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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Police say they will take action against organisers of Thursday's protest, which denounced a reference to Myanmar's Rohingya population in a statement expressing condolences to victims of a marine tragedy.
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ရဲတပ်ဖွဲ့ဝင်များ တားဆီးထားသည့်ကြားမှ ဆန္ဒပြလူအုပ်ကြီးသည် သံရုံး၏မျက်နှာခြင်းဆိုင် ပလက်ဖောင်းပေါ်တွင် စုရုံးပြီး အမေရိကန်သံရုံးကို ဆန့်ကျင်သည့် ကြွေးကျော်သံများ အော်ဟစ်ခဲ့ကြသည်
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David Starfire is a multi-instrumentalist composer, music producer, DJ, and record label owner known for mixing electronic music with traditional instruments from throughout the world.
ပြည်ခိုင်ဖြိုး ပါတီ၏ အရေးပေါ်ပါတီ ညီလာခံအား ခေါ်ယူရန် တောင်းဆိုထားသည်ဟုဆို
ရော့စ်လာမှာ ညာလက်နှင့် နဖူးတွင် ဒဏ်ရာများရရှိခဲ့ပြီး ဇင်မာမန်မှာ ပေါက်ကွဲမှုဖြစ်ပြီးနောက် ၎င်းဘယ်ဘက်နားမှာ မကြားရတော့ဟု သိရသည်။
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