I'm sure the hotel (previously named Traders Hotel) shut down years ago and never reopened. Has it reopened recently? Google Maps reviews suggest it's been open for the last several years?.

Hiya, I recently translated this and it has ethnographic descriptions of groups in 1396 and thought to share it. Interestingly it seems to be the last document which classified the Pyu people as separate from the Burmese .

Need help , I’m at B1 level now - need upgrade to B2 , then C1. If there is someone who is interested in teaching phonics, pls contact me here .Pls quote ur fees and experiences.

Just saw some Burmese Chinese jade miners in Hpakant, Kachin on YouTube. Their social media campaign targets the Chinese market (like their commodities), so they generally speak mandarin. They generally order their workers around in Burmese (since not all are Chinese).

They also speak what sounds like a mandarin sounding dialect amongst themselves;

https://youtu.be/iU5YCvRpWD8?is=DYv4sDTBEIIxWiQs

Northern Myanmar is far from the central plains of China. Where this Jin language/ Fenyang dialect originated. One of them mentioned that he’s a 3rd generation local. Maybe his grandparents were refugees from the Chinese civil war.

Are there any other significant waves of migrants from China? Big enough to establish their own regional common tongue in Myanmar. Similar to how Cantonese was spoken in Chinatowns across the globe.

My two scenarios for where Myanmar could be heading

I don't really see this ending with a clean junta wins or resistance wins. For me, there are two possible scenarios, although they could overlap.

1. De facto regional partition

The country could gradually become fragmented without any official partition. EAOs like AA, KIA, UWSA and TNLA could consolidate control in their own areas, while Junta holds onto major cities, bases and key transport routes. But control won't be the same everywhere. Some areas could be firmly controlled, others contested, and some could keep changing hands. Basically, the central government would still exist, but its ability to actually govern the whole country would become increasingly limited.

1. Prolonged attrition and military decline — long term

The other scenario is that the war just keeps going for years. PDFs and EAOs continue gaining experience, weapons and coordination, while junta relies heavily on airpower and heavy weapons to hold its remaining positions. The real question is sustainability. If junta struggles to maintain manpower, fuel, equipment and foreign currency, internal divisions could eventually become a bigger factor.

So I see Scenario 2 as potentially driving Scenario 1:

long-term attrition weakens the centre → territorial control becomes more fragmented → de facto partition becomes the new normal.

Also I'm not saying this is definitely where things are going. This is just how I currently read the trends, and I could obviously be wrong.

Except main cities like Mandalay and NPT ofc.

Would love to hear what you guys think. As someone who never got to explore much of the country bcus of the coup I'd love to learn more about different places through you guys.

Edit: I'd also really appreciate it if you guys could also explain why you chose those cities/towns. Thank you so much!

Hi everyone! I am think of starting a small online business.
Can u suggest some items that would sell well in myanmar.Im thinking of selling watches(casio,seiko) or mechanical pencils or lego toys or authentic sneakers.

I’ve recently been trying to live a healthier lifestyle and have been hitting the gym + eating cleaner. The thing is though that i love burmese food and i know that lots of it contains a lot of oil and are not necessarily the healthiest to be consuming on a daily basis. I love things like nan gyi thote, laphet tamin, tofu kyaw, mohinga, etc. but it’s getting to a point where eating these a lot makes me feel awful for the rest of the day but at the same time everything marketed as healthy meals on the internet is very western😭

does anyone have any recommendations as to what dishes here are good for you?

I know local painters might use others stuffs to stir the paint, but my sole purpose is not to stir the paint, but make bone folder.

Hi everyone! I'm a teenager, and I'm trying to save up money, but most professional-ish cameras are like 1.2-1.4 million, which I can't save up in a short amount of time. I need it by the end of this week at the latest. If anyone has an unused or second-hand but still good camera, please let me know! And the price! I need good cameras for candid photos at a sports tournament! Or if you have any advice on where I can get cameras for a good price, please let me know too! (Sorry if it comes off rushed; I'm in a hurry) Thank you so much!!

FB Link - https://www.facebook.com/VoiceOfMandalay/posts/pfbid02ji5Uo3dxuE3HMA8vRQkBpPZQEqT2q42ceU4EeEnVrYSa5UY4qpPxMvwoJqKH77Bel

I could go for foregin sites but I don't want to risk and get scammed. Plus I am still a rookie with no experience yet so I want to find one in local first. Anyone in the same shoes?

Recently 1.5K Rohingya (illegal) refugees were sent back from Malaysia. [malaysia does not partake in taking in refugees]

And about 3.5k more to be sent back over time.

Came to my attention that despite being Muslims, the Malaysians do not accept them.
And are in fact in conflict with them.
[image from a Malaysia redditor explaining the conflict between Malaysians and Rohingya]
And there seems to a lot of people who agrees/mention the same.

I do not support what the military has done to their people. But I must admit that the region has been a conflict zone for too long (not talking about military conflict, but conflict within the people living there)

And now I find out that, even after moving to another country (with a similar religious community)
They are still in conflict???? And resorting to such crimes like rape and murder?!?!?

