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'Not Appropriate,' British Envoy Tells Boris Johnson Over Rudyard Kipling Poem In Myanmar
Britain's ambassador to Myanmar was forced to interrupt Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson earlier this year as he tried to recite a nostalgic colonial poem by Rudyard Kipling in public during a visit to the country's most famous Buddhist site.
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PM Modi Visits Mughal Ruler Bahadur Shah Zafar's Grave In Myanmar
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today wrapped up his Myanmar trip with visits to the 'mazar' of last Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar and the 2,500-year-old Shwedagon pagoda, besides performing a puja at the Kalibari Temple in Yangon.
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PM Modi Visits Shwedagon Pagoda, Performs 'Puja' At Temple In Myanmar
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today visited the 2,500-years-old Shwedagon pagoda, considered to be the pinnacle of Myanmar's cultural heritage, and performed 'puja' at the Kalibari Temple in Yangon.
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Myanmar's Opposition Party Clinches Landslide Election Victory
During the 27 years that Nyan Win fought for democracy beside Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, the low point came when he was arrested by the ruling military junta and locked in a bare army barracks for three years. The fight was not easy, he says, but his leader never seemed to be discouraged.
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'Not Appropriate,' British Envoy Tells Boris Johnson Over Rudyard Kipling Poem In Myanmar
Britain's ambassador to Myanmar was forced to interrupt Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson earlier this year as he tried to recite a nostalgic colonial poem by Rudyard Kipling in public during a visit to the country's most famous Buddhist site.
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PM Modi Visits Mughal Ruler Bahadur Shah Zafar's Grave In Myanmar
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today wrapped up his Myanmar trip with visits to the 'mazar' of last Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar and the 2,500-year-old Shwedagon pagoda, besides performing a puja at the Kalibari Temple in Yangon.
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PM Modi Visits Shwedagon Pagoda, Performs 'Puja' At Temple In Myanmar
Prime Minister Narendra Modi today visited the 2,500-years-old Shwedagon pagoda, considered to be the pinnacle of Myanmar's cultural heritage, and performed 'puja' at the Kalibari Temple in Yangon.
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Myanmar's Opposition Party Clinches Landslide Election Victory
During the 27 years that Nyan Win fought for democracy beside Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, the low point came when he was arrested by the ruling military junta and locked in a bare army barracks for three years. The fight was not easy, he says, but his leader never seemed to be discouraged.
