Yangon Post

We are 10 days on from the earthquake in Burma, and the severity of the situation is still not much clearer than it was this time last week. We will...

Many of you have been in touch to check how our team and makers are doing following Friday's earthquake in Burma. Our immediate team and their families are ok. We...

Palaeolithic Protein, Pompeii and dippy eggs for The People Did you know we've been eating eggs for over two million years? Cave paintings from the Palaeolithic era tell us that...

Despite being in daily contact with our team in Yangon, I never quite know what to expect when I land in Burma. Burmese resilience warps your understanding of what’s going...

Africa Daley-Clarke has one of those homes which you'd like to step through your screen and curl up in. It's at once modern and traditional, pared back yet full of...

Did you know that the Burmese are more into tea than we are? Or that our furniture is made from old Burmese buildings? Or that there are 3000 miles of...

You’ll know when you see one: chaotic and bustling, with full grown adults sitting on tiny child-sized stools at knee-high tables, deep in conversation or hidden behind newspapers. The clientele...

Female voices are generally missing from twentieth century accounts of life in Burma, but Ma Ma Lay is an exception. A journalist and tireless advocate for women, both intellectually and politically,...

Micaela Sharp is an interior designer, upholsterer and TV design personality whose design theories combine upcycling existing furniture with carefully curated new pieces. An experienced upholsterer herself, she really cares...

Why Monsoon? Well, they're made from Rain Wood, and we wanted to pay tribute to the power of Burma's magnificent monsoon season. Each day from June to October, the heat...

In June, we visited one of our carpentry workshops near Bago in Burma, and made this video while we were there of one of our salad bowls coming to life....

If you'd like to wow your guests, or perhaps just your own taste buds, here are two of my favourite Burmese salads. The recipes come from the Rangoon Sisters, and...