A boycott of state schools under military rule has caused a spike in enrollments at ethnic community schools and created opportunities for ethnic armed groups to broaden and strengthen trust and understanding with the public.
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A boycott of state schools under military rule has caused a spike in enrollments at ethnic community schools and created opportunities for ethnic armed groups to broaden and strengthen trust and understanding with the public.
BY Frontier
The military regime is set to drop meaningful structural reforms from an economic recovery plan initiated by the former National League for Democracy government, and is instead promising to slash red tape in a bid to shore up collapsing business confidence.
BY Frontier
A split in the Tatmadaw has until now been considered unlikely but a steady increase in defections and desertions since the coup amid plunging morale has some questioning whether unity can be maintained within the nation’s most powerful institution.
BY Ye Myo Hein
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It can be challenging for an interpreter of English to Myanmar to ensure that nothing is lost in translation.
BY Khaing Tun
Opium production is causing severe environmental degradation in northern Shan State, but a crop substitution project in the south is a reason for hope.
BY Niels Larsen
Time is a precious commodity for Ko Nyi Nyi, the executive committee chairman of the National League for Democracy’s branch in Yangon’s outer South Dagon Township.
Whoever emerges as the front-runner for the highest o ce after the elections will have the Tatmadaw’s support.
BY Larry Jagan
The National League for Democracy is preparing for the election battle with renewed energy. In recent weeks it has become increasingly obvious that months of planning and organising are beginning to bear fruit. It is a resurgent, revitalised and reinvigorated NLD that is emerging to fight for power on November 8. It is no longer the introspective party, lacking in vision, that seemed to have lost its way after its overwhelming victory in the 1990 election for a constituent assembly.
BY Larry Jagan
Despite far-reaching political reforms in recent years, Myanmar's human rights activists are once again feeling the sharp end of the stick as the 2015 election looms.
BY Oliver Slow
A Myanmar Skate Association team heads to Malaysia later this month to compete in an international competition for the first time.
The tendering process for a massive housing development known as the Yangon New City Project must be transparent, say members of parliament, business people and economists.
Although Myanmar’s recent economic and political transformation has garnered much more attention, bubbling under the surface have been changes to the country’s administrative processes.
BY Oliver Slow
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