Yangon Myanmar

Our home for a day: Summit Parkview Hotel in Yangon After an short flight from Thailand, we arrived at Myanmar’s Yangon airport around 8:30AM to be greeted by about fifteen of our old friends. Some of our team who are Heaven’s Family staff were blessed to meet people with whom they’ve been corresponding by email for some months about projects here. So those were especially blessed introductions. Our hotel is within walking distance of the Shwedagon Pagoda—the major tourist attraction here—but everyone on our team was more inclined to go to bed after a late breakfast. Most of us slept until dinner time, very ... Read Full Story

Our home for a day: Summit Parkview Hotel in Yangon After an short flight from Thailand, we arrived at Myanmar’s Yangon airport around 8:30AM to be greeted by about fifteen of our old friends. Some of our team who are Heaven’s Family staff were blessed to meet people with whom they’ve been corresponding by email for some months about projects here. So those were especially blessed introductions. Our hotel is within walking distance of the Shwedagon Pagoda—the major tourist attraction here—but everyone on our team was more inclined to go to bed after a late breakfast. Most of us slept until dinner time, very ... Read Full Story

Relations between India and Myanmar over nearly five decades have been governed by many complex factors. Amongst them are the strategic location of Myanmar, India’s commitment to idealism-driven support to the restoration of democracy in Myanmar, realism-driven need to deal with those actually governing the country, the implications of China’s increasing presence and role in Myanmar etc. China, fortunately for it, has been able to make its foreign policy decisions without having to bother about the nature of the regime in any country. India and Myanmar share a complicated and delicate history, marked as much by mistrust as amity. For those who may be ... Read Full Story

Mayanmar is a natural ally of Pakistan. The Chinese have recognized the importance of Burma and have built strong links with it. The last Pakistani president to visit Burma was President Zia Ul Haq. He not only rebuilt the dilapidated grave of the last Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar, he established relations with military and civilian establishment there. In fact Delhi was very concerned about the development of Pakistani listening post near the Indian islands. A Pakistani base there would keep Delhi analysts up at night, because it would be able to harm Indian shipping to the East. General Zia Ul Haq was very ... Read Full Story

Guinea's military junta is facing an EU arms embargo after the killing opposition supporters in the capital, Conakry, sources say. Read Full Story