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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An innovative school at Monywa is among the few independent institutions in the country providing free schooling and vocational training for people with disabilities.
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Women in Myanmar enduring the misery of postpartum depression can expect to suffer in silence and one reason is a paucity of health professionals with knowledge of the illness.
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United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon will attend a landmark peace conference in Myanmar this month.
A last-minute decision by the previous government to recognise a Mandarin-speaking community as a Bamar group has generated controversy over one of the nation’s most sensitive topics.
Beset by internal conflict for the past year, Myanmar’s former ruling party is seeking to wipe the slate clean – by removing any trace of the Shwe Mann faction from its leadership group.
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