Salween News Online : สาละวินนิวส์ออนไลน์
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Unfettered imagination.
By Thanwa Sirimatee One day at the beginning of last year, a group of people hurried through the streets of central Rangoon. It was almost midnight, when most Burmese were already asleep, but this group had been invited to a gallery to see a secret exhibition of paintings by three well-known artists.
English article, ศิลปะวัฒนธรรมPar Par Lay The Mustache Brothers : The Bravest Comedians in Asia.
By Thanwa Sirimetee. On January 4, 1996, the doors of Aung San Suu Kyi’s residence in the heart of Rangoon were opened to welcome some 2,000 visitors coming to celebrate Burma’s Independence Day. Among the street performers entertaining the crowd that day was the Mustache Brothers, a renowned comedy trio from Mandalay. Bursts of laughter [...]
English article, สิทธิมนุษยชนGems in Burma: The Treasure at the Heart of the Battle
By Thanwa Sirimetee Kachin State: Land of Jade Beneath the ground in Kachin State, on the border of China and India, is the world’s best “green rock” – jade, or yoke as it’s called in Thai. The jade emerges from its ancient encrustation of earth in shades of green ranging from lucid to opaque. The [...]
English article, เศรษฐกิจThe Mae Tao Clinic : Light in the darkness on the western border.
By Thanwa Sisimetee Mochae had been coping with rheumatic heart disease for five of his 12 years. He couldn’t play with the other boys in Myawaddy town in Hpa-an, the capital of Karen State.. A doctor at a hospital in Yangon told his mother he needed heart surgery urgently, but the family’s meagre income was [...]
English article, สุขภาพLife hanging by a thread in the Karen state war
By Arthit Tarakham – The river for life project / www.searin.org The sun descends gloomily behind a mountain overlooking the Salween River. In a surge of waves, a long-tail boat arrives at the sandy bank and 70 passengers, exhausted from a gruelling trip, pile off and haul their belongings into the last light of day.
English article, กะเหรี่ยง, ผู้พลัดถิ่นPath of the Tribal People From Karenni State to the Refugee Camp
By Thanwa Sirimetee When I was 10, about a decade ago, I faced the worst nightmare of my life when the Burmese Army raided our village in Karenni State. They forced everyone from their homes, confiscated their belongings and burnt down the village. My mother ran into the forest while my father gave himself up, [...]
English article, คะเรนนี, ผู้ลี้ภัยThe Future of Children’s Education in Burma
By Thanwa Sirimetee “I’ve never failed an exam, so I don’t need money to pay for re-examinations, but the problem with moving up to Grade 6 is having to buy more textbooks. I have to help my mother work even harder.” Win Ko U, 11, has come to pay homage at the Kyaiktiyo Pagoda in [...]
English article, การศึกษาThe border of imagination in Burma’s literature
By Thanwa Sirimetee The border of imagination in Burma’s literature Literature customarily combines imagination and reality. When it emerges from the reality of an authoritarian military regime that controls freedom of expression, imagination is also being controlled. The imagination is severely curtailed in Burmese literature, forcing writers to be courageous and persevering in its use. [...]
English article, วรรณกรรม, สื่อมวลชนLife in the darkness: Shan male sex workers
By Keeratigarn Coloured spotlights flash across a small room crowded with Thais and foreigners. All eyes are on two young, muscular men dancing on the stage in the centre, both wearing bikini briefs that barely cover their pubic areas. They dance erotically, arousing desire in the audience members. In a dark corner of the room [...]
English article, แรงงานข้ามชาติ, ไทใหญ่Open Borders, Demand Keep Wildlife Trade Going
By MYINT ZAW* MUSE, Burma – Asked if he sees many wild animals in the forests nearby, the head of a village in Shan state near the Burma-China border quips, “You people from the big cities have a better chance to see animals than us, because you have zoos and we have an empty forest.”
English article, สิ่งแวดล้อมOn the western border, and on the margin
By Ronald D Renard I am an American who first became interested in the Karen people over 35 years ago. I learned about them while teaching in Thailand between 1970 and 1972. In 1971 I visited Mae Tia village where a Christian movie was being made called “Mae Sariang Thi Rak” (Beloved Mae Sariang), in [...]
English article, กะเหรี่ยง, ประวัติศาสตร์THE SHAN: Music Weaves through Imagined Community
By Thanwa Sirimetee Music is able to create an imagined community among people living in different times and places.
English article, ศิลปะวัฒนธรรม, ไทใหญ่VDO
