The foreign dukan
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Stephan Elliott on the movie that changed his life
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Myanmar violence puts festival guests in the spot
— October 4, 2017Boycott of next month’s Irrawaddy Literary Festival announced by one guest over Muslim minority humanitarian crisis, while another, Lonely Planet’s Tony Wheeler, accuses its patron, Aung San Suu Kyi, of not saying enough about it
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