Zalattni Press sits in a low, nondescript building behind a simple family-run restaurant in Yangon's Seven Mile district. Below its front step, chickens scavenge around the base of tangled jasmine bushes and ever-increasing amounts of traffic block the main road metres away.
Until late 2015, the operation had only a single, old-fashioned printing press, often run in the dead of night. Buddhist scripts bundled with string now commonly leave the building, but, in the kleptocratic Myanmar of military rule, the press – partly funded by the small Sydney-based charity, Myanmar Australia Conolly Foundation (MACF) – became a secret frontline in the medical education of the country's most poorly served. (Courtesy of smh.com.au)
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