50 Burmese reporters face charges over protest against "Unity" journal sentences!

The Myanmar Journalist Network says it will support any reporters charged over a peaceful protest against the sentences in the Unity journal case held outside a Yangon event being attended by President U Thein Sein on July 12, 2014. 

Police said they had opened cases against about 50 reporters under Article 18 of the Peaceful Assembly and Procession Act after they held a sit-down protest against the sentences outside the Myanmar Peace Center while President U Thein Sein was attending a cultural event. 



The reporters, who had been denied entry to the event, wore black T-shirts bearing the slogan 'Stop oppression of the press' in Myanmar and some had symbolically covered the mouths in black tape. 

Convictions under Section 18 carry a maximum penalty of one year's imprisonment and a fine of K30,000 (about US$31). 

"We will work with any journalist who faces legal action for participating in this demonstration," Myanmar Journalist Association general secretary U Myint Kyaw told Mizzima on July 14. 

He was speaking a day after Deputy Inspector Han Tun Aung from Kamayut police station told Myanmar that he had opened cases against 50 reporters but only three had so far been identified, including Thamagga News Journal chief reporter Ma Shwe Hmon. 

"We will use photographic and police records to identify the other reporters involved," said Police Deputy-Inspector Han Tun Aung. 

Ma Shwe Hmon said she was surprised to learn that she faced charges under Section 18 because the event at the Myanmar Peace Center was in a public area. 

"We did not force our way in and remained outside the building," she said. 

Ma Shwe Hmon said she would not be deterred from doing her job by intimidation from the government. 

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Man arrested for shooting his girl friend's husband!

A Las Vegas man was arrested and charged for allegedly shooting his girlfriend's husband.

On July 11, officers responded to the 4400 block of Tomer Lane in reference to a report of an illegal shooting. It was reported that someone had been shot in the head.

When officers arrived, a man was waving down officers and had blood on his head. The man was walking and speaking coherently.

As he walked towards the officers, another man, later identified as Steven Kesler, walked out of the residence. The victim looked at him and said he was the person who shot him.

Kesler told officers, "The gun is upstairs. He was leaving threatening messages all night saying he was going to kill us. The gun just went off."

According to the police report, a woman was inside during the shooting, who was reportedly the victim's wife and Kesler's girlfriend.

The victim said he had just returned to Las Vegas from California and was looking for his wife at Kesler's home. As he was walking to his vehicle, Kesler followed him and pointed a handgun at his face and threatened to shoot. The report said Kesler then shot.

Kesler told officers his girlfriend of three months was at his home all night. She had been receiving threatening messages on her phone from the victim.

Then around 4 a.m., they heard the victim banging on the door and decided not to answer. After about an hour, Kesler said he grabbed his handgun and went outside to confront him.

According to the report, the two began to struggle over the firearm and it discharged, striking the victim on the side of the head. His injuries are non-life threatening.

During the investigation, Police obtained the alleged threatening voice mails from the victim to his wife, and Police said the victim was angry but wasn't threatening in nature, as previously reported by the woman.

The woman did confirm she is still married to the victim and said she was in the process of separating due to his unpredictable behavior and history of domestic violence.

Kesler has been charged with attempted murder and battery.

By Krista Hostetler

Woman shoots self in the face while trying to make a point!

According to Michigan Live, a 51-year-old Michigan woman shot herself in the face after pulling a shotgun to “make a point” during an argument.

The Tuscola County Sheriff’s Department said that in the midst of a family dispute, the woman pounded the butt of the shotgun against the floor, causing it to discharge, striking her in the face.

The woman informed officers she had pulled the gun to “make a point.”

Information says the Police in Fremont Township responded to reports of a gunshot victim around 10:00 a.m. on Monday.

She was airlifted to St. Mary’s of Michigan Hospital in Saginaw and is expected to recover from her injuries. Police are investigating the incident, but no charges have been filed.

Abia state losses commissioner!

Abia state Commissioner for Agriculture, Dr. Ken Nwosu, has reportedly passed away following injuries he sustained from a gruesome attack by gunmen on Thursday, July 10,  2014.

Information revealled the commissioner passed away on Tuesday, July 15, 2014 in a hospital in Abia state where he was receiving treatment.

The news of his death was made known to The Trent by the states commissioner of information and strategy, Chief Eze Chikamnayo, who said the state is mourning the death of a “very good gentle man, an Agric Expert and astute administrator.”

Nwosu was a world class entomologist, an accomplished Agro researcher and former executive director, Nigerian Root Crops Research Institute (NRCI) Umudike, Abia State.

News says that some unknown gunmen shot him on his way home from the office on  July 10, 2014 but didn’t disposes him. He was subsequently rushed to the Abia State Specialist Hospital where a team of Medical Experts operated on him.

Nwosu appeared to have survived the attacked after some surgical procedure was carried out on him. For couple of days, while the doctors were waiting for him to be stabilized before further post surgery care, his wife and other family were with him in the hospital.

He received and spoke well to visitors including the state governor, Theodore Orji and his family that visited him on two occasions in the hospital.

The commissioner of information and strategy in a statement assures the citizens of Abia continuous protection of lives and property as the state will stop at nothing to get those behind the evil act that led to the death of Nwosu.

May his soul RIP.

A Glimpse of the Super Moon!

Sight of Full Summer Moon as it is reported by a cnnireporter in the United States.


According to NASA, July's supermoon happened Friday evening and peaked early Saturday morning, on July 12,the next two are scheduled for August 10 and September 9.

The supermoon occurs when the moon becomes full on the same days as its perigee, which is the point in the moon's orbit when it is closest to Earth.

Madoff brothers accused of fraud!

Andrew and Mark Madoff, two Madoff brothers have been accused of creating accounts out of thin air and engineered sham loans to buy pricey Manhattan real estate as they diverted tens of millions of dollars of money from their father's firm.
A court-appointed trustee disclosed this on Tuesday. the lawsuit in Manhattan bankruptcy court which reads Picard v. Estate of Mark D. Madoff et al, U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of New York, No. 09-ap-01503; alleges that Madoff's firm operated as a family piggy bank. 

In an amended lawsuit against Andrew Madoff and the estate of older brother Mark Madoff, Irving Picard, who is liquidating Bernard L. Madoff Investment Securities LLC, said the brothers' activity reflected their "sense of entitlement" to undeserved riches.

Citing testimony from Frank DiPascali, the firm's former finance chief, who is allegedly cooperating with federal prosecutors, Picard also accused the brothers of deleting emails linking them to their father's Ponzi scheme, amid a 2005 U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission examination of the firm's finances.

Picard seeks to recoup $153.3 million from Andrew Madoff, the estate of Mark Madoff, and Mark's widow Stephanie Mack.