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  1. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    November, 2001
    Myanmar

    ... Karenni people celebrated three kinds of pole festivals in a year. The first one is called Tya-Ee-Lu-Boe-Plya. During this festival, the people went to their paddy fields, vegetable farms, picked the premature fruits and brought it to the Ee-Lu-pole. They put the premature fruits on altar, thank god and then pray for good fruits and good harvest. The second one called Tya-Ee-Lu-Phu-Seh. In this festival they pray god to bless the teenagers with good conducts, and good healths. The third one is Tya-Ee-Lu-Du. The festival concerned to everyone.

  2. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    November, 2001
    Myanmar

    It is estimated that the overall number of Burmese migrants in Thailand is somewhere in between 800,000 and one million.
    Cross-border migration into Thailand has steadily increased in recent years. Since the 1960s, hundreds of thousands of Thais
    have gone to work abroad. Refugees from Burma, Laos and Cambodia have since filled this labour shortage in Thailand.
    However, many of them are undocumented, illegal workers and thus constitute the most vulnerable section of the work force.

  3. Library Resource
    Reports & Research
    November, 2001
    Myanmar

    People from Burma have become the major group of displaced persons in Thailand. Most of them are currently being sheltered
    along the Thai-Burma border, particularly in the Thai provinces of Mae Hong Son, Tak, Kanchanaburi and Ranong. It is
    estimated that there are some 40,000 children from Burma under the age of 15 accompanying their parents. In addition,
    thousands of unaccompanied children are driven across the border by the desperate circumstances in Burma. ...

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