Prime Minister Lt.Gen. Thein Sein, shedding his military uniform for the sarong-like "longyi" and traditional jacket, said international aid "with no strings attached" was welcome but only civilian vessels could take part in the aid operation.    From Wordnik.com.  [International Donors Meet] Reference

He remembered a blue longyi here, a pair of ruby ear-rings there, but hardly a face or a name.    From Wordnik.com.  [Burmese Days] Reference

During our conversation, he sat erect and cross-legged on a raised platform, wearing a longyi.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lifting the Bamboo Curtain] Reference

How can I go to the bazaar without my bangles, and wearing the same longyi over and over again?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Burmese Days] Reference

Her face was grey with powder, her greasy hair was tumbling down, her longyi was ragged at the bottom.    From Wordnik.com.  [Burmese Days] Reference

She was very young, slim-shouldered, breastless, dressed in a pale blue satin longyi that hid her feet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Burmese Days] Reference

A smiling young Shan fisherman in a traditional skirt, or longyi, took them across the mist-shrouded Lake Inle in his wooden boat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Too Good To Be True] Reference

Although he wears a traditional Myanmar sarong-like longyi, he also sports angular glasses and a silver-colored Titoni Swiss watch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Myanmar Opposition Group Has New Tack: Cooperation] Reference

He was a strong debonair fellow of about thirty, with down-curving moustaches, wearing a singlet, with his longyi kilted to the knee.    From Wordnik.com.  [Burmese Days] Reference

She was dressed in a longyi of pale blue embroidered Chinese satin, and a starched white muslin ingyi on which several gold lockets hung.    From Wordnik.com.  [Burmese Days] Reference

Sitting alone in her office, Suu Kyi wore a turquoise longyi, a Burmese sarong, and a pale side-buttoned blouse with embroidered flowers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Democracy leader Suu Kyi urges 'real genuine talks' in Burma] Reference

As they came up they saw in the middle of the group an old woman who was holding up her ragged longyi with one hand and gesticulating with a big cigar in the other.    From Wordnik.com.  [Burmese Days] Reference

Just as my partner and I immediately donned, on arrival in Mandalay, the Burmese longyi, the wrapped and folded cloth kilt or skirt that Burmese men and women wear.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Letter from Alice Walker to Aung San Suu Kyi] Reference

His longyi was hitched up like a loin-cloth, and his meagre thighs were tattooed with dark blue patterns, so intricate that he might have been wearing drawers of blue lace.    From Wordnik.com.  [Burmese Days] Reference

She began to leap from side to side, flinging herself down in a kind of curtsy and springing up again with extraordinary agility, in spite of the long longyi that imprisoned her feet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Burmese Days] Reference

No contrast could have been stranger; the one faintly coloured as an apple-blossom, the other dark and garish, with a gleam almost metallic on her cylinder of ebony hair and the salmon-pink silk of her longyi.    From Wordnik.com.  [Burmese Days] Reference

As I make my way down the dirt road, an old woman wrapped in a longyi beelines straight towards me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matador Network] Reference

Many of them had worn white shirt & longyi, so when we looked at them from far away, everyone was white.    From Wordnik.com.  [Global Voices Online] Reference

Aye Lwin is luckly in 2006 Union Day, because all are ready to cheer with lady's longyi for his nech when he come down from Daw Cho Cho Kyaw Nyein.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Eventually, O Lam Myit, the 75-year-old village patriarch, shuffled up, his eyes milky, his longyi or sarong frayed, a ragged prayer cap on his head.    From Wordnik.com.  [TIME.com: Top Stories] Reference

With the thanakha on my face and donning a blue and white flower-patterned longyi - a sheet of cloth widely worn in Myanmar - I felt like a local, at least on the outside.    From Wordnik.com.  [msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines] Reference

Pulling up in trucks, motorbikes, buses and cars, more than 1,000 Kachin - many dressed in traditional headscarves and sarong-like longyi - packed into a large assembly hall.    From Wordnik.com.  [StarTribune.com rss feed] Reference

"It's a tragedy what the government is doing," he said as he greeted potential voters in a longyi, or sarong, and blue vest beside a slogan reading "For democracy and human rights.".    From Wordnik.com.  [latimes.com - News] Reference

A grey, timorous face, dressed only in a ragged longyi kilted to the knee, beneath which his lank, curved shins were speckled with tick-bites.    From Wordnik.com.  [Burmese Days] Reference

Her silk longyi gleamed like metal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Burmese Days] Reference

Ma Hla May lay and sniffed at her longyi.    From Wordnik.com.  [Burmese Days] Reference

We encounter a man fast asleep on the dusty road and a score of longyi-clad men walking home from the match (Barcelona 2 - 0.    From Wordnik.com.  [TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] Reference

In Myanmar, it is known as a longyi.    From Wordnik.com.  [TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] Reference