YANGON – Rip-Off Rangoon, where a plate of Lok Lak about half as good as you’d get in Phnom Penh costs US$10. Where a handful of veneered restaurants and bars slap on an extra couple thousand kyat, every few months, for diminishing portions of an exponentially-depreciating quality of fare. Refusing to join the race to the bottom is The Phayre’s Gastrobar a new restaurant with nighthawk aspirations next door to the famous Pansodan Gallery.
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Myanmar tourism’s ‘crown jewel’ feels strains of growth – The Irrawaddy
http://www.irrawaddy.org/burma/magazine-development/myanmar-tourisms-crown-jewel-feels-strains-growth.html Bagan struggles to balance competing demands as visitors arrive in ever larger numbers Published in the March 2013...
Prison term for reporter described as too harsh – The Irrawaddy
http://www.irrawaddy.org/burma/prison-term-reporter-leads-outcry-media-freedom.html RANGOON — A three-month prison term imposed last week on a Burmese reporter has been criticized by local...
A taste of India in Yangon – The Irrawaddy
Story appears in Dec. 2013 Irrawaddy print magazine YANGON – In any conversation about India, it’s very important to...
Six years on, truth elusive in Japanese cameraman’s killing – The Irrawaddy
http://www.irrawaddy.org/archives/44791 RANGOON — Ko Ko Aung cannot forget the day six years ago when he spoke to his friend...
Days not numbered for Burma state lottery, chief says – The Irrawaddy
http://www.irrawaddy.org/archives/43399 RANGOON — When Burma’s former Ministry of Finance and Revenue was rehatted earlier this year, minus the revenue...
Burma’s Ex-Censor-in-Chief Turns to TV – The Irrawaddy/RTÉ World Report
http://www.irrawaddy.org/archives/43315 http://www.rte.ie/news/player/world-report/2013/1013/ (broadcast October 13 2013) RANGOON — In the breast pocket of Tint Swe’s green plaid shirt is a...
For Burma’s new newspapers, a daily struggle to profit – The Irrawaddy
http://www.irrawaddy.org/archives/42826 RANGOON — As publisher of one of Burma’s 12 fledgling private daily newspapers, the Yangon Times, Ko Ko...
Shwe Mann, Suu Kyi seek to reassure journalists over media laws – The Irrawaddy
www.irrawaddy.org/archives/42016 RANGOON – In meetings with Burma’s interim Press Council, opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and Parliament Speaker...
Meeting between Govt, journalists yields no breakthrough on media bills – The Irrawaddy
http://www.irrawaddy.org/archives/41825 RANGOON — A stand-off between the Burma government and local journalists over proposed media laws looks set to...