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Slow and steady – maybe

Trying to understand the vagaries of the new Burma.

| Dec 01, 2011

Towards a Burmese spring

How much difference a year can make! The walls of closed society seem to be falling in Burma. But will the army remain silent?

| Dec 01, 2011

Potemkin politics

Are the Burmese reforms for real?

| Dec 01, 2011

An offer the minorities cannot refuse

Is Aung San Suu Kyi a pawn in the generals' attempt to neutralise Burma's ethnic rebellions?

| Dec 01, 2011

Trips & journeys

So many places to see, so many people to meet.

| Oct 11, 2011

The road north

Journeys in post-war Sri Lanka.

| Oct 01, 2011

By steam!

Riding the rails with a beast of old.

| Oct 01, 2011

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