The Japanese women’s top division volleyball league is among the top three women’s volleyball leagues in the world. So it’s amazing to see Yee Mon Myat excelling there despite still being a teenager.

She is playing at the world class level in her sport, and she’s not even close to her prime yet.

Volleyball is a popular and competitive sport in Japan. The Japanese women’s national team is currently ranked sixth in the world out of 122 countries.

On the other hand, Myanmar women’s national volleyball team currently has NR (not ranked) status in world rankings since they haven’t been active in so long.

My mood is really really bad these days. But ,today I went out and bought gift for my parents for Thadingyut. And I saw this medicine and bought it thinking "why not". I took 2 pills today and my mood really improved. I don't know it is placebo effect or just medicine doing its job.And I am planning to take it every day. But I was wondering is it okay to take it without prescription?And Is there other similar kind of medicine that work well on depression and ADHD? I don't want to go see psychiatrist.

TGscope tracks public Telegram channels, about 3 million of them, and Burmese stands out on almost every measure.

It's the most active language. 70.5% of Burmese channels posted something in the last month, more than any other big language. Russian is at 56%, English at 41%.

It's also the most copied. 45% of Burmese posts appear word for word in at least one other channel. For English it's 10%, for Russian 9%.

A lot of channels are sold together. 26.5% of Burmese channels with 10k+ subscribers list the same ad contact as at least four other channels, again the highest of any language.

But readers don't see much of it. A typical post in a Burmese channel with 10k to 100k subscribers is seen by about 3% of subscribers, the lowest of the 11 languages measured. About 40% of those channels reach fewer than 1 in 50 subscribers.

A couple more numbers: Burmese has as many channels with 10k+ subscribers as French (about 1,650), and the most common topics are humour (47%) and film and TV (37%).

Does this match what you see? My guess is lots of movie and meme channels reposting the same stuff

I am a kayin girl living overseas now. Managed to get refugee status. Came onto this reddit not long ago. I find some of the positions quite problematic.
 
Burmese sarongs and dance worn in Thai show? Protest! Petition! Myanmar culture is important!
BUT Ethnic languages banned and ethnic history and culture not taught in state schools? That is ok. No need to protest. They should all just speak bamar. Myanmar history is just bamar history.
 
Cannot judge all bamar by actions of a few. MAH and Tat is not representative of all Bamar. Must judge on individual action.
BUT Can judge all ethnic groups by their rebel groups. Kayin are all KNU and Kachin are all KIA. Rohingya are all rapists and murderers.
 
Loud protests and CDM when Tat harms bamar civilians.
BUT No noise when tat is burning ethnic villages and raping ethnic girls. Cheers tat on when killing rohingyas
 
Kachins, Kayins not trustworthy because they worked with the British. Anyone working with outsiders is a threat.
BUT 30 comrades and BIA are heroes for working with Japanese outsiders and clever for switching to working with the British. That is perfectly fine and clever.
 
Kayins who never signed Panglong agreement and pushing for independence – Rebels who want to destroy the union and betraying the spirit of the agreement.
BUT Tat overthrows civilian government and uses the four cuts strategy to harm ethnic groups – perfectly acceptable since ethnic groups are all rebels.
 
Ethnic groups refuse to accept Bamar-dominated central rule? They are destroying democracy and the Union.
BUT Tat refuses to accept the election result and overthrows the elected government? It is saving the Union. Apparently, the people's mandate matters until it produces a result the military does not like.
 
Bemoans other countries for not accepting Myanmar passports and deporting myanmar illegal immigrants. Speaks of need for compassion and understanding.
BUT there is support when tat Tries to remove entire ethnic groups because they don’t appear on a list of approved groups. No need for compassion here.
 
My kin has been attacked in their villages since 1942 with the BIA invaded. Kayins never signed the panglong agreement but people make it look like we break our promise. Ne Win takes over and destroy our language, culture and our crops. They bomb from the air and rape our women.

