I want to tell you a real bummer of a story about Facebook. The kind of no-fun, downer tale that Alex Mosseri, the head of Threads, Meta’s new social media service, said he doesn’t want his website to support. I arrived in Myanmar for the first time in November 2012, the same week that the […]
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Golden Star Restaurant: Yangon’s Finest!
Burma is a tea culture, and it is also a snacking culture. Coffee may be king in Vietnam, but Burma is the middle-ground between South Asia and Southeast Asia: in Yangon, it’s always tea-and-nosh time somewhere. People drink sweet milky tea reminiscent of India’s iconic masala chai,but they also are partial to clear Chinese […]
I Got to See the President in Yangon, and Yes, It Was Awesome
So, as this photo I took may indicate, I did get in to see the President. Here’s my GlobalPost story on the visit. (Play “Spot the Secret Service Agent/Milford Man in the above image!) People have asked me how I got in to see the President’s Yangon speech without prior permission. The answer to this […]