Dawei (economic, social, cultural, political)
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Sub-title:
The Voice of Minorities
Source/publisher:
Dawei Watch
Date of publication:
2019-07-12
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2019-07-12
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"1. Introduction
“Myanmar has the potential to become Asia's rising star.” This quote came from the
Asian Development Bank (ADB, 2012) that reported fast-growing economies and changing
in Myanmar since the foreign direct investment (FDI) bringing a lot of money into an area of
development. Dawei-Special Economic Zone (SEZ) is the most important one because it has
considerably large-scale value of economic and this area is not only linkage of Southeast Asia
but South China as well. My question is to examine how Myanmar’s developing institutions
have democratized since Dawei- SEZ development in early 21st century. The paper argues
that Myanmar has three new patterns of relations which are called institutional arrangements:
governing-the market institution, democratic institution, and ethnic institution.
The classical theorists of democratization debate modernization and development. On
the one hand, Seymour Martin Lipset (1959, p. 75) argues that main condition of democracy
is economic development, which he called modernization, that consists of urbanization,
industrialization and mass media expansion. On the other hand, Samuel P. Huntington (1968,
p. 5) argues that the primary problem of politics is the lag in the development of political
institutions behind social and economic changes. The creation of a legitimate public order
from political institutions is more important than economic development. Debate centers on
the issue of whether democratization should come from either economic development or
institutionalization.
However, some scholars are still working to compromise theories on factors of
democratization that economic development and political institutions are two independent
variables having connection with democratization. This research is closer to Huntington than
Lipset but institution was revised in more complexity by Marsh and Olsen (1989) work that
“rediscover” institution to explain political life again. The paper uses the concept of new
institutionalism. The meaning of institution is not only formal rule but it has informal rule
also. Institution is the pattern of relation which consists of rule, norm and regulation around
economic and political area. The new democracies, especially Myanmar, have to create
institution to solve problems in the same way and every group of society accepts this
institutional rules. The contribution of research tries to explain three new institutionalizations
of Myanmar has arranged since Dawei-SEZ development. Larry Diamond (2012, p. 138)
emphasized the transitional period of Myanmar have two types of contest: one is the
substantive competition over power and policy outcomes that is minimum requirement of
democracy and the other is the constitutional struggle to define rules and procedures to be the
only game in town which determine winners and losers in the future. If Myanmar cannot
establish one institutional relation in its political system, embedded democracy will not
emerge that does not change persistence of political conflict.
Analyzing the impact of Dawei-SEZ with in Myanmar institutionalization has two
parts. First, the study begins with the new institutionalism concept that is historical
institutionalism. Second, a critical juncture of institutional arrangement of Dawei-SEZ is
illustrated that have shaped three patterns of relation: the governing-the market institution is
the relational of union government and foreign business that government is steering investment. The democratic institution is the relation of National League for Democracy
(NLD) and international civil society who move to the election, constitutional amendment
and promoted political freedom. The ethnic institution is the interaction of politically ethnic
group who is affected by economic development, especially Karen National Union (KNU)
and Democratic Karen Buddhist Army (DKBA). These groups have capacity to create selfgovernment and autonomous administration that they want from substantially changing after
Myanmar open to the world. This article was inspired from Robert H. Taylor (2001, p. 3)
who noted that, “The economy is clearly linked to the other leading issues of the country at
this time – the political role of the military; the future roles of the NLD and its leader, Daw
Sang Suu Kyi; the future of the ethnic insurgencies following their recent ceasefires; … and
Myanmar’s relations with its larger and more powerful neighbors.”..."
Source/publisher:
Weera Wongsatjachock
Date of publication:
2016-00-00
Date of entry/update:
2021-07-11
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Dawei (Tavoy) Special Economic Zone, Dawei (economic, social, cultural, political), Thailand-Burma relations, Burma's economic relations with Thailand
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Dawei, Tanintharyi Region, artculture, development
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A new art gallery in the Tanintharyi capital of Dawei aims to showcase the natural beauty and cultural heritage of a region on the brink of large-scale development.
Topic:
Dawei, Tanintharyi Region, artculture, development
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"“DAWEI is not like the rest of Myanmar. We have our own language, our own culture and literature. Our way of thinking is different,” explained Ma Mya Ei Thwe, a volunteer at the Dawei Art Space in the Tanintharyi Region capital.
