Speaker Tan Sri Pandikar Amin Mulia fails Human Rights standard test

  Speaker Tan Sri Pandikar Amin Mulia fails Human Rights standard test He is usually not neutral because he knows which side of the bread is buttered. Pandikar Amin (WRONGLY, according to Human Rights standard) told Fong that he did not think that the term was insulting as pendatang haram referred to illegals. Earlier, Datuk Seri Tiong King Sing’s (BN [...]

South Africa accuses Israel Navy of killing hundreds of Palestinian boat people from Gaza

South Africa accuses Israel Navy of killing hundreds of Palestinian boat people from Gaza WARNING: Readers must read the lower part of this news/article to understand the truth. Those reading the upper part only and failed to continue could be mislead or miss the real message. Cape town, South Africa(AFP) — South Africa said Sunday that hundreds of people were missing at sea, believed [...]

Arbitrary Rule by Law and Racial Discriminations causing difficulties even for the Burmese Muslim professionals’ migration to Malaysia

Xenophobia

Originally the word xenophobia comes from the Greek words xénos, meaning ‘the stranger’ and ‘the guest’ and phóbos, meaning ‘fear’. Thus, xenophobia stands for ‘fear of the stranger’, but usually the term is taken to mean ‘hatred of strangers’1. Xenophobia can be understood as “an attitudinal orientation of hostility against non-natives in a given population”.2 [...]

Allow migrants a chance at the M’sian Dream

Allow migrants a chance at the M’sian Dream My letter to the editor of Malaysiakini May 28, 08 4:26pm The present Singapore Prime Minister, Lee Hsien Loong, commented that if Singapore continued with the old procedure of giving citizenship, Singapore would become an old folks’ home for its Permanent Resident holders. So he started offering [...]

Don’t cry for me grandpa, Minister Mentor

Don’t cry for me grandpa, Minister Mentor    There is a Burmese saying_ “Kyaw poo dar_khan naing thee Naar poo dar_ma khan naing”. Most of the peaple could bear the heat on the back of the body (prefer to work hard even under the sun) but could not stand the (heat/ pressure) in the ears [...]

The Golden days of the Great Shan Empire V

The Golden days of the Great Shan Empire V Shans around the world (Tai peoples)  The Tai or Tai-Kadai ethnicity The Tai or Tai-Kadai ethnicity refers collectively to the ethnic groups of southern China and Southeast Asia, stretching from_ Hainan to eastern India and from southern Sichuan to Laos, Thailand, and parts of Vietnam, which [...]

The Arakanese Monk’s Burmese Way to Democracy

The Arakanese Monk’s Burmese Way to Democracy Copied and republished from Abid Bahar’s comments in Burma Digest December 20th, 2007 at 3:49 am Ashin Nayaka a native of Arakan, Burma is a leading member of the International Burmese Monks Organization in USA and a visiting professor, Department of History at Columbia University, New York. Recently [...]

The Golden days of the Great Shan Empire III

The Golden days of the  Great Shan Empire III To make it easy for the busy readers who could not give much time to read, I have prepared another version in notes form  below_  Shan (also known as Tai) lived independently up north round about 650 B.C. in China at the lower part of the Yangtze River. [...]

Factors that influenced the evolution of Burma Part VIII

Factors that influenced the evolution of Burma Part VIII Shans Shan (also known as  Tai) lived independently up north round about 650 B.C. in China at the lower part of the Yangtze River. 1. Shan’s (also known as Tai) migrated down through the present day Yunnan and desended further down into our  Burma and settled in the Shan Plateau. 2. A large [...]

Factors that influenced the evolution of Burma Part VI

Factors that influenced   the evolution of Burma Part VI   Pagan Kingdom During the time of the Pyu kingdom, between about 500 and 950, the Bamar, people of the Burmese ethnic group, began infiltrating from the area to the north into the central region of Burma which was occupied by Pyu people that had come [...]

Factors that influenced the evolution of Burma Part V

Factors that influenced the evolution of Burma Part V Mon Early History of Burma_ Humans lived in the region that is now Burma as early as 11,000 years ago, but the first identifiable civilisation is that of the Pyu although both Burman and Mon tradition claim that the fabled Suvarnabhumi mentioned in ancient Pali and Sanskrit [...]

Factors that influenced the evolution of Burma Part IV

Factors that influenced the evolution of Burma Part IV Pyu Pyu, one of the three founding father of Bamar or Myanmar race was believed to be the mixture of three groups; (i) Few insignificant local inhabitants since Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age, (ii) many migrants came from India bringing in Hinduism and Buddhism along [...]

Factors that influenced the evolution of Burma Part III

 Factors that influenced the evolution of Burma Part III  Settlements of Indian Migrants in Ancient Burma Orissa Orissa, Indian Buddhist colonists, arrived lower Burma, settled and built pagodas since 500 BC. Andhra Dynasty Hindu colonists, of Andhra Dynasty, from middle India (180 BC) established Hanthawaddy (Mon town) and Syriam (Ta Nyin or Than Lyin) in Burma. [...]