Singapore developers eye buyers inMyanmar

Singapore's biggest real estate developer, Far East Organization, is shifting the focus of its promotions in Myanmar from residential to commercial spaces.
At a property and sales exhibition, held August 17-18 at Yangon’s Parkroyal Hotel – its 14th in Myanmar since 2010 – the company pitched Singapore as a good match for Myanmar property investors looking for business properties.
“In the past, we mostly brought residential projects, but this time we’ve chosen projects preferred by Myanmar buyers, like commercial warehouses … and office space,” said Ko Kyaw Min Zin, team leader for Myanmar sales. Properties in the six projects being promoted ranged from S$1.7 million (US$1.34 million) to S$5 million.
Since 1960 Far East Organization has built more than 1000 high-end condo projects in Singapore. The seminar was co-organised with two other Singapore-based agencies, Rock Estate Management and Maverick Estate Company.
the myanmar time

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German budget surplus increases

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Higher taxes have boosted public finances in Germany which according to official data released today had a budget surplus of 0.6 percent of GDP in this year's first half .
The Federal Statistical Office, Destatis, said that Germany, Europe's biggest economy, ran a surplus of 8.5 billion euros in the January-June period. That's a slightly better performance than in the first half of 2012, when Germany posted its first six-month surplus in over three years.
The government's tax take totaled 321.4 billion euros, up 3.8 percent on the previous year as low unemployment helped push up income tax payments.
For the whole of last year, Germany had a surplus of 0.2 percent of GDP. That contrasts with deficits well above the official EU limit of 3 percent in several other eurozone countries.
Destatis said that state, regional, local and social security budgets "benefited from a generally good employment situation and a stable economic development in the first half of 2013 compared with other European countries."
The agency also said annual GDP growth is currently at 0.9 percent, confirming a preliminary estimate of 0.7% growth.

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Irish taxpayers have paid €220m forEU and IMF bailout services

Taxpayers in Ireland have paid more than €220m in fees to the EU and the IMF in the context of the country’s bailout, besides €1.4bn in interest payments paid last year alone, according to the Irish newspaper, The Independent. The fees, covering services including administration, are charged whenever the Irish government receives a loan or tranche under the €67bn programme.
According to the figures published in the newspaper, between 2010 and 2012, Ireland paid about €224m worth of fees. The Irish debt-management agency, the National Treasury Management Agency (NTMA), said the fees covered administration and service fees on loans drawn down under the EU/IMF programme.
More specific, in 2012, €67.3m were paid in fees down from €113.8m in 2011.The fall is due to the fact that less money was drawn down in 2012 compared to 2011. In 2010, the year the bailout was agreed, fees were €41.2m.
On the other hand, the conservative party Fianna Fail's Finance spokesman Michael McGrath has stated that the EU/IMF should not be collecting the fees, given that Ireland was "by far and away the best prospect of a eurozone country emerging successfully from a troika bailout programme".
He also added: "The troika is now insisting that the Government ploughs ahead with further tax increases and spending cuts of €3.1bn in October's Budget, with scant regard for the impact on our citizens. Given that over 90pc of the troika funding has now been drawn down, a suspension of these fees would yield minimal savings for the Exchequer at this stage. However, in recognition of the sacrifices made by the Irish people over the last number of years to get our public finances back on track, it would be a very welcome gesture if the troika were to repay the €224m collected in the fees to the Irish State."
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YCDC block the construction of high-rise buildings near historic pagoda

Yangon City Development Committee (YCDC) has blocked two separate proposals to construct 11 and 22-storey buildings inside of the restricted areas near Shwedagon Pagoda.

The locations of the restricted areas situated between Damazedi Road and Shin Saw Pu Road on the north ward of Shwedagon Pagoda, between the junction of Min Ye Kyaw Swar Road-Circular Train Road-Shwedagon Pagoda Road and Yaw Min Gyi Street on the south ward of Shwedagon Pagoda, Alan Pya Pagoda Road-Zoological Garden Street-Kan Street-Kan Street-Netmauk Road-Kabaaye Pagoda Road on the east ward of Shwedagon Pagoda and Baho Road on the west of Shwedagon Pagoda.

“We have issued restricted areas for high-rise buildings near Shwedagon. Proposals are submitted to the YCDC to construct high-rise buildings and they are located in restricted areas near Shwedagon Pagoda. So YCDC hasn’t allowed them,” said Ye Win from the YCDC High-rise Buildings Scrutinizing Committee.

Moreover the YCDC didn’t allow the construction of twelve and a half stories building in Kamaryut Township due to blocking the sight of Shwedagon Pagoda, he continued. If the companies want to build commercial buildings inside of the restricted areas near Shwedagon Pagoda, they have to limit the height of the buildings from the base of Shwedagon Pagoda (not over 190 feet above sea surface). If they are outside of the restricted areas near Shwedagon Pagoda, they have to construct the buildings under the spiral-like part of a pagoda immediately below the finial (417 feet above sea surface).

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Myanmar eyeing possibility of building new deep-sea port

The Myanmar government will jointly perform a feasibility study with a private company from Thailand to explore the possibility of building a new deep-sea port in the country's southeastern Mon State facing the Gulf of Moattama, state media reported Friday.

The Port Authority of the Ministry of Transport recently signed a memorandum of understanding with Thailand's Emerald Grand Hotel Co. to start conducting, within three months, the feasibility study for the Kalargote deep-sea port project located between Ye and Mawlamyine towns in Mon State, the New Light of Myanmar daily said.

The Kalargote deep-sea port project is part of an old infrastructure development project in Myanmar that never materialized.

If successful, it could be easily linked up to the Three Pagoda Pass route, one of the country's major trading routes with Thailand, the paper said.

The study will also cover the environmental, social and economic impacts that could affect the livelihoods of the local people living in the area, it said.

Earlier local media reports quoting officials have said the project could create about 12,000 jobs.

Myanmar has two other deep-sea port projects, one in Kyaukphyu in the country's western Rakhine State, being developed by Chinese companies, and the other in Dawei in Tanintharyi Region, just south of Mon State.

But the Dawei deep-sea port project, supposed to be built by Thailand's Italian-Thai Development, is facing a series of delays due to financial reasons.

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Qatari firm vows 'affordable' mobile access for Myanmar

Qatari telecoms giant Ooredoo on Friday pledged to introduce "affordable" phone services to Myanmar next year as it pumps $15 billion into one of the world's few remaining frontier mobile markets.

The firm, which in June along with Norway's Telenor won bids to provide mobile coverage to a nation where less than 10 percent of the population has telephone access, should be formally awarded its 15-year 3G licence by the end of this year.

It will then start to roll out its mobile services -- including money transfers and weather data for farmers -- within six months, a company executive told reporters in Yangon.

"People can use Ooredoo's services next year... we need to build quickly, not only in cities but also in rural areas," Ross Cormack said.

Few in Myanmar can currently afford mobile phones and SIM card fees, which in the past cost about $200, although the government is now trying to make prices more affordable.

Asked how calls will be priced -- in a country where about a quarter of the population live below the national poverty line -- Cormack said: "I can't say exactly but you will find it attractive and affordable."

In a statement in July Myanmar's government said Ooredoo had "committed" to selling SIM cards for about $1.5 and to charging roughly four cents for off-peak calls.

"We will deliver SIM cards and all the services at every road-side store and to villages," Cormack said, adding up to 97 percent of Myanmar's 60 million people will have access to his company's services within five years.

Mobile coverage in the former junta-ruled nation is extremely limited, with less than 10 percent of the population enjoying access to a telephone.

