While many imported literary forms have been adapted by Burmese writers, it is the ‘wuthu saungbar’ which the writers have embraced and perfected. A masterwork of the blend in fact and fiction, this particular road, begun by Ludu U Hla in the 1950s, follows Mya Than Tint on a 1980’s literary tour of the country […]
With 5 locations across the city and 1 in Mandalay, MBC knows where the profit is. Many of their centres are heavily focussed on educational, self-help and children’s books. But their main centre, in an old colonial house with a huge garden is where to go …
The Karen, living along Myanmar’s eastern border with Thailand are notable for being the earliest converts to Christianity in Myanmar and for enduring the longest civil conflict in Myanmar …
A retired Colonel, and purged associate of former Military Intelligence chief Gen Khin Nyunt, U Hla Min goes to great effort to justify the 1990 military coup and the positive development it allegedly bought to the nation in the years after …
A sister shop to the larger OS store on 37th Street. This iteration opened in 2017 to take advantage of the busy foot traffic on Pansodan. The manager, U Han Myint, often seen from the main street with a book in his hand through the open shutter space, has complete control over the shop, including […]