by David Eimer
Enter the Dragon (film) here
Every, Henry here
Falam, Chin State here
Federal Movement here
feminism here; see also women
Fern, Mrs (Sao Sarm Hpong) here, here
Fielding-Hall, Henry: The Soul of a People here, here
films and cinema: industry here; official control of here; popularity here; prevalence here; women in here
FMI City, Yangon here
food and diet here, here, here
Force 136 (World War II) here
Fort Hertz here
fortune-tellers here
‘Four Cuts’ doctrine here, here, here
Frankie (Bangkok travel agent) here
Fraser, George MacDonald here
Fu Manchu (fictional villain) here
Furnivall, J.S. here, here
gambling here, here, here, here, here
Gamlang Razi (mountain) here
Gardiner, (John) Ritchie here, here, here, here, here, here
Glory (Chin woman) here
gold mines here, here
Golden Triangle: drug production here, here, here, here
Golden Valley (Yangon neighbourhood) here, here
golf here
Hakha, Chin State here, here
heroin here, here; see also drugs; opium
Hertz, William here
Himalayas here, here, here
Hinthada here
Hkakabo Razi (mountain) here, here
Hlaing Tharyar (Yangon township): crime in here, here, here; as shanty town here, here, here, here
Hu Jintao here
House of Memories, Yangon here
Hpakant here, here
Hsipaw here
Htay Htay Mint here
Htoi Pan here, here
Htoi Paw here, here
Indawgyi Lake here, here
India: border with Burma here; migrant workers in Burma here, here; trade with Burma here
Insein Prison here
Inya Lake here
Irrawaddy, river see Ayeyarwady River
Islam see Muslims
jade: industry and trade here, here, here, here, here
Jama Mosque, Sittwe here, here
Japan: defeated in Burma here, here; invades Burma (1942) here, here, here; victory against Russia (1904–5) here
Jar Lann (island) here, here
John (‘the Baptist’; Chin Christian) here, here, here, here
John (‘the Catholic’; Chin Christian) here, here
Johns, Captain W.E. here
Johnson, Boris here
Joshu (Lisu drug addict) here
Journey to Pyay (film) here
Junaid (Mawlamyine Muslim) here
junta: belief in occult guidance here; corruption here; refuses international help after Cyclone Nargis here; reports little bad news here; revises constitution here; suppresses student activism here, here
Kachin Independence Army (KIA) here, here, here, here, here, here
Kachin Independence Organisation (KIO) here, here, here
Kachin people here, here
Kachin State: anti-drug policy here, here; autonomy movement here, here, here; border with China here; Chinese money and support in here; Christianity in here, here; civil war in here; higher education in here; jade mining and trade here, here, here; population here; sense of unity here; Tibetans in here; wildlife trafficking here
Kadan Island here
Kalaymyo (Kalay) here, here, here
Kam Suan Mang here
Karen people here, here; rebel here, here, here
Katha (town) here
Kaung Myat Min here
Kawthoung here, here, here
Kayah here
Kayin State here
Kengtung, Shan State here, here
Kennedy Peak, Chin State here
Ket here
Khen Thang, Felix Lian, Bishop here, here
Khin Kyi (Aung San Suu Kyi’s mother) here
Khin Nyunt here
Khin Zaw Lwin here
Khine Hmin Wai here
Khun Sa (Zhang Qifu) here, here
Kipling, Rudyard here, here; ‘Mandalay’ (poem) here
Ko Min Min here
Ko Min Nyo here
Ko Myint here, here
Kokang (Special Region 1, Shan State) here, here
Kublai Khan here
Kyaikthanlan Pagoda, Mawlamyine here
Kyaingtong, Shan State here
Kyaukme here
Kyaw Mint here
Kyaw Soe Hlaing, Sergeant Major here
Kyunsu, Kadan Island here
Laiza here
Lamin Oo here
Lewis, Norman here
Limouzin family here
Limouzin, Ida (Orwell’s mother) here
Lin Mingxian here, here
Lisu people here, here, here, here, here, here
Lo Hsing Han here
logging here
Loi Mwe, Shan State here
Loi Tai Leng here, here, here
Love and Liquor (film) here
Ma Ba Tha (organisation) here, here, here
Macgregor & Co. here, here
Machanbaw here, here
Madaw Razi (mountain) here
Mae Hong Son here
Mae Sot, Thailand here
Magwe here
Mai Ja Yang, Kachin State here, here
Malaya: communist insurgency suppressed here
Malihka river here
Mandalay: crime increase here; founded as royal capital here; railway to Hsipaw and Lashio here; riots here; war damage here
Mang, Mr here
Mang Son Pau here
Mantong here
Marxism here
Maugham, W. Somerset here
Maung Thaw Ka here
Maungdaw here
Mawlamyine (earlier Moulmein): character here, here, here, here, here; position of Muslims in here
May Chin (movie star) here
May Thin Zar here
media: controlled and censored here
Meiktila: war damage here
Mergui see Myeik
Miao (town) here
Michael here, here
Min Ko Naing (earlier Paw Oo Tun) here, here
Min Ma Naing district, Yangon here, here
Mindon, king of Burma here
Mingalar Taung Nyunt here
Mitton, G.E. (later Scott): A Bachelor Girl in Burma here
Mizo people here, here
mobile phones here
Mon people here, here
Mon State here, here
Mong Kung here
Mong La, Shan State: Chinese presence here, here; conditions here, here, here, here, here; drugs museum here, here; follows Chinese time here; gambling and prostitution here, here, here; lacks university here; lavish buildings here; opium trade here; people smuggling here; as Special Region here; three armies in here, here; wildlife trafficking here
