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Under the headline “Burma: Complicated issue for Indian intellect”, Mizzima is carrying a lengthy report on a Burma-related academic conference recently held at northeast India’s Manipur University.  Some extracts follow: 
Manipur University reverberated for two whole days with Burma her land and people. The echo still lingers in this new central varsity as the two-day Asian seminar on [...]

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The “silapa thahaan” (army artists). Kaysone Memorial Cave Office, Vieng Say
The students’ laughter rings out across the lake, and I wonder if the inmates of the reeducation camp next door can hear them. Surely they can, only tens of meters away. I wonder what they are thinking, or are they beyond thought now? Shackled hand [...]

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An image from Chiang Mai 108 to mark Thailand’s Consitution Day.

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