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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Myanmar’s minority Muslim community lives in constant unease, exacerbated by tensions in communal relations after the 2012 sectarian violence in Rakhine State.
Myanmar’s growing industrial workforce is becoming increasingly unionised and assertive while antiquated laws are hampering the resolution of labour disputes.
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At a secret meeting in London in 1970, General Ne Win ordered bank notes featuring images of Bogyoke Aung San that are the proudest achievements of a famous artist.
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Myanmar’s human rights commission has a credibility problem — but critics argue that it can’t be solved by simply replacing its current members.
A measles outbreak that claimed dozens of lives has focused attention on the challenge of providing healthcare in one of the country’s poorest and least-accessible areas.
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