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Myanmar Nationals Abroad Arrive Home by Relief Flight PAGE-8 (OPINION) CRISIS DRILLS ARE EXPECTED IN POST-COVID-19 PANDEMIC NATIONAL The Global New Light of Myanmar 4 OCTOBER 2020 NEXT GENERATION PLATFORM THE GLOBAL NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Union Betterment Party, Federal Union Party and Shan State Kokant PAGE-10,11, 12 Showing compassion can help gain perspective or a new By Hein Htet Naing point of view because it puts Second Year Honours (English) us in someone else’s shoes East Yangon University and makes you put time and thought into au- alleviating someone’s suffering. WO months ago, I was walking around to- The simple act of listening with our full the park near my house when, by chance, mat- heart can be one of the most compassionate acts T I came across an old poor woman begging ically when you we can offer. However, compassionate listening for money from the passers-by. Without a second witness someone in makes us experience a great deal of burnout, which thought, I came up with the two confusing words pain. Let’s say, if you has been labeled as “empathy fatigue “ by some Democratic Party present their policies, stances and work programmes ,” Sympathy and Empathy” ,and also which one is saw someone slam a car door on researchers. When you have the ability to feel em- better than another? Both sympathy and empathy their fingers, you might feel pain in your pathy for the other person but then extend a hand have roots in the Greek term, páthos meaning “suf- fingers as well without hurting you. That feeling to alleviate someone’s pain, you are less likely to fering, feeling”. It is said that it’s very easy for us to means your mirror neurons have kicked in. burn out. It is the best solution to both who listen sympathize with someone poor, but it is hard for What’s more, “empathy” is stronger than sym- to and get it off the chest as a fifty-fifty profit. us to empathize with someone. No one can deny pathy. It is the ability to put yourself in the place of Research indicates that compassion and that It is totally true. another and understand someone else’s feelings empathy employ different regions of the brain and When I was young, I always saw someone by identifying with them. With empathy, you put that compassion can combat empathetic distress. Pull-outpoor begging for some money or something to eat yourselfsupplement in another’s shoes, often feeling things The 14th Dalai Lama famously said in the book The house to house. If my memory serves me right, I more deeply than if you just felt sympathy. Art of Happiness, “If you want others to be happy, didn’t give away anything although I said I felt ut- Of course, empathy matters more than an- practice compassion. If you want to be happy, terly sorry for them. As I didn’t contribute anything ything else because if we have empathy for other practice compassion.” to them but feeling sorry, it is called “Sympathy”. people’s situations, then we can live together with Summing up, in the real world, hardly ever do “Sympathy” is feeling compassion, sorrow, or pity them peacefully. Empathy always brings peace to we sympathize in action with someone. But after for the hardships that another person encounters. us by sharing our feelings and helping each other. thinking about these two confusing words for a lit- When I grow up, my attitude towards the word “ Empathy isn’t just for unpleasant feelings. You tle while, the things that come to my heart through Sympathy “ gradually changes into “Empathy “. can feel empathy when you see someone happy, my flesh are that if we usher in the empathetic To talk about “Empathy”, it is a little bit differ- too. Isn’t it great when someone walks in the room society with much our kindness to each other, our ent from “Sympathy “ even though both have the smiling, and that makes you smile? lives are absolutely worth living and we are always effects of kindness and humanity. Let’s look at how When it comes to “Compassion”, compas- proud of being humane ones. Finally, I become different the two concepts are. Instead of saying “ sion takes empathy and sympathy a step further. alert again and after that, I donate some money How poor!”, if our minds pass from sympathy to When you are compassionate, you feel the pain of and foods to this old poor woman .On that day, I action, let’s say_ giving away some money to such another (i.e., empathy) or you recognize that the felt thoroughly euphoric about such kind of con- someone poor, this is called “Empathy” because person is in pain (i.e., sympathy), and then you do tribution because it could make me determined to we behave sympathetically. When it comes to the your best to alleviate the person’s suffering from lead an empathetic life with sympathy, kindness term “Empathy”, most of us may understand like that situation. and compassion. that “Empathy “is putting ourselves in the shoes of At its Latin roots, compassion means “to suffer Be compassionate! another. So when someone gets their personal cas- with.” When we’re compassionate, we’re sharing Be empathetic! es off their chests, we’d better put ourselves in the our sympathetic and empathetic suffering upon Be sympathetic! shoes of theirs. Empathy is visceral feeling of what someone’s pain, depression and a feeling of deep Let’s lead a life of empathetic figure with another person feels. Thanks to what researchers hurt with someone else. When we are practicing sympathy. have deemed “mirror neurons,” empathy may arise compassion, we can stay present with suffering. Sunday, 4 October 2020 ww.gnlm.com.mm, www.globalnewlightofmyanmar.com w rd Waning of Tawthalin 1382 ME Vol. VII, No. 171, 3 Myanmar nationals abroad arrive home by relief flight HE relief flight of Myanmar National Airlines landed at the TYangon International Airport yesterday bringing back a total of 122 Myanmar citizens stranded in Aus- tralia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea. The fifth relief flight of MNA took a total of 122 Myanmar citizens — 88 Myanmar citizens from Australia and New Zealand and 34 from Papua New Guinea — from Sydney, Australia. - Myanmar Embassy in Canber ra, Australia has organized the relief flights. The Ministry of Labour, Immi- gration and Population, the Ministry of Health and Sports and the Yangon Region government arranged 14-day quarantine at specific places or des- ignated hotels, followed by the 7-day home quarantine. The relief flights and chartered PHOTO: MNA flights have been bringing back the Myanmar citizens stranded in foreign Myanmar returnees from foreign countries arrive at the Yangon International Airport on 3 OctoberSydney, 2020. Australia. — MNA (Translated by TTN) countries in line with the instructions embassies from respective countries. from the National-Level Central Com- Affairs has been cooperating with This relief flight is the fifth time from mittee on Coronavirus Disease 2019 the relevant ministries and Myanmar (COVID-19). The Ministry of Foreign 978 more new cases of COVID-19 reported on 3 October, total figure rises to 16,503 MYANMAR’S COVID-19 positive cases rise to 16,503 after 978 new cases were reported on 3 October according to Ministry of Health and Sports. Among these 16,503 confirmed cases, 371 died, 4,795 have been discharged from hospitals.—MNA Death toll until 8 pm 3-10-2020 Updated at 8 pm, 3 October 2020 978 16,503 New Cases 18 Total Cases 4,795 Ministry of Health and Sports 371 Discharged from Hospital Total Death Tally 4 OCTOBER 2020 2 NATIONAL THE GLOBAL NEW LIGHT OF MYANMAR Union Minister U Kyaw Tin joins meeting on overseas voting UNION Minister for Internation- the Union Election Commission al Cooperation U Kyaw Tin and for the arrangement to send the heads of Myanmar Embassies, ballots on time by fixing the re- and Permanent Representatives quirements presented by the and Consulates-General Offices embassies despite the travel re- in foreign countries organized strictions in the COVID-19 crisis. second coordination meeting He also urged to take care over advance voting of Myanmar not to get infected the COVID-19 citizens living abroad for 2020 disease, to ensure all eligible vot- General Election via videocon- ers have the right to vote and to ference on 2 October 2020. work together for the free, fair Deputy Director-General of and successful election, to abide the Union Election Commission by COVID-19 restrictions and office U Ye Yint Lwin detailed rules of the respective country. about delivering of advance bal- The Union Minister and lot papers to the Myanmar Em- the Deputy Director-General of bassies in time amid COVID-19 the Union Election Commission restrictions to ensure voting replied to the discussions and rights of the citizens abroad and questions raised by heads of My- advance voting rules. anmar missions abroad. The Union Minister said Permanent Secretary U Soe that the ministry working on or- Union Minister U Kyaw Tin discusses with heads of Myanmar Embassies, and Permanent Representatives and Han from the Ministry of For- ganizing 2020 General Election Consulates-General Offices in foreign countries advance voting of Myanmar citizens living abroad for 2020 eign Affairs, Director-General in accordance with five norms General Election via videoconference on 2 October 2020. PHOTO: MNA of Planning and Administrative of free, fair, transparent, credi- Department U Aung Soe Win and ble and reflecting the will of the and Consulates-General Offic- voting rights in accordance with Ballot papers were already officials were also present at the people.
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