The company, formerly known as QTel, will invest in selling its services at tens of thousands of outlets across the country, it said, with a focus on add-ons including mobile money transfers and providing market prices, weather updates and equipment rental costs to help farmers in remote areas.

Valid for 15 years, the licences are the first to be awarded by the formerly junta-ruled nation, and will see the two foreign firms enter a market once monopolised by a pair of state companies.

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သီလ၀ါ၊ ထား၀ယ္၊ ေက်ာက္ျဖဴစသည့္ ေရနက္ဆိပ္ကမ္းမ်ားအျပင္ တနသၤာရီ ကမ္း႐ိုးတန္းႏွင့္ ဧရာ၀တီတိုင္း ေဒသႀကီးတြင္ ေရနက္ဆိပ္ကမ္း စီမံကိန္းသစ္ႏွစ္ခု ထပ္မံတည္ေဆာက္ရန္ စီစဥ္

ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံတြင္ တည္ေဆာက္ရန္ စီစဥ္ေနသည့္ သီလ၀ါ၊ ထား၀ယ္၊ ေက်ာက္ျဖဴစသည့္ ေရနက္ဆိပ္ကမ္းမ်ားအျပင္ တနသၤာရီ ကမ္း႐ိုးတန္းႏွင့္ ဧရာ၀တီတိုင္း ေဒသႀကီးတို႔တြင္ ေရနက္ဆိပ္ကမ္း စီမံကိန္းသစ္ႏွစ္ခု ထပ္မံတည္ေဆာက္ရန္ စီစဥ္ေနေၾကာင္း ျမန္မာ့ဆိပ္ကမ္း အာဏာပိုင္မွ သတင္းရရွိပါသည္။

မြန္ျပည္နယ္ ေမာ္လၿမိဳင္ၿမိဳ႕ႏွင့္ ေရးၿမိဳ႕အၾကားရွိ တနသၤာရီ ကမ္း႐ိုးတန္းတြင္ ကုလားဂုတ္ ေရနက္ဆိပ္ကမ္း စီမံကိန္းအား ထိုင္းႏိုင္ငံမွ လည္းေကာင္း၊ ဧရာ၀တီတိုင္းေဒသႀကီးရွိ င႐ုတ္ေကာင္းေအာ္တြင္ င႐ုတ္ေကာင္း ေရနက္ဆိပ္ကမ္း စီမံကိန္းအား စင္ကာပူႏိုင္ငံမွ လည္းေကာင္း အေကာင္ေဖာ္ရန္ စိတ္၀င္စားမႈ ရွိေနေၾကာင္း သိရသည္။

ထိုင္းႏိုင္ငံမွ Emerald Grand Hotel Group သည္ ကုလားဂုတ္ ေရနက္ဆိပ္ကမ္း စီမံကိန္း တည္ေဆာက္ရန္အတြက္ ကုလားဂုတ္ေဒသတြင္ ျဖစ္ႏိုင္ေျခ ေလ့လာမႈ ျပဳလုပ္မည္ျဖစ္ၿပီး၊ စင္ကာပူႏိုင္ငံမွ Super Axis Development pte.ltd ကုမၸဏီသည္ င႐ုတ္ေကာင္း ေရနက္ဆိပ္ကမ္း စီမံကိန္း တည္ေဆာက္ရန္ ျဖစ္ႏိုင္ေျခ ေလ့လာမႈမ်ား ျပဳလုပ္သြားရန္ ျမန္မာ့ဆိပ္ကမ္း အာဏာပိုင္ႏွင့္ ယခုလအတြင္း သေဘာတူလက္မွတ္မ်ား ေရးထိုးခဲ့ေၾကာင္း သတင္းရရွိသည္။

အဆိုပါ ျဖစ္ႏိုင္ေခ် ေလ့လာမႈမ်ားတြင္ ေရနက္ဆိပ္ကမ္း စီမံကိန္း တည္ေဆာက္ရန္အတြက္ ေရအားစမ္းသပ္မႈ၊ ေျမသားစမ္းသပ္မႈ၊ လိႈင္းေလသက္ေရာက္မႈမ်ားႏွင့္ ေရနက္ဆိပ္ကမ္း စီမံကိန္း တစ္ခုလံုး၏ ခန္႔မွန္းကုန္က်စရိတ္ တြက္ခ်က္မႈမ်ားအားလံုး ပါ၀င္မည္ျဖစ္သည္။
မြန္ျပည္နယ္ ေမာ္လၿမိဳင္ၿမိဳ႕ႏွင့္ ေရးၿမိဳ႕အၾကားရွိ တနသၤာရီ ကမ္း႐ိုးတန္းတြင္ ကုလားဂုတ္ ေရနက္ဆိပ္ကမ္း စီမံကိန္းအား ထိုင္းႏိုင္ငံမွ လည္းေကာင္း၊ ဧရာ၀တီတိုင္းေဒသႀကီးရွိ င႐ုတ္ေကာင္းေအာ္တြင္ င႐ုတ္ေကာင္း ေရနက္ဆိပ္ကမ္း စီမံကိန္းအား စင္ကာပူႏိုင္ငံမွ လည္းေကာင္း အေကာင္ေဖာ္ရန္ စိတ္၀င္စားမႈ ရွိေနေၾကာင္း၊ ခန္႔မွန္းေျခအားျဖင့္ င႐ုတ္ေကာင္း ေရနက္ဆိပ္ကမ္းသည္ တန္ခ်ိန္ငါးေသာင္းခန္႔ရွိ နိုင္ငံတကာ ပင္လယ္ကူး သေဘၤာမ်ား ဆိုက္ကပ္ႏိုင္မည့္ ေရနက္ဆိပ္ကမ္းတစ္ခု ျဖစ္လာႏိုင္မည္ျဖစ္ၿပီး၊ ကုလားဂုတ္ ေရနက္ဆိပ္ကမ္းသည္ တန္ခ်ိန္ငါးေသာင္းခန္႔ရွိ နိုင္ငံတကာ ပင္လယ္ကူးသေဘၤာ အစီး ၃၀ တစ္ၿပိဳင္နက္ ဆိုက္ကပ္ႏိုင္မည့္ ေရနက္ဆိပ္ကမ္းတစ္ခု ျဖစ္လာႏိုင္ေၾကာင္း ျမန္မာ့ဆိပ္ကမ္း အာဏာပိုင္မွ ၿမိဳ႕ျပအင္ဂ်င္နီယာခ်ဳပ္ ဦးျမသန္းက ေျပာၾကားခဲ့သည္။

ေလ့လာတြက္ခ်က္မႈမ်ား ၿပီးစီးပါက စင္ကာပူႏိုင္ငံမွ Super Axis Development pte.ltd ကုမၸဏီသည္ င႐ုတ္ေကာင္းေရနက္ဆိပ္ကမ္း စီမံကိန္းအား လည္းေကာင္း၊ ထိုင္းႏိုင္ငံမွ Emerald Grand Hotel Group သည္ ကုလားဂုတ္ ေရနက္စီမံကိန္းအား လည္းေကာင္း တည္ေဆာက္ရန္ စီစဥ္ေနၿပီး၊ ျမန္မာ့ဆိပ္ကမ္းအာဏာပိုင္ အေနျဖင့္ အဆိုပါ ေရနက္ဆိပ္ကမ္း စီမံကိန္းမ်ားအား BOT စနစ္ (သို႔မဟုတ္) Joint Venture စနစ္ျဖင့္ တည္ေဆာက္ရန္ ဆက္လက္ဆံုးျဖတ္သြားမည္ဟု သိရသည္။

