Why Burmese reforms fail--

pl go ahead--I don't know the way
then I will go ahead--I am not yr nauk like follower
then let's walk abreast?
Do you think you and I are at the same level?
Why B reforms fail--
bwa ha ha--

Phyo Min Wai‎၈။ဟာသလြင္ျပင္

ျမန္မာျပည္မွာ

Welcome Mr Obama 2014--

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/11/11/hope-and-change-burma-beheads-a-journalist-before-obama-arrives.html

မငိုပါနဲ႔ မသႏၲာ။
။။။။။။။။။။။။။။။။။။။
မငိုပါနဲ႔ မသႏၲာ
ခင္ဗ်ားေယာက္က်ား သက္မဲ့ခႏၶာမွာ
အဝတ္စားျပည့္ျပည့္စံုစံု
ဒင္းတို႔ ---- ဝတ္မေပးခဲ့ေပမယ့္
သူ႔မွာ ဂုဏ္သိကၡာ အျပည့္စံုနဲ႔ ။

မငိုပါနဲ႔ မသႏၲာ
ခင္ဗ်ားေယာက္က်ား သက္မဲ့ခႏၶာမွာ
အ႐ိုးအရည္ က်ဳိးေၾကေနေပမယ့္
သူ႔ဦးမက်ဳိးခဲ့လို႔ ဒင္းတို႔ဒီလိုစီရင္ခဲ့တာေပါ့။
မငိုပါနဲ႔ မသႏၲာ
ခင္ဗ်ားေယာက္က်ား သက္မဲ့ခႏၶာဟာ
စကားတစ္ခြန္း မေျပာႏိုင္ေတာ့ေပမယ့္
စစ္အာဏာရွင္တို႔ရဲ႕ -----------
ရက္စက္ယုတ္မာမႈ
လိမ္လည္ေကာက္က်စ္မႈေတြကို
တစ္ကမၻာလံုးကို ထင္ထင္ရွားရွားျပခဲ့တယ္။
မငိုပါနဲ႔ မသႏၲာ
ကိုပါႀကီး မေသပါဘူး။
ေသသြားတာက-----
ျမန္မာ့တပ္မေတာ္ရဲ႕ ဂုဏ္သိကၡာ။
သစၥာ

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My novella The Lovers

My novella The Lovers, about a Chilean ballet dancer who emigrates to Philadelphia in the United States, can now be bought in France and other EU countries.
http://www.amazon.fr/Lovers-Novellas-K-M-Kaung-English-Edition-ebook/dp/B00JX8NZRU

My highly acclaimed novella Black Rice--about skin color etc.

My highly acclaimed novella Black Rice is now $3.99 for both e book and paperback

http://www.kmkaung.com/books.html

All the links to all my short stories and novellas published last year--

All the links to buy print and e-versions of the 6 novellas and short story collections I published last year--

posting on request.

About the author:
K.M.Kaung started writing fiction as a teenager in Burma.

She comes from a family of story tellers in Myingyan in Upper Burma. Her paternal grandmother May May Gyi, saw the last king of Burma - Thibaw, taken away on a steamboat on the Irrawaddy River by the British in 1886.

Kyi May Kaung's father U Kaung was named after the King's first envoy to the West, Kinwun Mingyi U Kaung.

Her father was a well known educationist and the first chairman of the Burma Historical Commission.

As a child Kyi May was privileged to have noted scholars and artists come to visit the house.

Dr. Kaung holds a doctorate in Political Economy from the University of Pennsylvania.

Her work has been previously published in anthologies and literary journals, and she has read widely in universities and bookstores in N. America and Southeast Asia. From 1997-2001 she had a poetry and political commentary program on air, broadcast to Burma/Myanmar. Edward Albee praised her two act play, Shaman, and she has won Pew, Fulbright and Pennsylvania Council on the Arts grants.

This is her first CreateSpace publication.

Upcoming are a full length novel Wolf, and a novella, The Rider of Crocodiles.

You may find her on her blog
http://kyimaykaung.blogspot.com

on Facebook
www.facebook.com/kyi.m.kaung

and at Kyi Kaung@kyikaung on Twitter.

