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Written by Dr. Lam Khan Piang
Thursday, 18 August 2011 15:39 |
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| Khuado Pawi: Reflecting the Zo cosmic views and traditional life |
| The most comprehensive festival of the Zo people that shows almost every aspect of their cultural practices is Khuado, which is celebrated with pomp and show. It is an elaborate ritual followed by communal feasting. It is also a preparation for the New Year to come, as the Zo calendar goes along the agriculture cycle. The most important activities of this Khuado festival is deciding the site to be cultivated in the next agricultural year with certain ritual. The festival is celebrated after the paddy, maize and other khariff crops are harvested from the jhum field. So this Khuado festival is also called Kumkhen Pawi in common parlance, which means the festival that divides the years, based on agricultural cycle. As much as its importance the celebration also lasted for three days and each day is assigned one particular event whereas every night is for merry-making accompanied by Zo musical instruments: dakbu (set of small gongs), sialki (mithun horn), Zo khuang (Zo drum), phit (pipe), zam (gong), gosem ( Zo gourd-piper), Salang (Zo violin), etc. Zo traditional songs are sung while dancing Lamvui which is accompanied by drinking Zozu (Zo rice beer).
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Written by Rev. Zam Khat Kham
Tuesday, 09 March 2010 02:38 |
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| Building an Eco-Just Society in Myanmar |
 Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, is a resource-rich country with a strong agricultural base. It also has vast timber, natural gas, and fishery reserves and is a leading source of gems and jade. The most productive sectors will continue to be in extractive industries, especially oil and gas, mining, and timber with the latter especially causing environmental degradation. Building eco-justice in Myanmar is an urgent need.
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| Last Updated ( Tuesday, 09 March 2010 02:55 ) |
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Written by ZOHOPE Foundation
Thursday, 31 December 2009 06:10 |
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| ZoHope Foundation |
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"Promoting change toward a healthy society, based on principals of social justice, broadly shared economic opportunity, a robust democratic process, and sustainable environmental practices in Zoram."
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| Last Updated ( Thursday, 28 January 2010 01:43 ) |
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Written by Chinland Guardian
Thursday, 31 December 2009 05:57 |
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| ZBC To Start Language Learning Programme in Six Dialects |
| 22 December, 2009: In attempts to find ways of improving communication and understanding among dialectically diverse Chin people, ZBC (Zomi Baptist Convention) is set to introduce 'language learning programme' in six different dialects in 2010.
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Written by zohope.org
Tuesday, 29 December 2009 02:51 |
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| Visitng Khuanumtung 2004 |
| "The hinterlands of Burma have mostly been inaccessible to foreigners since World War II. All travel in Burma was confined to a regular circuit in the central area. While interesting, this central area did not contain most of Burma's best birding sites. As a result, our knowledge of the birds of Burma is quite poor. However, in the last few years, Burma has begun to open up its more remote areas to tourism. In 1995, we had a superb reconnaissance trip to the areas covered by this tour, which we followed up with a tour in 2000. We'll be following the 2000 tour route with some modifications and adding a couple of sites for what will be a superb birding adventure.
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