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Nothing to celebrate at Kachin Thanksgiving
News, Published on 28/11/2019
» Four score minus seven years ago, on Abraham Lincoln's birthday, the leaders of four of Myanmar's main ethnic groups -- the majority Burmans, plus Kachin, Chin and Shan -- committed to creating a country conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all people are created equal. The year before independence from Britain in 1948, the legacy Panglong Agreement created conditions for a multicultural country including "a separate Kachin State within a Unified Burma … [I]t is agreed that such a State is desirable".
Focusing on the future
Life, Published on 14/10/2019
» From the vantage point of her skyscraping clinic-office in Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital's Retina Unit, ophthalmologist Dr Pear Pongsachareonnont takes in the sweeping scene before her, dominated by the urban oasis that is the Royal Bangkok Sports Club. Nearby skytrains glide back and forth to and from Ratchadamri Station above Phaya Thai Road. Baiyoke II Tower and a jumble of mid-rise buildings punctuate the horizon.
A Dutch masterpiece continues to dazzle
B Magazine, Published on 25/12/2016
» Captured in a reflective moment gazing wistfully over her shoulder across a room at the spectacular View of Delft, a subtly sunlit medieval urban landscape painting idolising her homeland's Golden Age, she is free again to dream Dutch dreams.
The city formerly known as
B Magazine, Published on 06/11/2016
» 'Early in my life, it was too late," novelist Marguerite Duras writes to open her semi-autobiographical 1984 novel The Lover, set in a French-era southern Vietnam now irretrievable but unforgotten. "It was already too late when I was 18."
The hunt for the lost horizon
B Magazine, Published on 05/07/2015
» Absolute whiteness descends, as a spring snowstorm transforms cascading mountains, pine forests and a seemingly endless sky into a horizon that has suddenly become lost.
Trick of the Dark
B Magazine, Published on 17/08/2014
» The hyperreal experience of gingerly navigating the pitch-black rooms of Dialogue in the Dark is a little like entering the Twilight Zone. We have gone beyond sight, and instead rely on the sounds, textures, contours and the rare smell, all the while mastering how to wield a cane. Here in the dark it counts for nothing whether your eyes are open or closed — bumps make you wonder if you have turned the corner into a wide open space, the sound of running water tricks your imagination into believing a river runs at the bottom of a cliff below.
Reviving a golden age
B Magazine, Published on 25/05/2014
» In a quiet alcove of Phnom Penh’s National Museum, two young Cambodians, eyes wide with wonder, watch the grainy, fairytale images of a film shot in their quiet capital in the mid-1960s. They observe smartly dressed Khmer strolling down tree-lined, Parisian-style boulevards with gushing fountains, set to a background of classical Western music.
Bygone era of bars gone by
B Magazine, Published on 08/12/2013
» The vast and vacant block is covered with patches of grass and foliage and littered with the debris of a lifestyle that is no more. Washington Square, once a haunt of Vietnam veterans, spooks and other colourful characters, has been pulled down in the name of progress.
Across the silk road by panda
B Magazine, Published on 13/10/2013
» For bold adventurers Chase Berenson and Charla Hughes, some of the most dramatic moments on the Mongol Rally 2013 anticlimactically manifested themselves towards the very end of their 16-country, 42-day Eurasian escapade, just as they were closing in on finish line in Ulaanbaatar.
Brown and out? Black family in land of stares
Spectrum, Published on 14/07/2013
» A motorcycle taxi driver slips off the bike he had been perched on at the mouth of a soi. A tuk-tuk driver rear-ends a car stopped at a red light. A lady walks straight into a lift door.