Miss Myanmar protests against use of her photo in sex education magazine
Miss Myanmar Nang Khin Zay Yar has protested sex education magazine Nhyot's publication of her photos without her permission.
Nang Khin Zay Yar represented the country at the Miss International Beauty Pageant 2012 held in Okinawa, Japan, on October 21. She won the People’s Choice Award and the Miss Internet Award at the contest.
The use of her photos by the magazine created a stir in the country.
Nang Khin Zay Yar wrote on her Facebook page that she had lodged a complaint with the magazine for using her photos without taking her permission.
Although she respects the media for connecting the celebrities with the people, she said the magazine should have sought her permission before using the photos.
The magazine has earned a “different” kind reputation for its erotic articles and images, she said, adding: “Since I’m the Miss Myanmar, it may give people a wrong impression about me.”
Thousands of Myanmar women being trafficked to China
Tens of thousands of Myanmar women have been trafficked to China for forced marriages, Rahlan Mone, retired police colonel from Central Body for Suppression of Trafficking in Persons, said on December 20 at United Nations Inter-Agency Project office in Yangon.
Women from Myanmar, Thailand and Cambodia are trafficked to China for forced marriages. Trading patterns depend on facial appearance and age.
Due to fewer women in the country, Chinese men illegally bought Myanmar women to marry. Even worse, some Myanmar women were treated as wives of many Chinese men, he said.
Human trafficking is the most lucrative illegal business. During 2011, deceived by the promise of marriage, signing on fake marriage certificate, victims were sent to China by the traffickers, said Rahlan Mone.
Children also are trafficked to China. About 70 per cent of trafficked victims in Myanmar are women who are forced to marry in China.
There have been 885 trafficking cases from 2006-12, involving 2,543 traffickers.
Thai Chamber of Commerce seeks investment opportunities
The Thai Chamber of Commerce discussed investment possibilities in regional businesses with the regional government of Mon State in lower Myanmar, and its ethnic traders and industrialists on December 19, sources reported.
The 19-member business delegation visited the region early that morning and held a meeting in the afternoon with the executive members of the Mon Traders and Industrialists Association.
They discussed possible cooperation in rubber plantations and manufacturing, agriculture, fishery and livestock, animal husbandry, poultry farming, garment factories and setting up an industrial zone.
The discussions also covered investment opportunities in the transportation sector, such as road construction in the area and the Kalagote Deep Sea Port construction project, as well as boosting energy sector to generate power for the factories there.
The Thai delegation would visit the region again in January 2013 to carry out a detailed study on regional businesses, said Hla Shein, chairperson of the Mon Traders and Industrialists Association.
