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Description: List of published books and links to more than 20 online documents, mostly on the Mon, the Karen and internal displacement in Burma/Myanmar ....."Ashley South is an independent writer and consultant, specialising in humanitarian and political issues in Burma/Myanmar and Southeast Asia."
Source/publisher: Ashley South
Date of entry/update: 2009-01-24
Grouping: Websites/Multiple Documents
Language: English
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Description: Full text online: about 80 Burma-related articles, reviews and papers...Purchase details: 8 Books...CV + bibliography of longer items (under "About")
Source/publisher: Asia Pacific Media Services
Date of entry/update: 2009-04-29
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Language: English
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Description: PUBLICATIONS(BOOKS); JOURNAL ARTICLES AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS; CONFERENCE PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS.
Creator/author: Donald Seekins
Source/publisher: Donald Seekins
2007-02-12
Date of entry/update: 2007-02-22
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Language: English
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Description: Mainly online material
Creator/author: Gustaaf Houtman
Source/publisher: Gustaaf Houtman
Date of entry/update: 2011-01-07
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Language: English
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Description: Independent Journal of Burmese Scholarship: Mission Statement ▽ "The Independent Journal of Burmese Scholarship — လှတျလပျသော မွနျမာ့ သုတသေန ဂြာနယျ — is a new, open access, digital journal of humanities (history and literary criticism) and social sciences. It aims at fostering the development of vigorous, critical, and independent research of the highest quality on Burma by scholars both in Burma and abroad. The Journal will be published in Burmese, with full text or summary translations in a second language (i.e., one of the major languages of world scholarship or one of the non-Burman written languages of Burma). The editors hope to promote scholarly excellence by a system of peer review, editorial advice, and by supplying authors with digital copies of related research not easily otherwise available to them. We envision publishing bi-annually, often on particular themes selected by the editors and announced in advance. We encourage submissions by young scholars and aspiring amateurs as well as established academics. All authors? work will be held in the strictest confidence by the editors and their identities will be protected under a pen name if they so wish. We hope that the Independent Journal of Burmese Scholarship will help both create and display the fruits of a growing, independent, and assertive scholarly community."....August 2016 Volume 1, no. 1 - ?Special Issue on Poverty”
Source/publisher: Independent Journal of Burmese Scholarship
2016-09-00
Date of entry/update: 2016-09-28
Grouping: Websites/Multiple Documents
Language: English, Burmese (မြန်မာဘာသာ)
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Description: Revised December 2002
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
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Language: English
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Description: Brooten, L. (forthcoming, November 2008). Burmese political cartoons and the transnational public sphere in times of crisis. International Journal of Comic Art, 10(2): 254-281...Keywords: cartoons, Irrawaddy, Saffron Revolution, Nargis, transnational public sphere, media analysis, media representation.....Brooten, L. (September 2008). The 'pint-sized terrorists'of God's army: Child soldiers, media and global politics. Journal of Children and Media (2)3...Keywords: child soldiers; ethnic minorities; media; Orientalism; media representation; textual analysis.....Brooten, L. (2008). 'Media as our Mirror': Indigenous Media in Burma (Myanmar). In P. Wilson & M. Stewart (Eds.), Global Indigenous Media: Cultures, Practices and Politics. Duke University Press...Keywords: indigenous media, indigenous video, ethnic minority media, opposition movement, media representation, victimization, stereotypes, solidarity, agency.....Downing, J. & Brooten, L. (2007). ICTs and Political Movements. In R. Mansell & R. Silverstone (Eds.), Oxford University Press Handbook on Information and Communication Technologies. Oxford University Press. [Burmese media is a case study in this chapter]...Keywords: political movements, communication technologies, media, social change.....Brooten, L. (2007). Myanmar (Burma). Encyclopedia of Global Perspectives on the United States. Great Barrington, MA: Berkshire Publishing Group...Keywords: US-Burma relations, history, sanctions, Iraq War.....Brooten, L. (2006). Political Violence and Journalism in a Multi-ethnic State: A Case Study of Burma (Myanmar). Journal of Communication Inquiry, 30(4), 354- 373...Keywords: political violence; journalism; journalism training; indigenous (or ethnicbased) journalism; media development.....Brooten, L. (2005). The Feminization of Democracy Under Siege: The Media, 'the Lady' of Burma, and U.S. Foreign Policy. National Womenâ's Studies Association Journal, 17(3): 134-156...Keywords: media representation, gender and media, Orientalism, representations of democracy, 'protection scenario,' post cold war geopolitics.....Brooten, L. (2004). Human rights discourse and the development of democracy in a multi-ethnic state. Asian Journal of Communication, 14(2): 174-191...Keywords: media representation, refugees, refugee policy, human rights discourse, ethnic minorities.