Given Myanmar’s diversity, such statements are regularly heard in other parts of the country. However, because Tanintharyi is a nominally Bamar-majority administrative region, as opposed to an ethnic nationality state, its cultural distinctiveness is often overlooked.
Mya Ei Thwe, who is known to friends as Nge Nge, said locals were also prone to devalue their heritage in the desire for modernity and economic development. In an isolated region where many households are only kept afloat by remittances from relatives working in exploitative conditions in Thailand, there is straightforward desire for a better life.
Mya Ei Thwe said a better life needn’t come at the expense of identity. She believes that the gallery and the art it displays, with its focus on local subjects, could play a role in rekindling pride in the region’s natural and cultural inheritance.
“People want to copy more developed countries, but we’ll lose our culture and our values that way,” she said. “Through art, we can recall our childhood memories and our happiness.”
When the gallery opened in June, Dawei was being pummelled by monsoon rains that hit this lush coastal corner of southeastern Myanmar with particular ferocity. Close to the municipal market and just a couple of minutes’ walk from Strand Road along the river, the Dawei Art Space is one of the few contemporary cultural offerings in a small, low-rise city characterised by peeling colonial villas and family-run businesses..."
Source/publisher:
"Frontier Myanmar" (Myanmar)
Date of publication:
2019-11-17
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2019-11-17
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Arts - general, Dawei (economic, social, cultural, political), Tenasserim (Tanintharyi) Division
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"Clashes broke out between the New Mon State Party (NMSP) and the Karen National Union (KNU) on Thursday morning in two locations in Tanintharyi Region’s Dawei District, according to NMSP sources.
“Clashes broke out in Balae Donfive and the Ye Chaung Hpyar area,” NMSP central committee member Nai Lawi Mon told NMG, adding that the clash in Ye Chaung Hypar was “minor” and that he was still awaiting a field report on the fighting in Balae Donfive.
Padoh Win Khine, a liaison officer in the KNU’s Brigade 4 Myeik-Dawei liaison office, said that a clash occurred in the KNU’s Brigade 6 area, but that he did not know further details.
“It was not a face-to-face clash,” he told NMG, adding that it was possibly in the Ye Chaung Hpyar area. Padoh Win Khine added that other armed groups were active in the area, as well, and may have been involved.
The NMSP alleged that the KNU attacked their base camps in the two locations. At the time of reporting, NMG could not independently confirm how the clashes began..."
Source/publisher:
"Network Media Group" (Thailand)
Date of publication:
2019-10-18
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2019-10-19
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"This "Ethnic Perspective TV"program is produced by BNI and broadcasted on Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) TV weekly. It's on issues of ethnic people and ethnic areas for their needs and views for sustainable peace in Myanmar (Burma). This program is updated every Tuesday..."
Source/publisher:
Ethnic Language TV
Date of publication:
2013-02-26
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2019-07-22
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"အခုတပတ် တို့ပြည်တို့မြေအစီအစဉ်ကနေ ထုတ်လွှင့်ပြသပေးသွားမှာကတော့ နတ်ဖွက်တဲ့မြို့ လို့ တင်စားခေါ်ဝေါ်ရလောက်အောင် လူသိနည်းတဲ့ တနင်္သာရီတိုင်းဒေသကြီးထဲမှာရှိတဲ့ တနင်္သာရီမြို့လေးအကြောင်းပဲ ဖြစ်ပါတယ်။..."
Source/publisher:
DVB TVnews
Date of publication:
2017-04-08
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2019-07-21
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"သမုဒ္ဒရာဝမ်းတစ်ထွာအတွက် ပင်လယ်ပြင်ကြီးထဲမှာ ကိုယ်ပိုင်ဘဝလေးတွေကိုထုဆစ်နေတဲ့ ထားဝယ် နှင့် လောင်းလုံးမြို့အနီးတစ်ဝိုက်က လူမှုဘဝတွေအကြောင်းကို တို့ပြည် တို့မြေအစီအစဉ်မှာ ရှုစားကြရမှာပါ။..."
