
	Where results make sense

Topic: Padaung

Related Topics

Chennai

In the News (Mon 16 Nov 09)

Northern Trust

Marvin Harrison

Peter Chernin

Gary Locke

Match Play

Penelope Cruz

Mickey Rourke

AR Rahman

Danny Boyle

Hugh Jackman

	The Portraid of Padaung, The Goldenlandpages
		The women of the Padaung tribe mostly live in Kayah state, although some stay in Shan and Kayin states, Burma.
		Padaung woman traditionally wear up to 22 kg of heavy brass rings stacked around their necks.
		Padaung, tribal people of Burma are a calm, collected lot, mostly like in Kayah, Shan and Kayin states.
	www.goldenlandpages.com /hotspots/padaung/padaung.htm (122 words)

	THE PADAUNG
		Natives of Kayah State the Padaung are seldom seen in the lowlands and, if they appear at all, tend to congregate around the provincial town of Loikaw near the border with Thailand.
		A Padaung legend explains that the rings were protection against tiger bites, a constant hazard in their homeland in the north of China.
		The neck rings however, may very well become extinct within a generation or two as younger Padaung women are beginning to refuse to fit the rings around their children's necks.
	www.myanmargeneva.org /tourism/THE%20PADAUNG_files/THE%20PADAUNG.htm (702 words)

	Padaung People, Inle Lake, Myanmar \| AsiaExplorers Travel Guides (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Padaung are best known for the unusual practise that the Padaung women develop, of wearing brass rings around their necks, arms and legs.
		Most of the Padaung women, when asked, said they wear it for beauty purposes, or because their mother wore the rings, or simply because they are carrying on the tradition as a Padaung.
		However, many Padaung women who have worn the rings for a long time prefer to keep them on, to ride the marks on their necks and collarbones made by long wearing of the coils, and also because, after wearing them for so long, they feel more comfortable having them on.
	www.asiaexplorers.com /myanmar/inle/padaung.htm (757 words)

	Welcome to mrtv3.net.mm
		In Ngwe Saung beach region Padaung national race village is created for tourist promotion as well as the study their daily life of these extraordinary national race.
		Girls grow up seeing their elders wearing the rings and when they reach the different ages or appropriate time to wear rings, it is a very important and proud moment.
		Padaung nationals also made their living by terrace cultivation and their cloth is woven by themselves.
	www.mrtv3.net.mm /page1/padaung.html (352 words)

	Myanmar Travel - Ethnic And Remote Village Trekkings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Padaung tribes are one of the popular ethnic minorities among the hills people.
		This art is meticulously kept in practice by the Padaungs from generation to generation and handed down from their forefathers to posterity to date.
		It is told, the Padaung girls have to add to her neck brass rings every four years increasing the numbers up to nine times in her lifetime until the age of 45.
	www.myanmarmtetours.com /ethnic_remote_village.htm (1958 words)

	Travel Corner :: Sightseeing :: Thai Countryside - Underground World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Long-Necked Karen hill tribes or Padaung is one of the latest hill tribe immigrants who have come to form a new minority group in Thailand.
		The Padaung are of peaceful nature and agriculture is their main occupation.
		What distinguishes the Padaung from the rest of the hill tribes is the spectacular costume of their women, which is completely unique.
	tctour.com /en/otherinfo-longneck.shtml (677 words)

	[No title]
		Alexandre, a Padaung tribal, who has been working as a tour guide, said it was never their intention to settle down in Thailand.
		Padaung women immediately stop their activities if they notice a camera pointing in their direction, smile and keep the pose until the picture is taken.
		According to Padaung tradition only girls born on a Wednesday of a full moon are destined to have their necks fitted with metal rings at an age between five and nine years -- and these are naturally only a few.
	www.ibiblio.org /freeburma/boycott/tourism/misc1.txt (3867 words)

	Padaungs - Myanmar (Burma)
		Padaung women are well-known by their foot-long necks decorated with silver or brass rings.
		Although padaung men do not wear such heavy rings on their necks, Padaung women used to wear up to 16-22 rings on their necks, and up to 30 rings on the calf of their legs.
		Padaung believe that it is beautiful to have rings and that the more rings they wear, the more beautiful they look.
	www.dpsmap.com /travel/padaung.htm (472 words)