Her web site is
www.kmkaung.com

She divides her time between N. America, travel in Asia and on cyberspace. Links to my recent publications of novellas and short stories.

1.   Originally published in Wild River Review on line, The Lovers is the story of a ballet dancer from Chile, who has to leave her native land for political reasons, and emigrate to Philadelphia, in America.
Burmese-born author Kyi May Kaung lived many years in West Philadelphia while pursuing her doctorate in Political Science.
The Lovers has vivid local color while traversing the uneasy life of political asylees. The Lovers, print edition
https://www.createspace.com/4767856?ref=1147694&utm_id=6026
The Lovers, Kindle edition
http://www.amazon.com/The-Lovers-Novellas-K-M-Kaung-Kaung-ebook/dp/B00JX8NZRU
2.   Black Rice is a Burmese man with very dark skin, almost purple, and almond eyes. What happens when he is captured in an ambush in Burma's delta in 1947, as ethnic strife rages, a year before Burma's Independence from Great Britain? Find out here as K.M. Kaung takes you on a heart stopping journey through life. An intensely flavored pill of a story in 48 pages. A view through oddly made eyes.

"You've got to be taught, to hate and fear, you've got to be taught, from year to year. . . ."

Song lyrics, Rogers and Hammerstein, South Pacific, the Broadway musical.
Black Rice, print edition
https://www.createspace.com/4232789?ref=1147694&utm_id=6026
Black Rice, Kindle Edition
http://www.amazon.com/Black-Rice-Novella-K-Kaung/dp/0615797520
3.   The Rider of Crocodiles
Dr. Kaung was traveling in Thailand when a colleague told her his great great grandfather was not killed in Ayuthia in 1767 when the Burmese invaded, as he knew how to ride crocodiles.
https://www.createspace.com/4738699?ref=1147694&utm_id=6026
print edition
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00KZ6W8I6
Kindle edition
--




4.  Dancing like a Peacock and Koel Bird
My two stories, Dancing like a Peacock and Koel Bird are also available on Create Space, print edition. Published by Words Sounds and Images--
A seven year old girl is sent off across the border to earn a living and send money home to Burma. A computer expert finds--

https://www.createspace.com/pub/simplesitesearch.search.do?sitesearch_query=K+Kaung+dancing+like+a+peacock&sitesearch_type=STORE

My short story collection-

Dancing like a Peacock & Koel Bird, also includes Little Transparent Fetus Buddha.

Print (soft cover) + Kindle editions

http://www.amazon.com/Dancing-Peacock-Bird-Border-Stories-ebook/dp/B00JWZSL3C
5.  FGM—Kindle edition
FGM: A Story about the Mutilation of Women.
Dr. Aset, a trained gynecologist with several post graduate American degrees, lets herself be drawn into an inappropriate
relationship.

My novella FGM is now available on Kindle--http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00KJ3FUOE

there is also a print edition on the CreateSpace/Amazon store.

https://www.createspace.com/4738586
6.  Dealing with death and old age in the USA as immigrants--
No Crib for a Bed and Other Stories, Kindle Edition
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00JW2ZD40
No Crib for a Bed, print edition
https://www.createspace.com/4768879?ref=1147694&utm_id=6026

Excerpt from Let the Shit Fly--

Ecos. etc Q and A--answering at random--

Where you would place yourself in terms of economic thought - i.e., classical,
Keynesian...pragmatic, etc.
Who were your influences?

When I was at the Univ. of Rangoon (later the Inst. of Ecos.) none of my mentors or other staff members classified themselves publicly by schools of thought, though generally we knew (as General Honors students and later graduate students) where each prof. had gone to school, and what their dissertations had been about, what was their contribution to the store of human knowledge, even one lecturer reputed to have got his degree from a Ph.D. correspondence course. This person left for the Cooperatives Ministry and then I suppose lost his job, but he was allegedly the pet of Gen. Ne Win's brother U Nyi Nyi, and was also in a scandal involving the loss of his wife's longyis and a scandal with the black marketeers. The newspapers even though socialist covered it extensively and much much later, I heard he was making a living by telling fortunes

but my real mentors were much more grounded than this man and had their degrees from well known places like MIT (Massachusetts Inst of Technology, not myanmar Inst of Theology).

