Yangon Post

Well here we are in the Roaring Twenties! I’m still Happy-New-Year-sing all over the shop. It’s so fun to say. And while we’ve been hard at work planning 2020, I’ve been...

When you're doing your best to feel festive in a slightly un-Christmassy place, there is untold JOY in seeing the cosy Christmas scenes unfolding through social media. And the joy is particularly strong when...

Christmas can be lonely for some. So we're here to make sure there are no lonely corners at home. You know the ones... full of potential, but currently a dumping ground...

Despite Burma being a 90% Buddhist country, Christmas has arrived in Yangon in force. Creepy saxophone-playing Father Christmases are wiggling their hips in every shop window, and xylophone-based Christmas tunes are...

Rattan lampshades have been all the rage for months now, and for good reason: they look amazing, they're natural, sustainable, they cast a warm light... there are so many reasons to...

We're talking afro-jazz, edible rolexes and hairnets: here's our guide to East Africa's "green city in the sun", the gateway to Uganda's rolling hills. Our Woman in Africa, Verity, has...

Q: What happens if you attach fireworks to a hot air balloon? A: The most bonkers festival on the planet. Read all about the Taunggyi Balloon Festival...

Three years ago today, we launched Kalinko at a big Christmas Fair in London's Olympia. It was the culmination of a year of working out how to start a company,...

This chair has been a long time coming.  Three years to be precise. We had the concept on our first ever product mood board back in the summer of 2016,...

I had a baby in June, which is wonderful for a million reasons. But one which I hadn't seen coming was the way it makes you slow right down. We spend hours looking...

When we launched Kalinko back in November 2016, our first sale was a set of white placemats. I'll never forget it... SO exciting (hi Anne, if you're reading!). Our second sale...

Mohinga (pronounced exactly as it’s spelt), is the national dish of Burma. It’s really a breakfast dish, but people eat it all day long. There are quite a few ingredients,...