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 […]
Posted in Supplementary Burma Digest on Jan 15th, 2008 No Comments »
The Golden days of the
Great Shan Empire I
Please may you kindly allow me to acknowledge the references first, as I wish to write this in a series of a few short articles.
REFERENCES
Wikipedia encyclopedia
The Encyclopedia of World History.
“Story of Myanmar told in pictures” by Dr Than Tun and translated by Maung Win War.
The Shan Herald […]