• 密码保护：The Southeast Asia Digital Library (SEADL)

  2022年10月20日

• 密码保护：DREAMSEA – Digitising Manuscripts Safeguarding Cultural Diversity

  2022年10月19日

• In the decades of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, much of Southeast Asia was under Western colonial dominance. Most of the region was divided among the British, French, Dutch, Spanish, and American powers, supplanted by a brief period of Japanese influence following the outbreak of World War II in Europe and the Pacific. The post-war era witnessed a series of revolutions as local leaders looked to regain independence from colonial powers. Decolonisation efforts and movements spread throughout the region, leaving the newly independent states in charge of their own political, economic, and social pathways for the first time in decades.
  The Southeast Asian Newspapers, an Open Access collection supported by the Center for Research Libraries and its member institutions, chronicles the changes that took place throughout the region during this period, and the challenges of early statehood. Covering several countries from the region, including Cambodia, Indonesia, Myanmar (formerly Burma), Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam, and featuring multiple languages such as Dutch, English, French, Javanese, Khmer, Spanish, Thai, and Vietnamese, the Southeast Asian Newspapers collection incorporates a wealth of coverage and perspectives on major regional and global events of the late nineteenth and twetieth centuries.
  To date, altogether 129 newspaper titles with a total of 67,762 issues dating from between 1839 to 1976 have been included: 57 from the Philippines, 37 from Vietnam, 24 from Indonesia, 5 from Thailand, 3 from Malaysia, 1 from Cambodia and 1 from Myanmar. Among the earliest printed newspapers in the collection are Tranh đ̂áu, a newspaper in Vietnamese language published in Saigon (33 issues from between 1839 to 1938, with gaps), and Nangsư̄ čhotmāihēt (หนังสือจดหมายเหตุ – Bangkok Recorder), a Thai newspaper published in Bangkok (11 issues from 1844 to 1845).
  The online collection provides free access to the fully digitised issues of the newspapers (altogether 463,246 pages). Search functions by newspaper title, free word search, date and map help locate information easily. One additional feature is “On this date in history”, which presents randomly selected articles from various newspapers published in different countries on the date in history of the visit of this collection.

  2022年10月19日

• ‘I can’t refuse what they offer’

  2022年10月19日

• “Before, if someone offered me K10,000 for sex, I’d hand it over to other sisters who couldn’t support their families,” said Ma Kyi Pyar*. “Now, I’ll take K5,000.”
  A thin woman in her late 30s, with dyed red hair and wrinkles that show through her heavy makeup, Kyi Pyar has been a sex worker in Yangon since 2016. She lives in a village in Hmawbi Township on Yangon’s outer northern fringes with her five children and mother-in-law. When her husband died seven years ago, Kyi Pyar suddenly had to provide for her young family.
  “I went to a relatives’ house and did whatever chores they wanted, but I couldn’t earn enough,” she recalled. “Then I went alone to Sule Pagoda Road in downtown Yangon and began making money as a sex worker.”
  “I had two or three customers a day and was earning about K50,000, which was enough to support my family.” But amid the economic turmoil that has followed the February 2021 military coup, customers are paying far less. “In the past the price was K20,000 but now customers don’t want to pay even K10,000,” she said, adding that she has debts worth over K300,000 (US$107 at market rates).
  “Sex workers have been having a hard time since the COVID-19 pandemic, and after the military seized power it got worse. [Some] commodity prices have tripled and they have families to support,” said a member of a Myanmar NGO that provides healthcare, legal education and livelihood support to women in the industry, but which does not wish to be named because of the sensitivity of its work.

