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We see Pakistani soldiers and helicopters helping the poor victims. They put Than Shwe and army to shame.

Our hearts go out to the flood victims in the pictures facing great dangers and desperately clinging to life.

These pictures remind us of something. That something is:

don’t forget to donate to our Nargis victims. They still are in terrible shape.

Compared to other better off and well fed people over here, relatively speaking they deserve more of your help. Your good deeds would earn far more merits.

Severe flooding in Pakistan

Wonderful pictures from a beautiful island nation sponsoring the 2010 Youth Olympics.

Singapore 2010 Youth Olympics

On Saturday, Singapore welcomed young athletes from around the world in a ceremony opening the inaugural Youth Olympic Games. This is the first ever Summer Youth Olympics, an event designed to be celebrated in the same tradition of the Olympic Games – the major difference being that the competitors are all between 14 and 18 years of age. This year, 3,500 athletes from more than 200 countries are competing in 184 events in 26 sports. Collected here are some photographs of the inaugural Youth Olympic Games, which will run until its closing ceremony on August 26th. (37 photos total)

သင္ခန္းစာ(၁၃)။ တရုတ္စားေသာက္ဆုိင္တစ္ခု မွာ။

第十三课，在一中餐馆； (တိ  စ္-ရွစ္စန္း  ခဲ့ ၊ ဇွိဳက္ ယိ  က်ဴံး စန္းကြမ္)

Lesson 13; At a Chinese Restaurant

1. 你们有什么特色菜？Nǐmen yǒu shénme tèsècài?

( နိမိန္း ၊  ယုံ စ္-ရွ္မဲ ထဲ့ စဲ ့ဆုိက္ ။)

ခင္ဗ်ားတုိ ့ဆီမွာ ဘာဟင္းေတြမ်ား အထူးရွိပါသလဲ။

What are your specialties？

1. 你需要刀叉吗？Nǐ xūyào dāochā ma?

( နီ  ယႊီးေယာက္ ေတာင္း ဆ္-ခ်ား မား ။)

ခင္ဗ်ား ဓါးနဲ ့ခရင္း  လုိ္ပါသလား။

Do you need a knife and fork?

3.   请问你要红茶吗？Qǐngwèn nǐ yào hóngchá ma?

( ခ်င္၀ိန္ ့ ၊ နီ ေယာက္ ဟုန္း ဆ္-ခ်ာ  မား ။)

ေမး ရ ဦးမယ္ ၊  ခင္ဗ်ား နိဳ ့လြတ္လက္ဖက္ရည္ ေသာက္ဦး မလား။  Read more... (333 words, estimated 1:20 mins reading time)

Journeys in Time 2010-08-18 The Chinese Expeditionary Force (4)- Recuperating in Ramgarh

http://english.cntv.cn/program/journeysintime/20100818/103702.shtml

The soldiers in Ramgarh were relatively well provisioned, with uniforms, food and medicine. Along with the American supplies there also arrived a large contingent of American army officers. Stilwell had arranged for them to take command of the Chinese army from the battalion level up. But would the plan work?  Read more... (210 words, 9 images, estimated 50 secs reading time)

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AGAIN, THE BRITISH BEAT A HASTY RETREAT WITHOUT INFORMING THEIR ALLIES. THEY SLYLY USED THE CHINESE AS A COVER TO SAVE THEIR OWN SKINS.

NOTHING BRAVE AND HONORABLE IN THIS COWARDLY ACT. THIS LAID THE FOUNDATION FOR THE DISASTROUS CHINESE RETREAT BACK TO CHINA.

LOOKING AT THE OLD MAN IN THE PICTURE, YOU WON’T KNOW THAT HE IS A BATTLE HARDENED VETERAN WHO LITERALLY HAD BEEN “TO HELL AND BACK!”

Journeys in Time 2010-08-17 The Chinese Expeditionary Force (3)- Ordeal on Savage Mountain

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Soldiers practicing “Myit Tha” and tolerance? Chivalry, anyone? What a surprise!

Why did his majesty, the British monach and US President Roosevelt confer the highest honors on a Chinese general?

After many decades, why did British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, on behalf of the British Government, personally thank a wheelchair bound old Chinese in Los Angeles?

In Yenangyaung, why did British soldiers kneel down to their Chinese allies?

Find out why!

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Removing home grown warlords like Than Shwe is hard enough. Superstitious people believe Burma is now suffering a calamity (Kart Sike), as if gripped by a devil.They won’t go away on their own.

Same with the Japanese fascist warlords! Only a thousand times harder.

Imagine Burma as it was, a virtual Japanese colony to be yet brutalized for many more centuries to come, speaking Japanese, and ruled by a succession of puppets like Dr Ba Maw.

How horrible!

THE JAPANESE FASCISTS’ DECLARATION CLEARLY UNMASKED THEIR HIGH AMBITIONS TO CONQUER THE WORLD. FROM BURMA, THEY PLANNED TO CONQUER INDIA AND TO LINK UP IN IRAN WITH THE GERMAN FASCISTS.

