My Last Post (I'm Taking A Short Break!)

        (Farewell and goodbye to my readers loyally following this blog over the years.)

In the early 1980s one of my cousins was in Burmese National Soccer Team and as a privileged sportsman, believe it or not, he and his teammates each got one chicken-egg a day as sole nutrition supplement from the Socialist Government of the day. One bloody egg, a fucking disgrace! 

As a long-lasting legacy of bloody General Aung San the father of so-called people-leader Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma by then was under long years of Socialist rule and as a result Burma was so fucking ruined we Burmese were basically starving. 

To continue on with my cousin’s story, he couldn’t eat that an egg a day ration and always brought the eggs back home for his two young kids. Every night his wife boiled the egg and cut it and gave each half to their half-starving kids.

Bully US Picked On Famous Burmese Nationalist MP

(News article direct from the DOW JONES BUSINESS NEWS on 31 October 2014.)

Famous Burmese nationalist MP U Aung Thaung.

WASHINGTON-- U.S. Sanctions Myanmar Lawmaker Ahead of Obama Visit. The U.S. has imposed sanctions on a Myanmar lawmaker and businessman linked to attacks on Myanmar's democratic opposition.

The new sanctions, announced Friday, come days before President Barack Obama is scheduled to visit the Southeast Asian country, also known as Burma, as part of a gathering of regional leaders.

The White House said late Thursday that Mr. Obama spoke by telephone with Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, a leading opposition figure who was targeted in attacks, as well as President Thein Sein.

The new sanctions will require U.S.-connected firms and individuals to freeze the assets of Aung Thaung, a current member of Myanmar's lower house of parliament and former industry minister and army officer.

The U.S. Treasury Department in a statement blamed Aung Thaung for working to undermine recent economic and political changes in Myanmar and said he has been implicated in previous attacks on the country's democratic opposition. Myanmar embassy staff in Washington didn't immediately respond to a request for comment on the sanctions.

Evil Muslims Grooming Aussie Kids To Become Terrorists

(News article direct from the YAHOO!7 NEWS on 29 October 2014.)

Six-year-old 'soldier for Khilafa': kids radicalised in shocking video. A Sydney Muslim youth group is under investigation after a disturbing video of children as young as six years old calling for an end to Australian democracy was unearthed by 7News.

In the vision, children as young as six years old call for violent action against non-Muslims and to reject Australia and its values. Video reveals shocking radicalisation of Australian Muslim children. A terror risk expert says it's brainwashing, aimed at creating violent extremists. The video shows four Australian children, aged six to 13, calling for an end to our way of life.

"These are disturbing and shocking images and they do raise concerns about the welfare of the four young boys who are identified in the video,” Family and Community Services Minister Gabrielle Upton said.

Colgate Paid 100 Million For Myanmar Laser Toothpaste

(Feature article direct from the ASX Site on 29 October 2014.)

Dow Jones: U.S. consumer goods company Colgate-Palmolive Co. has acquired a local toothpaste maker in Myanmar, making it the biggest inbound merger and acquisition in the Southeast Asia nation, people with knowledge of the deal said Tuesday.

Colgate bought Laser Brand Toothpaste for around $100 million, one of the people said. The acquisition is one of the largest investments from an American company in Myanmar since economic sanctions against the country were first eased in 2012, ending the Southeast Asian country's six decades of isolation under military rule.

Colgate follows General Electric, Coca-Cola and Gap Inc., all of whom have restarted operations in Myanmar over the past two years, with Coca-Cola pledging more than $200 million in investment there over the next five years.

MSF Doctors Spreading Ebola In The United States

(News article direct from the DAILY MAIL UK on 25 October 2014.)

MSF Ebola Doctor Craig Spencer.

New York Ebola doctor was told by charity he worked for that he didn't have to self-quarantine after returning from Ebola-ravaged country. Dr Craig Spencer returned to the U.S. on October 17 from Guinea where he was treating patients with non-profit group, Doctors Without Borders. 

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said 'Self-quarantine is neither warranted nor recommended when a person is not displaying Ebola-like symptoms' and insisted Dr Spencer had followed Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) protocols since his return from Africa.

MSF told MailOnline contrary to reports they are not considering a mandatory quarantine for healthcare workers returning from West Africa even though, since March, three MSF international staff members have been infected with deadly Ebola.

