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Topic: Loikaw


In the News (Thu 24 Dec 09)

  
  Cultural Survival
In Loikaw township the soldiers grabbed any male they could put their hands on, including the government servants, teachers, shopkeepers, workers, and farmers, etc. Later they released the government servants, but kept all those they had grabbed in the compound of 54th Infantry Regiment.
So, nearly every man in Loikaw township had to seek refuge in Buddhist monasteries, some took to the mountains and stayed in caves, some had to stay those three nights in the marshes, on the river bank of Baluchaung, and some had to hide on the roofs of the houses.
At about 2:00 A.M. on 6/23/89 the door of a certain house in Shwedaung quarter in Loikaw was opened forcibly by soldiers of 66th Division and the ensuing quarrel made the soldiers load their weapons and made the head of the family and their son draw the long Burmese swords.
www.cs.org /publications/csq/csq-article.cfm?id=820   (1046 words)

  
 Kayah State
The highland area has the wet climate of mild-hot regions and the low-lying areas have the climate of Savanna and monsoon climate of the tropical regions.
The population density in Loikaw and Dimawhso Townships where there are vast plains, is more than 100 persons per sq mile.
Organization of districts, townships, villages and wards: Loikaw and Bawlake districts are constituted with seven townships.
www.yadanabon.com /kayah.htm   (422 words)

  
 Loikaw - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre
Loikaw o Loi-kaw (población aproximada 11.000 habitantes) es la capital del estado de Kayah, en Myanmar (Birmania).
La mayor planta hidroeléctrica de Myanmar, que fue construida por los japoneses como reparación de guerra se encuentra 20 km al este de Loikaw en las cascadas de Lawpita.
Loikaw es conectado por una línea de ferrocarril recién construida entre Aungban - Pinlong - Loikaw.
es.wikipedia.org /wiki/Loikaw   (149 words)

  
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Many prisoners working on forced labor projects in Loikaw are reported to be dying from the cold and a lack of food.
Prisoners from Loikaw were told that everybody serving a sentence less than five years had to serve as porters during the mopping up campaign.
Troops from IB 54, based in Loikaw, IB 94, based in Shwe Nyaung in Shan State, and IB 530, based in Lawpita, were sent to the region to prevent the people from escaping to Thailand.
www.geocities.com /absdf_au/public/krnrep.txt   (9091 words)

  
 Loikaw
Loikaw has a population of about 11,000 and it is the capital of Kayah State in Myanmar.
Myanmar’s largest hydropower plant is located 20 km east of Loikaw at Lawpita Falls and named as Lawpita Hydropower Plant.
Loikaw is about 70 miles south of Kalaw.
www.myanmars.net /myanmar-travel/myanmar-inle/loikaw.htm   (117 words)

  
 Special Feature :: Destinations :: KST Travels & Tours ( Myanmar Travel Agent )
The Padaung people are hardly seen in lowland and if they come to appear at all, trend to congregate around the provincial town of "Loikaw" close to the border with neighboring Thailand.
Legend explains that the rings were similar of charm against to the danger and bite of tiger.
Loikaw is the capital of picturesque Kaya State.
ksttours.com /special-feature.htm   (2929 words)

  
 医療法人 藤田眼科 for Web
Now I work at Loikaw Hospital, 450 mikes miles far for from Yangon.
Loikaw is about 5000 feet above the sea level.
In Myanmar, cataract surgery is done by ECCE with IOL and PEA surgery is has been introduced recently.
www.fujitaec.or.jp /english/topics/20050601/index.html   (216 words)

  
 New Page 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
he people of Loikaw held a ceremony to support the national people's mass rallies denouncing SURA and KNU insurgents, who are violating security and peace in border areas, and to show respect for sovereignty of the Union of Myanmar at the Kandahaywun square in Loikaw yesterday morning.
It was attended by members of Union Solidarity and Development Associations of 13 wards in Loikaw, Red Cross Society, Auxiliary Fire Brigade, War Veterans Organization, Women's Affairs Committee, Maternal and Child Welfare Association, departmental personnel, teachers and students of basic education high schools in Loikaw, band troupes and the State Flag bearing troupes.
This is why people in Loikaw hoist the State Flag and show respect for sovereignty of the State.
www.myanmar-information.net /denounce/July1-1.html   (1222 words)

  
 Human Rights in Northern Karenni (Kayah) State
He was a delegate to SLORC's National Convention when it began in January 1993, but after one month he decided that the National Convention was just "a fraud which has been arranged by the SLORC only to perpetuate their inhuman, illegal and dictatorial rule in Burma", and left for the Revolutionary Areas.
Four or five miles west of Loikaw, near Kayeh Ni Village between Loikaw and Mo Byeh, the SLORC has a plan to dig fishponds covering 600 acres.
The SLORC treats the people very badly like this with all their slave labour, but even so sometimes the world community trusts them, so we have to say that the world community is very stupid and the SLORC is very smart.
www.khrg.org /khrg94/94_04_10.html   (2699 words)

