The Ghost
Nyane Thit
August 30th, 2007
– The night hit hard with dark storm
The dark soaked in every corner
There in the dark came
The misery in stealth
And you …
I have longed for your smile .
– Under the dazzling search light
With the mystical might
There at the roof edge
Dangled and gone
Then run the scared wardens
From the side of hangman ward
Stirred by sight of yours
The Latest Joke (oops) Prayer from Burma
Kaung Kin Pyar
October 17, 2007
In Burma, among Burmese people, we have variety of prayers for our Buddhist religion. But in those tiring days, came a new kind of prayer for our true believers.
The story goes like this; while one of the renowned comedian (you know who …) was arrested for his participation in recent monks’ boycott to the Burmese junta, he was continuously harassed and interrogated by the army officers at the unknown location (you know where …).
Let us sing for Unsung Heroes
MoeMaKa Win
Breaths there the man with soul so dead,
who never hath enshrined his heart with the Dhamma(Buddha’s teachings),
who can spread goodwill and loving kindness all around?
The Works of MoeMaKa – Production Highlights
We have produced and distributed following publication, audio and video CD/DVD programs.
“Zarganar – Four Fruits and The Colorful Burmese Anyeint – DVD”, the DVD on the Burmese traditional and cultural show which was banned together with Zarganar, a well-known Burmese artist and comedian who openly criticized the ruling military junta.
“Remembering Poet Tin Moe – One Month Anniversary – Book”, for the one month anniversary of the passing of the poet in exile of Burma and Burmese, the presentation of articles and notes by his readers and his fellow writers and artist in memory of him collected at the funeral
“Remembering Poet Tin Moe – 6 Month Anniversary – Book”, the presentation of articles by U Thaung, U Win Pe, Maung Swan Yi, Mar Mar Aye and Moe Cho Thin on the reflection on their friend and family member, U Tin Moe. The book was published at the 6 month memorial literary talk event of Poet Tin Moe at the San Francisco in July 2007.
“Burma Saffron Revolution Remembered – DVD”, the presentation of music, audio, songs on the protests and the crackdowns of Burmese monks and the people at September 2007 in Burma compiled from the feeds and works contributed by the Burmese reporters and artists inside Burma.
“MoeMaKa 2006 Journals Annual Publication in PDF – CD”, the complete compilation of 12 issues of 2006 monthly publication of MoeMaKa in PDF format, complete reference in single CD.
“Burma Saffron Revolution Remembered – PDF – CD” – Compilation of photos by citizen journalists inside Burma on the news story and the time-line on the uprising and crackdown of 2007 August September Burma Saffron Revolution in CD or also available online.
Where is MoeMaKa – Current Situation
MoeMaKa has established and maintained as one and only community based station providing Burmese literature and audio/video archives run by Burmese volunteers and professionals among other Burmese Internet portals.
That is why within the year 2007, MoeMaKa has reached 2,000 subscriptions ( last year with 1,600 members) of its online free newsletter service.
It is now reaching a bandwidth of 80 GB a month from 8000 over unique Internet service provider (ISP) servers. Now it is hosting on 2 separate ISP web servers to balance the load of demands from the audience as some of the readers have to come out from inside Burma through firewall and proxy. We also have created MoeMaKa Blog on Google’s free blogger service to tunnel the audience as backup.
It is not only running with the individual volunteers but also with volunteer groups and organization from different location across the globe as to prove the positive effort of the strong networking function of MoeMaKa’s teamwork.
MoeMaKa’s Activity with Burmese Community – Highlights
We have reached significant recognition among the Burmese media professionals, Burmese artists and audience and following is the list that we considered ourselves some milestones;
2007 January – Funeral Service of great Burmese poet in exile, U Tin Moe. As U Tin Moe was also serving as voluntary advisor and contributor to MoeMaKa news group, the team had put all its effort on working with the family members of U Tin Moe to help host the memorial service of U Tin Moe with the audio, video and articles collection, presentation and distribution to the attending guest, readers and audience through online and publication.
MoeMaKa in-house serials programs and articles by following Burmese artists in exile such as Tin Moe, Maung Swan Yi, Mar Mar Aye, Po Than (Ludu), Kye Mon U Thaung and Win Pe.
Achievements – The Workload
Departments supporting MoeMaKa’s main operation have done following tasks;
Online Catalog Ordering System – http://shop.moemaka.com . Present and help distribute 300 over books, audio and video products (grown from 100 last year). Almost 50% of the catalogs offer free download or free distribution.
Online Library – http://moemaka.net/library / http://sites.google.com/site/moemaka2008 ) List and archive most of all the books, digital materials and references purchased with MoeMaKa’s fund and it is now reaching over 1000 records. You can download the PDF file from our website to look into the list of our books archive and also the books that are for sale too. http://moemaka.net/shop/redirect.php?action=banner&goto=3
Welcoming the Public Support & Charity
The differences between the MoeMaKa and the for-profit radio stations and publishing companies are as follows
1. MoeMaKa Multimedia is formed as volunteer news group to contribute towards community.
The MoeMaKa Team (Updated) by Maung YIT • March 1, 2016 The Advisors – Tin Moe (2003-2006), Kye Mon U Thaung (2007-2006) Maung Swan Yi (2003 – ), Mar Mar Aye (2006 – ), U Win Pe (2006 – ) U Win Tin…
How MoeMaKa run on Public & Volunteers’ charity
Financial sources of support for the organization are mainly from public donation and contribution and from some grant from the organization. Right now currently according to 2007 year financial report, we have US$ 55,000.00 of public donation and US$ 20,000 from the grant money received from Open Society Institute – Burma Project Initiatives.
The list of the amount in yearly breakdown is as follows;
The Background Story of Burma, Burmese People and MoeMaKa, the connection
– Burma is the country where freedom of expression and freedom of will of the people are suppressed and the Burmese people are denied of basic human rights and oppressed by the Burmese military junta like in North Korea and Sudan.
– Since 1988, the World has witnessed the great amount of exodus or forced migration of Burmese people leaving Burma due to political, economical and social crisis in Burma
The Day To Day Activities of MoeMaKa
To realize the purpose of the organization, we are performing the following activities;
The Purpose of MoeMaKa
We established MoeMaKa – Burmese news & multimedia group with volunteer media artists and professionals in exile on 13th April 2003, the opening day of Burmese traditional water festival …
The purpose of the organization according to our articles of corporation is stated as follows;
