notes and study aids on Myanmar language

Thursday 26 August 2010

Sitagu Sayadaw's prison donations


This short account of a donation by Sitagu Sayadaw to prisoners in Insein Prison comes from 7 Day News Journal, August 26th 2010, vol. 9. No. 23, p. 3.

Tuesday 24 August 2010

The Voice on checks and balances


The following is an editorial published in The Voice Weekly, August 23 – 29, 2010, p. 4, on the topic of checks and balances in Thai and Myanmar political systems.


Monday 23 August 2010

Kayin People's Party Interview


This post contains an interview conducted by The Voice Weekly with U Saw Say Wa, General Secretary of the Kayin People’s Party. This extract was published in The Voice Weekly, August 23 – 29, 2010, p. 26.


Sunday 22 August 2010

Kayin People's Party


This post contains an introduction summary of the Kayin People's Party extracted from The Voice Weekly, August 16 - 22, 2010, p. 26. The Voice Weekly is running a series of introduction summaries (such as this one) on the various registered political parties in Myanmar.

Friday 20 August 2010

Thein Pe Myint (31)


The following text and translation covers page 31 (the final page) of Thein Pe Myint's short story "ငွေစိန် လှေလှော်ရင်း တက်ကျိုးခြင်း", which I have scanned from page 359 of "ဝတ္ထုတိုပေါင်းချုပ်သစ်" [A new collection of short stories]. With this post, the translation series of this short story is completed.


Thursday 19 August 2010

Thein Pe Myint (30)


The following text and translation covers page 30 of Thein Pe Myint's short story "ငွေစိန် လှေလှော်ရင်း တက်ကျိုးခြင်း", which I have scanned from page 358 of "ဝတ္ထုတိုပေါင်းချုပ်သစ်" [A new collection of short stories].


Thein Pe Myint (29)


The following text and translation covers page 29 of Thein Pe Myint's short story "ငွေစိန် လှေလှော်ရင်း တက်ကျိုးခြင်း", which I have scanned from page 357 of "ဝတ္ထုတိုပေါင်းချုပ်သစ်" [A new collection of short stories].


Tuesday 17 August 2010

Thein Pe Myint (28)


The following text and translation covers page 28 of Thein Pe Myint's short story "ငွေစိန် လှေလှော်ရင်း တက်ကျိုးခြင်း", which I have scanned from page 356 of "ဝတ္ထုတိုပေါင်းချုပ်သစ်" [A new collection of short stories].

Sunday 15 August 2010

Thein Pe Myint (27)


The following text and translation covers page 27 of Thein Pe Myint's short story "ငွေစိန် လှေလှော်ရင်း တက်ကျိုးခြင်း", which I have scanned from page 355 of "ဝတ္ထုတိုပေါင်းချုပ်သစ်" [A new collection of short stories].


Saturday 14 August 2010

Thein Pe Myint (26)


The following text and translation covers page 26 of Thein Pe Myint's short story "ငွေစိန် လှေလှော်ရင်း တက်ကျိုးခြင်း", which I have scanned from page 354 of "ဝတ္ထုတိုပေါင်းချုပ်သစ်" [A new collection of short stories].


Tuesday 10 August 2010

Thein Pe Myint (25)


The following text and translation covers page 25 of Thein Pe Myint's short story "ငွေစိန် လှေလှော်ရင်း တက်ကျိုးခြင်း", which I have scanned from page 353 of "ဝတ္ထုတိုပေါင်းချုပ်သစ်" [A new collection of short stories].

Monday 9 August 2010

Thein Pe Myint (24)


The following text and translation covers page 24 of Thein Pe Myint's short story "ငွေစိန် လှေလှော်ရင်း တက်ကျိုးခြင်း", which I have scanned from page 352 of "ဝတ္ထုတိုပေါင်းချုပ်သစ်" [A new collection of short stories].

Sunday 8 August 2010

Thein Pe Myint (23)


The following text and translation covers page 23 of Thein Pe Myint's short story "ငွေစိန် လှေလှော်ရင်း တက်ကျိုးခြင်း", which I have scanned from page 351 of "ဝတ္ထုတိုပေါင်းချုပ်သစ်" [A new collection of short stories].  The last sentence finishes on the following page with the words "အကြောင်းမျာ ရှိသည်။".

 

Thein Pe Myint (22)


The following text and translation covers page 22 of Thein Pe Myint's short story "ငွေစိန် လှေလှော်ရင်း တက်ကျိုးခြင်း", which I have scanned from page 350 of "ဝတ္ထုတိုပေါင်းချုပ်သစ်" [A new collection of short stories].


Saturday 7 August 2010

The Voice editorial: trust-building


This post contains a March 2009 editorial from The Voice newspaper entitled "Trust-Building" that was reprinted in The Voice, August 9 - 15, 2010, p. 7.


Thein Pe Myint (21)


The following text and translation covers page 21 of Thein Pe Myint's short story "ငွေစိန် လှေလှော်ရင်း တက်ကျိုးခြင်း", which I have scanned from page 349 of "ဝတ္ထုတိုပေါင်းချုပ်သစ်" [A new collection of short stories].

Thein Pe Myint (20)


The following text and translation covers page 20 of Thein Pe Myint's short story "ငွေစိန် လှေလှော်ရင်း တက်ကျိုးခြင်း", which I have scanned from page 348 of "ဝတ္ထုတိုပေါင်းချုပ်သစ်" [A new collection of short stories].


Friday 6 August 2010

Thein Pe Myint (19)


The following text and translation covers the page 19 of Thein Pe Myint's short story "ငွေစိန် လှေလှော်ရင်း တက်ကျိုးခြင်း", which I have scanned from page 347 of "ဝတ္ထုတိုပေါင်းချုပ်သစ်" [A new collection of short stories].

Thursday 5 August 2010

Thein Pe Myint (18)


The following text and translation covers the page 18 of Thein Pe Myint's short story "ငွေစိန် လှေလှော်ရင်း တက်ကျိုးခြင်း", which I have scanned from page 346 of "ဝတ္ထုတိုပေါင်းချုပ်သစ်" [A new collection of short stories].


Thein Pe Myint (17)


The following text and translation covers the page 17 of Thein Pe Myint's short story "ငွေစိန် လှေလှော်ရင်း တက်ကျိုးခြင်း", which I have scanned from page 345 of "ဝတ္ထုတိုပေါင်းချုပ်သစ်" [A new collection of short stories].