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BURMA'S PROTESTS
/ by Tony Cliff. Burma’s troubles all began when the junta suddenly and dramatically raised the prices of gas. After a few attempts of civilians protest, monks began taking it to the streets in several cities, a swelling nationwide protest that has escalated into the most potent threat to the junta’s hard-line rule in nearly 20...
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THE ROOTS OF BURMA'S CRISIS
/ by OnAsia photographers. Tens of thousands of Buddhist monks are demonstrating in the Myanmar’s main cities, a swelling nationwide protest that has escalated into the most potent threat to the junta’s hard-line rule in nearly 20 years. As calls for democratic change grow louder, OnAsia looks back through its archives, offering...
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BURMA IN ECONOMIC RUIN
/ by OnAsia Photographers. As East Asia’s economies have boomed, decades of military rule have condemned resource-rich Burma to poverty and isolation. Despite investment from China and ‘constructive engagement’ with its ASEAN neighbours, Burma’s economic growth has been shattered by sanctions, corruption and inept management....
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THREE GORGES
/ by Gilles Sabrie. The Yangtze River now provides vast quantities of electricity to one of the world’s fastest growing economies. The Three Gorges dam may be taming a wild river, but it has been at the center of many controversies since it was first laid out as an architect’s model. Ancient cities and historical sights have been...
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INDIAN ANTICS IN NOVOSIBIRSK
/ by Valery Klamm. Known best for its frozen winters, Siberia contrasts dramatically with the images of heat and color that characterize India. But in this age of ‘globalization’, cultural influences travel more freely. In the Siberian city of Novosibirsk, OnAsia photographer Valery Klamm documented a recent Indian festival, where...
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REVOLT OF THE RINGS
/ by Thierry Falise. Ma Yan, Mu Mu and Mu Yaw don’t want to be models for tourists and postcards anymore. Since childhood, just like their ethnic Padaung mothers and grandmothers who fled Burma, the three young women have been wearing brass rings around their necks that have enchanted thousands of tourists, and earned them the...
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PUER TEA'S LEAVES OF GOLD
/ by Luke Duggleby. Tea now seems to be a preferred investment in the Middle Kingdom and the Pu'er variety is leading the way. Pu'er tea ages over time rather like a fine wine, and as a result it appreciates in value to such significant levels that it is rapidly becoming one of the safest investment opportunities in China. The most...
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FACING THE OLYMPIC GOLIATH
/ by Liu Bowen. As Beijing prepares for the 2008 Olympic Games, evictions and demolition have taken place on a large scale throughout the capital to make way for new venues and other projects and to give the city a modern look. But in the historic Qianmen district, which is being razed to make way for an Olympic shopping complex,...
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TERRACOTTA WARRIORS ON THE MOVE
/ by Natalie Behring. The 8,000 soldiers of the terracotta army, meant to protect China’s Emperor Qin Shihuang in the afterlife, had been buried for more than 2,000 years before their discovery by farmers in 1974. Now they’re on the move again, at least some of them who are heading towards London for a major exhibition at the...
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