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Ohn D. Blackwell
Ohn is a Burmese name, used by people from Myanmar. Notable people with the name include: * Daw Ohn (1913–2003), Burmese professor in Pali * Ohn Gyaw (born 1932), Burmese Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1991 to 1998 * Ohn Kyaing (born 1944), Burmese politician and former political prisoner * Ohn Kyaw Myint (born 1977), Burmese army officer * Ohn Maung (1913–1947), Burmese Deputy Minister of Transport from 1946 to 1947 * Ohn Myint (1918–2010), Burmese journalist * Ohn Myint (politician) ( 2010–2016), Burmese Minister for Livestock, Fisheries and Rural Development from 2011 to 2016 * Ohn Pe (c. 1917–2008), Burmese businessman * Ohn Than (born 1946), Burmese democracy activist * Maung Maung Ohn ( 2014–2016), Burmese Chief Minister of Rakhine State, Myanmar from 2014 to 2016 * Shwe Ohn (1923–2010), Burmese politician See also * John (other) * Ohm (other) Ohm (symbol Ω) is a unit of electrical resistance named after Georg Ohm. Ohm or OHM may also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burmese Name
Burmese names lack the serial structure of most Western names. The Burmans have no customary matronymic A matronymic is a personal name based on the given name of one's mother, grandmother, or any female ancestor. It is the female equivalent of a patronymic. Around the world, matronymic surnames are far less common than patronymic surnames. In som ... or patronymic system and thus there is no surname at all. In the culture of Myanmar, people can change their name at will, often with no government oversight, to reflect a change in the course of their lives. Also, many Burmese names use an honorific, given at some point in life, as an integral part of the name. Traditional and Western-style names Burmese names were originally one syllable, as in the cases of U Nu and U Thant ("U" being an honorific). In the mid-20th century, many Burmese started using two syllables, albeit without any formal structure. In the late 1890s, British scholars observed that Rakhine people, Rakhines ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Myanmar
Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John C. Wells, John Wells explains, the English spellings of both Myanmar and Burma assume a non-rhotic variety of English, in which the letter r before a consonant or finally serves merely to indicate a long vowel: [ˈmjænmɑː, ˈbɜːmə]. So the pronunciation of the last syllable of Myanmar as [mɑːr] or of Burma as [bɜːrmə] by some speakers in the UK and most speakers in North America is in fact a spelling pronunciation based on a misunderstanding of non-rhotic spelling conventions. The final ''r'' in ''Myanmar'' was not intended for pronunciation and is there to ensure that the final a is pronounced with the broad a, broad ''ah'' () in "father". If the Burmese name my, မြန်မာ, label=none were spelled "Myanma" in English, this would b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daw Ohn
Ohn ( my, အုန်း, ; 6 July 1913 – 28 November 2003), known honorifically as M.A. Daw Ohn ( my, အမ်အေ ဒေါ်အုန်း), was a 20th-century Burmese activist, scholar and professor who specialized in the Pali language and the oriental studies and served as the head of the Department of Buddhistic Studies at the University of Mandalay from 1958 to 1966. She is regarded as the mother of the Department of Oriental Studies of Mandalay University. Ohn was one of the founders of independent Mandalay University where she served as the Dean of the Faculty of Arts. She received Naingngan Gonyi (Second Class) order given by the government in 1980. Early life and education Ma Ohn, the seventh of eight siblings, was born on 6 July 1913 in Kinsanamahi Quarter, Chanayethazan Township, Mandalay to U Kyaw Ya and Daw Daw Khin. She was educated at the Mandalay Central National High School after completing elementary at the National Women's School where she start ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pali
