The new pipelines will follow the route of the old British-built Burma Road, which still carries timber, gold, gemstones and other Burmese raw materials north to China and brings in cheap manufactures.
Jane Heyn, the festival organiser and wife of the British ambassador to Burma, said she first had the idea for the event two years ago, but her plans lay dormant for more than a year, as until recently it would have been impossible for foreign writers to be granted visas to attend.
British experts have begun work in Burma following a 17-year search for a cache of World War II Spitfire planes believed to be buried in the country.
One of them, British veteran Stanley Coombe, travelled to Burma to witness the excavation.
During WWII, for example, he was an ambulance driver (his poor eyesight kept him out of the infantry) attached to the old British-Indian Army in India and Burma, where, among other horrors, he witnessed a famine that took the lives of millions.
One of them, British veteran Stanley Coombe, had travelled to Burma to witness the excavation.
Alan de Lastic was born in Burma when it was part of British India.
Her popularity also comes in part from being the daughter of General Aung San, a hero of Burma's campaign for independence from British rule in the 1940s.
In 1903, Orde Wingate, British general who led his forces against the Japanese in Burma in World War II, was born in Naini Tal, India.
Its history in Myanmar, then called Burma, stretches back to 1862 when the country was under British colonial rule.
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Both of our nations emerged from the British Empire, and the United States was among the first countries to recognize an independent Union of Burma.
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The British officer created the "Chindits" a special force who fought guerrilla-style behind Japanese lines during the Burma campaign in World War II.
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