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Student's Sport Festival will start on March 28 in Hakha Golf club. Each
household from Hakha, Matupi, Tunzan, Falam, Mindut and Thantlang are
ordered to donate 500 kyats and one viss of chicken. If they failed to
provide they are told that they would be punished by order of higher
authorities.

Recently, all buses and trucks (12 in number) are checked at Hymwal
village, near India-Burma border. They are instructed to drive to Reh
police station. Particularly all warm clothe and Chinese blankets are
seized. It is learnt that these are for the guests, (Lu-gyis) who are
expected to come to the sport festival.

All the people around Hakha are restricted to travel to other villages
till the end of festival. Since the late evening no one is allowed to go
out of the villages.

The villagers are not allowed to blaze their field for next the hillside
cultivation. They are told they would be permitted only after students'
festival in April. Every year, March 1 to 15 is due to put on fire the
fields. After April it is impossible to do so because monsoon is coming
in.

All primary, middle and high school children in Chin State are ordered to
take dance training for the opening ceremony. They are told that if they
do not dance they would be refused to sit the examination.

The current prices in Kalaymyo
Rice: 120 Kyat/unit (pyi)
Salt: 40-50 Kyat/viss
Pock: 300-350 Kyat/viss
Cooking oil: 600 Kyat/viss

Source: NLD/LA (West)
CCN