Source/publisher:
DVB TVnews
Date of publication:
2016-10-15
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2019-07-21
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"ထားဝယ်ရေနက်ဆိပ်ဆက်း စီမံကိန်းကြောင့် ဒေသခံရွာသူ/သားတို့၏ အခွင့်အရေးများ ချိုးဖောက်ခံရနေပြီး သဘာဝပတ်ဝန်းကျင်ထိခိုက်မှုများရှိနေသောကြောင့် စီမံကိန်းကို ချက်ခြင်းရပ်ဆိုင်းရန် အတွက် ဒေသခံများက တောင်းဆိုထားသည်။
ဤဗီဒီယိုကို ထားဝယ်အမျိုးသမီးသမဂ္ဂ (TWU) မှ ထုတ်ဝေဖြန့်ချိခဲ့သည်။..."
Source/publisher:
TavoyanVoice via Tovoyan Women's Union (TWU)
Date of publication:
2013-09-24
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2019-07-21
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"DVB TV - မြန်မာနိုင်ငံအတွင်း ဒေသမျိုးစုံက လူထုတွေရဲ့ဘဝကို အပတ်စဉ် တင်ဆက်ပေးနေတဲ့ တို့ပြည် တို့မြေ (ထားဝယ် နှင့် အနီးတဝိုက်)
အစီအစဉ် တာဝန်ခံ - Olc Chavannes
တင်ဆက် - သန်းဝင်းထွဋ်
ထုတ်လုပ်ရေး တာဝန်ခံ - အောင်ကျော်ဇော
ရိုက်ကူး - စိုးသီဟ၊ မြတ်သူအောင်
ဓါတ်ပုံ - သူရိန်
တည်းဖြတ် - ဇော်မင်းထွဋ်..."
Source/publisher:
DVB TVnews
Date of publication:
2015-03-21
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2019-07-21
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"This is our land is a video highlighting about the Dawei People in Myanmar, which was described about residents that how they was effected by Dawei Sea Port Projects.
The Development activities in Burma are watched by a group called Another Development for Burma in order to Create a space for Public forum on Development issues.
The Video Clip Copyright to "Another Development for Burma"
Source/publisher:
"Mg Dawei Chit Thu" via Youtube
Date of publication:
2012-08-15
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2019-07-20
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Dawei's Traditional Dance and Song - ပန်းဒတ်အမ် (ထားဝယ်ရိုးရာ သီချင်းနှင့်အက)
Source/publisher:
DAWEI YOUTH GROUP(DYG) via Youtube
Date of publication:
2012-11-15
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2019-07-20
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About Dawei's Historic Pagodas ထားဝယ်ရှင်ကိုးရှင်ဘုရားများ သမိုင်းအကြောင်း
Source/publisher:
TavoyanVoice
Date of publication:
2013-02-28
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2019-07-20
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About Dawei's Historic Pagodas ထားဝယ်ရှင်ကိုးရှင်ဘုရားများ သမိုင်းအကြောင်း
Source/publisher:
TavoyanVoice
Date of publication:
2013-02-28
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2019-07-20
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ထားဝယ်သမိုင်း သိသင့်သောအကြောင်းအရာများဆွေးနွေးချက်
Source/publisher:
Yin Ngay via Youtube
Date of publication:
2014-04-07
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2019-07-19
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ထားဝယ်သမိုင်းအကြောင်းသိကောင်းစရာ(အပိုင်း-၃)
Source/publisher:
Yin Ngay via Youtube
Date of publication:
2014-04-08
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2019-07-19
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ထားဝယ်သမိုင်း သိသင့်သောအကြောင်းအရာများဆွေးနွေးချက်
Source/publisher:
Yin Ngay via Youtube
Date of publication:
2014-04-08
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2019-07-19
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ထားဝယ်သမိုင်း သိသင့်သောအကြောင်းအရာများဆွေးနွေးချက်
Source/publisher:
Yin Ngay via Youtube
Date of publication:
2014-04-09
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2019-07-19
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ထားဝယ်သမိုင်း သိသင့်သောအကြောင်းအရာများဆွေးနွေးချက်
Source/publisher:
Yin Ngay via Youtube
Date of publication:
2014-04-09
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2019-07-19
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ထားဝယ်သမိုင်း သိသင့်သောအကြောင်းအရာများဆွေးနွေးချက်။
Source/publisher:
Yin Ngay via Youtube
Date of publication:
2014-04-09
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2019-07-19
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ထားဝယ်သမိုင်း သိသင့်သောအကြောင်းအရာများဆွေးနွေးချက်
Source/publisher:
Yin Ngay via Youtube
Date of publication:
2014-04-07
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2019-07-19
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"မြန်မာပြည်တောင်ပိုင်း တနင်္သာရီတိုင်း၊ ထားဝယ်ခရိုင်အတွင်းရှိ မြို့နယ် ၄ ခုမှ သမိုင်းဝင် ရှင်ကိုးရှင် ဘုရားများ ဖြစ်ကြသည်။ သမိုင်းဝင် ရှင်ကိုးရှင် ဘုရားများမှာ (၁) ရှင်မုတ္ထီး၊ (၂) ရှင်ဓါတ်ဝဲ၊ (၃) ရှင်တောင့်ပုံ၊ (၄) ရှင်တောက်ထိန်၊ (၅) ရှင်ဇလွန်၊ (၆) ရှင်ဆံတော်၊ (၇) ရှင်ပင်ခရု၊ (၈) ရှင်ဥသြ ၊ (၉) ရှင်မျှော်ဘုရားများ ဖြစ်ကြသည်။
ထားဝယ်သူ/သားများ အားလုံးဖူးမျှော်ကြည်ညိုနိုင်ရန်အတွက် DVB မှ ကူးယူဖေါ်ပြထားသည်။..."
