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A republic of southeast Asia, northwest of Thailand, long familiar as Burma. Its capital is Yangon, formerly Rangoon. Inhabited by people of Mongolian stock and probably of Tibetan origin, by the 3d century A.D. it was settled by Hindus. The modern Burmese state was founded in the 18th century but was in conflict with the British during the 19th century. Made a crown colony of Great Britain in 1937, it was granted independence in 1947. In 1989 it became Myanmar. The name comes from myanma, meaning the strong, as applied to the Burmese people themselves. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p192 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p367)
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I am currently attending MA in Community Development at Myanmar Institute of Theology, with my thesis scheduled for submission next semester. My first research used quantitative methods, and I plan to continue using quantitative methods in this research. I am looking forward your answer.Thank you.
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Greetings and what an amazing subject you have chosen Zaw, Good work
While existing research supports a relationship between education and reduced inequality, demonstrating a direct causal link may require gathering primary data. Specifically, comparing perspectives on inequality between educated and less-educated individuals within the same geographic area could provide quantitatively that the reason of inequality reduction is actually education increase
Good luck in this Zaw
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Poaceae (Gramineae) is the most difficult and very complexity infrastructure species position in even under genus level.Please may I request,I 'm being research and collection datas from wild cereal and grasses from Myanmar ,including difficut area and I will be propose the my research of Myanmar native and exotive's grass's data coming time. Therefore I would like to know at the present update classification according to APG system.
Thanks a lot for sharing knowledge for me and all researchers.
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Have a look at the three recent publications involving Dr Robert Soreng, see links below (Update II, Update III and Biogeography):
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I need some detailed information about the celebrations of tazaungdaing festival in Mawlamyine
1) what are the importance of tazaungdaing festival?
2) when is it celebrated? mean to say which month
3) what are the offerings made?
4) can you share some pictures of celebrations of tazaungdaing festival in Mawlamyine?
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There are some articles in google scholar about this festival. This one, for example file:///C:/Users/blue%20chameleon/Downloads/A%20Case%20Study%20for%20Development%20of%20Tradition%20and%20Culture%20of%20Myanmar%20People%20Based%20on%20some%20Myanmar%20Traditional%20Festivals%20(1).pdf
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Dear colleagues,
I would greatly appreciate any information on coral surveys, studies, reports etc. from the coastal waters of Rakhine State in Myanmar. Thank you.
Tomas
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Thank you Aleksandra and Alexander for the information, much appreciated. I have seen a number of good reports on Myanmar's coral reef resources but these were all from the southern regions of the country and none from Rakhine region. I am interested to find out just how far north do scleractinian corals occur along he Rakhine state and where does reef-building by the corals stops. It seems that St. Martin's Island (Bangladesh) could be the northern-most limit of scleractinian coral distribution in the northeastern Bay of Bengal, but the northern limit of coral reef formation seems to be further south. I would love to find out where are the northern-most coral reefs in the northern part of Rakhine state. The Ayeyarwady Mawdin report is very interesting since it clearly states that: " The reefs of the Mawdin Coast of Myanmar are not true coral reefs, but rather rocky reefs with some coral." This is very much the description of the coral communities on St. Martin's Island. St. Martin's Island is about 9 to 10 km off the Rakhine coast at the northern border with Bangladesh.
Once again thank you for your replies and the information.
Tomas
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There are more than eight places on the earth's surface located in various parts of the world including US, Armenia, Myanmar, Argentina, Saudi Arabia etc. where earth's gravitational force has no effect.
Why it is so? Scientific and argument based answer would be helpful to understand the mysterious phenomenon.
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Okay Arnaud Dion but all these are just views of various scientists and researchers non of them is absolute cause. May be in future some research reach the exact cause/s.
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Hi , I am a first-year doctoral researcher from London and currently working on research in foreign MNEs operation in Myanmar. I have been struggling to find the information in this area such as how many total foreign MNEs by sectors, countries and ownership etc.
Anyone knows how and where I can get that information and how can I get to the entry point for my research data in those companies? Any suggestions are welcome!.
Thanks.
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Thank you Elizabeth Rhoads for your helpful answer. I am really appreciated and I will try to contact them as you suggested and see what information I can get. Thanks again.
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As much as I know AMM and the Asia Foundation Myanmar already initiated the LG in Myanmar. We can find not so many but some local governance materials for our project. We need to study Myanmar Constitution 2008 to understand power and natural resource sharing among states and regions. The current trend of Myanmar is to become a federal democratic state while striving to accomplish national reconciliation and peace process with ethnic armed organizations. In the past, general administration department (GAD) which succeeded from British Colonial Administration and under the Ministry of Home Affairs which is directly controlled by the Military Chief. In 2018, the GAD is placed under the Ministry of Union Government and is being advocated to understand the role of public administrator in democratic governance. In my opinion, it will take time to train the GAD staff particularly leadership of GAD.
