Yangon Post

7 years living in Yangon with patchy electricity taught me a thing or two about sleeping in 30 degree heat.

Do you love them or hate them? Either way, they're a rare thing.  When one comes along, do you rush to fill it, or relax into it? This weekend, the latter...

This is the Montcalm Marble Arch Hotel. It's a true retreat from the city which feels at once peaceful, quiet and deeply luxurious. It is also full of bespoke Kalinko...

Call me Meghan, but this is actually the answer. Life is too short to waste time looking for your sunglasses, fishing around for keys or waggling a ruler under the sofa...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Number 1 - There is nothing more joyful than daffodils. Put them everywhere. They're £2 in the supermarket, or free from the garden if you're lucky. I put them on the table, in...

Alex is the editor of the award-winning website The Frugality and the owner of a beautiful Edwardian house which she and her husband have renovated very slowly over the past three years. She...