Heritage

Ninety years ago, trams were a popular mode of transport in Myanmar's former capital.

Check out Shwedagon Pagoda, Scott Market, and Strand Hotel back in 1935.

  This cartoon published in newspaper The Hantharwaddy on September 3, 1959 represents the public, armed forces, and civil servants wary that politicians will exploit them in the run-up to an election.

Twelve cartoons that give insights into the political discourse of post-independence Burma until Gen Ne Win's 1962 military coup.

Taukkyan War Cemetery, a war memorial for Allied soldiers from the British Commonwealth in Yangon. (Supplied)

A British military historian will lead a World War Two-themed tour around Myanmar in March 2020.

A soldier stands next to a sign on the Stilwell Road during World War Two. (CBI-Theater)

If you think driving around Yangon is a struggle, try this road.

A screenshot from the American documentary on a newly independent Burma.

Filmed shortly after Burma threw off the colonial yolk and gained independence in 1948, an American educational video on the nation ends on an optimistic note.

The funeral procession for a senior Buddhist monk at Mandalay circa 1900. (Underwood & Underwood)

This 19th-century technique whisked observers away to Burma, a place many could barely imagine, let alone visit.

 Photograph of a pwe in Burma (Myanmar), probably taken by Philip Adolphe Klier in the 1880s.

The theatrical tradition of music, dance and drama known as pwe survives in Myanmar to this day.

This screenshot from the video shows a child performing a traditional Burmese dance in Mandalay.

A glimpse at Inle Lake, Taunggyi, Mandalay and life on the banks of the Irrawaddy River almost a century ago.

Burmese performers stage a play in a Rangoon park in 1907. (Philip Adolphe Klier / The National Archives UK)

German photographer Philip Adolphe Klier left us a fascinating insight into Burma at the beginning of the 20th century.

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