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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

Features

The people’s grief and their right to closure

By Oliver Slow

Opinion

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

Culture

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

Fool’s gold: Thousands out of work as dispute shutters dozens of mines

A long-running dispute between the government and a mining company over a debt has shuttered dozens of gold mines, crippled small operators and left thousands out of work.

By Kyaw Ye Lynn

News Feed, News, Affairs

Govt losing hundreds of millions a year on SOE profit rules, report reveals

Rules introduced in 2012 have seen state-owned enterprises build up cash reserves of K11.45 trillion (US$8.6 billion) in accounts that earn no interest – money that governance experts say would be better spent on infrastructure or social services.

By Thomas Kean

News, Affairs, Features

Nothing is impossible

Kan Htoo Aung has been disabled from birth but an indefatigable spirit has enabled him to overcome his handicap and devote his life to helping others.

By Su Myat Mon

News Feed

အပစ်ရပ်စာချုပ်လက်မှတ်ထိုးရေး ဆုံးဖြတ်ရန် စောသေးသည်ဟု FPNCC ပြောကြား

တစ်နိုင်ငံလုံး ပစ်ခတ်ခိုက်တိုက်မှု ရပ်ဆိုင်းရေး သဘောတူညီချက် (NCA) အား လက်မှတ်မထိုးထားရသေးသည့် တိုင်းရင်းသား လက်နက်ကိုင်အဖွဲ့များပါဝင်သည့် ပြည်ထောင်စု နိုင်ငံရေး ဆွေးနွေးညှိနှိုင်းမှုကော်မတီ (FPNCC) အနေဖြင့် လက်မှတ်ရေးထိုးရေးကိစ္စ ဆုံးဖြတ်ရန် စောသေးသည်ဟု အဖွဲ့ဝင်ဖြစ်သည့် ကချင်လွတ်မြောက်ရေးအဖွဲ့ (ကေအိုင်အို) ၏ ခေါင်းဆောင်တစ်ဦးဖြစ်သူ ဗိုလ်ချုပ်ဂွမ်မော်က ပြောကြားသည်။

By Ye Mon

Bizfeed, Affairs, Business, Features

Three lives in Hpakant

The jade industry at Hpakant in Kachin State is a multi-billion-dollar business in which risk flows downhill, from the company bosses to the mid-level traders and, at the bottom, the itinerant miners known as yemase who risk their lives each day in the hope of striking it rich.

By Daniel Combs

News, Affairs, Features

Empowering through sexual health knowledge

At a training centre for women in Yangon, adolescent girls who have experienced trafficking, abuse and sex work, or have been detained for juvenile offences, learn to understand their bodies and protect themselves from HIV and other sexually transmitted infections.

Latest Issue

Volume 6, Issue 6

July 27, 2020

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Features

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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