Mong Tai Army here
Mongols here
Morse family here, here
Moses (Mawlamyine Christian) here, here
Moulmein see Mawlamyine
Mrauk U here, here
Mulashidi Village here
Muse, Shan State here
Muslims: attacked by Buddhists here, here, here, here, here; barred from serving in Tatmadaw here; identity cards and voting difficulties here; in Mawlamyine here; presence in Burma here; see also Rohingya
Myanma: people here; word meaning here
Myanmar see Burma
Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) here, here
Myazedi Monastery, Mawlamyine here, here
Myeik (earlier Mergui): British in here; character here; and piracy here; trade with Thailand here
Myeik Archipelago here, here
Myitkyina here, here, here, here
Namhsan here, here, here
Namhsan Militia here
Namtu here, here
Narai, king of Siam here
Nargis (Cyclone) here, here
Nargis: When Time Stopped Breathing (film) here
National Coalition Group here, here
National Democratic Alliance Army (NDAA) here, here, here, here, here
National League for Democracy (NLD): attitude to media here; in by-elections (2012) here, here; election victory (2015) here, here, here, here; excludes Muslim candidates here; formed here, here; Muslim suspicion of here; Muslims support here; presence in Burma here; restrictions on media here; in Shan State here; support in Chin State here; supposedly protects Muslims here
nats (animist spirits) here
Naypyidaw: character here; established as Burmese capital here, here, here; and ethnic forces here
Ne Win, General: on Buddhists and Muslims here; controls film industry here; dressing up here; ends authority of sawbwas here; expelled from Rangoon University here; expels Christian missionaries here; faith in occult here; heads Tatmadaw here; leads coup (1962) here, here, here; lifestyle here; photograph here; political programme and rule here, here, here; represses student rebels here, here; and Sao Kya Seng here; supports Japanese in war here; takes office here, here; wives here
Nga Hmun here
Ngwalisa here, here, here, here, here, here
Nilar (Burmese woman) here
969 movement (anti-Muslim) here
Nixon, Richard M. here, here
N’Maihka river here
Nogmung here
Noor (of Rakhine State) here, here
North East Frontier here
Northern Alliance here, here
numerology here, here, here, here
Nyan Win here
Nyaung Toung Lake here
oil: reserves in Burma here, here
opium: grown in Shan State here, here; local use here; popularity here; production and trade here, here; see also drugs
Orwell, George: anti-imperialism here; and Burmese prisoners here; father in Indian Civil Service here; forgotten in Burma here; home in Katha here; and Kipling here; and Robinson here; serves in Burma Police here, here, here, here, here; Burmese Days here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here; ‘A Hanging’ here; ‘Shooting an Elephant’ here, here
Orwell, Sonia here
Pakokku here, here
Palaung People here
Palaung Self-Administered Zone here
Panghsang here, here, here
Panglong Conference (Shan State, 1947) here, here, here, here, here, here, here; 21st Century version here
Panhsay Militia here, here
Pat Ja San (anti-drug organisation) here
Pau Cin Hau Sect here, here
Peck, Gregory here
Pegu Club, Yangon here, here, here, here, here
Pegu Yoma range here
Pialrâl (animist heaven) here, here
police here, here
Popa, Mount here
prisons here
prostitution here, here; see also Mong La
punishments (criminals) here
Purple Plain, The (film) here
Putao (north Burma) here, here, here, here, here
Pyay here, here
Pyin Oo Lwin here
Pyu people here
Rakhine people here
Rakhine State (earlier Arakan): Buddhist-Muslim clashes in here, here, here; conditions here; economic deprivation here; as independent state here; name here; neglect and poverty in here; resentment of Burmese domination here; Rohingya in here, here; unrest here; in World War II here, here; see also Rohingya Muslims
Rance, Sir Herbert here
Rangoon see Yangon
Rangoon Institute of Technology (RIT) here
Ranong, Thailand here
Rawang people here, here, here, here
Rebellion Resistance Force (Rawang) here
religions here; see also animism; Buddhism; Christianity; Muslims
Restoration Council of Shan State (or Shan State Army - South; RCSS) here, here, here, here
rice farming and trade here, here
Rih Lake, Chin State here, here
Rihkhawdar here, here, here
Robert, Major here, here, here, here
Robinson, Herbert here, here; A Modern De Quincy here
Rohingya Muslims: Burmese army mistreatment of here; Burmese hostility to here, here; emigrate here; flee to Bangladesh here, here; language here; numbers here; origins and status here; persecuted and discrimated against here; in Rakhine State here, here, here, here, here, here; Sao Shwe Thaike defends here; support British in World War II here, here; in Yangon here
Rohmer, Sax here
Rowe & Co. (department store) here
Ruili, Yunnan Province here, here
Russo-Japanese War (1904–5) here
Saffron Revolution (2007): and Cyclone Nargis here; filmed here; monks in here; opposes army rule here, here
Sai Hong Kham here, here
