The Asian Reporter
Pacific Northwest News q Volume 27 Number 6 q March 20, 2017 q www.asianreporter.com
Myanmar’s ex-colonial capital
captivates with faded glory
Dalai Lama appears
on John Oliver’s show
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Nike unveils hijab
for Muslim athletes
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CAPTIVATING CAPITAL. The hilltop Kyaik Than Lan pagoda offers a 360-degree panorama of Mawlamyine and remains a prime attraction for pilgrims, locals, and
a trickle of foreign tourists. Despite the intrusions of modern technology and being Myanmar’s fourth-largest city, Mawlamyine (as Moulmein is now officially spelled) still
maintains an air of distance from the world’s mainstreams, in part because of its geography. It’s a long, 186-mile road journey from the country’s international gateway of
Yangon, the other options being a rickety train ride or sporadic flights. (Denis D. Gray via AP)
lazy at the sea/There’s a Burma girl and tourists. Its soaring, gilded stupa
By Denis D. Gray
a-settin’, and I know she thinks o’ me.” go gleams on a ridge overlooking a city of
The Associated Press
AWLAMYINE, Myanmar — On the opening lines of Mandalay, verses greenery and watery expanses that have
the
stairway
rising
to imbued with nostalgia for the wind-swept retained links to the British colonial past
Moulmein’s great Buddhist palms and twinkling temple bells the that Kipling chronicled. The Burmese
shrine, the visiting British writer Rudyard young poet left behind for the gray skies of women he noticed can be seen there too,
some wearing the traditional sarongs long
Kipling was inspired to pen one of the most England.
discarded
in most of Asia, some chatting on
Today,
128
years
after
Kipling’s
anthologized poems of the English
infatuation, the Kyaik Than Lan pagoda smartphones as they circumambulate the
language.
“By the old Moulmein pagoda, lookin’ remains a prime attraction for pilgrims
Continued on page 2
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the flavors of India
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