မင်္ဂလာပါ everyone,

There hasn't been any posts here in a while, so I think everyone has already begun moving to the other subreddits.

Thank you so much for staying with us, and making interesting posts for us to read. I hope this subreddit has been a nice place for you and, I hope that the communities in the other subreddits will be nice as well.

If you are a subscriber here and would not like this subreddit locked, please tell me in the comments below. If you are a past moderator that does not approve of this action, please tell me in the comments below.

Otherwise, if there's anything I can do to help, please tell me through moderator mail or the comment section.

ကျေးဇူးတင်ပါတယ်.

Hi all! I am trying to purchase a Burmese translation of Harry Potter either in Yangon or Mandalay, published by the Seikku Cho Cho publishing company. They have an office site, show room, and shop in Yangon, and two shops in Mandalay (see http://www.skccmyanmarbook.com/contact.htm). If anyone is willing to go to these stores to find these Harry Potter books and ship them to the United States, please let me know! As far as I can tell from the publishers facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/SKCCmyanmarbook/), they have published two editions of the series: a first edition around 2014 and a second edition in the last year (2018). I would like to get at least one if not more complete sets, and I will pay for shipping and your time. Please DM me!! Thanks!!

အားလုံးမင်္ဂလာပါ! ငါ Seikku ချိုချိုထုတ်ဝေကုမ္ပဏီထုတ်ဝေသောရန်ကုန်သို့မဟုတ်မန္တလေးမြို့များတွင်ဟယ်ရီပေါ်တာဖြစ်စေ, တစ်ဦးဗမာထဲတွင်ဘာသာပြန်ဝယ်ယူရန်ကြိုးစားနေပါ၏။ သူတို့ကတစ်ဦးရုံး site ကို, ပြပွဲအခန်းတစ်ခန်းနှင့်ရန်ကုန်မြို့တွင်ဆိုင်နှင့်မန္တလေးနှစ်ခုဆိုင်များရှိသည်။ မည်သူမဆိုထိုအဟယ်ရီပေါ်တာစာအုပ်များရှာဖွေအမေရိကန်ပြည်ထောင်စုကသူတို့ကိုတင်ပို့ရန်ဤစတိုးဆိုင်ကိုသွားဆန္ဒရှိလျှင်ငါ့ကိုသိစေကျေးဇူးပြုပြီး!

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There were several posts in this subreddit that have gotten an overwhelming number of reports, yet stayed up for several days. It was my duty to react to them quickly, and instead I had left this subreddit unmoderated, with spam on the top...

The spam staying up was my mistake, and it could have been avoided.
I deeply apologise.

I'm a student of Southeast Asian studies and as part of my bachelor thesis I'm conducting a survey on which languages games are available in Southeast Asia and whether or not Southeast Asian gamers think that playing games in a non-nativ language has improved their foreign language skills. Therefore it'd be great if there were some locals here who could help me by taking my survey. :)

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The survey is rather short and should take only a few minutes to complete. Thanks in advance!

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Link to survey: https://www.umfrageonline.com/s/5eadbbc

Can anyone confirm if the Muse / Ruili boarder into Shan State is open via China?

Hey all! I will heading to Yangon for a few days and I've never been to Myanmar before. Any tips for the first time traveller will be appreciated! Especially when it comes to safety or food :)

https://www.facebook.com/100007129606152/videos/2107322026182097?sfns=mo

Hello! Sorry to interrupt, but does anyone perhaps know of any good places in Yangon to purchase Burmese Flags ? (Both Old and New 🇲🇲)

I have a friend who is travelling to Yangon soon and I have asked her to bring me back some large sized Burmese flags for my flag collection.

In order to help her narrow down her search for a flag shop, I've tried using Google Maps and Google to find flag shops in Yangon but so far I've not been able to find any.

I was wondering if anyone on this subreddit might know where I could buy the following flags :

• New Burmese Flag 🇲🇲 (sizes 100x150cm and 120x180cm)
• Old Burmese Flags (not sure about the sizes and whether these flags are still being sold, but according to the proportions of the old flag, the sizes I'm looking for are around 100x180cm and 120x216cm.)

It would be very helpful if someone could help point out some shops in Yangon that sells these flags that are fully sewn, good quality, and reasonably priced :)

Anyway, Thanks In Advance and have a nice day! :)

Apologies for the poor wording of the title, and the rest of the post I'm about to make - I'm not very good at writing...

What a merge brings

Currently, the Myanma community here on Reddit is split between two subreddits. The topics and users from here are somewhat unique from /r/myanmar's, but there is nothing to suggest that they would not fit in there as well.

If the subreddits were merged and most of the active community here begin posting there, /r/myanmar will become quite an active subreddit.

