ရေသ့ပ်ံ ဂူသို႔ ႏိုင္ငံတကာ ခရီးသြားမ်ားႏွင္႔ ေဒသတြင္း ခရီးသြားမ်ား စိတ္ဝင္စား ေလ့လာ မႈမ်ား ရွိလာ

ကရင္ျပည္နယ္ရွိ ဂူမ်ားအနက္ ဆဒၵန္ဂူႏွင့္ ရေသ့ပ်ံဂူႀကီးသို႔ ႏိုင္ငံတကာ ခရီးသြားမ်ားႏွင့္ ေဒသတြင္း ခရီး သြားမ်ား စိတ္ဝင္စား ေလ့လာမႈမ်ားရွိလာေၾကာင္း ဧည့္လမ္းၫႊန္မ်ားထံမွ သိရသည္။ ကရင္ျပည္နယ္ ဘားအံ ၿမိဳ႕ဝန္းက်င္၌ ဂူမ်ားစြာရွိရာ  အဆိုပါ ဂူမ်ားမွာ ဆဒၵန္ဂူ၊ေကာ့ကေသာင္ဂူ၊ ေကာ့ဂြန္းဂူ၊ ပတၱျမားဂူ၊  ဘုရင့္ညီဂူ၊  ခ႐ံုဂူ၊ လင္းႏို႔ဂူႏွင့္ ရေသ့ပ်ံဂူတို႔ ျဖစ္သည္။ ၎ဂူမ်ားသို႔ ခရီးသြားမ်ား သြားေရာက္ေလ့လာႏိုင္ၿပီး အႀကီးဆံုး ႏွင့္ အရွည္ဆံုးဂူျဖစ္သည့္ ဆဒၵန္ဂူႏွင့္ ဒုတိယအႀကီးဆံုး ရေသ့ပ်ံဂူတို႔မွာ ႏိုင္ငံတကာ ခရီးသြားမ်ားႏွင့္ ေဒသတြင္း ခရီးသြားမ်ားကို ဆြဲေဆာင္ႏိုင္အား ရွိသည္ဟု ဧည့္လမ္းၫႊန္မ်ားက ေျပာသည္။

''ကရင္ျပည္နယ္က ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံရဲ႕ လွပတဲ့ ေဒသေတြထဲမွာ တစ္ခု အပါအဝင္ပါ။ ဘားအံၿမိဳ႕ကေန သံလြင္ ျမစ္ကူးတံတားကို ျဖတ္ၿပီးတာနဲ႔ လက္ဝဲဘက္ ေက်ာက္သားလမ္းအတုိင္း အေနာက္ဘက္ကို ခ်ဳိးဝင္ရင္  ရေသ့ပ်ံဂူအထိ ေရာက္တယ္။ ဘားအံၿမိဳ႕ဝန္းက်င္မွာ လမ္းေဘးဝဲယာ စပါးခင္းေတြနဲ႔ စိမ္းလန္းတဲ့ ႐ႈခင္း ေတြကို ခံစားႏိုင္တဲ့အျပင္ ေက်ာက္ေတာင္ ျမင့္ျမင့္ႀကီးေတြနဲ႔ သဘာဝလိုဏ္ ဂူေတြ၊ ေတာ႐ိုင္းေမ်ာက္ေတြ ရဲ႕ ေဆာ့ကစား ေအာ္ဟစ္ သံေတြကို ၾကားရပါတယ္။ ထူးျခားတဲ့အခ်က္က အဲဒီေတာင္ေတြ၊ ဂူေတြၾကားမွာ ေျမြႀကီးေတြကို ေတြ႕ႏိုင္ေပမယ့္ ေျမြကိုက္ခံရတဲ့သူ တစ္ဦးတစ္ေယာက္မွ မရွိပါဘူး''ဟုခရီးသြား သုေတသီ တစ္ဦးက ေျပာၾကားခဲ့သည္။

ခရီးသြားမ်ားကို ဆြဲေဆာင္ႏိုင္သည့္ ရေသ့ပ်ံဂူႀကီးမွာ အတြင္း အလ်ားေပ ၈ဝဝ ခန္႔ရွိၿပီး အက်ယ္ဆံုး ဂူဝမွာ ေပ ၈ဝ၊ အျမင့္ေပ ၅ဝ ရွိကာ ဂူအလယ္တြင္ အနက္ေပ ၅ဝ ဝန္းက်င္ရွိ ေျမခ်ဳိင့္တြင္းနက္ႀကီး ရွိသည္ဟု သိရသည္။ ဂူအဝင္ဝကို အုတ္ေလွကားျဖင့္ တက္ႏိုင္ၿပီး ပထမဆံုး ေတြ႕ရသည့္ဂူတြင္ ၁၉ ရာစု ေလာက္မွ ဘုရား ဆင္းတုေတာ္မ်ားကိုလည္း ေတြ႕ရသည္။  အဆုိပါ ဂူတြင္  သဘာဝအေလ်ာက္ ျဖစ္တည္မႈမ်ားႏွင့္ သဘာဝ အလွမ်ားသည္ ႏိုင္ငံတကာ ခရီးသြားမ်ားကို ဖမ္းစားႏိုင္မႈ ရွိေနေၾကာင္း ဧည့္လမ္းၫႊန္မ်ား ထံမွ  သိရသည္။

