This summer is so hot and there wasa hardful warning to everyone from the daily weather report. It said ultraviolet rays have now high radiation. It was dangerous if we were goingoutside between 11am and 3pm. But wait! There were…
21st Century Sherlock by Junior Win Since I was reading ‘The Hound of Baskervilles’ (1902) (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle), I saw Sherlock Holmes calm and relax. The story is set on Dartmoor in Devon in England’s West Country. It tells…
(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…
A Memory Of My Grandparents by Junior Win This ebook is to mark the hundredth anniversary of my grandparents – U Khin Maung Latt (Chief editor of the Working People’s Daily (1963-1968), and (Daw) Khin Myo Chit (writer of Colourful…
How “Mrauk-U” was translated into Monkey‘s Egg By Khin Maung Saw 1. Introduction The kingdom of Rakhaing or Arakan was sub-divided into four regions. Northern Arakan was called Dhanyawaddy, the Ramree Island was called Ramawaddy, Thandwe Region in the south…
Khin Maung Saw – Burma or Myanmar? Burmese or Burman? Rangoon or Yangon? Introduction: In May 1989 the present ruling military junta called the State Law and Order Restoration Council (SLORC) reintroduced back the indigenous name “Myanmar” for…
(I was before the Encyclopedias bookshelf.) I was at the bookshop today. I had a plan to buy some updated Encyclopedias for my work. I now had been writing regular supplement for some Education journal. They requested me to write…
A Glimpse of Mount Meru by Dhamma Beri Ashin Viriya (Taung Soon) (Translated by U Hla Min) For the return trip from Fort Wayne, Indiana (with a sizeable number of people from the “Golden Land”), I had booked the (early)…
(My maternal grandparents – Okalapa grandparents.) Grandparents from our father’s side; (U) Khin Maung Latt, and (Daw) khin Myo Chit, we called them as ‘Ba Ba Gyi’ and ‘May May Gyi’ about whom I had written a long or a…
My grandmother; Khin Myo Chit’s two books – ‘Colourful Burma’ Part 1 and ‘Three Years Under the Japs(1945)’ are now available as ebooks on Kindle Store. Here are the links that if you need more information about the books. http://www.amazon.com/Khin-Myo-Chit-Colorful-Burma-ebook/dp/B00L5Y7Z1M/…
Some Part of Their Life and Their Meeting (My grandparents in 1939.) My Grandfather (U) Khin Maung Latt (My grandfather with a smile.) While my grandfather was working as a clerk at Bombay Burma Company, towards the end of 1939…
One day, I was at the Book-buffet at Myanmar Book Centre opened for 3 days during a month of May this year. I had never seen such a Book-Buffet festival before. To my surprised, before choosing a book to buy,…
