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.
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.
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.
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.
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An amended law governing vacant, fallow and virgin land threatens to turn millions of smallholder farmers into criminal trespassers.
The latest campaign against chewing betel follows indications that the deeply-ingrained national habit is becoming more popular, including among women.
ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ်အလယ်ပိုင်းဒေသရှိ ကျေးရွာပေါင်း ၃ဝ တွင် ကိုယ်ဝန်ဆောင်နှင့် ၎င်းတို့မှမွေးဖွားလာသော အသက် ၂ နှစ်အောက် ကလေးငယ်များအား ငွေကြေး ထောက်ပံ့မှုအစီအစဉ်ဖြင့် ၂ဝ၁၄ ခုနှစ်မှာ စတင်ခဲ့သည့် တက်လမ်းအာဟာရစီမံချက်၏ အောင်မြင်မှုသည် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ၏အခြားဒေသများတွင်လည်း အလားတူအစီအစဉ်များအား အကောင်အထည်ဖော်ဆောင်ရေးအတွက် အစိုးရအား အထောက်အပံ့ကောင်း ဖြစ်စေခဲ့သည်။
The Shan State hill retreat hopes to lure more visitors with symbols of its colonial past, but Kalaw’s real appeal lies in its present-day diversity.
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