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	The Old Moulmein Pagoda
		It was not there, thankfully, that the verses led me but to Moulmein, south-east of Rangoon and renamed Mawlamyine by the ruling junta: one of their lesser crimes.
		Moulmein's temples all granted me Kipling's wind-blown palm trees and "tinkly temple bells" but I was ultimately dissatisfied by what I had seen.
		It wasn't Moulmein really, but I could see Moulmein across the Salween surrounded by bays stretching as far as the eye could see, and the peculiar geography allowed an inlet of the sea to the east.
	www.geocities.com /magichats/Moulmein.html (1049 words)

	Moulmein, Myanmar
		Mawlamyine (Moulmein) is a city (population est 300,000) in Mon State, in southern Myanmar.
		The population is estimated as 75% ethnic Mon, with minorities of Bamar, Karen, Indian and Chinese.
		Moulmein was capital of British Burma from 1827-1852, during which time it also developed as a major port for the teak trade.
	creekin.net /c5172-n127-moulmein-myanmar.html (111 words)

	A trip to Moulmein
		But to the east, and to the north also as we approached Moulmein, were low mountain ranges rising out of the morning mists like Japanese paintings with silhouetted palms and kokobin (raintree) trees on the flat lands at their bases.
		Moulmein harbor consisted of one dock large enough for the Matang with many small sampans and rice boats anchored around.
		Moulmein is now mostly Karen (being an important town of the newly formed Karen State).
	home.earthlink.net /~silvermaplesoft/roland/burma/moulmein.htm (2899 words)

	Rehmonnya.org
		Moulmein is an old city of Burma, which was established by British colony during Anglo-Burmese second war in 1880s, it has overcrowded with 240, 000 population7.
		About 5000 population have still displaced in the middle part of the Moulmein City and this is an ‘hidden displacement’ and no one have done any type of assessment for those relocated families.
		A ceremony to fix the golden bolt at Salween Bridge (Moulmein) being built by the SPDC was held on the pier RP 10 of the main bridge on 26 March 2004, attended by a senior Member of the SPDC Lt-Gen Maung Bo of the Ministry of Defense, appointed by self-appointed Prime Minister, General Khin Nyunt.
	www.rehmonnya.org /report_detail.php?ID=9 (4861 words)

	Adoniram Judson Biography Chapter 10 - Missionary Biographies - Worldwide Missions
		His restless spirit was always longing to press into the interior of the country, and the great Irawadi valley being closed to him, there was nothing left but to penetrate Burma by the Salwen and its tributaries, which constitute the second of the river systems by which the land is drained.
		The sadness of this separation from the faithful wife and mother, whom he left behind at Moulmein, was intensified by the apprehension that he might die on the voyage.
		The native Christians at Moulmein were glad enough, after an interval of ten months, to hear again the voice of their beloved teacher, though he still spoke in feeble accents, and was far from convalescence.
	www.wholesomewords.org /missions/judson/judson10.html (3071 words)

	AMHERST, BARON - LoveToKnow Article on AMHERST, BARON (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		It was founded by the British in 1826 on the restoration of the town of Martaban to the Burmese, and named in compliment to the governor-general of India of that day; but in 1827 the headquarters were transferred to Moulmein.
		Amherst has been eclipsed in prosperity by the latter city, and is now merely a bathing-place for Moulmein.
		The river highways bring down inexhaustible supplies of rice to Moulmein, the chief town of the district, as also of the province of Tenasserim.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /A/AM/AMHERST_BARON.htm (1241 words)

	Mawlamyine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		; formerly Moulmein) is the capital and largest city in Mon State, Myanmar.
		The city sits on the coast of Taninthayi.
		It is probably best known to English speakers through the opening lines of Rudyard Kipling's poem "The Road to Mandalay": "By the old Moulmein pagoda / Lookin' lazy at the sea / There's a Burma girl a-settin' / and I know she thinks o' me".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Moulmein (190 words)

	No. III - From Sea to Sea - Rudyard Kipling, Book, etext
		Why she should go to Moulmein is a mystery; but as every soul on the ship is a loafer like myself, no one is discontented.
		Moulmein is situated up the mouth of a river which ought to flow through South America, and all manner of dissolute native craft appear to make the place their home.
		In the base of the pagoda were four rooms, lined as to three sides with colossal plaster figures, before each of whom burned one solitary dip whose rays fought with the flood of evening sunshine that came through the windows, and the room was filled with a pale yellow light—unearthly to stand in.
	whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au /words/authors/K/KiplingRudyard/prose/FromSeaToSea/seatosea_III.html (2006 words)

	Commented Travel Pictures from Moulmein, Myanmar(Burma)
		The car ferry from Moulmein approaches the dock across the river in Martaban.
		A group of lepers at the far end of the Moulmein train station.
		Tne hand on the throttle, his feet on the steering wheel, this main pilots the passenger ferry from Moulmein with deft grace.
	www.aliaterra.com /asia/moulmein.htm (145 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Moulmein
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	ca.encarta.msn.com /Moulmein.html (83 words)

