Myanmar Motion Picture Day Ceremony in Yangon
Myanmar Motion Picture Day Ceremony was held at the Myanmar Motion Picture Organization Office in Yangon on October 13, 2013. Film industry community also paid homage to elder film artists at the event.
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Freed Myanmar political prisoners document ordeal in museum
1. Guide John Glenn opens the door to museum, which looks like door to prison
2. Tilt down from map showing all the prisons in Myanmar
3. Picture representing what death row looks like in Myanmar prison
4. Photograph of Bassein Women's prison
5. Photograph of Mandalay prison
6. Model of Insein Prison in Yangon
7. Tilt up from torture device to guide describing it
8. Model of house-like jail used for solitary confinement
9. Close-up of bars
10. Photo of chained man in jail
11. Photo of chained man with head down
12. Photo of prisoner lying on the ground
13. Photo of prisoner lying on the ground with stick across his back
14. SOUNDBITE: (English) John Glenn, former political prisoner:
Sometimes I have to explain to visitors here, when I enter the museum, even entering to the museum, I feel like I'm in prison again. So, for telling you about the prisoner's life, then I have to recall my memory and my experiences. It's really pain(ful).
15. Aye Aye Moe pointing at pictures on wall
16. Close-up of hand pointing to pictures
17. Aye Aye Moe pointing to pictures
18. Close-up of picture of Bassein Women's prison
19. Close-up of Aye Aye Moe
20. Wide of photos on wall
21. Model of woman's ward at Insein prison
22. SOUNDBITE: (Burmese) Aye Aye Moe, former political prisoner:
I can never forgive them. I can never forgive. It's unforgivable. They treated me so brutally. And I also worry for future generations. They have to face the same thing. If they face the same thing they will be in trouble. I don't want them to go through what I did.
23. John Glenn describing photos
24. Various of photos of prisoners in torture positions
25. Pull focus from photos to bars enclosing them
STORYLINE:
A group of former political prisoners from Myanmar, formerly Burma, have opened an exhibition in northern Thailand hoping to bring their plight to the attention of the international community.
Purposely stark and windowless like a prison cell, the exhibit begins with photographs of demonstrators gunned down by troops in the 1988 uprising led by Aung San Suu Kyi, the pro-democracy leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who is under house arrest in the capital Yangon (Rangoon).
Another wall is blanketed with photographs of more than 150 of the 1,151 men and women the group allege are known to be in prison for political activities.
John Glenn, named after the first American astronaut to orbit the Earth, spent two years in the notorious Insein prison in Yangon.
He takes visitors through the display, demonstrating some of the torture devices.
Documented is Myanmar's gulag, a purported network of some 40 interrogation centres, 43 prisons and more than 60 labour camps through which thousands have passed, often for the mildest dissent against the country's military rulers.
Human Rights Watch, an organisation dedicated to protecting the human rights of people around the world, also estimates more than 1,100 are in detention.
Also on display are items which help prisoners survive, chess pieces carved out of soap bars; sharpened bamboo used to scratch English vocabulary onto strips of plastic; newspaper clippings, often years old, disguised as cigarette papers.
Founded in 2000, the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners now numbers more than 100 men and women along the Thailand-Myanmar border as well as in the United States, Norway and elsewhere.
All say they were tortured.
Supported by the Dutch government and the US-based National Endowment for Democracy, the group helps with mental and physical rehabilitation and financial aid for the neediest former prisoners, delivered clandestinely through a chain of couriers.
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Win Oo (an unkonwn film song)
Picture credit- Nori (Myanmar Motion Picture Museum, Rangoon)
Song- Ma Joan Sein MMCP
Day Trip to Beautiful Shampoo Island (Mawlamyine, Myanmar)
TIME STAMPS
2:29 Exploring a jetty and boats
8:42 Technical Note: Panasonic G85 + GoPro
12:11 Neighborhood pagoda and pond
17:11 Walking across the Mawlamyine bridge
22:40 At the jetty to Shampoo Island
26:50 Boarding the boat
31:56 On Shampoo Island
36:15 Video Clip Montage #1
38:41 5-Fact Challenge Fail
41:25 Video Clip Montage #2
42:37 Fact #1
43:53 Fact #2
44:36 Fact #3
45:23 Video Clip Montage #3
50:25 Water source on the island
51:24 Fact #4
53:13 I find a bench swing!
59:57 5-Fact Challenge Test! Pass or fail?
