Kyan-sit-thar: Burma Navy’s First Stealth Frigate

(This post is translation of news articles from the Myanmar
Military Blog.)





Kyansitthar,
recently reincarnated as the latest stealth frigate (F-12) of Burma Navy, was a
Burmese general who became a famous Burmese king (1084-1112) after King
Anawrahta (1044-1077) the founder of Pagan dynasty and the first Burmese
empire.



Kyansitthar (F-12) is the second frigate designed and made in

Fall of Kharyarbon: The Last Hill Overlooking Laiza!

(Loose compilation of news articles from various pro-KIA and
pro-Army sites.)





Dead KIA soldier on the Kharyarbon peak (24 Jan 2013).

The
massive and brutal offensive against the high Kharyarbon peak by Burma Army
began on midday January 24 as day-long shelling by the army’s 105 mm howitzer
artillery guns positioned at the nearby Point-771 hilltop of Lajaryan Range
which has fallen into

Paris Club Cancels 6 Billion Dollars of Burma’s Debt

(The press release direct from the Paris Club the informal group of rich nations.)





THE PARIS CLUB AND THE REPUBLIC OF THE UNION OF MYANMAR AGREE
ON A CANCELLATION OF USD 5,925 MILLION.



The representatives of Paris Club creditors and the
representatives of the Government of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar met
on 25 January 2013 and agreed on a comprehensive treatment of the

Thai Naval Ships Sail for Anti-Somali-pirate Mission

(Interesting old news article from The Bangkok Post Newspaper - September 2010.)





Two Thai navy ships with 351 sailors and 20 special warfare
troops on board have set sail for the Gulf of Aden to take part in the hunt for
pirates off the coast of Somalia. The mission marks the first time Thailand has
sent forces overseas to protect its own interest.



The HTMS Pattani and HTMS Similan

Israeli Agents Blew Up Iran’s Fordo Nuclear Facility?

(News Article direct from The Times of Israel on 25 June 2013.)





Iran's nuclear facilities targeted by Israel.

Israel’s
Home Front Defense Minister Avi Dichter on Sunday welcomed a report that Iran’s
Fordo nuclear facility had been rocked by a huge explosion.



The
report was published Friday on the website wnd.com, under the sensational
headline: “Sabotage! Key Iranian nuclear facility

Trans-Burma Oil & Gas Pipeline is Completed!

(Direct translation of News Article from The Myanmah Ahlin on 25
January 2013.)





Massive Burma-China
pipeline carrying crude oil from the middle-east and natural gas from Burma
will be completed in May and the oil and gas will start flowing in early June
this year, according to Gao Jianguo the head of the Trans-Burma Pipeline
Project under China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC).

Burmese Prostitutes of Maesot across Myawaddy (2)

(This post is translation of news article from the Myanmar Express Group.)





A busy street in Mae Sot (2012).

This was
what Ko Aung who works at a Guest House in Maesot bitterly said of the poor
families of Burmese prostitutes working in Maesot.



“Times are so bad we Burmese do not know what is good or bad
no more. We don’t know what is a good character or a bad character.



We

London’s Tower Hamlets Turned into Islamic Hellhole?

(Andrew Gilligan’s Article from The Telegraph Newspaper on 12 June 2011.)







Four Muslim thugs of Tower Hamlets and their victim.

Police 'covered up' violent campaign to turn London area
'Islamic'. Police have been accused of “covering up” a
campaign of abuse, threats and violence aimed at “Islamicising” an area of
London.



Victims
say that officers in the borough of Tower Hamlets

Islamists Raid Algerian Gas Plant and Take 100 Hostages

(This post is news article direct from the CNN site.)





(CNN) --
Islamists attacked a gas field in eastern Algeria, killing two people and
seizing hostages, including Westerners, Algeria's interior minister said
Wednesday. The incident may be linked to France's military support for the
government of nearby Mali, according to reports from the region.



The
Westerners, accompanied by

KIA Sending Child Suicide-bombers to Mandalay?

(This post is translation of news articles from the Burmese Newspapers.)