ကုလားဂုတ္ ေရနက္ဆိပ္ကမ္း စီမံကိန္းႏွင့္ င႐ုတ္ေကာင္း ေရနက္ဆိပ္ကမ္း စီမံကိန္းမ်ားတြင္ စက္မႈဇုန္ စီမံကိန္းမ်ားကိုပါ တည္ေဆာက္ရန္ စီစဥ္ေနၿပီး၊ အဆိုပါ စက္မႈဇုန္ စီမံကိန္းမ်ားအား ဧရာ၀တီတိုင္းေဒသႀကီး အစိုးရအဖဲြ႔၊ မြန္ျပည္နယ္ အစိုးရအဖဲြ႔မ်ားႏွင့္ အမ်ဳိးသားစီမံကိန္းႏွင့္ စီးပြားေရး ဖြံၿဖိဳးတိုးတက္မႈ ၀န္ႀကီးဌာနမ်ားႏွင့္ ဆက္လက္ေဆာင္ရြက္သြားမည္ဟု သိရသည္။

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မႏၲေလးနန္းေရွ႕အိမ္၊ ၿခံ၊ ေျမေစ်း အဆမတန္ျမင့္တက္

ရန္ကုန္၊ ၾသဂုတ္ ၂၃

အာရွသုံးႏိုင္ငံ၏ စီးပြားေရးဗဟို ခ်က္ျဖစ္လာမည့္ မႏၲေလးၿမဳိ႕ေတာ္ နန္းေရွ႕ အိမ္၊ ၿခံ၊ ေျမ ေစ်းႏႈန္းမ်ားမွာ ၿပီးခဲ့သည့္ သုံးႏွစ္ခန္႔က ေပါက္ခဲ့သည့္ အိမ္၊ ၿခံ၊ ေျမ၊ ေစ်းႏႈန္းမ်ားႏွင့္ ႏိႈင္းယွဥ္ပါက အဆမတန္ ျမင့္တက္သြားေၾကာင္း မႏၲေလးၿမဳိ႕ေတာ္ အေျခစိုက္ အိမ္၊ ၿခံ၊ ေျမအက်ဳိးေဆာင္ လုပ္ငန္းရွင္မ်ားထံမွ စုံစမ္းသိရွိရသည္။

မႏၲေလးနန္းေရွ႕ အိမ္၊ ၿခံ၊ ေျမေစ်း ျမင့္တက္ရျခင္းမွာ နန္းေရွ႕သည္ မႏၲေလး ၿမဳိ႕သစ္ႏွင့္ ႏိႈင္းယွဥ္ပါက ေစ်းခ်ဳိႏွင့္ ပိုနီးျခင္းေၾကာင့္ ေနထိုင္သူမ်ား ဝယ္ယူမႈ မ်ားလာၿပီး ယင္းကဲ့သို႔ ေစ်းအဆမတန္ ျမင့္တက္သြားရျခင္း ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း မႏၲေလးၿမဳိ႕ေတာ္ အေျခစိုက္ ေရႊမႏၲေလး အိမ္၊ ၿခံ၊ ေျမ အက်ဳိးေဆာင္ လုပ္ငန္းရွင္ ဦးေနလင္းေအာင္က ေျပာၾကားသည္။

“ၿမဳိ႕သစ္မွာ တစ္ေထာင္၊ ေထာင့္ငါးရာ ေပးေနမယ့္အစား ၿမဳိ႕သစ္ထက္စာရင္ ေစ်းခ်ဳိနဲ႔နီးတဲ့ နန္းေရွ႕ေျမကြက္ေတြကို ေနသူေတြ ႀကဳိက္တဲ့သေဘာေပါ့။ ၿမဳိ႕တြင္းမွာ အေမြဆိုင္ကို ေရာင္းၿပီးတဲ့သူေတြ အမ်ားစုက နန္းေရွ႕ၾကားကြက္ တစ္ေထာင္၊ ေထာင့္ငါးရာတန္ေတြ ဝယ္ၾကတယ္” ဟု ဦးေနလင္းေအာင္က ဆိုသည္။

လက္ရွိ မႏၲေလး အိမ္၊ ၿခံ၊ ေျမ ေစ်းကြက္တြင္ ေက်ာက္မ်က္လုပ္ငန္းရွင္ မ်ားႏွင့္ ေကာက္ပဲသီးႏွံ ေရာင္းဝယ္ေရး လုပ္ကိုင္သူမ်ား အေရာင္းအဝယ္ ေကာင္းေနေသာေၾကာင့္ နန္းေရွ႕ အိမ္၊ ၿခံ၊ ေျမမ်ား အပါအဝင္ ၿမဳိ႕တြင္းႏွင့္ လယ္ယာေျမမ်ား အေရာင္းအဝယ္ ေကာင္းလ်က္ ရွိေၾကာင္း၊ ၿပီးခဲ့သည့္ အိမ္၊ ၿခံ၊ ေျမ ေစ်းေကာင္းခဲ့သည့္ ၂၀၁၀ ျပည့္ႏွစ္ အိမ္၊ ၿခံ၊ ေျမေပါက္ေစ်း ႏႈန္းမ်ားကိုမီရန္ ၁၀ ရာခိုင္ႏႈန္းခန္႔သာ လိုေတာ့ေၾကာင္း မန္းေျမရာဇာ အိမ္၊ ၿခံ၊ ေျမအက်ဳိးေဆာင္ ဦးေက်ာ္ဝင္းက ေျပာၾကားသည္။

မႏၲေလးနန္းေရွ႕ အိမ္၊ ၿခံ၊ ေျမ ေပါက္ေစ်းမ်ားမွာ ၿပီးခဲ့သည့္ သုံးႏွစ္ခန္႔က ေပ ၃၀ ထ ၆၀ ၾကားကြက္ တစ္ကြက္လွ်င္ က်ပ္သိန္း ၅၀၀၊ ၆၀၀ ခန္႔သာ ေပါက္ေစ်းရွိခဲ့ရာမွ လက္ရွိတြင္ က်ပ္သိန္းတစ္ေထာင္ ဝန္းက်င္ခန္႔ရွိၿပီး မဟာၿမဳိင္ၾကားကြက္ တစ္ကြက္လွ်င္ ၿပီးခဲ့သည့္ သုံးႏွစ္ခန္႔က က်ပ္သိန္း ႏွစ္ေထာင္ ဝန္းက်င္ခန္႔မွ လက္ရွိ က်ပ္သိန္း ၂၅၀၀ ႏွင့္ က်ပ္သိန္း ၃၀၀၀ ဝန္းက်င္ခန္႔သို႔ ေစ်းျမင့္တက္သြားေၾကာင္း မႏၲေလးၿမဳိ႕ေတာ္ အိမ္၊ ၿခံ၊ ေျမ ေစ်းကြက္အတြင္းမွ စုံစမ္းသိရွိရသည္။

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ရန္ကုန္ ေရျကီး ျမို့ခံေတြ အခက္ျကံု

               ရန္ကုန္ျမို့မွာ မိုးျကီး ေရလံွ် ျဖစ္ေနတဲ့ အတြက္ ျမို့တြင္း သြားလာသူေတြ ဒုကၡရာက္ ၾကရသလို ကားေတြနဲ့ သြားသူေတြလည္း ကားေရနစ္လို့ ျဖစ္တဲ့ ေနရာမွာ ပစ္ထားခဲ့ရသူေတြ ရိွသလို ကားထဲ ေရဝင္လို့ ေရခပ္ထုတ္ ေနရတဲ့ သူေတြလည္း ရိွေနပါတယ္။

