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	Philip D’Silva’s family is a happy tangle of many of the rich threads that weave through modern Myanmar
        
    
            
	In 1960s Myanmar, Albert Ho, a boy from a Chinese Muslim family, was taught his impeccable English by a group of beloved Italian nuns.
        
    
            
	To set up her rights group, Mu Iris Arr Paing dodged warring armies, collected beer bottles -- and even created a football tournament 
        
    
            
	In precarious employment, Sein Maung lived, slept and ate in the dark space under the stairs of a Yangon high rise 
        
    




