Unwilling to accept military rule, many in Kachin are looking to the Kachin Independence Organization to fill a void in governance. As the KIO strengthens its influence, it is facing mounting pressure to regulate environmentally destructive gold mining.
Unwilling to accept military rule, many in Kachin are looking to the Kachin Independence Organization to fill a void in governance. As the KIO strengthens its influence, it is facing mounting pressure to regulate environmentally destructive gold mining.
The Karen Border Guard Force is providing the military with frontline soldiers in exchange for business protection, allowing its “new city” project to emerge as a hub for online scams.
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The coup is worsening the long-standing tendency to judge cultural output – and film in particular – based on moral convictions.
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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
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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