Pali () is a Middle Indo-Aryan liturgical language native to the Indian subcontinent. It is widely studied because it is the language of the Buddhist ''Pāli Canon'' or ''Tipiṭaka'' as well as the sacred language of ''Theravāda'' Buddhism.Stargardt, Janice. ''Tracing Thoughts Through Things: The Oldest Pali Texts and the Early Buddhist Archaeology of India and Burma.'', Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2000, page 25. Early in the language's history, it was written in the Brahmi script. Origin and development Etymology The word 'Pali' is used as a name for the language of the Theravada canon. The word seems to have its origins in commentarial traditions, wherein the (in the sense of the line of original text quoted) was distinguished from the commentary or vernacular translation that followed it in the manuscript. K. R. Norman suggests that its emergence was based on a misunderstanding of the compound , with being interpreted as the name of a particular ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ohn Gyaw
Ohn Gyaw ( my, အုန်းကျော်, ; born 3 March 1932) is a Burmese politician who served as 16th Minister of Foreign Affairs. Ohn Gyaw joined the diplomatic service in 1951, serving in Yugoslavia, Australia, and the USSR until 1985, when he was appointed Director of the South and Southeast Asian Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 1988 he became Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, and in 1991 was promoted to Minister of Foreign Affairs. In 1998 he was replaced; despite a thawing of relationships between Burma and the outside world during his tenure as Foreign Minister, Ohn Gyaw was seen as a "rigid and, at times, disingenuous champion of the regime" who "lacked innovation". He was replaced by Win Aung. He was in office when Burma won the observer position of ASEAN ASEAN ( , ), officially the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, is a political and economic union of 10 member states in Southeast Asia, which promotes intergovernmental cooperation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ohn Kyaing
Ohn Kyaing ( my, အုန်းကြိုင်, also known by his pen names Maung Chit Phwe, Aung Wint, and Aung Tint) is a Burmese politician and former political prisoner, previously served as a Pyithu Hluttaw member of parliament for Mahaaungmye Township. He serves as a member for the National League for Democracy's (NLD) Central Executive Committee. In the 1990 Burmese general election, he was elected as an Pyithu Hluttaw MP, winning a majority of 32,718 (76% of the votes), but was never allowed to assume his seat. Ohn Kyaing graduated with a BA degree in 1967. He earned a journalism diploma in 1972 and received a scholarship to study in the United States in 1979. Throughout his journalism career, he served as an editor of ''Kyemon'', ''Hanthawaddy'', ''The Guardian'', and '' Botataung'' newspapers. he retired from his position at ''The Guardian'' newspaper following the 8888 Uprising The 8888 Uprising ( my, ၈၈၈၈ အရေးအခင်း), also known as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ohn Kyaw Myint
Captain Ohn Kyaw Myint ( my, အုန်းကျော်မြင့်; died July 27, 1977) was a Burmese army officer who was well known for his unsuccessful coup attempt against the Myanmar government led by General Ne Win. Military career Ohn Kyaw Myint graduated from Rangoon University. He had completed OTS (Officer Training School) Batch 29 with the best cadet award. He served as a staff officer under General Kyaw Htin, the commander in chief of the Burmese armed forces. Trial Ohn Kyaw Myint plotted coup attempt with other young officer and the plot was uncovered by Military Intelligence. He was found guilty at trial and hanged on July 27, 1977. Senior General Than Shwe Than Shwe ( my, သန်းရွှေ, ; born 2 February 1933 or 3 May 1935) is a Burmese strongman politician who was the head of state of Myanmar from 1992 to 2011 as Chairman of the State Peace and Development Council (SPDC). During this ..., Chairman of State Peace and Development Council, wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ohn Maung
Ohn Maung ( my, အုန်းမောင် ; 2 February 1913 – 19 July 1947) was a Burmese politician who served as the Deputy Minister of Transport in Myanmar's pre-independence government. He, along with seven other cabinet ministers (including Prime Minister Aung San), was assassinated on 19 July 1947 in Yangon. 19 July is commemorated each year as the Martyrs' Day Martyrs' Day is an annual day observed by nations to salute the martyrdom of soldiers who lost their lives defending the sovereignty of the nation. The actual date may vary from one country to another. Here is a list of countries and Martyrs' Days. ... in Myanmar. References {{19th July Martyrs Assassinated Burmese politicians 1913 births 1947 deaths People from Magway Division University of Yangon alumni People murdered in Myanmar Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League politicians Government ministers of Myanmar Deaths by firearm in Myanmar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ohn Myint
