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Narcissism ago

"....On the way to Mandalay Hill we saw the large and lavish Mandalay Novotel Hotel, all ready for the hordes of tourists who will doubtlessly flock here for Visit Myanmar Year 1996!" Not sure the point you are making?

septimasexta ago

"1886 The British acquire Burma's northeast region, the Shan state. Production and smuggling of opium along the lower region of Burma thrives despite British efforts to maintain a strict monopoly on the opium trade." https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/heroin/etc/history.html