TALK ABOUT JAPANESE FASCISTS FREEING THE BRITISH COLONIES! JUST LIES! THEY WERE WORSE THAN BRITISH IMPERIALISTS!

ALL LOCAL PEOPLE HATED THE JAPANESE FASCISTS. THEY RAPED, LOOTED, AND TERRORIZED THE LOCAL PEOPLE, WHEREVER THEY WENT.

WITH THEIR PROPAGANDA MACHINE, THE BRITISH CLAIMED THEY DROVE AWAY THE JAPANESE IMPERIALISTS. THEY COVERED UP THEIR DEFEATS AND CLAIMED MORE THAN THEIR SHARE OF THE CREDIT.

THE BRITISH GENERAL WON’T TALK. HE WON’T EVEN SAY SOMETHING TO GENERAL STILWELL WHO WAS IN CHARGE OF THE CHINESE ARMIES HELPING TO FIGHT THE JAPANESE FASCISTS.

ACTUALLY, THE BRITISH WANTED TO SACRIFICE BURMA AND JUST DEFEND INDIA.

HE WAS SLY AND DISHONEST TO THE AMERICAN AND CHINESE ALLIES. HE LEFT OPEN THE WESTERN FLANK IN THE DEFENSE OF TOUNGOO. HE BEAT A DISHONORABLE RETREAT LEAVING THE CHINESE IN THE LURCH.

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Yunnan-Burma Road in WW2 – Part 2: British betrayal of the Chinese Expeditionary Force

Yunnan-Burma Road in WW2 – Parts 1: British betrayal of the Chinese Expeditionary Force

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvIaI3LBRXc

IN THE BEGINNING, THE ALLIES WERE BADLY  DEFEATED BY THE INVADING JAPANESE FORCES. THE JAPANESE HAD NO RESPECT FOR THE BRITISH WHO WON’T FIGHT BUT WOULD RATHER RUN. THE BRITISH PLAYED TRICKS ON THE ALLIES AND LET THE CHINESE BE ENCIRCLED IN TOUNGOO. THEY LEFT SECRETLY WITHOUT INFORMING THE CHINESE.

OTHER SOURCES SAID THE ALLIES’ MILITARY COURT CASHIERED THE BRITISH COMMANDER. HE ESCAPED THE SENTENCE OF DEATH BY FIRING SQUAD, THOUGH. THE BRITISH HAD TO PAY GENERALISSMO CHIANG KAI SHEK REPARATIONS WITH A NUMBER OF FRIGATES.

THIS VIDEO HAS THE BUILDING OF THE ROAD PLUS ALL THE ACCOMPANYING BATTLES .

Stilwell Road (1945)

YouTube – Stilwell Road (1945)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aQdcAd-ERA&feature=search

Documentary about the construction of the Stilwell Road–originally called The Ledo Road–a 478-mile passage from Assam, India, to Ledo, Burma, during World War II. The road, which was built by 63,000 workers and cost $150 million, was used by the British, Chinese and Indian armies to transport supplies, troops and other essentials from India to Burma in order to keep the Japanese from overrunning the entire theater. Included is footage of the construction of the road itself and of Gen. Joseph “Vinegar Joe” Stillwell, the American general in charge of forces in the China-Burma-India area of operations and for whom the road was named.

သင္ခန္းစာ(၁၀)။အလုပ္ကိစၥမ်ား ေျပာဆုိျခင္း။

第十课，谈工作； (တိ စ္-ရွစ္  ခဲ့ ၊ ထန္ ကုန္းေဇွာ့ )

Lesson 10; Talking about jobs

1. 你每天几点上班？Nǐ měitiān jǐ diǎn shàng bān?

( နီး  ေမထ်န္း က်ီးတ်န္  စ္-ရွန္ ့ပန္း ။)

ခင္ဗ်ား  ေန ့စဥ္ ဘယ္အခ်ိန္မွာ အလုပ္ စ လုပ္သလဲ။

What time do you start every day?

2.  你每天几点下班？Nǐ měitiān jǐ diǎn xià bān?

( နီး ေမထ်န္း  က်ီးတ်န္ ယွ ပန္း။)

ခင္ဗ်ား  ေန ့စဥ္ ဘယ္အခ်ိန္မွာ အလုပ္နား သလဲ။

What time do you get off every day?

3.  你以前做过什么工作？Nǐ yǐqián zuòguo shénme gōng zuò?

( နီး  ယီခ်န္ ေဇွာ့ ေကာ့  စ္-ရွ္ မဲ  ကုန္းေဇွာ့။)

ခင္ဗ်ား  အလ်င္တုံးက ဘာအလုပ္ လုပ္ခဲ့ဘူးသလဲ။  Read more... (398 words, 2 images, estimated 1:36 mins reading time)

YouTube – Miss Universe 2010 HD Part 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXqAz-BFu9I&feature=related

Miss Universe 2010, the 59th edition of the pageant, was held at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. on August 23, 2010. It was hosted by Bret Michaels and Natalie Morales. Jimena Navarrete, Miss Mexico, was crowned Miss Universe 2010 by outgoing titlehoder Stefanía Fernández from Venezuela.