Source/publisher:
TavoyanVoice via DVB
Date of publication:
2013-05-21
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2019-07-19
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"မြန်မာပြည်တောင်ပိုင်း တနင်္သာရီတိုင်း၊ ထားဝယ်ခရိုင်အတွင်းရှိ မြို့နယ် ၄ ခုမှ သမိုင်းဝင် ရှင်ကိုးရှင် ဘုရားများ ဖြစ်ကြသည်။ သမိုင်းဝင် ရှင်ကိုးရှင် ဘုရားများမှာ (၁) ရှင်မုတ္ထီး၊ (၂) ရှင်ဓါတ်ဝဲ၊ (၃) ရှင်တောင့်ပုံ၊ (၄) ရှင်တောက်ထိန်၊ (၅) ရှင်ဇလွန်၊ (၆) ရှင်ဆံတော်၊ (၇) ရှင်ပင်ခရု၊ (၈) ရှင်ဥသြ ၊ (၉) ရှင်မျှော်ဘုရားများ ဖြစ်ကြသည်။
ထားဝယ်သူ/သားများ အားလုံးဖူးမျှော်ကြည်ညိုနိုင်ရန်အတွက် DVB မှ ကူးယူဖေါ်ပြထားသည်။..."
Source/publisher:
TavoyanVoice via DVB
Date of publication:
2013-05-23
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2019-07-19
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မြန်မာပြည်တောင်ပိုင်း တနင်္သာရီတိုင်း၊ ထားဝယ်ခရိုင်အတွင်းရှိ မြို့နယ် ၄ ခုမှ သမိုင်းဝင် ရှင်ကိုးရှင် ဘုရားများ ဖြစ်ကြသည်။ သမိုင်းဝင် ရှင်ကိုးရှင် ဘုရားများမှာ (၁) ရှင်မုတ္ထီး၊ (၂) ရှင်ဓါတ်ဝဲ၊ (၃)
ရှင်တောင့်ပုံ၊ (၄) ရှင်တောက်ထိန်၊ (၅) ရှင်ဇလွန်၊ (၆) ရှင်ဆံတော်၊ (၇) ရှင်ပင်ခရု၊ (၈) ရှင်ဥသြ ၊ (၉) ရှင်မျှော်ဘုရားများ ဖြစ်ကြသည်။
ထားဝယ်သူ/သားများ အားလုံးဖူးမျှော်ကြည်ညိုနိုင်ရန်အတွက် DVB မှ ကူးယူဖေါ်ပြထားသည်။
Source/publisher:
TavoyanVoice via DVB
Date of publication:
2013-05-21
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2019-07-19
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Famous Pagoda of Dawei
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Youtube via " kyaw zayar"
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2019-02-10
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2019-07-18
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"ရှင်မုတ္ထီး-ရှင်မုတ္ထီးဘုရား-ရှင်မုတ္ထီးဘုရားသမိုင်း-ရှင်ကိုးရှင်ဘုရား-ရှင်ကိုးရှင်..."
Source/publisher:
Win Win News
Date of publication:
2019-04-24
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2019-07-18
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"Witness the Untouched, Authentic and Traditional Myanmar with Dawei Transport Tours.
http://www.dawei-transport-tours.com..."