Creator/author: Lisa Brooten
Source/publisher: Lisa Brooten
2008-10-31
Date of entry/update: 2008-10-31
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Language: English
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Description: Many publications, some accessible online
Source/publisher: School of Oriental and Africal Studies (SOAS)
Date of entry/update: 2015-11-03
Grouping: Websites/Multiple Documents
Language: English
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Description: Revised December 2002
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
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Description: "Ce dossier n'a pas pour objet de faire un point general sur l'etat des recherches sur la Birmanie (Union du Myanmar). Une excellente synthese, qui depasse en outre le cadre francais, a recemment ete proposee par Pierre Pichard et Francois Robinne en introduction au volume Etudes birmanes en hommage a Denise Bernot (Paris : Presses de l'Ecole francaise d'Extreme-Orient, 1998). Ce volume comporte egalement une bibliographie indicative des ouvrages et articles concernant la Birmanie parus entre 1985 et 1998..." Denise Bernot (linguistique, Professeur emerite) | Benedicte Brac de la Perriere (ethnologie, CNRS) | Anne-Cecile Brajon (etudes indiennes, Universite Paris III) | Michel Bruneau (geographie, CNRS) | Aurore candier (histoire, EPHE) | Marie-Helene Cardinaud (birman, Inalco) | Anne-May Chew (histoire de l'art/archeologie, Paris III) | Cristina Cramerotti (conservateur, Inalco) | Karine Delaye (histoire, EHESS) | Alexandra de Mersan (ethnologie, EHESS) | William Lang Dessaint (ethnologie, Professeur) | Emmanuel Guillon (etudes mones, Inalco) | Jacques Ivanoff (ethnologie, CNRS) | Jacques Leider (histoire, Inalco) | Francois L'Homer (birman, Inalco) | Helene Nut (histoire, Inalco) | Sylvie Paquet (histoire, CNRS) | Pierre Pichard (EFEO) | William Pruitt (linguistique/sciences religieuses, Pali Text Society) | Catherine Raymond (histoire de l'art/archeologie, Inalco) | Francois Robinne (CNRS) | Guillaume Rozenberg (ethnologie, EHESS) | Alice Vittrant (sciences du langage, Paris VIII) | Marie Yin Yin Myint (birman, Inalco)
Creator/author: Guillaume Rozenberg
Source/publisher: L'Association francaise pour la recherche sur l'Asie du Sud-Est (AFRASE) - Dossier (lettre no. 53, mars 2001)
2001-03-00
Date of entry/update: 2005-05-24
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Description: "Note: These entries will gradually be annotated. Furthermore, an entry is only included once, regardless of wider relevance. Eventually, all entries will be cross-listed to indicate other areas where a particular piece of research might be of use. This list has been compiled chiefly from direct surveys of the literature with additional information supplied by the bibliographies of numerous and various sources listed in the present bibliography. Additional sources include submissions from members of the BurmaResearch, EarlyBurma, and SEAHTP egroups, as well as public domain listings of personal publications on the internet. DISCLAIMER: This bibliography is solely a guide or survey to the literature. No claim is made for the accuracy or completeness of the information provided in this bibliography. The information