones para combinar los resultados de ambos enfoques y obtener una clasificación agregada.
‘वोटर्स विल मस्ट प्रीवेल’ (मतदाताओं को जीतना होगा) अभियान द्वारा जारी हेल्पलाइन नंबर, 4 जून को सुबह 7 बजे से दोपहर 12 बजे तक मतगणना प्रक्रिया में कहीं भी किसी भी तरह के उल्लंघन की रिपोर्ट करने के लिए खुला रहेगा।
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Friday, October 2, 2015
The Scourge of Burma - Part 3
December 1989 and it was last Saturday
before Christmas when they found Jason’s
body in the bathtub inside a cheap motel
room in Sydney.
According to the local tabloid he
checked into the motel on
Parramatta Road the night before,
injected himself all the bought-
heroin, filled the tub to the rim, got
in, and cut both wrists with a
disposable razor blade. When the
motel people found him the water was all blood red and he was stone cold dead.
Jason was a 22 year old Australian of English descent originally from a small country town
of Waga Waga about 700 kilometres south-west of Sydney. He was my former workmate and
my only dear friend in the whole wide Australia. He was not that tall, but broad, pale, and
skinny built with slight curls of blonde hair on his head.
With a dimple on his left cheek he had an almost innocent look when he smiled but he
frequently showed his disturbed-side when he was annoyed or angry. He came from a
broken family and sometimes he jokingly claimed he was abused both physically and
sexually.
We were working together as lowly servicemen for the service centre of a major European
car-dealership in a posh north-shore suburb of Sydney. Every weekday from 8 to 4 we put
the expensive cars up the hydraulic-hoists, change the oils and replace the filters, re-inflate
and re-balance the wheels, rotate the tyres, replace the worn brake-pads, and wash and
polish the cars as the final touch after other mechanics have done the tune-ups and other
jobs on the cars. Easy job and money was not that bad. At least three hundred bucks a week
in the pocket with regular overtimes. A bit more than the minimum wage then.
Provisional Mechanic
Since the day I landed in Sydney I knew things were going to be tough as the whole country
was in a severe recession. For nearly three months I tried to find a proper engineering job
through the newspapers’ job advertisements.
I had no money and I was basically surviving on the fortnightly dole of 240 dollars and it
was only just enough to pay the rent. So I decided to take any job and one day I went to the
local CES(Commonwealth Employment Services) office and asked for an interview. It turned
out to be my lucky day.
The middle-aged female government official quickly read my resume and simply said my
mechanical engineering degree from Burma was not acknowledged here as a degree after
referring her thick handbook of Educational Qualifications for Migrants.
According to the Australian government my 6 years mechanical engineering
degree from RIT was only equivalent to a 2 years technical high school diploma
here. I was bloody lucky the same bloody government issued me a permanent
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2. resident visa as a skilled-migrant based on the same bloody degree from Burma.
She then looked into her computer and said there were some jobs for a mechanical-minded
person and asked if I could work on cars as I claimed to be a mechanical engineer. I said yes
and she then called the company and then wrote down the address for me to go for an
interview and wished me good luck.
I went there and the workshop manger liked me and gave me the serviceman job straight
away. But here in overly-regulated Australia, where even the disgruntled taxi drivers are
forced to wear a uniform by a draconian law, anyone working on cars in any capacity needs
an appropriate license.
So the manager sent me to the MVRIC (Motor Vehicle Repair Industry Council) office and
they issued me the Provisional Mechanic Licence for a year with an attached condition that I
must pass a certain mechanic test to gain a real mechanic license. That’s how I got my first
grand job in Australia. A provisional mechanic cum serviceman.
Sydney then was very different from the Sydney now. Immigration was not that high and
there were not that many Asians or middle-eastern people in Sydney like now. The inner
western suburb of Ashfield where I lived then was still a white suburb, not yet the second
Chinatown of Sydney.
I was the only Asian in our big workshop and there were a couple of Lebanese servicemen
who were always derogatorily called camel drivers. Most people could not pronounce my
first name and whenever they saw me eating rice they accused me of eating worms and
pretended to spew all over me in the lunch room.
