Tag Archives: Burma

Carl Crow’s The Long Road Back to China

In 1939 Carl Crow – an American journalist, advertising executive and author who had lived in Shanghai for 25 years until forced out by the Japanese – travelled up the Burma Road from Rangoon to Chongqing on assignment for Liberty magazine - ‘the most interesting assignment I have ever been given’.

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A call for Chinese to take up arms in Burma

A mass letter, signed by an organization called the Global Chinese-Kokang United Alliance, calls for the Chinese volunteers to follow earlier generations in taking up arms to save Kokang from the brutal rule of Burmese government.

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WWII veterans return from Burma after 67 years

Nine former soldiers of the Chinese Expeditionary Force who have chose to stay in Burma after the Second World War start their home visit yesterday.

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Shanxi teens held for ransom in Burma

Teens from Shanxi Province were lured to Burma with the false promise of jobs.

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A native Burmese account of the cyclone aftermath

An eye witness account of disaster relief in Myanmar / Burma.

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Burma cyclone eye witness accounts

Two eye witness eye accounts from the cyclone in Burma.

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Xinhua: 15,000 dead in Burmese cyclone

Xinhua: 15,000 death toll from cyclone

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The Burma Road to Yunnan

A WWII newsreel of the opening of the Burma Road to China.

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Seventy years after the Great Purge

Phoenix Weekly (凤凰周刊) has a cover feature on the 70th anniversary of Stalin’s Great Purge, and a report on Burma’s Shan State (掸邦) and Yawd Serk (约色).

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Danwei Picks: 2007-11-13

Links to Amoiist, Hecaitou, and Tim O’Reilly.

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