Salween

English Salween River Alternative forms en Salwen Etymology Borrowed from en my သံလွင်. Pronunciation săl′wēn′en 1952 Salween Leon E. Seltzer The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/ Morningside Heights, NY Columbia University Press 802473294 1655 https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/page/1655/ 3 Proper noun 1 en A 2,815-kilometre-long <<river>> flowing from the Tibetan Plateau into the Andaman Sea, through <<c/China>>, <<c/Myanmar>> (Burma) and <<c/Thailand>>. en March 7, 2013 Ben Blanchard About 60,000 could lose homes for controversial China dams Nick Macfie https://web.archive.org/web/20160126064839/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-parliament-dam-idUSBRE92608M20130307 26 January 2016 w:Reuters Outgoing Premier Wen Jiabao, a geologist by trade and populist by instinct, vetoed the dams in Yunnan province on the UNESCO-protected Nu River, known outside China as the Salween, in 2005, after an outcry from environmentalists. en JUNE 18, 2016 w:Edward Wong China’s Last Wild River Carries Conflicting Environmental Hopes w:The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20160618191833/https://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/19/world/asia/china-climate-change-nu-river-greenhouse-gases.html 0362-4331 1645522 Asia Pacific Three great rivers rush through parallel canyons in the mountains of southwest China on their way to the coastal plains of Asia. At least 10 dams have been built on two of them, the Mekong and the Yangtze. The third remains wild: the remote, raging Nu, known as the Salween in Myanmar, where it empties into the Andaman Sea. en March 29, 2021 Myanmar: Thousands take to streets as others flee w:Deutsche Welle https://web.archive.org/web/20210329151922/https://www.dw.com/en/myanmar-thousands-take-to-streets-as-others-flee/a-57042495 March 29, 2021 https://www.dw.com/en/myanmar-thousands-take-to-streets-as-others-flee/a-57042495 News About 2,500 people, including 200 students, have crossed the Salween River into northern Thailand's Mae Hong Son province, according to the Free Burma Rangers. An estimated 10,000 people are believed to be displaced in Myanmar's northern Karen state, the agency said. Synonyms upper reaches en Nujiang Translations river Burmese: my သံလွင်မြစ် Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 薩爾溫江 Sà'ěrwēn Jiāng lower reaches outside of China, cmn 怒江 Nù Jiāng upper reaches in China Karen: Pa'o Karen: blk ခြုံꩻ Pwo Karen: kjp ကၟံင့်ယှောတ်ခၠေါဟ် Sgaw Karen: ksw ဃိၣ်လီၤကျိ Mon: mnw သာန်လာန် Tai Nüa: tdd ᥑᥨᥒᥰ upper reaches in China Thai: th แม่น้ำสาละวิน Tibetan: bo རྒྱལ་མོ་རྔུལ་ཆུ References Further reading Salween, Salwen en 1998 Salween River or Thanlwin River Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee03cohe/ 3 New York Columbia University Press 0-231-11040-5 98-071262 164337564 2729 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee03cohe/page/2729/ 3 Anagrams en aeelnsw weanels