Salang Kaba here
Salone people here, here, here
Sangermano, Vincentius here
Sao Kya Seng here
Sao Sai Long here, here
Sao Shwe Thaike (Yawnghwe) here, here, here
sawbwas (‘sky lords’) here, here, here, here, here, here
Saya San here
Scott, James George here, here
Sea Gypsy (boat) here, here, here
Setilaw village here
786 (Muslim Basmala) here
Seven Stars group here
sexual harassment and violence here
Shah Bandar mosque, Mawlamyine here
Shahida (Rohingya woman) here
Shan National Day here
Shan people here, here, here, here
Shan State: border with China here; civil war in here, here, here, here; conditions here, here, here; disunity here, here; in election (2015) here; ethnographic and demographic composition here, here; history as state here; jungle here; opium growing and consumption here, here, here; political-economic situation here; Special Regions here; as threat to Burmese rulers here
Shan State Army - North here
Shan State Army - South see Restoration Council of Shan State
Shan United Army here
Shunn Lei here
Shwebontha Pagoda, Pyay here
Shwedagon Pagoda, Yangon: ATMs installed here; character here, here
Shwesandaw Pagoda, Pyay here
Siangsawn Village, Chin State here
Sichuan Province (China): earthquake here
Siliw here
Sittwe (earlier Akyab), Rakhine State: conditions here, here; Rohingya Muslims in here, here, here, here; University here
sky lords see sawbwas
smoking (tobacco) here
socialism here
soothsayers here
Soppong here
Southeast Asian Games (2013) here
Special Regions here
Sri Ksetra here
Steel Brothers (company) here
Sucittasara (monk) here, here
Sule Pagoda, Yangon here
Suu Kyi, Aung San (Daw Suu): admires Kipling here; aims for peace in Burma here; autocratic tendencies here; awarded Nobel Peace Prize here; barred from office under constitution here, here; criticised here; election victory (2015) here, here, here, here; entry into politics here; first elected to parliament here; freed from house arrest here, here; indifference to state autonomy here; influenced by father here, here; and inter-faith marriage here; jailed in Insein Prison here; maintains film censorship here; marriage and children here; meets Yawd Serk here; monks demand release here; residence here; and Rohingya crisis here; and second (21st Century) Panglong Conference here; in Shan State here; silence on Muslim issues here, here; soldiers support here; Than Shwe attempts to influence here; uncompromising nature here; under house arrest here; unpopularity in Rakhine State here; unpopularity in Kachin here; wedding here; and women’s rights here
Swe Zin Htaik (‘Grace’) here, here
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nbsp; Symes, Michael here, here, here
Ta Aye (Salone woman) here
Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
Ta’ang region: lack of development here; opium addicts here; rebellion against Burmese state 2584; signs ceasefire (1991) here, here; tea cultivation and production here
Tachileik, Shan State here, here
Tai Khamti people here
Tai Khun people here
Tai Nua people (China) here
Tanai here, here
Tang Raw here, here
Tanintharyi Region here
Tar Maw Shan here
Tashi (Tibetan) here
Tatmadaw (Burmese military): Aung San founds here, here; base at Machanbaw here; and capital city Naypidyaw here, here; commercial interests here; conflicts with ethnic armies here, here; and cronyism here, here; destroys Shan sawbwa palace here; divide and rule policy against rebels here; and drug trade and use here, here; and film censorship here; ’Four Cuts’ doctrine here; hostility to Rohingya here, here; idealises kings here; involvement in government here; Kachin Independence Army opposes here, here, here, here; in Kengtung, Shan State here; Muslims barred from here; on national unity here; Ne Win heads here; opposed by Ta’ang National Liberation Army here, here, here, here, here; and protests here; reaction to Cyclone Nargis here; and rebellious regions here; repression in Rakhine here; size increase here; supported by Shan State Army here; Suu Kyi’s relations with here, here; takes over Pegu Club here, here
Taunggyi here
Taungoo here, here
tea: cultivation and trade here, here, here, here, here
teak here, here, here, here
Tedim, Chin State here, here, here
television here, here
Tenasserim Hills here
Thaiddhi (film maker) here
Thailand: border checkpoints here; and opium trade here; trade with Myeik here, here
Than Shwe here, here, here, here, here
thanaka (natural sunscreen) here, here
Thanlwin River here, here
Tharrawaddy here, here
Thein Thut here
Theroux, Paul here
Thibaw, king of Burma here, here, here, here, here
Thida here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
Thirty Comrades (political group) here, here
Thunderball (film) here
Tibet here, here
Tibetans: in Burma here
Tim: dress here; exile in USA here; political activism here, here; returns to Burma from USA here, here; on Rohingya here; in Yangon here
tin mines here
trade unions here
Tun Tun here
U Aung Aung here, here
U Hla Myint here, here
U Nu here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here
U Oktama here