New York's Ebola-stricken doctor was told by the charity that he worked for that he did not have to self-quarantine after returning from an Ebola-ravaged country. Dr Craig Spencer returned to the U.S. on October 17 from Ebola 'hot zone' Guinea where he was treating patients with non-profit group, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF).

Doubts Cloud “Perfect” Koh Tao Murder Investigation

(Feature article direct from the COCONUTS BKK on 8 October 2014.)

Burmese protesting in NYC against Thai police injustice.

Universal doubts cloud ‘perfect’ Koh Tao murder investigation! For weeks popular speculation ran deep police that would finger Burmese migrant workers for the murder of two foreign tourists on Koh Tao, and when it came true on Friday, you could almost hear the groans.

An investigation which came out of the gate “focusing on migrant laborers” before moving on to a British friend of the deceased and “especially Rohingya” and even influential “mafia figures” for a time, eventually came full circle to three migrant laborers implicated by no more than circumstantial evidence, an alleged DNA hit and a now-recanted confession.

Along the way the investigation accumulated numerous accounts of witness torture, bribery, bizarre claims and threats. However, after so many missteps, questionable statements and by all appearances a totally shambolic investigation, there was one big problem for the police who’ve been under intense pressure to show results: No one bought it.

Accused Burmese Killers Of British Couple Recanted

(News article direct from the DAILY MAIL UK on 8 October 2014.)

Two Burmese were tortured by the Bengali-Muslim
interpreter and Thai policemen to confesssion.

The two Burmese migrants accused murdering two British holidaymakers in Koh Tao have recanted their confessions, claiming they made under duress.

A lawyer from the Burmese embassy said Zaw Lin and Win Zaw Htun, who are jointly accused of bludgeoning Hannah Witheridge, 23, and David Miller, 24, to death, told him they were tortured into confessing.

The tourists were found dead at a rocky alcove on September 15 and police last week arrested the two migrant workers, both 21, announcing soon after they had admitted responsibility for the killings.

The bodies of Hannah Witheridge, 23, and David Miller, 24, were found on September 15. Post mortems found Miss Witheridge died from head wounds while Mr Miller suffered blows to the head and drowned. But comments by Burmese lawyer Aung Myo Thant to Burmese media, translated by the news website Coconuts Bangkok, threw doubt on their confessions.

Tin’s New Frontier Myanmar Threatens Indonesia

(Chanyaporn Chanjaroen’s article direct from the MINEWEB on 22 October 2014.)

(BLOOMBERG) - Myanmar is emerging as the new frontier in the tin industry as Indonesia, the biggest shipper, seeks to restrict supply and boost prices.

Output in Myanmar will rise by 12 percent to 28,000 metric tons next year, giving it 10 percent of the global market, according to ITRI Ltd., a St. Albans, England-based industry group. Production will keep increasing partly because Myanmar Pongpipat Co. plans to expand its southern Heinda mine, Managing Director Kriangkrai Chavaltanpipat said in an interview.

Tin retreated 13 percent on the London Metal Exchange this year, the biggest loser on the bourse, as supplies increased even after Indonesia tightened rules on exports. The glut will persist through 2016, with rising shipments from Myanmar and elsewhere thwarting Indonesia’s efforts to raise prices, according to Macquarie Group Ltd.

Chinese Firm Stole Turbine Code From US Company

(News article direct from the BOSTON.COM BUSINESS on 24 September 2014.)

Sinovel Wind Stole wind turbine code from AMSC.

KLAGENFURT, Austria - Engineer guilty in software theft. Passed American Superconductor codes to wind turbine company in China. A court yesterday found an engineer guilty of stealing wind turbine technology from American Superconductor Corp. and giving it to a Chinese turbine maker that is a former customer of the Devens company.

After a three-hour trial, Dejan Karabasevic, 38, was sentenced to one year in jail and two years probation for passing proprietary turbine control software to Sinovel Wind Group Co., based in Beijing.

Karabasevic, who worked in American Superconductor’s subsidiary in Austria, was also ordered by Klagenfurt district court officials to pay his former employer roughly $270,000 in damages. “I made the biggest mistake of my life,’’ Karabasevic said before the jury began deliberations, “and I am deeply sorry for it.’’