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• Raising the Dead in Burma – Part I

  
  Wandermelon — Authority: 419
  I followed the barefoot man with the machete as we crunched through the overgrown weeds of the Jewish cemetery in Yangon, Myanmar (formerly known as Rangoon, Burma). It was hot and the insects were loud; I knew my uncle was in there somewhere. He died of a burst appendix in (more...)
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• Bangladesh takes marine border dispute with India to UN

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 708
  Dhaka, Nov 10 (IANS) Bangladesh has registered its objection with the UN to India’s claim over certain areas in the Bay of Bengal, three months after a similar missive was filed against Myanmar’s claim.The three nations have not clearly demarcated their maritime boundaries and are moving the Commission on the ...
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• Diplomats pay homage to India’s first woman diplomat

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 708
  New Delhi, Nov 8 (IANS) Senior Indian Foreign Service officers and colleagues Sunday paid homage to C.B. Muthamma, the country’s first woman diplomat, describing her as “the stuff of legends” and thanking her for breaking the “glass ceilings”. Muthamma died last month at the age of 85.Foreign Secretary ...
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• Exclusive Video: Miss people Style Competition 2009 Yangon

  
  Myanmar Celebrities' Gossip, News, Videos, Photos, Fashion — Authority: 128
  Miss people Style Competition 2009 was held on November 1, 2009 at Innyar Lake Hotel, Yangon. This competition is mainly organized by Myanmar People Magazine and (34) new face model girls competed in this Miss People Style Contest 2009. Model Thae Naw Zar won both Miss People Prize and People Choice Prize. Thae Naw ...
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• photos from burma

  
  davidsmeaton.com — Authority: 124
  top – shwedagon pagoda at night (photographed from my hotel room) middle – par par lay, a burmese comedian who’s been jailed three times bottom – girls clean shwedagon pagoda
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• ASEAN welcomes US engagement with Myanmar

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 708
  Cha-am (Thailand), Oct 25 (DPA) The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Sunday welcomed a new US policy of engagement with Myanmar, saying it was the right approach to dealing with a member of its club considered a pariah by many Western nations.“The one thing we are completely agreed upon is that we ...
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• photos from burma

  
  davidsmeaton.com — Authority: 124
  top – a man prays at a shrine in shwedagon pagoda middle – a boy in traditional dress is carried around the pagoda as part of a ceremony bottom – morpheus the monk
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• photos from burma

  
  davidsmeaton.com — Authority: 124
  top – a boy pokes faces at the camera middle – a monk imitating the buddhas behind him bottom – shwedagon pagoda, burma’s most famous pagoda
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• Korea Popular Actress, Lee Young Eun Visited Yangon

  
  Myanmar Celebrities' Gossip, News, Videos, Photos, Fashion — Authority: 128
  A South Korean film festival was inaugurated at the Thamada Cinema in Myanmars biggest city of Yangon From ct. 16 to 19, drawing a large number of Myanmar cinema goers who take great interest in Korean film and TV. The Korean embassy has arranged a meeting between Myanmar interesting audiences and visiting famous ...
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• Unwanted news, Rangoon electricity & irrationality

  
  Rule of Lords — Authority: 91
  Burma’s government claims to welcome complaints about malpractice, inefficiency and corruption against those in public service. But a recent case of a man imprisoned for repeatedly complaining about electricity problems speaks to how easy it is in an irrational system for the complainant, not the government ...
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