18 News THE MYANMAR TIMES JULY 8- 14, 2013
18 News THE MYANMAR TIMES JULY 8- 14, 2013
TRADE MARK CAUTION
NOTICE is hereby given that Engelhard Arzneimittel GmbH & Co. KG a company organized and existing under the laws of Germany with offices at D-61138 Niederdorfelden, Herzbergstr. 3, Germany, is the Owner and Sole Proprietor of the following trade mark: PROSPAN
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That a Declaration of Ownership in respect of the said Trade Mark has been registered in the Office of the Sub- Registrar, Yangon, on the day of 31st January, 2013 under No. IV / 1051 / 2013.
WARNING is hereby given that any fraudulent imitation, unauthorised or improper use of the said Trade Mark or other infringement of the rights of Engelhard Arzneimittel GmbH & Co. KG in any manner whatsoever will be dealt with according to law.
Dated this 8 th day of July, 2013.
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A man pans for gold at Myitsone, where the Maikha and Malikha rivers meet to form the Ayeyarwady River in Kachin State. Photo: Boothee
Civil society groups to study Ayeyarwady River
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THAN NAING SOE thennaingsoe @ gmail. com
A COMMUNITY-BASED strategic environmental assessment is being undertaken at 11 sites along the Ayeyarwady River from July to December to study the impact of development and mining on the waterway.
Seinyaungso, Mekong Energy and Ecology Network, Point and the Renewable Energy Association Myanmar will jointly implement the project, said Seinyaungso chairman U Tin Thit.
The assessment will determine the impact of development on the economy and environment of the river. Once it is complete the groups plan to use the findings to make recommendations to the government about how to conserve the river, U Tin Thit said.
“ We will research the state of the river for six months at least and probably longer,” he said.
Seinyaungso was formed in 2010 and has about 100 members, mostly former politicians. It focuses primarily on environmental issues and in 2012 investigated complaints
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that pollution from the Monywa copper mine had caused health problems among area residents.
The research will be conducted at Myitkyina in Kachin State; Katha, Tigyaing and Sheinmaka in Sagaing Region; Thanbo island, Mandalay and Simeikon in Mandalay Region; Yenangyaung and Bukyun in Magwe Region; and Mawlamyinegyun
in Ayeyarwady Region.
In order to conduct the research, residents from the study areas were given training in Mandalay on June 29 and 30.
“ We will launch the research in our own areas... We want to ensure that the river is preserved well into the future,” said Seinyaungso member U
Thant Zin, who will help implement the survey in Simeikon.
U Tin Thit added that a separate but related study would be conducted at the same time.
“ A social impact assessment is being made by professionals and academics,” he said.“ They will meet local people and ask them how their lives are affected by what’ s happening to the river.
‘ If we want the Ayeyarwady to flow cleanly forever, the communities will have to conserve it themselves.’
U Tin Thit Chairman of environmental group Seinyaungso
“ When both studies are completed they will be provided to the relevant government departments and ministries.”
He said that public interest in the condition of the Ayeyarwady River had spiked in 2011 because of the Myitsone Dam project, which is a joint project between China Power Investment and Asia World. The dam
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was suspended by President U Thein Sein in September 2011 for the rest of his five-year term as president but CPI has been lobbying hard to restart the project.
However, U Tin Thit said hydropower dams are by no means the only threat to the future of the Ayeyarwady.
“ Whether any dam projects are implemented in future does not matter; the river has already been spoiled by mining. If we want the Ayeyarwady to flow cleanly forever, the communities that live along the river will have to conserve it themselves.”
U Kyaw Kyaw Oo, a Seinyaungso member from Myitkyina, said he believed mining has had a severe negative impact on the water quality of the river.
“ In the past we could see the river floor from a depth of 6 feet,” U Kyaw Kyaw Oo said.“ We could see colourful stones and fish but that has changed- the water is a yellowish colour now.
“ There are many boats that dredge gold from the river and use mercury to leach the gold from the rock, but this poisons the river.”
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KIA rejects Buddha image from peace activist
KHIN SU WAI jasminekhin @ gmail. com
A GROUP of activists who drove to Laiza carrying a Christian cross and Buddha image made from bullets fired in the Kachin conflict has received a frosty reception from the Kachin Independence Army.
The KIA refused to accept the Buddha image when the group arrived in Laiza on June 21, five days after setting out from Mandalay, and only accepted the cross after much negotiation, said U Win Cho, the leader of the peace group.
He said residents in Myitkyina had also refused to host the Buddha image, which was consecrated at Mahamuni Pagoda in
Mandalay shortly before the group set out.
“ We met officers from the KIA, who asked why we had come. I told them we made this trip for peace and have no intention to spread our religion. I asked them to receive our presents as a gesture of peace but the officer returned to us after asking his superiors and refused on the grounds that there were no Buddhists in Laiza,” U Win Cho said last week.
“ He also said there were five different types of Christians and so they couldn’ t accept the cross either. Finally, they accepted it after we discussed it with them,” he said.
The group spent just two hours in Laiza. Its reception contrasted with that enjoyed by a 22-member group that walked from Yangon to Laiza earlier this year.
U Win Cho said he was not deterred, however, and said he would return to Laiza with another Buddha image if it was“ convenient” for the KIA.
He said the Buddha image has now been temporarily enshrined in U Kaymarsaya’ s monastery near Mahamuni Pagoda.
The Buddha image will be sent instead to the Tatmadaw, he said.
The Christian cross took seven days to make and the Buddha image about one month. Both are made from bullets collected by activists earlier this year in Kachin State’ s Waingmaw township and weigh about 22.4 kilograms each.