 Nationalist Imaginations
The protean qualities of nationalism allow regional leaders to manipulate patriotic sentiments for a variety of purposes.
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 Training Days
The benefits of education are self-evident, but can Western-led training for Burmese and ethnic students overcome decades of cross-cultural mistrust?
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 It’s In the Air
SARS and the US-led war in Iraq have both generated fear with missile-like stealth.
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CULTURE
 Thagyamin Is Watching You
Legend has it that the king of the nats makes an annual visit to earth with the aim of delivering the world from evil.
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BOOK REVIEW
 War, History and Identity
A new book on the Mon ethnic group makes a much-needed contribution to the study of Mon history and sheds light on some of the complexities of Burma’s ethnic conflicts.
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THE BACK PAGE
 The Back Page
Grow a plantain and it will propagate its own species. (A Burmese proverb)
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