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TVPRODCAM
Date of publication:
2015-04-19
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2019-07-18
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"တနင်္သာရီတိုင်း ထားဝယ်ခရိုင်က သီဟိုခြံ ထက်ဝက်နီးပါးဟာ ထားဝယ်ရေနက်ဆိပ်ကမ်းနဲ့ အထူး စီးပွားရေးဇုန် စီမံကိန်းဧရိယာထဲမှာ ပါဝင်နေပါတယ်။ ဒီစီမံကိန်းကြောင့် သီဟိုခြံကို အမှီပြု နေထိုင်စားသောက် နေကြတဲ့ ခြံပိုင်ရှင်တွေ၊ သီဟိုစေ့ခွဲ စက်ရုံတွေနဲ့ အလုပ်သမားတွေ အခက် ကြုံတွေ့နေရတယ်လို့ သိရပါတယ်။ အပြည့်အစုံကို RFA သတင်းထောက် ကိုကျော်လွင်ဦး က တင်ပြထားပါတယ်..."
Source/publisher:
RFA Burmese
Date of publication:
2013-03-28
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2019-07-15
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ထားဝယ်စာ-ထားဝယ်စာပေ-ထားဝယ်သမိုင်း
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Win Win News
Date of publication:
2019-04-18
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2019-07-13
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"It's about Myaw Yit Pagoda Island in Dawei, Myanmar.
Original Music by Jai wolf - indian summer & Illenium - Awake Full ablum Mix..."
Source/publisher:
Htoo Aung via Youtube
Date of publication:
2018-10-20
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2019-07-13
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Source/publisher:
Mizzima TV
Date of publication:
2016-03-28
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2019-07-13
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Dawei (economic, social, cultural, political), Tenasserim (Tanintharyi) Division, Dawei (Tavoy) Special Economic Zone
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Mrtv English Channel
Date of publication:
2013-11-10
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2019-07-13
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"တနင်္သာရီတိုင်းဒေသကြီး၊ ထားဝယ်ခရိုင်၊ လောင်းလုံးမြို့နယ်အတွင်းရှိ ဘုရားများနှင့် သမိုင်းဝင်ပစ္စည်းများကို ရိုက်ကူးဖေါ်ပြသထားသည်။..."
Source/publisher:
MRTV4 via TavoyanVoice
Date of publication:
2012-10-13
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2019-07-13
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DAWEI YOUTH GROUP(DYG)
Date of publication:
2013-02-12
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2019-07-12
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DAWEI YOUTH GROUP(DYG)
Date of publication:
2012-11-21
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2019-07-12
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DAWEI YOUTH GROUP(DYG)
Date of publication:
2012-11-09
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2019-07-12
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DAWEI YOUTH GROUP(DYG)
Date of publication:
2013-02-17
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2019-07-12
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DAWEI YOUTH GROUP(DYG)
Date of publication:
2013-02-07
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2019-07-12
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DAWEI YOUTH GROUP(DYG)
Date of publication:
2013-03-18
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2019-07-11
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Dawei (economic, social, cultural, political), Society and Culture, Burma/Myanmar - general studies
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Source/publisher:
MRTV Webportal
Date of publication:
2013-09-27
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2019-07-11
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"Residents of several villages close to Dawei, the capital of Tanintharyi
Region, say that a nearby tin mine is contaminating their water supplies and affecting their livelihoods and their children's health.
This week, in partnership with Dawei Watch, Doh Athan travels to these villages to hear about the concerns local residents have.
တနင်္သာရီတိုင်းဒေသကြီးရဲ့မြို့တော်ဖြစ်တဲ့ ထားဝယ်မြို့အနီးက
ကျေးရွာတွေက ဒေသခံတွေအသုံးပြုတဲ့ ရေတွေဟာ
သတ္တုတွင်းတစ်ခုကြောင့် ညစ်ညမ်းမှုတွေဖြစ်တဲ့အပြင် သူတို့ရဲ့
လူနေမှုဘဝတွေနဲ့ ကလေးငယ်တွေရဲ့ ကျန်းမာရေးတွေပါ ထိခိုက်နေပါတယ်။
ဒီတစ်ပတ်မှာတော့ ဒို့အသံရဲ့ မိတ်ဆက်မီဒီယာဖြစ်တဲ့ Dawei Watch နဲ့ ဒို့အသံတို့က
အဲဒီကျေးရွာတွေကို သွားရောက်ပြီး ဒေသခံတွေရဲ့ စိုးရိမ်ပူပန်မှုတွေကို
နားထောင်ခဲ့ပါတယ်။
ဒီဆောင်းပါးအပြည့်အစုံကို မနက်ဖြန်မှာထုတ်လွှင့်ပေးမှာဖြစ်လို့ ဒို့အသံ
အစီအစဉ်ကိ စောင့်မျှော်နားဆင်ကြဖို့ ဖိတ်ခေါ်လိုက်ပါတယ်ရှင်။..."
