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The Shan States of Burma: Toyotas, Traders, and tribes

I bought a young jungle cat in a northern Burmese town, where it faced its fate in the market ...

Myanmar Leslie Nevison

Front cover for Warrior Odyssey

Book review: Warrior Odyssey - Antonio Graceffo

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to set off on a quest around Asia, researching and d...

Myanmar / Vietnam / Cambodia David Calleja

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Dreams and Relationships Take Center Stage at Cinequest 2012

This year, of the fifteen Asian or Asia-related entries, nine were available on DVD for pre-scree...

Myanmar / Vietnam / Afghanistan Celeste Heiter

Book cover for Antonio Graceffo's upcoming book, Warrior Odyssey.

A Warrior's Odyssey - Interview with Antonio Graceffo

Antonio Graceffo's eagerly anticipated new book, Warrior Odyssey, covers the beginning of his tre...

Myanmar / Vietnam / Cambodia David Calleja

Horse cart, Bagan, Burma.

Review of "Burma behind the Mask", edited by Jan Donkers and Minka Nijhuis, Burma Centrum Nederla...

Myanmar Kenneth Champeon

The rapids on the Nam Khan River were a little more challenging than I thought

Kayaking Adventure

Kayaking down the Nam Khan River near Luang Prabang in Laos...

Myanmar / Vietnam / Cambodia MaryLou Driedger

og Broen over floden Kwai

Der er liv på dødens jernbane

[Read the English version] 16.000 allierede krigsfanger mistede livet her - og flere end 100.000 ...

Myanmar / Thailand Bjarne Madsen

The Bridge on the River Kwai

There's life on the railway of death

Translated from Danish by Andrew Huddleston [Read the Danish version] 16,000 allied prisoners of ...

Myanmar / Thailand Bjarne Madsen

The Gentleman in the Parlour - a travelogue of Maugham's 1923 trip through Burma, Siam, & Indochina

The Orient-ation of Somerset Maugham

Review of W. Somerset Maugham's The Gentleman in the Parlour, White Orchid Press, 1995.

Myanmar / Vietnam / Cambodia Kenneth Champeon

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Myanmar - Asia's next big tourist destination

The hotels are full or eye-wateringly expensive, creased dollar bills are worthless and credit ca...

Myanmar AFP/Kelly Macnamara

The newlywed's wedding bed, in the home of the groom.

Water Dai Wedding in Xishuangbana

As is the Dai custom, a party has been sent out from the groom's village, consisting of the groom...

Myanmar / Vietnam / Cambodia Joshua Samuel Brown

Street workers on the road to Bago.

Myanmar, people and markets.

Myanmar. The people and the markets. A story told through photos...

Myanmar Linda De Volder

Balloons over Bagan temples, Myanmar

Myanmar Highlights

Burma/Myanmar highlights

Myanmar Pham Ha

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Myanmar's Chin women's face tattoos

Facial inking, once a rite of passage for young ethnic minority Chin women in the remote northwes...

Myanmar AFP/Rob Bryan

Antonio Graceffo (left) learns the Khmer martial art of Bokator under the watchful eyes of Master San Kim Saen in Phnom Penh.

Learning History and Culture Through Martial Arts

David Calleja talks with Antonio Graceffo, host of Martial Arts Odyssey, and leading Filipino kun...

Myanmar / Vietnam / Cambodia David Calleja

Nocturne in Burma Minor

Frankly my first instinct upon inspecting Daniel Mason's novel The Piano Tuner was to throw it ac...

Myanmar Kenneth Champeon

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Wearing the Pants in Burma

If there is one thing that books about contemporary Burma have in common, it is probably this: th...

Myanmar Kenneth Champeon

The writer with the good doctor & son.

A visit with the Famous Doctor Ho

Doctor Ho is the most written about Chinese doctor in all the world. He is the most talked about...

Myanmar / Vietnam / Cambodia Joshua Samuel Brown

Views of the grande dame of old Rangoon.

The Grand Old Dame of Rangoon

Time will determine whether The Strand, the grande dame of old Rangoon, experiences a renaissa...

Myanmar Robert Tompkins

Nine Monks with Fans, 2001, Acrylic on canvas, 152.5 x 152.5 cm

Min Wae Aung - Golden Passage

* * * * * Min Wae Aung ['s] almost photo-realist figures of monks, nuns and novices ... have capt...

Myanmar Global Directions, Inc.

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