	Padaung hilltribe - Dhammayon, Burma photo - Doug J photos at pbase.com
		The Padaung, a Mongolian tribe who have been assimilated into the Karen group, only number about 7,000 they have attracted a great deal of interest because of their practice of neck-stretching.
		In the past Padaung girls were fitted with the rings at the age of five or six.
		A Padaung women of marriageable age will probably have had her neck extended by about 25 cms.
	www.pbase.com /image/41006986 (383 words)

	Collecting Cultures - Essays - Wooden and Bronze Figurines, Burma
		The Padaung tribe is one of the branch tribes of the Karen.
		The Padaung are found in Kayah State and Shan State, west of the Salween River and around the mountainous regions.
		The Padaung females are well known by the nickname of 'giraffe women', after Polish explorer Vitold de Golish described them, as 'long-necked Karens' due to the custom of encasing the neck in brass coils (qtd.
	www.denison.edu /artgallery/colcult/essays/kurosawa.html (1402 words)

	Padaung
		Padaung man Padaung woman Padaung is an ethnic minority in Myanmar.
		Padaung live on the border of Burma and Thailand, and have migrated multiple times to different places in Asia.
		There are around 7000 padaungs in their tribe, which is a lot less than in the early 1900's when the estimated population of 150 000.
	www.kiwipedia.com /padaung.html (94 words)

	Padaung Photo gallery
		The Padaung, or Ka-Kaung as they call themselves, are a sub-group of the Karen.
		Padaung women are often referred to as 'giraffe' or 'long-necked' because of the custom of placing brass rings around their necks from when they are young girls until they marry.
		The last set of photos were taken on the same 1998 visit and show two Padaung women living in traditional houses built in the grounds of a hotel on the edge of Lake Inle, Shan State, Myanmar.
	www.pacross.net /Galleries/Padaung.htm (342 words)

	Myanmar Ethnic : Polestar Travel
		The Padaungs ethnically belong to the larger Kayin race and their fixed abodes are to be found scattered in the area between the Kayah State, east of Taungoo and Southern Shan State.
		The Padaung woman's traditional racial attire consists of a colorful, elegant turban with a short thick loose shift and leggings.
		She is also adorned with jewelry and ornaments of which the most outstanding and unusual are the thick rings of bronze around her neck, worn right up to beneath her chin.
	www.myanmarpolestar.com /en/ethnics.htm (996 words)

	Exotissimo Travel : Chiang Mai : Pai : Mae Hong Son : Karen : Tour
		The Padaung live in a separate village adjacent to the main camp which is open for tourists to visit.
		The Padaung have always been a curiosity for outsiders because women born at the time of the full moon traditionally wear brass rings around their necks which they increase each year until their necks become elongated and the women take on a giraffe like appearance.
		The Padaung are a proud people who have suffered at the hands of many stronger groups and deserve to be treated with respect and courtesy.
	www.exotissimo.com /index.php?id=road_mae_hong_son (556 words)

	Burmanet » Irrawaddy: Padaung in Northern Thailand to return to Burma - Louis Reh
		The Padaung are expected to travel by truck from Mae Hong Son through Mae Sot to a resettlement area across the Burma border.
		“They [Padaung] will have more freedom in Burma, and they will get twice the monthly income than when they were in Thailand,” said Htoo Kyaw, adding that Thailand severely restricted the movements of Padaung outside their camps because they had no legal status as immigrants.
		Padaung villagers in Thailand have been a boon for tourism over the years, but often to their own disadvantage.
	www.burmanet.org /news/2005/10/18/irrawaddy-padaung-in-northern-thailand-to-return-to-burma-louis-reh (453 words)

	The Padaung - The Giraffe Women
		The Padaung are a tribal people living in the highlands of Northern Myanmar.
		The rings are intended to be worn throughout the life of the padaung women.
		Besides, modern Padaung women themselves are refusing to put these rings to their daughters.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/cultures_of_world/62077 (448 words)

