http://www.gemwow.com/mogok/pages/nepali-house-near-Pyant-Pyi.htm

Myanmar??

I was there in 1997, celebrated dashain in the royal embassy, where the infamous sachit sumsher was the royal ambassador to burma.

I was told that the gurkhas there basically work for the junta military. Many of the gurkhas also live in Kalaw area in Shan State, about 500 Km in the north from Yangoon.

Chetana Bhaya

Some anecdotal info on Burma:

Large number of Nepali live in Mogok ( probably over 25 thousand), which produces the best rubies and sapphires. Most Nepalis living in Mogok are involved in trading or mining of these gems. The above photo looks like a hut near one of the Nepali owned mines as Nepalis in Mogok are not involved in farming.

Since the British era, and until the recent past, Burma had Gorkha Battalion. In Burmese military force, a number of Nepalis reached the rank or major and lieutenant colonel and one reached the level of colonel. To maintain that military relationship with the ruling military government, Nepali also call themselves Gurhka in Burma. This gives Nepali community a favorable treatment from the military government.

Gaje Ghale received his Victoria Cross in Burma. Large number of British Gurhka soldiers lost their life in the second world war in fighting with the Japanese. There is a large military cemetery near the capital Yangon. In one big section, probably 100s of Gurkha soldiers are buried; Thapa, Karki, Magar, Ghale, age 19, 20, 21.

There are about 200,000 Nepalis living in Burma. This is the only reason Nepal maintains an embassy in Burma. The embassy hardly does any activates other than issuing visa to Burmese pilgrims visiting Lumbini.

Most Nepali ambassadors to Burma have been either retired chief of police or chief of army. There they get to mingle with the local generals and learn the game of golf, which is very popular and cheap in Burma

Thanks DN for this information.

Burma is a beautiful country. And I liked its hospitable people.
While in Burma, I realised how the Rana Rule in Nepal must have looked like: a police state without any freedom.

What I saw in Burma:
1- in every mountain, they have built a pagoga!
2- in every road, you find people begging donations to build additional pagoda.
3- the only construction that was taking place was the construction of pagodas.
4- Chinese have strategic interests there, access to Indian Ocean.
4- Indians also dont want to see changes in Burma, as it may destablise the chicken neck.
5- India and china are the real culprit for the tragedy of Burmese peoples.
6- due to the repression of the ethnic minorities for a long period, burma will eventually break up.
7- I was surprised that in the middle of Burma there is a desert like place without any railfall, the so called dry zone in Magway region. People dont have drinking water.
9- it was a cunning policy of the junta that they worshipped the father of Aung san su Kii, but blamed the daughther as traitor.
10- the military government looted the grave of general Aung.
11- Burma has the greatest cultural heritage - ancient buddist pagodas.... of Mandalay