ပုဇြန္ေတာင္ေခ်ာင္း ကလည္း ေရတက္ ၊ ေလေရာ မိုးေရာ က်တာကလည္း နွစ္ရက္ ရိွျပီ ျဖစ္တာေၾBY ; သစ္ထူးလြင္ကာင့္ မေန့က မနက္က ဆိုရင္ ပုဇြန္ေတာင္ေခ်ာင္း တံတားက ကြန္ကရစ္ တိုင္ေတာင္ ကို်းသြားတယ္လို့

ပုဇြန္ေတာင္ဖက္မွာ ေနထိုင္သူ တေယာက္က ဘီဘီစီကို ေျပာပါတယ္။

ဒါ့အျပင္ မီးကလည္း ပ်က္ျပီး မိုးရြာရင္ ေရတအားပါတယ္လို့ ျမို့ခံက ဆိုပါတယ္။

ကားဘီးေတြ ေရျမုပ္တဲ့ အျပင္ ျမို့ထဲမွာ မီးပိြုင့္ေတြမွာ ကားေတြက ေရြ့တယ္ ဆိုရံုသာ သြားေနရတာေျကာင့္ တေနရာနဲ့ တေနရာ သြားဖို့ အခိ်န္ အေတာ္ ယူရတယ္လို့ ေျပာပါတယ္။

ရန္ကုန္ျမို့တြင္းေန လူထုအျပင္ လိွုင္သာယာ စက္မႈဇံုဖက္ အလုပ္ဆင္း ျကရတဲ့ သူေတြပါ မိုးထဲေလထဲ သြားလာျကတဲ့ အခါမွာ အခက္အခဲေတြနဲ့ ျကံုေနရတယ္လို့ ျမို့ခံေတြက ဆိုပါတယ္။

လိွုင္သာယာ စက္မႈဇုန္ ကေန ဘုရင္ေနာင္ မီးပိြုင့္ကို ျဖတ္တာ ၁ နာရီခဲြ ျကာတယ္လို့ ကိုယ္ေတြ့ ျကံုခဲ့တဲ့ ခရီးသြား တေယာက္က ေျပာပါတယ္။

လမ္းတေလွ်ာက္ ကားေတြက ေရဝင္လို့ ပ်က္တာ ေတြ အမ်ားအျပား ေတြ့ရျပီး သီရိမြန္ ပလာဇာ ဖက္ကဆိုရင္ အနိမ့္ပိုင္း ျဖစ္တာေျကာင့္ ကားေတြဟာ ေရေတာထဲ ေမာင္းေနသလိုမို်း ျမင္ရတယ္လို့ ဆိုပါတယ္။

လျပည့္ေက်ာ္ ရက္လည္းျဖစ္ ေရျကီးမယ္လို့ မိုးေလ၀သ ခန့္မွန္းခ်က္ ထုတ္ထားတဲ့ အတိုင္း ေရျကီး မိုးသည္းထန္ တာေျကာင့္ ရန္ကုန္တျမို့လံုး ေရလွြမ္းသြားတယ္လို့ ေျပာပါတယ္။

လူထု အေနနဲ့လည္း အစိုးရဆီက အကူအညီ ကလည္း မရ ၊ တေယာက္ကို တေယာက္လည္း မကူညီနိုင္ ျဖစ္ေနေျကာင္း သိရပါတယ္။

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ေျမေစ်းႏႈန္းမ်ား ျမင့္မားမႈေၾကာင့္ ရန္ကုန္-ဒလ တံတားစီမံကိန္း ရပ္နားလုိက္ရ

ေတာင္ကိုရီးယားႏုိင္ငံက တည္ေဆာက္ေပးမည့္ ရန္ကုန္-ဒလ တံတား စီမံကိန္းကို ယခုအစုိးရ သက္တမ္းအတြင္း တည္ေဆာက္ေတာ့မည္ မဟုတ္ေၾကာင္း၊ လက္ရွိ အစုိးရသက္တမ္း ကုန္ဆုံးမည့္ ၂၀၁၅ခုႏွစ္အတြင္း ယင္းစီမံကိန္းကို ရပ္နားလုိက္ျခင္းသည္ စီမံကိန္းေၾကာင့္ ျဖစ္ေပၚလာသည့္ ေျမေစ်းႏႈန္းျမင့္မားမႈမ်ားေၾကာင့္ ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း၊ ႏုိင္ငံေတာ္ သမၼတ႐ုံး၊ ျပည္ေထာင္စု ဝန္ႀကီးဦးစိုးသိန္းက ၾသဂုတ္ ၂၃ရက္ေန႔က ျပဳလုပ္သည့္ ေနျပည္ေတာ္ သတင္းစာ ရွင္းလင္းပဲြတြင္ ေျပာၾကားသည္ဟု သိရသည္။
“စီမံကိန္းတစ္ခုလုပ္ေတာ့မယ္ဆုိရင္ ျမန္မာ့ေျမေစ်းက ျမင့္ၿပီ။ ဒါေၾကာင့္မုိ႔ ၂၀၁၅ခုႏွစ္အထိ ယခုအစုိးရသက္တမ္းအတြင္း ဒလတံတား စီမံကိန္းကို ရပ္နားထားမယ္”ဟု ဦးစိုးသိန္းက ေျပာသည္။

အဆုိပါ တံတား စီမံကိန္းကို ဇြန္လအတြင္းက ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံသို႔ ေရာက္ရွိလာသည့္ ေတာင္ကိုရီးယား ဘ႑ာေရးဝန္ႀကီးႏွင့္ ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံ ဘ႑ာေရး ဝန္ႀကီးတုိ႔အၾကား ေနျပည္ေတာ္၌ ေတြ႔ဆုံစဥ္ ႏွစ္ႏုိင္ငံ ရင္းႏွီးျမႇဳပ္ႏွံမႈ အပါအဝင္ ယခုတံတား စီမံကိန္း ျပဳလုပ္ေပးရန္အတြက္ စီစဥ္ခဲ့ျခင္း ျဖစ္ၿပီး ေတာင္ကိုရီးယား ဘ႑ာေရး ဝန္ႀကီး ကိုယ္တုိင္ ဒလၿမိဳ႕နယ္သို႔ သြားေရာက္ ေလ့လာၿပီး ေျခာက္လအတြင္း ကြင္းဆင္းစစ္ေဆးမႈမ်ား ျပဳလုပ္ တည္ေဆာက္ရန္ စီစဥ္ခဲ့ျခင္း ျဖစ္သည္ဟု သိရသည္။

ယင္းေတာင္ကိုရီးယား-ျမန္မာ ခ်စ္ၾကည္ေရး တံတားထုိးမည္ဆုိသည့္ သတင္းမ်ား ထြက္ေပၚခဲ့သည့္ ေနာက္ပိုင္း ဒလေျမေစ်းသည္ တစ္ရွိန္ထုိး ျမင့္တက္ခဲ့ၿပီး ယင္းတံတားထုိးမည့္ စီမံကိန္းသည္ ဒလၿမိဳ႕နယ္ ေဒသခံတုိ႔၏ အိပ္မက္တစ္ခု ျဖစ္ခဲ့ေၾကာင္း ယင္းၿမိဳ႕နယ္အတြင္းမွ အိမ္ၿခံေျမ အက်ိဳးေဆာင္ လုပ္ငန္းမ်ားက ေျပာၾကားသည္။

