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48 hours in Burma: A Bagan adventure

By Asian Correspondent Fri, Mar 29, 2013 1:14PM UTC 0 Comment

By Sarah Waldron I HAD a plan. And I only had 48 hours to do it. Get myself from Bangkok to Bagan, a small ancient city southwest of Mandalay, Burma and back to Bangkok in just over two days. Was it ideal, this slapdash trip to one of the world’s most fascinating countries? It certainly...

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Tourists trickle into violence-hit western Burma

By AP News Tue, Nov 27, 2012 11:00AM UTC 0 Comment

A Buddhist monk walks along ancient pagodas in Mrauk-U, Rakhine state, western Myanmar. Mrauk-U itself has been spared the bloodshed between the Buddhist Rakhine and the Muslim Rohingya that has scarred other parts of Rakhine state. But just 10 kilometers (six miles) to the south, there is a village where civilians were reportedly beheaded in a massacre last month that saw women and children slaughtered, then buried in mass graves. Pic: AP.

MRAUK-U, Burma (AP) — It was dusk in a corner of Burma recently shaken by some of the bloodiest sectarian violence in a generation, and a dozen Canadian tourists climbed to the top of a grassy hill, cameras ready to capture the sweeping view. Moss-covered pagodas rose from foggy hilltops all along the horizon, their...

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Burma plans second Yangon airport

By Asian Correspondent Tue, Jul 03, 2012 9:38AM UTC 0 Comment

BURMA is seeking local and foreign investors to fund construction of a second airport for the country’s largest city Yangon. The head of the civil aviation department said Monday that the planned Hanthawaddy International Airport will cover an area nine times the size of Yangon International Airport. Construction work on the airport originally started in...

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In pictures: Old and new Yangon

By Asian Correspondent Mon, May 14, 2012 1:14PM UTC 0 Comment

With one foot embedded in the past and the other taking its first steps into the present, Yangon is very much a city of the old and the new. Here you’ll find some of the best preserved colonial structures left in Asia, vintage-style trains and age-old monasteries filled with red robed monks. But you will...

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Burma: Travels on the Ayerwaddy river

By Asian Correspondent Tue, May 01, 2012 2:05PM UTC 0 Comment

The Ayerwaddy river is the major water source in Burma (Myanmar) and winds and twists through the country from north to south for 2000 kilometres. For many visitors to the country a trip on part of the river has become a highlight. Not only is there splendid scenery to behold but it’s a chance to...

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