Liveth there a Judsonian with a soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my Alma Mater. It was the first morning of the first week of June 1929, the official opening day of the new term at Judson College. Approximately 800 students were gathered at the assembly hall of […]
Photo: The great Padang Manau at Sinlum Kaba March 1945 (CC Naw Ja) Clan oral history has it that Duwa Zau Bawm was the Gauri Lahpai chief who founded Sinlum Kaba, one of the many villages that dotted the Sinlum hills overlooking Yunan, China. The Sinlum hills were part of the domain of the Lahpai Gauri […]
Photo: Shingbwi Gam (center left) & Myitung Naw (extreme right) Myitung Naw, Shingbwi Gam and Ah Hpu were three outstanding Kachin athletes who represented Burma in international marathon and long distance events in the early years of the country’s independence. They were all discovered while serving in the army, in the now defunct all-Kachin infantry […]
Lahpai Htu Raw, like her pioneer educator mother Nangzing Hka Jan, was a trailblazer. The 9th child, and 4th daughter of the Pangmu Duwa Rev. Lahpai Lahpai Zau Tu and Nangzing Hka Jan, she was the first Kachin woman to receive a college education. A bright child, Htu Raw learned to read even before she started school. […]
Hkachyang Raw: First Kachin Female Soldier At a time when women fighters were not allowed to join the army, one Kachin woman beat the odds to become an enlisted soldier, fighting in the front lines with her male counterparts. Posing as a man, Hkachyang Raw enlisted with the Northern Kachin Levies, a British special force […]
Capt. Dau Hkawng is one who clearly deserves to be in the Burma Army competitive shooting hall of fame. He dominated the sport, winning championship after championship title atinter-regimental competitions at home and abroad, spanning a period of over 2 decades from British colonial times to the early days of independence. Dau Hkawng left home […]
