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What can be Done When a Country's Military Starts Slaughtering Civilians: Part 7

17 May 2021 2 minute read 2 comments Cje95

It has been a minute since I last wrote about the ongoing struggle occurring in Myanmar. While some things continue to be done concrete moves by either side have not yet occurred. If anything has been shown it is that the civilian population will not...

19th July,A Sad Day to Remember for all of Burma

19 Jul 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Tikyi Khant

On this day in 1947, approximately about 10:37 am,at the Secretariat in downtown Yangon,many of Burma's Independence leaders were assassinated by an armed group of a rival political group,supplied by British forces while they were having a meeting....

At Least 162 Killed in Myanmar Jade Mine Collapse

2 Jul 2020 1 minute read 1 comment AverageVancouverite

At least 162 bodies have been recovered, 54 injured people have taken to local hospitals, and many others remain missing after a heap of mining waste collapsed into a lake, burying many miners at a jade mining site in the Hpakant area of Myanmar's Ka...

WHO Driver Killed While Collecting Covid-19 Samples

21 Apr 2020 1 minute read 1 comment AverageVancouverite

28 year-old Pyae Sone Win Maung, a driver collecting Covid-19 monitoring samples on behalf of the World Health Organization (WHO), was killed and another health worker was injured after their well-marked United Nations vehicle was hit by gunfire near...

My journey through Asia, Myanma, The Maha Aung Mye Bom Sam Monastery

17 Sep 2019 1 minute read 4 comments marianomariano

The Maha Aung Mye Bom San, well known as Me Nu Oak - Kyang (Brick Monastery), was built in 1822 by Nanmadaw Me Nu, Chief Queen of King Bagyidaw, for the royal abbot Nyaung gan Sayadaw U Poe, Then Offered to the 2nd Nyaunggan Sayadaw U Bok.It was als...

My journey through Asia - Myanmar, Bagan

5 Dec 2019 1 minute read 0 comments marianomariano

Myanmar (former name is Birma). 4 am. This is how we travel to the sunrise to see balloon flights over Bagan. It's cool, temperatures on the continent at night can reach 5-6 degrees. The driver explains to me where we are going. It is not easy - he...

My journey through Asia, Myanmar, Mandalay

4 Sep 2019 1 minute read 0 comments marianomariano

The tedious art of arranging mosaics from pieces of colored glass and a mirror gives such a final effect. The tedious art of arranging mosaics from pieces of colored glass and a mirror gives such a final effect.