Myanmar Emerges: Revisit GlobalPost’s award-winning series

Myanmar’s emergence was one of the most important economic, political and cultural stories of 2013. To fully understand this dramatic shift, GlobalPost spent much of the year reporting from inside this formerly isolated country. From the restive opium dens of Kachin State, the bustling malls and busy recording studios of Yangon, to the booming copper mines of Kyisintaung Mountain and beyond, here is what we found — both the promise, and the peril.

Check out the full series here.

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