Dr. Maung Shein taught the first honors class in ecos. I ever attended, in which he spoke of the definitions of ecos, needs and wants, markets and Jeremy Bentham's "The Greatest Good of the Greatest Number."

At that time my brother had just returned from UK, so he told me about Bentham's corpse still in a glass cabinet.

We could read copies of Dr Maung Shein's thesis, which was about the Burmese Provincial Contracts when Burma was part of India (to 1937) and a British colony.

And his argument that Burma was "a milk cow of India" once it became profitable as a colony was very well put.

I still have a copy that I begged from the rector before I left Burma.

--When he became a top party cadre, Dr Shein talked a lot of Keynesian deficit financing, I guess in an attempt to justify the military government's deficit budgets.

(To be continued, I have to stop now for lack of time)-

but to jump to conclusions, I would classify myself as a pragmatist.

Most of my academic life has consisting in looking at the problems of central planning and I have lived in two command economies, Burma and Poland (before the opening)

and Prof. Herbert Levine a renowned expert on the USSR (and China) was one of my dissertation field examiners--

the Q he asked me, in 1993, was

"How can China learn from the experiences of the USSR"

and I had one week to answer this Q which was left for me in a sealed envelope.

As I had been expecting the reverse, "What can the USSR learn from China?"

I had to think quite a bit before I could write everything in longhand on paper.

(I must look for the xeroxes of my Field Exams)

All of this helped me in 2008--2009 when I was commissioned by the NCGUB (National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma or Exile Government
) to compile and write a 20 page paper (manifesto?) on how Burma should reform.

If the NCGUB website is still up, you can find it there by Googling.

Thank you, Sean Turnell, for the Qs.

Like all Qs. yours have also caused me to think more deeply what "I am all about."

Copyright Kyi May Kaung
9-5-2014

www.kmkaung.com

From me for September--my novella The Rider of Crocodiles

The Rider of Crocodiles

Dr. Kaung was traveling in Thailand when a colleague told her his great great grandfather was not killed in Ayuthia in 1767 when the Burmese invaded, as he knew how to ride crocodiles.

https://www.createspace.com/4738699?ref=1147694&utm_id=6026

print edition

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00KZ6W8I6

Kindle edition

Why it was "so easy" to write my novel Wolf--

It just occurred to me just now as I was setting out my own dinner, to take a photo.
In the past, just as they had in my novel against the protagonist Mothi Awegoke, people have tried to attack me, stab me front and back, push me off cliffs and try to shut me down for good.

Maybe that was why it was so "easy" to step into his shoes and write my novel Wolf.

It is also partly based on what happened to Chinese democracy activist Wuer Kai Shi of Tiananmen fame--

essentially he was bad mouthed by the media for taking ONE boom box to use himself!

That the hero of my novel endured and I have endured, is in no small measure due to people who helped.

Thank you.

I'm in the last stages of proof reading.

Look forward.

KMKaung
9-3-2014

Late August reading from me--Black Rice--

Late August reading from me--
you, or all your children and grandchildren have bought their textbooks and gone back to school--
It's time to get serious as summer ends and fall begins--

what better way than to read my Black Rice--

Black Rice is a Burmese man with very dark skin, almost purple, and almond eyes. What happens when he is captured in an ambush in Burma's delta in 1947, as ethnic strife rages, a year before Burma's Independence from Great Britain? Find out here as K.M. Kaung takes you on a heart stopping journey through life. An intensely flavored pill of a story in 48 pages. A view through oddly made eyes.

"You've got to be taught, to hate and fear, you've got to be taught, from year to year. . . ."

Song lyrics, Rogers and Hammerstein, South Pacific, the Broadway musical.
Black Rice, print edition
https://www.createspace.com/4232789?ref=1147694&utm_id=6026
Black Rice, Kindle Edition
http://www.amazon.com/Black-Rice-Novella-K-Kaung/dp/0615797520

Sign petition to stop ethnic cleansing in Burma--

Sign petition to end ethnic cleansing of Rohingya in Burma--

http://endgenocide.org/actions/protect-the-rohingya/

You do not need to use your real name and address--pl consider signing it.

