Yangon's historic Pegu Club comes back to the future

Multimillion-dollar restoration evokes a grander era in Myanmar

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A colonial-era postcard of the Pegu Club

KEN BARRETT, Contributing writer

YANGON -- When the British poet and novelist Rudyard Kipling visited Rangoon for a single night in 1889 he spent the evening in the Pegu Club, listening to tales of war from British officers suppressing local resistance in the aftermath of the Third Anglo-Burmese war, a brief conflict in late 1885.

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