admin | April 7, 2008
By: Mai Aik Zham
When people think about tea in Burma, one community springs to mind: the Palaung. Palaung tea can be found in every household and every restaurant – and it is also popular in China. For nearly a thousand years, Palaung people have depended on the small green leaves for their livelihood.
admin | April 7, 2008
By: Mai Aik Zham
Lway Sca Nyee has been exerted in Chinese poppy field in the area of Kutkai calls “Thar Meo Nye” for two months but came back at house with nothings. “My friend had been died from neglecting medicinal cure by the possessor in Chinese poppy field,” said 23 years old Palaung women, Lway [...]
admin | April 7, 2008
Pu Chiangdao
21 October 2007
By : Pu Chiangdao
Photo : Ongart Decha, Anuparb Nunsong
“…Kon duk tu moeng ma
kruan pran tu moe roen
bae bee nong ga wai
bae bee nong ga wai…
We are the poor without field or farm
We are the poor with no money
Have mercy, have mercy…”
admin | April 7, 2008
By Alison Wingfield, Operative Baptist Fellowship
ATLANTA—The cost of a typical week’s grocery bill in the United States was all it took to change a life. Money given last summer to the Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Offering for Religious Liberty and Human Rights is being put to use to help hill tribe people in Thailand obtain [...]
admin | April 6, 2008
By Mai Aik Zham
As the Palaung people haven’t been given the change from the military government to promote their literature many have been less learning their language. Most of the Palaung people didn’t access the education and they aren’t interested in any literature because the surviving is very hard for them to concentrate on any [...]
admin | April 6, 2008
By: Mai Aik Zham
The Palaung people use the bamboo tubs to boil the tea for drinking and bamboo cups culturally when they hack the firewood in the jungle. It is sweat tease in the forest and also they don’t need to bring the kitten from home. It is easy to cut the bamboo and use [...]
admin | April 6, 2008
Mai Aik Pan, 40 was a spiritual leader of Palaung people in exile who allegedly died in Moulmein prison by the torment of military regime. He was arrested by the military intelligence in 1st October 2001, in Myawaddy near the Thai-Burma gate while he was working as an underground movement. Then he was sentenced to [...]
