Heritage
Check out Shwedagon Pagoda, Scott Market, and Strand Hotel back in 1935.
An Australian documented his tour of Yangon, Mandalay and Bagan back when Burma had an even more potent allure for adventurous travellers.
While there were only a few young Burmese men studying in Britain in the 19th century, by 1910 there were almost 100.
The onion-eating soldier’s exploits were the scourge of Japanese forces in the Burma theatre of World War Two, prompting Winston Churchill to describe him as a “man of genius.”
Gunned down in the mountains of Karen state more than 65 years ago, Alfredo Cremonesi is now on the path to sainthood.
Like any martial art, the bare-knuckled sport of lethwei has its heroes. One of them is Kyar “Tiger” Ba Nyein, an Olympian who helped introduce Muhammad Ali to Burma.