Daw Aung San Suu Kyi to use Facebook

(From: Facebook)

Burma's pro-democracy leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi said she wants to join other pro-democracy activists by using Facebook. This is the first time that Daw Aung San Suu Kyi expressed her desire to use Facebook after her previous announcement to use Twitter a few months ago.

The pro-democracy icon said she finally has her first Internet connection at her Rangoon home, and while she has paid more than $1,000 to a junta-controlled company for the privilege, the connection is too slow to access social networks.

Having an intention to congratualate the Burmese iT expert and promote Burmese words world-wide, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi expressed her willingness to use "Twitter" just before her release from house-arrest. At that time, she was silent on the Facebook.

"Twitter is a Burmese word that is derived from Twot-tee Twitter which is the same meaning in English. That's why, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi wanna use my Twitter" said Daw See, a Burmese old lady who is the founder of Twitter Inc in USA. Her name "Jack Dorsey" is the corrupt-pronounciation of the original Burmese name Daw See.

Ma Zagar Bauk (her name is mistakenly pronounced as Mark Zuckerberg), another Burmese young lady, was unhappy at that time for the news about Daw Aung San Suu Kyi who was not interested in her Facebook.

"I was upset for that when I heard about Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's wish to use Twitter, not my Facebook", 26-year-old Burmese young lady told Burma Strange News. "Now, I am glad to hear that Daw Suu wants to use Facebook", she added.

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Old Burmese Woman- Now the Most 'Liked' Living Person on Facebook

Burmese Rapper "A May Nann" (Photo: sodahead.com)

An old Burmese woman, A May Nann (အေမနန္း), (her corrupted American pronounciation is "Eminem") might have lost out on her bid for the Grammys' Album of the Year, but that hasn't weakened her following one bit. The old rapper continued her recent siege on social networks and digital media by officially overtaking Lady Gaga as the most "liked" artist on Facebook. With over 28,883,000 "likes" at press time, A May Nann has narrowly surpassed Lady Gaga's "like" tally of 28,872,000, and with A May averaging over a half-million "likes" a week according to FameCount, the rapper will only widen the gap between herself and Gaga. .

Lady Gaga attained the "most-liked person" distinction in July of last year, when she overtook the leader of the free world as most-liked. (At the time, President Obama had 9.4 million Facebook fans; Gaga had 10 million.) .

This means A May Nann is more well-"liked" than both Lil Wayne and Oreo's, but not as well-"liked" as Michael Jackson, who leads all Facebook "likes" with 29.1 million. At this pace however, A May Nann should steal the King of Pop's FB throne in approximately one day..

Even though A May Nann is now the Queen of Facebook "likes," she still heavily trails Lady Gaga in the Billion Views Club on YouTube. Earlier this week, clicks on A May Nann's music videos combined to reach 10 digits, with Slim Shady becoming only the third artist behind Gaga and Justin Bieber to reach a billion views. But A May Nann still trails Gaga's total view count by more than 190 million. While Bieber owns the record for most YouTube views with 1.34 billion (Gaga's got 1.19 billion), has some major work to do on the Facebook front: His 21.8 million "likes" trail both Gaga and A May Nann by nearly seven million. In fact, Lil Wayne, with 20.4 million "likes," threatens to overtake Bieber on Facebook in the near future.

http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/amplifier/88541/eminem-now-the-most-liked-living-artist-on-facebook/

Burmese Folk Dance

Gaddafi is a forest-dwelling Hermit

What's happening in Naypyidaw ???

(Courtesy: Youtube/ MrFireLove1)

Girls in Rangoon

(Cartoon: Win Myint Aung)

Burma's Express Train

Steve Jobs Gifted an iPhone 4 to Russian President, And It’s Locked to AT&T Till Date

(Photo: redmondpie)

What would you call Jobs for this? A man who always plays by the book even if it’s the Russian President he’s dealing with or a complete douche bag? Speaking of playing by the book, if the iPhone has to be locked to the AT&T, it should be locked for the Russian president too. However, on the other hand, what’s the point of the gift which Mr. President couldn’t use till date. I just voted for the Steve Jobs as douche bag.

Back in June 2010, Russian president, Dmitry Medvedev, visited US during which he also got to meet up with CEO of Apple, Steve Jobs. To appreciate the efforts of taking out the time to meet him, Jobs gifted him an iPhone, locked to AT&T.

This was disclosed earlier this week in a tweet by the assistant to President, which read:

@babdima тот телефон был с прошивкой AT&T, здесь – не очень работает:)

Translation of which is (according to Google Translate):

@babdima that the phone was flashing with AT&T, here – not working

http://www.redmondpie.com/steve-jobs-gifted-an-iphone-4-to-russian-president-and-its-locked-with-att-till-date/

Burmese Girl With 12 Fingers, 14 Toes Aims for a Record

Strange Logos of MAI- Myanmar Airways International

(MAI in its own Logo. Photo: M Radzi Desa)

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(MAI in Orient Thai Asia's Logo. Photo: Chaity)

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(MAI in Pegasus Air's Logo. Photo: Beiley)

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(MAI in Air Bagan's Logo. Photo: M Radzi Desa)

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(MAI in Pacific Air's Logo. Photo: Stephane Mutzenberg)

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Burmese king's palace gets makeover

India's state government has planned a major makeover for the palace in which the last king of Burma, King Thibaw, stayed during the latter half of his life. The historic palace is situated in the heart of Ratnagiri. The palace was set up by the British to house King Thibaw and his family, who were exiled after the British conquered Burma.

