On the 590-kilometer ‘Highway of Death’ that connects Rangoon and Mandalay to Burma’s new capital Naypyidaw, cars have been known to fly through the air and land on their backs…
Day: August 1, 2013

UK parliament speaker issues warning over religious violence
The Speaker of the British House of Commons, John Bercow, warned during a speech at Rangoon University today that unchecked religious violence threatens to undermine Burma’s nascent reform process
Mobile libraries bring books to rural communities
Burma’s first mobile library went operational in villages outside of Rangoon earlier this week. As the first rolling library arrived in Sin Chan’s town square in Kawhmu township, children lined…