E-Moe and his Satllite Dish (Cartoon)

Source: http://art-of-kha.tk/

There are very Nice Photo and design in this site


Copyright © Thet Paing Kha 2007

Hey!! Why are you Hesitant. Dismantle quickly!

Otherwise if come and check , the TV will be also confiscated in addition!!.

ယခု ႏွစ ္မ ွစ ၿပီး စေလာင္း အခြန္ ကုိ တစ္ႏွစ္ကို က်ပ္ေငြ(ျမန္မာပိုက္ဆံ) ၁၀သိန္း ေပးေဆာင္ရ မည္ ျဖစ္ ပါ သည္..။ယခင္ ႏွစ္မ်ားက စေလာင္းအခြန္မွာ က်ပ္ေငြ ၆,၀၀၀ က်ပ္သာျဖစ္ခဲ့ၿပီး ယခု ႏွစ္ မည္ သုိ႕ မည္ ပုံ ျဖစ္ သည္ က ုိေတာ့ မသိႏုိင္ေတာ့ပါ…။ အစိုးရ လႊင ့္တင္ ထားေသာ လုိင္းမွာ ၄လုိင္း သာ ရွိ ၿပီး ယင္း လုိင္း မ်ား မွာလည္း တစ္ ျခား ႏုိင္ငံက ၿဂိဳလ္ တု မ်ား မွ တင္လႊင့္ထား ျခင္း ျဖစ္ ပါ သည္..။ ယခု အီမိုတစ္ေယာက္ အခြန္ မေဆာင္ ႏိုင္ ေတာ့ဘဲ့ ျဖဳတ္ ရ ေတာ့ မည ့္ဘ၀ သုိ႕ ရ ရွိ ေန ပါ ေတာ့ သည္…။

Translation:

Starting from this year WITHOUT warning, Burma's military junta has ordered a massive 166-fold rise to 1 Millions Kyats(Burmese Currency) in the annual satellite television levy. Previous years it was 6000 Kyats only. No one had any idea how it was happen. The Junta only have 4 channels and it is using other country's satellite to broadcast. Now E-Moe can't afford to pay the Levy and he is in the situation of to dismantle his Satellite Dish....

(Bay Dah Comment: massive 166-fold rise in the annual satellite television levy in an apparent attempt to stop people watching dissident and international news broadcasts.)

(People reaction to this Cartoon: one comment in Ko Htike blog mention: "Right on the spot!! this is the Absolute True fact what is happening inside Burma right now!!: )

Long Peace Walk; Lastest Update for the Day No.3 (6 January 2008)

Source: MASA http://lanka-msma.blogspot.com/
(Read the full report in Burmese and more photos at the above link)

Walking in the Rain.

(The monks reach Kalutara Town this evening(shown with arrow. Colombo on top and Starting point Galle at the bottom.)

After walking 12 Kilometer this morning(6 January 2008), monks stop for a day meal at Sirisudahshanayama Monestary at Kawmula village and get some rest. In the afternoon there was very heavy rain but the monks keep continue walking.

A long all the way, all the wishes and encouragements make the monks more strength and motivation. The city dwellers and villagers asked "why are the monks walking?" and whenever they heard the monks replied " We are walking for to get freedom in Burma from the Junta Suppression and for the peace in the world", they(SriLankan people) give their wishes and Blessing. They also mentioned the Buddhist Country like Burma shouldn't be under Military Junta and they give their best wishes for the success of the campaign of the monks.
All Along the way, people put together their hands and pay respect to the monks like the way Burmese people pay their respect to the monks during Saffron Revolution.

The route is along the Coastal of the Indian Ocean and there are Coconut Trees line up along the way and people donated along of coconut juices.

One of the German tourist group shout "Burmese monks must win". All of them come down from the bus and put their hands together and pay respect to the monks. They claps their hand and shout together "Burmese monks will succeed".

Tonight, the monks will rest at Maha Bodhiya Monastery, Kalutara Town.(see the http://www.wikimapia.org/ photo).

Colombo is not very far away now, it is only about 30km away. The journey will end in front of United Nation office after reciting Metta Suta on 8 January 2008. Today the monks walk for a distance of 28km.

(Translated By Bay Dah)

Burmese Activist was called up by Singapore Police

Source: To protect the identity of the Activist I don't want to reveal the source.

According to the Blog site of the Burmese Activist who participated in the protest at the Orchard during the ASEAN summit, the Activist was called up by the Singapore police just very recently and was advised to come to Tanglin Police Station for "interview".(Orchard area is the vicinity of Tanglin Police Station).

