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Burma: A water festival, NLD standoff, sanctions and possible ongoing human rights violations

A happy introduction I have now been in Yangon for just over a week and am beginning to settle in to a country. When arriviing into Yangon I was thrust into the middle of the Burmese new years celebrations, a four day water festival called Thingyan. During this festival the streets ...

Burma Bound

It is certainly an interesting time for Burma, the country appears to stand at a cross-roads, possibly leading to a process of rapid resource fuelled 'development'. Will the elation seen throughout the streets of Burma this week be perpetually matched in the coming weeks, months and ...