1:04:13 Boat back to shore
1:09:51 Time for a cold drink
1:12:24 Summary and Conclusion
1:13:42 Bonus Clip #1
1:14:19 Bonus Clip #2
Shampoo Island is a tiny place just a short distance from shore in Mawlamyine. The island is home to a group of monks living in monasteries there. However, they encourage visitors, and it's possible to take a small local boat out to the island and back again.
As I said in the video, trips to places like Shampoo Island are my favorite type of day trip because they don't involve hours of difficult travel. The boats to the island are right inside city limits, and getting there involves nothing more than a pleasant stroll to the jetty on the river and getting on a small boat. Just a few minutes later, you're there.
It's a beautiful island - very lush and shady with a multitude of pagodas and interesting sights. But it also comes with an interesting history, and it seemed like an obvious place for a 5-Fact Travel Challenge. Was I successful with this challenge? Did I learn 5 interesting new facts? Yes, I guess I did, but I needed a bit of help from the Internet.
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BUSY DAY in YANGON (Thadingyut Festival of Lights & World's Wildest Ferris Wheel)
TIME STAMPS
3:42 Origin & Traditions of Thadingyut Festival
7:06 Breakfast at Lotus Hospitality Bed & Breakfast
10:35 Walking to the Train Station
18:32 Buying a Train Ticket in Yangon
27:44 Bogyoke Aung San Market
36:00 Thadingyut Festival of Lights at Night
44:22 Mini-Ferris Wheel - HUMAN POWERED!
46:18 Giant Ferris Wheel - HUMAN POWERED!
49:02 Summary and Conclusion
50:42 Post Credits Bonus Clip
Over the last few days, I'd tried to buy a train ticket out of Yangon to a city called Mawlamyine, but all the trains were fully booked for the big Thadingyut Festival. So I decided to stay in Yangon for the festival, and that meant moving to a new hotel in a different part of town. Luckily, the festival celebrations take place all over the city, and an entire nearby market street was closed down just for the Festival of Lights.
Since it was the Festival of Lights, most of the activities took place after dark. During the day, I went to the train station to try again to buy a ticket. And I dropped by the famous Bogyoke Aung San Market - a must-visit spot for all tourists passing through Yangon who are in need of some souvenirs and gifts to take home.
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Thanks for checking out this video. I am the Cycling Canadian (AKA Douglas), and I'm making videos about my experiences traveling around the world both on and off a touring bike. I travel on a low budget, so I tend to stay in simple guest houses and spend my time exploring the local streets and markets on foot.
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I upload videos every week - sometimes two or three times a week. I'll be going to lots of interesting countries in the future, so if you subscribe to my channel, you won't miss any of these adventures.
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I started making these videos on a recent 50-day trip to Bangladesh, and I enjoyed it so much that I kept exploring and making videos. You can see all of my videos on my main YouTube channel right here:
CONVENIENT PLAYLISTS
Playlists are a great way to make sure you don't miss any of my videos. I put all of my travel vlogs into playlists. If you use them, you can see all of the videos from each country in order:
Malaysia Travel Vlogs Playlist:
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Myanmar Travel Vlogs Playlist:
THE CYCLING CANADIAN WEBSITE/BLOG
I don't just make videos. I also write about my trips and take pictures. I have some detailed written journals from previous trips on my website. The website is also called The Cycling Canadian, and this link will take you there:
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Prof. Walter Dorn Talks about U Thant to Burmese Youths in Rangoon
ဦးသန္႔အေၾကာင္း ျမန္မာလူငယ္ေတြ နားလည္ဖို႔ ပါေမာကၡ ေဝၚလ္တာ ေဟာေျပာ
ကုလသမဂၢ အေထြေထြအတြင္းေရးမႉးခ်ဳပ္ေဟာင္း ဦးသန္႔အေၾကာင္း ျမန္မာလူငယ္ေတြ အတုယူႏိုင္ေစဖို႔ ရည္ရြယ္ၿပီး ေဖေဖာ္ဝါရီ ၈ရက္ေန႔က ဦးသန္႔ျပတိုက္မွာ ကေနဒါစစ္တကၠသိုလ္ေက်ာင္းက ပါေမာကၡက ေဟာေျပာခဲ့ပါတယ္။
So Many People Welcome President U Thein Sein
Singer Smile Opens Make Up Store Franchise in Rangoon
ဆီြဒင္ Make Up Store ရန္ကုန္တြင္ အဆိုေတာ္စမိုင္းလ္က ဆိုင္ခြဲဖြင့္
ကမၻာေက်ာ္ ဆီြဒင္အေျခစိုက္ မိတ္ကပ္စတိုးရဲ႕ တရားဝင္ဆိုင္ခြဲကို အဆိုေတာ္ စမိုင္းလ္က ဇန္နဝါရီ ၁၇ရက္ေန႔မွာ ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕ ဓမၼေစတီလမ္းမွာ ဖြင့္လွစ္လိုက္ၿပီး ကုန္ပစၥည္းေတြကို မိတ္ဆက္ခဲ့ပါတယ္။
The Naked Truth of Myanmar, a portrait of U Win Tin
A portrait the Burmese journalist, writer, activist and politician, U Win Tin (1930-2014). Win Tin is a key figure in Myanmar's recent history. He was the founding father of journalism in Burma, was a chronicler of the various democratic and non-democratic governments and in 1988 one of the co-founders of the National League for Democracy; the political party formed by Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, who considered him as her favorite uncle. Due to his role in the NLD he was imprisoned for almost twenty years. After his release on 23 September 2008, he was the only dissident inside Myanmar who openly criticized the military junta. Since the release from house arrest of Aung San Suu Kyi in 2010, he became a critics of the democratization process in the country.
