WARSAW: The European Union could permanently lift sanctions against Myanmar if it were to release all political prisoners, Poland’s Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said Friday. His comments come after diplomats from the 27-member bloc declared Thursday it was set to initially lift sanctions for one year, a decision expected to be formally announced at a [...]
The 1st Coordinating meeting between resource persons from Myanmar, UNESCO, other international bodies and the Ambassador of Italy opened at Park Royal Hotel in Yangon yesterday(April 4). The meeting was presided by Deputy Minister for Culture H.E Daw Sanda Khin who delivered the opening speech and matters relating to conservation and inclusion of three ancient [...]
President U Thein Sein arrives back in Naypyitaw yesterday(April 4) from Phnom Penh, Cambodia, after attending the ASEAN 45th Anniversary Celebrations and the 20th ASEAN Summit. For full details go to: www.mrtv3.net.mm Source :http://www.enchantingmyanmar.com source:New Light of Myanmar
Secretary Clinton: April 2012 » Recognizing and Supporting Burma’s Democratic Reforms Recognizing and Supporting Burma’s Democratic Reforms Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Treaty Room Washington, DC April 4, 2012 From the beginning of this Administration, we have pursued a policy of engagement to support human rights and reform in Burma. We knew that [...]
As Myanmar is opening up for investment, airlines are mapping out strategic plans to cash in on the surging traffic flows for business and leisure travel. International carriers including Thailand’s Bangkok Airways and Thai AirAsia are looking at raising capacity to Yangon and operating flights directly to other major cities like Mandalay, Bagan and even [...]
YANGON, Myanmar — Now that Myanmar is opening to the outside world, good luck getting a hotel room. Travelers and eager investors are pouring in to explore one of Asia’s most untouched countries, filling hotels to capacity, doubling room rates and spilling flight reservations onto wait lists. As the country sheds its past as an [...]
The Central Bank of Myanmar had allowed both foreigners arriving Myanmar and returning Myanmar citizens can now bring in USD 10,000(or equivalent in other foreign currencies) in cash and no need to declare to the Customs anymore, according to MRTV 4 quoting a senior official from the bank. Previously the cash amount permitted to bring [...]
The ASEAN Secretariat is encouraged by the orderly, fair, transparent and peaceful manner which Myanmar has conducted its by-elections on 1 April. For details go to: http://www.asean.org/26837.htm Source : http://www.enchantingmyanmar.com
NAY PYI TAW, 2 April—Union Minister for EnvironmentalConservation and Forestry U Win Tun addressed the workshop on launch of Inlay Lake Conservation Project,jointly organized by Forest Department of the ministry and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) at the head office of the department this morning. For details go to: www.mrtv3.net.mm Source : http://www.enchantingmyanmar.com
The CentralBank of Myanmar (CBM) today announced that Myanmar’s exchange rateregime has moved from a peg of Ks 8.50847 to the Special Drawing Right (SDR) to a managed floating exchange rate. This announcement came with the results ofthe first foreign currency auction held in Yangon, Myanmar on 2 April 2012. For full details go to: [...]
The partial results of the recently concluded bi-elections was announced by the Union Election Commission and carried on Myanma Radio and Television (MRTV) on its evening 6 o’clock and 8 o’clock regular news programmes yesterday(April 2).The remaining results are also to be announced in the coming days as soon as they are confirmed by the [...]
With the landslide victory in all contested constituencies, except one, according to exit polls and official announcement by NLD Hqrs supporters of NLD rejoiced in front of the party hqrs in Yangon today as their leader Daw Aung San Su Kyi gives a victory speech. For details go to: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/04/01/2725706/myanmars-suu-kyi-poised-to-win.html http://apps.facebook.com/theguardian/world/video/2012/apr/02/aung-san-suu-kyi-burma Source :http://www.enchantingmyanmar.com
The following are some of the links for international news media on the internet. Please follow them to read what they are saying on NLD’s victory in the recent by-elections held yesterday(April 1) http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-17577620 http://edition.cnn.com/2012/04/01/world/asia/myanmar-elections/index.html?hpt=hp_t1 http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/1192589/1/.html http://www.bangkokpost.com/breakingnews/286994/burma-opposition-claims-election-win http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2012-04/01/c_131503248.htm http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/02/world/asia/myanmar-elections.html?_r=1&hp http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/apr/01/burma-aung-san-suu-kyi http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/ http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/8444740/myanmar-opposition-claims-suu-kyi-win http://au.news.yahoo.com/world/a/-/world/13317181/myanmar-opposition-claims-landmark-suu-kyi-win/ http://media.smh.com.au/news/world-news/polls-close-in-a-historic-election-3181801.html?from=newsbox Source : http://www.enchantingmyanmar.com
The long awaited by-elections for vacant constituencies in Myanmar has concluded peacefully yesterday evening(April 1). According to exit polls and unofficial results National League For Democracy(NLD) Party had won a landslide victory in almost all the contested constituencies. The Election Commission is to announced the official results in the coming days. For photos please go [...]
