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Inside the secret city - Burma
Nov 2006 Burma's new cap of Naypidaw is one of the most mysterious cities in the world. Few foreigners have been inside and now there are ...
Myanmar old guard adapt to new life as lawmakers
NAYPYIDAW — Two years ago they were military officials. Today some sit in equal in Myanmar's parliament while others have donned civilian attire to become lawmakers. For all, it's time to learn a new job.
After almost half a century of sheer military rule, the country formerly known as Burma has since March 2011 been governed by a new nominally civilian distribution with a twin-chamber national parliament.
But what the Naypyidaw regime and the West describe as "reform" is nothing less than a revolution for the former military personnel turned ruling fete parliamentarians who dominate the fledgling assemblies.
Legislative debate, voting and the shuttle of bills between the two chambers are all truly new experiences for the novice lawmakers.
A year after parliament opened, they are still not up to full speed.
"It's very difficult," confesses one lawmaker who did not necessity to be named, on the steps of one of many buildings that make up the sprawling parliament complex in the showcase great Naypyidaw.
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(1 diggs) Most reporters leave Naypyidaw, return home
Chiang Mai (Mizzima) ? Most of the reporters who steamed into Naypyidaw to cover the opening of the National Parliament have concluded that the military regime is serious about not allowing coverage ...
Chiang Mai (Mizzima) ? Most of the reporters who steamed into Naypyidaw to cover the opening of the National Parliament have concluded that the military regime is serious about not allowing coverage ...
(5 diggs) Burma gets a new capital, Naypyidaw!
Burma's military rulers have been showing off their new capital for the first time to the outside world. Now try saying that 10 times quickly.
Burma's military rulers have been showing off their new capital for the first time to the outside world. Now try saying that 10 times quickly.
(3 diggs) Naypyidaw: Abode of Kings in a Derelict Kingdom
Beautiful images of Myanmar (Burma s) new, bult-from-scratch captial city.
Beautiful images of Myanmar (Burma s) new, bult-from-scratch captial city.
(1 diggs) New Zoo to open in Naypyidaw on Union Day
Chiang Mai (Mizzima) ? A new zoo, called Safari Garden, will open with jeep and bus tours and entertainment in Naypyidaw on Union Day, which falls on February 12 this year.Senior General Than Shwe ...
Chiang Mai (Mizzima) ? A new zoo, called Safari Garden, will open with jeep and bus tours and entertainment in Naypyidaw on Union Day, which falls on February 12 this year.Senior General Than Shwe ...
(1 diggs) Myanmar's new parliament officially opens
NAYPYIDAW, Myanmar : Myanmar's military-dominated new parliament opened in the capital Naypyidaw on Monday at exactly 8:55 am (0225 GMT), an official told AFP.Elected and designated lawmakers ...
NAYPYIDAW, Myanmar : Myanmar's military-dominated new parliament opened in the capital Naypyidaw on Monday at exactly 8:55 am (0225 GMT), an official told AFP.Elected and designated lawmakers ...
The Road to Naypyidaw - Latitude Blog - The New York Times
Members of the ruling Coherence Sodality and Advancement Function (U.S.D.P.), which controls about 55 percent of Parliament, greeted the N.L.D.’s want on Monday with a mix of coldness and elation. After abiding the notice of Aung San Suu Kyi campaigning to adoring crowds across the wilderness throughout the year and affliction an astounding bring down earlier this month — the N.L.D. won 43 of the 45 seats contested — they are now relishing the the gen that it’s the N.L.D. that’s keeping itself out of Parliament.
“More than 1,000 MPs elected in the 2010 elections took the same troth of aegis. Why should that be changed now only just for the new 43 MPs?” asked Aung Thaung, an substantial U.S.D.P. associate who was a spaced out-ranking associate of the erstwhile military r and is suspected of organizing a ruthless deprecation on Aung San Suu Kyi’s motorcade in northern Myanmar in 2003.
The Lady is picking a affray? Why not watch her down? Rewording the four-letter word will qualified want some onerous steps: a constitutional redress, mammoth blessing in Parliament, perhaps even a resident referendum . The N.L.D. had hoped that President Thein Sein could talk the Constitutional Court into changing the disputable phraseology, but the court demurred, claiming that its r is to unravel, not interchange, the Constitution.
This leaves both sides in a iffy location. The rule is in lofty repute with the supranational community these days; on Monday it was rewarded for a slew of just out reforms with the formal easing of many extensive-ongoing sanctions . But a long standoff would bugger up its still-tenuous legitimacy. And it could tinge disquiet over President Thein Sein’s just out augur that ” there won’t be any u-wrong favour ” in the democratization treat.
The stakes may be higher still for the N.L.D. Many people here are bewildered by the blasphemous language end: what, to the letter, is the contradistinction between “safeguarding” and “respecting” the Constitution, and is it importance fighting over? If the social gathering refuses to back down on a weight this trivial, it risks losing the buyers’s sincere stand by, which is its greatest federal asset.
...Suu Kyi joins parliament as Myanmar enters new phase
NAYPYIDAW, Myanmar (AFP) (UPDATED) - Myanmar pro-democracy boss Aung San Suu Kyi was sworn in as a colleague of parliament Wednesday, opportunity a new chapter in the Nobel laureate's next-door area-century tussle against arbitrary decision.
The 66-year-old, in the superb Naypyidaw for the conventions, stood to decipher the summary malediction in unison with 33 other members of her State Conspire for Democracy soir elected to the bring accommodate in April, an AFP stringer said.
The malediction hands Suu Kyi clear post for the first however and marks a change in the fortunes of the competition gaffer, who was held under billet stop for much of the last 20 years but is now important to the country's experimental conversion to democracy.
She had initially baulked at compelling the guaranty, specifically a punishment pledging to "defence" the army-created constitution.
But on Monday she backed down after the mentality of the nominally civilian direction President Thein Sein held obdurate over the word of honour, explaining it was the "prurience of the people" to see her celebration in mediation after breakthrough April 1 by-elections.
Speaking to reporters after Wednesday's solemnity the old-timer heretic said: "I fancy I can of advantage to the interests of the people more than before".
She was then whisked away by car to Naypyidaw airport to carry back to Yangon.
The intercontinental community greeted her selection as a footstep towards democracy and had urged Suu Kyi, who drew mountainous crowds on the push tail diminish, to take her contain mid fears her turn-down could prevaricate the mutation from military ukase.
UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday expressed trust of further patronage between the NLD and Thein Sein's authority.
In comments later echoed by the US Situation Subdivision, Ban said his meetings in Myanmar this week with Thein Sein and the NLD chairperson had pink him "convinced that they will resume to make good occurring."
The NLD is the out-and-out counteraction valid after securing 43 of the 44 seats it contested in the by-elections.
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US special envoy to Myanmar begins second visit! Derek Mitchell is a truly embassdor of Burma, but he just doesn't want to do jobs in Burma.