This film is recorded in December 2013, just months before U Win Tin passed away on April 25, 2014.
Director and producer: Kay Mastenbroek
Camera: Oleg Revenko
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After the mutiny of 1857, last Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar was sent on exile to Burma. He never returned to India and died in Burma. The actual burial site of the last Mughal emperor is different from what it is thought. Watch to know more.
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Burma VJ Trailer (Singapore)
Slated for general release in Singapore from 24th Dec 2009
Shortlisted for Academy Awards 2010 Nominations
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AWARDS:
IDFA 2008
SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2009
BERLIN FILM FESTIVAL 2009
HOT DOCS 2009
FULL FRAME DOC FESTIVAL 2009
and many others...
SYNOPSIS:
This film BURMA VJ is comprised largely by material shot by undercover reporters in Burma. Some elements of the film have been reconstructed in close collaboration with the actual persons involved, just as some names, places, and other recognizable facts have been altered for security reasons and in order to protect individuals.
Armed with small handy cams undercover Video Journalists in Burma keep up the flow of news from their closed country. Going beyond the occasional news clip from Burma, acclaimed director Anders Østergaard, brings us close to the video journalists who deliver the footage. Though risking torture and life in jail, courageous young citizens of Burma live the essence of journalism as they insist on keeping up the flow of news from their closed country. The Burma VJs stop at
nothing to make their reportages from the streets of Rangoon. Their material is smuggled out of the country and broadcast back into Burma via satellite and offered as free usage for international media. The whole world has witnessed single event clips made by the VJs, but for the very first time, their individual images have been carefully put together and at once, they tell a much bigger story. Joshua, age 27, is one of the young video journalists, who works undercover to counter
the propaganda of the military regime. Foreign TV crews are suddenly banned from the country, so its left to Joshua and his crew to keep the revolution alive on TV screens all over. With Joshua as the psychological lens, the Burmese condition is made tangible to a global audience so we can understand it, feel it, and smell it. The film offers a unique insight into high-risk journalism and dissidence in a police state, while at the same time providing a thorough documentation of the historical and dramatic days of September 2007, when the Buddhist monks started marching.
Rangoon University Selects Mr and Miss Bodybuilders for 2013-14
ရန္ကုန္တကၠသိုလ္ ၂ဝ၁၃-၁၄ ကာလဗလနဲ႔အလွမယ္ေတြ ေရြးခ်ယ္
ရန္ကုန္တကၠသိုလ္ရဲ႕ ၂ဝ၁၃-၁၄ ပညာသင္ႏွစ္ ကာယဗလေမာင္နဲ႔ ကာယအလွမယ္ၿပိဳင္ပြဲကို ရန္ကုန္ တကၠသိုလ္ အပန္းေျဖရိပ္သာ RC မွာ ဇန္နဝါရီ ၁၈ရက္ေန႔က က်င္းပခဲ့ၿပီး ပထမဆုေတြအျဖစ္ D ဆိုင္းေနာင္၊ ေမရီသက္ထက္နဲ႔ ေနရည္ဝင္းလဲ့တို႔ ရရွိခဲ့ၾကပါတယ္။
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1940s WWII Burma Road. Winding Truck Caravan
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Zomi Party Seeks to Group Ten Groups of Their Tribes under Chin Ethnic
ခ်င္းလူမ်ဳိးစုထဲက ၁ဝကို ဇိုမီးမ်ဳိးႏြယ္စုအျဖစ္ သတ္မွတ္ေစလိုဟု ဇီုမီးပါတီေျပာ
ျမန္မာအစိုးရက သတ္မွတ္ထားတဲ့ ခ်င္းမ်ဳိးႏြယ္စု ၅၃စုထဲက မ်ဳိးႏြယ္စု ၁ဝကို သီးျခားခြဲၿပီး ဇိုမီးမ်ဳိးႏြယ္စုလို႔ သတ္မွတ္ေပးေစလိုတယ္လို႔ ဇိုမီးဒီမိုကေရစီအဖြဲ႕ခ်ဳပ္က ဇန္နဝါရီ ၁၇ရက္ေန႔မွာ ထုတ္ေဖာ္ေျပာဆိုလိုက္ပါတယ္။
Of stamps, codes and words: Central Telegraph Office
The Eastern Court of the British served as the current Central Telegraph Office of the BSNL in India. This is the 'soon going to be dead' Central Telegraph Office at Janpath in New Delhi.