This information was posted on that Activist's Blog in Burmese. The Activist mentioned that the phone call from the police caught the activist by surprise because it was quite some time ago. The police asked the activist when will the activist be able to come to the police station for interrogation regarding the Protest issue.

According to the activist, the police talked quite nicely on the phone.

The activist was not sure about how many Burmese Activists who participated Orchard Road Protest during ASEAN summit were called up by the police.

(If I get more information about this news update, I will post as soon as possible .. Bay Dah)

TRACKBACK LINK: (Video of Protest at Orchard Road)

Long Peace Walk Update (Third Day)

Source: Lanka-MSMA http://lanka-msma.blogspot.com/

To read the News Photos in Burmese, posted by MSMA and also MORE PHOTOS, Please visit this link:

http://lanka-msma.blogspot.com/2008/01/blog-post_9250.html

On the Third day of the Long Pace March for Peace in Burma and World Peace, Burmese Monks start their Peace Journey at 7:30am on 06 January 2008, from the Kande Viharaya Temple at Aluthgama Town where they rest for the overnight.

Before continue their walk, Burmese monk conduct consecration service at the temple and recite Metta Suta.

The monks taking a break at Kilometer 49 point and having cold drinks donated by the Sri Lanka devotees.

At the moment, the monks are passing by Kilometer 52 point outside of Beruwala Town while the cold breeze air of Indian Ocean welcome their Journey.

The monks are already completed over half way mark of the journey.

The monks are probably passing by this Area now .. (satellite map from http://www.wikimapia.org/ )

(I translated this article from MASA blog site with my best intention. .... Bay Dah)

Additional Information:

Kande viharaya Temple Kalwamodara Aluthgama, Sri Lanka

Outside view of the Kande Viharaya, Aluthgama. built in 1809 it has features of British colonial architecture. (Photo from http://www.hotelsinlanka.com/picture_gallery.html )

The building of the Kande Viharaya was initiated way back in 1734 by the Ven. Dedduwa Dhammananda Thero, an understudy of the most Ven. Weliwita Sri Saranankara Nayaka Thero.

Thousands of devotees flock the holy grounds of the Kande Vihara daily, seeking mental & spiritual relief from all the troubles & worries of day to day life. The tranquility and serenity that the Kande Viharaya brings into your heart, mind, body & soul cannot be expressed or described with words. It has got to be experienced.

The "Kshethrarama Pirivena" founded by the Ven. Hikkaduwe Sri Sumangala Thero in 1904 is also located within the Kande Viharaya premises. This acts as a vital centre in Buddhist eduction in the country.

Under the patronage of the Chief Incumbent the Ven. Batuwanhene Sri Buddharakkitha Thero, the Kande Viharaya continues to be a vital link in the socio cultural & religious activities in the country.

Among the latest additions to the temple is a computer educational facility to be used by the student Bhikkus of the Kande Viharaya.

The Largest meditating Buddha statue in Sri Lanka, at the Kande Viharaya, Aluthgama

Photo from http://www.hotelsinlanka.com/picture_gallery.html

Condition of the Political Prisoners Seriously Deteriorate

Source: Dr. Lun Swe:
Link: http://drlunswe.blogspot.com/2008/01/blog-post_892.html

URGENT ACTION NEEDED
Burmese Bloggers, Your Help is much Needed !

The condition of Political Prisoners at Insein Prison is Seriously Deteriorating, all the media and the blogs please spread this news as much as possible and as soon as possible, to get the world wide attention for taking action and help.
(This was requested by Political Prisoners Watch Group inside Burma.)

At Blk 1, Ko Minn Ko Naing, Ko Jimmy, Ko Tin Htu Aung, Ko Zaw Lin Aung, Ko Myo Thant and Ko Kap Khan Khual are held together with others criminals and also with Kywe Gyi aka Khin Maung Thaik ( a crminal who committed murder 2 times ) who was appointed as the supervisor of that Blk 1.

At Blk 2, Ko Ko Gyi, Ko Mya Aye, Ko Myo Khin aka Mone Khet and Ko Kyaw Kyaw Htwe aka Mar Kee are held together with the criminals who are on death row.

At Blk 3, Ko Dee Nyein Linn and Ko Thein Swe are held together with the criminals who are on death row.

At Blk 5, Ko Htwe Kywe is held together with other 30 criminals.

