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Myanmar's contemporary politics around ethnicity surround treating ethnicity as a minoritising discourse, pitting a "pan-ethnic" national identity against minority groups. Often ethnicity identities in practice are flexible- sometimes as flexible as simply changing clothes- in part due to a lack of religious or caste stratification prior to ...
Shwe Kokko Myaing (Burmese: ရွှေကုက္ကိုမြိုင်; lit. ' golden raintree forest '), commonly known as Shwe Kokko (Burmese: ရွှေကုက္ကို, Chinese: 水沟谷; pinyin: Shuǐgōugǔ), is a town in Myawaddy Township, Myawaddy District in the Kayin State of south-east Myanmar. [1]
Cadets of the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) preparing for military drills at the group's headquarters in Laiza, Kachin State. Kawthoolei Army leader, Saw Nerdah Mya. The following is a list of non-state armed groups involved in the internal conflict in Myanmar, officially called ethnic armed organisations (EAOs) by the government of Myanmar.
Mong Ko lies by the China–Myanmar border, 25 km east of Pang Hseng (Kyu Koke). [6] There is a border checkpoint in the town. [ 7 ] The town on the Chinese part of the border is Manghai in Mangshi county-level city, Yunnan Province .
Most cities in Myanmar are contained within one township like Pathein. In some cases, the rural portions of the township may be administered semi-independently as sub-townships. [9] In larger cities, like Mandalay, the municipality may be functionally administered at a district level with townships acting de facto as subdivisions of a city. [10]
The area was only opened up to foreign tourism in 1997 after negotiations between Myanmar and dive operators from Phuket in Thailand. [11] [8] The best diving conditions exist from December to April, with whale sharks and manta rays visiting from February to May. A five-star casino and golf resort, the Andaman Club now operates on Thahtay Kyun.
Burmese Malays (Malay: Melayu Myanmar/Melayu Burma, Jawi: ملايو ميانمار , Burmese: ပသျှူးလူမျိုး, Pashu) [1] is a Malay ethnic primarily live in Tanintharyi Region in the southern part of Myanmar. There are some dispersed Malay from the northernmost states of Malaysia and from southern Thailand.
Sri Ksetra, Bago, Myanmar. Payama stūpa from the south. The Payama stūpa is located north of the ramparts of Sri Ksetra near the village of Koneyoe (at 18°50'3"N 95°18'7"E). It is reported in the Myanmar chronicles to have been built by king Duttabaung to house relics of the Buddha. The structure is built of brick and lime mortar on four ...