Category: Myanmar (Burma)

In a candlelit setting that overlooks a lush garden and a swimming pool of an unusual shape — and at less than US$50 a person for a buffet meal and a free flow of Dagon beer and green tea — this is an experience worth enjoying any night of the week.

Archbishop Charles Bo talks about the Catholic Christmas tradition and his role as a spiritual leader.

New Zealander Phil Blackwood talks to The Myanmar Times about his life as general manager of Yangon's best known watering hole

Spending three hours on the Yangon Circle Line is a great way to pass an afternoon in the city. The train takes a long loop around the city – right to the outskirts where the scenery is very rural.                                 […]

Pact began working in Myanmar in 1997, at a time when very few other international NGOs were doing so. “Myanmar has been called an aid orphan in the past because its per capita assistance is so low,” London-based Myanmar analyst Ashley South told IRIN in a report earlier this year.

Although it’s still under construction, Yangon Animal Shelter is already attracting four-legged friends. Under the workmen’s table at the site in Pele, five puppies less than a week old doze in the afternoon sun. They rouse and waddle over to their mother for a feed the moment she flops down on a hessian bag.

We’ve been in Yangon for a little over three weeks and for the most part, it’s been brilliant. After spending nearly three years in Dhaka, the most densely populated city in the world, the peacefulness, value for money and comparative conveniences of Yangon have been (sometimes literally) intoxicating.