All houses of squatters occupied on the left / right side of the Yangon-Pathein Road Hlaingthaya (East) Township, Yangon Region, have been ordered to be demolished by October 28, leaving tens of thousands of residents homeless.
by Bill Murray
Aye Chan Zin, a 22 year old competitive cyclist, once raced from Yangon to Mandalay and back. He fell and lost both incisors to gold teeth.
“Road very bad out there,” he grinned, goldly.
Aye Chan was a child of privilege, a third-year vet school student with parents with government jobs. His dad was Chinese, a doctor working on a leprosy project, his mom a philosophy teacher at Yangon University. A family album they kept in the family car was chock full of smiling brothers and sisters.
He had his dad’s tan Toyota with tinted windows. He would be our guide and driver, and on Tuesday the seventh of February or, as The New Light of Myanmar newspaper called it, the eighth waxing of Tabodwe, 1356 ME, we set out from Yangon for a drive into the country.
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DVB calls on Thailand not to deport its journalists to Myanmar Media news
The three journalists and two activists are expected to appear in court on Tuesday on charges of “illegal entry.”
Three journalists and two activists from Myanmar will appear in court in Thailand on Tuesday on charges of “illegal entry”, a news agency told the authorities to not deport Myanmar as it would endanger their lives.
The group was arrested on Sunday in a “random search” in northern Chiang Mai, DVB said in a statement.
“DVB strongly urges the Thai authorities not to deport them to Burma, as their lives will be in grave danger if they return,” said DVB executive director and editor-in-chief Aye Chan Naing.