If 4-5 people could spearhead talks to stop dolphins dying in tuna nets (see essay by David Quammen)--

we should do better for human beings.

k

A proposal for a Burma Currency Board, by Dr Sean Turnell, Burma Economic Watch--

Worth re-reading--Dr. Sean Turnell from 1999--on setting up a Burma Currency Board--full paper is available on line--

A Proposal for a Currency Board in a Democratic Burma

by

Sean Turnell*

August 1999

Abstract

This paper argues that a currency board will provide a newly-democratic Burma with the stable monetary system it will need after decades of currency debasement under military rule. An old idea that has successfully re-emerged in recent years in a number of countries, currency boards are relatively simple and transparent institutions that can provide stability, predictability and credibility to an emerging economy's monetary institutions. Currency boards impose certain constraints on the ability of governments to conduct discretionary economic policies. The advantages they bring in establishing confidence in the currency, however, outweighs such considerations in countries whose greater need is the establishment of the sound foundations of a market economy.



The 'Currency Board' arrangement is a plan desperately needed in a country rebuilding itself, and where there had been a widespread mistrust of government and the banking system.

Peter Nicholl
Governor, Central Bank of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Introduction

Burma's economy is a disaster. Forty years of inept economic management under military-rule has reduced a once relatively prosperous economy, the ubiquitous 'rice bowl of Asia', into a country that qualifies as 'least developed' by the World Bank. Extreme poverty, endemic corruption, rampant inflation, negligible foreign exchange reserves, large monetised budget deficits, foreign debt arrears and a currency that barely qualifies as a means of exchange - are all features of Burma's economy and symptoms of a country in broader socio-political distress. Burma's economic and social problems are such that in all likelihood they can only be solved with the advent of a new political regime enjoying democratic legitimacy. Even then, however, the task will be extraordinarily difficult. In the development stakes Burma will begin a long way behind, and there are many competitors for the overseas investment and markets that Burma will need to attain any measure of prosperity.

A necessary first step in reforming Burma's economy and, indeed, in providing for healthy democratic structures more generally, will be to establish confidence and stability in the currency. There is, as Keynes observed (1919, p.220), 'no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency'. Burma's military regimes have debauched the currency and they have overturned society. Righting this endemic practice should be a priority for a new and democratic government.

Restoring confidence in Burma's currency and in its monetary and financial system will be greatly aided by the use of a currency board. Relatively simple structures, currency boards can be used in the place of a central bank. Unlike a central bank though, their purpose is narrowly and simply defined to that of being the issuers of currency. What further distinguishes currency boards though, is that they can only issue the domestic currency to the extent that it is backed by a foreign 'anchor' currency, to which the domestic currency is freely convertible at an exchange rate fixed by law. In a pure currency board system the stability of the domestic currency becomes that of the anchor currency.

Currency boards have no control over monetary base, which fluctuates according to the reserves of the anchor currency, and therefore cannot determine a  discretionary  monetary policy. Currency boards cannot allow for the monetisation of government debt either, which puts some constraint on the use of fiscal policy too. In the context of Burma, and given the propensity of the military regimes to resort to money financing, this will be no bad thing and will do much to foster international and local investor confidence. Lender of last resort facilities for the banking system are also problematic in a currency board system, but such arrangements can at least be partially replaced by the opening up of Burma's financial system to foreign institutions and the application of the global Basle Accord. 

One of the most attractive features of a currency board for Burma is that it does not require substantial economic reform before it can provide for a sound and stable currency. This will, in itself, greatly aid the process of achieving these same reforms and for establishing an economy that functions around the rule of law.

The paper will proceed by first examining some recent experiences with currency boards in a number of inflation-prone and transition economies. The remainder of the paper will be spent in examining currency boards themselves, their essential features and their implications for macroeconomic and banking policy. The paper will highlight throughout the specific circumstances of Burma, and the potential benefits a currency board could bring.