	The Irrawaddy News Magazine Online Edition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The resident says car dealers are driving the smuggled cars to Moulmein, the capital of Mon State, about 100 miles northwest of the border checkpoint.
		To smuggle cars to Moulmein, car dealers on the border have to bribe government authorities and ethnic groups who control checkpoints along the way.
		Besides the route from Sangklaburi to Moulmein, used cars are also being smuggled from the northern Thai border town of Mae Sai where they are transported to a market in Mandalay.
	www.irrawaddy.org /aviewer.asp?a=3986&z=24 (468 words)

	Train times & fares for Myanmar (Burma) - an illustrated guide to train travel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Moulmein is not on every visitor's itinerary, but if you have the time it's well worth a visit for its colonial buildings and historic mosques.
		Although Rudyard Kipling wrote the 'Road to Mandalay', Moulmein was the only Burmese city which he actually visited, and the main pagoda on the ridge overlooking the city is the setting for his poem 'Burma Girl'.
		The railway from Rangoon ends at Moatama, which is the ferry terminal for ferries across the Thanlwin River to Moulmein.
	www.seat61.com /Burma.htm (2188 words)

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	The Architectural Review: Monsoon cool: Singapore's main use of energy is... @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In the tropical island state, air conditioning is the main consumer of energy and, as Singapore has no fossil resources, ways in which the electrical demands of internal climate control can be reduced are clearly extremely desirable.
		That is one of the commercial pressures confronted by Moulmein Rise.
		The other is that developers have found that there is a great public demand for traditional devices such as planters, bay windows and shading ledges.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:126852409&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (459 words)

	What time is it? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
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	Dick Rossi of the AVG, part 2
		On the first of February the Japanese were in control of Moulmein, having taken it during the night.
		With the fall of Moulmein, and the Japanese army advancing on Rangoon, many of the civilians were evacuating to India.
		As we approached Moulmein we dove down to a low altitude and got below the level of the hills and approached from the south.
	home.att.net /~C.C.Jordan/Rossi-AVG2.html (3105 words)

	Azad Hind Expedition: A tribute to the braves of the Indian National Army
		Crossing a 14-km long bridge, the longest in Asia, the convoy arrived on the island of Penang, the HQ of the INA Secret Service and the launching pad for the INA soldiers taking the sea route to the battle fronts in Burma (now Myanmar).
		A large part of Moulmein's population of 200,000 is of Indian extract, hundreds of whom turned up to welcome the Expedition, defying the country's martial law that prohibits gatherings of more than nine persons.
		From Moulmein, the Expedition drove to Yangon, where it ran into some unexpected heavy weather -- of the bureaucratic kind.
	www.film-india.com /expdtn/azadhind.htm (806 words)

	Mawlamyine - Myanmar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Formerly known as Moulmein, it was once a thriving teak port and the administrative capital of British Lower Burma.
		The town's signature landmark is Kyaikthanlan pagoda built in 875 AD and thought to be the site from where Rudyard Kipling wrote his famous poem, 'Mandalay'.
		Although many people of Indian descent, being third or fourth generation 'Burmese', have now completely assimilated with Myanmar culture and language, traces of their heritage can still be seen by the numerous mosques that dot the town.
	www.mawlamyine.com (478 words)

	Rehmonnya.org
		As there is lack of employment in towns, a few young girls are forced to secretly work as illegal sex workers in major cities such as Ranoog, Madalay, Pegu, Moulmein and other part of Mon States to feed family and survival.
		As there is no social welfare or social security benefit for unemployment in the country, women and girls who have no supports from the family and relatives for a substantial jobs in urban areas are forced to accept illegal sex services for survival.
		Retired Burmese military servants and senior official of Southeast Military Command in Moulmein has opened a local hotel as its is named “Ngwe Moe” in Moulmein.
	www.rehmonnya.org /allwcrp_detail.php?id=5 (1040 words)

	The air battle for Burma - part 5 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		On December 28, General Hiroda of the 10th Hikodan (area air force) in Bangkok issued orders for the combat groups to move up-country and prepare for attacks on Tavoy and Moulmein and to support the 15th Army in its invasion of Burma.
		Tokyo time and reached Moulmein airport at 9:05, claiming one plane destroyed and three damaged out of four seen on the ground.
		They were still at the advanced field that evening, when four Buffaloes came over and strafed them on the ground, destroying two of the bombers and badly wounding one of the pilots.
	www.warbirdforum.com /january1.htm (1136 words)

	Mandalay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		DESCRIPTION: "By the old Moulmein Pagoda, lookin' eastward to the sea, There's a Burma girl a-settin', and I know she thinks of me." The soldier, in London, seeing the dirt and the squalor, thinks with longing of the green land and the girl on the road to Mandalay
		The geography here is rather confused, as in various stanzas it appears to be looking from Mandalay, Rangoon, Moulmein, and the road to Mandalay (from Rangoon).
		From Moulmein, the apparent setting of the song, the sun sets over the bay).
	www.csufresno.edu /folklore/ballads/Fuld415.html (416 words)