Kayin people only appear on postcards and calendars. Our history and culture are missing from school textbooks. We left only without cute ethnic attires that Burmese girls cosplay with for TT likes.

I really don’t see why any ethnic group would want to stay in this union. We owe this union nothing. Promises of federalism and autonomy were never kept and all we get are more lies bloodshed and suffering.

Even if the Kachin in China and Kayin in Thailand also lack political power, at least they are not being bombed from the air and being raped by tat soldiers.

Edit: downvote if you want. This is the truth to me. If you grew up like i did and lived my life, always in fear until we crossed the border and found safety and refuge, you may understand.

အခုတလော ကြားရတဲ့ သတင်းတွေ၊ စီးပွားရေးအခြေနေနဲ့ အလုပ်ဖိအားတွေကြောင့် အရမ်း စိတ်ဓာတ်တွေကျပြီး အိပ်မပျော်ဖြစ်နေလို့ပါ။ ကျောင်းနားပြီူ ကတည်းက သူငယ်ချင်းလဲ မရှိ၊ အနာဂတ်လည်း ပျောက်သလိုဖြစ်နေတာ။

ဘယ်လိုပြန်စတင်ရမလဲ ကို မသိတော့ဘူး။ အကြံဉာဏ်နဲ့ အားပေးစကားလေးပြော‌ပေးကြပါနော်။ ကျေးဇူးပါ။

I moved to Taunggyi from Yangon a few years ago. One thing I've been raging about is the driving culture here.

I don’t want to generalize "people from Taunggyi" since ik so many ppl have moved here from all over the place in recent years but this is insane.

No indicators, parking in places that block traffic flow or your view when trying to take a turn safely, and motorbikes make it so much more stressful. WAY TOO MANY riders cut in front of cars without signaling.

၁၀ ကားမှာ ၈ ကားလောက်က indicators လည်းမပြကြဘူး။ ကားရပ်တာကအစအဆင်မပြေဘူး။ ဒီကြားထဲ အရမ်းမောင်းတဲ့ ဆိုင်ကယ်တွေက ရှိတော့ပိုဆိုးတယ်။ ဆိုင်ကယ်တွေလည်း အဲ့လိုပဲ indicator မပြ ဘာမပြ၊ ကြားထဲက ဇွတ်တွေဝင်တိုးတာ အကြောက်အလန့် မရှိဘူး။ ယာဥ်စည်းကမ်း လမ်းစည်းကမ်းလည်း သိကြပုံ မပေါ်ဘူး။

ဒီထက်ဆိုးတာတွေရှိသေးတယ် ဆိုင်ကယ်မောင်းနေရင်း ဖုန်းသုံးနေတာတွေ၊ ဦးထုပ်လည်းမဝတ်ထားဘူး၊ တချို့ဆို ကလေးသေးသေးလေးတွေပါ တင်ထားသေးတာ အန္တရာယ်အရမ်းများတယ်။

Does anyone else living here feel the same way?

All at once!

Source - Bagan lover

၁.အကယ်၍ ​အောင်ဆန်းစုကြည်သာ ၁၀၀%အာဏာရခဲ့ပြီး ဆက်အုပ်ချုပ်ရင် တရုတ်ကိုကိုင်တွယ်နိုင်မယ်ထင်လား ထိုင်းကို​​ကျော်တက်နိုင်မယ်ထင်လား

၂.အခုနိုင်ငံ​ရေးက တရုတ်ကလက်ဝါးကြီးပိုပိုအုပ်လာပြီး ကျွန်​တော်​နေတဲ့ရှမ်းဆို ​အာဏာသိမ်းပြီး​နောက်ပိုင်း တော်​တော်များများ တရုတ်​တွေပါလာတယ် ပြည်သူစစ် crime​တွေ​ခေါင်း​ဆောင်​တော်​တော်များများ တရုတ်​တွေဖြစ်​နေပြီး လက်​အောက်ငယ်သား​တွေကမြန်မာစစ်တပ်နဲ့ တိုင်းရင်းသား​တွေဖြစ်​နေတယ်

Since I not currently in Myanmar I don't know what kind VPN is currently working. I need it for my parents so is there any premium vpn that is currently working, use social media and WhatsApp or Telegram. Would be really nice if you guys can give me some suggestions or options. Thank you.

