BANGKOK (AP) — For three months in 2016, a British journalist working in Myanmar traveled across the Southeast Asian country on trains with a mission to find out where they led, who built them, and ...

On a 3,000-mile journey, the journalist meets disparate peoples and discovers a world too often veiled, piecing together a fascinating modern history of a country blighted by corruption and conflict ...

FOR many of the local music societies across Scotland who will welcome her before the end of this month, the solo piano recital by Clare Hammond will be the final event of their 2017-18 seasons. As a ...

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Lang Lang's new album is a thoughtfully selected collection of pieces that inspired him to play the piano as a young boy. Speaking about the album, he said: “With Piano Book I’m going back to my first ...

The Philadelphia Orchestra and Yannick Nézet-Séguin shine in the composer’s first symphony. Plus, ear-bending variations from Clare Hammond The 1897 premiere of Rachmaninov’s Symphony No 1 is always ...

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BANGKOK: For three months in 2016, a British journalist working in Myanmar travelled across the South-East Asian country on trains with a mission to find out where they led, who built them, and why.