“Singapore Dominates Asia Region as Best Place to Live” ေဆာင္း ပါး ကုိ အက်ဥး္ခ်ဳပ္ဘာသာၿပန္ဆုိ၍ ၿဖည္႔စြက္ထားပါသည္။

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စကၤာပူ နူိင္ငံဟာ ေအးရွမွာ လာေရာက္လည္ပတ္ေနထုိင္ဖုိ႔၊ အေၿခခ်ဖုိ႔ အေကာင္းဆုံးေနရာ ၿဖစ္တယ္လုိ႔ ၿပည္ပမွ လာေရာက္အလုပ္လုုပ္ ကုိင္ေနၾက ေသာ သူမ်ား ကေကာ၊ ေဟာင္ေကာင္မွာ အေၿခခ် ေသာ ECA International အဖြဲ ႔ နဲ႔ နုိင္ငံတကာအဖြဲ ႔ အစည္းေတြက ဆုိပါတယ္။

စကၤာပူ နူိင္ငံဟာ ေအးရွ မွာ ရွိတဲ႔ အ ၿခား ၿမိ ူ႔ ေတြနဲ႔ နုိင္ယွဥ္ယင္ စီးပြားေရး အရ ပုိမုိ ေတာင္႔တင္း ခုိင္မာ တဲ႔ အ ၿပင္၊ သဘာ၀ ပတ္၀န္က်င္ေရးရာထိမ္းသိမ္းမူ႔၊ လုံၿခံဳမွူ႔ ၊ အေၿခခံအေဆာက္အအံု ဖြဲ႔ ၿဖိဳး တုိးတက္မူ႔ ပုိရွိတယ္လုိ႔ဆုိပါတယ္။ လူမ်ဳိးေရး တင္းမာမူ႔ ၊နုိင္ငံေရးတင္းမာမူ႔၊ လူမူေရးမတည္ၿငိမ္မူ႔ နဲ႔ ရာစ၀တ္မူ႔ ေတြ နည္းပါး တာကုိလည္းေတြ ႔ ရပါတယ္။ က်န္မာေရးစံနစ္၊ ေလထုညစ္ညမ္း မူ႔မွာ အဆင္႔ နွိမ္႔က်ေသာၿငားလည္း အၿခား အေနာက္နုိင္ငံၿမိဳ ႔ေတြထက္စာယင္ ပုိမုိေကာင္းမြန္တယ္လုိ႔ဆုိတယ္။ စကၤာပူ နူိင္ငံရဲ ႔ တဦးခ်င္းစီရဲ ႔ ကုန္ထုတ္လုပ္မူ႔ စြမ္းအားဟာ ကမၻာ႔ နုိင္ငံေတြ ထဲ မွာထိပ္တန္းမွာရွိေနတယ္ လုိ႔ ကုလသမဂၢရဲ ႔ စီးပြားေရး အစီရင္ခံစာ ထဲမွာေဖာ္ၿပထားပါတယ္။

"ဖြ.ံျဖးူိ ျခင္္း ဟူသည္ဆင္းရဲျခင္းမွ ၾကြယ္၀ျခင္းသုိ႔ ေပါင္းကးူေပးျခင္း၊ ရုိးရာေက်းလက္စီးပါြးေရးပုံစံမွ ပုိမုိနက္နဲေသာကမာၻ ျမဳိ႕ျပစီးပါြးေရးပုံစံ သုိ႔ကးူ ေျပာင္း ေပးျခင္းထက္အဓိပါယ္ပုိေပသည္။ ဖြ.ံျဖးူိ ျခင္္းသည္စီးပါြးေရးအေျခအေနပုိမုိေကာင္းမြန္ေစ၇ုံမက လူသားတုိ.ဂုဏ္သိ္ိဏၡာ၊ လုံျခံဳမူ႔၊ တရားမု်တမူ.၊ စိတ္ထားျမင္႔ ျမတ္မူ႔ တုိ႔ျဖစ္၏။" (၀ိီလီယန္ဘ၇န္႔)