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Thank you for your comment.
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Dear All,
Greetings! Hope you are doing well!
We are happy to share that we are Editing a Book with Elsevier on "Data Deduplication Approaches: Concepts, Strategies and Challenges". Please find attached "Call for Chapters" 
This book aims to cover (but not limited to) the following:
1.  Introduction
2. Data Deduplication Approaches
3. File Chunking Approaches
4.  Classification Criteria for Deduplication Methods
5. Chunk Identification and Indexing
6. Metadata
7. Design and Implementation
8. Data Deduplication and Cloud Computing
9. Data Compression and Data Deduplication
10. Algorithms for Data Deduplication
11. Data Deduplication Systems and Case Studies
12. Data Formats
13. Performance Evaluation
14. Optimization
15. Applications of Data Deduplication
16. Future Research Direction
 If you are working in any of the related areas (above) then you can submit your interest to us at gr_sinha@miit.edu.mm
Important Dates
§ Submission of Abstract (500 Words): 15th March 2020
§ Acceptance of Abstract: 30th March, 2020
§ Submission of Full Chapter (25 Pages/11550 Words (approx.)): 25th May, 2020
§ Acceptance of Chapter: 15th June, 2019
§ Submission of Final Chapter (Revised with Permission & Copyright): 30th July, 2020
Looking forward to have your chapter (proposal) abstract.
Warm Regards,
Dr G R Sinha
Professor, Myanmar Institute of Information Technology (MIIT) Mandalay
Phone: +95-9773613344
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Dear researcher,
Recently on January 23, 2020, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the Hague ordered Myanmar to take all necessary measures to protect Rohingya Muslims from genocide. Killing has been reported even after that. How do you evaluate this order and the response of the authority of Myanmar to that?
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I believe what happens after the court order needs to be documented, same as other killings, and submit that to the ICJ and follow-up.
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I am going through a number of documents and papers on global and country-wise hilsa catch. As I can see 60-70% global hilsa catch come from Bangladesh. Having said that, different documents give different percentages. The countries like India, Myanmar, Thailand, Pakistan, Iran and a few others are also considered as hilsa nations. Is it possible to prepare a country-wise and year-wise hilsa catch data for all the hilsa nations, agreed by the scientists and supported by the authentic national data sources - that is non-existent at the moment.
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Sir, I guess there is no authentic estimation! Everything just measured through assumption. I have many confusion like why we stopped catching hilsha in different time like at this year October then earlier in August or July. Is there any scientific notes! We always said about migratory root but how they recruit through that channel and why they like that channel? I think that also another assumpted information. Still, we don't know why this root changed by Hilsha!! Only guess power and fixed matter are not liable for judgement for that. So, I think we need more specific about that issues.
Thanks sir.
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As a developing country Rohingyas are too much threatened for Bangladesh. they are also threatened for economic development, so Bangladesh Govt. Should take necessary steps for solving the Rohingya refugee crisis as soon as possible.
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tnx, Bangladesh govt.try his best for sending rohinga. I think international society don't want to help Bangladesh govt.
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If it would be possible that i found the hermit crab species Clibanarius vittatus in the Bay of Bengal especially Myanmar?
I found and identified it whick looks like thinstripe hermit but according to their distribution from literatures available, it is abundant in western Atlantic, gulf of maxico and forida. I could not foud their records for indian ocean especially bay of bengal.
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Hello Thet Htwe Aung,
Hermit crabs are notorious for cryptic species. A description of the specimen would greatly increase the chance of identifying it positively.
The chances of the species being Clibanarius vittatus are not high given it's distribution in the Western Atlantic, however, based on the identifying features of that species, there are a number of Clibanarius sp. in your area, some of which share similar features (such as C. padavensis, C.infrspinatus, C. signatus, and C. striolatus all having similar darker colouration patterns with light lengthwise stripes on the legs).
All the best,
Mark
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So many radical behavior on be half of religion had been exist. I. e. Rphingya in Myanmar, Uigur in China. It's fact that ethnic majority always colonised ethnic minority Only a few people speak up on that. Where the human rights "so called" Voice?
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Fight for your right, do not give up. We are all born free and equal.
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I would like to argue that state-media in Myanmar and international media has a different perception on human rights that creates a ditchotomy between the two contexts. What theories I could base my arguments on?
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Yes that can be for both political and philosophical reasons. Politically because human rights discourse seem to be dominated by the western powers and philosophically, human rights vision vary across states and cultures.
