Content categories | Links to and description of content | |||
Maps/Flag | The flag Description of the flag and its meaning. The World Flag Database: Flag and map of Myanmar. |
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Images of Myanmar/Burma | Burma in pictures - pictures of early Burma (downloadable eBook) | |||
Food | Image: Foraging for a living |
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Culture | Image: Burmese dancers |
Image: Papier mache art |
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Transport | Image: River travel |
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Faith | Image: Bagan Temple, Myanmar |
Image: Shwenandaw Monastery carvings |
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Politics | Image: Imperial Burma 1910 |
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Information Culture |
AsiaRecipe.com - food, religion, history, mythology and other aspects of culture | |||
History | Google search results for the history of Myanmar Burma History of Burma - a Scribd article which gives the history of Burma since 1044. The New Internationalist gives a short history of Burma |
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Politics | Subversive technology - Introduction to the Saffron Revolution and Burma's struggle for democracy (Slideshare) |
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Events | World Vision's Cyclone Nargis response programme - video footage from Cyclone Nargis and from Myanmar two years on. Cyclone Nargis - how the cyclone happened (Slideshare) |
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Faith | ||||
General information | Wikipedia - 38 pages offering a comprehensive overview of Burma. Burma - from Wikimedia, general facts, figures, and images from Burma. |
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Demography | CIA World Fact Book - Burma's geography | |||
Education | Wikipedia (illustrated entry) - High Schools in Burma |
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The opium trade | WorldNetDaily - Afghan war lifts Burma's opium trade | |||
The gem trade | Human Rights Watch - The gem trade bolsters the military regime Richard Hughes - book chapter: History of the Burmese gem trade |
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Music / Dance
Dance |
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Myanmar dance - Blip TV |
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Music | Image: Horn |
Image: Harp |
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Karen song - Video Audio: guitar tune, Karen refugees |
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Videos | Flickr video Boat on Inle Lake: shows life along the shore and on the water. |
You Tube video Ear piercing in Thailand and Myanmar |
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You Tube video The tribes of Myanmar - The Long Neck Padaung |
You Tube video Shoot on sight: The plight of Karen refugees |
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You tube video Child soldiers in Burma |
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Education | Karen State Education Assistance - YouTube video showing communities throughout Karen State and discussing Burma's struggle to keep schools open for their children. Doctors from Burma awarded at a ceremony (of the Myanmar American Medical Education Society) for making the top 1 percentile list on two US doctorate exams (You Tube ). |
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Readers, eBooks, comics, magazines, podcasts | iTunes Trailer of award winning HBO documentary about the 2007 uprising in Myanmar. Burma past and present - by Fytche, Albert (eBook) The Road to Mandalay: A Tale of Burma - by Croker, B. M. (Bithia Mary), 1849-1920 (eBook) |
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Newspapers | The Guardian - has over 700 articles on Burma |
Download the word document:
Our cultural village Myanmar Burma (Word 973KB)
Published on: 19 Feb 2018