	7 Days Travels & Tours, Myanmar (Burma) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		On the verge of extinction in Kayah State is a tribe called Padaung, a tribe of mystery and extraordinary.
		The excursion to Padaung is an extension trip from the Lake Inle.
		Am/Pm After breakfast morning sightseeing includes Kayan (Padaung), on the verge of extinction and the most unusual Kayah tribe ladies wearing brass rings ground their extraordinary long necks, Kayah traditional weaving industry, and wonderful ritual flagstaffs of Nat (sprirt) worshipers.
	www.7daystour.com /loikaw.htm (318 words)

	Padaung tribe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Padaung women of Myanmar wear brass or silver rings and so their neck is about a feet long.
		The tradition says when a Padung girl reaches eight or nine years of her age, she must put on a brass or silver ring in her neck.
		The Padaung tribe is related to another tribe, now extinct, the "Kang Yan".
	www.hilltribesmyanmar.com /padaung_tribe.html (243 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Latest News - International - Long-neck refugees get Thai "human zoo" treatment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		For the past two decades, hundreds of ethnic Padaung "long-neck" people from military-ruled Myanmar have enjoyed relative peace and security as refugees in the hills of northern Thailand.
		But plans to consolidate three Padaung villages into a single refugee settlement are intensifying concerns among human rights workers about their exploitation as a tourist attraction.
		However, the women themselves, who are officially barred from leaving the villages, receive only a fraction of that -- often as little as 1,500 baht a month -- and have to supplement their income selling trinkets and postcards.
	news.scotsman.com /latest_international.cfm?id=1378522006 (705 words)

	Radio Netherlands Worldwide - Independent thinking, independent voice - English - Escaping the land of the green ghosts
		He was born amongst the Padaung people, a small tribe from Shan State in southeastern Burma.
		The Padaung are best known to the outside world for the neck rings worn by some of their women, that stretch their necks high above their tiny shoulders.
		So Pascal the Padaung, who spoke English as his third language, systematically made his way through medieval and renaissance texts, Greek tragedies and realist dramas, he read Shakespeare and Chaucer and Ibsen and wrote essays where, for the first time, he was forced to think for himself about a text.
	www.radionetherlands.nl /features/cultureandhistory/031027pad.html (1037 words)

	Pattaya Mail - Vol. XI No. 49 - Friday December 5 - Decvember 11 , 2003 Travel
		Thulae said that a group of businesspeople from Phuket had contacted him with a proposition to buy 3-5 Padaung families based in Mae Hong Son and with an aim to take them to Phuket to be shown to tourists there, and a sum of 5-10 baht billion was offered.
		At present, around 20 Padaung families live in Mae Hong Son, earning their incomes from the sale of souvenirs and from tourists who pay to look at their traditional costume, which includes the wearing of several brass rings round the necks of women, producing the famous ‘long necks’.
		Thulae said that some of the Padaung families expressed interest and said they would travel to Phuket, where they had been promised 200 baht from every foreign tourist who paid to look at them, with the tour companies paying them on a monthly basis.
	www.pattayamail.com /540/travel.shtml (1250 words)

	Symbols of Karen Beauty
		Among the smallest Karen tribes in Thailand are the Karen Padaung.
		In the Mae Hong Sorn and Bann Thaton area, the women of the Karen Padaung villages wear multiple brass rings around the neck, the arms and the legs, and for this tribe the rings are the most prominent sign of female beauty and status.
		The rings on the neck reach from the clavicle up to beneath the chin, and these rings are always held very tighly by the bone structure from clavicle to chin.
	www.chiangmai-chiangrai.com /longneck_karen.html (919 words)

	AGEING with attitude - Update
		The Padaung women receive some of the revenue but most is taken by Karens, of whom the Padaung are a sub-group.
		Traditionally the Padaung women wear brass neck-rings which give the appearance of elongating the wearer's neck (in fact they depress the collarbone).
		Even so, other Padaung women have opted to live in the harsher conditions of the regular Karen refugee camps rather than submit to this practice.
	www.newint.org /issue264/update.htm (2035 words)