“အခုလုိ အစုိးရဘက္က တရားဝင္ ေျပာလုိက္ရင္ ေဒသခံေတြေတာ့ အမ်ားႀကီး နစ္နာၿပီ။ ေျမသာရွိၿပီး သူတုိ႔က ေတာင့္မခံႏုိင္ဘူး။ ၂၀၁၅အထိဆုိရင္ ၾကာဦးမွာေလ။ စီမံကိန္းကေတာ့ ျဖစ္မယ္လုိ႔ ထင္ပါတယ္။ ဒါေပမယ့္ ဒီေျပာၾကားမႈေၾကာင့္ ေျမေစ်းေတြ ထုိးက်ၿပီး ေျမဝယ္စုသူေတြ အႀကိဳက္ျဖစ္သြားမယ္”ဟု အိမ္ၿခံေျမ လုပ္သက္ႏွစ္ ၂၀ခန္႔ရွိသူ မခ်ိဳက ေျပာသည္။

လက္ရွိတြင္ ယင္းတံတား စီမံကိန္းေၾကာင့္ အေျခခံေျမေစ်းႏႈန္းသည္ ေျမတစ္ကြက္လွ်င္ သိန္း ၃၅၀အထိ ေစ်းရွိေသာ္လည္း ဝယ္မည့္သူမရွိပဲ စီမံကိန္းရပ္နားသည့္ သတင္းေၾကာင့္ ေပ ၅၀ပတ္လည္ ေျမကြက္ေစ်းႏႈန္းမ်ား သိန္း ၁၅၀ေအာက္ ထုိးက်သြားႏုိင္ေၾကာင္း၊ ဒလအိမ္ၿခံေျမ အက်ိဳးေဆာင္ အသိုင္းအဝုိင္းက ခန္႔မွန္းသည္။

ဒလၿမိဳ႕နယ္၊ အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ေရးမွဴး ဦးထြန္းထြန္းဝင္းက “ရပ္နားမယ္ဆုိတာ မၾကားေသးဘူး။ ၾသဂုတ္လ ၂၁ရက္ကေတာင္ ဆာေဗးအဖဲြ႔ေတြ ကၽြန္ေတာ့္ဆီကုိ လာခဲ့ေသးတယ္”ဟု ေျပာသည္။ က်န္စစ္သား ရပ္ကြက္မွ ဦးထြန္းလွကလည္း “ဦးေလးတုိ႔က သမၺာန္စီးရတဲ့ ဒုကၡက မလြတ္ေသး ဘူးေပါ့”ဟု သူ၏ အျမင္ကို ေျပာျပသည္။ ]

ယခုဆုိင္းငံ့လုိက္သည့္ ေတာင္ကိုရီးယား - ျမန္မာ ခ်စ္ၾကည္ေရး ရန္ကုန္ျမစ္ျဖတ္ ဒလတံတားသည္ တံတားစီမံကိန္းအျပင္ ဒလၿမိဳ႕နယ္ ဘက္ျခမ္း၌ ေတာင္ကိုရီးယား စက္မႈဇုန္တစ္ခုလည္း ပါဝင္မည့္ အစီအစဥ္ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း ေတာင္ကိုရီးယား ဘ႑ာေရးဝန္ႀကီး ျမန္မာႏုိင္ငံ ေရာက္ရွိေနစဥ္ အခ်ိန္၌ ကိုရီးယားႏုိင္ငံ သတင္းစာမ်ားတြင္ ေဖာ္ျပခဲ့သည့္ စီမံကိန္းတစ္ခုျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း သိရပါသည္။ BY;သစ္ထူးလြင္

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Foreign trade exceeds $7 billion for first quarter

In first three months of fiscal year 2013-14, Burma’s foreign trade hit over US $7 billion, an increase of 15 percent on the same period last year, according to data from the Ministry of Commerce.
Of the total trade volume, Burmese exports amounted to $3. 161 billion while imports totaled $3.919 billion, making a total of $7.080 billion. In the first three months of the 2012-13 period, exports amounted to $3.152 billion with imports standing at $3.010 billion, a total of $6,162 billion.
Dr. Maung Aung, an advisor to the Ministry of Commerce, said priority is currently given to the import sector as the country embarks on a period of building and renewed openness.
“We have given priority to importing goods and investments for the benefit of long-term economic development,” he said. “That is why the amount of imports has significantly increased.”
He said that although imports of rice and various beans have decreased, traders should expect a raise in those goods in the future. He added that Burma has seen a sharp rise in the import of commodities and raw materials in the industry sector.
Thailand, China and India remain Burma’s main exporting partners while China, Singapore and Japan are the top three importers from Burma.
Burma expects to reach a total of $25 billion in foreign trade for the entire 2013-14 fiscal year.
                                                          by ;DVB

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Myanmar: A Blueprint for International Development?

I was never a good footballer. Besides an innate lack of ability, there was another reason for my ineptitude: The best footballers don’t chase madly after the ball as I did. They anticipate where the ball is going and move there. So it should be with international development.

Much is being made of the reopening of Myanmar to the global economy. Barely a week goes by without another multinational announcing a commitment to invest in the country. At the World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting last month, Coca-Cola (KO) Chief Executive Officer Muhtar Kent compared the opening of the company’s first Myanmar bottling facility to the fall of the Berlin Wall. That’s a grand vision. But really, what does all this economic development mean for a country with a population of 60 million mostly rural people, 76 percent of whom lack access to electricity and more than 90 percent of whom lack access to a mobile phone?

From a development perspective, Myanmar may be a blank canvas, but the brushes are digital. Myanmar has the potential to go beyond all the traditional emerging-market development models. Where once public-private partnerships (PPPs) were cutting edge, we now need to consider other, newer models, too. What, for example, are the appropriate roles of PPPs? As its economy reopens to large multinationals, now could be the perfect time to find out, and the country could become a blueprint for a new kind of international development.

Development efforts in Myanmar and other emerging-market economies have typically focused on leapfrogging, a term that conjures up an image of accelerated progress. Taken literally, though, leapfrog is just another playground game characterized by repetitive activity that leads to incremental change. To realize its promise as a development hub for global companies, however, Myanmar must strive for transformational change.

Myanmar and those investing in the country need to think big. Why focus on building an ATM network in Myanmar—an idea raised at one WEF summit discussion—rather than advancing directly to creating the ability to dispense mobile money?  What long-term value can be gained by investing in old technology?

A much better idea for Myanmar is the development of a mobile network. In June the government awarded two major contracts for developing such a network. As the project takes shape, the successful bidders should give serious thought to rural off-grid electrification, which creates both business and development challenges and opportunities. Successful rural electrification can help transform agriculture by providing mobile-enabled services such as microfinance, crop insurance, or weather information. Additionally, electrification and mobile connectivity can significantly improve the prospects for developing a next-generation health system.

Addressing the health-care challenge need not be confined solely to health-care companies. Since Coca-Cola and PepsiCo (PEP) have ambitions in Myanmar, what role might they play in transforming health distribution systems for essential medicines by bringing their supply-chain expertise to bear? And in education, how might the growing financial-services community turn the economic potential of Myanmar’s talent into an “asset class” for investment today?

To be clear, this is not about ignoring the critical role of government; it’s about changing it from acting as a “service deliverer” to a “choreographer” across a diverse set of partners and stakeholders.

Myanmar is a rich country filled with poor people who have high hopes. Meeting their expectations will require a new approach to economic development: namely a strategy for footballers—not leapfroggers—that can successfully marry the best of the old with the best of the new.

