NEWS - Burma's Internet Mostly, not

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Subject: NEWS - Burma's Internet Mostly, not in Burma

Burma's Internet Mostly, not in Burma

Rangoon Post - 14 December, 1999

  The Burmese military regime has been using its ill-gotten monies for
more than weapons.  Internet web pages to propagandize the few facts
they truly have to work with.

  The original site, www.myanmar.com, was never setup in Burma, but
outside Washington, D.C. by a Burmese-American Thomas Winn who lives in
Laurel, Maryland and works in Baltimore.  The ISP - Internet Service
Provider is located close to his house.  Not too long ago, Okkar, a
so-stated Catholic that works as an agent of the military in their MPT
(Ministry of Post and Telecommunications) office took over as
Myanmar.com's webmaster after they established a functional internet
into Burma.
   Now, the company that claims setting up the 1st internet in Burma, is
Digiserve.com (www.digiserve.com).  The headquarters are near London in
High Wycombe. There are other offices in Singapore, San Francisco, and
(northern) Virginia near Washington, D.C.  Mike Blanche and Sean Hurley
of Digiserve setup a seperate company called the Eagle Group that does
the main internet operations in Burma with an office in Rangoon and
another in Bangkok. Mike Blanche claims he is doing a good thing and
absolutely refuses to talk about it.
   The Japanese side of Myanmar.com is operated by a Burmese and
Japanese person in Osaka, Japan called Shafu-sozu.  The Japanese man,
Ryuichi Masuda is only interested in further exploits and business about
Burma, not about the truth. Their ISP Annies Craft Inc. was originally
located in Tokyo.  
   Another military site is setup through Crisscross.com and Twics.com
both are located in Tokyo. Their MOFA - Minitry of Foreign Affairs site
is setup here and posting for the New  or (News) Light of Myanmar are
also on this site.
The Embassy in Tokyo created this new site
"www.myanmar-information.net", through a site VWH1.NET  Verio, Inc. in
Boca Raton, Florida, USA.
   A seperate entity, myanmars.net is a very full and informational site
setting up business listing and conatacts, etc. in Burma... except that
it again not in Burma.  The webmaster currently resides in Yugoslavia.

   Until the military can exhort enough money to improve the connections
into Burma,  their internet which is restricted primarily to the
military officials and a few foreign companies, their internet, will
never fully exist in the country.