Myanmar, Shwedagon Pagoda, Yangon...
Shwedagon Padoga is the most important temple of Buddhist belief in Yangon with 99 metres golden stupa. It is also known as Golden Pagoda. It is a landmark of Yangon, Myanmar and Buddhism. It was very exciting when I was wandering indide. Sunset and night view is amazing.
สามเหลี่ยมทองคำ Golden Triangle
The Golden Triangle designates the confluence of the Ruak River and the Mekong river, since the term has been appropriated by the Thai tourist industry to describe the nearby border tripoint of Thailand, Laos and Myanmar. Burma is the world's second largest producer of illicit opium, after Afghanistan[1] and has been a significant cog in the transnational drug trade since World War II.[2][3] According to the UNODC it is estimated that in 2005 there wеrе 167 square miles (430 km2) of opium cultivation in Burma.[4] The surrender of drug warlord Khun Sa's Mong Tai Army in January 1996 was hailed by Yangon as a major counter-narcotics success, but lack of government will and agility to take on major narcotrafficking groups and lack of serious commitment against money laundering continues to hinder the overall anti-drug effort. Most of the tribespeople growing the opium poppy in Burma and in the Thai highlands are living under the poverty line.
In 1996, the United States Embassy in Rangoon released a Country Commercial Guide, which states Exports of opiates alone appear to be worth about as much as all legal exports. It goes on to say that investments in infrastructure and hotels are coming from major opiate-growing and opiate-exporting organizations and from those with close ties to these organizations.[5]
A four-year investigation concluded that Myanma Oil and Gas Enterprise (MOGE) was the main channel for laundering the revenues of heroin produced and exported under the control of the Burmese army. In a business deal signed with the French oil giant Total in 1992, and later joined by Unocal, MOGE received a payment of $15 million. Despite the fact that MOGE has no assets besides the limited installments of its foreign partners and makes no profit, and that the Burmese state never had the capacity to allocate any currency credit to MOGE, the Singapore bank accounts of this company have seen the transfer of hundreds of millions of US dollars, reports François Casanier. According to a confidential MOGE file reviewed by the investigators, funds exceeding $60 million and originating from Myanmar's most renowned drug lord, Khun Sa, were channeled through the company. Drug money is irrigating every economic activity in Burma, and big foreign partners are also seen by the SLORC as big shields for money laundering.[5] Banks in Rangoon offered money laundering for a 40% commission.[6]
The main player in the country's drug market is the United Wa State Army, ethnic fighters who control areas along the country's eastern border with Thailand, part of the infamous Golden Triangle. The UWSA, an ally of Myanmar's ruling military junta, was once the militant arm of the Beijing-backed Burmese Communist Party.
Poppy cultivation in the country decreased more than 80 percent from 1998 to 2006 following an eradication campaign in the Golden Triangle. Officials with the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime say opium poppy farming is now expanding. The number of hectares used to grow the crops increased 29% in 2007. A United Nations report cites corruption, poverty and a lack of government control as causes for the jump.
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Myanmar - Tour von Yangon über Bago zum Golden Rock
Myanmar bereisen ist so manches Mal noch abenteuerlich, doch dieses Land birgt so unheimlich viele Sehenswürdigkeiten, dass selbst die größten Reisestrapazen lohnen. Begleite mich auf meiner Reise durch dieses wunderschöne Land. Erlebe mit mit mir freundliche und zuvorkommende Menschen, schaue ihnen ein wenig bei ihrem Alltag zu. In diesem Video bereise ich den Bereich Yangun, Bago bis Golden Rock. Filme von anderen Regionen in Myanmar folgen
Burma: A Journey of Change
Deptford Green's KS4 Citizenship Scheme of Learning following the democratic uprising and crackdown of October 2007
Yangon Lifestyle Furniture Fair 2012 Myanmar
Yangon Lifestyle Furniture Fair 2012 Myanmar
Invisible Army - a documentary about a revolutionary grandmother in Rangoon, Burma (Myanmar)
Old ladies smoke cigars. The military runs the country. Internet is banned. Welcome to Burma.
An old lady waits on a street corner in bustling Rangoon. She is an illegal tour guide in a country with few tourists. Ethel goes on a tour of the people's struggle for democracy, and her own role in Burma's history.
Written and directed by Sammy Riley, 2006.
Appeared in the 2007 Nuremberg International Human Rights Film Festival, the 2007 Montreal Human Rights Film Festival and the 2007 Festival Cinepobre in Havana. Nominated for a 2008 South Australia Short Screen Award.
Yangon's neglected Drug Elimination Museum
Opened to great fanfare by the military government in 2001, the Drug Elimination Museum is a relic of the junta's failed attempts to curb opium production in Myanmar's share of the Golden Triangle. Rundown, dilapidated, averaging less than 10 visitors a day and seemingly forgotten by the new government, its dedicated staff have nonetheless worked tirelessly to preserve its exhibits.
Myanmar - The City of the Golden Triangle - A visit through the streets
Winter Break 2011 - A quick trip into Myanmar also known as Burma for a look at the local goods.
A VISIT TO A NICE MYANMAR FAMILY I IN YANGON DEC 2009
a visit to an old arkitect in his house in yangon to understand the life style of the myanmar people 2009
Driving around Yangon
Driving around Yanon
Godfather Of Heroin Lo Hsing Han Died In Myanmar
A former drug kingpin and business tycoon once dubbed the Godfather of Heroin by the US government has died in his home in Myanmar's main city, a source close to the family said.
