Celebrating Karenni National Day inside Thai refugee camps, 2007 Q: How do we demonstrate national pride? With patriotic anthems and firework displays; with rowdy crowds and waving flags; with reverent […]
Thang’s Dilemana: a Karenni refugee in Thailand tells his story. Q: Why do we leave home? Because office cubicles cause claustrophobia; because life is too short to stand still; because […]
Burma is a Jackson Pollack painting of peoples and languages. The country has over 135 distinct and recognized ethnic groups, divided into eight over-arching “ethnic states”. These states have made […]
Some 900 years ago, King Suryavarman II created the Khmer empire’s largest stone tribute to the Hindu religion – modern Cambodia’s Angkor Wat. His predecessors promptly converted to Buddhism and […]
This month’s reading review, June 2012: “10 Taboo Tourist Destinations (And How to Visit Them)” Also on the subject of places you “should not visit”, but will regret if you […]
Over 170 countries celebrate this day of advocacy and action: does Burma? I don’t know. Inside the country, this was a common sight: Mounds of garbage that showed no indication […]
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