The long awaited by-elections for vacant constituencies at all levels began this morning at all constituencies concerned. The election is also being monitored by international teams from ASEAN, US, EU and Australia among others. For full details and photos please follow the links: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Messenger-News-Journal/127099574018030 http://www.facebook.com/ElevenMediaGroup http://www.facebook.com/thevoiceweekly http://thevoicemyanmar.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=44&Itemid=61 http://www.facebook.com/PopularNewsJournal Source :http://www.enchantingmyanmar.com
Pressure is building in the European Union to end sanctions against Myanmar in the coming weeks, a move to reward the country for its shift towards democracy while allowing European companies to gain a foothold before their U.S. counterparts. No formal decision on softening or removing sanctions is expected until April 23, when EU foreign [...]
Mar 30, 2012MANILA, Philippines – Tourists from 166 countries can now avail of the expanded 30-day free visa upon arrival and six months for retirees as part of the government efforts to prove “It is more fun in the Philippines”. Tourism Secretary Ramon R. Jimenez said this in a speech before the General Membership Meeting [...]
Bangkok, 30 March 2012 (UNESCO Press release) – UNESCO together with the Ministry of Information and Culture will launch the project “Capacity Building to Safeguard Cultural Heritage in Myanmar” in a ceremony at 9:00 am on 4 April 2012 at the Parkroyal Hotel in Yangon. The Deputy Minister of Culture, HE Daw Sandar Khin, the [...]
Observers Get Down to Deployment Plans as By-Elections Approach By Danny Lee Director, Community Affairs Development, The ASEAN Secretariat. YANGON, 30 March 2012 The old Ministry of Foreign Affairs building was bustling with activities early yesterday morning. As election observers, liaison officers, reporters, and camera crews busied themselves with passes and registrations–and staff from the [...]
Popular Australian TV channel SBS aired the 2nd segment of Luke Nguyen’s programme on Myanmar food today(March 29). Today’s programme consisted of preparing Tofu Nway(တို႕ဟူး ေႏြး), Green Tomato Salad(ခရမ္းခ်ဥ္ သီး သုပ္) and Crispy Green Onion Fritters(ၾကက္သြန္မိတ္အေၾကာ္စုံ). The 3rd part of the series will be aired coming Thursday(April) and will feature Luke Nguyen’s culinary journey to [...]
0 inShare Share on Tumblr Email Print Until recently, only the most intrepid travellers ventured into Burma. Now that the civilian government has firmed diplomatic relations, the National League for Democracy has also dropped its unofficial travel boycott. Globetrotters are making bookings for treks, bike rides and hotair balloon rides to see the country’s hidden [...]
OTTAWA — Canada will send two election observers to Myanmar to monitor the April 1 elections in Myanmar, Foreign Minister John Baird said Wednesday, with expectations the vote would be “free and fair.” Conservative Senator Consiglio Di Nino and Parliamentary Secretary Deepak Obhrai are to travel to the southeast Asian nation “to witness and report” [...]
NEW DELHI: Even as India is trying to expand the visa-on-arrival scheme to give a boost to the tourism sector, a survey conducted for the tourism ministry reveals a rather grim picture of tourists struggling with signages, queues and foreign exchange issues while using the facility. The survey reveals that tourists take over an hour [...]
Published: 29/03/2012 at 09:03 AM Newspaper section: News Association of Southeast Asia Nations leaders will endorse a declaration creating a drug-free zone among members in the next three years. The 10 Asean leaders expect to endorse the declaration at their summit meeting in Phnom Penh next week. Arthayudh Srisamoot, director-general of the Foreign Ministry’s Asean [...]
The Statement of the Myanmar National Human Rights Commission on its establishment and its current status of functioning(Statement No 2/2012) On 16 March 2012, the Speaker of the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw, based on the opinion of the Joint Bill Committee that the establishment of the Myanmar National Human Rights Commission (MNHRC) is not consistent with the [...]
