Myanmar

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Why Burma? A trio of serendipitous events collided: A Mom Friend from Burma hosted a Mystery Dinner School Fundraiser and 8 parents from my school went to her dinner. I had brunch with one set of parents who raved about her dinner, a Burmese Noodle Dish — recipe below –, and reminisced about his own travels to Burma.  He was there during the student protests (see history bullet points below) which was a crazy and somewhat unsafe time to be a tourist in Burma. I was at a U2 concert a...Read Full Story

Dear Friends, Because we’ve got so much ministry going on in Myanmar (Burma), I’ve spent 31 of my last 46 days on two trips there. I’m now on my way home from the second trip, during which my youngest daughter, Elisabeth, and I served members of our spiritual family who are refugees, orphans, widows and among the world’s poorest. We kept very busy, and among other things, visited 38 of the orphanages that are regularly assisted through our Orphan’s Tear division. I wish I could show you...Read Full Story

17 December 2011  |   Filed under: Asia News , Asia Top Stories , Foreign News , News of the Year 2011   |   Posted by: XinhuaNET.COM With colorful flags hoisting, Myanmar’s new capital of Nay Pyi Taw is entering into full preparations to greet state leaders of six countries of the Greater Mekong Subregion Economic Cooperation (GMS) for their 4th Summit. Six years ago when Myanmar started to move its administrative capital from Yangon to here, the name of “Nay Pyi Taw” could not...Read Full Story

NAYPYITAW, Myanmar ( Reuters ) - Myanmar opened a new international airport in its capital Naypyitaw Monday, with regional leaders the first to use the new facility that will handle up to 65,000 flights per year. Naypyitaw International Airport will be Myanmar's third international facility after Mandalay and the commercial capital Yangon . The airport was developed by Burmese construction company Asia World with technical assistance from Singapore engineering firm CPG Consultants Pte...Read Full Story

YANGON ( Reuters ) - There are no skyscrapers in Yangon. No gleaming shopping malls. Certainly no subway system. Its rutted sidewalks are laced with treacherous holes and broken slabs of concrete. Myanmar 's former capital and biggest city is a crumbling monument to almost half a century of isolation and mismanagement at the hands of generals who took power in a 1962 coup and ruled with an iron first until a nominally civilian parliament opened in March this year. The city that U.S. Secretary...Read Full Story

YANGON ( Reuters ) - There are no skyscrapers in Yangon. No gleaming shopping malls. Certainly no subway system. Its rutted sidewalks are laced with treacherous holes and broken slabs of concrete. Myanmar 's former capital and biggest city is a crumbling monument to almost half a century of isolation and mismanagement at the hands of generals who took power in a 1962 coup and ruled with an iron first until a nominally civilian parliament opened in March this year. The city that U.S. Secretary...Read Full Story

Last Saturday, I was sitting in the kitchen, eating my breakfast while listening to excess baggage on BBC Radio 4. They had a special feature on Burma, about tourism in the country and how Burma (I'm not going to call Burma, Myanmar because I don't support the military Junta which has tormented a nation for around forty years, and if you use the word Myanmar, you essentially legitimise their criminality). (sorry for the long digression, you probably need to remind yourself where I was). (OK...Read Full Story

Lonely Planet Myanmar (Burma) (Country Travel Guide) by John Allen, Allen John Smith, Jamie Smith Publication Date: January 1, 2012 Buy new: $24.99 $16.49 22 used & new from $16.17 (Visit the Hot New Releases in Travel list for authoritative information on this product's current rank.) Click Check Price and More ReviewsRead Full Story

From a small community radio station in Melbourne, Australia, a group of passionate Karen refugees broadcast a weekly news program in their native language that beams into the homes of fellow Karen. News of change from their homeland, Myanmar – Burma to this ethnic minority – has dominated discussion between presenters in recent months and made the wider Karen community, which numbers more than 5000 in Melbourne, wonder if a return home might soon be possible. Since holding elections in...Read Full Story