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Making for the Hills

I remember exclaiming with awe when I woke up in Simla (or Shimla, as it is often spelled and pro...

Myanmar / Indonesia / Sri Lanka Kenneth Champeon

The Bridge on the River Kwai

Film Review: The Bridge on the River Kwai

Based on the novel Le Pont de la Rivière Kwaï by Pierre Boulle, The Bridge on the River Kwai de...

Myanmar / Thailand / Japan Celeste Heiter

Burmese People: Images from the Shan States

A story told with photos.

Myanmar Kraig Lieb

Musicologist Rick Heizman with some of his favorite musical instruments: In the center is a Burmese saung gauk, behind it is a Middle Eastern oud from Syria, on the right is a Chinese zheng.

Of Strings and Things Burmese: An Interview with Musicologist Rick Heizman

If it has strings and makes music, it's an irresistible magnet for world instrumentalist and ethn...

Myanmar Celeste Heiter

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Yangon's colonial treasures

As a property boom triggers a flurry of construction activity in Yangon, the race is on to save t...

Myanmar AFP/Daniel Rook

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Orwell in Burma

Review of Orwell, George. Burmese Days [Harvest Books, 1989] * * * * * The late New Yorker critic...

Myanmar Kenneth Champeon

Burmese People: Images from Mandalay

A story told with photos.

Myanmar Kraig Lieb

A Mrauk U morning

Burma's Lost City of Mrauk U

Let Mrauk U's temples amaze you. Almost a replica of Bagan, the town was once a prosperous tradin...

Myanmar Exotissimo

Burma's Iron Lady

The year 2002 marks the fortieth anniversary of Burma's rule by an intransigent military dictator...

Myanmar Kenneth Champeon

The narrow path rubbed into the banks of the Sittaung River acts as an important trade route for villagers from Swar Yarma.

Swar Yarma, Central Myanmar

A story told with photos.

Myanmar Mick Shippen

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Portrait of an Anti-hero

Review of Tim O'Brien's Going After Cacciato , Broadway Books, 1999.

Myanmar / Vietnam / Laos Kenneth Champeon

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SEA-worthy: Some Recent Southeast Asian Literature

When one thinks of famous Southeast Asian writers, one thinks of...nobody. Nada. Not exactly true...

Myanmar / Vietnam / Cambodia Kenneth Champeon

Burmese People: Images from Pagan

A story told with photos.

Myanmar Kraig Lieb

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Japan's Myanmar-born designer Zarny Shibuya

Japan accepts few immigrants and struggles to integrate long-term foreign residents. But Myanmar-...

Myanmar / Japan AFP/Kimiko de Freytas-Tamura

Iqbal in his younger days, standing to Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's immediate left

The Bodyguard of Aung San Suu Kyi

A former political prisoner in Burma tells of his experience with torture, imprisonment and prote...

Myanmar David Calleja

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Opinion - Challenges facing Burma following Aung San Suu Kyi's release

Aung San Suu Kyi may be free from house arrest but there is much work to be done. The question is...

Myanmar David Calleja

Inle Lake, Burma. Photo by Robert George.

Imperial Spoils

Review of Terence R. Blackburn's The British Humiliation of Burma, Orchid Press, 2000.

Myanmar Kenneth Champeon

Going with the Flow in Central Myanmar

The track was well beaten. So well beaten in fact that just beyond the village boundary it became...

Myanmar Mick Shippen

The face of Southeast Asia has changed dramatically over the last decade or so with the emergence...

Myanmar / Mekong River Tom Aikins

Burmese democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi smiles at a question during a press conference in Yangon in 2002.

The Lady and the Tramplers

The title of this slim but fairly comprehensive volume derives from the fact that within Burma it...

Myanmar Kenneth Champeon

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