MAWLAMYINE, Myanmar — On the stairway rising to Moulmein’s great Buddhist shrine, the visiting British writer Rudyard Kipling was inspired to pen one of the most anthologized poems of the ...

TIME has been trying to get a clear view of the political situation in Burma. A local correspondent in Rangoon last week rang the bell* with the following summary of the situation:"Private ...

“By the old Moulmein pagoda, lookin’ lazy at the sea/There’s a Burma girl a-settin,’ and I know she thinks […] Myanmar’s ex-colonial capital captivates with faded glory | News, Sports ...

“By the old Moulmein pagoda, lookin’ lazy at the sea/There’s a Burma girl a-settin’, and I know she thinks o’ me,” go the opening lines of.