Blogs in August 2014

It all started in Mandalay 17th August 2014

A small group of teachers from around the world start their careers in a new and exciting school in Mandalay, a city in northern Myanmar. They form lasting relationships with one another that shape and define the rest of...

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Return to Mandalay 4th May 2014

Eva Gatsby has often wondered about her grandfather Lawrence’s past, and exactly what happened to him in Burma during the Second World War. But it is only when Eva’s job as an antiques dealer suddenly requires a trip to...

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Missing in Rangoon 1st January 1970

As foreigners rush into Myanmar with briefcases stuffed with plans and cash for hotels, shopping malls and high rises, they discover the old ways die hard. Vincent Calvino’s case is to find a young British-Thai man gone missing in...

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Everything is Broken 1st January 1970

On 2 May 2008, an enormous tropical cyclone made landfall in Burma. The cyclone wreaked untold havoc, but the regime, in an unfathomable decision of near-genocidal proportions, blocked international aid from entering the country, and provided little relief themselves....

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The Flame Tree 1st January 1970

Returning to Burma to teach for a month, Dr. George Daniels and his wife had not expected to get involved in a war. But a renegade colonel disrupts the balance of power between the military dictatorship and the insurgent...

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