 (end abstract)

Opening of my short story--Saving the World Bit by Bit

Opening of my short story, Saving the World Bit by Bit--that I wrote in 2001, work-shopped at Bethesda Writers Center, published in Burmese (I translated it myself)--

Saving the World Bit by Bit.

I remember distinctly it was September 12th, 2001.

Just the day before I was at a middle school in Alabama, promoting education and literacy by reading some of my own poetry to twelve year olds, when my aid whispered in my ear (all captured live on TV) that the first and then the second planes had hit the World Trade Center Towers in New York City.

I managed to keep my jaw clamped tightly shut, even though the photos show me wide-eyed.

I changed my speech at once, looked directly at the camera and addressed the nation.
It wasn’t difficult at all.
Anybody can do it who has any brain at all and who needs to rise to the occasion.
Anyone with a little imagination.

The next eight to ten hours were as you all know, me being flown on Air Force One, or maybe it was my double (I almost said “body double”) from one secure place to another whose locations I cannot tell you.  .  .

Copyright KMKaung
8-5-2014

Links to all my published short stories so far--

About the author:
K.M.Kaung started writing fiction as a teenager in Burma.

She comes from a family of story tellers in Myingyan in Upper Burma. Her paternal grandmother May May Gyi, saw the last king of Burma - Thibaw, taken away on a steamboat on the Irrawaddy River by the British in 1886.

Kyi May Kaung's father U Kaung was named after the King's first envoy to the West, Kinwun Mingyi U Kaung.

Her father was a well known educationist and the first chairman of the Burma Historical Commission.

As a child Kyi May was privileged to have noted scholars and artists come to visit the house.

Dr. Kaung holds a doctorate in Political Economy from the University of Pennsylvania.

Her work has been previously published in anthologies and literary journals, and she has read widely in universities and bookstores in N. America and Southeast Asia. From 1997-2001 she had a poetry and political commentary program on air, broadcast to Burma/Myanmar. Edward Albee praised her two act play, Shaman, and she has won Pew, Fulbright and Pennsylvania Council on the Arts grants.

This is her first CreateSpace publication.

Upcoming are a full length novel Wolf, and a novella, The Rider of Crocodiles.

You may find her on her blog
http://kyimaykaung.blogspot.com

on Facebook
www.facebook.com/kyi.m.kaung

and at Kyi Kaung@kyikaung on Twitter.

Her web site is
www.kmkaung.com

She divides her time between N. America, travel in Asia and on cyberspace. Links to my recent publications of novellas and short stories.

1.   Originally published in Wild River Review on line, The Lovers is the story of a ballet dancer from Chile, who has to leave her native land for political reasons, and emigrate to Philadelphia, in America.
Burmese-born author Kyi May Kaung lived many years in West Philadelphia while pursuing her doctorate in Political Science.
The Lovers has vivid local color while traversing the uneasy life of political asylees. The Lovers, print edition
https://www.createspace.com/4767856?ref=1147694&utm_id=6026
The Lovers, Kindle edition
http://www.amazon.com/The-Lovers-Novellas-K-M-Kaung-Kaung-ebook/dp/B00JX8NZRU
2.   Black Rice is a Burmese man with very dark skin, almost purple, and almond eyes. What happens when he is captured in an ambush in Burma's delta in 1947, as ethnic strife rages, a year before Burma's Independence from Great Britain? Find out here as K.M. Kaung takes you on a heart stopping journey through life. An intensely flavored pill of a story in 48 pages. A view through oddly made eyes.

"You've got to be taught, to hate and fear, you've got to be taught, from year to year. . . ."

Song lyrics, Rogers and Hammerstein, South Pacific, the Broadway musical.