provided is intended only as an initial survey of the literature. This site and its owner do not accept any responsibility for problems resulting from the use of the information provided. All information should be verified elsewhere. Suggestions are always welcome. Please note that newspaper and newsletter aricles will not be included in this list, as most are short pieces or extracts from already, or eventually to be, published works. © 2002 Michael W. Charney All rights reserved. This bibliography may be downloaded, copied, or printed, in whole or in part, solely for academic, non-profit purposes only and only under the following conditions: (1) the title page, containing full compilation and copyright information, must be retained and remain the only title page and (2) this bibliography must not be altered in any way. This is an end-user arrangement: this bibliography may not be recirculated or reposted, either in hardcopy or in electronic form. Downloading or copying this bibliography constitutes a binding agreement to the above-mentioned terms and conditions. For more information, contact Michael W. Charney at [email protected]. I. Archaeology & Pre-Pagan Era I. A Pre-Pagan: General Forbes, C. J. F. S. Legendary History of Burma and Arakan. Rangoon, Government Press. 1882. Despite the title there is very little here on Arakan [M.W.C.]. Ito, Toshikatsu. “Cotton Production and the Dry Areas in Mainland Southeast Asia From the 6 th to the 9 th Centuri[es].” In Fukui Hayao (ed.),The Dry Areas of Southeast Asia: Harsh or Benign Envrionment? (Kyoto: Kyot University, 1999): 95-105. Luce, G. H. Phases of Pre-Pagán Burma: Languages and History. 2 vols. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985. Luce, G. H. “The Advent of Buddhism to Burma.” In L. Cousins and A. Kunst (eds.). Buddhist Studies in Honour of Miss. I. B. Horner. (Dordrecht, 1974): 119-137. Movius, Hallam L., Jr. “Stone Age in Burma.” Transactions of the American Philosophical Society 32 (1943): 341-393. San Nyein, U. “Nyaunggan Bronze Age.” In Proceedings of the Myanmar Two Millenia Conference, 15-17 December 1999 (Yangon: Universities Historical Research Centre, 2000): III, 1-9. Stargardt, Janice. Tracing Through things: The Oldest Pali Texts and the Early Buddhist Archaeology of India and Burma. Amsterdam: Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. 2000. Than Tun. “Prehistoric Researches in Myanmar.” In Traditons in Current Perspective: Proceedings of the Conference on Myanmar and Southeast Asian Studies, 15-17 November 1995, Yangon (Yangon: Universities Historical Research Centre, 1996): 25-29. I. B. Pre-Pagan: Upper Burma Aung-Thwin, Michael. "Burma Before Pagan: The Satus of Archaeology Today." Asian Perspectives 25 (1982-83): 1-21. Brown, G. "The Origin of the Burmese." Journal of the Burma Research Society 2.1 (1911): 1-8. Burney, Henry. “Discovery of Buddhist Images with Deva-nagari Inscriptions at Tagaoung, the Ancient Capital of the Burmese Empire.” Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal (1836): 157- 164. Grant-Brown, W. F. "The Pre-Buddhist Religion of the Burmese." Folklore 32 (1921): 77-100. Luce, G. H. “Old Kyaukse and the Coming of the Burmans.” Journal of the Burma Research Society 42.1 (1959):. 