	Flying Tigers: did the RAF "sell" victories to the AVG? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In Bloody Shambles: Volume Two: The Defence of Sumatra to the Fall of Singapore, Christopher Shores finds himself compelled to explain how it was that both the RAF and the AVG claimed to have raided Japanese-held Moulmein on Thursday, Feb. 26, 1942, with substantially identical results.
		As they approached Moulmein, they saw a chutai of Ki-27 "Nate" fighters returning to their airfield.
		Scratching his head over this seeming duplication, Shores wrote: "There was subsequently much rumour about AVG pilots 'buying' RAF claims due to their system of payment by the Chinese authorities for aircraft confirmed shot down.
	www.warbirdforum.com /sell.htm (1026 words)

	The Irrawaddy News Magazine Online Edition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The British legislation council enacts a law, known as the “law to shut mouth” banning the publication of news without prior approval.
		July 1, 1848—The English-language paper, the Maulmain Advertiser, is published in Moulmein.
		The Upper Burma Gazette, the Mandalay Herald, the Star of Burma, the Mandalay Times, Moulmein Advertiser, Moulmein Gazette and the Burma Times are all published in Mandalay.
	www.irrawaddy.org /aviewer.asp?a=3533&z=14 (2982 words)

	Democratic Voice of Burma
		The SPDC authorities have been arresting some Muslims in Moulmein for wearing Usamah Bin-Ladin T-shirts on 12 October.
		Haji Yusuf, age 40 years, residing at Zaygyi Ward in Moulmein was arrested by Zaygyi Ward police on 12 October for wearing the Usamah Bin-Ladin T-shirt.
		A Moulmein resident told DVB today that Haji Yusuf was sent home by police intelligence personnel after he was interrogated for a week from 12 to 18 October.
	english.dvb.no /news.php?id=1355 (289 words)

	The Irrawaddy On-line Edition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		April 23, 1993— Gen Bo Mya, Chairman of the Karen National Union (KNU), sends an open letter to Sr-Gen Than Shwe, chairman of the ruling Burmese junta, demanding that a countrywide ceasefire be declared and all political prisoners be released as conditions for the holding of peace talks.
		February 15 to 16, 1996—The second meeting between KNU representatives, led by Gen-Sec Padoh Mahn Sha, and Burma Army representatives, led by Col Thein Swe, a department head of the Ministry of Defense’s Office of Strategic Studies, is held in Moulmein, Mon State.
		November 22 to 23, 1996—The fourth meeting between KNU delegates, led by Gen Tarmalar Baw, and Burma Army representatives, led by Brig-Gen Aung Thein and Col Kyaw Win, is held in Moulmein, Mon State.
	www.irrawaddy.org /res/ceasefireKNU.html (596 words)

	Burmese democracy party commemorates Suu Kyi's 60th birthday (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Despite the prevention by the authorities in other states and divisions, Moulmein Township NLD in Mon State successfully held a ceremony to commemorate Aung San Suu Kyi's birthday from 0600 on 18 June, it is learned.
		A Moulmein Township NLD member told DVB that a food and alms donation ceremony and a political talk were held one after the other.
		Although Moulmein held the ceremony a day early, NLD Headquarters in Rangoon, Mandalay Division, and other places will be holding the ceremony on 19 June.
	news.monstersandcritics.com /mediamonitor/article_1017058.php/Burmese_democracy_party_commemorates_Suu_Kyis_60th_birthday (999 words)

	A small mystery of the Burma line - 2Bangkok.com Forum
		Now SPDC has just opened the bridge across Salawin with the railway track connecting Moulmein to Ye railway with the rest of the Bruma railway network....
		Herewith a 1984 1:250,000 RTSD Map Scan of Moulmein showing the estuary of the Salaween, which now has a rail bridge.
		On the same map, there is no indication of a rail branch to Hpa-An, so I guess that is a fairly recent construction, Burmese (Myanmese) Govt sites indicate that the Salaween will be bridged by rail at that point too; presumably as part of their efforts to establish rail links with Thailand:-
	www.angkor.com /2bangkok/2bangkok/forum/showthread.php?t=584 (1388 words)

	Ethnic leader Nai Shwe Kyin dies at 91 ( The Nation ) March 8, 2003
		Born in 1913 in Kawhnat near Moulmein, Nai Shwe Kyin received a degree from Rangoon University in British colonial times before entering the British Navy with the rank of instructor.
		In July 1958, the day after the Mon Peoples Front surrendered to U Nu's government, he formed the New Mon State Party (NMSP), which became the main party for Mon independence from Rangoon until the signing of a truce with Burma's ruling military junta in June 1995.
		Nai Shwe Kyin retained the presidency of the party and lived peacefully in Moulmein after the 1995 peace accord.
	www.burmatoday.net /newsarchive_03/news_030307_naing_shwe_kyin_nation.htm (314 words)

	17 Indian Division
		(Moulmein, under command 17th Indian Division from 1st Burma Division)
		(Moulmein, less two companies the remnants of which retreating to Moulmein from Tavoy)
		(attached detachments at Moulmein and Mergui, Tavoy detachment dispersed)
	homepages.force9.net /rothwell/burmaweb/17indian42.htm (512 words)

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