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Incident at Naungwo Defile: En Route from Loikaw to Kalaw

Archives September 3, 2020September 3, 2020 Col. Lahpai Khun Nawng

Photo: Google Map showing present day Kalaw/Loikaw motor routes  In 1950, while serving as commander of the 1st Emergency Kachin Battalion at Myitkyina, I received orders to take up command of the newly formed 4th Light Infantry Brigade at Kalaw. The War Office had dragged its feet about making official the local rank promotion that Prime […]

Moments with Independence Hero Bogyoke Aung San

Archives, Featured July 17, 2020July 17, 2020 Duwa Lahpai Shan Lone

Photo: Kachin Leaders with the Frontier Areas Committee of Enquiry (FACE); Maymyo, April 1947. (Illustrated London News) I had the privilege of close personal encounters with Bogyoke Aung San on three separate occasions. All of the meetings were unscheduled but nonetheless significant, as they took place in the crucial pre-independence years of our nation, and provide […]

To the Tender Memory of Judson College (Judson Chapel Golden Jubilee Magazine; 1982)

Archives, Featured July 12, 2020July 13, 2020 Duwa Lahpai Shan Lone

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 […]

Sinlum Kaba: Origins and Glory Days

Archives, Featured June 26, 2020June 26, 2020 Lahpai Nang Kai 2 Comments

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 […]

Kachin Sports Greats of Yesteryear

Archives, Featured October 19, 2019October 20, 2019 Lahpai Nang Kai 1 Comment

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 […]

First Kachin Woman Collegian Lahpai Htu Raw

Archives, Featured September 15, 2019September 16, 2019 Lahpai Nang Kai

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. […]

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