ဓာတ္ပံု - DESMOND LIM/ The Straits Times
သမၼတ ဦးသိန္းစိန္ကို စင္ကာပူႏုိင္ငံ အေျခစိုက္ ၁၈၄၅ ခုႏွစ္ကတည္းက တည္sထာင္ခဲ့တဲ့ The Straits Times သတင္းစာႀကီးက ယခုႏွစ္ ၂၀၁၂ ခုႏွစ္အတြက္ အာရွသား အျဖစ္ ေရြးခ်ယ္ လိုက္ပါတယ္။
The Straits Times သတင္းစာအေနနဲ႔ ႏွစ္စဥ္ ယခုကဲ့သို႔ ဒီဇင္ဘာလ ေရာက္တုိင္း လူပုဂၢိဳလ္ျဖစ္ေစ၊ အဖြဲ႔အစည္းျဖစ္ေစ စသျဖင့္ ေရြးခ်ယ္မႈကုိ ေၾကျငာေလ့ရွိတာပါ။
လက္ရွိ ျမန္္မာ့ျပဳျပင္ေျပာင္းလဲေရးကို ဦးေဆာင္သူ၊ အတုိက္အခံေခါင္းေဆာင္ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ ကပါ ေထာက္ခံမႈ ရခဲ့သူ၊ အေရွ႕ေတာင္ အာရွသာမက အာရွတုိက္တခုလံုးပါ သူ႔ရဲ႕ လုပ္ေဆာင္မႈေတြက သက္ေရာက္မႈ ရွိခဲ့တာ စသျဖင့္ စသျဖင့္ အေၾကာင္းေတြေၾကာင့္ အခုလို The Straits Times က ေရြးခ်ယ္တာျဖစ္တယ္လုိ႔ သတင္းမွာ ဆုိပါတယ္။
ႏိုင္ငံပုိင္ သတင္းစာေတြကလည္း ဒါကို အက်ယ္တ၀ံ့ သတင္းတပုဒ္အျဖစ္ေဖာ္ျပထားပါတယ္။
သတင္းစာရဲ႕ ေရြးခ်ယ္မႈအတုိင္း ျမန္မာ့ျပဳျပင္ေျပာင္းလဲေရးဟာ ပိုၿပီး က်ယ္က်ယ္ျပန္႔ျပန္႔နဲ႔ အရွိန္မပ်က္ ဆက္လက္လုပ္ေဆာင္ဖုိ႔ေတာ့ သမၼတ ဦးသိန္းစိန္နဲ႔ လက္ရွိႏိုင္ငံေရး ၀န္းက်င္က အဆံုးအျဖတ္ေပးႏုိင္ သူေတြ အေပၚ မူတည္ေနပါတယ္။
အဆုိပါ သတင္းစာႀကီးရဲ႕ သတင္းအျပည့္အစံုကိုလည္း ျပန္လည္ ေဖာ္ျပေပးလုိက္ပါတယ္။
PRESIDENT Thein Sein of Myanmar is The Straits Times' inaugural Asian of the Year.
Mr Thein Sein, 67, was chosen by top editors of this newspaper for his role in loosening political and economic controls in Myanmar. This has led to democracy icon and Nobel Peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi taking a seat in Parliament, the lifting of Western sanctions and a surge of investor interest in the once-reclusive nation.
By his actions, he has also opened new strategic opportunities for his country and set in motion forces that could have a positive impact on not just South-east Asia, but also the wider Asian continent.
Properly harnessed, these hold the potential to lift millions of people from poverty in a nation rich in natural resources, but held back because of a closed economy and decades of suspicion towards foreigners.
'There was a time when Myanmar's generals were known for holding lavish weddings for their children,' said Mr Warren Fernandez, editor of The Straits Times. 'The steps taken by Thein Sein have put Myanmar back in the news, but this time, for better reasons. His bold and brave efforts will give his people hope of joining their Asian neighbours in their march to modernity.'
The Asian of the Year award, to be announced every December, will recognise a person or organisation from the region that has contributed significantly to changing lives for the better, whether in his own country or the wider region.
The Straits Times, established in 1845, is uniquely placed to confer the award as few other news organisations devote as many resources to covering the Asian region, said Mr Fernandez.
velloor@sph.com.sg
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Mr Thein Sein, 67, was chosen by top editors of this newspaper for his role in loosening political and economic controls in Myanmar. This has led to democracy icon and Nobel Peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi taking a seat in Parliament, the lifting of Western sanctions and a surge of investor interest in the once-reclusive nation.
By his actions, he has also opened new strategic opportunities for his country and set in motion forces that could have a positive impact on not just South-east Asia, but also the wider Asian continent.
Properly harnessed, these hold the potential to lift millions of people from poverty in a nation rich in natural resources, but held back because of a closed economy and decades of suspicion towards foreigners.
'There was a time when Myanmar's generals were known for holding lavish weddings for their children,' said Mr Warren Fernandez, editor of The Straits Times. 'The steps taken by Thein Sein have put Myanmar back in the news, but this time, for better reasons. His bold and brave efforts will give his people hope of joining their Asian neighbours in their march to modernity.'
The Asian of the Year award, to be announced every December, will recognise a person or organisation from the region that has contributed significantly to changing lives for the better, whether in his own country or the wider region.
The Straits Times, established in 1845, is uniquely placed to confer the award as few other news organisations devote as many resources to covering the Asian region, said Mr Fernandez.
velloor@sph.com.sg
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