Myanmar pro-democracy leader says libraries are scarce in schools and children read less due to increasing technologyAung San Suu Kyi,who was forced to spend years of solitude under house arrest, has hit out at young people “wasting time” on computer games and social networking.
The veteran opposition politician, and whose party will soon take power after winning a landmark election in Myanmar final November,made the comments in a letter to organisers of a literary festival at the weekend in Yangon. “Our lifestyles are changing nowadays as technology improves,” she wrote to the Nobel-Myanmar literary festival posted online on Saturday. “Now our children waste a lot of their time on computer games, and internet games and social networks. Children read less because the use of technology has increased.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com