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    Dispute over renovation at Bagan temple
    November 17, 2016in History, Lead Story, News241by DVB
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    Dispute over renovation at Bagan temple

    Built during the reign of King Htilominlo (1211-31 AD), the historic red-brick temple suffered extensive damage in a 6.8 magnitude earthquake in August.

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    Burma moves to save Bagan temples
    August 25, 2016in Lead Story, Natural Disasters, News165by REUTERS
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    Burma moves to save Bagan temples

    Police and soldiers have been called in to help protect and rebuild centuries-old Buddhist pagodas in Bagan, a day after at least 187 of the brick temples were damaged in…

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    Bronze Age cemetery casts new light on ancient Burma
    February 18, 2016in History, Lead Story, News14by BILL O'TOOLE / DVB
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    Bronze Age cemetery casts new light on ancient Burma

    One discovery could represent the earliest example of medical surgery ever found in the region.

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    The Shan Shaman Of Soi Sanam
    August 22, 2015in Culture, Lead Story, News, Shan217by FRANCIS WILMER
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    The Shan Shaman Of Soi Sanam

    Ajarn Monglee doesn’t claim he has supernatural powers. Ajarn Monglee is a medicine man who reads from an ancient textbook and makes diagnoses.

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    August 1, 2015in Culture, History, Lead Story, News, Travel & Tourism, Video710by DVB
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    Fight to save world's biggest book

    One of Burma’s most significant chapter’s in the worlds historical memory, the marble books at Kuthodaw pagoda, has fallen into a state of partial ruin.

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    July 20, 2015in History, Lead Story, News, Video149by DVB
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    VIDEO: Secretariat opening gives glimpse of history

    Through the cracks and the keyholes, visitors peak into a room where 68 years ago Burma’s fate was written.

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