75-109. Luce, G. H. "Davaravati and Old Burma." Journal of the Siam Society 53 (1965): 9-25. Miksic, John. “Cities in Ancient Myanmar: Orthogenetic or Heterogenetic?” In Proceedings of the Myanmar Two Millenia Conference, 15-17 December 1999 (Yangon: Universities Historical Research Centre, 2000): III, 21-38. Myint Aung, U. "The Capital of Suvannabhumi Unearthed?" Shiroku 10 (1977): 41-53. Nay Thaung, Daw, et al. “The Record of the First New Finding on the Occurrence of Anthropoid Primates? Pilopithecus in Myanmar.” Myanmar Historical Research Journal 3 (December 1998): 1-6 + plates. Charney (comp.) 9 Ni Ni Myint, Daw. “ Report on Recent Archaeological Finds in Budalin Township: Sagaing Division.” Myanmar Historical Research Journal 3 (December 1998): 7-9 + plates. Nitta, Eiji. "The Situation of the Neolithic Culture of Padah-lin Caves in the Context of Southeast Asian History." In Okudaira, Ryuji, Saito, Teruko, & Than Tun (eds.), Burma and Japan: Basic Studies on their Cultural and Social Structure (Tokyo: The Burma Studies Group[Japan], 1987): 161-168. Tin Thein. “ Primates of Pondaung.” Myanmar Perspectives 2.4 (1997): 66-69. I.C. Pre-Pagan: Lower Burma & the Pyu Aung Thaw. (ed.). Reports on the Excavations at Beikthano. Rangoon: Sarpay Beikman. 1968. Gutman, Pamela. “ The Pyu Maitreyas.” In Traditons in Current Perspective: Proceedings of the Conference on Myanmar and Southeast Asian Studies, 15-17 November 1995, Yangon (Yangon: Universities Historical Research Centre, 1996): 165-178. Luce, G. H. "The Ancient Pyu." Journal of the Burma Research Society 27 (1937): 239-253. Luce, G. H. "Rice and Religion: A Study of Old Mon-Khmer Evolution and Culture." Journal of the Siam Society 53 (1965): 139-153. Sao Saimöng Mangrai. “ Did Sona and Uttara come to Lower Burma?” Journal of the Burma Research Society 59 (1976): 155-164. Shorto, H. L. “ The Gavampti-Tradition.” In Himansu Bhusan Sarkar (ed.). R. C. Majumdar Felicitation Volume (Calcutta 1970): 15-30. Stargardt, Janice. The Ancient Pyu of Burma. Vol. I: Early Pyu Cities in a Man-made Landscape. Cambridge: 1990. Stargardt, Janice. “ Hydraulic Works and Southeast Asian Polities.” In David G. Marr & A. C. Milner (ed.), Southeast Asia in the 9 th to 14 th Centuries (Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies): 23-37. I.D. Pre-Pagan: Western Burma Ali, Syed Murtaza. "Chandra Kings of Pattikera and Arakan." Journal of the Asiatic Society of Pakistan 6 (1961): 267-274. Banerji, R. D. "Unrecorded Kings of Arakan." Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal (New Series) 16 (1920): 85. Ghosal, S. N. "Missing Links in Arakan History." In M. E. Haq (ed.). Abdul Karim Sahitya-Visarad Commemorative Volume; Essays on Archaeology, Art, History, Literature and Philosophy of the Orient. (Dacca: 1972): 255-266. Ghosh, J. C. "The Candra Dynasty of Arakan." Indian Historical Quarterly 7 (1931): 37-40. Gutman, Pamela. "Ancient Arakan (Burma) With Special Reference to its Cultural History Between the 5th and 11th Centuries." Ph.D. Dissertation, Australian National University, 1976. San Shwe Bu. "A Votive Tablet Found at Akyab." Journal of the Burma Reearch Society 8 (1918): 39- 40. San Shwe Bu. "The Legend of the Early Aryan Settlement of Arakan." Journal of the Burma Reearch Society 11.2 (1911): 66-69..."