Heroin Addict
From the beginning Jason was always nice to me and he explained me things or two about
Australians and taught me the useful slangs like Fair-Dinkum and Fagget and Fuck-Off. I
helped him to write the service sheets as he was basically illiterate and didn’t even know how
to spell mechanic-related words like Diesel Engine and Reciprocating.
Whenever I wrote some words down for him he always cheerfully said I was a good speller.
But I could still sense the basic disbelieve in his pale blue eyes that I an Asian immigrant
could write better English than him a true blue Aussie. But he always came to me instead of
others as if he didn’t want the Aussie mob to know he had difficulties in the writing
department.
He drove a beat-up Datsun 120 Y and regularly gave me a lift to the Town Hall Station in the
city on his way to Kings Cross, the notorious red light district of Sydney. I had no car in
Sydney for almost six months as I needed to get a driver license first.
At first I didn’t know the purpose of his frequent trips to the Cross. Sometimes once or twice
a week especially on our pay-day, Thursdays. Then one afternoon after work he asked me to
come along to the Cross as he wanted me to buy 10 dollars worth of gas for his car after his
business there as he was short of cash then. I agreed and we drove to the Cross first.
He turned left into the Victoria Street from the
main Darlinghurst Road and then turned right
into a small laneway by the rear of the train
station there and stopped the car by a small
black door. He jumped out, pushed open the
black door which led to a dark stair case, and
quickly disappeared inside. After a few
minutes he rushed back out, jumped back into
the car, and we sped away.
On the way to the Servo by the
Woolloomooloo Wharf he suddenly asked me
if I’ve ever been to the notorious Golden
Triangle. He knew I was from Burma but he never said anything even remote about heroin
before. But that afternoon he confessed his stupid addiction and all the problems he was
having then. He even showed me the small foiled-packet of dirty heroin he’d just bought
from the Cross.
Two hundred dollars worth of shit but just enough for only four hits he said. It was so dirty
looking it rather looked like a little lump of brown palm-sugar powder than a fluffy white
powder I heard about so many times back home. They cut the heroin with some powders
and made it look so dirty he said. You spend all your pay on this shit, what you live on for
the rest of the week I asked. I don’t eat that much and I live in a tiny hostel room he
answered and it depressed me. That’s why he was so skinny and always dreamy I guessed.
Once I knew his desperate situation I tried to avoid him in the workshop and stop accepting
the rides as I really hated the addicts. And he immediately noticed my disgust. But he still
came to me often as if he badly needed a friend. Then one day he got into a real shitty
trouble at the workshop.
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The Scourge of Burma -
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3. Five Dollar Theft
It was just before lunch time. I was working on a sports car on the hoist and Jason was
washing a finished sedan in the wash-bay. I saw the workshop-manger talking to him and
then saw two heavy-set men rushing out of the manager’s office at the front and running
towards them standing just outside the wash-bay at the back of our long workshop.
The two were plain-cloth policemen as I could see the guns on their belts as they ran. They
started searching the pockets of Jason’s overall and appeared to find something. The two
detectives then led Jason back into the office and later they put him into the back of a police
paddy-wagon and took him away. We were shocked but I simply assumed it might be a drug-
related arrest. It was not. I found out later in the lunch-room.
The workshop-manager came in and told us the whole pathetic story. Small money and some
valuables like expensive sunglasses from the serviced vehicles had been reported missing
far too many times and finally the management had decided to call the police. Cops then did
a thorough job planting a five-dollar-note a few times in the cars and checking the notes after
a mechanic or serviceman had done a job on the car. And they found the notes always
missing after Jason but no one else.
So today they planted a marked fiver in the glove-box of that sedan and watched and
checked as the car had progressed through various mechanics and servicemen including
me. After Jason the manager checked it again and found the note missing. So he signalled the
waiting detectives and they searched Jason’s overall pockets and found the marked five-
dollar note.