How a "merge" would be done -

The idea I have in my mind is to set this subreddit to restricted, and have a stickied post directing everyone to /r/myanmar. Restricted subreddits are read-only, with a whitelist for submitters. I would leave the whitelist empty. The subreddit would stay restricted for about two months, after which I can either leave it be, or set the subreddit to private to close things in a Reddit-traditional manner.

What will come over

• There won't be anything like a mass crosspost event to migrate posts, unless there's some posts here that really interests /r/myanmar..

• The stylesheet will not be coming along - /r/myanmar will continue to look as it is. I would still mod this subreddit if it's locked, so anyone can message me asking for the stylesheet, images, etc. But they're not very valuable.

• I will not be requesting modship at /r/myanmar. I will still be subscribed as a regular user, so I will still be a lurker, and will upvote. Thank you all for the posts so far, everyone~.

Basically, only the community would move..

Why I am making this poll

A subscriber to this subreddit had made the suggestion.

Who is aware of this suggestion

It is just us, and the subscriber who made the suggestion.

The mods at /r/myanmar have not been contacted - I don't think a merge would affect them much aside from a jump in activity.

If the community here votes yes, I will ask EmeraldRange at /r/BurmaMyanmar to consider a similar move. /r/BurmaMyanmar was designed from the start to be the one subreddit everyone uses, but if /r/myanmar becomes the main subreddit, it might be wise to formalise that entirely..

Comments

As always, the decision is entirely left up to you all - the subreddit belongs to you! I have no opinion on this, and will be fine with a 100% 'No' vote.

I know I've written this post as if it is a done deal and just needs a vote, but, I meant it as entirely a discussion.

I am aware that there is some controversy over the name 'Myanmar', and understand if you'd like to visit a subreddit called /r/burma instead. I'm unaware of any other reasons why /r/myanmar would be an inappropriate subreddit.

Please feel free to ask any questions - I will do my best to answer..

Hi r/burma,

Would anyone be able to translate what this image is saying? It looks Burmese.

Asking for a friend. Thanks.

https://imgur.com/a/FkIm0hT

Hello,

I got a job offer as a P.E. teacher in either Myitkyina or Lashio. The company is called ILBCand I have a link to the offer below. I'm curious,

-Does anyone have experience in Myanmar?

-Does anyone have experience with ILBC?

-Does anyone know which city would be better to live in for an Expat?

-Cost of living in Myanmar?

-Does this seem like a good offer?

Pros:

-Pay: 2250$ / month after tax for no more than 25 teaching hours/10 office hours

-Furnished apartment provided with air con

-Paid vacation (4 week + national holidays)

-Initial airfare reimbursement

-Flight back to place of recruitment (Taiwan for me)

Cons:

-Middle of nowhere

-No health insurance

-Have to do visa runs every 3 months (paid by school)

-English support classes needing to be taught to max out my 25 hours

Qualifications: Bachelor's of Science in Kinesiology, TEFL, little less than 1 year experience in TEFL

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0Bz7Jr9L6xV29S1BCV2hPQnhzYXZWZFh0YVN1OW1keXpjMHNN

So my family will be moving to Yangon in few months or so and they want to know some good places to live in

I heard the housing prices are ridiculously expensive in Yangon, esp the condominiums and apartments there.

We are expecting the house to be around $1500-1800 range and would like to be a one bedroom or two (since its only my parents who are gonna live there, and I will be visiting them only during the holiday season)

Would love to be safe (prob better if lots of foreigners are living) and have good facilities

Can anyone recommend me some good condos or apartments?

This delightful folktale from Burma has a powerful lesson about persistence and the value of work. It charmed my children! This story, and stories like it, have taught us to think critically about seemingly simple stories, to look deeply inside for a message. I hope it creates some stimulating discussions in your family, too!

https://www.elderberrytales.com/e/003-the-magic-powder/

Image by Lynn Greyling from Pixabay

Hi! We're a new Discord server dedicated to bringing together people from all over South East Asia! We've set up a place where members of all ASEAN states can come together and mingle, discussing and sharing ideas amongst ourselves! Do join us, and become part of the ASEAN family! Link here: https://discord.gg/FTZajCB

Hi, I'm using Reddit for quite a while and noticed its lack of content in Burmese. That's why I created a subreddit r/burmeseresources just for this cause.

Anyone can post, share or discuss in Burmese and if you're a foreigner learning Burmese I hope it would be a valuable resource.

Note:

Myanmar has an ongoing issue with character encoding and the majority still uses non-Unicode standard called Zawgyi. Since the government has been pushing for the use of Unicode I also encourage the locals to use Unicode in this subreddit.