စကၤာပူ နူိင္ငံမွာ လူဦးေရ ၄.၆ သန္း ရဲ ႔ သုံးပုံတပုံဟာ နူိင္ငံၿခားမွာေမြးဖြားခဲ႔ၾက သူမ်ားၿဖစ္ပါတယ္။ ၂၀၀၇ ခုနွစ္မွာ စီးပြားေရး တုိးတက္မူ႔ ၇.၅ ရာခုိင္နဳန္း ရွိခဲ႔ပါတယ္။ စကၤာပူနူိင္ငံရဲ ႔ ဘ႑ာေရး စံနစ္၊ ေငြေၾကးထိမ္းခ်ဳပ္မူ႔စံနစ္ နဲ႔ ပညာေရးစံနစ္ေတြဟာ က မၻာမွာအေကာင္းဆုံး အဆင္႔ ေနရာယူထား ၿပီး၊ ဒီအခ်က္ေတြဟာ ၿပည္ပမွ လာေရာက္ လုုပ္ကုိင္ေနၾက ေသာ သူမ်ား ကုိ ပုိမုိဆြဲေဆာင္မူ႔ရွိေစတယ္လုိ႔ဆုိတယ္။ ကမၻာ႔ၿမဳိ႔ ၾကီး၂၅၄ ၿမိဳ႔ ထဲမွာ စကၤာပူ နူိင္ငံဟာ ေနထုိင္လို႔အေကာင္းဆုံး ၿမိဳ႔ ၿဖစ္တယ္လုိ႔ လည္း ECA International အဖြဲ ႔ ေလ႔လာသုံး သပ္ခ်က္ထဲေဖာ္ၿပ ထားပါတယ္။

ဒါေပမဲ႔ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရး နဲ႔ ဒီမိုကေရစီ အခြင့္အေရးဆုိင္ရာ ၿပသနာေတြကုိ ကုိင္တြယ္ေၿဖရွင္း ရာ မွာ ေတာ႔ အ ၿခား နုိင္ငံ ေတြနဲ႔ နုိင္ယွဥ္ယင္ တုိးတက္မွူ႔ မရွိ ဘဲ ဆက္ၿပီး ဖိႏွိပ္ေနဆဲရွိေသးတာ ေၾကာင့္ စကၤာပူ အစုိးရအေနနဲ႔ ၿပည္သူေတြအေပၚ ထားရွိတဲ႔ တခ််ိ ႔ တား ၿမစ္ခ်ဳပ္ၿခယ္မွူ႔ ေတြကုိၿပန္လည္ဆန္းစစ္သုံးသပ္ၿပီး ၿပဳၿပင္မွူ႔ေတြၿပဳလုပ္ဖုိ႔ လုိအပ္တယ္လုိ႔ဆုိပါတယ္။

စကၤာပူ အစုိးရဟာ ၿပည္သူေတြရ ဲ႔ လြတ္လပ္စြာ ဆႏၵထုတ္ေဖာ္ခြင္႔၊ သတင္းလြတ္လပ္ခြင္႔ ေတြကုိထိမ္းခ်ဳပ္ထားတာေၾကာင္႔ နုိင္ငံတကာရဲ ႔ ၿပစ္တင္ေ၀ဖန္မူ႔ေတြ ခံေနရပါတယ္။ စကၤာပူ နုိင္ငံရဲ႕ ဆိုးရြားတဲ့ သတင္းလြတ္လပ္ခြင္႔ ခ်ိဳးေဖာက္မႈဟာကမၻာ မွာ ၁၆၇ နုိင္ငံေတြအနက္ အဆင္႔၁၄၁ ရွိတယ္လုိ႔ Reporters Without Borders ေခၚတဲ႔နယ္ၿခားမစည္းသတင္းေပးပုိ႔သူမ်ားအဖြဲ႔က မွတ္တမ္းတင္ထားပါတယ္။