The department of archaeology and museums has decided to transform the palace, which was declared a state-protected monument in June 2000, into a museum. full-fledged and one of its kind museum inside the palace, which was declared a state protected monument in June 2000. The department has the custody of the palace.

Quoating above news, Democratic Voice of Burma, DVB, reported that "Ratnagiri Palace" was built following the architectural style of "Mandalay Palace". Comparing two palaces, it is observed that only the red colour is similar. However, there is no similarity between the two palaces.

(Reconstructed Mandalay Palace. Photo: travelpod)

(Ratnagiri Palace. Photo: OKTaTaByeBye)

Read more: Burmese king's palace gets makeover - The Times of India http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/Burmese-kings-palace-gets-makeover/articleshow/7471567.cms#ixzz1FQVbbfId

DVB News: http://burmese.dvb.no/news.php?id=13648

Bogyoke Aung San's Birthday

Burmese Media expands Arabic language web-page

Irrawaddy Blog, an exiled Burmese media, expands its new internet page in Arabic language as seen in above. It seems that "Irrawaddy" is willing to promote the news of Burma into the Arab World.

How does Burmese-English Dictionary define the meanings of ethnic groups?

(Picture: GuideForMyanmar)

က Ka /ka./ v dance (p.1)။
ခ်င္ Chin /chin/part particle denoting wish or desire to do or have sth (p.71)။
က+ခ်င္ ka+chin (Kachin)= wish or desire to dance

ကယား Kayah /khaja: (kaja:)/ n beaker; jug with beak and handle; vessel with spout and handle; kettle (such as a tea-kettle) (p.5)

ကရင္ Kayin, Karen /kajin/ n thin-walled bamboo, the slender clums of which are used in making the handles of paper umbrellas (p.6)

ခ်င္း Chin /gyin:/ n ginger (p.71)

ဗမာ Bamar /bamar/ n one of the suites in the three-deck domino game (p.311)

မြန္ Mon /mun/ pron [obs] term of address used among women (p.375)

ရခိုင္ Rakhine /jakhain/ n name of a species of banana (p.389)

ရွမ္း Shan /shan:/ n suit of dominoes in a three-deck domino game (p.421)

Reference: Myanmar-English Dictionary. Published by Department of the Myanmar Language Commission. Ministry of Education. Union of Myanmar. (9th Edition). 2008.

37 Nats Government

(Photo: topdecktours)

Burma's new president Thein Sein recently submitted the names of 34 Ministers for the cabinet. When combined with two vice-presients and a president, there will be altogether 37 members for a new sugar-coated government, like 37 Nat-spirits of Burmese history.

Burmese Journals printed in USA & distributed inside Burma

(Cover of theRayofLight)

Under the leadership of the new president, the Burmese government recently ended its censorship on medias. Now, many Burmese journals and magazines without censorship are printed in USA; and, after that, they are directly imported to Burma and distributed inside the country.

Yangon Media Group says "no president" in Burma between 1948 and 1962

(theyangontimes webpage)

Yangon Media Group reported about Thein Sein as the first president of the Republic of the Union of Burma. It means that there was no president between 1948 and 1962 - the period that was known as the Republic of the Union of Burma. According to Yangon Media Group, Sao Shwe Thaik- a well-known First President of Burma- was not the first president.

Obama is afraid of Mubarak

(Photo: 7Day Journal)

Hosni Mubarak is an extremely powerful person. Being a President who has ruled Egypt nearly 30 years, he is more powerful than Barack Obama because the latter got the power for only two years. Above photograph proved that Obama was afraid of Mubarak. Please look at it carefully.

Burmese will be nick-named "Plastics"

Oversea Burmese are widely known as "Golds" inside the Burmese community living abroad. However, in future, Burmese must be called "Plastics" because of an order that was issued yesterday.

Burma's customs department has restricted Burmese air passengers leaving the country from wearing "Gold Ornaments". As a result, it would be impossible for oversea Burmese to wear "Golds". It seems that they would wear "Plastic Fancy Objects" instead of Gold in future. If it happens like that, the nickname of "Burmese" would be changed to "Plastics".

http://www.bernama.com.my/bernama/v5/newsworld.php?id=561343

MPs eating Pork curries

"MPs are eating delicious pork and mutton curries" said Dr Dr Khin Shwe, a Burmese tycoon and MP representing the USDP party, in an interview with the Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB).

Dr Dr Khin Shwe obtained two Doctoral degrees. Of them, the first PhD was a fake one offered by a fake organization. Later, Rangoon University presented him an honorable PhD in replacement of his first natorious one. That is why, he is known as Dr Dr Khin Shwe for his two infamous PhDs.