Comment
The Insight Myanmar podcast team recently sat down to speak remotely with Daw Viranani, a Buddhist nun from the United States who resides at the Chan Myay Maing Monastery in Yangon.
I reluctantly left my studies and returned to Myanmar for my parents. I miss studying abroad, but am I too old to return?
After a night out in Yangon, I shared a kiss with a young man and, although I have a girlfriend, my mind keeps going back to that moment.
The joys of an awkward date in Yangon.
A hungover reflection on Burmese parenting.
A Kachin community comes together to mark the one-year anniversary of the death of a young man.
I took the dive in 2016 to buy a tour company, Yangon Food Tours, from some friends that were leaving the country. In the few short years since then a number of similar companies have popped up, which is no surprise considering the tourism industry’s potential.
In the recent past, Myanmar’s banks operated like giant pawnshops, with a ‘gold or land for cash’ approach that saw plenty of missed repayment dates.