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Kyaw Yin
Kyaw Yin ( 1873 - 1939), also known as Mee-Bone-Pyan U Kyaw Yin, was a Burmese balloonist who flew a hot air balloon to many places in Burma. He flew his personally designed hot air balloon ("Mee-Bone-Pyan" in Burmese) in acrobatic fashion as a stuntman. He tried extensively to get a license from the British Government for flying hot air balloons (at that time, Burma was under British colonial rule).
When he started performing,
James Hla Kyaw
James Hla Kyaw (1866-1919), also known as U Hla Kyaw (), was a pioneer Burmese novelist and author of the first Burmese novel titled "Maung Yin Maung, Ma Me Ma". Burmese novels had existed before but they were written in verse not in prose. Most of these novels were based on Buddhism, myth and legend and history of Burma; therefore there were no novels that were based on everyday lives like "Maung Yin Maung, Ma Me Ma".