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13 Aug 2013 2 minute read

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‘This is just the beginning of Burma’s new beginning’

Democracy is within sight, Iris Gonzales is told, as she meets those who have reason to hope.

Sold to the sea: trafficking in the Thai fishing industry

30 May 2013 3 minute read

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Sold to the sea: trafficking in the Thai fishing industry

Migrants who escape violent, unpaid work can face a corrupt legal system. Andy Hickman meets a group from...

9 May 2012 5 minute read

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What Aung San Suu Kyi could do next

Clearly articulating her party’s economics policies would be a good start, reckons Dinyar Godrej.

1 May 2012 5 minute read

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When Western therapies fail

Is a Western approach the best way to engage with the mental health issues of other cultures? Nick Harvey visits...

29 Mar 2012 5 minute read

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Burma: ‘the people aren’t scared anymore’

Pride and optimism – change is in the air, says William Lloyd George on the eve of by-elections in Rangoon....

22 Sep 2010 7 minute read

This article is almost 12 years old.

On the short road to discipline-flourishing democracy

Put aside an election called by despots as also revolutionary fantasies. We must look elsewhere for hope for Burma, argues ...

1 Sep 2010 3 minute read

This article is almost 12 years old.

Poisoned hills

Burmese women expose military’s complicity in the opium trade

2 May 2008 2 minute read

This article is more than 14 years old.

City of whispers

Among Rangoon’s six million souls, a few have secret conversations with *Dinyar Godrej*.

18 Apr 2008 8 minute read

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A Short History of Burma

Today over 80 per cent of Burma’s people are Buddhist and the country has the largest number of monks as a percentage of the...

7 Apr 2008 5 minute read

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From a scorched land

Two survivors from Karen state, where the Burmese military has been laying villages to waste, tell their stories.

22 Feb 2008 3 minute read

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Boycott Lonely Planet

Stop buying Lonely Planet books until BBC withdraws Burma edition.

1 May 2007 9 minute read

This article is more than 15 years old.

Daring to dream

*Dinyar Godrej* on what truly inspires.

1 Sep 2005 3 minute read

This article is almost 17 years old.

Than Shwe

Sullen, unresponsive and boring he may be, but Than Shwe is Burma’s Number One, leader of one of the world’s...

1 Apr 2005 3 minute read

This article is more than 17 years old.

Burma

Burma’s people have a rich variety of traditional costumes, corresponding to their dozens of ethnic groups, but their...

5 Nov 2003 11 minute read

This article is almost 19 years old.

Currents

5 Jul 2003 10 minute read

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