At 4 am, when the wake-up bells ring each morning, the tall trees smell like earth and fog creeps around the elegant Burmese-style pagodas and gazebos, making their statues of mythical lions and other creatures look as though they have just emerged from another world.
Previous Laureates of the UNESCO-Madanjeet Singh Prize include the Burmese pro-democracy campaigner Aung San Suu Kyi and Pope Shenouda III of the Egyptian Coptic Church.
In 1945, a convoy of U.S. trucks from India crossed the Burmese-Chinese border, opening the Burma Road.
Surayud Chulanont, Thailand's Commander in Chief, has been fighting to rid the army of corrupt soldiers, an intelligence officer based on the Thai-Burmese border says the casinos couldn't operate without the army's tacit permission.
Another important noble item will be a pair of ruby-and-diamond pendant ear clips, dated 1921 and featuring perfectly matched deep-red Burmese rubies, that were owned by Princess Max Egon zu Hohenlohe-Langenburg (1892-1990).
Ms Redgrave is well-known for her political activism and campaigning for human rights and follows last years guest director, the Burmese pro-Democracy campaigner Aung San Suu Kyi, in that tradition.
She wore an understated tan sari, a gold watch, and several unusual rings a star sapphire and a Burmese pigeon-blood ruby.
Hollywood star Michelle Yeoh has visited Aung San Suu Kyi and reportedly discussed plans for a film about the Burmese pro-democracy leader.
Its forces are certainly outgunned by the well-equipped and well-trained Burmese.
Thirty-two Burmese nationals have been rescued from a sinking ship by the Sri Lankan navy after the wooden vessel began to sink en route to Australia.
Many see the mine dispute as an important test case of how the now reform-minded Burmese authorities handle issues dating back to decades of military dictatorship.
BBC: Burma police 'used white phosphorous' on mine protesters
Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has said she is still "fond" of her country's army, even though it kept her under house arrest for 15 years.
The gala, which takes place in the Italian capital until 4 November, will open with Luc Besson's The Lady, a biopic of Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
BBC: Actor Richard Gere to collect Rome Film Festival honour
It is also involved in The Lady, a biopic of the Burmese pro-democracy advocate Aung San Suu Kyi, and My Week with Marilyn, in which Hollywood legend Marilyn Monroe will be played by Oscar nominee Michelle Williams.
Monwara, a 25-year-old woman, says that last month Burmese soldiers held her and her eight-year-old daughter overnight.
The Burmese arrested Yettaw - a reportedly mentally unstable Vietnam veteran - after he swam across a lake in Rangoon to visit democracy activist Aung San Suu Kyi, thereby violating the terms of the house arrest to which the latter has been subjected for over 14 years.
Those fighting to free Puracal include the director of the California Innocence Project, the human-rights attorney who helped win freedom for Burmese Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi and an ex-FBI agent who was one of the early champions of Amanda Knox's innocence.
Webb credit for coupling his kow-tow to the Burmese despots with at least a nod to their opposition.
Foreign firms have been keen to tap into the Burmese market, un-serviced for years in wake of the sanctions.
Burmese police fired military-issue white phosphorus grenades to disperse protesters at a controversial copper mine, a new report says.
BBC: Burma police 'used white phosphorous' on mine protesters
Thein Sein is not the commander-in-chief of the Burmese military, and it is possible his ceasefire orders are being ignored by the generals.
In the absence of any competition from the West, China has cheerfully plundered Myanmar's bountiful reserves of hard wood, jade, oil, gas and much else, usually with little regard for the environment or the well-being of those Burmese who stood in their way.
Even well-kept generals are fundamentally Burmese nationalists and awoke to the predicament of total economic and strategic dependence on China.
Burmese lawyers and the US-based Justice Trust compiled the report.
BBC: Burma police 'used white phosphorous' on mine protesters
Thousands of Rohingya Muslims have been displaced by ethnic violence in western Burma's Rakhine state, while in recent months there has been conflict between ethnic Kachin fighters and the Burmese military in the north-east.
Knowing such itineraries might help us to better understand the nature of massive die-offs (thousands of black birds falling dead out of the sky, for example), or of the itineraries of bio-invasives such as the Burmese Pythons in the Everglades.
He accused Burmese leaders of imposing a 19-year reign of fear, and he said that Americans are outraged.
The Wa, a Burmese tribe with a 20, 000-man army, are considered Asia's new heroin and amphetamine kings.
More often, Chinese state-backed energy firms compete with all-comers, for Sudanese oil and Burmese gas, and win.
Outside of Yangon, the pace of Burmese society slows to a timeless pace -- as do Internet connections.
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