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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

ပူးမား၏ကျဉ်းထဲကျပ်ထဲက ဂျက်လေယာဉ်ဆီလုပ်ငန်း

အမြတ်များများရသော်လည်း လေးနှစ်ကြာမြေငှားစာချုပ်မရှိဘဲ လည်ပတ်နေမှုကြောင့် အငြင်းပွားဖွယ် လေယာဉ်ဆီဖက်စပ်လုပ်ငန်းက ဥပဒေပြုအမတ်များနှင့် စာရင်းစစ်ချုပ်ရုံး၏ စိစစ်မှုကို ခံနေရသည်။

By Kyaw Ye Lynn

Photo Essays, News, Affairs, Business, Features

The women who mine jade

Kachin’s jade industry is heavily dominated by men, but with the male workforce ground down by drug addiction, more and more women are taking up dangerous work at the mines.

By Nyein Su Wai Kyaw Soe

News Feed, News, Business, Features

The cost of the coronavirus to Myanmar’s economy

Farm labourers and crab catchers are among the thousands of Myanmar facing hard times because of the economic impact of the coronavirus outbreak.

By Ye Mon

Bizfeed, Affairs, Business, Features

Race against time: Will emergency power projects be ready for hot season?

Big players stayed away when the government invited tenders for five emergency power projects last June and the clock is ticking on a consortium racing to meet an April 3 deadline.

By Thomas Kean

News Feed, News, Affairs, Features

Broken dreams: the closure of the president’s scholarship programme

Hundreds of students were left disappointed when the National League for Democracy government shut down a multi-million-dollar international scholarship programme set up to great fanfare in 2014.

By Eaint Thet Su

Photo Essays, News, Affairs, Features, Culture

The birds and birdwatchers of Indawgyi Lake

Indawgyi Lake in Kachin State is a wintering season stop-over for thousands of migratory birds and is enchanting an increasing number of bird lovers.

By Nyein Su Wai Kyaw Soe

News, Affairs, Business, Features

Government regulations put the brakes on cattle exports

Exports of animal products have risen dramatically since the government lifted a ban on the export of live cattle and buffalo in October 2017, but new regulations have taken some of the shine off the trade.

By Kyaw Lin Htoon

News Feed, News

20 children injured as Myanmar school hit by mortar

Support independent journalism in Myanmar.

By AFP

News Feed, News, Affairs, Features

ကောလင်းမြို့မှ မကောင်းဆိုးဝါးအန္တရာယ်

မူးယစ်ဆေးစွဲမှုသည် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံအနှံ့အပြား လူ့အသိုက်အဝန်းအတွင်း ထိုးဖောက်ဖျက်ဆီးလျက်ရှိသည်။ စစ်ကိုင်းတိုင်းဒေသကြီးအတွင်း မြို့တစ်မြို့တွင် အမျိုးသမီးတစ်ဦးက သုံးပြီးသား ဆေးထိုးအပ်အပြည့် ပုံးတစ်ပုံး သယ်လာရာ အရေးယူတုံ့ပြန်မှုများ ဖြစ်ပေါ်စေခဲ့သည်။

By Kyaw Lin Htoon

Latest Issue

Volume 6, Issue 6

July 27, 2020

Stories in this issue

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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By Oliver Slow

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By Kyaw Ye Lynn

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By Ye Mon

By Thomas Kean

By Eaint Thet Su

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By Kyaw Lin Htoon

By AFP

By Kyaw Lin Htoon

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