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.
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.
A television drama that extols the role of the Tatmadaw in Myanmar’s modern history is a failure of art and propaganda but provides insights into the psychology of the armed forces.
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Migrants from China have settled in Myanmar for centuries but some more recent arrivals keep a low profile because their presence is illegal in the country they call home.
Cockfighting is thriving in Myanmar but remains a clandestine activity because of prohibitions on betting.
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Yangon and Hong Kong have taken different approaches to preserving heritage architecture but experts in both cities agree that conservation and development need not be mutually exclusive.
A former prison official has broken his silence on the deaths of more than 40 student activists in March 1988, six months before that year’s fateful national uprising was crushed by a military coup.
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