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The first time I heard the name Marco Polo was as a kid at the community swimming pool. As part of a then popular game the person who was ‘it’ would keep their eyes closed and call out ‘Marco,’ which elicited the response of ‘Polo’ from the other players. Using sound only the...
So far, we’ve taken sixriver cruises– two in Egypt, two in France and two in Myanmar (Burma). And we’re itching to book another. Why take a rivercruise? We want to float down another lazy river on another lovely river ship – and fall in love with another part of the world we...
Min ZinForeign Policy
This article uses Burma/Myanmar from 1948 to 2011 as a within-case context to explore why some armed insurgent groups agree to cease-fires while others do not. Analyzing 33 armed groups it finds that longer-lived groups were less likely to agree to cease-fires with the military government ...
Daily protests have been ongoing for a month and a half in towns and cities across Myanmar after the military seized control of the Southeast Asian country in a coup on February 1.