Source/publisher: Michael W. Charney (SOAS)
2002-09-26
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Description: "It is with great pride that we present this, the first issue of the Journal of Burmese Scholarship (Thi saq myin hnan) to public intellectuals and scholars of Burma. We hope, with this and the issues to come, to make a significant contribution to the many admirable efforts now underway in Myanmar to create a vibrant, daring, and critical public sphere of the highest standards. The formula that we begin with is designed to foster a long- lasting intellectual community and civil debate around critical themes of central concern to Myanmar’s public life and future development. Each issue of the Journal is the culmination of one or more thematic workshops bringing together scholars, journalists, novelists, poets, scientists, and public intellectuals who have had something original and important to say on the topic. At a workshop, these participants present their work to one another, absorb what the other participants have to say through discussion and debate and then revise their own work accordingly. The result, in Burmese and in English, is then edited and published, both digitally and physically. It is especially fitting, then, that our first thematic issue is devoted to poverty in Myanmar, its sources, its extent and, above all, the lived experience of poverty among ordinary citizens. It is our intention to let the light come in from any and all intellectual windows: the arts, fiction, verse, lyrics, social science, economics, anthropology, history, memoirs. Our premise is that no discipline or specialty has a monopoly on truth or insight and that the more carefully crafted perspectives we can accommodate the more light we will shed. Among the other themes/workshops either underway or contemplated are: 1. Intellectuals, Technocrats and Rulers 2. Military Memoirs and Burmese History 3. Popular History from Below and Marginality 4. The Development of Burmese Arts and Letters 1930-2010 5.Student Activism: Aspirations, Representation and Prospects from Colonialism to the ”Opening.” 6. Federalism, Ethnic Identity, and Nationalism 7. History of Prisons and Prison Literature from the Colonial Period to Today. In some respects we see ourselves as reviving, under a new name, the precious tradition of the Journal of the Burma Research Society, founded in 1910 and abolished in 1979 by the military regime. For the better part of a century, that journal was an open forum for scholars, professional and amateur, Burmese and non- Burmese, historians, social scientists, literary critiques, archeologists and we value the opportunity to recreate, for a new era, the open bazaar of quality work that its journal represented. The idea for such a journal arose in October 2011 at a meeting of seven Burmese scholars in the diaspora and three Western scholars of Burma, before the “opening.” Once it became clear that political conditions might allow us to operate in Myanmar with open participation, we added six members to the organizing committee and now plan to publish a physical journal based in Yangon. We have all observed, first-hand, the tremendous intellectual energy and organizational initiatives (little societies, discussion groups, NGO’s, charities, etc.) that have burst into the open over the past several years. We hope that out small initiative will contribute in a small way to this hopeful and energetic public culture....."
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Source/publisher: Pansodan Books (Volume 1 Number 1)
2016-07-00
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Description: "David Arnott, who died earlier this month in Thailand, was at the vanguard of online activism targeting Myanmar’s regime and spent the last two decades of his life building the internet’s largest collection of material about the country. By TIMOTHY MCLAUGHLIN | FRONTIER Mr David Arnott, a longtime human rights activist who built and for almost two decades dutifully maintained a vast online collection of Myanmar documents, died earlier this month in Mae Sot, Thailand. He was 77. Arnott’s death at his home on December 7 was confirmed by Daw Khin Ohmar, a fellow activist and friend. The cause of death was heart disease, she said. Arnott’s health had deteriorated in recent years. Melding decades of dogged activism with a penchant for combing through piles of source material, Arnott began creating an online archive of documents related to Myanmar in 2001. The collection, officially titled The Online Burma/Myanmar Library, grew continuously over the next 19 years, more than living up to its claim to be the “largest single source of organised Burma/Myanmar material on the internet”. Built on a shoestring budget, Arnott’s bare-bones website provided anyone with an interest in Myanmar and an internet connection (even a patchy one) access to tens of thousands of pages of material: news stories, government announcements, reports, laws and legal documents, some dating to the 1800s. Much of it had been previously unavailable in a digital format and all of it was provided at no cost. The library