To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle. -- George Orwell


Essay

Categories

8888, America, Asean, book review, Burma, Burmese dictionary, China, Constitution Referendum, culture, Cyber attacks, Dr. Kyaw Thet, Dunwoody, Famous Burmese, Harry Shorto, Karen, Kayan, Khmer, laos, McNeil Tech, migrants, milk powder, minorities, Mon, Nargis, Natural Resources, Nay Phone Latt, Nelson Mandela, Obama, Padaung, photos, politics, prison, Rangoon University, sex industry, Shan, Thailand, unicode

Reflections

A Burmese student running after his death To the Future

Dictionaries

August went past so fast for me working with four dictionaries. Sigh..... Finally, here they are:

Burmese dictionary

http://sealang.net/burmese/

Burmese dictionary is mainly based on the Myanmar-English dictionary published in 1993 by the Myanmar Language Commission and republished in 1996 by Dunwoody Press (ISBN 1-881265-47-1)

Mon dictionary

http://sealang.net/mon/

Mon dictionary is based on the Dictionary of Modern Spoken Mon by H.L. Shorto (1962, Oxford University Press)

Shan dictionary

http://sealang.net/shan/

Shan dictionary is based on the Shan-English dictionary by Sao Tern Moeng (ISBN 0-931745-92-6)

Karen dictionary

http://sealang.net/karen/

Karen dictionary is based on the Drum Karen-English Student dictionary published by the Drum Publication Group in 2008.

If you do use them and find any errors or mistakes, please let me know.

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A voter's experience in the Burma's constitution referendum

A funny account of a voter's experience in the police state of Singapore. [a first-hand account in Burmese]
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Ludu Daw Amar's Funeral

Ko Hla has pictures of Ludu Daw Amar's funeral.
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