Black Rice, print edition
https://www.createspace.com/4232789?ref=1147694&utm_id=6026
Black Rice, Kindle Edition
http://www.amazon.com/Black-Rice-Novella-K-Kaung/dp/0615797520

3.   The Rider of Crocodiles

Dr. Kaung was traveling in Thailand when a colleague told her his great great grandfather was not killed in Ayuthia in 1767 when the Burmese invaded, as he knew how to ride crocodiles.

https://www.createspace.com/4738699?ref=1147694&utm_id=6026

print edition

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00KZ6W8I6

Kindle edition

--

4.  Dancing like a Peacock and Koel Bird
My two stories, Dancing like a Peacock and Koel Bird are also available on Create Space, print edition. Published by Words Sounds and Images--
A seven year old girl is sent off across the border to earn a living and send money home to Burma. A computer expert finds--

https://www.createspace.com/pub/simplesitesearch.search.do?sitesearch_query=K+Kaung+dancing+like+a+peacock&sitesearch_type=STORE

My short story collection-

Dancing like a Peacock & Koel Bird, also includes Little Transparent Fetus Buddha.

Print (soft cover) + Kindle editions

http://www.amazon.com/Dancing-Peacock-Bird-Border-Stories-ebook/dp/B00JWZSL3C

5.  FGM—Kindle editionhttp://www.amazon.com/The-Awful-Rowing-Toward-God/dp/0395203651

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00KJ3FUOE

FGM: A Story about the Mutilation of Women.

Dr. Aset, a trained gynecologist with several post graduate American degrees, lets herself be drawn into an inappropriate
relationship.

My novella FGM is now available on Kindle--http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00KJ3FUOE

there is also a print edition on the CreateSpace/Amazon store.

https://www.createspace.com/4738586

6.  Dealing with death and old age in the USA as immigrants--

No Crib for a Bed and Other Stories, Kindle Edition
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00JW2ZD40
No Crib for a Bed, print edition
https://www.createspace.com/4768879?ref=1147694&utm_id=6026

Burma the least developed again--

Kyi May Kaung shared လြင္သႏၱာစုိး's photo.

