The Mon resistance has entered the post-coup conflict but still has a long way to go to replicate the success of other groups, starting with forging unity in a fractured landscape.
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The Mon resistance has entered the post-coup conflict but still has a long way to go to replicate the success of other groups, starting with forging unity in a fractured landscape.
BY Frontier
Mainstream discussions of transitional justice in Myanmar emphasise future punishment at the expense of dialogue, introspection and structural change.
BY Frontier
The auctioning of the imprisoned leader’s Yangon house at the behest of her estranged brother is a legal farce, lawyers say, while pro-democracy veterans insist it must be preserved for public memory.
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The illegal trade in pangolins and their meat and scales is booming in the lawless border town of Mong La, a leading environmental watchdog has found.
BY Frontier
Peace conferences due to begin in January will be prolonged and protracted because they involve too many participants and too many groups.
U Thant Myint-U rose to prominence as an author and analyst on Myanmar. The Burmese historian has written four books, most notably The River of Lost Footsteps and Where China meets India: Burma and the New Crossroads of Asia.
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Writer Paul Theroux visited Myanmar in the 1970s while gathering material for The Great Railway Bazaar. Following in his footsteps decades later, little has changed on Myanmar’s railways.
BY Oliver Slow
The Ministry of Education has embarked on an ambitious project to completely rebuild Myanmar's outmoded education system.
An attitude of letting bygones be bygones might be politically opportune, but it will not make the poignant issue of transitional justice go away.
BY Hans Hulst
In a forgotten corner of Yangon, a theme park feted by the former junta now lies derelict, with its residents facing an uncertain future.
Some of the nation’s tycoons have shrugged off concerns about the future of their business empires under a National League for Democracy government.
ကိုယ်ခံပညာပေါင်းစုံ ပေါင်းစပ်ထိုးသတ်ရသည့် အဆိုပါ ပြိုင်ပွဲကို မတ် ၁၈ ရက်တွင် ရန်ကုန်မြို့၊ သုဝဏ္ဏအားကစားရုံတွင် ကျင်းပသွားမည်ဖြစ်သည်
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