Posted in Burma News, Supplementary Burma Digest on Aug 22nd, 2008 No Comments »
By Mohit Joshi; Fri, 08/22/2008 - 05:26
Bangkok - The UN World Food Programme (WFP) on Friday shut down its “relief air bridge” to Myanmar after delivering 4 million tons of cargo from Bangkok to the victims of Cyclone Nargis.
Thai authorities were quick to offer Don Mueang, Bangkok’s old international airport, as a logistics hub for […]
Posted in Supplementary Burma Digest on Feb 12th, 2008 1 Comment »
ASEAN CHIEF TALKING BULL-SHIT
Myanmar charter vote a first step - ASEAN
By Nopporn Wong-Anan in Stars
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Myanmar’s ruling generals should be given the benefit of the doubt if they are serious about moving the country toward democracy, Surin Pitsuwan, chief of Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN), said on Tuesday.
Incoming Association of South […]
Posted in Supplementary Burma Digest on Feb 11th, 2008 No Comments »
The bogeyman’s to blame
By MARINA MAHATHIR
Read more in The Star
We see the constant blaming of foreign workers for all our ills, but none of it can really stand up to scrutiny.
IT’S a tried and true political strategy that when things aren’t quite rosy, one should distract the people by focusing on something else or coming […]
Posted in Supplementary Burma Digest on Feb 11th, 2008 No Comments »
Burmese Resistance
and the Starling Theory
By Goldie Shwe and Terry Evans
Following is excerpt of the Original Article,
In Burma, where the gun-toting junta is the only authority, it is hardly surprising that most people just keep their heads down and get on with the daily struggle of putting enough food on the table. Making yourself conspicuous in […]
Posted in Supplementary Burma Digest on Feb 8th, 2008 No Comments »
Ko Htun Sein stopped singing
“God save the King”
At Rangoon University Student Meetings
During one of the student meetings, in late 20’s, at the Rangoon University all the students stoop-up to sing the “God save the King” in front of the British Colonial ruler’s Union Jack flag as a respect and salute.
But one student defiantly refused […]
Posted in Supplementary Burma Digest on Feb 3rd, 2008 No Comments »
What’s up UNHCR?
We could not blame Christian dominant UNHCR and the donor western Christian countries for failing to assist non - Christian people of Burma/Myanmar with full enthusiasm when all the Muslim countries and Buddhist countries failed to even lift a finger to help Burmese/Myanmar refugees and people.
One Rohingya named, Altaff is a handicapped person. He […]
Posted in Supplementary Burma Digest on Feb 2nd, 2008 No Comments »
For the Burmese Muslims
Christian and Buddhist friendships
are superior to the
Islamic-brotherhood
Michael Jackson - They Dont Care About Us lyrics
Sikinhead, deadhead
Everybody gone bad
Situation aggravation
Everybody allegation
in the suite, on the news
everybody dogfood
Bang bang shock dead
Everybodys gone bad
All I wann say is that
They dont really care about us
All I wann say […]
Posted in Supplementary Burma Digest on Jan 30th, 2008 No Comments »
Asean embraces a rogue regime
while inking a Charter for Big Business
By_Anilnetto
So the Asean leaders have signed a Charter in the “wonderfully democratic nation of Singapore” in the company of leaders from Burma’s rogue regime. (Check out this excellent documentary “Burma’s Secret War”.)
Each member nation now has to take the Charter back to their home countries […]
Posted in Supplementary Burma Digest on Jan 30th, 2008 No Comments »
My dream interviews are not mere illusions
My Dreams come true.
Actions speak louder than words.
Indirectly confirmed by DSAI’s speech/lecture that I was not wrong in my dreams in reading his mind.
A written word is more effective than thousands of spoken words.
The Chinese proverb says it best: “the faintest ink lasts longer than the best memory.”
Harold Adams Innis : As the […]
Posted in Supplementary Burma Digest on Jan 26th, 2008 1 Comment »
Burmese Chinese
The Burmese Chinese or Chinese Burmese are a group of overseas Chinese born or raised in Burma (Myanmar).
Although the Chinese officially make up three percent of the population, this figure may be underestimated because of _
intermarriage between them and the ethnic Bamar,
and because of widespread discrimination against minorities (which compels many to declare […]
Posted in Supplementary Burma Digest on Jan 26th, 2008 No Comments »
The Golden days of the
Great Mon Empire I
References
Wikipedia
Cambodia History
Thailand History
Mon Web pages
Hariphunchai, Wikipedia
Bo Aung Din, Nan letters, Burma Digest
Mon state Flag
The Mon are an ethnic group in Southeast Asia. They live in Mon State, historic lower Burma and the area around the southern Burmese-Thailand border.
New Mon State Party Flag
There are believed to be around 8 […]
Posted in Supplementary Burma Digest on Jan 23rd, 2008 No Comments »
The Golden days of the
Great Shan Empire VII
(I hope BD readers won’t mind the changing of my BLUE HEADINGS into black, as this is the darkest chapter of Myanmar and Myanmar Tatmadaw History)
Detention of Ethnic Shan
and other opposition Leaders
Read detail in Irrawaddy,
“Detained Ethnic Leaders Denied Outside Medical Aid”
By Shah Paung on January 8, 2008
Detained […]
Posted in Supplementary Burma Digest on Jan 23rd, 2008 1 Comment »
The Golden days of the
Great Shan Empire VI
Country Profile
Size:
Lies between 19 and 24 degrees latitude North, and Stretches from 96 to 101 degrees longitude East, covering approximately 64,000 square miles; shares boundaries with Burma, China, Laos, Thailand and the Karenni.
Topography and Drainage:
Bisected north to south by the Salween River, one of the longest rivers in […]
Posted in Supplementary Burma Digest on Jan 22nd, 2008 No Comments »
The Golden days of the
Great Shan Empire V
Shans around the world (Tai peoples)
The Tai or Tai-Kadai ethnicity
The Tai or Tai-Kadai ethnicity refers collectively to the ethnic groups of southern China and Southeast Asia, stretching from_
Hainan to eastern India
and from southern Sichuan to Laos,
Thailand, and parts of Vietnam,
which speak languages in the Tai-Kadai family and share […]
Posted in Supplementary Burma Digest on Jan 21st, 2008 No Comments »
The Golden days of the
Great Shan Empire IV
The date 7th February 1947 is a defining moment in the record of the Shan history as a modern nation.
On that day, Shan princes and the people’s representatives of the Shan States demonstrated their newfound unity to declare it a “national day” which were followed by the resolutions […]
Posted in Supplementary Burma Digest on Jan 21st, 2008 No Comments »
What’s up China?
When compare to our other good neighbour, India, you are so cruel on all the countries in South East Asia, including Burma.
You had kicked out or forced out or pushed out almost all the ethnic groups of South East Asia including all the ethnic minorities of Burma/Myanmar and the Bama people’s ancestors. After […]
Posted in Supplementary Burma Digest on Jan 17th, 2008 2 Comments »
The Golden days of the
Great Shan Empire III
To make it easy for the busy readers who could not give much time to read, I have prepared another version in notes form below_
Shan (also known as Tai) lived independently up north round about 650 B.C. in China at the lower part of the Yangtze River.
Shan’s (also known as Tai) […]
Posted in Supplementary Burma Digest on Jan 17th, 2008 2 Comments »
The Golden days of the
Great Shan Empire II
Migration and Settlement of Tai Ethnic Groups
Ethic Dong Shan in China
Like many other ethnic peoples of Burma, the Shans or Tai once had their homeland in China.
Shan Home land
Some historians believe that the Tai people originally were from the north of the Yellow River (Huang Ho), occupying the […]