Source/publisher:
Doh Athan via Frontier Myanmar
Date of publication:
2019-01-16
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2019-07-11
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"ထားဝယ်နှစ်ကျိပ်ရှစ်ဆူဘုရားပွဲနှင့် တနင်္သာရီနဂါးလှေလှော်ပွဲကို ယူနက် စကိုအဖွဲ့ထံသို့ မေလဝန်းကျင်က တင်ပြထားကြောင်း ရှေးဟောင်းသုတေသနနှင့် အမျိုးသားပြတိုက်ဦးစီးဌာန(ထားဝယ်ဌာနခွဲ) ထံမှ သိရသည်။
တိုင်းနှင့်ပြည်နယ်အားလုံးသို့ ကုလသမဂ္ဂ ပညာရေး၊ သိပ္ပံနှင့် ယဉ်ကျေးမှုအဖွဲ့(ယူနက်စကို) ကိုတင်ပြမည့် ဒြပ်မဲ့ယဉ်ကျေးမှုများ တင်ပြရန် ရှေးဟောင်း သုတေသနနှင့် အမျိုးသားပြတိုင်ဦးစီးဌာနရုံးချုပ်မှ ညွှန်ကြားလာသဖြင့် တိုင်း အတွင်း အကြမ်းဖျင်း ကောက်ယူထားသည့် ဒြပ်မဲ့ယဉ်ကျေးမှု ၉၆ ခုမှ ယင်း နှစ်ခုကို တင်ပြထားခြင်းဖြစ်ကြောင်း အထက်ပါဌာနခွဲမှ တာဝန်ရှိသူတစ်ဦးက ပြောသည်။
ယင်းပွဲတော်နှစ်ခုကျင်းပသည့် ပုံစံကို စာ၊ ရုပ်သံမှတ်တမ်းတိုရိုက်ကူးကာ တင်ပြထားခြင်းဖြစ်ကြောင်း ယင်း တာဝန်ရှိသူက ပြောသည်။
တင်ပြထားသည့် နှစ်ခုအနက် တစ်ခု ကို ယူနက်စကိုအဖွဲ့က ရွေးချယ်ကာ စာ၊ ရုပ်သံမှတ်တမ်းများဖြင့် တင်ပြထား သည့်အတိုင်း တကယ်ကျင်းပနေခြင်း ရှိမရှိကို ယူနက်စကိုအဖွဲ့က လာရောက် စစ်တမ်းကောက်ယူမည်ဖြစ်ကြောင်း ယင်းတာဝန်ရှိသူက ပြောသည်။
“ဘယ်ဟာကို ရွေးထားပြီးပြီလဲဆို တာ မသိရသေးဘူး။ ဘယ်အချိန်လာမလဲ ဆိုတာလည်း အကြောင်းမကြားသေးဘူး။ အခုက မိုးတွင်းဆိုတော့လာမှာ မဟုတ်သေးဘူး”ဟု ၎င်းက ဆိုသည်။
ယင်းကဲ့သို့ စစ်တမ်းကောက်ယူ ပြီးပါက ယူနက်စကိုအဖွဲ့က သတ်မှတ် ထားသည့် စံချိန်၊ စံညွှန်းများနှင့် ကိုက်ညီပါက ယူနက်စကို အမွေအနှစ် အဖြစ် သတ်မှတ်နိုင်ကြောင်း ရှေးဟောင်း သုတေသနနှင့် အမျိုးသား ပြတိုက်ဦးစီး ဌာန(ထားဝယ်ဌာနခွဲ) တာဝန်ရှိသူက ဆိုသည်။
“ယူနက်စကို အမွေအနှစ်အဖြစ် မသတ်မှတ်ရင်တောင်မှ ဒီပွဲတွေ ကျင်းပဖို့ ငွေကြေးအခက်အခဲရှိတယ်ဆိုရင် ငွေကြေး ထောက်ပံ့တာမျိုးလည်း လုပ်ချင် လုပ်နိုင်တယ်။ ဒါကတော့ ကျွန်တော်တို့အပိုင်း မဟုတ်တော့ဘူးပေါ့နော်။ သူတို့(ယူနက်စကိုအဖွဲ့)ကပဲ ဆုံးဖြတ်မှာ ဆိုတော့” ဟု ၎င်းက ဆိုသည်။
ယူနက်စကိုအဖွဲ့သို့ တင်ပြထားသည့် ထားဝယ်နှစ်ကျိပ်ရှစ်ဆူဘုရားပွဲ နှင့် တနင်္သာရီ နဂါးလှေလှော်ပွဲကို တနင်္သာရီတိုင်း အစိုးရအဖွဲ့ လူမှုရေးနှင့် စည်ပင်သာယာရေးဝန်ကြီး ဦးဆောင်သည့် တနင်္သာရီတိုင်း ဒြပ်မဲ့ယဉ်ကျေးမှု အမွေအနှစ် ထိန်းသိမ်း မြှင့်တင်ရေး ကော်မတီက ရွေးချယ်တင်ပြထားခြင်းဖြစ်ကြောင်း အထက်ပါဌာနထံမှ သိရ သည်။..."
Source/publisher:
Dawei Watch
Date of publication:
2018-07-09
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2019-07-11
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A poor community cites decades of land dispossession and environmental degradation in their opposition to a Thai-operated tin mine in rural Dawei Township.
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"ON THE BANKS of a narrow stream in rural Tanintharyi Region, a faded blue sign points the way to Myaung Phyo village. Walking into the village, Frontier could see dying coconut trees lining the main street – a symptom, locals said, of groundwater contamination.
Myaung Phyo is located 43 kilometres from Dawei, the capital of Tanintharyi Region, in Myitta sub-township. Close by is the Heinda tin mine, one of Myanmar’s oldest. Local residents say that Myaung Phyo has borne the brunt of the extensive environmental damage caused by the mine.