  
 Loikaw - Kayah State, Myanmar
Loikaw, the capital of Kayah state, just one ho
In as much as these revered landmarks are places of worship, they also provide interesting insights into Myanmar's long history, its culture, art and architecture, literature and contemporary scenes of its long past.
The famous religious landmark of Loikaw is the Thiri-Mingalar Taung-kwe Pagoda Hill, scenically built on a hillock overlooking the vast expanse of the environs.
myanmartravelinformation.com /mti-other-destinations/loikaw.htm   (440 words)

  
 Welcome to MRTV-3   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Loikaw Township USDA Executive Daw Aye Aye Khaing and Loikaw Township USDA member Daw Mya Sanda Aung acted as MCs.
Next, U Soe Htwe, a native of Loikaw, tabled a motion in support of the National Convention, saying that the constitution is the lifeblood of a country.
She said despite hindrances and disturbances from inside and outside the nation, theTatmadaw government is striving day in, day out to shape a peaceful, modern and developed discipline flourishing democratic nation.
www.mrtv3.net.mm /open/101kayah.html   (2103 words)

  
 Democratic Voice of Burma
A Loikaw resident told DVB many people in the area had been forced to carry water, build fences and collect wood for police and military personnel.
Some widowers and old people are not able to go so their children, who are students, have to be absent from school while they work at those places,” the resident said on condition of anonymity.
Twenty villages near the Loi Linlay police station in Loikaw township have reportedly been ordered to send roofing materials, including large dried leaves, to the station to aid construction.
www.dvb.no /english/news.php?id=8322   (337 words)

  
 PRISONERS RECOUNT HORRORS IN LOIKAW   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Press Release Date: October 16, 1997 PRISONERS RECOUNT HORRORS IN LOIKAW PRISON Burmese Military Intelligence officers in Loikaw Prison, Karenni State, beat prisoners, use various forms of torture, sexually abuse female prisoners and force women to give birth in their cells, according to a female prisoner recently released from the p rison.
She told the ABSDF that prisoners are beaten with batons, forc ed to kneel on broken glass and to look at a glaring high-voltage bulbs for a long periods as part of punishment or during interrogations.
She says that women in Loikaw Prison are not given proper care during pregnancy or during their menstrual periods.
www.ibiblio.org /obl/reg.burma/archives/199710/msg00239.html   (447 words)

  
 Kayah state - eastern Myanmar (Burma)
The car roads from Taungoo (Bago division) and from Kayin state are not recommended due to lack of safety and bad road conditions.
Around Loikaw visitors can visit Taungwe pagoda (twin peaks of hills with a pagoda on top of each), two lakes and the market.
Flight to Loikaw are made by Myanmar Airways Domestic which is seldom used by foreign tourists due to its bad safety record.
www.asterism.info /states/10/index.html   (360 words)

  
 The New Light of Myanmar   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
In the afternoon, they met members of Kayah State Peace and Development Council, departmental officials, chairmen and members of District and Township Peace and Development Councils, Tatmadawmen and their families of Loikaw Station, USDA members, representatives of social organizations and townselders at the town hall.
Chairman of Kayah State Peace and Development Council Col Thein Swe reported on area of Kayah State, national races living in the state, sown acreage and cultivation of crops, rice and edible oil sufficiency in the region, education, health and regional developments and implementation of the economic plan.
In his guidance, Senior General Than Shwe said he and party came to Loikaw to witness the development of Kayah State and to provide requirements.
www.myanmar.gov.mm /NLM-2003/enlm/apr17_h1.html   (907 words)

  
 nlmtest   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Member of Loikaw Township USDA Daw K Thi Myo Myint and Executive of Loikaw Township USDA Daw Aye Aye Khaing acted as masters of ceremonies.
Kayah National U Po Rai Aung Thein of Loikaw tabled a motion calling for active participation of the entire national people in the successful realization of the political roadmap of the State by doing their bit with Union Spirit.
With a view to enabling the students in Kayah State to pursue higher education, Loikaw College was upgraded to Loikaw University on 14 May 2003.
www.myanmargeneva.org /03nlm/n030927.htm   (6711 words)

  
 MODiNS [ Myanmar Online Information ]
The population density in Loikaw and Dimawhso Townships where there are vast plains, is more than 100 persons per sq.
The resident national races are Kayah, Kayan (Padaung), Paye Yinbaw, Yinkale, Paki Kayin and small racial groups such as Manumanao, Gaykho, Gaybar ect In addition, there are few numbers of Shan, Intha, Bamar living along Balu stream in the north.
Alabaster from Sakyin hills near Loikaw and Dimawhso townships arc transported to Loikaw Alabaster sheet factory for manufacturing personal goods.
www.modins.net /MyanmarInfo/state_division/kayah.htm   (441 words)

  
 Welcome to mrtv3.net.mm
That’s why, a physic nut nursery was built at Regional Control Command in Loikaw, Kayah State where 500,000 physic nut saplings have been grown systematically.
At the plantation of Regional Control Command near Loikaw, physic nut plants are grown at the distance 6x6 inches each to be able to grow 1,200 physic nut plants per acre.
The Regional Control Command of Kayah State looked for and stockpiling the wild physic nut plants in the State, and these are transferred to nurseries where they are planted systematically.
www.mrtv3.net.mm /page1/bdk.html   (654 words)

