Myanmar Discussions

[SeeMacau]

Thanks VietnamEagle2010

Next time can you try not to add too many photos in one post. It is difficult to load sometimes

Thanks very much and keep up the good work

[SeeMacau]

Indeed a beautiful place to visit

[VietnamEagle2010]

Originally Posted by SeeMacau

Thanks VietnamEagle2010

Next time can you try not to add too many photos in one post. It is difficult to load sometimes

Thanks very much and keep up the good work

lol i tried not to spam too much posts , but yea... Myanmar definitely a beautiful place to visit and the ticket is cheap too. I'm planning to go there next summer or so I love to travel around places

[Wisarut]

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the limit to 3 Photo per post woudl do much better service since it woudl not create too much burden for the internet to show your photo.

[AsianDragons]

maybe mod should discuss this with other mods and set a convention, but between 3-5 pictures per post seems fine

[mrfusion]

I don't think the issue is how many per post, is how many you end up on a page, if all the images are small like <100k, 50 images will still load very fast, but if every image is 500K, the pages takes a long time to load.

[SeeMacau]

There are 50 posts shown per page, so 2-3 photos per post is fine ..

[mrfusion]

Where do you set the number of post per page, I only got 20 post per page.

[SeeMacau]

Did you log on the account?

[KoolKool]

i am using firefox, with "hardware accelerator" feature....50 image is not a problem

[Wisarut]

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but some still stick with the IE

[heavyrain2408]

Try IE9 with hardware accelarated features too

Btw, Burma, Cambodian, Lao and Thai pagodas look very similar. Is there anyway to distinguish them?

[Wisarut]

^
Bitter Historical Burden!

[mrfusion]

there are other factors when it comes to loading a webpages with too many high resolution images, the most important issues is limited bandwidth.

[AsianDragons]

Mae Sot soon to be Thailand-Burma Special Economic Zone
Tuesday, 19 April 2011 19:20 Thomas Maung Shwe .
Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – The Thai cabinet has approved a budget for hiring a team of expert planners to design a Special Economic Zone at Mae Sot on the northern Thai-Burma border, Thai media reported on Friday.



Mae Sot, in Tak Province, is home to a large Burmese refugee and migrant population many of whom work in the textile industry.

Thai Deputy Commerce Minister Alongkorn Ponlaboot confirmed to reporters last week that the Mae Sot Special Economic Zone will comprise more than 5,600 rai (about 900 hectares) of land in Tha Sai Luad and Mae Pa sub-districts. A government sub-committee focusing on legal preparations for the Mae Sot Special Economic Zone has finalized a draft royal decree that will create a special entity to run the zone.

According to Alongkorn, the new measures will attract international investment and ensure that Mae Sot becomes ‘Thailand's West Gate’, opening the kingdom to India and the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation. Thai planners also aim to link the Mae Sot Special Economic Zone to a Deep Water Sea Port currently under construction by a Thai consortium on the Burmese coast at Tavoy.

Last October, the Thai cabinet approved construction plans for a second Thai-Burmese bridge which would be equipped to handle heavy truck traffic. Work on the Burmese side of the bridge has been stalled, however, by the Burmese regime, which, critics say, appears to be delaying the progress on the project in order to win concessions from Thailand.

Mae Sot is Thailand’s busiest trading center with Burma, with more than US $325 million in trade in 2010. However, cross border trade has been significantly reduced since last July when the Burmese regime arbitrarily closed the Mae Sot-Myawaddy Friendship Bridge ostensibly over a dispute regarding the border demarcation along the Moei River which divides the two nations.

While the bridge remains closed, both the movement of people and goods between Burma and Thailand in the area has been restricted to rickety boats and inner tubes.

In many respects, Mae Sot already acts as kind of special economic zone as undocumented workers from Burma can cross into the city from Burma with relative ease. Once in Mae Sot, however, undocumented Burmese seeking to head further into Thailand are prevented from leaving the city by a series of successive road blocks manned by Thai soldiers and police.

http://www.mizzima.com/business/5156...omic-zone.html

[AsianDragons]

Burma, China agree to build petroleum refining plant in Burma
Wednesday, 06 April 2011 16:00 Ko Wild .
Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – The Union of Myanmar Economic Holdings Limited (UMEHL), controlled by the Burmese army, and China on Monday extended a Memorandum of Understanding to build a petroleum refining plant in Burma capable of processing about five million tons of crude oil a year.


During a visit of Jia Qinglin, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China, UMEHL’s new chairman, Brigadier General Zarni Win, and Guandong Zhenrong Energy chairman Xiong Shohui signed the contract in Naypyitaw.

Jia Qinglin was the first foreign diplomatic visitor after the state power of Burma was transferred to the new government led by President Thein Sein. He is fourth most important person in the Chinese political structure.

The state-run newspaper New Light of Myanmar said on Tuesday that Managing Director U Nyi Phyu Hla of the Myanma Foreign Trade Bank under the Ministry of Finance and Revenue and President Li Ruogu of the Export-Import Bank of China signed the First Tranche Facility Agreement authorising Chinese RMB (Yuan) 30 billion credits from the Export-Import Bank of China to Myanma Foreign Trade Bank.

Moreover, China and Burma also signed a production sharing contract involving the Sabetaung, Sabetaung (South) and Kyisintaung copper mines.

China has invested US $8 billion in Burma including hydropower projects ($5 billion) and oil and gas projects ($2 billion).

Jia Qinglin also met with President Thein Sein, Lower House Speaker Thura Shwe Mann, Union Assembly Speaker Khin Aung Myint and ministers in Naypyitaw.

Talks also included Sino-Burmese border security affairs issues, according to Aung Kyaw Zaw, a Sino-Burmese border -based political analyst.

http://www.mizzima.com/business/5122...-in-burma.html

[Mehome]

Originally Posted by VietnamEagle2010

Festival in Mandalay temple:

wow so many temples
image hosted on flickr

image hosted on flickr

image hosted on flickr

wow
where is this? heaven???

[AsianDragons]

must be the temples of Bagan

[StrongAngkor]

land of ancient temple. Wow. Beautiful..

[Wisarut]

Now, Myanmar and China just sign the MOU on the railway from Muse (the Burmese Boundary checkpoint to China) to Kyaukpyu Port ... However, the first section will end up at Lashio (one of the railhead in Shan state) with the distance of 78.92 mile (127 km)