  2022年10月19日

• On the full moon day of Thadingyut, October 9, People’s Defence Force fighters gathered for a traditional ceremony at a village near Moebye, a town in southern Shan State’s Pekon Township close to the border with Kayah State.
  Seven elders from seven nearby villages intoned prayers and tied pieces of cotton thread to the men’s wrists, in a ritual that the Karenni believe will provide protection from harm.
  In the past, these ceremonies were held to secure better crop yields or prevent drought or epidemics. However, since the coup they’ve been performed to “protect and strengthen the morale of the defence forces fighting in the revolution,” said a resident of Moebye, whose population of almost 30,000 people is, like neighbouring Kayah, majority Karenni.
  The prayers are usually offered in churches belonging to the largely Christian Karenni community, but due to continuous heavy fighting in and around Moebye, the ceremonies have been relocated to PDF bases and internally displaced people’s camps.
  Since the February 2021 military coup, resistance groups have regularly fought with the Tatmadaw for control of Moebye. The town is strategically located on a major supply route to the Kayah capital Loikaw, 25 kilometres to the southeast, and occupies a mountainous area crucial to the defence of Nay Pyi Taw, 200km to the west. However, up until last month, most clashes were short-lived and sometimes lasted for little more than an hour.
  That changed on September 8, when PDF sources say about 400 Tatmadaw soldiers advanced on Moebye from the south under the cover of artillery fire, in an apparent effort to flush out resistance fighters in the town. This lightning advance sparked several weeks of almost continuous fighting, in which a coalition of resistance groups denied the Tatmadaw full control of the town and prompted it to partially evacuate its troops.
  Moebye PDF fighter Ko Saw claimed the Tatmadaw’s initial assault was a failure. Although its heavy weapons fire destroyed a church and several houses in the town, “residents quickly fled from harm and PDFs were well prepared to defend [Moebye]”, he said, referring to the combined forces of the Moebye PDF, Karenni Army, Karenni Nationalities Defence Force, Karenni Revolution Union and United Resistance Force.
  “Some of our comrades were injured but there were no fatalities,” Ko Saw said of the eight-hour battle. He credited the lack of civilian deaths to “local people’s experience of war”, meaning they had learnt how to evade danger. Frontier phoned the junta’s Ministry of Information, where an official referred questions about the Moebye conflict to the deputy minister, Major-General Zaw Min Tun, who didn’t respond. Further attempts to get comment from the ministry were unsuccessful.

  2022年10月19日

• Thailand’s Festivals and Celebrations From the wet & wild Thai New Year known as SongKran, or the Pattaya Ladyboy Festivals, to the more traditional annual Thai festivals of Loy Krathong, Chakri Day, Coronation Day, FireBalls in Nongkhai, rocket festivals in Isaan to the Buffalo races in Chonburi and the Elephant round up in Surin. From local Wat festivals to national celebrations, all you experiences with Thailand holidays, ceremonies, festivals and annual events can be found here. Been to a Thai Wedding, Funeral or other Buddhist ceremony? Let us see. Your photos, youtube videos and comments are welcomed., FireBalls in Nongkhai, rocket festivals in Isaan to the Buffalo races in Chonburi

  2022年10月18日

• The History of Phuket’s Tin Mining Industry

  2022年10月18日

• Talat Noi or Talad Noi (Thai: ตลาดน้อย, pronounced [tā.làːt nɔ́ːj]) is a historic neighbourhood in Bangkok. It roughly occupies the area of the sub-district of the same name in Samphanthawong District. On the periphery of Bangkok’s Chinatown, Talat Noi has been home to various ethnic Chinese communities since soon after the foundation of Bangkok. Several historic buildings are found in the area, including the Holy Rosary Church, the Talat Noi Branch of Siam Commercial Bank, and the So Heng Tai Mansion.
  Talat Noi has a long history predating the founding of Bangkok. The first ethnic group to settle here were the Portuguese from Ayutthaya. They built a Portuguese church in 1786, today known as the Holy Rosary Church or, in Thai, Wat Kalawa. Later, other ethnic groups came to live in Talat Noi, not only Chinese but also Vietnamese and Khmer. The area was Bangkok’s first port, and was where immigrants landed.
  Talat Noi was the birthplace of Dr. Puey Ungphakorn, former Governor of the Bank of Thailand. He was influential in Thai society in the 1970s.
  The name Talat Noi means ‘little market’. It comes from the name of the daughter of Jao Sua Niam or Jay Sua Niam (เจ้าสัวเนียม, เจ๊สัวเนียม), a landowner in the past.[6] So, Chinese who living here are often referred to in Thai term in Teochew dialect Tuk Luk Kia (ตั๊กลักเกี้ย; Chinese: 噠叻仔)
  Today, Talat Noi is a cultural attraction. Locals retain their form of speech, food, and folk beliefs as in the past. Houses and lanes are lathered with graffiti that makes the place popular with teenagers, hipsters, and foreign tourists who want to experience a traditional Chinese quarter. It is convenient to other attractions in the adjacent historic Bang Rak neighbourhood on Charoen Krung Road: Captain Bush Lane and House No.1, the Old Customs House, Bangkok General Post Office, and Assumption Cathedral.
  Talat Noi is origin of the kuaitiao khua kai (ก๋วยเตี๋ยวคั่วไก่), a popular stir-fried noodle dish. It was adapted from dried chicken congee during World War II.

  2022年10月18日

• The Chinese Minority in Thailand: Social and Educational Perspective

  2022年10月18日