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‘We were all in it together’: Jacob Elordi on his wartime epic The Narrow Road to the Deep North

The Saltburn and Priscilla star talks about his first Australian lead role and the physical costs of playing a prisoner of war on the Burma-Thailand railway

The Guardian - AU

What to know about Myanmar's natural disasters and civil war complicating relief efforts

The Southeast Asian nation of Myanmar has been plagued by wars and natural disasters since it became independent from Britain in 1948, when it was still called Burma

The Independent UK

Out-of-date polls to wrong aid amounts: factchecking Trump’s Congress address

The president’s marathon address to a joint session of Congress was littered with false claims he’s been corrected on but continued to repeat

The Guardian - US

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Myanmar civil war: a quick guide to the conflict

Armed groups have been fighting the military junta since a coup in 2021. What has changed in four years? How is China involved? And what has happened to Aung Sun Suu Kyi? We answer these questions and more

The Guardian - AU

‘Remarkable’ Second World War veteran to celebrate 100th birthday

Captain Walter Godsal RN, a Burma Star veteran who spent 37 years in the Royal Navy, will turn 100 on December 3.

The Independent UK

‘I fly, I drive. We’re all complicit’: Richard Flanagan on vanishing species and refusing the Baillie Gifford prize money

The Australian’s book about his parents’ love and his father’s horrific experience of Burma’s Death Railway won the illustrious nonfiction award. Here he talks about finding beauty and hope in the age of extinction and despair

The Guardian - UK

Muslims join Buddhist, Christian fighters to topple Myanmar’s military

Muslims join fight under multiethnic leadership as groups once marginalized are embraced by Myanmar’s revolution.

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Arakan Army Captures Hundreds Of Soldiers In Burma's West

The Arakan Army captures government soldiers in Burma, challenging military rule and shaping the country's political landscape.

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Burma Sahib by Paul Theroux review – how Eric Blair became George Orwell

The evils of empire are brought to life in this fascinating imagining of Orwell’s days as a colonial policeman, but the perspective of Burmese people is sidelined

The Guardian - UK

Burma Sahib by Paul Theroux review – George Orwell’s Burmese days vibrantly brought to life

The US writer’s fictionalised portrait of the young Eric Blair’s time with the imperial police in Burma is a keenly felt and vividly researched account of colonial bigotry and power

The Guardian - UK

Artist Benitha Perciyal’s series of wooden books is on display at Serendipity Arts Festival

Chennai-based artist Benitha Perciyal carves books out of discarded Burma teak, creating a living, breathing library of over 700 titles.

The Hindu

A temple for a giant Muneeswarar sits on the banks of the Adyar

Discover a 51-ft tall Muneeswarar in a seated position, along with shrines of other gods, at Burma Nagar's Arulmigu Angala Eswari Amman temple.

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The Independent UK

The son of ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi says he's increasingly worried about her health

The son of ousted Myanmar leader Aung Sang Suu Kyi says he has always avoided talking to the media, but this time is different

Al Jazeera

UN Security Council condemns Myanmar military over ‘unrelenting violence’

Joint statement from 13 members of 15-seat council says generals must stop killing civilians and end the crisis.

The National (Scotland)

George Orwell's 'Scotophobia' – and how he overcame it – explored in new book

GEORGE Orwell’s “Scotophobia”, and how he overcame it while writing his masterpiece 1984 on the Hebridean island of Jura, is explored in an…

The Hindu

Between India and Ceylon

A scheme which the Indian authorities were considering, to connect Burma with India and all the principal towns in India with one another by telephone, raised the question as to whether telephonic connection between India and Ceylon cannot be established.

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Burma Burma opens second location in Bengaluru

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Restoring communication

A hundred years ago, Burma was practically isolated from India with regard to telegraphic communication as a result of a severe storm in the bay

The Hindu

Many youngsters in Bangla and Burmese camps remain disappointed as they cannot vote

It has been three years since Hindu migrants from Bangladesh and Burma celebrated the passage of the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), many hoping to get citizenship rights in India. The community remains disappointed now, as the stage is set for Karnataka to vote in the Assembly elections on May 10, but a…

Daily Mirror

King Charles' Coronation rejection as one of Queen's bridesmaids is NOT invited

Lady Pamela – whose father, the 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma was Prince Philip's uncle – attended the Queen's wedding in 1947 when she was eight and her funeral in a wheelchair last September

Al Jazeera

Myanmar’s military jet fuel supplies hit by latest US sanctions

US Treasury Department sanctioned two people and six entities linked to military regime’s atrocities, air campaigns.

The Guardian - UK

Rose and the Burma Sky by Rosanna Amaka review – heartache and historical injustice

A sobering tale of wasted lives and Britain’s shocking treatment of its African soldiers during the second world war

The Conversation

Why does Turkey want other countries to start spelling its name 'Türkiye'?

Is Turkey’s recent spelling change about being more authentically Turkish? Or is there more to the story?

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