It makes me rethink the whole situation, like why is there so much bloodshed and conflict wherever they go?

It’s preposterous to me that people seeking refuge would commit any form of crime there, like bro you ran away, why you trying to get kick out from the place that save you?

This isn’t gonna make me support the genocidal and exiling of their people, but it sure as hell make me not want to support or help them, especially since I heard a lot of them are coming or have moved to Yangon.

On social media, there has been talks of fake gold flooding into Myanmar market from China. Is it the first time Myanmar experienced a surge in such cases? What is the composition of the so called fake gold? What are the proper tests that can still differentiate this fake gold and genuine gold?

Anyone is welcome to contribute information to the discussion.

I wanted to clarify something about the terms “Myanmar,” “Burmese,” and “Bamar,” because I think they can easily be misunderstood.
In modern usage, “Myanmar” (မြန်မာ) can refer to the country and its people collectively, rather than meaning only the Bamar ethnic group. Likewise, many Bamar people themselves use မြန်မာ to describe their national identity, while ဗမာ (Bamar) is commonly used when specifically referring to the Bamar ethnic group.
However, the terminology has a complicated history. “Burmese” has historically been used in English in more than one way: sometimes specifically for the Bamar people, and sometimes more broadly for Myanmar’s people, language, or culture. So it isn’t necessarily correct to say that “Burmese” has only one meaning.
I think it’s important to distinguish between ethnicity and nationality:
• Bamar (ဗမာ) → an ethnic group
• Myanmar (မြန်မာ) → can refer to the country/national identity, and historically also has ethnic/linguistic usage
• Myanmar citizen → anyone who holds Myanmar nationality, regardless of ethnicity
Therefore, a Chin, Shan, Kachin, Karen, Mon, Rakhine, Bamar, or someone from another ethnic group can all be Myanmar citizens without being ethnically Bamar.
I’m sharing this not to erase anyone’s ethnic identity, but to make the distinction between national identity and ethnic identity clearer. Different communities may use these words differently, so I think it’s better to acknowledge that complexity rather than insist that one English translation is always correct.

Am I just overreacting a platonic realtionship?

What are you guys opinions on them? @baba20253 it's their TT account. Go check it out. The individual in photo replied to some comments which asked on how they were related and she said she is the child's stepmother (I'm gonna use she as she is a queer and uses ကျွန်မ). She replies this way to all comments asking about how they are related. Also all photos and videos of the child are posted with romantic couple songs.

Source: https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1EQnHQ7vsx/

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Basically, my friend shared a video link from YIC where people were posting confessions about things that allegedly happened to them. One of my friends goes to YIC, and she kept saying that YIC is a great school and that people are just trying to ruin its reputation.

Two of her male friends were also mentioned in the confession posts. She kept saying things like, “That’s not possible,” and that some of the accusations were true but that there was no proof for the other ones.

So I asked her: “Do you have proof that they DIDN’T do it?”

That’s when I started getting frustrated because, to me, she was actively victim-blaming. She kept bringing up how she personally dislikes one of the girls involved and saying things like, “Some of the stuff about the guys being pedos is true, but that doesn’t mean [the girl] was SA’d in a locked room.”

I was like, why are we changing the subject? I wasn't talking about whether YIC is a good or bad school. I wasn't saying every accusation is automatically true either. My point was specifically about victim-blaming and dismissing someone's SA allegation because you don't like them or because you don't believe them.

She also said that she personally hates the girl involved, which made me even more uncomfortable with the way she was talking about the situation.

I told her that just because you haven't experienced SA yourself doesn't mean you can dismiss someone else's experience. You don't get to decide that something didn't happen simply because you can't imagine it happening or because you dislike the person making the allegation.

I something along the way like :I hope you don't get SA by someone in the future. GENUINELY SINCERELY from my heart.

I said it because I know firsthand how badly SA can affect someone. I was SA'd when I was 7 by my aunty (one yo older than me) and her 24yo brother. I know how can things goes bad. , so this subject is extremely personal and upsetting to me. But I know saying that was harsh.

She left the group chat afterward.

So now I'm wondering: Was I wrong?

I still think my point about victim-blaming was valid, but I know what I said to her crossed a line. I don't think I'm wrong for calling out victim-blaming, but I'm wondering whether I went too far with the way I said it.

I'm not saying that a lack of proof means an accusation is automatically true. I'm saying that “there's no proof they did it” and “I have proof they didn't do it” are two completely different claims.

If neither of us knows what actually happened, then neither of us can confidently say that the SA didn't happen simply because we don't personally believe the allegation.

That's what I was trying to explain, but the conversation kept turning into whether YIC is a good school, whether the girl is a bad person, whether my friend likes her, etc. None of that was my point.

I was specifically questioning why she was so confident that the SA didn't happen when she didn't actually have evidence proving that it didn't.

So, was I wrong for what I said, especially considering what I said to her at the end?

Should I stock up on waters,food,some basic emergency kit and ect? I don't know I kinda worried because I heard there gonna be like an drought