would have been a tremendous resource for research on any country, but was all the more valuable because for much of the site’s life the military’s State Peace and Development Council government heavily restricted the flow of information out of Myanmar. Exiled journalists pored over the state-run newspapers Arnott uploaded daily, searching for clues on who was on the rise and who among the ruling military brass had been “allowed to retire”. Academics and researchers navigated the prosaic pale yellow-coloured site, overlaid with dark brown headings and body text and bright blue links, in search of documents to bolster their research. “At a time when authoritarian regimes are finding new novel ways to stifle the collection, management and distribution of information, he [Arnott] had already amassed an unparalleled cache of documents on one of the most closed dictatorships of the 20th century,” said Mr Lee Morgenbesser, a senior lecturer at Griffith University in Australia. “Thanks to his efforts, the Burma Library has been an invaluable resource for scholars investigating the very nature of Myanmar politics and society.” Arnott’s project began as activists outside Myanmar were experimenting with online advocacy, which was then still in its infancy. Ms Edith Mirante, the author of two books on Myanmar, first met Arnott in the mid-1990s and described him as an “intellectual adventurer”. He envisioned building an ever-expanding online library made up of not only mainstream press and dissident sources, but also government edicts and historical materials important to researchers seeking a wide range of perspectives. In many ways, she said, “he was ahead of his time on understanding free information access as key for Burma’s future”. There is no doubt that he succeeded in his mission. Tributes to Arnott’s legacy were shared on social media and spread quickly among Myanmar watchers and activists in the days following his death. Martin Smith, a Myanmar researcher and analyst who first met Arnott in London in the late 1980s, wrote that the library was a “powerful testimony to a lifetime of selfless endeavour and human rights dedication”. A focal point for activism David Nicholas Arnott was born October 13, 1947 in Dewsbury, England. He studied at Reading University and travelled extensively in the 1960s and 70s. An avid photographer, Arnott wrote that while he did occasionally take photos of landscapes or people, he preferred to take pictures of walls, rubbish bins and trees, the “ugly or banal – valorising the everyday”. It’s not known if he had any family members or relatives. Throughout the early 1980s Arnott founded a number of organisations focused on Buddhism, Tibet, Vietnam and the Chittagong Hill Tracts region in southeastern Bangladesh, according to a copy of his resume. In 1987, he turned his focus to Myanmar, co-founding the Burma Peace Foundation with the assistance of an influential UK-based Sayadaw, U Rewata Dhamma. Arnott relocated the organisation four years later to New York City to be closer to the United Nations, where he assisted activists and provided UN officials with information on Myanmar. The same year Arnott founded the Burma Action Group UK, which became the advocacy group Burma Campaign UK in 1999. Arnott then uprooted in the mid-1990s and moved to Geneva, where he remained a constant presence in and around the UN. Mirante recalled him wheeling a stack of documents nearly as tall as himself into a meeting of the International Labor Organization on forced labor in Myanmar. He had, she said, “collected everything, organised thousands of pages, so much proof of human rights violations, the incontrovertible evidence that was needed”. Over the years Arnott welcomed hundreds of Myanmar activists to his small apartment in Geneva, which was just steps away from the Palace of Nations. His living room, which doubled as an office, was covered with maps of Myanmar and stacked with filing cabinets and books. Arnott’s collection of tropical plants snaked through the space, making it resemble a scene from the sci-fi novel “The Day of the Triffids”, said Ms Debbie Stothard. The founder and coordinator of ALTSEAN-Burma, Stothard stayed with him during her visits to Switzerland in the late 1990s and early 2000s. During major UN meetings, Stothard said, his apartment would be crammed with visitors. To feed the crowd, Arnott, a vegetarian and Buddhist, cooked large pots of red curry with pumpkin, canned beans and whatever other vegetables he could purchase at a discount. Stothard estimated she had “smuggled kilos” of curry paste to Switzerland for him in her years visiting Geneva. In October 2001, Arnott launched the Online Burma/Myanmar Library. It soon became the Burma Peace Foundation’s main activity. The creation of the site came a few years after Myanmar activists had begun to skilfully embrace the internet, using it not just to share information but also wage campaigns aimed at pressuring corporations to boycott the country and governments to take tougher measures against the military. Maung Zarni, then a graduate student, founded the Free Burma Coalition in the mid-1990s, pioneering the