8 hrs ·

လြင္သႏၱာစုိး

အၿပီးသတ္ေရြးခ်ယ္ခ်ိန္
_______________________________________
Lwin Thandar Soe _ 2 2 . 0 7 . 2 0 1 4
စစ္အာဏာရွင္မ်ားက အသြင္အမ်ိဳးမ်ိဳးေျပာင္းၿပီး အုပ္ခ်ဳပ္ခဲ့ရာ
ႏွစ္ငါးဆယ္ ေက်ာ္ၾကာၿပီးေနာက္ ျမန္မာႏိုင္ငံသည္
ကမာ႔ၻအဆင္းရဲဆံုး ႏိုင္ငံအျဖစ္သို႔ ေရာက္ရွိ သြားခဲ့ေလ၏။
ေခတ္မွီဖြံ႕ၿဖိဳးတိုးတက္ေသာ ႏိုင္ငံျဖစ္မည္ဟု ေၾကြးေၾကာ္ကတိေပး ခဲ့ရာ
ႏွစ္ ၅၀ ၾကာေသာအခါ ေခတ္ေနာက္က်န္ ဘက္စံုခၽြတ္ၿခံဳက်ေသာႏိုင္ငံ
အျဖစ္သို႔ ေရာက္ခဲ့ရေလ၏။
ကမာ႔ၻဘဏ္၏ ေနာက္ဆံုးထုတ္ျပန္ေသာ စာရင္းဇယားအရ
ကမာ႔ၻႏိုင္ငံေပါင္း (၂၁၅) ႏုိင္ငံတြင္ ခ်မ္းသာဆင္းရဲဇယားတြင္
ျမန္မာသည္ (203) ျဖစ္၏။
ေအာက္မွ စေရတြက္လွ်င္ အဆင့္ ၁၂ ျဖစ္၏။
အေရွ႕ေတာင္အာရွႏိုင္ငံ(၁၁)ႏိုင္ငံတြင္ နံပါတ္ (၁၁)ျဖစ္၏။
ကေမာၻဒီးယား၊ လာအိုတို႔ထက္ပိုဆင္းရဲ၏။
အာရွတြင္ ဒုတိယအဆင္းရဲ ဆံုးဆုိေသာ
ဘဂၤလားေဒ႔ရွ္ႏိုင္ငံသည္ပင္
ျမန္မာ့ထက္ အဆင့္ငါးဆယ္ျမင့္ေန၏။
ထိုစာရင္းဇယားအရ အီသီယိုးပီးယား၊ ဆိုမားလီးယား
စသည္ဆင္းရဲမြဲေတေသာ ႏိုင္ငံမ်ားသည္ပင္ ျမန္မာထက္
အဆင့္ျမင့္သည္ဟုဆို၏။
ထိုသို႔ေသာႏိုင္ငံမ်ားသည္ ပင္ ျမန္မာထက္ခ်မ္းသာသည္ဟု ဆိုေန၏။
ရွက္ဖြယ္ေကာင္းလွ၏။
ယခုတြက္ခ်က္သည့္နည္းမွာ G.D.P (Per Capiat Income) ကို တြက္ခ်က္ ျခင္းျဖစ္၏။
၀င္ေငြကို လူဦးေရႏွင့္စား၍ရေသာ အေျဖသာျဖစ္၏။
အၾကမ္းဖ်ဥ္း အေျဖသာ ျဖစ္ေပသည္။
ယေန႔ကမာၻတြင္ တြက္ခ်က္ေသာနည္းမွာ
H.D.Iနည္း (Human Develop- -ment Index) ျဖစ္၏။
လူတစ္ေယာက္ခ်င္းသည္ တစ္ႏွစ္၀ယ္လိုအား ေဒၚလာ သံုးေသာင္း၊
ပညာသင္စရိတ္ ေဒၚလာေျခာက္ေထာင္၊ လူသက္တမ္း ရွစ္ဆယ္ဟု
စံထား၏။ထို႔ထက္နိမ့္က်လာသည္ႏွင့္အမွ် ဆင္းရဲသားစာရင္း၀င္လာ၏။
ထိုတြက္ ခ်က္နည္းျဖင့္ တြက္ခ်က္လွ်င္ ျမန္မာသည္ အဆင့္ 203 ပင္မမွီႏိုင္ေပ။
ယေန႔ကမာၻ႔စီးပြားေရးအဆင့္ကို တန္းမွီသည္ဟုဆိုႏိုင္ေသာ
အာရွႏိုင္ငံမ်ား ျဖစ္သည့္ ဂ်ပန္၊ ေတာင္ကိုရီးယား၊ မကာအို၊ စကၤာပူ
တို႔သည္တစ္ခ်ိန္က ျမန္မာ့ ေနာက္တြင္ရွိခဲ့၏။
ယခုစစ္အာဏာရွင္မ်ားက ေခတ္မွီဖြံ႕ၿဖိဳးတိုးတက္ေသာ
ႏိုင္ငံ ေတာ္ႀကီးတည္ေထာင္ၾကေသာအခါမွ ျမန္မာသည္
ထိုႏိုင္ငံမ်ား၏ ေနာက္တြင္ က်န္ခဲ့ရံုသာမက
ကမာၻ႔အဆင္းရဲဆံုးႏိုင္ငံ ျဖစ္ခဲ့ရေလသည္။
ယေန႔ေျမေပၚေျမေအာက္၊ ေရေပၚေရေအာက္ သယံဇာတဟူသမွ် ကုန္ပါၿပီ။
သူခိုးေစ်းႏွင့္ေရာင္းလိုေရာင္း၊ ခိုးလိုခိုး၊ ၀ွက္လို၀ွက္ႏွင့္ ဘာသယံဇာတမွ မက်န္ ေတာ့ပါ။
လူသယံဇာတကိုၾကည့္ပါဦး။
ဘြဲ႕လြန္ပညာတတ္မ်ားသည္ပင္ သူမ်ားႏိုင္ငံ တြင္အိမ္ကၽြန္အျဖစ္
အလုအယက္သြားေနၾကရရွာၿပီ။
စကၤာပူေစ်းကြက္တြင္ ျမန္မာ အမ်ိဳးသမီးငယ္မ်ားကို ေစ်းကြက္တြင္ခ်ေရာင္း ေနၾကပါၿပီ။
တရုတ္တြင္ လိင္ကၽြန္ တရုတ္မယား လုပ္စားေနရ၏။
သည့္ထက္ေအာက္က်စရာမရွိေတာ့ပါ။
တိုင္းျပည္ကိုႏွစ္ ၅၀ အတြင္းမြဲျပာက်ေအာင္ လုပ္ခဲ့ၿပီးေနာက္ အရွက္မရွိ၊
သိကၡာမရွိ ေနာက္ထပ္သက္ဆိုးရွည္ေအာင္ ႀကိဳးပမ္းေနၾကပါၿပီ။
၂၀၁၅ တြင္ အႏိုင္ရေအာင္ ညစ္နည္းမ်ိဳးစံုျဖင့္ ႀကိဳးပမ္းေနပါၿပီ။
သူတို႕လက္ထဲကို ႏိုင္ငံအား ထည့္လိုက္ပါ ေနာက္(၅)ႏွစ္တြင္ ႏိုင္ငံေပ်ာက္၍
အိမ္နီးခ်င္းႏိုင္ငံတစ္ခု၏ ျပည္နယ္ တစ္ခုအျဖစ္သို႔ ေျပာင္းလဲေရာက္ရွိသြားေပလိမ့္မည္။
သန္း(၆၀)ေသာ ျမန္မာျပည္သူတို႔သည္ လက္တစ္ဆုပ္စာ လူတစ္စုကို ေၾကာက္၍
တိုင္းျပည္ဆင္းရဲမြဲေတ ကၽြန္ျဖစ္သည့္ဘ၀ကို က်ေရာက္ခံၾကမလား။
ဒီလူတစ္စုကို ဖယ္ရွားမလား။
အၿပီးသတ္ေရြးခ်ယ္ရမည့္
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Honorable mention in Focus Asean--myanmar reform learning curve--

