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Description: "Comic books and publications were once the lifeblood of Myanmar pop culture. Everyone loved comic books, and not simply as reading material. If a young man wanted to send a girl a love letter, the best way was by giving her a comic book. Myanmar?s deep-seated traditions made it very risky to send a love letter. Quite possibly, a girl would refuse a love letter, but accept a comic book, as comic books were the main entertainment for young people during the 1970s and 1980s. Those boys who were first to get the new comic books when they were published each week had the best chance at sending a love letter to a girl. Many Burmese between 40 and 50 years of age will recall this experience when thinking about the importance of comics in Myanmar..."
Creator/author: Aung Soe Min, Courtney Wittekind
Source/publisher: Goethe Institut
2014-05-01
Date of entry/update: 2016-05-15
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Language: English
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Description: "ပါပါလေး မြန်မာ့အနုပညာလောကမှာ ကိုယ်တတ်စွမ်းတဲ့အနုပညာနဲ့ ကိုယ်ယုံကြည်ရာကိုဖော်ထုတ်မိလို့ ထောင်သွင်း အကျဉ်းချခံခဲ့ရသူတွေထဲမှာ မန္တလေးကလူရွှင်တော်ဦးပါပါလေးလည်းတယောက် အပါအဝင်ဖြစ်ပါတယ်။ ဦးပါပါလေးဟာ လူရွှင်တော်မျိုးရိုးကဆင်းသက်ခဲ့သူဖြစ်ပါတယ်။ အဘိုးနဲ့အဖေတို့ကလူရွှင်တော်တွေဖြစ်ခဲ့သလို ဦးပါပါလေးနဲ့ညီ ဦးလူမော်၊ ညီတဝမ်းကွဲဦးလူဇော်တို့ဟာလည်း နှုတ်ခမ်းမွှေးညီနောင်များဆိုတဲ့အငြိမ့်အဖွဲ့တည် ထောင်ပြီး လူရွှင်တော်များအဖြစ် အသက်မွေးကြပါတယ်။ သူတို့ညီအကိုတွေရဲ့အိမ်ထောင်ဖက်တွေကလည်း အကပညာရှင်တွေဖြစ်ကြပါတယ်။..."
Creator/author: Khet Mar
Source/publisher: Sampsonia Way
2013-01-24
Date of entry/update: 2016-05-15
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Language: Burmese
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Description: လူရွှင်တော်ဇာဂနာ၏ ပျက်လုံးများ၊ အငြိမ့်များနှင့် အရေးယူခံရမှုများ ...
Source/publisher: zarganar-windoor.blogspot.com
2007-08-00
Date of entry/update: 2012-07-31
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Language: Burmese (မြန်မာဘာသာ)
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Description: "Burmese comedians? political satire reveals how the people think and how their rulers live in fear... An American without legs can climb Mount Everest,? the American president said proudly at a gathering of statesmen. Immediately, the Russian president said, ?A Russian without arms can swim across the Atlantic.? The other world leaders were stunned by the two statements. But the leader of Burma came to the rescue: ?In my country, a man without a head can run the country for 20 years.? That?s a joke by a well-known comedian known as Godzilla, and it drew loud applause from hundreds of Burmese in Bangkok in January. Cracking such a joke irks Burma?s rulers and can lead to imprisonment for comedians..."
Creator/author: Kyaw Zwa Moe
Source/publisher: "The Irrawaddy" Vol. 16, No. 2
2008-02-00
Date of entry/update: 2008-04-27
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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Description: "The Burmese New Year, celebrated in mid-April, is traditionally an occasion for a good-humored send-up of social and political events of the past year. Troupes form as part of the Thingyan Water-Throwing Festival to give Thangyat performances, providing a running, rhyming commentary on the misdeeds of officials and others in high places. This year, Burmese exiles in India are keeping up the tradition with a recording of Thangyat performances that targets both Burma?s military junta and opposition groups..."
Source/publisher: "The Irrawaddy", Vol. 9, No. 3
2001-04-00
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
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Language: English
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Description: Humor is one of the few things that make life in Burma bearable for most people, but even this salve for the soul can rub the ruling generals the wrong way.
Creator/author: Aung Zaw
Source/publisher: "The Irrawaddy", Vol. 9. No. 4
2001-05-00
Date of entry/update: 2003-06-03
Grouping: Individual Documents
Language: English
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