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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Despite promising reform of state media outlets, the National League for Democracy government has instead been accused of continuing to use them as propaganda machines.
Kalay pays a heavy price for its strategic location near the Indian border, as police fight in vain against a flood of drugs.
Since independence, Myanmar’s ethnic minorities have felt ignored by the central government. A new ministry focusing on ethnic affairs was supposed to change that, but there is little clarity about its actual role.
Despite promising reform of state media outlets, the National League for Democracy government has instead been accused of continuing to use them as propaganda machines.
A single family has safeguarded Myanmar’s Jewish tradition for decades, as its once-thriving community dwindled over time.
Against all odds, Myanmar’s independent music scene is on the up and up.
A free arts education program in Yangon is teaching children how to see and think creatively.
Vendors of fake medicine and faith healers are using spurious claims to prey on desperate people of limited means who have been diagnosed with cancer and other life-threatening diseases.
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