Prospects for Burma After Aung San Suu Kyi’s Release (ARI)

Aung San Suu Kyi’s release coincided with the holding of national elections for a military-designed state to provide the ruling junta with a veneer of legitimacy. Nevertheless, the lifting of sanctions will remain the central issue facing Burma’s relations with foreign countries, which will have to balance out human rights issues and investment opportunities. Aung San Suu Kyi and her treatment by the new government will play a determining role in deciding this issue

Documents on Western Burmese Economic History, edited by Michael W. Charney

Extract of a Letter dated Nagore, 7th July 1761 by William Turner; Memorandum of Arracan Trade, circa 1770s; History of the Mugs, 1777; Memorandum Regarding the Trade of Arracan and the Port of Akyab in the East Indies, Lat. 20q S’N Long 92q 56 1⁄4 E. (1849) by W. F. Nuthall. Edited for the SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research by Michael W. Charney

Certaine Words in the Pegu Language (1603), edited by Michael W. Charney

This world list was included in the back matter of A True and Large Discourse of the Voyage of the Whole Fleete of Ships Set forth the 20 of Aprill 1601 by the Government and Assistants of the East Indian Marchants in London, to the East Indies, published for Thomas Thorpe by William Alpley of London in 1603. Curiously, the mission, which did come across ships in the Straits of Melaka, does not appear to have visited Pegu. There is no indication in the text of how or where the world list was obtained. It may be possible the it was gathered from Peguan traders on ships encountered at sea or in a local trading port

Miscellaneous Notes on the Word "Talaing", edited by Michael W. Charney

These three notes relating to the origin of the Burmese word "Talaing" were published shortly before World War I. It is hoped that they may be of some use to ongoing debates on "Mon" history. Edited by Michael W. Charney for the SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research