They charged him with petty-theft and put him in the Silverwater remand jail. He had no one
and also no money to post the bail. After more than three months his case came to a court
and the sympathetic magistrate sentenced him three months exact for stealing a fiver from a
car, and he was immediately released as he had been inside that long.
While he was languishing in the Silverwater jail I tried to look for him in the Cross once as I
didn’t know he was still in jail and I was missing my only friend here. There I ran into
another addict, a pretty young girl with curly blonde hair and pale blue eyes, just like Jason.
Addict Prostitute
It was about 9 in the Saturday evening
and the Cross was getting busier and
rowdier as the night got older. All the
loud touts in ill-fitting black suits right
in front of the bright-neon-lit strip
clubs were working at their aggressive
best to lure the wandering blokes like
me into their overly-priced strip-joints.
I was just sauntering aimless on the
kerbs of the Darlinghurst Road vaguely
hoping to see Jason among the crowd when I saw the cops trying to subdue a couple of
young disorderly drunks near the Subway Station.
As I stood there holding a Foster stubby in one hand and watching the cops and the drunks,
the aggressive copper woman with extendable truncheon in one hand rudely ordered me to
move on. Instead of moving on I just backed away a couple of steps just to please her. And
there I stepped on the feet of a young woman. Sorry, I turned round and apologized and
there she was. A pretty Aussie girl smiling at me.
She might be only 19 or even 18, with her short blonde curls and pale blue eyes she
immediately reminded me of Jason. No worries, she said. What she whispered after
surprised me though. Are you looking for good time, big boy?Not really, why do you ask?
It will cost you 70 bucks, I have a place nearby she said. She astounded me. She was pretty
and tall and curvy but too skinny for my liking and I wasn’t really after the paid-sex. But I
was slightly drunk and I was suddenly horny and I never had had sex with a white woman
before.
She had a tight jean and a white T-shirt with no bra underneath. And I could see her nipples
through at close-up and they made me excited. I have only 50 bucks, I tried to haggle. Fine,
just follow me, she said and turned round and walked towards the Station entrance.
Reluctantly, I followed her into the Station. She didn’t go down to the trains but took the
way-out to the rear exit and headed for the same laneway where Jason once bought his
heroin packet. She then walked up to the same black door and pushed open the door. I was
alarmed but I still followed her onto the dimly lit stairs.
She stopped at the landing and asked me to give 20 bucks to the old man standing guard in
dark there. For the room, mate, she said. I doled out a twenty note and she continued
upstairs. She turned left into the corridor and pushed open the first door. The tiny
windowless room was well lit and a double bed nearly filled the room and the linen was dirty.
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She took off the T-shirt and asked me the fifty. I handed her the note and she immediately
left the room topless with her perky round breasts exposed. Take off your clothes, she said
on the way out. I took off sneakers and my jeans and underpants but kept the flannel on. It
took her more than half an hour to come back in and the long wait made me anxious and
worry.
She smiled wearily at me and immediately laid her back down on the dirty bed dangling her
legs from the edge. Her eyes were well closed when she told me to take off her jeans and do
whatever I like. I almost undid the top buttons of her jeans. But then I saw the needle marks
on the inside of her left forearm. There were so many and the last and most recent one still
had a drop of blood oozing. It disgusted me.
Here I with my dick hanging out and she was almost asleep with a dreamy look on her pale
young face. She just had a hit of heroin and my fifty dollars was just enough for the shit. She
was now drifting on the heroin-induced clouds and letting a complete stranger do whatever
he wants on her. She was selling her young body dirt cheap to any John or Jamal or Jiang on
the streets of dangerous Cross so that she could just inject that 50 bucks worth of dirty shit
originated from the jungles of my Burma into her veins every single day.
Disgusted, I put my jeans and sneakers back on and left the room.
A week later on Friday just-released Jason showed up at the workshop to pick up his last
pay-envelope. He came into the lunchroom and chatted to us for a while before the Manager
came in and asked him to leave and never to come back here. On his way out he jokingly
yelled back to our good-byes. Me a fag now with HIV, I got raped inside!And we laughed.
That night he booked into the motel on Parramatta Road and next day he was found dead.
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