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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Eight months after devastating floods, some villagers in Chin State whose homes were destroyed are moving their entire communities to higher, safer ground.
Frontier looks back over key events during the term of President U Thein Sein, an unassuming former general whose reforms laid the foundation for a transformed Myanmar.
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The Mandalay real estate market is in the doldrums and the reasons include factors special to the former royal capital, such as a downturn in the gems trade and a crackdown on drug trafficking.
ငြိမ်းချမ်းရေး၊ ကြွယ်ဝချမ်းသာမှု၊ ချစ်ကြည်ရင်းနှီးမှုတွေကို ဒေသတွင်းသာမက တစ်ကမ္ဘာလုံးခံစားနိုင်တဲ့ အခွင့်အလမ်းအနေနဲ့ မျှော်လင့်ထားကြောင်းလည်း ဒေါ်အောင်ဆန်းစုကြည်က ပြောကြားခဲ့တယ်
Three years after it was torn apart by communal violence, Meiktila continues a slow recovery that is being aided by efforts to promote interfaith understanding.
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