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 first state-run tertiary education college to open in Chin State since independence is trying to stem local brain drain and nurture a new generation of professionals.
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နိုင်ငံရေးကဏ္ဍမှာ အထက်ပါ ရှစ်ချက်ကို သဘောမတူနိုင်ခဲ့တာဟာ နိုင်ငံတော်၏ နယ်မြေအပိုင်းအခြားဟူသမျှသည် နိုင်ငံတော်မှ မည်သည့်အခါမှ ခွဲမထွက်ရဆိုတဲ့ အခြေခံမူဝါဒကို ညှိနှိုင်းမရတာကြောင့် ဖြစ်ပါတယ်။
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Five years after being displaced in Rakhine violence, Kaman Muslim IDPs air concerns over rights and resettlement.
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အမျိုးဘာသာ၊ သာသနာစောင့်ရှောက်ရေးအဖွဲ့ (မဘသ) ကို ဖျက်သိမ်းရမည့် ဆုံးဖြတ်ချက် အပါအဝင် နိုင်ငံတော်သံဃမဟာနာယက (မဟန) ၏ ဆုံးဖြတ်ချက်များကို မဘသအဖွဲ့က ၎င်းတို့၏ လေးနှစ်မြောက်တွေ့ဆုံပွဲတွင် ပြင်းပြင်းထန်ထန် တုံ့ပြန်ရှုံ့ချလိုက်သည်။
The International Committee of the Red Cross works to provide relief to people within conflict zones. During a recent visit to tour ICRC projects and meet Myanmar officials, committee president Peter Maurer sat down for an interview with Frontier’s Jared Downing and reporters from several other outlets.
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