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Lower House signs off on $100m loan from Chinese bank

Burma’s lower house of parliament on Thursday agreed to borrow US$ 100 million dollar from the Export-Import Bank of China that will be used to fund cooperatives across Burma.
During Thursday’s lower house session, the cooperatives minister along with the minister of commerce presented the plan to MPs.
Speaking to DVB on Thursday, Lower House MP Phe Than said the house agreed to borrow the money and called on the Ministry of Cooperatives to present a detailed plan on how they will use the loans to the parliament.
According to Lower House MP Phyo Min Thein, the Ministry of Commerce will be tasked with borrowing the sum, while the Ministry of Cooperatives will then implement a plan that will distribute small grants.
“Nearly $700 million dollars will be borrowed from the bank. As a first step, $ 100 million will be borrowed. The interest rate is high at 4.5 percent and the service fee is one percent,” said Phyo Min Thein.
“We should take risks because of the high interest and service rate. It is good if it benefits the people. But, practically speaking, the benefits to people will be considerable,” he said.
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Myanmar is new battleground for business

Indian companies seek to wrest business from Chinese firms in the world's 'next economic frontier'

Mumbai (Business Times (subscription)

MYANMAR, called Asia's "next economic frontier" by the International Monetary Fund, is the new battleground for Indian companies seeking to wrest business from Chinese firms.

Export-Import Bank of India, the state-controlled trade financing institution, has pledged US$800 million in Myanmar, which includes funds to upgrade the Yangon-Mandalay railway and a plant for Tata Motors to assemble vehicles in the South-east Asian nation, Executive director david Rasquinha said. China, which has beaten Indian companies in the race to invest in energy assets from Kazakhstan to Venezuela, has agreed to lend more than US$2.4 billion in Myanmar.

Exim Bank of India faces an uneven contest as China Development Bank, which has a loan book more than three times the size of the World Bank, and the Export-Import Bank of China offer cheap loans to snare business. The Indian lender plans to sign credit agreements of as much as US$500 million by next month to participate in an economy that the IMF forecasts will expand 7 per cent over the next five years.

"We shouldn't get pessimistic because competition is there," Mr Rasquinha said. "We should be seeing the size of the pie and fighting smart."

State-run Chinese companies have spent US$19.5 billion this year acquiring energy and resources assets overseas versus India's single US$2.5 billion investment by Oil & Natural Gas Corp.

Exim Bank of India has been focusing on Africa. About 60 per cent of the Indian lender's lines of credit are for countries in the continent, Mr Rasquinha said. It has so far signed 172 lines of credit with commitments of about US$10.5 billion, covering 75 nations, he said. That compares with a US$219 billion loan book at Exim Bank of China.The Indian lender expects to mirror some of its African success in Myanmar. Exim Bank is trying to "excite" Indian companies to conduct business in Myanmar, Mr Rasquinha said.

The lender charges a floating 50 basis point over the London interbank offered rate to a fixed 2 per cent on overseas lines of credit, Mr Rasquinha said.

Bharti Airtel, India's biggest mobile carrier, was among companies that had bid for a telecom licence in Myanmar, the nation's selection committee said on its website in April.

Norway's Telenor ASA and Ooredoo QSC of Qatar won licences to expand telecommunications in Myanmar, one of the world's last remaining untapped markets where only about one in 10 people has a mobile phone.Myanmar needs US$650 billion of investments by 2030 to support an 8 per cent gross domestic product growth potential, according to McKinsey Global Institute, the research unit of McKinsey & Co.

Myanmar's liberalisation may reduce the nation's traditional dependence on China, according to Olivia Boyd, a Beijing-based energy analyst at IHS Global Insight.

"Myanmar's dependence on China is lessening," Ms Boyd said. "Chinese companies now wield less bargaining power, meaning they may face further contract revision of this sort in the future." Bloomberg

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Myanmar Minister of Tourism disagrees on foreign visitors staying in private homes

YANGON- The daily English-speaking newspaper Myanmar Times reported a few days ago that Minister for Hotels and Tourism U Htay Aung was not in favour of foreign visitors staying in private homes in Myanmar “as their manners are not appropriate for local residents” as quoted from the Minister.

The Minister indicated that foreigners would probably have difficulties to follow the customs of locals and if they do not, it might create a cultural shock for their guests. He was referring at customs such as sleeping facing the east or the fact to share only a single spoon when eating soup in a family.

All these comments came during a meeting of Mandalay’s tourism players – including hoteliers and tour guides. The Minister then indicated that “homestays” would only be considered as suitable when foreigners visit remote areas and where they are no other choices. Where hotels are available, he added, particularly in larger urban centres such as Yangon or Mandalay, such arrangements should not be permitted.

“The manners of some foreigners are not appropriate for Myanmar people. But we have to choose homestay where there are no hotels or guest houses. In the meantime, we also need to [stay] strictly alert to possible risks,” he said at the meeting, which was held at Mandalay’s Swan Hotel.

While technically banned, homestays can however be arranged by guides when tourists go on multidays treks. They would generally stay at monasteries.

The Myanmar Times quoted Ko Thaung Naing Oo, from the Myanmar Tourist Guide Association’s Mandalay branch, who explained that homestays would certainly help to alleviate the country’s hotel shortage. However, it would then request from tour operators to make an effort of explaining properly to visitors what are the customs and the way to behave as a private guest of a Myanmar host family.

The current lack of adequate accommodation for visitors to Myanmar is a concern as tourism continues to grow rapidly. After topping a million foreign travellers last year, The Minister for Hotels and Tourism indicated earlier in July that tourist arrivals are growing by 30% this year and that visitors could reach 1.8 million travellers by year end.

Talking to Myanmar Upper House, Minister U Htay Aung declared that the country is still “in need to develop infrastructure, supporting and providing services in line with the tourist increase. We have about 30,000 hotel rooms ready for the tourists. About 10,000 more rooms will be ready in the end of this year”.

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ျမန္မာတြင္ အာဆီယံႏိုင္ငံမ်ား ရင္းႏွီးျမႇဳပ္ႏွံမႈ ေဒၚလာ ၁၄ ဘီလီယံေက်ာ္

ရန္ကုန္၊ ၾသဂုတ္ ၂၃

ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံတြင္ အာဆီယံႏိုင္ငံမ်ားမွ လာေရာက္ ရင္းႏွီးျမႇဳပ္ႏွံထားေသာ
ႏိုင္ငံျခားရင္းႏွီးျမႇဳပ္ႏွံမႈမွာ အေမရိကန္ေဒၚလာ ၁၄ ဘီလီယံေက်ာ္ ရွိေၾကာင္း ရင္းႏွီးျမႇဳပ္ႏွံမႈႏွင့္ ကုမၸဏီမ်ား ညႊန္ၾကားမႈ ဦးစီးဌာနက ဇူလိုင္လအထိ ထုတ္ျပန္ေသာ စာရင္းမ်ားအရ သိရသည္။

အာဆီယံႏိုင္ငံမ်ားက ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံအတြင္း ရင္းႏွီးျမႇဳပ္ႏွံမႈမွာ အေမရိကန္ေဒၚလာ ၁၄၁၃၀ ဒသမ ၁၃ သန္းရွိၿပီး ႏိုင္ငံေပါင္း ေျခာက္ႏိုင္ငံမွ လုပ္ငန္းေပါင္း ၂၂၃ ခုတြင္ ရင္းႏွီးျမႇဳပ္ႏွံျခင္းျဖစ္ကာ ကုန္ထုတ္ လုပ္မႈလုပ္ငန္းတြင္ အမ်ားဆုံး ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း ယင္းစာရင္းမ်ားအရ သိရသည္။

