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15May
2011
2011
NARGIS: When Time Stopped Breathing
The London International Doc Film Festival will be screening of ‘Nargis – when time stopped breathing’ at 6 p.m. at the Birkbeck Cinema, 43 Gordon Square, London, United Kingdom, WC1H 0PD on Saturday 21 May. http://www.lidf.co.uk/film/nargis/ Synopsis: In May 2008 a cyclone called Nargis raged for hours in Myanmars Ayeyarwaddy Delta, killing 140,000 people. Two Burmese filmmakers couldn’t remain silent and felt compelled to go to the delta and record the devastation. Seven days after the storm, they made their way to scenes [...]
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21Jul
2010
2010
Tour Myanmar & Our Libraries in December 2010
I visit Myanmar annually, more often since our Nargis Library Recovery started, usually accompanied with a few friends and interested newcomers. The tour remains very economical and the country has more regions open to learners than any time in the past half-century. A daughter of an adviser to this project arranges details and pricing for each trip through her travel agency, which is independent of the government, a start-up she created by franchising with Exotissimo, an Italian global agency. I [...]
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8Mar
2009
2009
March Contributions
From Deborah Homsher, Southeast Asia Program Publications, Cornell University … We are interested in donating books to the Myanmar Book Aid project you describe, and I’ve been in touch with Greg Green at the library to find out whether he would also be able to contribute. It looks like we might be able to send approximately 150 to 200 books… thank you for organizing the worthy project. From Peter Martin, Whitbey Island, WA Dear John – I read your newsletter [...]
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