Myanmar / Yangon

• Nikar2

  28 Sep 07, 10:10

  hi all,
  
  anyone has any friends or business associates in Yangon?
  can confirm whether their internet communications and phone lines has been cut off?
  have not gotten any e-mails from my yangon counterpart since yesterday evening.
• CPTMiller

  28 Sep 07, 14:05

  I think they cant send any mails out.
  The military in order to control the situation will cut the communication
  
• AndrewPKYap

  28 Sep 07, 14:13

  Myanmar Ministry of Communications, Posts and Telegraphs
  
  This site is down. Click on it and see for yourself.
  
• Nikar2

  3 Oct 07, 14:01

  hi all,
  
  anyone tried to fax documents to Myanmar / Yangon?
  we received some fax from our counterparts yesterday (2 - 4 pm) but after that, seems the line was cut off or something.
  
  anyone's office have counterparts in Yangon as well?
• ozzy_gurl

  3 Oct 07, 14:03

  i have relatives in myanmar. all telephone lines and internet connections to the country have been cut off by the government.
• Where Is God

  3 Oct 07, 14:06

  i have friends in yangon and they said the phonelines are still a-okay.
• tigersushi

  3 Oct 07, 15:05

  hmm.. when the media reports on the shooting of the monks came in, i was a little skeptical. No doubt shots were fired and people died. However, anyone can easily shave their heads and don a robe. Are the dead monks really monks? or are they imposters who simply want to inflame the situation and illicit more hatred from the populace since monks are highly respected in the country.
  
  My advice is..we shouldnt so easily trust the news media reports i.e. jz trust what our eyes see. Its also important to be critical and cynical. It kinda irks me to see how readily and naive the tertiary students in SG or general public join in the bandwagon to protest against the violence against the monks. Until. there are evidence to suggest the dead monks are really monks and not some imposters, i believe this event could be instigated by some sinister force in the country with a purpose to bring down the military junta.
  
  Hmm, sure i agree that the Military junta shd be removed; but if the means is through deception i.e. posing as monks and deliberately get themselves shot to raise public anger and sympathy?? then.. are you sure when the junta is gone, the incoming government will then be clean with impeccable integrity and honor? NO!..
• Nikar2

  4 Oct 07, 17:50

  (tigersushi)
  

  Hmm, sure i agree that the Military junta shd be removed; but if the means is through deception i.e. posing as monks and deliberately get themselves shot to raise public anger and sympathy?? then.. are you sure when the junta is gone, the incoming government will then be clean with impeccable integrity and honor? NO!

  even if it's really really really thru deception, it's at least better than nothing.
  at least burmese got action and they wanna save themselves.
  what's wrong with fighting for your freedom?
  
  this myanmar episode has made me learnt a lot of new things about politics and politicians: they're all words and no-action.
  
  across the world, all the politicians, even our divine flawless SG government, can ever do....is to come up with super-fanciful words of condemnation, such as "we will not tolerate such a REPULSIVE regime", "abhorrent act", "we strongly urge..."
  
  i always wonder why politicians don't change careers and be literature teachers instead since their use of words are better than our english teachers.
  
  the people of myanmar are waiting for foreign help to save them.
  judging from the looks of things, it's impossible for them to topple the government or rebel since they don't even have access to ammo to begin with.
  
  their government is an absolute one.
  in the case on indonesia / phillippines / eastern europe governments, their troops don't shoot at their own people even when the latter rebels, but in myanmar, they don't ****ing care who you're.
  that's why the governments above can be toppled by their own people but not in the case of myanmar.
  
  japanese, korean, whatever, the very moment they think u wanna rebel, you die.
• Nikar2

  8 Oct 07, 10:19

  hi all,
  
  is it true that yangon's internet is starting to be back to normal again?
  i got 1 - 2 e-mails from them these few days.
• Dead_Man_Inc

  8 Oct 07, 10:44

  Originally posted by Nikar2:

  hi all,
  
  is it true that yangon's internet is starting to be back to normal again?
  i got 1 - 2 e-mails from them these few days.

  oh hi,
  
  i do not know but you may like to wait for this few days to confirm