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The people’s grief and their right to closure

Former BBC journalist Christopher Gunness played a key role in sparking the 1988 uprising, and hopes that those bearing mental and physical wounds inflicted under junta rule will eventually be able to find closure.

By Oliver Slow

The people’s grief and their right to closure

Former BBC journalist Christopher Gunness played a key role in sparking the 1988 uprising, and hopes that those bearing mental and physical wounds inflicted under junta rule will eventually be able to find closure.

By Oliver Slow

The myth of ‘coalition government’

Talk of a post-election “coalition” misrepresents Myanmar’s winner-takes-all electoral system and gives false hope that minority interests can be meaningfully represented without constitutional reform.

By Ben Dunant

Dubious legends

A television drama that extols the role of the Tatmadaw in Myanmar’s modern history is a failure of art and propaganda but provides insights into the psychology of the armed forces.

By Myint Myat Thu

Highlights

John Okell: Remembering a ‘gentle giant’ of Burmese teaching

Desperate and debt-ridden, Mon migrants risk journey back to Thailand

‘We won’t retreat’: Muslim candidates prepare for election battle

Travel, News, Business, Features

The Kokang casino dream

News Feed, News, Affairs, Features

Judicial graft case raises questions over suspect’s appointment

Yangon Region’s former chief legal official is a defendant in a high-profile corruption case that has left the NLD government with some explaining to do.

By Ye Mon

Bizfeed, Affairs, Business, Features

Investment ministry plan generates mixed reaction

Critics of the government’s move to form a ministry for attracting investment say it was needed years ago, but supporters say the negative comments are premature.

By Kyaw Lin Htoon

News Feed, News

Activists demand the release of Reuters journalists after a year behind bars

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By Ye Mon

News Feed, News

One year on, families of Reuters journalists hope for release

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By Ye Mon

News Feed, News

Time honours Reuters journalists along with other 'guardians' of truth

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By AFP

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Myanmar and India strengthen ties in key state visit

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By AFP

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Thousands protest jailing of activists in Myitkyina

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By AFP

ရိုက်တာသတင်းထောက်များကို အခြားသော “အမှန်တရား စောင့်ရှောက်သူများ”နှင့်အတူ တိုင်းမ်က ဂုဏ်ပြု

ပြီးခဲ့သည့် အောက်တိုလာလက တူရကီနိုင်ငံ၊ အစ္စတန်ဘူလ်ရှိ ဆော်ဒီအာရေးဗီးယာနိုင်ငံ ကောင်စစ်ဝန်ရုံးတွင် သတ်ဖြတ်ခံရသည့် ဆော်ဒီဂျာနယ်လစ် ဂျမားလ်ခါရှော့ဂီနှင့် တခြားပစ်မှတ်ထားခံရသည့် ဂျာနယ်လစ်များအား အမှန်တရားကို ကာကွယ်စောင့်ရှောက်သူများအဖြစ် အသိအမှတ်ပြုသည့်အနေဖြင့် တိုင်းမ်မဂ္ဂဇင်းက Person of the Year (တစ်နှစ်တာ သြဇာအလွှမ်းမိုးဆုံးပုဂ္ဂိုလ်)အဖြစ် ဒီဇင်ဘာ ၁၁ ရက်နေ့က ရွေးချယ်လိုက်သည်

By AFP

News Feed, News

Time honours Reuters journalists along with other ‘guardians’ of truth

Time published four different magazine covers for this week's edition, each one spotlighting different honorees of its "Person of the Year" prize that has been awarded annually since 1927.

By AFP

Opinion

John Okell: Remembering a ‘gentle giant’ of Burmese teaching

The US, China and the ‘tender gourd’

The myth of ‘coalition government’

Editorial, Opinion

The military’s business is all of our business

Doh Athan

Podcast: No way home for Myanmar workers in Malaysia

Doh Athan, Video

Video: Tailor’s troubles, a disabled worker’s story

Podcast: Shortages in quarantine

Podcast: Copper mine raises questions in Sagaing

Latest Issue

Volume 6, Issue 6

July 27, 2020

Stories in this issue

Out of the wild: Myanmar’s controversial plan to harvest endangered species

Legalising commercial farming of rare species will undercut poachers, says Myanmar’s Forest Department, but conservationists expect the move to lead to increased demand.

Editorial, Opinion

The military’s business is all of our business

When the military enters the business arena, it needs to play by the same rules as everyone else.

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