Volume 5, Issue 20

November 21, 2019

Volume 5, Issue 20

Children find sanctuary from conflict in the Sangha

Parents in conflict-torn regions are sending their children to monastic schools in Yangon, where they can be educated in safety but also often lose connection to their homelands.

BY Hein Thar

Editorial, Opinion

Investors in Myawaddy’s casinos are a law unto themselves

“We don’t want to be evicted and threatened with weapons,” the demonstrators chanted as they marched through the Kayin State border town of Myawaddy on November 17.

BY Frontier & Frontier

News Feed, News, Affairs, Features

Uncertainty looms in Rakhine State over 2020 election

Fighting between the Arakan Army and the Tatmadaw and a fractious political environment are contributing to uncertainty and apprehension in Rakhine State over the election due next year.

BY Kyaw Lin Htoon

News Feed, News, Affairs, Features

Myanmar’s earth champions raise awareness about climate change

A small and passionate group of young activists is working in diverse ways to raise public awareness about the threat Myanmar faces from climate change.

BY Nicole Tu-Maung

News Feed, News, Affairs, Features

Fishery workers hung out to dry after reporting alleged corruption

Labourers fired by the Department of Fisheries for reporting alleged corruption have tried in vain to seek redress from the Yangon Region government.

BY Naw Betty Han

Opinion

The limits on foreign investment in trading

Myanmar’s recent retail and wholesale trading reforms have effectively blocked foreign SMEs from investing in trading activities and could even be encouraging illicit trade.

BY Mark Livingston

Sithu Aung Myint, Opinion

Will the resignation of Daw Thet Thet Khine hurt the NLD?

The NLD leadership has been ruthless towards those it regarded, for whatever reason, as a potential threat to its total control of the party machine.

BY Sithu Aung Myint

Opinion

The downward spiral of government-media relations

Government-media relations are locked in a vicious cycle. To break it, the government must stop treating journalists as threats to be managed and instead consider them partners in deepening democracy.

BY Ben Dunant

News Feed, News, Affairs, Features

With retirement housing, the NLD plans for the future

High-ranking government officials may be the first to benefit from a scheme by the Nay Pyi Taw municipal government to develop housing plots for sale at below-market prices.

BY Nanda & Ye Mon

News Feed, News, Affairs, Features

New fronts in the fight for justice

The filing of cases against Myanmar and its leaders in The Hague and Argentina for their role in the Rohingya crisis will increase the pressure on Nay Pyi Taw. In the first of a two-part series, we explain how these cases emerged, what challenges they face and how Myanmar is likely to respond.

BY Thomas Kean

News Feed, News, Features, Culture

Facial recognition technology helps keep the peace at Neibban Zay

Neibban Zay Pwe Daw is one of the liveliest events on the Myanmar calendar and keeping it orderly is a challenge for which one Yangon resident has pioneered an unlikely solution.

BY Hein Thar

Travel, Features, Culture

Wild waters: Unexplored Ayeyarwady

For the eighth instalment in our travel series about wild swimming spots, we head to the west coast of Ayeyarwady Region and delight in pristine beaches, idyllic islands and one of the country’s best bridge jumps.

BY Dominic Horner

Backpage, Opinion

Mother Mung

A Pa-O village in southern Shan State has seen tough times but achieved modest prosperity, thanks in part to a marketable leaf.

BY Ben Dunant

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