Yangon, #Burma
#Thilashin – Buddhist novice nuns – pray at Shwedagon Pagoda.

Photograph: Sirachai Arunrugstichai/Getty Images

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thilashi…

#photography
#Buddhism

“Maybe it comes from all the Chinese novels I grew up reading, the heroines always found a way to fight back against injustice.”
#Myanmar #burma #exile #feminism

globalvoices.org/2025/12/08/he…

Today I learned from one of our PhD students from Myanmar that they don’t have a surname. In her culture people all have individual names, typically beginning with a name chosen by their parents that starts with the same first letter as the day of the week they were born, to correspond to their horoscope.

She therefore knew exactly what day she was born, while the two New Zealanders in the room had to look that up on our calendars.

The link below has some more about it. Also notable are that “Burmese women generally do not change their name at marriage” and “Burmese people may also change their name at any point in their life.”

culturalatlas.sbs.com.au/myanm…

#TIL #naming #CulturalDiversity #Myanmar #Burma

Myanmar (Burmese) - Naming

Information on naming conventions and practices, as well as how to address others

^{Cultural Atlas}

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Today in Labor History September 18, 1988: The 8888 Uprising in Myanmar ended. Students started the protests in Yangon. As the protests spread, hundreds of thousands of monks, children, university students, housewives, doctors and common people joined the movement to overthrow the military dictatorship. Up to 10,000 people were slaughtered over the 6-month protest movement.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #burma #myanmar #uprising #protest #demonstrations #students #dictatorship #massacre #civilians

Arab spring → crushed. 💩

Ukrainian Maidan, squeezed over the line and going strong despite 2014+2022 invasions by russia 🥳

Hong Kong anti-dictatorship mass protests → crushed by the CCP 💩

Burma/Myanmar protests → civil war, struggling military dictatorship backed by CCP and russia 💥

Now Nepal youth/social media takeover (!) → ??

In the 1990s Nepal dumped the (Hindu) royalty, elected pro-CCP communists, became a vassal of the CCP while depending on India...
Now they're between the aggressive CCP and the hindu-nationalist India with both vying for influence/control. 💥??

(+ many more anti-regime uprisings which haven't changed the status quo)

#Ukraine #ArabSpring #Hongkong #ccp #burma #myanmar #Nepal #India

Really sad news from #Myanmar. Ma Wutt Yee Aung sounds like a true hero. We've lost another bright, young leader, someone we should have empowered and elevated, not ignored and allowed an oppresive regime to murder.

irrawaddy.com/opinion/guest-co…

#news #humanrights #burma #TootsSEA #southeastAsia

“An officer – he must have been a new arrival, and a right clown – ran out in front of the company and shouted, with enthusiasm: ‘Men! The war in Europe is over!’”

—The novelist George MacDonald Fraser – then a lance-corporal in the Border Regiment in the British Fourteenth Army – spent VE Day in 1945 waiting to attack a Japanese-held village in Burma. From his memoir QUARTERED SAFE OUT HERE

@bookstodon

harpercollins.co.uk/products/q…

#Scottish #literature #VEDay #VEDay80 #WW2 #memoir #Burma

“QUARTERED SAFE OUT HERE … provides insight into what it takes an individual to survive, both (with luck) physically and, more importantly, ethically”

– retired Australian Army officer Jason Thomas on George MacDonald Fraser’s memoir of the WW2 Burma campaign

warroom.armywarcollege.edu/spe…

#Scottish #literature #history #memoir #war #WW2 #Burma

2/5

ON GOOD PENMANSHIP: QUARTERED SAFE OUT HERE (DUSTY SHELVES) - War Room - U.S. Army War College

The China Burma India Theater doesn't always get the attention it deserves. Jason Thomas gives us a DUSTY SHELVES review of Quartered Safe Out Here by George MacDonald Fraser

^{Jason Thomas (US Army War College)}

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hachyderm.io/@skinnylatte/1142… skinnylatte@hachyderm.io - Burmese-Singaporean thinker Yan Naung Oak has a lovely piece on 'Seapunks':

Not scifi, which romanticizes technology; not cyberpunk, nor solarpunk.

But a uniquely SE Asian concept. Mandalas, Myanmar, environmentalism, capitalism and other topics:

'Captures our culture of living with and finding ways to thrive in a world that will continue to be neither completely utopian nor dystopian.'

I always enjoy Yan's work

livingwithshoggoths.substack.c…

#Singapore #TootSea #Myanmar #Burma #Asia #SEAsia

We have always been Seapunks

How I got enamoured with South East Asia’s answer to Solarpunk

^{Yan (Living with Shoggoths)}

Today in Labor History September 18, 1988: The 8888 Uprising in Myanmar ended. Students started the protests in Yangon. As the protests spread, hundreds of thousands of monks, children, university students, housewives, doctors and common people joined the movement to overthrow the military dictatorship. Up to 10,000 people were slaughtered over the 6-month protest movement.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #burma #myanmar #uprising #protest #demonstrations #students #dictatorship #massacre #civilians

Myanmar rebels turn their guns on the Rohingya

#Burma #Myanmar #Rohingya #Rakhine

theguardian.com/global-develop…

Thousands flee after Myanmar rebels use drones to bomb Rohingya villagers

Arakan Army targeting Muslim minority as Myanmar’s military are driven out of Rakhine, UN official says

^{Kaamil Ahmed (The Guardian)}

Burmese typography in Peninsula Plaza, which is the de facto Little Burma of Singapore

(Nikon FE, 50mm, Kodak Gold)

#Typography #Burmese #Burma #Myanmar #Photography #FilmPhotography #Singapore #TootSea

Skulls of #deer, #boar, and other animals adorn the hut of a ‘Pasal Tha’ (Good husband) or ‘Good hunter’ in a remote village in #Burma ( #Myanmar). A #tradition to show your status in society (and a good provider) back in the old days. On the right are dried #Maize to be eaten off season. 2021 click.

#Culture #Hunting #Travel #Photography #Fotographie #Fujifilm