General keeps ministries on toes

No.05 - 4/2007
10 April 2007
Culture/ General
 
General keeps ministries on toes
 
Thingyan, the annual water festival, is coming but personnel in the new capital are unable to make their own personal plans for the holidays as the senior general has yet to disclose his own plans, according to official sources.

^{Gen Than Shwe}

Each year before Thingyan, the general would announce where he planned to celebrate the event and the names of the ministers who would be in his entourage. But the latest news that arrived yesterday says the ministers, for some reasons, have been kept in the dark about his plans for this year.
 
As a result, all the ministers have been put on stand by. "When the minister stays, it doesn't seem proper for us staffers to ask for leave," complained an insider source. "So until the senior general utters something about it, we are going to be stuck here."
 
The senior general was seen in Arakan State last year.