စကၤာပူမွာ လူငယ္ေတြရဲ ႔ အခန္းက႑ ကုိ ပုိမုိဦးစားေပးေနတာကုိ ေတြ႔ရ ပါတယ္။ စကၤာပူ အစုိးရတာ၀န္ရွိသူေတြ၊အမတ္ေတြ ထဲမွာတုိးတက္မူ႔ လုိလားေသာ ပညာတက္ လူငယ္အရပ္သားေတြ၊ အသိပညာရွင္၊အတက္ပညာရွင္ေတြမ်ား ၿပီး၊ အမ်ားစုဟာနုိင္ငံၿခားမွာပညာဆည္းပူးလာခဲ႔သူမ်ား ၿဖစ္ၾက ပါတယ္။

စကၤာပူ အစုိးရေခါင္းေဆာင္ေတြဟာ န၀တစစ္အုပ္စုလုိ အနွစ္၂၀ေလာက္ ေသနတ္ခါး ၾကားထုိးၿပီး ၿပည္သူ႔ေ႔ရွ မွာ ၁၉ရာစု လူသတ္ လုိင္စင္ရ ေကာင္းဘြဴိင္ေတြလုိ၊ ပါေလရာ လုပ္ေနတာေတာ႔ မဟုတ္ပါဘူး။ ၿမန္မာနုိင္ငံမွာ ၀န္ၾကီးခ်ဴပ္လုပ္တဲ႔ လူက ယူနီေဖာင္းမခြ်တ္ဘဲ ေသနတ္ခါး ၾကားထုိးၿပီးေလွ်ာက္သြားေနေတာ႔၊ က်န္တဲ႔၀န္ၾကီးေတြကလည္း လူသတ္လုိင္စင္ရ ေကာင္းဘြဴိင္ေတြၿဖစ္ေနၾကတာမဆန္းပါဘူး လုိ႔ နုိင္ငံေရး အကဲခတ္မ်ား၊ စစ္အစုိးရ ဆန္႔က်င္ေသာ အတုိက္အခံမ်ား က ေ၀ဖန္ၾကပါတယ္။ က်ိမ္းေသတာကေတာ႔ ဘယ္သူမွ ယူနီေဖာင္းမခြ်တ္ခ်င္ၾကဘူး။ စစ္ဗုိလ္ခ်ဳပ္ေတြရဲ ႔ဇနီးမိန္းမမ်ား ကလည္း သူတုိ႔ေယာက်ၤားေတြ ရဲ ႔ ခေရပြင္႔ေတြကုိ မၿဖဳတ္ခ်ခ်င္ၾကဘူး။ စကၤာပူ မွာ တုိင္းၿပည္တုိးတက္သြားတယ္၊ ၿမန္မာၿပည္မွာ စစ္ဗုိလ္ခ်ဳပ္ေတြႏွင္႔သူတုိ႔မိသားစု၀င္ေတြ ၾကီးပြား သြားတယ္၊၊ အိမ္ေတြက မီး မလာ၊ ၿပည္သူေတြရဲ ႔ဘ၀ က ဒုကၡေရာက္က်ပ္တည္းေနၾကတယ္။

အသက္ ၆၅နွစ္ ေက်ာ္ေနတဲ႔ စစ္ေခါင္းေဆာင္ေတြ ဟာၿမန္မာ စစ္တပ္ထဲ မွာ ေရတြက္လုိ႔ မရေအာင္ၿဖစ္ေနၿပီး၊ တခ်ၽိ ႔ ဆုိယင္ စစ္ေအးေခတ္ ကာလမွာတုန္းက ဗီယက္နန္ စစ္ဗုိလ္ခ််ပ္ ၾကီးေဟာင္းေတြလုိ ကုိယ္ေပၚမွာ ကပ္ထားတဲ႔ ဘြဲ႔တံဆိပ္ေတြေတာင္ အသက္ၾကီး လုိ႔ မသယ္နုိင္ၾကေတာ႔ဘူး။

