Category: Features

News Features on Burma & Burmese issues

Myanmar Spring Chronicle – June 10 scenes

(MoeMaKa) June 11, 2022 Cambodia’s Prime Minister requests not to proceed execution.  The World Bank can’t forecast Myanmar’s prospects. It is seen that the daily news facts in recent weeks, reported in the news media, have included international Governments and…

Scene after One Month and 10th day after the military coup in Burma

(MoeMaKa) March 12, 2021 Among the community on the street today, people were found discussing how to put gas in a bottle and how to make it strong explosive. Protesters, who have suffered brutal beatings, are beginning to consider hand-to-hand…

Scene after one month and ninth day of the military coup in Burma

(MoeMaKa) March 11, 2021 The main news headline for March 11 was that the NLD Education Network Leader, Zaw Myat Lin, 46, had died under detention on March 9 told by Military to family members. His body retrieved from Military…

Women addicts searching for help help have few options By Khin Sandar Myint / Myanmar Now

Women addicts searching for help help have few options By Khin Sandar Myint / Myanmar Now  A former female drug addict now back to her vegetable plantation site. (Photo: Khin Sandar Myint)   Kyaukme/Shan state— Ma Kaut* started using heroin…

Dr Khin Maung Win – The Eighth International Conference on Science and Mathematics Education in Developing Countries

(At Arts Assembly) Dr Khin Maung Win – The Eighth International Conference on Science and Mathematics Education in Developing Countries The conference has held at the Arts Assembly Hall of Yangon University, from December 4 th to 6 th .…

100th Anniversary of Burmese Cartoon in 2015 by Junior Win

(U Bagalay (Shwe Ta Lay) , U Hain Zun, U Ba Gyan, and U Phay Thein.) 100th Anniversary of Burmese Cartoon in 2015 Early forms of cartoons art can be seen in the cave drawing. In Burma we could see…

A Day at The Noble-Myanmar Literary Festival 2015 by Junior Win

  (National Theatre at Myoma School Road.) From 17th January to 19th January of 2015, the Noble-Myanmar Literary Festival was held at National Theatre, Myoma School(Kyaung) Road, Rangoon. It celebrates the Burmese writers, poets, and cartoonists, refers to joyful gatherings of people. Number of…

The Saffron Democratization by Rev. Larbathami (M.A.)

The Saffron Democratization by Rev. Larbathami  (M.A.) (Anniversary article for 6 years of Saffron Revolution)  The Third Wave and Christianity Political Science Professor Samuel Huntington of Harvard University did not regard Buddhism highly in the global democratization process. He did…

The Heritage of Wonder and Pride (Junior Win)

The Heritage of Wonder and Pride ‘Burma, The Land of Pagodas’ as my grandmother written, we will find pagodas wherever we go. Pagodas play a memorable part in the life of a Burmese Buddhist. We have been taught that wherever…

The Legacy of Knowledge by Junior Win

  (Photo – I chose two photos of U Tin Oo (General Thura Tin Oo, retired general and former commander in chief of the armed forces of Union of Burma) and U Win Tin (Journalist and also known as a…

How Big is the Rohingya Uprising by May Thingyan Hein

   The current situation in Sistway   At around 8 o’clock this morning, the military ordered the locals not to go outside with a group of people our reporter informed. In Sistway the local Muslims are surrounded by polices.  …

The Voices of Occupy Oakland by PwintPhyu Nandar

  The Voices of Occupy Oakland Should the voices of the majority of a country fall on deaf ears of said country’s one percent? The one percent of America has too much money, too much power, and is making decisions…

Burmese Children on Freedom of Expression by Khet Mar

 

Ei Ei Aung: “I should have chance to say what I want.”

Today there are over 1,600 political prisoners in Burma. Because they said what they wanted to say, the government considers them enemies.

The History of the Burmses Kyat by Zaw Aung

US$, Sin$, and Burmese Kyat’s History by Zaw Aung, translated by Hla Oo

In 1990, one American Dollar was 30 kyats, one Singapore Dollar was 45 kyats, an average apartment was 300,000 kyats, a Toyota Hilux pickup truck was 300,000 kyats as well, the telephone connection with a handset was 300,000 kyats too, and a plate of Biriani (Dan-bouk) was just 5 kyats.

Oakland Digital hosts first meeting between Burmese Community & White House AAPI Chair

an article written by our host Oakland Digital.

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On Thursday, August 18th 2011, Oakland Digital Arts & Literacy Center (ODALC) hosted the first meeting between the Burmese Community and Daphne Kwok, Chair of President Barack Obama’s Advisory Commission on Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders. This historic gathering in downtown Oakland was part of the White House Initiative for positive change in the AAPI community.