Thakin Ohn Myint ( my, သခင် အုန်းမြင့်) was a notable Burmese journalist, best known for his political involvement in British Burma. In 1933, he joined the Dobama Asiayone, an indigenous anti-colonial organization where he earned the honorific "Thakin," (lit. "master"), which was used in protest of British colonialism (since it was customary practice to address the British as "Thakin"). After passing the matriculation exam in 1934, he went on to the Rangoon Medical College (now UM-1 Yangon). However, he dropped out and pursued journalism instead. Throughout his journalism career, he wrote for the ''Kyipwayay'' ("Growth") magazine, and the ''Totetyay'' ("Progress"), the ''Journal Kyaw'' (along with Chit Maung), and the ''New Light of Burma'' newspapers. In 1958, soon after Ne Win first declared emergency martial law, he was imprisoned in the Coco Islands for two years, under the Public Order Protection Act, for his leftist political activism. In the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ohn Myint (politician)
Ohn Myint ( my, အုန်းမြင့်, born ) was the Burmese Minister for Livestock, Fisheries and Rural Development from 2011 to 2016. From March 2011 to August 2012, he concurrently served as the Minister of Cooperatives, until he vacated the post in September after a reshuffle of President Thein Sein's cabinet. Ohn Myint appears on the European Union list of sanctioned regime members, as he served as a member of the State Peace and Development Council, the military regime that ruled Burma until 2010. He is married to Nu Nu Swe. In 2010, he resigned from the military, in order to stand as a Union Solidarity and Development Party candidate in the 2010 Burmese general election. He won a Pyithu Hluttaw seat representing Hpakant Township in Kachin State by a majority of 29,426, defeating his primary opponent, Bawk Ja from the National Democratic Force, an ethnic Kachin activist. Controversy In January 2014, a controversial video of Ohn Myint speaking to residents a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ohn Pe
Pakokku U Ohn Pe ( my, ပခုက္ကူ ဦးအုန်းဖေ; c. 1917 – 13 April 2008) was a Burmese businessman and writer who founded the prestigious Pakokku U Ohn Pe literary award. Early years U Ohn Pe was born around 1917 in Shardaw village near the town of Pakokku. He was the eldest of five siblings in a poor family. He only studied for a short time at a village monastery when he was about ten years old, learning basic reading and writing. He worked in various jobs including day labourer, betel nut seller, farm worker and timber worker. At the age of 29 he was arrested and thrown in prison for robbery. While he was in prison a sympathetic warden named U Maung Maung Tin helped U Ohn Pe develop an interest in reading. Businessman, philanthropist, writer After being released, U Ohn Pe started to deal in tobacco, and in 1956 was able to start his own tobacco manufacturing company and factory. As a successful businessman, he remained interested in literature ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ohn Than
Ohn Than ( my, အုန်းသန်း, ; commonly written U Ohn Than, following Burmese honorific conventions; born 1946) is a Burmese democracy activist who received international attention for his "stoic one-man protests". He spent the majority of the years from 1988 to 2012 imprisoned, and Amnesty International considered him a prisoner of conscience. Personal life Ohn Than was born in 1946 in Ngathinechaung Township, Irrawaddy Division. He received a B.Sc. in forestry from Rangoon University in 1971, and began working for the State Timber Corporation, where he served until his first arrest. Ohn Than is a widower, and has one son and one daughter. Role in 8888 Uprising In 1988, a series of protests broke out opposing the military rule of Ne Win. In September 1987, Ne Win had voided most denominations of the kyat without warning, causing many people to lose their savings overnight. Students who saved money for tuition fees were particularly affected. The announcement ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
