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- Escape
- by letterfromthailand
- in letterfromthailand.blog.co.uk
- 30 days old
- Fascinating stories were rising out of the cracks in Yangon’s shattered streets as its recovery from cyclone Nargis got underway and I spent my time gathering up as many as I could. However, I planned to take a trip into the Irrawaddy Delta region, where storm damage was worst and casualty figures highest. ... more
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- Haunting faces
- by letterfromthailand
- in letterfromthailand.blog.co.uk
- 39 days old
- I steamed into Myanmar armed with a cheerful, gung-ho attitude hoping to emerge a few days later with enough material for a few decent articles and a handful of war stories about one of the few countries on the planet that getting into and around still represented a genuine challenge. In some way and on some level, I was also hoping to enjoy it.... more
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- Burma is a kip
- by letterfromthailand
- in letterfromthailand.blog.co.uk
- 46 days old
- Myanmar’s ruling military junta threw down the shutters to foreigners after cyclone Nargis blasted its way through the country, in an attempt to keep out overseas journalists who might bear witness to the extent of the damage and the junta’s complete failure to help its victims. However, through a combination of reckless optimism and... more
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- Lemme out!
- by letterfromthailand
- in letterfromthailand.blog.co.uk
- 58 days old
- Myanmar’s ruling military junta’s outright ban on foreign journalists left media outlets across the world screaming for information from the handful of reporters who made it into the country in the wake of cyclone Nargis. One-the-scene journalists were in such short demand that tourists who happened to be passing through were relied... more
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- Lemme in!
- by letterfromthailand
- in letterfromthailand.blog.co.uk
- 62 days old
- Journalists are often a contrary bunch so Thailand’s troubled neighbour Myanmar, a country from which western media workers are banned under threat of arrest and deportation, was somewhere I was eager to visit before leaving Southeast Asia. I had heard that visas for the country formerly known as Burma were hard to come by so I got the... more
