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    Salween is a Southeast Asian river, about 3,289 kilometres (2,044 mi) long, flowing from the Tibetan Plateau south into the Andaman Sea. The Salween flows...
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  • Look up Salween in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Salween or Salawin is a river in Burma, Thailand and China Salween may also refer to: Salween or Salawin...
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  • Salween (Thai: มือปืน 2 สาละวิน, RTGS: Muepuen 2 Salawin) is a 1994 Thai action-drama film directed by Chatrichalerm Yukol and starring Sorapong Chatree...
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  • The Battle of the Salween River (Chinese: 喀喇烏蘇之戰) was fought in September 1718 close to the Nagqu (i.e., Salween River) in Tibet, between an expedition...
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    proposed for the Salween River. The largest of these hydro power projects is the 7,100 megawatts (9,500,000 hp) Tasang Dam on the Salween River, which is...
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    the Salween River which was garrisoned by the 2nd Burma Infantry Brigade. The position was almost impossible to defend, and had the River Salween, almost...
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    Chinese) Matsuyama (in Japanese) blocked the road immediately behind the Salween River. Although the Chinese Nationalist Army crossed the river with light...
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  • people governed 5,400 km2 Indigenous and Community Conservation Area in the Salween River basin. Saw O Moo was born in 1975 at Ler Mu Plaw, Myanmar, where...
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    chains divide Myanmar's three river systems, which are the Irrawaddy, Salween (Thanlwin), and the Sittaung rivers. The Irrawaddy River, Myanmar's longest...
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    The Salawin National Park or Salween National Park(Thai: อุทยานแห่งชาติสาละวิน) is located in Mae Sariang and Sop Moei Districts in Mae Hong Son Province...
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    between rivers flowing to the Indian Ocean — the Indus, Brahmaputra and Salween and its tributaries — and the streams flowing into the undrained salt lakes...
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    The British seized the southern third of today's Karen State (below the Salween River) after the First Anglo-Burmese War (1824-1826), and the rest after...
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    Salween as the Burmese-Lanna border in 1847 and sent delegates to put up boundaries markers along the Salween. Under this definition, trans-Salween states...
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    These include the Yangtze, Yellow River, Indus River, Mekong, Ganges, Salween and the Yarlung Tsangpo River (Brahmaputra River). The Yarlung Tsangpo...
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    Range, before turning to the south-west and joining the Salween River. The border follows the Salween and then Moei River southwards, before leaving it and...
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    ranges and rivers running north and south. These include the Nu Jiang (Salween), the Lancang (Mekong), and the Jinsha (Yangtze), which flow in close proximity...
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    in the Hengduan Mountains, along with the Yangtze to its east and the Salween River (Nu Jiang in Chinese) to its west. Then the Mekong meets the China–Myanmar...
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    responding to a July 1562 rebellion by his cis-Salween Chinese Shan states with support from trans-Salween Shan states. However, as with Manipur, it may...
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  • the Salween River ("Thanlwin" in Myanmar). Thailand and Myanmar have signed an agreement for the Salween dams project, five dams on the Salween and another...
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    ruthlessly annihilated by the triumphant Dzungars in the Battle of the Salween River. This humiliation only determined the Kangxi Emperor to expel the...
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    with most groups, vast areas of the state, especially those east of the Salween River, remain outside the central government's control, and in recent years...
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    the Kawkareik Pass and captured the port of Moulmein at the mouth of the Salween River after overcoming stiff resistance. They then advanced northwards...
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  • Burnett (Paul Schulze), asks Rambo to take him and his associates down the Salween River to Burma on a humanitarian mission to help the Karen people. Rambo...
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    Yellow River and other groups migrating south down the Yangtze, Mekong, Salween and Brahmaputra rivers. George van Driem proposes a Sino-Tibetan homeland...
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    2021, KNU insurgents captured a military base on the west bank of the Salween River, which forms Myanmar's border with Thailand. The Tatmadaw later retaliated...
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    Chinese had in abundance. These planes were used in the battle of the Salween River Gorge in late May 1942, which kept the Japanese from entering China...
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    Yangon and 70 kilometres (43 mi) south of Thaton, at the mouth of Thanlwin (Salween) River. Mawlamyine was an ancient city and the first capital of British...
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    immemorial. It is a rugged, mountainous area located between the Mekong and the Salween River, with the Nam Hka flowing across it. The Wa traditionally practiced...
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  • ЕНИСЕЙ Река Н.ТУНГУСКА Ganges River Yarlung Tsangpo River Река АМУР The Salween River Basin Fact Sheet Euphrates Река ВИЛЮЙ ĀMŪ DARYĀ Река ИШИМ [http://...
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    Two of the continent's wildest rivers have their sources in Tibet: the Salween and the Brahmaputra Though yes they are under threat from retreating glaciers...
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