Mon Queen Mi Chao Bu (Banya Htao)

1453-71 Queen Shin Saw Pu of Mons (Bartaban) (Myanmar-Burma) Also known as Byih-nya Daw, Shinsawbu or Shengtsambu, she was daughter of Razadarit, king of the Mons in Hanthawaddy (Bago) in Lower Myanmar, who was succeeded by her brother. She married Sinphushin Thihathu of Bamarl. After his death three...

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Biography: Queen Shin Saw Bu (Mi Chao Bu or Bannya Htao)

by John Louie Ramos Created on: April 21, 2010 Bana Thau popularly known as Queen Shin Saw Bu of Burma is one of the most famous queens during the her time. It is said that the elegant and valiant Queen have reincarnated in the 19th century as the British Queen Victoria. Shin Saw Bu was the daughter of Mon King Razadarit, the ninth king of the Hanthawaddi Pegu, and the chief queen of Thuddhamaya . She was born sometime in March 1394 on the 12th waxing of Tabaung and was given the birth name Viharadevi which means "queen...

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မြန္သူေဌးႀကီးႏိုင္ေအာက္

မြန္သူေဌးၾကီးနိုင္ေအာက္သည္ သာမန္လူမ်ားစိတ္ကူးေတာင္မယဥ္ရဲေသာ အဂၤလိပ္ကုမၸဏီႏွင့္စီးပြါးေရး အရ ယွဥ္ျပိဳင္ရဲေသာသူတစ္ဦးအျဖစ္ အမည္ေက်ာ္ၾကားခဲ့သူတစ္ဦးျဖစ္သည္။ ေအာက္ျမန္မာျပည္တြင္သာမက  ကရင္နီျပည္နယ္ ထိုင္းနိုင္ငံ ဇင္းမယ္နယ္အထိ သစ္ကုန္သည္သူေဌးၾကီးအျဖစ္ နာမည္ၾကီးခဲ့သူတစ္ဦးျဖစ္သည္။ သို႕ရာတြင္သူေဌးၾကီးတစ္ဦးအျဖစ္ျဖတ္သန္းခဲ့ေသာသူ၏သမိုင္းေၾကာင္းမွာလည္းစိတ္၀င္စားစရာအလြန္ေကာင္းလွေပသည္။ အလြန္ဆင္းရဲေသာကြ်ဲႏြားေက်ာင္းသားဘ၀မွ ၾကိဳးစားရုန္းကန္ခဲ့ျပီးမွ...

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The Mon People Became a True Phoenix Kingdom

25 Mar 2013 History & Geography  Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon is one of the most recognizable features of Myanmar. It is hard to find a book or brochure that lacks at least one illustration of this magnificent landmark. image source from: Christopher Voitus It would be considered another architectural treasure of the Bagan period…if it were a Bagan-era monument. It is not. Was it built by the Konbaung kings,...

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Investing in women leading the change

Mi Win Thida, one of Wedu’s rising star, comes from a village in the state of Mon, Myanmar. She is an MSc student in Health Economics  and Health Care Mangement at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, Thailand. Mi Win Thida aspires to create an affordable health care for all in Myanmar. When she was little, her mother and sister suffered from chronic health problems, with serious financial implications. “[My] father had to save his...

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The DeBoer Fellowship

Dear Friends and Colleagues, The DeBoer Fellowship team is pleased to announce that our full website is now available at www.deboerfellowship.com. The DeBoer Fellowship is an all-Myanmar program to assist and equip high-potential, mid-career Myanmar citizen leaders, both in professional competence and also personal character. DeBoer Fellows will grow their leadership skills through world-class instruction, personal coaching, and peer interaction. The Fellow Events' topics will include management, human resources, critical thinking,...

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How has mentorship inspired me?

12 July 2013 by Svenn Editor’s Note: Thida is the author of Wedu’s first mentorship program blog. She is a student in Health Economics, mentored by Tricia who lives in the USA and is a consultant with the Clinton Foundation. Thida learned about Wedu’s scholarships and mentorship program when she met Co-Founder, Mario at a Myanmar student meeting in Cha Am, Thailand. Read Thida’s blog below on her experiences thus far as a mentee in...

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‘We Have to Be Careful With the Language of Federalism’

‘We Have to Be Careful With the Language of Federalism’ By SAMANTHA MICHAELS / THE IRRAWADDY| Monday, July 15, 2013 | Ashley South is an independent consultant and senior adviser for the Myanmar Peace Support Initiative (MPSI), a Norwegian-led group formed at the request of Burma’s government last year to build confidence in the ceasefire and peace processes. (Photo courtesy of Ashley South) In the ceasefire agreement in...

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