With the Tatmadaw chief reaching retirement age this year, some speculate that a fresh face could achieve a détente with the NLD – but the appointment process itself could hold the key to better civil-military relations.
With the Tatmadaw chief reaching retirement age this year, some speculate that a fresh face could achieve a détente with the NLD – but the appointment process itself could hold the key to better civil-military relations.
Informal migration from Myanmar is being blamed for the recent resurgence of COVID-19 that has left Thailand in lockdown and prompted Thai authorities to step up security along the 2,400-kilometre frontier.
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တပ်မတော်ဟာ မီဒီယာနဲ့ပတ်သက်လာရင် အထူးသတိထားစောင့်ကြည့်နေပြီး သူတို့ရဲ့ အဝန်းအဝိုင်းနဲ့ မီဒီယာအပေါ် ကန့်သတ်ချက်ကိုလည်း တဖြည်းဖြည်း ချဲ့လာတာ တွေ့ရပေမယ့် အခုတော့ မီဒီယာနဲ့ပတ်သက်ပြီး ဒီလိုထိလွယ်ရှလွယ်ဖြစ်လာတာ တပ်မတော်တခုတည်း မဟုတ်တော့ဘူးလို့ ပြောရမလို ဖြစ်လာပါပြီ။
A former ASEAN secretary general offers a personal perspective on how the bloc needs to change in order to build on the achievements of its first 50 years.
တင်းကျပ်လှသည့် အစဉ်အလာဖြင့် ချည်နှောင်ထားသော မန္တလေး ယဉ်ကျေးမှုနယ်ပယ်မှ တစ်ခုတည်းသော ပုဂ္ဂလိက အနုပညာကျောင်းတွင် ပန်းချီပန်းပုပညာရှင် ဆူးမြင့်သိန်းသည် တီထွင်ဖန်တီးမှုရှိသော အနုပညာလက်ရာများကို ကျောင်းသားများ ခုံမင်နှစ်သက်လာအောင် အကူအညီပေးလျက်ရှိသည်။
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The argument that gender inequality is not an issue in Myanmar is simply not borne out by the facts on the ground.
Two recent moves by the Tatmadaw directed at ethnic organisations have raised doubts about where it stands on the peace process.
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