အာဆီယံႏိုင္ငံမ်ားအနက္ ထိုင္းႏိုင္ငံက အမ်ားဆုံး ရင္းႏွီးျမႇဳပ္ႏွံထားၿပီး အေမရိကန္ေဒၚလာ ၁၀ ဘီလီယံနီးပါး ရင္းႏွီးျမႇဳပ္ႏွံထားကာ စင္ကာပူက ေဒၚလာ ၂ ဘီလီယံေက်ာ္၊ မေလးရွားက ေဒၚလာ တစ္ဘီလီယံေက်ာ္၊ ဗီယက္နမ္က ေဒၚလာ သန္းငါးရာေက်ာ္၊ အင္ဒိုနီးရွားက ေဒၚလာ သန္းႏွစ္ရာ့ငါးဆယ္နီးပါးႏွင့္ ဘ႐ူႏိုင္းႏိုင္ငံက ေဒၚလာ ေလးသန္းေက်ာ္ ရင္းႏွီးျမႇဳပ္ႏွံထားသည္။

“ရင္းႏွီးျမႇဳပ္ႏွံမႈေတြအားလုံး တိုင္းျပည္အတြက္ တကယ္အသုံးဝင္ဖို႔ေတာ့ လိုတယ္။ အာဆီယံႏိုင္ငံေတြက AEC တို႔၊ AFTA တို႔စာရင္ ဒီထက္ပိုဝင္ လာပါလိမ့္မယ္” ဟု သမဝါယမဝန္ႀကီး ဌာနမွ အၿငိမ္းစားအရာရွိ ဦးရန္ေနာင္က မွတ္ခ်က္ျပဳသည္။

ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံတြင္ ျပည္ပမွလာေရာက္ ရင္းႏွီးျမႇဳပ္ႏွံမႈ ပမာဏသည္ ယခုႏွစ္ ဇူလိုင္လအထိ စာရင္းမ်ားအရ အေမရိကန္ေဒၚလာ ၄၂ ဘီလီယံေက်ာ္ ရွိသည္။

ထို႔အျပင္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံတြင္ ဥေရာပႏိုင္ငံမ်ားမွ အေမရိကန္ေဒၚလာ ေလးဘီလီယံနီးပါး ရင္းႏွီးျမႇဳပ္ႏွံထားၿပီး ေဟာင္ေကာင္ က ေဒၚလာေျခာက္ဘီလီယံ ေက်ာ္၊ ကိုရီးယားက ေဒၚလာသုံးဘီလီယံ ေက်ာ္၊ ဂ်ပန္က ေဒၚလာသန္းသုံးရာနီးပါး ရင္းႏွီးျမႇဳပ္ႏွံထားသည္။

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ရန္ကုန္ေျမေစ်း က်ဆင္းရန္ အစိုးရစတင္လုပ္ေဆာင္၊ ေနရာ အလိုက္ ေျမေစ်းမ်ားသတ္မွတ္

ေနျပည္ေတာ္၊ ၾသဂုတ္ ၂၃

အိမ္၊ ၿခံ၊ ေျမ ေစ်းႏႈန္းမ်ား အဆမတန္ႀကီး ျမင့္ေနမႈႏွင့္ အခြန္အေကာက္မ်ား ဆုံး႐ႈံးျခင္းမွ ကာကြယ္ရန္ ရန္ကုန္တိုင္းေဒသႀကီးအတြင္း ေနရာေဒသအလိုက္ တစ္ေပပတ္လည္ ေျမေစ်းႏႈန္းမ်ားကို တရားဝင္ သတ္မွတ္လိုက္ၿပီ ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း ဘ႑ာေရးဝန္ႀကီးဌာန ဒုတိယဝန္ႀကီး ေဒါက္တာေမာင္ေမာင္သိမ္း က ေျပာၾကားသည္။

ယင္းသို႔ တစ္ေပပတ္လည္ေျမ ေပါက္ေစ်းႏႈန္းကို တိုင္းေဒသႀကီးႏွင့္ ျပည္နယ္အားလုံးကို ကာလေပါက္ေစ်းႏွင့္အညီ သတ္မွတ္ေပးရန္ သက္ဆိုင္ရာေဒသ အစိုးရတာဝန္ရွိသူမ်ား ပါသည့္ ေစ်းႏႈန္းတြက္ခ်က္သည့္ အဖြဲ႕ထံမွ ေတာင္းခံထားျခင္းျဖစ္ၿပီး ရန္ကုန္တိုင္းေဒသႀကီးအတြက္ ေနရာအလိုက္ ေျမေစ်းႏႈန္းမ်ားကို တြက္ခ်က္သတ္မွတ္ၿပီး ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း ၎က ရွင္းျပသည္။

“ေနရာအလိုက္ ဝင္ဒါမီယာဆို ဘယ္ေစ်း၊ ေျမာက္ဒဂုံဆို ဘယ္ေစ်း၊ တစ္ေပပတ္လည္ႏႈန္းနဲ႔ တြက္ခ်က္ထားပါတယ္” ဟု ေဒါက္တာေမာင္ေမာင္သိမ္းက ဆိုသည္။

ယင္းသို႔ ေနရာေဒသအလိုက္ ကာလေပါက္ေစ်းႏွင့္အညီ သတ္မွတ္ထားသည့္ ေျမေစ်းႏႈန္းမ်ားကို မၾကာမီ ထုတ္ျပန္ေပးမည္ျဖစ္ၿပီး ယင္းေပါက္ေစ်းအတိုင္း အခြန္အခမ်ား ေပးေဆာင္ရမည္ ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း ၎ကထပ္ေလာင္း ေျပာၾကားသည္။

“ေျမေစ်းေတြ တစ္ေပႏႈန္းသတ္မွတ္ရင္ သတ္မွတ္တဲ့အတိုင္း အခြန္ေတာ့ရမယ္၊ ေျမေစ်းေတာ့ က်သြားမွာ မဟုတ္ဘူး။ ႀကဳိက္ေရာင္းႀကဳိက္ဝယ္ ေျမေမွာင္ခို ေစ်းကြက္သေဘာေတြ ရွိလာမယ္” ဟု စိုင္းခြန္ေနာင္ အိမ္၊ ၿခံ၊ ေျမ အက်ဳိးေဆာင္လုပ္ငန္းမွ မန္ေနဂ်ာ ဦးရန္ေအာင္က သုံးသပ္သည္။

ေျမေစ်းႏႈန္းကို ယင္းသို႔ သတ္မွတ္ပါက စာခ်ဳပ္ေပၚတြင္သာ သတ္မွတ္ႏႈန္းျဖင့္ စာခ်ဳပ္ခ်ဳပ္ဆိုေသာ္လည္း ေစ်းႏႈန္း ပိုေပးဝယ္ျခင္းမ်ဳိးကို အစိုးရက ထိန္းခ်ဳပ္ႏိုင္မည္ မဟုတ္ေၾကာင္း ၎ကဆက္လက္ ေျပာၾကားသည္။

“ဒီလိုေစ်းႏႈန္း သတ္မွတ္လို႔ ေျမေစ်း မက်ႏိုင္ဘူး။ ေစ်းကြက္ သေဘာအရေစ်းက ဝယ္သူရွိရင္ ဆက္တက္ေနမွာပဲ” ဟု ျပည္ႀကီးတံခြန္ အိမ္၊ ၿခံ၊ ေျမ အက်ဳိးေဆာင္လုပ္ငန္းမွ မန္ေနဂ်ာ ဦးေနေဇာ္ေအာင္က ေျပာၾကားသည္။