At Prison Hospital, Ko Hla Myo Aung and Ko Htin Kyaw are held together with ex army officer Hla Win Aung who is already mentally abnormal and another mad criminal.

Ko Myo Khin is going to sentence under Section 505/143 and Ko Thein Swe is going to sentence under Section 6.
Posted by Dr. Lun Swe 1:35am

(Disclaimer: I translated the original post as best as possible to the original Post with my best intention. .. Thank you.. Bay Dah)

Original Post in Burmese:
အင္းစိန္ေထာင္တြင္း၌ အထိန္းသိမ္းခံေနရသည့္ ႏိုင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသားမ်ား၏ အေျခအေနမ်ား အထူးဆိုး႐ြားေနေၾကာင္း ႏိုင္ငံတကာမွ သိရွိေစေရးအတြက္ ေအာက္ပါ သတင္းမွန္မ်ားကို မီဒီယာမ်ားမွ အျမန္ဆံုး ကူညီေရးသား ထုတ္လႊင့္ေပးၾကပါရန္ ျပည္တြင္းရွိ ႏိုင္ငံေရးအက်ဥ္းသားမ်ား အေျခအေန ေစာင့္ၾကည့္ေလ့လာသူမ်ားက ေမတၱာရပ္ခံခဲ့သည္။

ေထာင္မႀကီး တိုက္ႀကီး(၁)တြင္ ကိုမင္းကိုႏိုင္၊ ကိုဂ်င္မီ၊ ကိုတင္ထူးေအာင္၊ ကိုဇင္လင္းေအာင၊္ ကိုမ်ိဳးသန္႔၊ ပတ္ခမ္းကြာ တို႔အား အျခားရာဇ၀တ္ အက်ဥ္းသားမ်ားႏွင့္ အတူထားရွိၿပီး ေထာင္ထဲတြင္ပင္ လူသတ္မႈႏွစ္ခါ က်ဴးလြန္ထားသည့္ ကြၽဲႀကီး (ခ) ခင္ေမာင္သိုက္ကို ထိုတိုက္ႀကီး(၁)၏ တန္းစည္းခန္႔ထားေၾကာင္း သိရသည္။

တိုက္ႀကီး(၂)တြင္ ကိုကိုႀကီး၊ ကိုျမေအး၊ ကိုမ်ဳိးခင္ (ခ) မုန္းခက္၊ ေက်ာ္ေက်ာ္ေထြး (ခ) မာကီး တို႔အား ေသဒဏ္က်ထားသည့္ ရာဇ၀တ္သားမ်ားႏွင့္၎၊

တိုက္ႀကီး(၃)တြင္ ဒီၿငိမ္းလင္း၊ ကိုသိန္းေဆြ တို႔အား ေသဒဏ္က်ထားသည့္ ရာဇ၀တ္သားမ်ားႏွင့္၎၊

(၅)ေဆာင္ (၂)တိုက္တြင္ ကိုေဌးၾကြယ္အား အျခားအက်ဥ္းသား (၃၀)ႏွင့္၎၊

ေထာင္ေဆး႐ံုတြင္ ကိုလွမ်ိဳးေနာင္ႏွင့္ ကိုထင္ေက်ာ္ တို႔အား စိတ္ေဖာက္ျပန္ေနသည့္ စစ္ဗိုလ္ေဟာင္း လွ၀င္းေအာင္၊ အျခားအ႐ူးတေယာက္တို႔ႏွင့္၎ အတူေရာ၍ ထားရွိေၾကာင္း သတင္းရရွိသည္။

ကိုမ်ိဳးခင္ကို ပုဒ္မ ၅၀၅၊ ၁၄၃ တို႔ႏွင့္၎၊ ကိုသိန္းေဆြကို ပုဒ္မ ၆ခုႏွင့္၎ တရားစြဲထားေၾကာင္းလည္း သိရသည္။
Posted by ေဒါက္တာလြဏ္းေဆြ at 1:35 AM

Burmese Monks Long Peace Walk Update

Source: Ashin Mettacara

Link: http://ashinmettacara-eng.blogspot.com/

Monks Long Peace Walk Route Map: courtesy from Ashin Mettacara Blog Site: Starting from Galle (bottom of the map) to Colombo (top of the map)

Monks have already walked 31km. They will spend in Aluthgama for tonight. There is only two and half kilometers left to enter the city.(more news and More Photo at this link: http://ashinmettacara-eng.blogspot.com/)