<p>Our Cultural Village – Myanmar/Burma </p><p>Content categories Links to and description of content</p><p>COMMENTS AND SUGGESTIONS</p><p>ONLINE DICTIONARIES</p><p>Myanmar English online dictionary</p><p>Burmese/English English/Burmese online dictionary</p><p>Your dictionary - A detailed account of the Sino-Tibetan family of languages. </p><p>15 simple Burmese words. </p><p>Burmese grammar- discusses pronunciation, nouns and verbs. </p><p>The Free Dictionary: News, introduction to language and geography, links to several other useful sights</p><p>MAPS/FLAG The flag </p><p>Description of the flag and its meaning.</p><p>The World Flag Database: Flag and map of Myanmar.</p><p>1 Content categories Links to and description of content</p><p>Image of the flag</p><p>IMAGES OF MYANMAR/BURMA Burma in pictures - pictures of early Burma (downloadable eBook)</p><p>Food</p><p>Image: Myanmar/Burma Image: Foraging for a market living</p><p>Culture</p><p>Image: Papier mache Image: Burmese art dancers </p><p>2 Content categories Links to and description of content</p><p>Transport</p><p>Image: River travel Image: Looking for water with bullocks</p><p>Faith</p><p>Image: Shwenandaw Monastery carvings Image: Bagan Temple, Myanmar</p><p>Politics</p><p>Image: Buddhist monks protesting in Burma Image: Imperial Burma 1910</p><p>INFORMATION AsiaRecipe.com - food, religion, history, mythology and other aspects of culture </p><p>Culture Burma Treasures - over 100 videos showing Myanmar ceremonies and dance, as well as meditation </p><p>3 Content categories Links to and description of content</p><p> instruction from Sayadaw Gyi U Kit Sar Ya Na </p><p>People and places, with musical accompaniment (Slideshare) </p><p>History Brief annotated and hyperlinked timeline from 1044 AD </p><p>History of Burma - a Scribd article which gives the history of Burma since 1044. </p><p>The New Internationalist gives a short history of Burma </p><p>Politics</p><p>Subversive technology - Introduction to the Saffron Revolution and Burma's struggle for democracy (Slideshare) </p><p>Events World Vision's Cyclone Nargis response programme - video footage from Cyclone Nargis and from Myanmar two years on. </p><p>4 Content categories Links to and description of content</p><p>Cyclone Nargis - how the cyclone happened (Slideshare) </p><p>The Lonely Planet Guide - Reasons for and against visiting Myannar </p><p>National Geographic - A refuge for tigers has been created by biologist Alan Rabinowitz </p><p>Greenpeace - Is Burma Going Nuclear? 21/07/2009 </p><p>Faith</p><p>Illustrated article on Theravada Buddhism in Myannar </p><p>General information Wikipedia - 38 pages offering a comprehensive overview of Burma. </p><p>Burma - from Wikimedia, general facts, figures, and images from Burma. </p><p>5 Content categories Links to and description of content</p><p>Demography CIA World Fact Book - Burma's geography </p><p>Education</p><p>Wikipedia (illustrated entry) - High Schools in Burma </p><p>The Curriculum project - A brief article about education in Burma </p><p>Website of the Canadian Friends of Burma </p><p>Time For Kids Classroom - Pro-democracy protests </p><p>The opium trade WorldNetDaily - Afghan war lifts Burma's opium trade</p><p>6 Content categories Links to and description of content</p><p>The gem trade Human Rights Watch - The gem trade bolsters the military regime </p><p>Richard Hughes - book chapter: History of the Burmese gem trade </p><p>International aid Department for International Development - in Burma</p><p>MUSIC / DANCE</p><p>Dance</p><p>Image: Burmese dance Image: Naga dance</p><p>Myanmar dance - Blip TV</p><p>7 Content categories Links to and description of content</p><p>Music</p><p>Image: Harp</p><p>Image: Horn</p><p>Karen song - Video </p><p>Audio: Myanmar song </p><p>Audio: guitar tune, Karen refugees</p><p>8 Content categories Links to and description of content</p><p>VIDEOS</p><p>You Tube video Ear piercing in Thailand and Flickr video Boat on Inle Lake: shows life along the Myanmar shore and on the water.</p><p>You Tube video Shoot on sight: The plight of You Tube video The tribes of Myanmar - The Long Karen refugees</p><p>9 Content categories Links to and description of content</p><p>Neck Padaung</p><p>You tube video Child soldiers in Burma</p><p>10 Content categories Links to and description of content</p><p>Education Karen State Education Assistance - You Tube video showing communities throughout Karen State and discussing Burma's struggle to keep schools open for their children.</p><p>The first part of a Burmese refugee teacher training video - You Tube</p><p>Rebuilding education after Myanmar's Cyclone Nargis - You Tube </p><p>Doctors from Burma awarded at a ceremony (of the Myanmar American Medical Education Society) for making the top 1 percentile list on two US doctorate exams (You Tube ).</p><p>READERS, EBOOKS, COMICS, Discussion about human rights in Burma, Canadian student radio, with Burmese protest leader (Audio). MAGAZINES, PODCASTS iTunes Trailer of award winning HBO documentary about the 2007 uprising in Myanmar. </p><p>Burma past and present - by Fytche, Albert (eBook) </p><p>The Road to Mandalay: A Tale of Burma - by Croker, B. M. (Bithia Mary), 1849-1920 (eBook) </p><p>11 Content categories Links to and description of content</p><p>NEWSPAPERS</p><p>The Guardian - has over 700 articles on Burma </p><p>Article about Burma's nuclear programme - from Stuff.co.nz </p><p>New York Times discusses the Dissolution of Aung San Suu Kyi's political party</p><p>12</p>