YouTube – Miss Universe 2010 HD Part 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slb_REzAB08

YouTube – Miss Universe 2010 Contestants Part 3  Read more... (122 words, 7 images, estimated 29 secs reading time)

YouTube – Miss Universe 2010 Question and Answer Top 5 contestant

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAtbKcNqP4A

Miss Universe 2010 question and answer portion TOP 5

Miss Mexico: Jimena Navarrete
Miss Australia: Jesinta Campbell
Miss Jamaica: Yendi Phillipps
Miss Ukraine: Anna Poslavska
Miss Philippines: Venus Raj

YouTube – Miss Universe Crowning Moments 1926-2010 (James Blunt – You’re beautiful)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jLG8IAqprk&feature=search

The first use of the title “Miss Universe” was as part of International Pageant of Pulchritude which began in 1926. These events, the first international contests, lasted until 1935 when the Great Depression and other events preceding World War II led to their demise. This pageant had no direct relationship with the modern event.  Read more... (276 words, 4 images, estimated 1:06 mins reading time)

အခု ဒီမွာ ေႏြရာသီ ေရာက္လာၿပီဆိုေတာ႔ ထုံးစံအတိုင္း ပူ စ ျပဳၿပီေပါ႔။ ပူေတာ႔ ေနလို႔ ထိုင္လို႔ မေကာင္းဘူး။ လင္းေတာ႔ လင္းခ်င္းပါရဲ႔၊ ဒါေပမဲ႔ အိုက္တယ္။ ကိုယ္က ဒီမွာ ေႏြဦးရာသီကို သေဘာက်တယ္။ ရာသီဥတုလဲ ေကာင္း၊ ေနေရာင္ျခည္လဲ ေကာင္းေကာင္းရလို႔ပါ။ ပန္းေတြလဲ ပြင္႔ၾကတာမို႔ ျမင္ျမင္သမွ် ႏွစ္သက္မိတယ္။

ငယ္ငယ္တုန္းက ေႏြရာသီဆိုရင္ ေက်ာင္းပိတ္တာမို႔ ေပ်ာ္စရာအေကာင္းဆုံးေပါ႔။ ကေလးဆိုေတာ႔ ေႏြရာသီကိုသာ ေမွ်ာ္မိတာပဲ။ ေက်ာင္းတက္ရတဲ႔အခ်ိန္ေတြမွာ မနက္ေစာေစာ ေက်ာင္းတက္ဖို႔ ႏိွဳးရသေလာက္ ေႏြရာသီ ေက်ာင္းပိတ္ရက္က်ရင္ေတာ႔ အေစာၾကီး အလိုလုိ ႏိုးေနတတ္တယ္။ ေဆာ႔ဖို႔ ကစားဖို႔ ရယ္ဒီပဲ ဆိုသလိုေပါ႔ဲ။ ဒါကလဲ ၇တန္းေလာက္အထိပါပဲ။

၈တန္း ေက်ာင္းပိတ္ရက္ကစ ၿပီး ကိုယ္တို႔ အေမ႔ေက်ာင္းကို စ လုိက္ရပါတယ္။ အေမ႔ေက်ာင္းဆိုတာ အေမဖြင္႔ထားတဲ႔ မူၾကိဳေက်ာင္းေလးပါ။ အဲဒီေက်ာင္းေလးကို အေမနဲ႔အတူ လိုက္သြားရၿပီး အေမစာသင္တာ ကူလုပ္ ကူ၀ိုင္းၿပီး ကေလးေတြကို စာသင္ေပး၊ သီခ်င္းဆို သင္ေပးရတာ..။ ကေလးေတြက ေက်ာင္းၾကီး မတက္ခင္ မူၾကိဳကေလးေတြ ဆိုေတာ႔ ကူထိန္းရင္း ကိုယ္ပါ ေရာေဆာ႔တဲ႔အခါလဲ ေဆာ႔ေပါ႔။

အေမက မိဘကို ကူလုပ္ရင္း ဘ၀ကိုလဲ နားလည္ေအာင္္၊ လူေတြနဲ႔လဲ ဆက္ဆံတတ္ေအာင္၊ ေက်ာင္းပိတ္ထားခ်ိန္မွာ စိတ္လဲ မေလေအာင္ ၈တန္းေက်ာင္းပိတ္ရက္က စၿပီး ကိုယ္တို႔ ညီအမတေတြ အေမ႔ေက်ာင္းလိုက္ရေတာ႔တာပဲ။ အစမွာေတာ႔ ပ်င္းတယ္။ မလိုက္ခ်င္ဘူး။ ေနာက္ေတာ႔ တျဖည္းျဖည္းနဲ႔ စာသင္ရတာလဲ စိတ္၀င္စားၿပီး ေပ်ာ္လာတယ္။ ကေလးေတြနဲ႔ ေနရတာ၊ သူတို႔ တိုးတက္မွဳေလးေတြ ေစာင္႔ၾကည္႔ရတာ၊ သူတို႔ ျဖဴစင္မွဳေလးေတြ သေဘာက်မိတာ အစုံေပါ႔။  Read more... (569 words, estimated 2:17 mins reading time)