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ရေသ႔ပ်ံ ရတနာလွဳိက္ဂူေတာ္ အလည္လာေရာက္ဖိတ္ေခၚပါသည္

ဘားအံျမိဳ႔နယ္ ရေသ႔ပ်ံရြာသည္ လူသိထင္ရွားေသာ ရြာၾကီးတစ္၇ြာျဖစ္ပါသည္.ရေသ့ပ်ံရြာရွိ ရေသ့ပ်ံလွဳိက္ဂူေတာ္သည္ ဗုဒၶဘာသာသမုိင္းလွဳိင္ဂူေတာ္ၾကီးျဖစ္သျဖင့္ ျမန္မာျပည္သာမက နဳိင္ငံျခားတုိင္ျပည္ရွိ ပညာရွင္ေတြ လာေရာက္ေလ့လာၾကေသာေနရာတစ္ခုျဖစ္ပါသည္.ထုိအျပင္ထုိ၇ြာ၏အနီးနားတြင္ မြန္းလူမ်ဳိးတုိ႔၏ လက္ရာမ်ားျပဳလုပ္ထားေသာ ေက်ာက္ခြက္အေျမာက္အမ်ားရွိသျဖင့္ နာမည္းၾကီးလွဳိက္ဂူေနရာတစ္ခု အျဖစ္လူသိထင္ရွားလွပါသည္.ရေသ႔ပ်ံရြာသူ၇ြားသားမ်ားသည္ စိတ္သေဘာထားျဖဴစင္ျပီး လူတုိင္းကုိခင္မင္ေရြတတ္ေသာဓေလ႔မ်ားရွိၾကသည္ ထုိ၇ြာၾကီး ဘားအံျမိဳ႔နင့္ မနီမေ၀း တည္ရွိသျဖင့္ လမ္းပန္ဆက္သြယ္ေရး အဆင္ေျပေသာေနရာတစ္ခုလည္းျဖစ္ပါသည္.ထုိေၾကာင့္သာယာလွပေသာရေသ့ပ်ံရြာၾကီးကုိလာလည္းဖုိ့ရန္ဖိတ္ေခၚပါတယ္.

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THE NATURE OF LOVE AND PLEASURE

There are different kinds of love, and these are variously expressed as motherly love, brotherly love, sensual love, emotional love, sexual love, selfish love, selfless love and universal love.
If people develop only their carnal or selfish love towards each other, that type of love cannot last long. In a true love relationship, one should not ask how much one can get, but how much one can give.
When beauty, complexion and youth start to fade away, a husband who considers only the physical aspects of love may think of acquiring another young one. That type of love is animal love or lust. If a man really develops love as an expression of human concern for another being, he will not lay emphasis only on the external beauty and physical attractiveness of his partner. The beauty and attractiveness of his partner should be in his heart and mind, not in what he sees. Likewise, the wife who follows Buddhist teachings will never neglect her husband even though he has become old, poor or sick.
"I have a fear that the modern girl loves to be Juliet to have a dozen Romeos. She loves adventure... The modern girl dresses not to protect herself from wind, rain and sun, but to attract attention. She improves upon nature by painting herself and looking extraordinary." - (Gandhi)
Sex
Sex by itself is not "evil", although the temptation and craving for it invariably disturbs the peace of mind, and hence is not conducive to spiritual development.
In the ideal situation, sex is the physical culmination of a deeply satisfying emotional relationship, where both partners give and take equally.
The portrayal of love by commercial groups through the mass media in what we call "western" culture is not "real" love. When an animal wants to have sex, it shows its "love", but after having experienced sex, it just forgets about love. For animals, sex is just an instinctive drive necessary for procreation. But a human being has much more to offer in the concept of love. Duties and responsibilities are important ingredients to maintain unity, harmony and understanding in a relationship between human beings.
Sex is not the most important ingredient for happiness in a married life. Those who have become, slaves to sex would only ruin love and humanity in marriage. Apart from that, a woman must cease to consider herself as the object of a man's lust. The remedy is more in her hand than in a man's. She must refuse to adorn herself simply to please a man, even if he is her husband. If she wants to be an equal partner with a man, she should dress so that her dignity is enhanced, and she does not become a sex symbol. "Marriage for the satisfaction of the sexual appetite is no marriage. It is oncupiscence." -- (Gandhi)
Love may indeed be a product of sex, but the reverse is likewise true: sex is an expression of love. In the ideally happy married life, both love and sex are inseparable.

