Philanthropist George Soros arrives in Burma ေဂ်ာ့ဆိုးေရာ့စ္ ျမန္မာျပည္ေရာက္ေန
Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – George Soros, the founder of the Open Society Foundation, which works to promote democracy, human rights and freedom in the world, visited Inle Lake in Shan State on Wednesday.
George Soros at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland in 2010. Photo: en.wikipedia.orgWin Myint, the Shan State minister for National Race Affairs, told Mizzima he confirmed the information with officials at a hotel in Khaungtia village, where Soros is staying.
On whether members of the Shan State government would meet Soros or not, Win Myint said, “We will meet with him only if he invites us.” He said the state government has not been told officials to meet with him or not to meet with him. Khaungtai village is seven miles from Nyaungshwe Township in Shan State.
Soros, 81, arrived in Burma because he wanted to visit Inle Lake and Bagan, two locations where his foundation has made donations, sources said.
He arrived by private plane on December 26. He will leave in early January, a businessman told Mizzima.
“On December 26 and 27, he was in Rangoon and today he went to Inle. His two sons accompanied him. I think it’s his family’s ‘vacation visit’,” he said.
In 1993, Soros founded the U.S.-based Open Society Institute (OSI).
Presently, OSI has branch offices in more than 70 countries in Europe, Asia, Africa and Latin America that promote human rights, education, health and freedom of press. OSI donates about US$ 2 million a year to promote democracy in Burma, according to the Forbes website.
According to a 2007 cover story on the Forbes website, some 30 per cent of the foundation’s Burma Project money goes to education programs and university scholarships, the rest to grants for groups working on Burmese causes. Recipients included the Alternate Asean Network on Burma, which issues reports on Burma; the National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma, Burma's government-in-exile; and the Computer Network Training Program, which teaches computer skills in the refugee camps.
Capacity building and teaching English are priorities. David Mathieson, the Burma consultant for Human Rights Watch, has taught English to refugees in the camps and believes that English proficiency among the refugees is much greater than among the Thai population, according to the article.
Sometimes the Burma Project's support is more administrative than educational, as shown by its work with the National Coalition Government. Elected in 1990 but never installed, the shadow government resides in an office outside Washington, D.C. paid for by Soros. When it comes to policy, however, the project gives little advice, said a spokesperson. Instead it listens to the ministers' needs and makes introductions if they want to create alliances.
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ကိုဝိုင္းခ်င္းမိုင္ (မဇၥ်ိမ) ။ ။ ႏိုင္ငံတကာတြင္ ဒီမိုကေရစီေရးႏွင့္ လြတ္လပ္မႈအတြက္ အကူအညီမ်ား ေပးေနသည့္ OSI ေခၚ Open Society Institute ကို စတင္ထူေထာင္သူ ေဂ်ာ့ဆိုးေရာ့စ္ George Soros သည္ ဗုဒၶဟူးေန႔တြင္ အင္းေလးကန္သို႔ အလည္အပတ္ေရာက္ေနသည္ဟု ရွမ္းျပည္နယ္အစိုးရအဖြဲ႔ တိုင္းရင္းသားေရးရာဝန္ႀကီး ဦးဝင္းျမင့္က မဇၥ်ိမကို ေျပာသည္။
“သူတည္းတဲ့ ေခါင္တိုင္ ေက်းရြာမွာရွိတဲ့ ဟိုတယ္က တာဝန္ရွိတဲ့သူေတြကို သြားေတြ႔ၿပီး က်ေနာ္ သိရတယ္” ဟု ဦးဝင္းျမင့္က ဆိုသည္။
ေဂ်ာ့ဆိုးေရာ့စ္ႏွင့္ ရွမ္းျပည္နယ္အစိုးရအဖြဲ႔ဝင္မ်ား ေတြ႔ဆံုရန္ ရွိမရွိကိုမူ “သူေခၚမွပဲ က်ေနာ္တို႔ သြားမယ္။ ရွမ္းျပည္နယ္အစိုးရကေတာ့ ဒီလိုမ်ဳိးႏိုင္ငံျခားသားနဲ႔ ေတြ႔ဖို႔မေတြ႔ဖို႔ အမိန္႔ထုတ္ထားတာ မရွိပါဘူး” ဟု ေျပာသည္။
Open Sociaty Foundations ကို စတင္ထူေထာင္သူ ေဂ်ာ့ဆိုးေရာ့စ္ George Soros (ဓါတ္ပံု wikipedia.org)
ေညာင္ေရႊၿမိဳ႕ႏွင့္ ၇ မိုင္ခန္႔ကြာေဝးသည့္ အင္းေလးကန္စပ္မွ ေခါင္တိုင္ေက်းရြာတြင္ တည္းခိုေန သည့္ ေဂ်ာ့ဆိုးေရာ့စ္သည္ အင္းေလးႏွင့္ ပုဂံေဒသသို႔ အလည္အပတ္ လာေရာက္ျခင္းျဖစ္သည္ဟု သိရသည္။
ဒီဇင္ဘာ ၂၆ ရက္ေန႔က ကိုယ္ပိုင္ေလယာဥ္ျဖင့္ ေရာက္ရွိလာၿပီး လာမည့္ လဆန္းတြင္ ျပန္မည့္ ေဂ်ာ့ဆိုးေရာ့စ္အား အစိုးရတာဝန္ရွိသူမ်ားက ေတြ႔ဆံုရန္ ျပင္ဆင္ေနသည္ဟု စီးပြားေရးလုပ္ငန္း ရွင္ႀကီးတဦးကလည္း ေျပာသည္။
“၂၆၊ ၂၇ က သူ ရန္ကုန္မွာရွိၿပီး ဒီေန႔ေတာ့ အင္းေလးသြားတယ္ေျပာတယ္။ သူ႔သားႏွစ္ေယာက္လည္းပါတယ္။ သူ႔ရဲ႕ မိသားစု ဒီမွာ vacation visit ေပါ့ဗ်ာ” ဟု စီးပြားေရးလုပ္ငန္းရွင္တဦးက မဇၥ်ိမကို ေျပာသည္။
အေမရိကန္အေျခစိုက္ OSI ကို ေဂ်ာ့ဆိုးေရာ့စ္က ၁၉၉၃ ခုတြင္ ထူေထာင္ခဲ့သည္။ ယခုအခါ ဥေရာပ၊ အာရွ၊ အာဖရိကႏွင့္ လက္တင္အေမရိကတို႔ရွိ ႏိုင္ငံ ၇၀ ေက်ာ္တြင္ ရံုးခြဲမ်ားထားရွိၿပီး လူ႔အခြင့္အေရး၊ ပညာေရး၊ က်န္းမာေရး၊ သတင္းလြတ္လပ္ခြင့္ စသည္တို႔အတြက္ အေမရိကန္ ေဒၚလာ သန္း ၈၀၀၀ ကူညီခဲ့ၿပီးျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း အဖြဲ႔က ထုတ္ျပန္ထားသည္။
ျမန္မာ့ဒီမိုကေရစီအေရးအတြက္ တႏွစ္လွ်င္ ေဒၚလာ ႏွစ္သန္း သံုးစြဲေလ့ရွိသည္ဟု Zimbio ႏွင့္ Forbes အင္တာနက္စာမ်က္ႏွာမ်ားတြင္ ေရးသားထားၾကသည္။
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