Knowledge | Posted by Zarni Kyaw
-Lopburi in central Thailand has been hosting its annual Monkey Buffet Festival since the late 1980s -As part of the festival, the town piles tables with up to two tonnes of fruit and veg for the monkeys to enjoy -The monkeys have a special taste for durian, a pungent tropical fruit, according to organisers Lopburi has been laying on an annual feast of fruit for its population of macaques since the late 1980s, part religious tradition and part tourist attraction. This year's Monkey Buffet Festival saw around 1,000 hungry simians descend on tables and wheelchairs piled high with fruit outside the town's 800-year-old Pra Prang Sam Yod temple. (In this picture macaques feast on a...
Knowledge | Posted by Aye Myat Thu
Squatting on the ground in front of a bicycle parked along an empty alley in Singapore, an elderly man carefully hammers a block of dry ice into smaller pieces. “It stings, but I’m quite used to it,” the man, who prefers to be known only by his last name, Liang, said in Mandarin.Most hawkers collect their ice cream and dry ice from wholesale distributors around the country. It’s a windy, overcast Friday morning and Liang, who is in his 70s, is getting ready for work. Soon, he’ll load his cooler with ice cream from the wholesale distributor next door before selling the treat to passers-by in the sweltering equator heat for about S$1.50 (US$1.10), with only...
Knowledge | Posted by Zarni Kyaw
Homosexual behaviour between animals may have evolved to ‘keep the peace’ in species where social conflict can lead to death. Sex between same-sex couples has been reported in more than 1,500 animal species, including all the main groups of vertebrates, such as fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals. It has also been seen in the main invertebrate groups, including insects, spiders, echinoderms – such as starfish – and nematodes, which are tiny parasitic wormsSame-sex mating is particularly common in nonhuman primates, including lemurs and apes. In total, it has been observed in at least 51 species. Over the years a number of theories have been proposed as...
Knowledge | Posted by Si Thu Aung
[Unicode] တိုက်ခန်း၊ ကွန်ဒိုတွေမှာနေထိုင်ကြပြီး လေကောင်းလေသန့်အတွက်ဖြစ်စေ ၊ အစိမ်းရောင်အပင်လေးတွေကို ချစ်မြတ်နိုးလို့ဖြစ်စေ ကိုယ်ပိုင်ဥယျာဉ်လေး၊ အပင်လေးတွေစိုက်ပျိုးချင်ကြတဲ့ မိတ်ဆွေတွေအတွက် မိမိနေထိုင်တဲ့ တိုက်ခန်း၊ ကွန်ဒိုတွေမှာ...
Knowledge | Posted by Hnin Ei Khin
The winner of the historic $1.3 billion Powerball jackpot has been revealed as an immigrant from Laos who is battling cancer and had his latest chemotherapy treatment last week. Cheng “Charlie” Saephan, 46, of Portland, who has had cancer for eight years, said he and his wife, Duanpen Saephan, 37, would split the prize evenly with a friend who contributed $100 to buy some tickets with them. They are taking a lump sum payment — $422 million after taxes. “I am grateful for the lottery and how I have been blessed,” he said at a news conference Monday held by the Oregon Lottery, adding that his “life has been changed.” “I will be able to...
Knowledge | Posted by Aye Myat Thu
[Unicode] လိုလိုပိုပိုမြေလေးဝယ်ထားပါတယ် မြေပိုင်ဆိုင်မှုက မခိုင်မာ ၊ သမီးကလည်း အမွေလိုချင်နေ ဆိုတော့ မြေပိုင်ဆိုင်မှုခိုင်မာအောင် ဘယ်လိုလုပ်နိုင်မလဲဆိုတဲ့ အဖြေလေးနဲ့တကွ အမေးအဖြေသုံးခုကို ဗဟုသုတသဖွယ်ဖတ်ရှုလေ့လာလိုက်ပါ။ မေးခွန်း (၁) -...
Knowledge | Posted by Hnin Ei Khin
Matt Busbice and his partners have built and sold several outdoor companies worth hundreds of millions of dollars. But Busbice, the 42-year-old owner of sporting goods store BuckFeather in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, says he has never felt richer than he did the day he received a single dollar. "I haven't had that much faith in humanity in a very long time," Busbice said. He says it all began about a month ago. It was early morning, and the fire alarm was going off inside his condo complex. So, Busbice shot out of bed and raced down the stairs only to discover there was no fire. But he was awake now, so even though he was wearing mismatched clothes and was disheveled, he decided to go out...
Knowledge | Posted by Shwe Zin Win
[Unicode] အိမ်တစ်လုံးကို အလှဆင်တဲ့အခါမှာ အရောင်ရွေးချယ်မှုက အဓိကကျပါတယ်။ လတ်ဆတ်ပြီး စိတ်ခံစားမှုကို ပြောင်းပေးနိုင်တဲ့ အိမ်သုတ်ဆေးအရောင်တွေဟာ သင့်အခန်းရဲ့ ဒီဇိုင်းနဲ့ သင့် Mood ကိုပါ လုံးဝအသစ် ဖြစ်သွားစေမှာပါ။ ကိုယ့်အိမ်ထဲက အခန်းတွေ ဆေးသုတ်ဖို့...
Knowledge | Posted by Zarni Kyaw
[Unicode] အပတ်စဉ်တင်ဆက်ပေးနေတဲ့ အိမ်ခြံမြေဥပဒေအမေးအဖြေကဏ္ဍလေးတစ်ဖန်ပြန်လည်ရောက်ရှိလို့လာပါပြီ။ မြေပိုင်ဆိုင်မှု (၁-က) စာရင်း (I.A) ၏ အဓိပ္ပါယ်ကိုရှင်းပြပါ။ ...... ဆိုတဲ့ မေးခွန်းအပါအဝင်အမေးအဖြေ (၃)ခုကို ဒီတစ်ပတ်အတွက်...
Knowledge | Posted by Aye Myat Thu
[Unicode] ကန်ထရိုက်ဆောက်လုပ်နေဆဲ မြေပိုင်ရှင်ကွယ်လွန်သွားရင် လုပ်ငန်းရပ်ဆိုင်းသွားမလား ဆိုတဲ့ ထူးဆန်းမေးခွန်းလေးအပါအဝင် အမေးအဖြေသုံးပုဒ်ကို ဒီတစ်ပတ်မှာတင်ဆက်ပေးထားပါတယ်။ မေးခွန်း ( ၁) - ကန်ထရိုက် တိုက်ဆောက်လုပ်နေဆဲ၌ မြေပိုင်ရှင် ကွယ်လွန်သွားပါက...