Taken from r/malaysia

I am in Yangon until 15 November and wondering if there is an underground electronic music scene beyond the usual advertised events. Mostly interested in techno, house, minimal, and similar sounds, rather than commercial EDM or hardstyle.

Any smaller options worth checking out?

I thought some people might be interested. Youtube videos(or just media in general) covering modern Burmese history are rare. It is a shame considering that we have some really wacky stuff, be it Ne Win's obsession with 9s, North Korea's bombing in Rangoon or U Thant's tenure at the United Nations.

It would be nice if we had more well-researched(In English or in Burman) media on our history. Most of what we get is extremely simplified documentaries made palatable for westerners.

It is also interesting to observe an outsider's reaction to the Burmese obsession with astrology and numerology.

P.S - not self-promo. It's some white guy's channel.

The more I see takes on this subreddit, it feel like aliens opinion compared to what I have been seeing daily in Myanmar. Like are the people from this sub posting without any knowledge on what happening currently on daily life of Myanmar or are the people posting here so young and not even over 18 that they don't understand the bigger picture at all?

I am gonna include a few outrageous take I have seen so that I would not be vagueposting

"ကွမ်းယာ came from British time and we have only been eating not that long and is colony propaganda" "only bamar and kalae eat ကွမ်းယာ"

"Who cares what happens to the cultural heritage of Myanmar. Just because people are born in Myanmar mean we don't have to care for it, it just old history"

"Just let anyone who want to come into our country, we are already running away from our so just let anyone else come in anyway they want"

"Myanmar doesn't have culture, Myanmar is basically just combination of other Asia country cultures, myanmar don't have anything original"

"မှားချင်လဲ မှားမယ် မှန်ချင်လဲမှန်မယ်ဗျာ ၊ ကျတော်တို့ တွေက သေခြာစဉ်းစားကြည့်တော့ ရူးချင်စရာကြီး ကိုယ့်တကိုယ်ရည် အတ္တ အနိုင်ရရေးသပ်သပ် အတွက်ပဲ ဒါငါတို့ ဟာ ဒါငါတို့ ယဉ်ကျေးမှု ကာကွယ်ရမယ်တို့ ဘာတို့ ၊ (culture) ယဉ်ကျေးမှု က ဘာလဲ မေးကြည့်လိုက် ရေရေရာရာ မသိဘူး။ ကိုယ်ကြိုက်ရင် ကြိုက်လိုက် မကြိုက်ရင်လဲ မကြိုက်ပဲနေလိုက် ၊ လိုက်တိုက်ခိုက်ဆဲဆိုနေတာတွေ အမျိုးမျိုးပေါ့ ၊ ကျတော် တွေးမိတာ တခုက Hero ဖြစ်ချင်တာလား ၊ “ဟားဟိတ်လူ ခင်ဗျားသိပ်တော်တယ်ဗျာ ကယ်တင်ရှင်ကြီးပါဗျာ”လို့ ချီးမွမ်း ခံချင်တာလား ။ သိပ်တော့ အဆင်ပြေမနေဘူး ။ အမှန်တိုင်း ပြောရရင် ကျတော့ ဆက်ပြီးမတွေးတတ်တော့ သလို နားမလည်နိုင်တော့ဘူးဗျာ ။ ခင်ဗျားတို့ကော ဘယ်လိုမြင်လဲ ?"

There are many others more that I have seen but these are the only one I can think of as of right now minus the rohingya take cause I am not stepping on to that category. My apologies if I offend someone.

Hello. I'm gonna have to receive a package from Canada to here. I'd like to know what shipping options are out there. I looked into DHL but turns out these guys are fast at cost of being super expensive (this isn't only to Myanmar. Even for nearer countries, they're still expensive as hell). Please help out