YANGON: Yangon resident Aung Ko Gyi browses stalls for a solar power kit he can use to weather the blackouts that have become a constant feature of life in Myanmar four years on from a military coup.
Just before we start, Myanmar and Burma (old name) are the same. Zawgyi, on the other hand, refers to the non-Unicode typeface for the Burmese script. So when we say Burmese Keyboard or Zawgyi ...
She fled with her five children but was forced to leave two behind, unable to afford the boat fare. The boatman demanded 300,000 Myanmar kyat (£115) per person. “I am poor. We couldn’t work ...