The Central Bank of Myanmar (CBM) will implement a managed floating exchange rate regime in Myanmarwith effect from 1st April 2012. The external value of thenational currency, the Myanmar kyat, will from now on bedetermined by supply and demand conditions in theexchange market.In line with the new exchange rate regime, Reference Foreign Exchange Rate will [...]
ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံတြင္ ဒီမိုကေရစီ လုပ္ငန္းစဥ္ အေကာင္အထည္ေဖာ္မႈ တိုးတက္မႈမ်ား ရႇိလာသည္ႏႇင့္အမွ် ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံအေပၚ ခ်မႇတ္ထားသည့္ အေရးယူပိတ္ဆို႔မႈမ်ားကို တစ္ဆင့္ၿပီးတစ္ဆင့္ ဖယ္ရႇားသြားမည္ဟု ၾသစေၾတးလ် ႏိုင္ငံျခားေရး၀န္ႀကီး Bob Carr က မတ္လ ၂၆ ရက္ေန႔တြင္ ေျပာၾကားခဲ့သည္။ ၾသစေၾတးလ် ႏိုင္ငံျခားေရး၀န္ႀကီး Bob Carr က ကေမၻာဒီးယား ႏိုင္ငံခရီးစဥ္အတြင္း ကေမၻာဒီးယား ႏိုင္ငံျခားေရး၀န္ႀကီး ေဟာ္နန္ဟုန္ႏႇင့္ ေတြ႔ဆုံရာတြင္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံအေပၚ ခ်မႇတ္ထားသည့္ အေရးယူပိတ္ဆို႔မႈမ်ား ဖယ္ရႇားေရးကိစၥကို ထည့္သြင္း ေျပာၾကားခဲ့ျခင္းျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း သိရသည္။ The Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr said that Australia will relax its restrictions on Myanmar step by [...]
Indian Minister of Civil Aviation Ch Ajit Singh announced to Parliament on March 22 that Indian airlines (both government and private) will be given 660 additional frequencies in summer 2012 and winter 2012-13 to Dar-es-Salaam, Guangzhou, Yangon; Tashkent; Ho-Chi-Minh City; Hanoi; Almaty; Macao; Addis Ababa; Melbourne and Sydney. This huge increase in capacity will give [...]
While international attention has focused on the main personalities negotiating historic changes in Burma, the national legislature has begun flexing its muscles, writes our correspondent in Rangoon IN JUST a few days, Aung San Suu Kyi and forty-six other representatives of her party, the National League for Democracy, or NLD, will find out whether they [...]
Myanmar Tourism Board(MTB) held a Miss Myanmar 2012 Pageant at Yangon on March 25, 2012 at Yangon Myanmar. Miss Myanmar International crown was won by Ms. Nan Khin Zeyar (No 15). The 1st Runner-up was Ms. Swan Yay Tun(No 18) and 2nd Runner-up was Ms.Aye Chan Moe(No 16). Miss Myanmar International also received a cash [...]
(Rob Griffith/Associated Press) To capture a sense of life in a new destination, many travellers have used zoom lenses and hidden-camera tricks to surreptitiously snap photos of locals without their permission — and likely — without their knowledge. But approaching photography like a covert operation is not the most ethical way to get a great [...]
The customs service of the Sheremetievo airport in Moscow has prevented an illegal transferring of more than 40 unique Russian icons to New York. The icons were found in the luggage of a passenger who failed to provide relevant documents for their transferring. Experts say that the icons date back to the late 19th and [...]
The Australian government has donated almost $1 million to help protect Cambodia’s historic Angkor temple site. Foreign Minister Bob Carr announced the donation during a trip to the South-East Asian nation on Monday. “We are putting nearly $1 million into a heritage protection plan for the Angkor World Heritage area to stop it being trampled [...]
Daw Aung San Su Kyi continues her campaign trail with a trip to Myeik.But as she suffered from fatigue and was feeling a bit unwell she had to cut short her programme and return to Yangon in the evening. Also, due to her health condition she had cancelled her campaign trip to Magway,Kyaukpadaung etc. For [...]
President U Thein Sein yesterday(March 23) arrived back to Naypyitaw from his 3-nations tour to Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam and was welcomed back by Vice President Thiha Thura U Tin Aung Myin Oo, Vice President UDr. Sai Mauk Kham, Commander-in Chief of the Armed Forces Gen. Min Aung Hlaing and other high officials at Naypyitaw [...]
Foreign Minister Bob Carr today announced Australia has accepted an invitation from the Burmese Government to send an official five-person delegation to observe Burma’s parliamentary by-elections on April 1, 2012. Senator Bob Carr welcomed this development as a further positive sign of reform in Burma. “We have repeatedly encouraged the Burmese Government to ensure these [...]
