12 hours ago by idirlion

An interesting report on the situation in Burma from the week before the coup that installed the current regime in power. Note the prominence of Japan as the key international player, and the absence of Aung San Suu Kyi as the leader of the opposition. Burmese Revolt See as Spontaneous By ROBERT PEA ...

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14 hours ago by hellaD

Burma/Myanmar, also called the Golden Land or the land of 7 million pagodas is indeed a sacred place. The beautiful, gentle and hospitable spirit of the peoples of Myanmar is built on the backbone of the meditative and spirituality of the land. Buddhism is the predominant religion in Myanmar, althou ...

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18 hours ago by Richard Brennan

Today's Observer magazine has a fascinating interview by Carole Cadwalladr with Aaron Cohen, the founder of the Abolish Slavery Coalition. Cohen, whose book Slave Hunter: One Man's Global Quest to Free Victims of Human Trafficking was published this June, has rescued children from sex slavery and ch ...

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22 hours ago by Editor

Burma: A Socialist Nation of Southeast Asia

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23 hours ago by Nick

When hiring and delegating assignments, you need to find the right person for the job. In the early 1820s, the British government was contemplating sending an expedition to Burma with the objective of taking Rangoon. The Cabinet sent for the Duke of Wellington to ask which general he would recommend ...

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1 day ago by Carey Suante

Baptist Socio-political Ethics in Myanmar By C.S.Khai, University of Hamburg Baptist Socio-political ethics has had its own adaptation and manifestation among the Myanmar Baptist Churches in the context of Myanmar. Most Christians in Myanmar deliberately hold a futuristic eschatology. They expect th ...

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1 day ago by moonwire

I got my Myanmar visa sorted on Thursday afternoon and on Friday morning I caught the plane from Bangkok to Yangon. When I got off the plane, I immediately sunk into culture shock. I expected it to be somewhat like Cambodia. Somewhat still quite familiar, but it was totally different. Outside the t ...

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1 day ago by K V Soon

I recently met the founder and operator of the Burma Library. He began work on Burma by collecting information to be fed back to the United Nations (US) on the situation on the ground there. To cut the long story short, he has put up all the collection of manuscripts he has collected, including new ...

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1 day ago by admin

It seems rather obvious that China’s central planning is in full motion, and they are not just talking, they are making deals around the world for resources, oil, and trade deals. Some say they are scrambling to keep their economic growth engine primed while this global economic crisis has crushed t ...

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1 day ago by Htoo Tay Zar

Myanmar IT Professionals ရဲ႕ Myanmar Yangon Gathering ကို ဒီေန႔ Info Tech မွာ မနက္ ၁၀ နာရီက စၿပီးၿပဳလုပ္ခဲ့ပါတယ္။ မနက္ပိုင္းမွာ Open talk အစီအစဥ္ ၿပဳလုပ္ခဲ့ၿပီး ေန႔လည္မွာ break time ရွိခဲ့ပါတယ္ ေနာက္ 201 မွာ ဆက္ၿပီး showcase အစီအစဥ္ ၿပဳလုပ္ပါတယ္။ ေန႔လည္ ၂ နာရီမွာေတာ့ 205 မွာ MCPA နဲ႔ ပူးေပါင္းၿပီး M ...

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