The dispute between the community and the mine operators goes back several decades. In 1983, about 500 village residents were relocated to make way for the mine. The only compensation they received were plots of land smaller than those they were forced to vacate, according to a report by the Dawei Pro Bono Lawyers Network.
Ma Phyu Phyu Khaing was one of those displaced.
“The situation made us very sad. The village was very peaceful and it had big trees that gave us shade. Neighbouring villages really liked it, because it was very cool. But one side of the village is now dead,” she said.
In 2008, heavy rainfall caused flooding that saw the mine’s sediment pools overflow and mining waste wash into the village, contaminating the water supply and destroying plantations and homes, residents say. Further flooding occurred in 2012, damaging about 20 acres of plantations as well as 27 homes.
Myaung Phyo resident Daw Khin San said that, because of the mine, many such as herself do not have access to clean water in the village.
“All homes have wells, but we can’t use them anymore because of contamination. We have to collect water from a well that is more than two furlongs [half a kilometre] from home. We use this water for drinking, washing and other domestic uses every day,” she said.
The Heinda mine was established in the 1920s during British colonial rule, as part of a cluster of tin mines close to Dawei, known then as Tavoy. However, much of the tin and tungsten mining infrastructure was destroyed during World War Two. The industry was nationalised under the military-backed, socialist regime of General Ne Win, which took over in 1962.
After decades of low output under the Ministry of Mines, in 1999 Thai company Myanmar Pongpipat was granted permission to explore the mine, in partnership with the state-owned No.2 Mining Enterprise, the former holding 65 percent and the latter 35 pc of the venture.
The mine covers 247 acres within an 2,110-acre concession and includes three open-pit mines that produce between 400 and 500 tonnes of tin and tungsten each year, much of which is then exported for processing in China, Thailand and Malaysia, typically earning more than US$4 million per year.
Water tests commissioned in 2013 and 2014 by the Dawei Pro Bono Lawyers Network found that lead and arsenic toxicity levels were significantly beyond the safe upper limits recommended by the World Health Organization for drinking water. The network’s report cited significant health risks, especially for children.
Another Myaung Pyo resident, Daw Aye, said that the company had promised government officials that they would address the water contamination, but never took any action.
