‘Youths wasting time’
YANGON: Aung San Suu Kyi has hit out at young people ‘wasting time’ on computer games and social networking. She 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 in a public letter to the Nobel-Myanmar Literary Festival posted online on Friday. “Now our children waste a lot of their time on computer games, Internet games and social networks. Children read less because the use of technology has increased,” she added. In her letter Suu Kyi also hit out at education standards, citing underfunding as well as a tendency towards rote learning rather than critical analysis. “We rarely have libraries in our schools and we have no more time to read books when we are in class,” she said.