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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

Fighting for LGBT rights in Myanmar with a ‘pink pinky’

LGBT activists in Myanmar campaigning to decriminalise same-sex relations are urging thousands of people to paint their little finger pink.

By AFP

News Feed, Bizfeed, News, Business, Features

KBZ takes Yangon port operator to court over massive debts

KBZ Bank is suing the owner of Myanmar Industrial Port over alleged unpaid debts of more than US$200 million, in a case that is symptomatic of the problems facing the country’s leading banks as they seek to resolve legacy non-performing loans.

By Thomas Kean

News Feed, News

War crimes, not genocide committed against Rohingya: Myanmar probe

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By AFP

News Feed, News, Affairs, Features

The abuse behind Myanmar’s fish paste industry

Workers spend eight months without break on fishing rafts moored off the Ayeyarwady Region coast, enduring beatings and deprivation to keep Myanmar supplied with fish paste.

By Hein Thar

News Feed, News, Affairs

The abuse behind Myanmar's fish paste industry

Workers spend eight months without break on fishing rafts moored off the Ayeyarwady Region coast, enduring beatings and deprivation to keep Myanmar supplied with fish paste.

By Hein Thar

News Feed, News, Affairs, Features

The business of plastic waste

Plastic products are both a convenience and a curse but some innovative businesses in Yangon are striving to reduce their impact on the environment.

By Eaint Thet Su

News Feed, News

IT happens: Facebook sorry for Xi Jinping's name gaffe

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By AFP

News Feed, News

IT happens: Facebook sorry for Xi Jinping’s name gaffe

Facebook apologised Saturday for a distasteful mistranslation of Chinese President Xi Jinping's name from Burmese language posts during his much-touted visit to Myanmar.

By AFP

Bizfeed, Affairs, Business, Features

In Myanmar, Chang faces its own black market

Months after Emerald Brewery began producing Chang in Yangon, large quantities of the Thai beer are still being smuggled openly across the border at Myawaddy in a racket dominated by the Kayin Border Guard Force.

By Naw Betty Han

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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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