The Tanintharyi Region government has suspended the company’s mining activities three times since June 2016, for periods ranging from three weeks to several months, because of environmental concerns. The most recent suspension was in February 2018, but work was allowed to resume in October.
Nine residents filed a lawsuit in 2014 at the Dawei District Court against the company for damages caused by the loss of livelihood, but this and subsequent appeals at the Tanintharyi Region High Court and the Union Supreme Court were all rejected.
Villagers say that the company had offered them compensation but the sums were too small for them to accept. Some residents whose lands were contaminated by the mine’s runoff were provided with new land, the villagers said. But not everyone accepted it, with some deciding to move to Thailand to seek work instead.
Residents also submitted a complaint to the National Human Rights Commission of Thailand in February 2017. The NHRCT said that same month that they would submit a complaint to the Thai government on the villagers’ behalf, but the villagers were not aware of anything having been done in response.
Representatives for Myanmar Pongpipat could not be reached for comment.
U Thein Soe, deputy permanent secretary at the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation, told Frontier that the ministry’s Environmental Conservation Department and the No.2 Mining Enterprise were supervising the mine to ensure Myanmar Pongpipat was following an environmental management plan the company had commissioned, even though his department had yet to formally approve the plan. He added that data on sediment from the mine was reported to Nay Pyi Taw once a week.
Asked about the flooding risks, Thein Soe said it was difficult to “prevent a natural disaster” but added that the situation had “improved” since the government began monitoring mine activities, with the sediment pond now less prone to overflowing.
U Ye Aung, a member of a community group formed to monitor the mine at the request of the regional government, told Frontier, “They want to have their creek, good water and trees back, and regain their lost lifestyle. Now, they feel like they, the villagers, don’t matter to the government.”
Ye Aung said the monitoring group had submitted three letters to the regional government, calling on it to punish the company for breaching its environmental commitments.
Tanintharyi Region Minister for Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation U Myint Maung said the current contract for the mine expires in June. He said the regional government had urged the Union government to open a tender for the new contract and consult independent experts over the terms to set, but that the Union government had asked them to extend the contract for Myanmar Pongpipat for another five years.
Daw Aye said she wanted the company to leave.
“I’m always sad when I see the [dying] trees. We don’t want the company to be given an extension. If they do, things will only get worse,” she said..."
Source/publisher:
Frontier Myanmar
Date of publication:
2019-03-11
Date of entry/update:
2019-07-11
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"Dawei dotted with famous historical pagodas can be accessible by all means of transportation
Taking a trip during a long holiday is an option for relaxation. As an employee, I always think about where should I visit, when it comes to long holidays.
Among many places I have been, the most unforgettable one is Dawei which is in southern Myanmar.
I went there last April during Myanmar New Year’s holiday.
Before deciding to go on a vacation, I discussed with my family about where we should go and what kind of general knowledge could we gain from our vacation.
After consulting, we decided to go on a pilgrimage tour to Shin Koe Shin (Shin 9 Shin) pagodas in Dawei.
Dawei, a town formerly known as Tavoy is in the south-eastern part of the country in Tanintharyi Region, formerly known as Tenasserim Division which is about 614.3 km (381.7 mi) south of Yangon. To go to Dawei, visitors have to pass through towns which are Bago, Kyaikto, Mawlamyine, Mudon and Ye and finally arriving in Dawei..."
Source/publisher:
Myanmar Times
Date of publication:
2017-11-24
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2019-07-10
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"Women living in Myanmar's Dawei Special Economic Zone (SEZ) are concerned about the impacts the project may have on the future of their communities. Dawei SEZ is a 200-square kilometer development project being built by Italian-Thai Development PLC. It threatens to displace or damage the communities and natural resources of over 43,000 people. This video shows the voices and concerns of women living in the SEZ area, who are often ignored by developers and governments. This video is for communities and activists working on SEZ and land rights issues, especially those focused on the gendered impacts of development projects and the public participation of women in decision-making processes.
"If we have to relocate to other places, I do not know how to survive... we will have to buy everything - even a leaf, or a flower."
Daw Myint Aye, Htein Gyi community member
"It will break my heart to see us lose our livelihoods and to see people go without food."
Daw Mee Cho, Nga Pe Dat community member..."
Source/publisher:
EarthRights International
Date of publication:
2018-11-29
Date of entry/update:
2019-07-10
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