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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

At rest in Yangon's cemeteries

Scattered throughout Yangon are sites honouring the memory of men and women, famous and unknown, Burmese and foreigners, who rest in peace.

By Jared Downing

News Feed, News

Arrests as Yangon authorities tear down Hlegu slum

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By AFP

News Feed, News

59 bodies recovered from Andaman Sea as search continues for remaining victims

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By AFP

Affairs, Features

At rest in Yangon’s cemeteries

Scattered throughout Yangon are sites honouring the memory of men and women, famous and unknown, Burmese and foreigners, who rest in peace.

By Jared Downing

News Feed

တိုးတက်မှု တစုံတရာ မချပြနိုင်ခဲ့တဲ့ ရန်ကုန်တိုင်းအစိုးရ ရှင်းလင်းပွဲ

ရန်ကုန်မှာ အဓိက ခံစားနေရတဲ့ ပြဿနာတွေ ဖြစ်တဲ့ ရေကြီးရေလျှံတာ၊ လျှပ်စစ်မီး မလုံလောက်တာ၊ ကားကြပ်တာ၊ ဘာသာရေး၊ လူမျိုးရေးလှုံ့ဆော်မှုတွေ၊ အမုန်းစကား ပြောနေမှုတွေနဲ့ နေ့စဉ် လမ်းပန်းဆက်သွယ်ရေး ခက်ခဲမှုတွေ၊ အလုပ်သမားပြဿနာတွေ စသည်ဖြင့် များလှတဲ့အရေးတွေကို တနှစ်ကျော်လာပြီဖြစ်တဲ့ ရန်ကုန်အစိုးရအနေနဲ့ ဘာတွေများ လုပ်ပြီးနေပြီလဲ၊ ဘာတွေ ဆောင်ရွက်ဖို့ ရှိသလဲဆိုတာ စိတ်ဝင်စားစရာကောင်းလှပါတယ်။

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

By Oliver Slow

By Ben Dunant

By Myint Myat Thu

Highlights

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By Jared Downing

By AFP

By AFP

By Jared Downing

By Mratt Kyaw Thu

By Frontier

By Sean Gleeson

By Sean Gleeson

By Thomas Kean

Opinion

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