During that time, internet café users had to supply their passport numbers, addresses, and phone numbers to café owners, with all usage recorded and sent to Myanmar Info-Tech every two weeks.
As recently as 2012, only 1% of the population used the internet, and only 5% had mobile phone access. Today, a SIM card costs a mere $1 in a country where the minimum monthly wage is approximately $67. The price dropped to $500 around 2006, then $250 in 2012. Consider these stats: In the year 2000, a SIM phone card cost roughly $2,000. YANGON, Myanmar - The contemporary art scene in Myanmar (Burma) is undergoing a whiplash-inducing level of change that reflects the trajectory of the country. The tombs, however, have been subjected to some damage in the past because many people, including other Portuguese kings, were interested in seeing the remains of King Pedro and Queen Inês.A bus in Myanmar (all photos by author for Hyperallergic unless otherwise noted)
Gothic style was not big in Portugal because the Romanesque period lasted a lot longer there than in the rest of Europe, but there are a few monumental constructions and a lot of funerary works of which the tombs of King Pedro and Inês de Castro are the best-known examples. The figurative elements of the tombs are overlapped with architectural ones: gothic facades, pointed archivolts, pinnacles, lintels and trumeau, just as if we were looking into a cathedral’s interior, while the wheels on King Pedro’s tomb can be compared to a rosetta window. He was known as the patron of stutterers, a characteristic for which King Pedro was also known. The foot of the tomb is all about death, while the lateral sides show elements of Saint Bartholomew’s life.
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