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Myanmar people celebrate traditional Thadingyut lighting festival

www.chinaview.cn 2009-10-04 19:12:1
YANGON, Oct. 4 (Xinhua) -- Roadside stalls were filled with various kinds of candles, electric lighting, paper lantern, fireworks on sale and shopping centers were offering discounts on items such as foodstuff, clothing and gifts.
With streets lit with electric lighting and residential doors and windows with colorful bulbs and lanterns hanging on, Myanmar people have been celebrating the Thadingyut Full Moon Day Lighting Festival at a grand scale for a series of three days in the biggest city of Yangon since Friday.
According to Myanmar people's belief since ages, the festival is so held in a form that people light their candles and colorful paper lanterns at homes across the country to celebrate the descend of Lord Buddha back to earth after the Buddha paid gratitude to his mother for giving birth to him.
During the festival, younger people paid homage to their parents, teachers and elders and asked for pardon for whatever misdeeds in speech, thought and act they might have committed during the past year and in return the elders extend to them loving-kindness and forgiveness.
As part of the celebration, family members, especially youngsters and kids in groups, visited the zoo, gardens and parks where special provisional bazaars were erected introducing sale promotion and entertainment programs for them.
The fall of the Thadingyut lighting festival is also a festival which marks the end of three months' Buddhist lent and couples used to hold their marriage function then.
At this time, wedding dress shops, photo studios, furniture shops and model agencies also organize bridal shows at hotels filled with attractive and smiling couples.
All the pagodas like Shwedagon, Botataung, Sule were also crowded with pilgrims and the voice of monks reciting Buddha's teachings filled the sky which bring peace to the earth.
The entire platform of the Shwe Dagon Pagoda was illuminated with 9,000 oil lamps and perfume sticks.
Meanwhile, the Uppatasanti pagoda in the new capital of Nay PyiTaw is being packed with Buddhish devotes and pilgrims on the full moon day and was also offered with 9,000 oil lamps. Other places such as, zoological garden, and fountain garden were also crowded with people.

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Myanmar needs peace, stability for democratization

www.chinaview.cn 2009-10-04 10:59:41

YANGON, Oct. 4 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar official media said on Sunday that the country needs peace and stability for a successful holding of the upcoming multi-party general election next year, the 5th step of its democratization process under a seven-step roadmap.
"Myanmar is now in democratic transition. The new constitution has been approved. Multi-party general election will be held next year and a new government will be formed by a Hluttaw (parliament) in accord with the constitution," said the New Light of Myanmar in its editorial.
Holding that sanctions pose a barrier to the economic and social development of the people of developing countries, the editorial said some powerful nations have been resorting to economic sanctions to influence the political and economic systems of those countries.
"They can not only adversely affect people from different backgrounds but also make a form of violence," the editorial commented.
The editorial complained that sanctions are being employed to pressure Myanmar politically.
Dealing with climate change across the world which brings about natural disaster as well as many other issues which the world is facing such as food crisis, energy security, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, terrorist attacks and pandemic disease, the editorial stressed the need for global nations to make cooperative efforts to overcome these problems and challenges.
"Although many countries, large and small, are facing the financial and economic crisis, the small developing countries have been the hardest-hit," the editorial said, calling on the developed countries to increase their overseas development aid to the developing countries.
For over a decade, the United States and some European Union countries have imposed various sanctions including economic sanction on Myanmar out of political reasons.
Myanmar Prime Minister General Thein Sein demanded at the recent U.N. General Assembly in New York an end to economic sanctions, saying that sanctions are being employed as a political tool against Myanmar and such acts must be stopped.
Meanwhile, Aung San Suu Kyi, who is under 18-month house confinement, proposed in a letter dated Sept. 25 to Senior-GeneralThan Shwe, Chairman of the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC), to cooperate with the government in seeking ways of removing Western sanctions on Myanmar and also asking in her letter to meet and discuss with U.S. and European Union countries' diplomats as well as Australian's on the issue.
In response to Aung San Suu Kyi's letter, the government arranged a meeting between Liaison Minister U Aung Kyi and her on Saturday for further talks.

