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Burma
The arrest and killing of poet Khet Thi continues a long heritage of frontline solidarity with the people on the part of those who create their art with words.
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Burma
Hotel development considered ‘one of the greatest threats’ to the stupas, pagodas and temples within the Bagan property zone.
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On This Day
On this day in 1964, Britain handed to Gen. Ne Win more than 100 royal items that had been looted from the Mandalay Palace by British colonizers some 80 years earlier.
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Places in History
One of the oldest structures in Yangon, the Norman Kyaung Kyi Htaik has been a place of learning—first for Christian missionaries and later for Buddhist monks—since 1852.
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