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Nothing to celebrate at Kachin Thanksgiving
News, Carleton Cole, 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, Carleton Cole, 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.