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'Train Journeys in Myanmar' by Paul Whittle Trains and train journeys are a fascination for the speaker - and he offered us a view of Myanmar from this unique perspective - guiding us along the tracks to the trading town of Lashio near the Chinese border, over the famous bridge spanning the Gokteik Gorge. We went south from the new station at Moulmein, to the war cemetery town of Thanbyuzayat. We saw the new rail facilities at Pagan. And he described a specially arranged trip up into the hills on the narrow gauge Myanmar Mines Railway, rarely visited by westerners. His talk was accompanied by a multitude of colour slides, and video on the big screen of train travel in eastern Myanmar. | 
From Kitchen to Battleground - Stories of seven Myanmar women fighters during the resistance movement by Daw Tharaphi Than Women soldiers are a phenomenon not often associated with Myanmar. Tharaphi Than, who is a research student at the London School of Oriental and African Studies, tells some stories and focuses on how women and the print media defended or rejected modernity, and how the print media portrayed women soldiers, in the 1940s and 1950s. |
'Ethnic Plus Twenty' by Martin Smith |
'Return of the Great Glory' by Ralph Isaacs |
Back to Maymyo by Colin and Johni van Orton 
Maymyo (now known as Pyin Oo Lwin) is on a cool plateau, and in colonial days the British administrators used to move up there en masse with their families during the hot months. Their children often went to school there in term time. This means that many of our members or their families will have known it in the old days. Colin van Orton stayed there recently in connection with the restoration of a stained glass window in an Anglican church - but while there he has looked around, talked to people and taken photos.
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Gordon Luce and the British Discovery of South-East Asian Art by Dr Pamela Gutman Pamela Gutman is an Honorary Associate of the Department of Art History and Film Studies of Sydney University. |
| Cyclone Help - Myanmar Style By May Tha Hla 
May Tha-Hla is a Londoner who despaired at the NGOs' difficulties in getting aid to cyclone victims - so she personally stuffed her pockets with money and went out to the Delta, to drive in rice sacks every day to feed the hungry. And she found thousands of other Myanmar people were already doing just the same, from Yangon and further afield in Myanmar. She showed scores of pictures to a packed audience in London. Anyone who would like to contribute towards more rice on her next trip - please click here for more details.
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Torn Apart - Two Sisters By Derek Flory As soon as the two sisters found out about each other they had to meet - and Derek Flory has written a best-selling book about the story. |
| The October Reception |
The October Reception |
| Seeding the Future by Diana Millington and Genette Dagtoglou 
Myanmar children are dead keen to learn English - and of course their parents, teachers and everyone else know full well that they need to master this important international language. Yet access to high quality teaching and materials is scarce - particularly in poorer areas. This is where the Millennium Centres come in. Tiny, locally-run groups with shelves of books and swarms of glowing children, sprouting up in distant corners of Myanmar - and their number has now grown to 18. Diana Millington was so concerned about the scarcity of real English books that she donated a library to Phaung Daw Oo monastery, and has devoted herself to the welfare of the Millennium Centres ever since. And she discovered that Genette Dagtoglou has been donating good second-hand English books for years - as many as 40,000 in the last 15 years. |
The State of the Catholic Church in Burma by Father David Morland Father David Morland paid a visit to Myanmar this year, and will talk of the Catholic community he met. |
'The Talents of Htein Lin' 
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(Subject and speaker to be announced later)
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