According
to the Burmese newspapers a brother and sister team of KIA’s would be suicide-bombers
were captured on the daily Myitkyinar-Mandalay diesel train on 13 January this
year.



Two
Kachin siblings Ngaik-ngo-hlyan (F-17) and Phaw-kan-branseng (M-15) were
arrested by the local security agents on the train at

Burmese Prostitutes of Maesot across Myawaddy (1)

(This post is translation of news article from the Myanmar Express Group.)





A Burmese brothel in Mae Sot, Thailand.

“My parents couldn’t afford to send me to school anymore and
the local broker from our ward was also very persuasive in offering a sweet
deal for me to go work in Thailand they finally put me in the broker’s hands
trustingly.



The broker, a human-trafficker, took care

KIA: The Terrorist Group from Burma?

(Part of this post is translation of opinion article from the Opposite Eyes Blog.)





KIA massacre of public officials at Saddone.

It was in the middle of 1974 when
I was a young lance corporal in the army in the Kachin State of Burma. Our
infantry battalion was fighting a brutal war against KIA (Kachin Independence
Army) and CPB (Communist Party of Burma) insurgents in the mountainous

Burma’s Nuclear Dream Still Alive?

(This post is news articles from Asahi Shimbun newspaper and
Eleven Media Group.)





North Korea tried to ship
materials suitable for uranium enrichment or missile development to Myanmar via
China last year, in violation of a U.N. Security Council resolution, The Asahi
Shimbun has learned.



The shipment included about 50 metal pipes and 15
high-specification aluminium alloy bars, at least

Shans Forming People-Militias To Fight Back KIA!

(This post is translation of news articles from the Eleven Media Group.)





The
indigenous Shans living along the Irrawaddy River in Kachin State are forming
Burmese-government-supported People Militia (Pyi-thu-sit) units to fight back
the KIA whose field units have been terrorising them for years and years since
1962 when Baptist-controlled KIA was founded.



From
Myitkyinar all the way

George Soros “The Puppet Master” in Burma Again?

(This post is translation of news articles from the Eleven Media and Myanmar Express.)





The “Open
Society” founder Billionaire George Soros, who was in Burma officially for his
second time in a year, met Khun Htun Oo the Chairman of Shan National League
for Democracy at Rangoon’s Chatrium Hotel on Monday 7th January.



According
to Khun Htun Oo the hour-long meeting with Soros was

Taliban’s Sharia Execution of Najiba aged sixteen

(This post is Luke
Mogelson’s “Najiba” direct from the New York Times Magazine.)




Sharia Execution of Najiba (16).


SHE CROUCHES AT THE BANK OF A RIVER, a shawl wrapped around her head and
shoulders. Behind her, men crowd a steep hillside and stand on rooftops and mud
walls. Several hold up cellphones to record what is about to happen. The girl
seems to look across the river, at a grove of

Al-jazebra Pays Al Gore 500 Millions for His Current TV

(This post is direct from The New York Times.)





Al
Jazeera, the pan-Arab news giant, has long tried to convince Americans that it
is a legitimate news organization, not a parrot of Middle Eastern propaganda or
something more sinister.



It just
bought itself 40 million more chances to make its case.



Al
Jazeera on Wednesday announced a deal to take over Current TV, the low-rated
cable

General Gam Shaung Wounded by Army Gunship?

(This post is translation of news article from various Burmese
blogs.)





Feared Chief-of-Staff General Gam Shaung of KIA.

Feared
Chief-of-Staff of KIA (Kachin Independence Army) General Gam Shaung was
severely wounded by a Burma Army’s MI-35P helicopter gunship just out of Laiza
on January 2nd.





According
to the KIA sources the feared General and his entourage in 6 SUV convoy was on

Lajaryan Fell and Laiza Surrounded by Burma Army

(This post is translation of news articles from various Burmese
Language Blogs.)









The
crucial Lajaryan range defended by 500 strong KIA and ABSDF insurgents have
fallen into the hands of attacking Burmese forces on 30 December 2012. The last
defending post fell at noon that day.





About
fifty bodies of insurgents were discovered inside the post and army captured
assorted weapons