	Bangkok Post : General news (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		As someone who has visited Thailand on a number of occasions and has great respect for the country, I am increasingly aware of, and disturbed by, the impact of tourism on the border areas of the country.
		The long-neck Padaung are Burmese refugees who have fled the Burmese military regime into Thailand along with other ethnic minority refugees from Burma, and specifically Karenni State, over the past 25 years.
		The Padaung are sub-divided from the rest of the Karenni refugee camps into zoo-like fabricated villages for tourism purposes.
	www.bangkokpost.com /140307_News/14Mar2007_news25.php (955 words)

	Tales of Asia - Padaung
		There are, however, additional issues with the Padaung villages that make the situation, to me anyway, much less fl and white.
		There are still many other attractions in Mae Hong Son, so it could be argued that the Padaung have a right to get their hands in the pie as well.
		However, if the situation of the Padaung interests you, I would think it might be beneficial to at least visit the village and talk to the refugees and hear their side of the story and try to glean how much is really truth and how much is doing what they are told.
	www.talesofasia.com /thailand-padaung.htm (1934 words)

	The Irrawaddy News Magazine Online Edition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		According to Htoo Kyaw, all the expenditures for the Padaung resettlement—include living expenses, housing, salaries, sanitation and other miscellaneous expenses will be covered by the SPDC, KNPLF and Karuna Foundation.
		The Padaung are expected to travel by truck from Mae Hong Son through Mae Sot to a resettlement area across the
		severely restricted the movements of Padaung outside their camps because they had no legal status as immigrants.
	www.irrawaddy.org /aviewer.asp?a=5098&z=153 (402 words)

	Padaung 'giraffe women' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		One myth tells of a beautiful dragon with a long neck that was impregnated by the wind to produce the first Padaung people.
		Technically refugees, the Padaung at Mae Hong Son are better off -- thanks to their elongated necks -- than tens of thousands of other people who have fled Burma.
		Traditionally, only Padaung girls born on a Wednesday of a full moon were destined to have their necks fitted with the coils, but now other youngsters are enlisted to meet the tourist demand.
	seattlep-i.nwsource.com /getaways/040998/neck09.html (924 words)

	Man out of time / Pascal Khoo Thwe's memoir traces a remarkable, harrowing journey from tribal Burma to the West
		The Padaung in Khoo Thwe's village are Catholic.
		To be on the safe side, the missionary was captured and brought back to the village, where he spent the rest of his life converting the Padaung to Catholicism.
		The Padaung believe that those who die violent deaths return as terrifying "green ghosts," and they refer to Burma as the land of green ghosts.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/11/10/RV60598.DTL (851 words)

	Long-neck refugees get Thai "human zoo" treatment
		But plans to consolidate three Padaung villages into a single refugee settlement are intensifying concerns among human rights workers about their exploitation as a tourist attraction.
		Already, busloads of foreigners on "eco-tourism" trips pile into the remote villages every day to pose beside the Padaung "giraffe women", so-called for their elongated necks propped up on layers of brass coils.
		However, the women themselves, who are officially barred from leaving the villages, receive only a fraction of that -- often as little as 1,500 baht a month -- and have to supplement their income selling trinkets and postcards.
	www.chinadaily.com.cn /world/2006-09/18/content_691542.htm (530 words)

	Kayan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Kayan are a group of the Karenni people, a Tibeto-Burman ethnic minority of Myanmar (Burma).
		They are also known as Padaung (Burmese: ပဒောင္‌လူမ္ယုိး.
		In the 1990s, due to conflict with the military regime in Burma, many Kayan tribespeople fled into neighbouring Thailand.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Padaung (697 words)

	The Standard - China's Business Newspaper
		But plans to consolidate three Padaung villages into a single refugee settlement are intensifying concerns among rights workers about their exploitation as a tourist attraction.
		Some visitors along with Padaung people say the tours are more akin to trips to a human zoo.
		However, the women themselves, who are barred from leaving the villages, receive only a fraction of that - often as little as 1,500 baht a month - and have to supplement their income selling trinkets and postcards.
	www.thestandard.com.hk /news_detail.asp?we_cat=6&art_id=27560&sid=9971175&con_type=1&d_str=20060919 (428 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)