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14 Oct 2012

Heavily censored until August, books are now openly sold and enjoyed in Myanmar. Mary O'Shea gets the word on Yangon's streets. Pictures by Cedric Arnold.

12:49AM
7 Apr 2013

With their mohawks and black studded jackets, Kyaw Kyaw and his punk buddies are easy to spot on the streets of Yangon. They hang out at a roadside stall just up from Sule Pagoda most afternoons,...

4:36PM
31 Mar 2013

With the end of the military dictatorship and the possibility Aung San Suu Kyi might become president, Myanmar has become a hot news story.

5:26PM
24 Aug 2012

BEIJING (Reuters) - China has forcibly returned scores of ethnic Kachins who have fled Myanmar because of civil war, putting them at risk of armed violence and abuse by Myanmar's army, a human...

6:31PM
21 Aug 2012

Just last month, I made my first visit to Myanmar, a place Rudyard Kipling referred to as "quite unlike any land you know about". While decades of isolation have helped this century-old...

8:33PM

 

Forgive me if I missed something - despite keeping an eye out - but Myanmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi seems to be at a loss for words about wanton acts of cruelty, murder and...

2:16PM

Our editors will be looking ahead today to these developing stories ...

Make-or-break moment looms for Mars mission

10:58PM

Tomorrow: British Chamber of Commerce breakfast: 'Travelling to Burma for business: looking after yourself and your travellers'. Hong Kong Club.

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Tuesday, July 24: British Chamber of Commerce breakfast: 'Travelling to Burma for business: looking after yourself and your travellers'.

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Tuesday, July 24: British Chamber of Commerce breakfast: 'Travelling to Burma for business: looking after yourself and your travellers'.

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[Hong Kong] media enjoy greater freedom than on the mainland, in Taiwan or in Singapore. They should defend it to the death

Taiwanese author Kenneth Pai Hsien-yung, at the Book Fair...

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