Comments on: Job at The Myanmar Times

By: Moe Aung

Moe Aung — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 08:13:29 +0000

ZodiacGuille,

Intriguing. Location ‘M’ from the north of Burma? Myitkyina? Monywa? Mandalay? Meiktila? Myingyan? So many ‘M’s make your prediction a safe bet. I’m pretty sure it will involve the military, monks and multiethnic unity.

By: Bamar

Bamar — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 05:04:53 +0000

To ZodiacGuille,

Than Shwe’s dob is: 2 February 1933. – Aquarian
Aung San Suu Kyi’s dob is: 19 June 1945 – Gemini
Letter B stands for Burma
Letter M stands for Myanmar

By: Larry

Larry — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:52:34 +0000

Naing Ko Shwe Than: Sorry, but you sound like the mouthpiece of some idealistic nitwit. The readers of the Myanmar Times (which are primarily well-off people in Yangon) know very well the hardships other people living in their country face. Writing about poverty all the time, as well as never seeing daylight because the censors would cut it, would get very boring and depressing for readers. Give people a break; don’t constantly smack them across the face with tales of suffering.
In any case, if the stories in the paper aren’t well written, it has nothing to do with management of the paper and everything to do with the reporters’ capabilities, which says a lot about critical thinking and work ethic of supposedly some of Myanmar’s brightest young minds.
The Myanmar Times is a mouthpiece of the government, it just has to abide by censorship rules. And perhaps more important than the news it provides, it gives young Burmese people the opportunity to learn valuable skills in what is a much more developed and transparent business than most in Myanmar.

By: ZodiacGuille

ZodiacGuille — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:47:24 +0000

Don´t worry, his stomach is going to explote in 18 month. Two signs will be in conflict: Gemini and Aquarius. The esotherism gives back everything you get with it. Myanmar will be a great country. I don´t know who I am talking about. 2009/2010 is a period of huge changes for tha beatifull and incredible land. Remenber: Aquarius dies and Genimi comes back to Govern tha land. A new leader from a location with “M” will help Gemini. Who wants to understand mi predictions try to investigate the signs of the political heads in that country. Be well, be great, beacause the old “B” letter comes back. B is the letter for Big (English) Bon (French) Benvenutto (Italian) and so on. The future is soon to return. Bye
Zodiac Guille – Argentina

By: jud

jud — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:05:59 +0000

I,m with you:“I shall never kneel downs under yours military boots” Salai Tin Maung Oo

He was hanged on June the26th, 1976 at the infamous Insein prison. He is the only student to be hanged by the government in Burmese political history.

By: Zodiacguille

Zodiacguille — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 11:30:53 +0000

I am building the Natal Astrology Chart for Myanmar. And it shows that “M” is the letter key for its new step in History. “M” , I think, was as a key at the very begining of the Nation. “M” is at the begining of its own name, an the change is coming from the north, fron a location with the letter “M”. To complete the Capricorn Natal Chart.
What do I see for the future of Myanmar: a great future for a new great country with a huge chage: SLOW BUT SURE. The people are realy for the change but in peace. Wtha di I need to complet my work about Myanmar Natal Astrology Chart is: date, time, and place of the head of the country to compare the health because I see as soon as posible that this man is getting an imperceptible illness at the moment. Could you get for me those references?
Thanks a lot, Prof Guillermo CAPELLAN – Zodiac GUILLE – Argentina -

By: Awzar Thi

Awzar Thi — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 04:08:28 +0000

I have not read the book but I have read the “newspaper”, and that was quite enough. Weekly Eleven should put out an English version: it would beat the pants off the Myanmar Times, as it does in Burmese. The Times: two weeks late, full of recycled government propaganda and promos for local companies disguised as articles, too many ads, substandard writing. Eleven: up to date, relevant, few ads and lots of news between the lines. Little wonder that Eleven sells out whereas the Times is still available days after publication. Ironically, to study how to publish a modern journal, the Eleven staff visited The Nation. Given the good quality and informative material they put out in difficult and dangerous conditions, they should be teaching the Bangkok media a thing or two, not vice versa.

By: Naing Ko Shwe Than

Naing Ko Shwe Than — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 15:10:30 +0000

Ross Dunkley should be ashamed of spearheading this paper, which is the Burmese military junta’s mouthpiece to the world, thinly disguised by a veneer of international news. This paper has consistently promoted the junta’s causes, from eulogizing the business owned by the son of Khin Nyunt, to all the sickening interviews published in the paper between members of the ruling junta and the newspaper editors.

Ma Thanegi, a regular contributor to this newspaper, is reviled as a traitor. After being Aung San Suu Kyi’s closest aide, she switched sides and gushed in the Myanmar Times about how Aroma Cafe’s cup of capuccino costs only so much — but the amount she mentioned was 10 percent of the salary of then high ranking civil servants. You see, Aroma Cafe at the time was owned by Khin Nyunt’s son and his Singaporean wife.

It is hard to believe that Ross Dunkley is indeed Australian — from the same wonderful country that has recently rejected the junta’s proposal to appoint a military man as Burma’s Ambassador to Australia. Dnukley should open his eyes to the misery, the wretchedness and the hunger of our Burmese people and start writing about these instead, if he has the courage. Does he know that in 2007, people across the river from Rangoon were so poor that for one meal each day, they had to drink water drained from the boiling of rice? Not even rice gruel, but the thin water that people throw out in cooking rice. This water is collected and sold at a cheap price to the poor.