မဆလ ေခတ္မွာ ဆုိက္ကားသမား တရားသူၾကီး တက္လုပ္ လုိ႔ မဆလပါတီေတာ႔ ပ်က္သြားခဲ႔ ၿပီ၊ န၀တ ေခတ္မွာေတာ႔ လူသတ္ လုိင္စင္ရ ေကာင္းဘြဴိင္ေတြ ၾကီးစုိးေနလုိ႔ တုိင္းၿပည္ပ်က္ေနၿပီ။ အတုိက္အခ ံ အင္အားစုေတြ ထဲမွာ လည္း ဆုိက္ကားသမား တရားသူၾကီး၊ လုိင္စင္ရ ေကာင္းဘြဴိင္ေတြ မေပၚလာ ပါေစနဲ႔ လုိ႔ ဆုမြန္ေကာင္းေတာင္းယင္း…………………

Singapore Dominates Asia Region as Best Place to Live
By Naomi Martig (Hong Kong)
10 March 2008

Expatriates continue to rank Singapore as the top place to live in Asia, above Hong Kong and many other cities. The city-state is economically strong and environmentally safe, when compared with many other cities in Asia. But when it comes to rights issues, Singapore lags behind in a number of areas. Naomi Martig reports on how Singapore has managed to attract its expatriate population, despite its restrictions on some civil liberties.

Singapore's reputation as one of Asia's best economic performers continues to attract a large number of foreigners to it shores. Nearly one-third of its 4.6 million residents were born in other countries.

The country's economy grew 7.5 percent in 2007. Its financial service sector is strong, its education system is considered among the best in the world and it is regularly ranked as a favorite among expatriates living in Asia.

A new report by ECA International, the world's largest organization for international human resource professionals, says Singapore maintains the highest quality of life for foreigners in Asia.

Lee Quane is general manager of ECA International in Hong Kong. He says the group's annual report compared living standards in 254 locations, globally.

"Singapore comes in as number one because of the fact, unlike other Asian cities where we indicate their infrastructure levels are of a developing status and they score quite poorly in some areas such a health care, such as infrastructure and such as pollution levels. Singapore, on the other hand, scored exceptionally well in all of these locations, comparable to many Western cities," said Quane.

Since the Asian financial crisis a decade ago, the city's economy has outperformed its rival, Hong Kong. It now holds one of the highest per capita gross domestic product in the world.

Quane says another major factor that makes Singapore attractive is its very low level of social unrest.

"It has very low crime rates, a complete absence of social and political tensions, which makes it very good location for Asian expatriates to reside in," added Quane.
However, having an absence of social and political tensions does not necessarily mean Singapore is free from human rights concerns.

In the ECA report, Singapore was outscored in one respect. Quane says, in terms of the media, cities such as Hong Kong far outranked Singapore.

There are tight limits on freedom of expression in Singapore. In 2007, Reporters Without Borders ranked Singapore 141st out of 167 nations in its Worldwide Press Freedom Index. The government restricts public protests and censors films and television shows. And, critics of the government often find themselves facing tough libel lawsuits and other restrictions on their comments.

Homayoun Alizadeh is the regional representative for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner of Human Rights in Thailand. He says Singapore's effort to sustain social stability has often led to excessive censorship.

"Last year, for example, when the World Bank had its international conference in Singapore, some of the Singaporean civil society organizations intended to carry out a demonstration, express their views. But, of course, they were not allowed to have these kinds of activities," said Alizadeh.

Analysts say, for most expatriates living in Singapore, these sorts of rights issues are not a concern, because the problems have not yet reached a point where they severely affects their lives.

Alizadeh says Singapore is trying to improve its rights record. For example, he says officials in the country were instrumental in establishing a human rights commission within the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.

"Singapore played a major role, especially when the charter was signed in [on] 20th November 2007 in Singapore, in convincing countries like Burma, Myanmar, to ensure that the ASEAN Charter is signed, especially in regards to the provision Article 14 regarding the commitment of ASEAN member states to establish an ASEAN human rights body," continued Alizadeh.

Several rights groups argue that the new human rights body does not do enough to address concerns in the region. But Alizadeh says Singapore's push to create the commission is significant, because the country's officials realize that making progress on human rights is key for long-term stability. And, the Singapore government considers stability as essential for building a safe and economically prosperous city.