Smart phones, emails and SMS seem to have pushed the humble telegram service to a quiet corner with BSNL deciding to discontinue the 160-year-old telegraph service from 15 July,2013. Once the main source of quick and urgent communication, the service delivered many happy and sad news to people spread all over the country. But with the advent of technology and newer means of communication, the telegram found itself edged out.
Telegraphy (from Greek: tele τῆλε at a distance, and graphein γράφειν to write) is the long-distance transmission of messages without the physical exchange of an object bearing the message. Telegraphy requires that the method used for encoding the message be known to both sender and receiver.
An electrical telegraph was independently developed and patented in the United States in 1837 by Samuel Morse. His assistant, Alfred Vail, developed the Morse code signalling alphabet with Morse. The first telegram in the United States was sent by Morse on 11 January 1838, across two miles (3 km) of wire at Speedwell Ironworks near Morristown, New Jersey. On 24 May 1844, he sent the message WHAT HATH GOD WROUGHT from the Old Supreme Court Chamber in the Capitol in Washington to the old Mt. Clare Depot in Baltimore. With the invention of the teletypewriter, telegraphic encoding became fully automated. Early teletypewriters used the ITA-1 Baudot code, a five-bit code. This yielded only thirty-two codes, so it was over-defined into two shifts, letters and figures. An explicit, unshared shift code prefaced each set of letters and figures.
In India, the first telegraph message was transmitted live through electrical signals between Calcutta (now Kolkata) and Diamond Harbour, a distance of about 50 km, on November 5, 1850; and the service was opened for the general public in February 1855.
Over the years, the BSNL made several technical upgrades in the telegraph service, with the latest being the introduction of a web-based messaging system in 2010. However, growing Internet penetration and cheaper mobile phones in the last decade have kept people away from the 182 telegraph offices across the country.
The Telegram service has seen India change and transform in front of its own eyes. Phenomenal events have been reported through the Telegram. One example is as follows:
The famous telegram read - Government of India. Regret. Mahatma Gandhi was victim of shooting outrage. Gandhiji expired yesterday evening. Cremation will take place Saturday 4 pm. Prime minister has broadcast Saturday 31st be observed as day of fasting and prayer. Suggests offices should close entirely and flags half mast from sunrise.
Source: Wikipedia, The Hindu. Firstpost, Times of India
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500 Farmers from Bago, Rangoon and Irrawaddy Protest against Land Grabs
ၿမိဳ႕နယ္ ၃ဝေက်ာ္မွ လယ္သမား ၅ဝဝ လယ္သိမ္းခံရမႈအတြက္ ရန္ကုန္မွာ ဆႏၵျပ
ရန္ကုန္၊ ပဲခူးနဲ႔ ဧရာဝတီတိုင္းက ၿမိဳ႕နယ္၃ဝေက်ာ္မွာရွိတဲ့ လယ္သား ၅ဝဝဟာ လယ္ယာေျမသိမ္းယူခံရမႈေတြကို ေအာက္ေျခအာဏာပိုင္ေတြက တာဝန္ယူမႈ တစ္ခုမွ မလုပ္တဲ့အေပၚ ဇန္နဝါရီ ၁၈ရက္ေန႔မွာ ရန္ကုန္ၿမိဳ႕ေတာ္ခမ္းမေရွ႕မွာ ဆႏၵျပခဲ့ပါတယ္။
Air Force musiam agargaon dhaka bangladesh
Bangladesh (বাংলাদেশ), officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh (গণপ্রজাতন্ত্রী বাংলাদেশ), is a country in South Asia. It is bordered by India to its west, north and east; Myanmar (Burma) to its southeast; and is separated from Nepal and Bhutan by the Chicken's Neck corridor. To its south, it faces the Bay of Bengal. Bangladesh is the world's eighth-most populous country, with over 168 million people. It is one of the most densely populated countries, and among countries with a population exceeding 10 million, it is the most densely populated. It forms part of the ethno-linguistic region of Bengal, along with the neighbouring Indian states of West Bengal and Tripura.
