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.
The British linguist first set foot in Myanmar in 1960 and trained generations of Burmese language students.
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.
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The outgoing World Bank country manager reflects on his time in Myanmar and offers advice for his successors.
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Abandoned since work on drafting the 2008 charter ended, the Nyaunghnapin Camp is set to be developed into an industrial zone backed by South Korea.
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တစ်လကျော် ထိန်းသိမ်းခံနေရတဲ့ သတင်းထောက်သုံးဦးကို မူလချိန်းဆိုတဲ့ရုံးချိန်းရက်ထက် အကြိမ်ကြိမ် စောပြီး ပြုလုပ်ခဲ့တာကြောင့် ဒီတစ်ခေါက် ဇူလိုင် ၂၈ ရက်နေ့ ရုံးချိန်းရက်မတိုင်ခင်ကတည်းက သတင်းထောက်တွေက သီပေါမြို့မှာ ရက်အတော်ကြာ ကြိုတင်ရောက်ရှိ စုဝေးနေခဲ့ကြပါတယ်။
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