အိမ္၊ ၿခံ၊ ေျမ အက်ဳိးေဆာင္မ်ားက ယင္းသို႔ သုံးသပ္ေနေသာ္လည္း ယခုေဆာင္႐ြက္ခ်က္မွာ ျပည္တြင္း အိမ္၊ ၿခံ၊ ေျမေစ်း က်ဆင္းေစေရး အစိုးရ၏ ကနဦး ေျခလွမ္းမွ်သာျဖစ္ၿပီး ေနာက္ဆက္တြဲ ဆက္တိုက္လုပ္ေဆာင္မည့္ အစီအစဥ္မ်ား ရွိသည္ဟု ယူဆရေၾကာင္း၊ ျပည္တြင္း အိမ္၊ ၿခံ၊ ေျမေစ်း ျမင့္တက္မႈေၾကာင့္ ႏိုင္ငံျခား ရင္းႏွီးျမႇဳပ္ႏွံမႈ အပါအဝင္ ျပည္တြင္း စီးပြားေရး ဖြံ႕ၿဖဳိးေစမႈတို႔တြင္ ႀကီးစြာေသာ အဟန္႔အတား ျဖစ္ေနသျဖင့္ အစိုးရက ေျမေစ်းက်ဆင္းေစရန္ ကာလအတန္ၾကာကပင္ စီစဥ္ထားသည္ျဖစ္ရာ ဆင့္ကဲလုပ္ေဆာင္မႈမ်ား ဆက္လက္ျဖစ္ေပၚလာမည္ ထင္ေၾကာင္း စီးပြားေရးလုပ္ငန္းရွင္တစ္ဦးက သုံးသပ္သည္။

ေျမေစ်းႏႈန္း ႀကီးျမင့္မႈကို တားဆီးရာတြင္ တဇြတ္ထိုး ေဆာင္႐ြက္၍ မရသည္ကို သိရွိေၾကာင္း၊ ယခုအခါ အခြန္အဖြဲ႕ (Tax Monitoring Board) ကို ဖြဲ႕စည္းထားၿပီးေနာက္ အခြန္အခမ်ား ပိုမို ေကာက္ခံသည့္ နည္းျဖင့္သာ ေျမေစ်းႏႈန္းမ်ားကို ထိန္းခ်ဳပ္ႏိုင္မည္ ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း သမၼတ႐ုံးဝန္ႀကီး ဦးစိုးသိန္းက ေျပာၾကားသည္။

“ရင္းႏွီးျမႇဳပ္ႏွံမႈေတြေႏွးတာ ေျမေစ်းကလည္း အဓိကအေၾကာင္း ျဖစ္ေနေတာ့ အဲဒါ ျပန္စိစစ္ၿပီး အခြန္နဲ႔ ထိန္းမယ္” ဟု ၎ကဆိုသည္။

တိုင္းေဒသႀကီးႏွင့္ ျပည္နယ္အလိုက္ ေျမယာေစ်းႏႈန္း တြက္ခ်က္သည့္ လုပ္ငန္းကို သက္ဆိုင္ရာ ေဒသအစိုးရအဖြဲ႕ဝင္ ဝန္ႀကီးတစ္ဦးစီ ပါဝင္သည့္ ေစ်းႏႈန္းတြက္ခ်က္သည့္အဖြဲ႕ ဖြဲ႕စည္းေဆာင္႐ြက္ေနေၾကာင္း ဦးစိုးသိန္းက ထပ္ေလာင္းေျပာၾကားသည္။

စီမံကိန္းသတင္းမ်ားႏွင့္ အျခားဆက္စပ္ အေၾကာင္းအရာ မ်ားေၾကာင့္ ေျမေစ်းႏႈန္းမ်ား ျမင့္တက္ရျခင္းမွာ ေလာင္းကစား ျပဳလုပ္လိုသည့္ အေလ့အထမ်ားေၾကာင့္ျဖစ္ၿပီး ယင္းျဖစ္ရပ္မ်ားကို ထိန္းသိမ္းရန္ ေငြေၾကး ရင္းႏွီးျမႇဳပ္ႏွံမႈ ျပဳလုပ္ႏိုင္မည့္ ေနရာတစ္ခု ျဖစ္လာေရးအတြက္ ၂၀၁၅ ခုႏွစ္အမီ စေတာ့အိတ္ခ်ိန္းတစ္ခုကို ဂ်ပန္ႏိုင္ငံ၏ အကူအညီျဖင့္ တည္ေထာင္သြားမည္ ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း ေဒါက္တာ ေမာင္ေမာင္သိမ္းက ဆက္လက္ေျပာၾကားသည္။

ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံတြင္ အိမ္၊ ၿခံ၊ ေျမမ်ားကို ေငြပိုေငြလွ်ံ ရွိသူမ်ားက လုပ္ငန္းတစ္ခုသဖြယ္ အက်ဳိးအျမတ္ရရွိရန္ ေစ်းကစားမႈေၾကာင့္ ကာလအတန္ၾကာကပင္ ေျမေစ်းမ်ား ျမင့္တက္ေနျခင္းျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း၊ ယင္းအျပင္ အစိုးရသစ္လက္ထက္တြင္ ဝင္ေရာက္လာရန္ရွိသည့္ ျပည္ပ ရင္းႏွီးျမႇဳပ္ႏွံမႈမ်ားကို ေစ်းကိုင္ထားႏိုင္ရန္ အတြက္လည္း ေငြပိုေငြလွ်ံ ရွိသူမ်ားက ေျမကြက္မ်ားကို ေစ်းျမင့္ေပးဝယ္ကာ ကိုင္ထားၾက၍ ျပည္တြင္းေျမေစ်းမ်ား ဆက္တိုက္တက္လာျခင္း ျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း စီးပြားေရးပညာရွင္မ်ားက သုံးသပ္ထားသည္။

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RIL, OVL, Cairn in race for Myanmar blocks

India's Reliance Industries, ONGC Videsh and Cairn India are vying with global energy giants Shell, ConocoPhillips and ExxonMobil for 30 offshore oil and gas blocks that Myanmar has put on offer.

In all, 61 companies have been pre-qualified to bid for 11 shallow water and 19 deepwater blocks in an international tender, according to Myanmar's Energy Ministry.

The shortlisted companies from India include RIL, ONGC Videsh (the overseas arm of state-owned Oil and Natural Gas Corp), Oil India Ltd, Cairn India, gas utility GAIL India and Jubilant Offshore Drilling (JODPL).

International oil majors that pre-qualified include Shell, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil, Total of France, Norway's Statoil, Eni of Italy, Spain's Repsol, Anadarko Petroleum of US, Husky Energy, Hess of US, Murphy Oil, Premier Oil of UK, Woodside Energy and Delek Energy.

Asian national oil companies such as China National Petroleum Corp, Korea National Oil Corp, Korea Gas Corp and Japan's JX Nippon Oil & Gas Exploration Corp have also been shortlisted.

A notice on the ministry's website said the shortlisted firms had been called to view data on the blocks on offer last month. Myanmar is looking at awarding the acreages in February or March next year.

OVL visited the data room on July 15, followed by OIL and Jubilant. Cairn India visited the data room on July 23, while GAIL did so the following day. RIL reviewed data on the blocks on July 25.

Data viewing will continue till August 12, the ministry notice said. According to the tender condition, international firms can submit bids for up to three blocks.

For the shallow water blocks, companies will have to team up with at least one Myanmar-owned company, while for the deepwater blocks, bidders will be expected to invest directly without any local participation, the ministry said.

Myanmar is simultaneously offering 18 blocks in its second onshore licensing round, for which OVL, Cairn, OIL, Jubilant and HPCL-owned Prize Petroleum have been pre-qualified from India.

In all, 59 companies have been shortlisted for the onshore blocks, including PTT Exploration and Production, Petronas, PetroVietnam, Sinopec, Total, Eni, Woodside and Exxon. Myanmar plans to award the onland blocks by December.

OVL and GAIL already have stakes in A-1 and A-3 blocks in Myanmar, which started production last month, and they are looking at consolidating their position in the energy-rich nation.

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