A split in the Tatmadaw has been unlikely since its founding in 1962, but a steady increase in defections and desertions since the coup amid plunging morale has some questioning whether unity can be maintained within the nation’s most powerful institution.
BY Ye Myo Hein
A split in the Tatmadaw has been unlikely since its founding in 1962, but a steady increase in defections and desertions since the coup amid plunging morale has some questioning whether unity can be maintained within the nation’s most powerful institution.
BY Ye Myo Hein
Since being banned from Facebook, some of the most prominent spreaders of hate speech and disinformation have moved to Telegram, and fact-checkers say the messaging app is doing little to regulate its platform.
Some factory owners have been accused of exploiting and failing to protect their employees during the latest COVID-19 outbreak, and with unions lying low since the coup, workers are unable to seek redress.
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The composition of Bogyoke Aung San’s pre-independence cabinet was a reflection of his belief that prejudice and intolerance should have no place in an independent Burma.
BY Htun Khaing
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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.
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