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I have recently collected 15 case studies from 15 Rohingya who have been able to escape genocide in Rakhine state of Myanmar. I have also got some photos of them and of the refugee camps in Bangladesh.
Can anyone please suggest whom I can approach for publishing this? It can be either online or print version.
Thanks!
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Thank you so much Stewart and Ibrahim for your help :)
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Signs of the infected quail are nothing special except congested lungs and enlarged kidney and also coughing but they are are suddenly dead , over 300 birds in one evening. I want to send the sample for lab-test but the poor farmers are not available for test-fees. So,who can suggest this condition and how can we treat or prevent disease?
  • Best regards and thank you,
Helena
Note; Some of the PM pictures taken are described below.
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As the other quail farmers are experienced like that disease every 3 or 4 years they said.
The symptoms are not significant except coughing but sudden death.They don't even know which diseased they faced in the previous events.Actually,I am a vet but I just graduated from about 3 months ago so I have less field-experience that's why I want to take some advice from the experienced people.
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The problem I am solving for is this:
I am currently leading a Sampark team, on an assignmentto help UNDP Myanmar- supported network of rural women SHGs federations. The SRGs are sustainabile, but the way forward for the national federation is difficult, they can do advocacy very well, but what can they do to become sustainable as a national network?
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Develop a set of goals and a clear purpose, then seek support from business leaders and government officials. Also, seek partnerships with well established organizations who advocate social sustainability. If you develop a sense of ownership by enlisting the help of prominent leaders and organizations, your network will thrive.
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I have been doing ecological studies in Red-headed Vulture in Nepal and during my literature review, I realized that not more studies in this species have been conducted in the region. So could someone suggest is there any ecological status or simply study on population has been conducted in China (mainland), Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam?
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In my model, log form of cpi in usd is determined by log form of money supply in myanmar kyats, log form of consumption in myanmar kyats, log form of import in usd. Is this possible? And how could be the interpretation?
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Hi,
Thank you indeed for your good explanation . That means a lot to me
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Can anyone to identify the plants in the Photo? Photo made in Myanmar. 
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Dear Dr. Anna,
The plant in the centre (large leaved one) is most probably Dillenia pentagyna (Dilleniaceae).
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Can anyone to identify the species in the Photo? Photo made in Myanmar. 
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Adiantum aleuticum is a wrong suggestion.
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How is that modernization theory can and cannot explain about the history of dictatorship and democratization in Burma Myanmar over the last 50 years?
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The theory is likely to explain certain areas where the culture and practice of Burmese are similar to other (eg. western) societies.  But Myanmar has its own national cultural and social practices that are unique.  In those areas, the modernization theory may not be able to explain things equally well.
"The culture of Myanmar (also known as Burma) has been heavily influenced by Buddhism and the Mon people. Burmese culture has also been influenced by its neighbors India,Thailand and China. In more recent times, British colonial rule and westernization have influenced aspects of Burmese culture, including language and education." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_Myanmar
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Since 2010 Burma/Myanmar is doing such a great gesture of democratization, from the constitution renewal and the election in 2012. But what's the reason behind this sudden change?
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The Taylor & Francis journal, Strategic Analysis, Volume 37, Issue 1, 2013  has an interesting debate about this question. The comment / argument from K. Yhome perhaps best sketches against which earlier events the change must be seen:
1) killing of protesting monks in september 2007 in a country where monks are highly revered. this may have divided the military
2) events that were strongly critisized home and abroad - aftermath of cyclone Nargis in 2008
3) attack on ethnic group on chinese border, pushing refugees into china, this leading to criticism from china
Together this may have increased disconsensus amongst the military, who then opted for change. 
 Orther comments question the degree of change however. 
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I am working on the project regarding drinking water quality in East Myanmar area. There are only a few monitoring results. Is there anyone who has any information about water quality condition of Salween and/or Ataran river in east Myanmar?
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The Salween River is known to be relatively pristine with high biodiversity values. However developments on the river, including hydropower and water diversion projects (16 dams planned, 2004 reports), will destroy the delicate balance between the river and its catchment area. An investigation was carried out during spring 2006 across 42 sampling sites of the four major Tibetan rivers  including Salween  for various elements including cadmium, copper, lead, mercury and zinc,. The results of this study found negligible amounts of Cd (<0.0002 µg/L), Cu ( <0.001-1.23 µg/L), Hg (<0.001 µg/L), Zn (0.54-18.2µg/L) in rivers, though elevated concentration of Pb (<0.10-781 µg/l) was found in a tributary to the Salween River.
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Huang, X., Sillanpää, M., Duo, B. and Gjessing, E.T. 2008. Water quality in the Tibetan Plateau : Metal contents of four selected rivers. Environmental Pollution 156: 270-277.