The Han Wei became a phantom ship after pirates seized it on March 15 on a voyage from Singapore to Rangoon. |
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Wrecks available include the Rangoon, a 19th century sailing ship, and the Conch, an early oil tanker. |
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The U.S. could use moral and political suasion to encourage American companies to cut links to Rangoon. |
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Within Burma, the Karen people live spread across from Irrawaddy, Pegu and Rangoon, down to the Tenasserim Divisions. |
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Mountbatten gratified his ambition by staging an elaborate victory parade, at which he took the salute in Rangoon on 15 June. |
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But the whispered questions at teahouses in Rangoon and across Burma were always delivered the same way. |
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A widely known garden climber, the scarlet Rangoon creeper is a native of Africa which was introduced in the tropics as a popular ornamental. |
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In the Rangoon division, 18 out of 40 branch offices are now operating, with nine permitted to put up their old signboards. |
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The two regularly would walk hand in hand through the botanical gardens of Rangoon, followed by a beer in the cafeteria. |
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Rangoon currently bans the import of 15 product items from neighboring countries. |
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In the most memorable of all, Larkin questions a 13-year-old boy sent up from the country by his impoverished parents to drudge in a Rangoon tea shop for four dollars a month. |
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But Than DAR ignored them, intent on a traditional Buddhist funeral for her husband in Rangoon. |
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Then she flew to Rangoon to cover the release of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi from 15 years of house arrest. |
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These are the scruffy, barefoot, rag-tag, tatty little street urchins of the night that come out of their hiding spots once downtown Rangoon is deserted. |
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Signaled its acceptance of the United Nations human-rights office in Rangoon. |
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During the Indian Mutiny of 1857 he sided with the mutineers in Delhi, and for this crime he was tried by the British and exiled to Rangoon, where he died. |
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Japanese civilians, left to fend for themselves in Rangoon, evacuated as best they could and made their way via the Three Pagodas Pass into Kanchanaburi and thence to Bangkok. |
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I had a mother who was born in Rangoon, Burma, in the mid-1950s and grew up in the wrap of longyis, pagodas, and Burmese nursemaids. |
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British, American, and Chinese forces defeated the Japanese in northern Burma in March, and the British pushed on to reach Rangoon by 3 May. |
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On 9 March 1889, Kipling left India, travelling first to San Francisco via Rangoon, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Japan. |
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A month later, he arrived at Rangoon and travelled to the police training school in Mandalay. |
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At the end of 1924, he was promoted to Assistant District Superintendent and posted to Syriam, closer to Rangoon. |
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Naypyidaw was founded in Burma's interior as the former capital, Rangoon, was claimed to be too overcrowded. |
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The loss of two brigades of 17th Indian Division meant that Rangoon could not be defended. |
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From this point, the advance down the main road to Rangoon faced little organised opposition. |
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This scratch formation held up the British advance until 30 April and covered the evacuation of the Rangoon area. |
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When they arrived they discovered that Kimura had ordered Rangoon to be evacuated, starting on 22 April. |
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The Allied drive to liberate Rangoon before the rains had succeeded with only a few hours to spare. |
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It is said that each was given hairs from his head, which are now claimed to be enshrined as relics in the Shwe Dagon Temple in Rangoon, Burma. |
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The streets of Rangoon, wallowing in sun, flashed and scintillated with strolling crowds, skirted in their best silk longyis. |
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From a small village in the Kathiawar peninsula of western India, the Kamdar family moved to Rangoon where they became prosperous merchants. |
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If they don't perform as you wish, perhaps you could consider replacing them with fast growing trumpet vine or Rangoon creeper. |
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Burma is now Myanmar, Rangoon is Yangon, Prome is Pyay and Pegu is Bago. |
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Bahadur Shah was tried for treason by a military commission assembled at Delhi, and exiled to Rangoon where he died in 1862, bringing the Mughal dynasty to an end. |
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Following the capture of Rangoon, a new Twelfth Army headquarters was created from XXXIII Corps HQ to take control of the formations which were to remain in Burma. |
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Slim feared that the Japanese would defend Rangoon to the last man through the monsoon, which would put Fourteenth Army in a disastrous supply situation. |
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Though the Allied force had advanced successfully into central Burma, it was vital to capture the port of Rangoon before the monsoon to avoid a logistics crisis. |
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A month after his retirement he was summoned to a durbar in Rangoon, to receive the decoration that had been awarded to him by the Indian Government. |
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Vines such as the showy rangoon creeper and the unusual Dutchman's pipe offer months of blooms, but these might prove too vigorous. |
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After that, as I passed out of my crepe stage, the blintzes went through a short life as stuffed fried wontons, a sort of chicken version of crab rangoon. |
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