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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

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

The British linguist first set foot in Myanmar in 1960 and trained generations of Burmese language students.

By Luke Corbin

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

Ill-equipped hospitals brace for the worst

As the number of coronavirus cases gains pace in Myanmar, there are more questions than answers about the ability of the public health system to respond to a large outbreak.

By Hein Thar

News, Affairs, Business, Features

နှောင်တည်းအမြတ်ထုတ်ခံရသူများ၊ သို့မဟုတ် ရန်ကုန်တိရစ္ဆာန်ဥယျာဉ်မှ တိရစ္ဆာန်များ

ရန်ကုန်တိရစ္ဆာန်ဥယျာဉ်၌ အပတ်စဉ်ပြုလုပ်နေကျ တိရစ္ဆာန်စွမ်းရည်ပြပွဲတွင် မျောက်များ၊ မြွေများနှင့် ဆင်များက အသီးသီးစွမ်းရည်ပြကြပြီး ယင်းကြောင့် လာရောက်ကြည့်ရှုသူများအတွက် ဓာတ်ပုံရိုက်ခွင့်များ ရရှိခဲ့သည်။ ယင်းသို့သောစွမ်းရည်ပြပွဲများကြောင့် လူသားများအကျိုးရှိမရှိ မသိနိုင်သော်လည်း တိရစ္ဆာန်များအတွက်မူ ထိခိုက်နစ်နာမှုများရှိနေပြီဖြစ်သည်။

By Frontier

News Feed, News, Affairs

Testing times for universities as COVID-19 cases grow

Most universities resisted calls by student unions to postpone examinations because of the threat posed by COVID-19, but that quickly changed after the first cases were confirmed in Myanmar.

By Naw Betty Han

News Feed, News, Affairs, Features

Fishing communities risk crocodile attacks in the Ayeyarwady delta

On an island in the Ayeyarwady delta, saltwater crocodiles and fishing communities make unhappy neighbours, with environmental degradation driving deadly attacks.

By Hein Thar

News Feed, Bizfeed, News, Business, Features

Stimulus moves win praise, but will they be enough?

The business community has welcomed interest rate cuts and other stimulus measures aimed at cushioning the impact of the coronavirus, but there’s consensus that more needs to be done to avert business closures and massive job losses.

By Kyaw Lin Htoon

News Feed, News

ကိုရိုနာအဝေးကိုပြေးဖို့ ထောင်ထဲက ချင်း(ဂျင်း) အစီအမံ

ကိုရိုနာဗိုင်းရပ်စ်ကူးစက်မှုကိုကာကွယ်ဖို့ ထောင်တွေရဲ့အစီအစဉ်ကတော့ လက်ဆေးကန်တွေလုပ်ပေးတာ၊ပိုးသတ်ဆေးဖြန်းပေးတာနဲ့အတူ ချင်းပြုတ်ရည်တိုက်တာတွေပဲဖြစ်ပါတယ်။ဒါပေမဲ့ ဗိုင်းရပ်စ်အန္တရာယ်ကြောင့် ထောင်ထဲကလူစုလူဝေးကိုလျှော့ချဖို့ အကျဉ်းသားတွေလွှတ်ပေးသင့်တယ်ဆိုတဲ့စဉ်းစားချက်တွေလည်းရှိနေပါတယ်။

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Volume 6, Issue 6

July 27, 2020

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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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