Analysis

Myanmar’s State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi (C) holds talks with leaders from the United Nationalities Federal Council at the National Reconciliation and Peace Center in Yangon, July 17, 2016. (Photo: RFA)
August 5, 2019
A recent political talk-show on Radio Free Asia (RFA) on the topic of China’s political influence in Myanmar mentioned the Arakan Army’s (AA)...
Senator Ed Markey Photographer: Scott Eisen/Bloomberg
July 18, 2019
On July 10, senator Edward J. Markey (Democrat – Massachusetts) and Marsha Blackburn (Republican – Tennessee) introduced legislation bill...
July 10, 2019
Ethnic armed organization leaders weigh in on the current state of affairs in Special Regions 2 and 4. Ethnic armed organization leaders have been...
April 9, 2019
As the peace negotiation talks floundered, due to the Tatmadaw (Myanmar Army) heavy-handedness to the Ethnic Armed Organizations (EAOs), the edginess...
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March 11, 2019
As the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA)-based peace process negotiation stagnated, the National League for Democracy (NLD)-led initiative...
February 25, 2019
As the constitutional amendment joint committee focusing on constitutional reform which was formed with 45 members are going to meet and program...
Youth demonstrators seen in front of NLD Head Office in Loikaw (Photo: KT/Facebook)
February 19, 2019
After several long and harsh days of protest by Karenni youth against the installation of a statue of General Aung San, the demonstrators reached an...
Chief of Arakan Army named General Twan Mrat Naing
January 23, 2019
Very recently, the Tatmadaw’s information team warned the media and newsmen against using the term ‘civil war’ to refer to country’s domestic...
November 30, 2018
Foreword Burma, a name of the country which has been used in the English language, is also known as Myanmar, after the military junta, the State Law...
November 27, 2018
As if the problem in Rakhine State, that has provoked international and UN condemnation on Naypyitaw and ever since the Rohingya’s exodus of some 700...
December 8, 2017
A mature political system is needed to build a federal union in Myanmar and bring about peace. The Myanmar (Burma) government is currently comprised...
November 22, 2017
In that I learn from him. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) The meeting is the first since 9-10 October 2017 which was held in preparation for the...