When I was living in Rangoon my boyfriend Morning (now my husband) brought me along to a birthday party for his friend’s daughter. I was excited to meet more of my Morning’s friends, and I thought this would probably become another interesting cultural experience. I would get to see how Burmese celebrate their children’s birthdays.
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2 Comments The Burmese junta cut off all internal access to the Internet on Friday morning as its crackdown on the demonstrations continues. The government has not allowed foreign correspondents into the country, so journalists have relied on the people inside Burma to smuggle out information, photos and videos. Their stories— mostly sent out by email— have [...]
On my second day living in Rangoon, Burma (renamed Yangon, Myanmar, by the ruling junta), I visited the blockaded American Embassy. After my passport was passed from person to person to person, I got in.
It was August 2003. Burma had been ruled by an oppressive, military dictatorship for more than 40 years.
I was [...]
Yesterday was the funeral of one of Burma’s most famous poets, U Tin Moe. Yet the Burmese government refused to allow the media in the country to report on his death. And though he was living in Los Angeles, the U.S. mainstream media did not cover the event because the poet was virtually unknown here.
U [...]
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