When phase 2 of the Ngwe Saung Beach project is completed it will become the longest beach in SE Asia according to an official from Myanmar Hoteliers’ Association(Ngwe Saung). The extension will start in June 2012 and will take 4-5 years to complete, The plan calls for extending the beach from Lovers’ Island to Nga [...]
The leader of the Myanmar team that had represented Myanmar at ITLOS Tribunal, Dr. Tun Shin, Attoney General of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar, replied to a question posed by the member for Kyungyangone constituency, U Lun Thi at the Pyitaungsu Hluttaw meeting held yesterday(March 22). U Lun Thi had asked the leader [...]
Australian TV channel SBS aired a programme on Myanmar food yesterday(March 22).The next programme on Shan traditional food from Inle Lake region will be shown next Thursday(March 29) on SBS One Channel. Please go to the link below to watch. http://www.sbs.com.au/shows/lukesmekong/episodes/detail/episode/4523/season/1 Source :http://www.enchantingmyanmar.com
Deputy Minister for Hotels & Tourism, H.E U Htay Aung received Counsellor for Immigration of Australian Embassy based in Thailand, Mr. Greg Wallis, and the Deputy Head of Mission of the Australian Embassy based in Yangon, Ms. Ruth Stewart, at his office in Naypyitaw yesterday, March 21, 2012. At the meeting they discussed the development [...]
The ancient temple site of Bagan has potential to become a huge tourist attraction as Burma opens up. With unprecedented access to Burma, the ABC’s Zoe Daniel uncovers a country at the crossroads and gets a surprising admission about the military regime’s brutal activities. A senior Burmese government official admitted the military regime has used [...]
Myanmar has invited the ASEAN Secretariat to send a five-member Observer Delegation, accompanied by three media personnel, to observe the 1 April 2012, By-Election. Further, the Republic of the Union of Myanmar has also invited two Members of Parliament, accompanied by three media representatives, from each ASEAN Member State. In its invitation letter to the [...]
election monitors 21 Mar YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Myanmar has invited the U.S. and European Union to send observers to monitor April elections, an American official said Wednesday, a first for the long-isolated country seeking to convince the West to lift crippling sanctions. Myanmar’s government has not yet announced the historic news of allowing international [...]
Tourism sector urges protection of colonial sites Share13 By Aye Sapay Phyu Volume 31, No. 619 March 19 – 25, 2012 Yangon’s historic buildings. Pics: Boothee, Yadanar COLONIAL-ERA buildings are a valuable resource for the tourism sector and a major attraction for visitors to the city, tourism experts said last week. Many in the industry [...]
Experts back introduction of downtown heritage zones Share By Htar Htar Khin Volume 31, No. 619 March 19 – 25, 2012 YANGON’S legion of long-neglected colonial-era buildings were this week offered a lifeline with the formation of a non-government organisation that aims to preserve many of the sites for future generations. The Yangon Heritage Trust, [...]
Businessmen voice support for building preservation Share By Stuart Deed Volume 31, No. 619 March 19 – 25, 2012 MYANMAR’S business community has got the resources and skills to make heritage building conservation a reality – but has it got the interest? If the comments of two leading businessmen are any indication, the business community [...]
Historic Yangon cityscape thrown a lifeline Share42 By Thomas Kean Volume 31, No. 619 March 19 – 25, 2012 Historic Yangon cityscape thrown a lifeline Workers erect bamboo scaffolding around the Department of Immigration and National Population building on Mahabandoola Street near city hall early last year. The site was once home to the Rowe [...]
New Delhi: India may offer visas on arrival to citizens of three more South-East Asian nations, seeking to cement ties with a region that’s emerging as one of its key markets, when it enlarges the list of countries eligible for the facility. Citizens of 11 countries, including New Zealand, Luxembourg, Cambodia, Vietnam, the Philippines, Myanmar, [...]
BANGKOK, 14 March 2012: Myanmar’s Ministry of Hotels and Tourism reported the country received 816,369 international tourists (including day return visitors) during 2011, up 3.14% from 2010. The country aims to reach the 1 million milestones this year The country’s tourism statistics analysts moved the goal posts a mite by including day-return visits. Most countries [...]
No industry has been quite as rife with accusations of greenwashing as tourism. A combination of a growing international appetite for unique, place-centered travel (who wants to spend hours in a plane to vacation where it smells, tastes and looks like home?) along with some unscrupulous, or sometimes ignorant tour companies and destinations has led [...]