  
 Vols Loikaw, Myanmar: Réservation de Vol Pas Cher et Billet Avion Loikaw - Flightlowcost.com
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fr.flightlowcost.com /myanmar_vols_bas_prix_loikaw.html   (182 words)

  
 inside Loikaw jail
News released by ABSDF regarding deteriorating conditions inside Loikaw jail, Kayah State The general condition of the prisoners, detained with political and criminal charges, inside Loikaw jail, Kayah State is deteriorating.
AIDS was spread among prisoners due to indiscriminate use of unclean needles and only those who can afford 5,000-10,000 Kyats as a bribe have the chance of better medical care in hospital using sterile disposable needles.
Although there were 800 prisoners in Loikaw jail most of them were political prisoners charged with The Law arbitrarily denouncing legal parties as illegal and emergency act.
www.ibiblio.org /obl/reg.burma/archives/199710/msg00227.html   (435 words)

  
 7 Days Travels & Tours, Myanmar (Burma)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Pm After lunch continue to Loikaw about 39 km south east of Phekhone.
Evening excursion to museum of Kayah state in which one can observe the traditional ways of living of Kayah national races; Taung Kwe Ceti to appreciate the sunset and panoramic view of Loikaw.
Am/Pm After breakfast morning sightseeing includes Kayan (Padaung), on the verge of extinction and the most unusual Kayah tribe ladies wearing brass rings ground their extraordinary long necks, Kayah traditional weaving industry, and wonderful ritual flagstaffs of Nat (sprirt) worshipers.
www.7daystour.com /loikaw.htm   (318 words)

  
 Lawpita hydropower plant generates lower wattage  ( Mizzima ) February 6, 2003
Due to the shortage of rainfall in Kaya State, Burma, in the last rainy season, run-off measure has been fallen causing the generators at Lawpita power station slow down and it is expected that the wattage will continue to decline this year.
Lawpita power plant is situated in Loikaw Township of Kaya State, generating electrical power in large quantity for Burma.
There was a drought in last year, and now the water is still very less in Biluu Chaung and is not adequate for Lawpita to operate its generators.
www.burmatoday.net /mizzima/030206_lawpita_mizzima_e.htm   (247 words)

  
 Myanmar Talvel
After visit Inle lake, this is a good chance to continue by boat to long neck ladies area, which we called loikaw.
It is the Famous for marble stone from Loikaw.
Every five-day market around loikaw, will see different tribes by their costume.
introducingmyanmar.com /kayahstate.htm   (146 words)

  
 The New Light of Myanmar
YANGON, 17 May — A ceremony to open self-reliance libraries in Loikaw Township, organized by Loikaw District Informantion and Public Relations Department was held on 10 May.
Kandayawady self-reliance library was opened at Minsu Ward PDC’s office.It was formally opened by Chairmen of Loikaw Township PDC U Win and Minsu Ward PDC U Maung Maung.
After speeches, Staff Officer of Loikaw District IPRD Daw Myint Than Oo explained about libraries and presented varieties of books to them.Wellwishers donated 879 magazines and 483 journals for the libraries.
www.myanmar.gov.mm /NLM-2005/may/enlm/May18_rg8.html   (86 words)

  
 Loikaw, Myanmar (Burma) Weather Forecast
Loikaw Weather Summary for the next 1-3 Days: Mostly dry, Warm (max 23°C on Thu afternoon, min 16°C on Wed night), Wind will be generally light
Loikaw Weather Summary for the next 4-6 Days:
Mostly dry, Warm (max 24°C on Tue afternoon, min 16°C on Sat night), Wind will be generally light
www.weather-forecast.com /locations/Loikaw.1to3.shtml   (88 words)

  
 rubyland.net, KAYAH STATE
Loikaw is pleasant with traditional pagodas and monuments.
It is also famous for Padaung women, who wear traditional brass rings on their necks.
There are air services from Yangon and from Heho in Shan State to Loikaw.
www.rubyland.net /plkayah.htm   (148 words)

  
 SLORC Orders to Villages: Set 96-D, Karenni State, 1995
By the time it was held, each middle school student in Loikaw was forced to donate 200 Kyat, each high school student 500 Kyat, each family 200 Kyat, and other funds totalling much more than the cost of the festival were collected from vehicle owners, etc. Sawmill owners were forced to provide all required timber.
The students were also forced to rehearse and perform ceremonies or face being barred from the year's examinations.
People were forced to donate food for the festival and do forced labour 'whitewashing' the entire town, building fences and improving roads.
www.khrg.org /khrg96/khrg9629.html   (1662 words)

  
 Myanmar Tourism Services Co, Ltd.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
Although Kayah State lies in the tropical zone, it is not as hot as it stands on the plateau, with Loikaw as capital city.
Kayah State abounds with fascinating tourist destinations, idyllic sceneries, waterfalls and rapids, interestingly; there is a large natural tunnel, 19 km east of Loikaw.
There is Thirimingalar Market as well as twin-peaked mountain in Loikaw, which is very unique and intriguing.
www.myanmartourismservices.com /kayah.htm   (352 words)

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