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By Libby Hogan Those moments when the recorder is turned off, you sit back in your chair and the conversation sidetracks and winds this way and that, usually over a sugary 3-in-1 premix coffee —  they are some of my favorite ...

By Libby Hogan MINDAT, Myanmar — Huddled over a smoldering cooker pot with her cracked heels warming on the edge, 90-year-old M’kaan woman Daw Yaw Shen retells the story behind her facial tattoo. “I went with three other girls from ...