7th July 1962 archived photos - Massacre of Civilians, Rangoon, Burma -

http://www.mizzima.com/gallery/photo-essay/5558-historical-photographs-july-7-1962.html

Experimental art gallery in Rangoon -

http://www.irrawaddy.org/archives/36151

From Pablo Neruda's Isla Negra - translated by Alistair Reid

Rangoon, 1927

I came late to Rangoon.

Everything was already there --

a city

of blood,

dreams and gold,

a river that flowed

from the savage jungle

into the stifling city

and its leprous streets,

and a white hotel for whites,

and a golden pagoda for the golden people.

That's what 

went on

and didn't go on.

Rangoon, steps stained

by the spitters

of betel juice.

Funny transliteration - "loo nar" New Year

http://www.youtube.com/user/voaclips VOA newscaster said loo nar hnit thit kuu for "lunar New Year" in Burmese - which sounds like "sick patient new year." :)

US Embassy Rangoon, Burma, website

http://burma.usembassy.gov/burma_sanctions.html

Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Conference in Rangoon -

http://www6.cityu.edu.hk/searc/Myanmarconfwebpage.htm

Monument Books and Toys in Burma

http://monument-books.com/myanmar.php

Jason Mraz concert in Rangoon -

http://www.irrawaddy.org/archives/21331