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the acitvit of burmese worker

Activities

The YCOWA’s activities include:

· Working in collaboration with Lawyer Council of Thailand and MAP Foundation to assist 732 workers in 11 cases both at the Thai Government Labour Protection and Welfare Office and Labour Tribunal Courts to pursue justice for exploitative working conditions

· Providing advice and counseling to Burmese migrant workers on their difficulties related to employment

· Organizing workshops and trainings on labour rights, human rights and democracy

· Providing training on organizational development, community-organizing skills and vocational skills

· Organizing roundtable discussion on political and social issues among Burmese migrant workers

· Assisting workers find jobs

· Coordinating with Thai legal NGOs to provide legal assistance to workers who have suffered accidents on the job, being denied their salaries, or being subjected to other abuses

· Providing temporary shelter to workers who have lost their jobs, or are ill, to victims of sexual assault and to pregnant women

· Coordinating social and religious events of Burmese migrant workers in Thailand

· Publishing “Yaung Chi Oo Labor Affair Journal” in Burmese monthly

· Networking and regular communication with both YCOWA branches and associated workers’ groups across Thailand

· Representing workers in negotiation with employers

During the past seven years since its existence, the YCOWA has accomplished the followings:

· The YCOWA provided assistance to a female worker from Chow Knitting Factory (CKI), who was raped by a Thai Border Patrol Police officer in May 2003. She filed a lawsuit to seek justice and later, she agreed to settle with compensation of 50,000 Baht, and the perpetrator (a police officer) publicly admitted his cruelty. The YCOWA helped her safe return to Burma.

· In 2002, the YCOWA helped to find 3 Burmese girls from Thathon whose families lost contact with them for a year. In fact, they were arrested by a Thai police and forced to work for the police relative’s house as domestic workers. With the YCOWA help, they were released and reunion with their family members in Mae Sod.

· In 2002, the YCOWA rescued two Burmese domestic female workers from the hands of employer. These two girls were forced to work without paid. The YCOWA could manage to take them out and negotiated to get them remuneration.

· In September 2002, the YCOWA set up a self-financed clinic in Mae Sod with one doctor and two medics, which provided free medical and health care services to Burmese migrant workers.

· In 2002, the YCOWA set up a safe house in Mae Sod and since then, it has provided temporary shelters and food to migrant workers in trouble and under the process of court cases.

· In 2003, 150 Burmese female workers of Value Trend Factory were forced to leave from their jobs after they had a conflict with the factory owner when they were asked to work for overtime with paid. The YCOWA in coordination with Thai Labour office of Tak Province and Law Society of Thailand assisted the workers to fight for their rights against the employer in accordance with Thai legal procedures. The YCOWA provided counseling and legal advice for their negotiation with the employer. As a result, compensation of 5,000 Baht for each worker and re-employment with the wage of 133 Baht was agreed by the factory owner.

· In September 2003, Thandar Hlaing, a Burmese girl who was working at the Ki Fong factory was raped and killed. The YCOWA coordinated workers from 30 factories in Mae Sod and organized her funeral. The YCOWA tried to collect evidences for revelation of the truth in order to push the Thai authorities to take legal action against the criminal for the justice of her.

· In 2004, the YCOWA run a programme of mobile clinic providing door-to-door medical and health care services for workers at the factories, dormitories, worksites and agricultural farms.

· In 2004, the YCOWA rescued 3 Burmese girls who were victims of human trafficking, and arranged return back to their parents in Burma.

· In 2004, the YCOWA in coordination with the MAP Foundation and the Lawyer Council of Thailand assisted 34 workers in the legal fight for their remuneration against the employer of Nut Knitting factory. At the end of more-than-a year-long process of trial, 18 workers who kept their fight at the court won the case and 70,000 Baht each received from the factory owner. During the trial, the YCOWA provided the workers with shelters, food, counseling and legal advice. Most importantly, the YCOWA members encourage them with moral support for their fight.

· In December 2003, there was a worker strike at the Nasawat factory and strikers were fired from jobs. In this case, the YCOWA in coordination with the MAP Foundation and the Lawyer Council of Thailand provided assistance to workers to file a case at the Thai Labour Protection and Welfare Office to make a verdict for their remuneration from the employer. At the end, the workers won the case.

· In 2004, a Burmese girl working at the Noodle-Soup Shop asked the YCOWA’s help for her claim of un-paid salary for three months from her employer. With the assistance of YCOWA, she filed a case at the labour office and at the end she received 12,000 Baht for her three month salary.

· In October 2004, the YCOWA in coordination with the MAP Foundation and the Lawyer Council of Thailand assisted 8 workers of Seint-heng factory in Mae Sod to receive their remuneration for 4-month salary and migrant worker ID cards from their employer.

· The YCOWA has successfully organized the following training and workshop programmes during seven years of its existence.

- 7 trainings on labour rights and Thai laws that produced 150 workers with knowledge on labour rights and Thai laws

- 7 trainings on Human rights and Democracy that produced 150 workers with basic understanding on human rights and democracy

- 5 workshops on migrant rights

- 60 roundtable discussions on social lives of workers and their daily-difficulties

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