use of the internet in advocacy work. Around the same time, Mr Douglas Steele, a recent university graduate, launched the BurmaNet newsletter, compiling news from along the Thai-Myanmar border and sending it out on a daily basis. The newsletter delivered a near-daily news roundup to inboxes until the end of 2016. ‘You can find them on the OBL’ For many years, OBL, as the library is widely referred to by its enthusiastic users, had a rudimentary appearance. What it lacked in style it more than made up for in substance. Working mostly on his own, Arnott compiled the thousands of documents and catalogued them, including daily updates of state-run newspapers – The New Light of Myanmar, Myanma Ahlin and Kyemon – that carried detailed, if monotonous, official reports on the inspection tours and meetings of government officials, as well as screeds against the military regime’s critics. The library included more obscure periodicals, like The Mon Forum, and ones with limited or no internet presence at all. “On the border, we were in the jungle; we didn’t have a place to archive meetings. The publications, we don’t have them anymore, but you can find them on the OBL,” said Khin Ohmar. The library also contained a host of other valuable material like the 13-volume Burma Code, an enormous set of laws and regulations dating from 1818 to 1954. Mr Thomas Kean, the former editor of The Myanmar Times, said Arnott was often the first to alert him that the newspaper’s IT team had forgotten to upload the most recent edition of the paper to the site in a PDF format. The site was regularly offline due to internet outages, technical issues or hacking attempts, and Arnott, always eager to make sure he didn’t miss an edition, was usually the first to enquire when it would be back up and running, Kean said. “David’s dedication to ensuring The Online Burma Library had a complete archive of everything in the public domain was unwavering,” said Kean, who is now editor-in-chief of Frontier. Relocation to Mae Sot in 2004 meant Arnott could more easily liaise with the active Myanmar community on the border, but government restrictions on the internet within Myanmar kept many people there from accessing the library. That ended in 2011 when controls on the web were eased by the government of then-President U Thein Sein. A recent funding proposal to expand the library said Google Analytics showed some 30 percent of the traffic to the site now originated from within Myanmar. The library, which subsisted on small grants and donations, faced financial difficulties in recent years. Like many border-based organisations, it struggled to attract support as donor funding increasingly shifted to Myanmar-based groups. Arnott, who friends described as extremely private and at times could be demanding and abrasive, also found fundraising activities “very tedious”, the recent funding proposal said. He resisted promoting the library on social media, in part to avoid any appearance of bias. In 2018 the site received its first major facelift since its launch almost two decades earlier. Along with a more modern palette and fonts, the interface was re-worked and search function improved. Arnott was keen to add more Burmese and texts in ethnic minority languages, such as Pwo and S’Gaw Karen, to the library. He also had contemplated handing off operations and moving it inside Myanmar. Khin Ohmar said the library transcended the political changes of Myanmar and the waves of people who have become interested in the country over time. It is exhilarating, she said, when someone tells her that they have found the site for the first time. “I’m so thrilled to see that the young generations have access to it.”..."
Source/publisher: "Frontier Myanmar" (Myanmar)
2020-12-18
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Sub-title: News of the death of meteorologist U Tun Lwin spread like wildfire on social media on Monday even though he was just an unassuming man who, during a nearly 45-year career, provided the most accurate and timely weather forecasts in the country.
Description: "Everybody in the country loved him for that. He even has his own page on Wikipedia, the online encyclopaedia. “Sayar U Tun Lwin was a professional and good-hearted weather expert. He contributed a lot to the country with his knowledge and spirit of goodwill,” said cartoonist Aw Pi Kyal. “All of his time was spent helping others. His Facebook chatbox was always green, even in the wee hours of the morning,” he added. “While some people may have cursed when his weather forecasts were wrong, he never failed to do his job with the best intentions,” he added. U Tun Lwin had been and out of Grand Hantha Hospital in recent months for treatment of chronic diabetes. His family announced he passed away at the age of 72 late Monday. His funeral will be today at 5pm at Yayway Cemetery in Yangon. “He was an ideal man for the country and environmentalists. He knew his profession from A to Z, and was able to explain a difficult subject in easy-to-understand language, which made him a very valuable person. He did his best for his country,” said environmentalist Daw Dewi Thant Zin..."
