Treading Lightly on the Road to Mandalay
THE blob of traffic in front of our car had stopped dead. Having arrived in Mandalay from crowded Bangkok, I'd hoped to escape gridlock, but here I was, just 30 minutes after touchdown at the airport, in bumper-to-bumper again. Frustrated, I poked my head from the car, and was immediately pelted — with garlands of jasmine. [Read More]
Does Burma need you?
If you want to help the people of Burma, then go, says Thant Myint-U. You'll only be funding the military if you do, counters Mark Farmaner [Read More]
Should you visit Burma?
Yes, according to Gill Charlton, who visited the country recently. She found its citizens keen to maintain contact with the outside world. [Read More]
Burma: should I go?
Dominic Mason went - and found a time-warped country, buildings gone to seed and cats jumping through hoops [Read More]
The melody of Myanmar On a visit to the impoverished Asian nation, a Burmese guide lets down his hair and sings 'House of the Rising Sun' in a variation of English. [Read More]
