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King Charles will honour armed forces in first Remembrance Sunday speech as monarch

WWII hero James Fenton was devastated by the death of the Queen, just months after she sent him a celebratory birthday card when he turned 100 in April

Daily Mirror

The real Penny Knatchbull, Countess Mountbatten of Burma, as she appears in The Crown

The Crown suggests she and the late Duke of Edinburgh had a romantic affair together

Liverpool Echo

Did Prince Philip have an affair? The Crown's Penny Knatchbull storyline explained

The new season of The Crown, which has just dropped on Netflix, examines the close bond between the late Queen's husband Prince Philip and Penny Knatchbull, the Countess Mountbatten of Burma

Daily Mirror

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Meet the women using beauty and fashion to reveal the ugly truth about military rule in Myanmar

Her rallying cries have been met with silence, so Sophia Sarkis entered a beauty pageant to spread a message about her home country Myanmar.

ABC News

US sanctions Myanmar businessmen over alleged Russian arms deals

US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken says sanctions take aim at Russia and Belarus’ support for Myanmar military.

Al Jazeera

'Hell' of WWII Burma campaign described by Japanese survivors

At age 101, Eisaku Yamamoto continues to share his story about the devastation of war from Kusatsu, Shiga Prefecture, where he lives. He was on the battlefields during World War II fighting for Japan in its campaign in Burma, the Southeast Asian country now officially called Myanmar. He was among…

The Japan News/Yomiuri

Tamil Nadu’s colourful Chettiar mansions bear testimony to a world that was more open to the other

Just the entrance to a Chettinad mansion can be an exercise in map-spotting with its doors of solid Burma teak, Belgian mirrors, English floral tiles and Italian black marble columns

The Hindu

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WWII veteran may miss liberation event over passport delays

Mr Smoothy, who also served in Italy and Burma, said he was hoping the passport could be processed in time

Evening Standard

Commentary: Russia is causing bloodshed in Myanmar, too

My heart breaks as I watch Russian planes bombing civilian homes, displacing millions of refugees and committing crimes against humanity in Ukraine. Four thousand miles away from Ukraine, in my home country of Myanmar (also known as Burma), Russia has been complicit for decades in the violence of the Burmese…

Tribune News Service

Kambalakonda Wildlife Sanctuary in Visakhapatnam is abuzz with adventure sports activities

Enveloped in a cocoon of greens, the Kambalakonda Eco Tourism Park is buzzing with action after a long pandemic-induced gap

The Hindu

A hundred years ago February 17, 1922 | Agitators in Burma

One comes away from Burma deeply impressed by two things. The first is the wide gulf which separates Burma from India and the earnestness and universality of the desire for political separation. Not only are the Burmans by race, temperament and religion, quite apart from the rest of the Indian…

The Hindu

One year post-coup: Light ahead after darkness?

On 1 Feb 2021, the dreams of many people in Burma (Myanmar) were shattered overnight. Since then, I, along with everyone else in my country of over 55 million people, have been living in darkness.

Bangkok Post

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