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2019-11-06
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Description: "A bibliography is never complete. No matter how conscientious the compiler there will always be gaps and scope for additions , particularly to select bibliographies . In this regard , Burma ( renamed in the 2008 constitution as the Republic of the Union of Myanmar) is certainly no exception. Indeed, several developments over the past three years argue strongly for the preparation of an updated checklist of the English language literature on Burma. 1 Since the first edition of this work was released in July 2012, there has been an increased flow of new, revised and reprinted publications about Burma. A survey of publishers? catalogues and booksellers? websites suggests that this trend is set to continue for some time. This activ ity reflects a high level of interest in the country, not only in official and academic circles, but also among the wider public. This interest is likely to be maintained in 2015, when Burma?s hybrid civilian -military government is due to hold national ele ctions and, in early 2016, to choose a new president. The outcome of these competitions will be critical to the future of President Thein Sein?s ambitious reform program, launched in 2011, and to Burma?s relations with the wider world. As this edition of the bibliography helps to demonstrate, most of the public (and scholarly) interest in Burma over the past few years has been related to the country?s politics and economy, accounting for the large number of new works in those categories. This has included several important edited works, with chapters provided by a range of noted Burma watchers, covering such issues as the continuing political role of the armed forces, unresolved tensions with the ethnic minorities, the obstacles to further economic develop ment and the growth of civil society. Also, the increased number of postgraduates working on Burma in Western and other countries has led to specialised studies on areas and issues that, until now, had rarely been subject to close examination..."
Creator/author: Andrew Selth
Source/publisher: Griffith Asia Institute
2015-04-00
Date of entry/update: 2017-04-24
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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Description: "... These days, Burma?s transition from tyranny to democracy is partly stymied by the opposition?s attempt to institutionalize the memory of our past political divisions. Instead of putting forward a vision for the future and policies to make that vision a reality, the opposition leadership tends to employ a "good-versus-evil" political narrative as a key frame of reference in mobilizing the public. The opposition, of course, can gain a significant advantage by using this polarizing ploy. The public?s distrust and hatred of the previous junta still poisons its opinion of the current pseudo-civilian government. However, using history as a campaign instrument has only encouraged dark forces within the establishment to defend themselves using "biology" in campaigns advocating racial and religious purity. These have ranged from an attempt to prohibit interfaith marriage, to rampant anti-Muslim hate speeches, to outright communal violence. The country is gradually sliding into a history-versus-biology political battle as it approaches the 2015 elections. What we really need is a truly democratic contest of vision and policy. The country lacks a sense of unity. True reconciliation and healing remain elusive in this fragile transition. Mandela was right. When invoking memory becomes a political strategy, society suffers from a lack of imagination. Without a new vision for the future, we cannot move on and be reborn..."
Source/publisher: "Foreign Policy"
2013-12-07
Date of entry/update: 2015-03-16
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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Description: "There was a time when the small community of professional Burma-watchers in the West could claim with some confidence that they were conversant with most, if not all, the academic and non-scholarly literature about the country. That situation has changed and it is now very difficult, if not impossible, to keep fully abreast of the outpouring of publications devoted to Burma (or Myanmar, as it is now called). There are a number of reasons for this. After the Second World War, Burma was largely forgotten by the West. Except for events like Burma?s independence from Britain in 1948 and Ne Win?s military coup in 1962, it was rarely reported in the popular press. It featured in a few Hollywood movies, but they tended to hark back to the war. Even when the threat of communist ?subversion? in Southeast Asia began to attract global attention, Burma?s problems were not considered as important as those of states like Vietnam. It was not until the 1980s that the work of pioneering journalists like Bertil Lintner, writing in the old Far Eastern Economic Review, encouraged observers to look more closely at the country..."
Creator/author: Andrew Selth
Source/publisher: "New Mandala"
2015-02-16
Date of entry/update: 2015-03-09
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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