Honorable mention in Focus Asean--Myanmar Reform:  Learning Curve.

http://focus-asean.com/learning-curve-2/

Summer reading from me--The Lovers, free 2 day delivery print edition for college students + Kindle edition

Summer reading from me--when a ballet dancer has to leave Chile when her boyfriend disappears.

In Philadelphia she meets a nice man but --

http://www.amazon.com/The-Lovers-Novellas-K-M-Kaung-Book-ebook/dp/B00JX8NZRU

Kindle edition and free 2 day delivery for print edition for college students.

Links to all my six published books in pounds--

Summer reading from me--links to all my published six titles--Thank you for buying my books.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/K-M.-Kaung/e/B00JGHSUSW

Kind words on my No Crib for a Bed--

Kind words from a reader/fan.

"I must confess I skipped right to the third chapter (third story in No Crib for a Bed) and read it in the parking lot.  I will be re-reading it when I start from the beginning, as the trilogy should be read.
"All I can say as I wish I could give you a great big HUG!!  Your writing is inviting the reader to live with you in the precious, funny, painful and bewildering moments.
"I find that brave and worthy of reading your words."

Sent 7-9-2014 in a handwritten note with a picture of White Tara on the cover.

Here's where you can buy my short story collection that L. was talking about.

Dealing with death and old age in the USA as immigrants--

No Crib for a Bed and Other Stories, Kindle Edition
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00JW2ZD40

No Crib for a Bed, print edition
https://www.createspace.com/4768879?ref=1147694&utm_id=6026

Summer reading from me, about winter--

Dealing with death and old age in the USA as immigrants--

No Crib for a Bed and Other Stories, Kindle Edition
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00JW2ZD40
No Crib for a Bed, print edition
https://www.createspace.com/4768879?ref=1147694&utm_id=6026

Summer reading from me--Black Rice

Black Rice is a Burmese man with very dark skin, almost purple, and almond eyes. What happens when he is captured in an ambush in Burma's delta in 1947, as ethnic strife rages, a year before Burma's Independence from Great Britain? Find out here as K.M. Kaung takes you on a heart stopping journey through life. An intensely flavored pill of a story in 48 pages. A view through oddly made eyes.

"You've got to be taught, to hate and fear, you've got to be taught, from year to year. . . ."

Song lyrics, Rogers and Hammerstein, South Pacific, the Broadway musical.

Black Rice, print edition
https://www.createspace.com/4232789?ref=1147694&utm_id=6026
Black Rice, Kindle Edition
http://www.amazon.com/Black-Rice-Novella-K-Kaung/dp/0615797520