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A news item involving Flag of Myanmar was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the In the news section on 23 October 2010.

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New national flag

The latest news (but not definite & from unknown source) : People heard that the color of Myanmar flag will change. It will be three colors: Red, Green & Yellow. Red represents bravery, green refers to agriculture, & the yellow for unity of all the Nationalities.

I found a New Light of Myanmar article (English) about the new flag. The link is here, "The Flag is marked with green, yellow and red stripes in a proportionate ratio. On the left end of the green stripe at the top of the Flag is a large white star directing upwards" (quite a long title).--Hintha 23:14, 12 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I think it is a good idea to include the 8 major races (Bamar, Shan, Chin, Kayin/Karen, Kayah/Karenni, Mon, Kachin and Rakhine/Araken) national flags or state flags and the meanings of them. Each state or division has its own flag or emblem and should be included in the page of Flags of Myanmar. Texxexx 19:03, 24 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Who was pissed when they decided on that, maybe those from Malawi supplied the grog. Any complaits about this flag? Enlil Ninlil (talk) 21:15, 23 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Flag of the Third Burmese Empire (Konbaung Dynasty)

Dear Kintetsubuffalo,

According to the FOTW source, the flag of the Third Burmese Empire under Konbaung Dynasty should be a white flag with peacock (the version in FOTW depicted a red peacock, my svg version was based on that version), not the red swallowtailed flag with black cross. In the last paragraph of the section "Mid 19th century" of the historical Burmese flags topic in FOTW stated that "The flag shown here is the standard of the royal artillery who were mainly Christian Portuguese descendants (hence the cross)." In addition, there are some flag charts in 1860s (contemporary to the reign of King Mindon of Konbaung Dynasty) showed the peacock flag as the flag of Burma. Please see the Gallery below. Burma in these charts spelled "Birmah"

Flag chart "National and Commercial Flags of All Nations", c.1868, published by Colton, (G.W. & C.B.) & Co. (cilck to enlarge)
Burmese flag in 1860s (cropped from National and Commercial Flags of All Nations, Colton, (G.W. & C.B.) & Co.)
Flag chart "Johnson's New Chart of National Emblems", c.1868, published by Johnson, A. J. (Alvin Jewett) (cilck to enlarge)
Burmese flag in 1860s (cropped from Johnson's New Chart of National Emblems)
SVG version of the Burmese peacock flag (based on FOTW source)
A Burmese flag in mid 19th century - in the FOTW website state that is "the standard of the royal artillery who were mainly Christian Portuguese descendants"

Following these flag charts, I think it should be replaced the red-swallowtailed-and-black-cross flag with one depicted a peacock on white background.

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--Xiengyod (talk) 10:29, 11 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Burmese resistance

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The flag of the Burmese Resistance should be here somewhere, as the article says, the modern flags originated from a "red flag with white star". 76.66.199.238 (talk) 04:08, 24 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

War Ensign

Anyone know why this flag isn't the war ensign (or rather any citation for the usage guide?) I've checked the modification history and no explanation was given when the usage symbol was added. If this isn't the war ensign then what is?

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 The flag of the Burmese Resistance should be here somewhere, as the article says, the modern flags originated from a "red flag with white star". [[Special:Contributions/76.66.199.238|76.66.199.238]] ([[User talk:76.66.199.238|talk]]) 04:08, 24 October 2010 (UTC)
+== War Ensign ==
+Anyone know why this flag isn't the war ensign (or rather any citation for the usage guide?)
+I've checked the modification history and no explanation was given when the usage symbol was added.  If this isn't the war ensign then what is?