The present-day borders of Bangladesh took shape during the Partition of Bengal and the British India in 1947, when the region came to be known as East Pakistan, as a part of the newly formed state of Pakistan. It was separated from West Pakistan by 1,400 kilometres (870 mi) of Indian territory. Because of political exclusion, ethnic and linguistic discrimination and economic neglect by the politically dominant western wing, nationalism, popular agitation and civil disobedience led to the Bangladesh Liberation War and independence in 1971. After independence, the new state endured poverty, famine, political turmoil and military coups. The restoration of democracy in 1991 has been followed by relative calm and economic progress. In 2014, the Bangladeshi general election was boycotted by major opposition parties, resulting in a parliament and government dominated by the Awami League and its smaller coalition partners.
Bangladesh is a unitary parliamentary republic with an elected parliament called the Jatiyo Sangshad. The native Bengalis form the country's largest ethnic group, along with indigenous peoples in northern and southeastern districts. Geographically, the country is dominated by the fertile Bengal delta, the world's largest delta. This also gives Bangladesh a unique name tag as the land of rivers. Bangladesh has a rich heritage of ancient civilization. Bangladesh's documented history spans 4,000 years. Bangladesh human history has lasted for more than 20,000 years.
Bangladesh is a Next Eleven emerging economy. It has achieved significant strides in human and social development since independence, including progress in gender equality, universal primary education, food production, health, and population control. However, Bangladesh continues to face numerous political, economic, social and environmental challenges, including political instability, corruption, poverty, overpopulation, and global warming.
The country is a founding member of SAARC, the Developing 8 Countries and BIMSTEC. It contributes one of the largest peacekeeping forces to the United Nations. It is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and the Non-Aligned Movement.
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Death Railway
Internationally famous, thanks the several motion pictures and books, the black iron bridge was brought from Java by the Japanese supervision by Allied prisoner-of-war labour as part of the Death Railway linking Thailand with Burma. Still in use today, the bridge was the target of frequent Allied bombing raids during World War II and was rebuild after war ended. The curved spans of the bridge are the original sections. A daily train is still following the historical route from Kanchanaburi to Nam Tok Railway Station.
How to visit Kanchanaburi, the Bridge on the River Kwai, Hellfire Pass & the Death Railway...
During World War 2, the Japanese used Allied prisoners of war to build a railway from Thailand to Burma so they could supply their army without the dangers of sending supplies by sea. Many prisoners died under appalling conditions during its construction, and the line became known as the 'Death Railway'. It was immortalised in David Lean's 1957 film 'The Bridge on the River Kwai' which centres around one of the line's main engineering feats, the bridge across the Kwae Yai river just north of Kanchanburi. Although the film was shot in Sri Lanka, the Bridge on the River Kwai really exists, and still carries regular passenger trains from Bangkok as far as Nam Tok. For anyone interested in 20th century history, a visit to Kanchanaburi and the infamous Death Railway is a must.
This page gives all the necessary information for train travel from Bangkok to Kanchanburi, the Bridge on the River Kwai & Nam Tok, along with an overview of what there is to see in the area, including the Bridge Over the River Kwai, the Wampo (Wang Po) Viaduct and the museum at Hellfire Pass (Konyu Cutting). You can see the Bridge on the River Kwai as a day trip from Bangkok using the morning train out and afternoon train back, but it's better to make it a 2 or 3 day trip as there's a lot more to see than just the Bridge. For example, you could take the morning passenger train from Bangkok to Kanchanaburi on day 1, stay a night or two in Kanchanaburi, then take the afternoon train back on day 2 or 3, so you can visit Hellfire Pass (less well known than the Bridge, but not be missed) and travel the Death Railway through fantastic scenery over the dramatic Wampo Viaduct as far as its current terminus at Nam Tok.
Secretary Clinton Delivers Remarks at the Screening of The Lady
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton delivers remarks at the screening of the Aung San Suu Kyi Biopic The Lady, at the Motion Picture Association in Washington, D.C. on April 9, 2012. [Go to for more video and text transcript.]