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Hello. Today, Katmandu is a spectacular and popular tourist destination,

but we hear that some of its Western visitors have more sinister motives.

The President of Kazakhstan has moved on but his names on everyone's lips because they've renamed

the capital in his honour. Is that his real legacy?

Our Jakarta correspondent has moved on too.

She's going to miss all the women who made her job doable.

And a correspondent's posting to Los Angeles promised a winter of sunshine

but it hasn't stopped raining. When the military dictatorship in Myanmar

announced it was embarking on a path to democracy,

there was surprise and optimism and some suspicion.

Nearly a decade on, although a civilian government under Aung-Sung Suu Kyi is in office, few doubt who's really in

control. This week the Army warned ominously against any change to the country's constitution,

which would reduce its strength in Parliament or its

control over key ministries. And the Burmese generals stand accused of the most heinous

crime possible under international law that of genocide following the brutal

campaign against Rohingya Muslims. Foreign journalists are banned from

most places where the army operates, but Nick Beak has witnessed an unrepentant military force

reveling in its perceived achievements.

It's the kind of ungodly hour you set your alarm for, while wondering whether it's actually worth trying to sleep at all.

But we are now awake and have a 3 a.m. rendezvous.

A red, blue and green flashing neon sign in the classic style of the seaside amusement arcade tells us we're

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