Lo Hsing Han died on Saturday in Yangon, the source who spoke on condition of anonymity because he did not have authorisation to speak to the media, said on Sunday.
The cause of death of Lo Hsing Han, who is believed to be in his mid-70s, was not immediately known.
Lo Hsing Han's involvement in the drug trade began more than four decades ago. In exchange for heading a local militia set up by then-dictator Ne Win in 1960 to help fight local communists in the region of Kokang,
Lo Hsing Han was given permission to engage in the trafficking of opium and heroin, said Bertil Lintner, author of The Golden Triangle Opium Trade: An Overview.
With one of the best-armed militias in Myanmar, also known as Burma, he quickly became one of the region's most powerful drug kingpins.
Thai police arrested Lo Hsing Han in northern Thailand in 1973. He was handed over to the Burmese government and sentenced to death, commuted later to life in prison for treason.
He was released in 1980 as part of a general amnesty, Lintner said. In 1992, Lo Hsing Han and his son Stephen Law founded the conglomerate Asia World, allegedly as a front for their ongoing dealings in the drug trade, the author said.
They quickly became two of Myanmar's biggest business tycoons, helping prop up the military junta, winning contracts to run ports, build highways and oversee airports.
The US Department of Treasury, dubbing Lo Hsing Han the Godfather of Heroin put him on the financial sanctions list in 2008.
The Golden Triangle Spiritual Route.wmv
Inside the secret city - Burma
Nov 2006
Burma's new capital of Naypidaw is one of the most mysterious cities in the world. Few foreigners have been inside and now there are signs a chain of underground bunkers are being built nearby.
Buried deep within the remote jungle is Naypidaw, Burma's new capital. The Generals are so paranoid about it they've imprisoned journalists for trying to do what our reporter did: film the city being built. Foreigners are banned from the nearby city of Pyinmana where sources say the military are building a network of underground bunkers. Tremors are often felt at night. Since moving the capital, the army has intensified its battle against the Karen, clearing out surrounding villages in an attempt to dominate the area. Nearly 3,000 Karen villages have been destroyed in the past decade and a million people displaced. Those who speak out risk imprisonment or torture. The situation of people all over the country gets worse by the hour, laments journalist Ludu Sin Wein. The whole country is sitting on a power keg that can explode at any time. But there are signs of resistance. Half a million Burmese residents signed a petition calling for the release of their political leaders. As Burmese reporter Ludu Sin Wein states: Someone has to take risks to let the world know what's going on.
Produced by SBS/Dateline
Distributed by Journeyman Pictures
Ex-Drug Kingpin Lo Hsing Han's Funeral Takes in Rangoon
ဘိန္းဘုရင္ေဟာင္း ေလာ္စစ္ဟန္၏ စ်ာပန ရန္ကုန္တြင္ က်င္းပ
၁၉၇ဝျပည့္လြန္ႏွစ္ေတြမွာ မူးယစ္ရာဇာအျဖစ္ ေက်ာ္ၾကားခဲ့တဲ့ ဘိန္းဘုရင္ေဟာင္း ေလာ္စစ္ဟန္ရဲ႕ စ်ာပနကို ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕ ေျမာက္ဥကၠလာပက ယူနန္သုႆန္မွာ ဇူလိုင္ ၁၇ရက္ေန႔က သၿဂိဳဟ္ခဲ့ပါတယ္။
Myanmar Golden Rock Truck Ride #5 23 Feb 2015
MYANMAR: Spectacular ancient TEAKWOOD BUDDHIST MONASTERY in MANDALAY ????
SUBSCRIBE: - Let's visit the magnificent Shweinbin Monastery which is a Buddhist monastery in Mandalay, Burma, built in the tradition of Burmese teak architecture. The monastery was built in 1895 by a Sino-Burmese merchant married to a Burmese woman of royal extraction. The monastery's construction strictly adheres to traditional rules of Burmese monastic architecture and includes all of the designated pyatthat-crowned pavilions. Mandalay is a city and former royal capital in northern Myanmar (formerly Burma) on the Irrawaddy River. In its center is the restored Mandalay Palace from the Konbaung Dynasty, surrounded by a moat. Mandalay Hill provides views of the city from its summit, which is reached by covered stairway. At its foot, the Kuthodaw Pagoda houses hundreds of Buddhist-scripture-inscribed marble slabs.
Myanmar (formerly Burma) is a Southeast Asian nation of more than 100 ethnic groups, bordering India, Bangladesh, China, Laos and Thailand. Yangon (formerly Rangoon), the country's largest city, is home to bustling markets, numerous parks and lakes, and the towering, gilded Shwedagon Pagoda, which contains Buddhist relics and dates to the 6th century.
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ZayKaBar Myanmar Open 2012 in Yangon, Myanmar
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A walk around the Shwedagon
Yangon, Myanmar
Myanmar, The Golden Land Documentary
This is the introduction to this award winning documentary. It is an over-view of the country...it's people, various ethnic groups, the amazing scenery, from one end of the country to the other...truly the most exotic and unspoiled country on earth...thousands of golden temples, lush scenery, and the happiest, welcoming people you will meet anywhere.