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October 4, 2013
| S.H.A.N
The optimistic gesture, stemming from the ambitious nationwide ceasefire signing ceremony, feverishly lobbied by U Aung Min, President Thein Sein’s...
October 4, 2013
| KIC
The Molo Women Mining Watch Network (MWMWN) and the Karenni Civil Society Network (KCSN) today strongly condemned the government of Burma’s decision...
October 4, 2013
| S.H.A.N
I could wait for the public transport to take me to the Shan Literary and Culture Society’s Meeting Hall, some 300 meters away.
October 3, 2013
| KIC
The jailing of 10 activists by Burma’s government was slammed by regional human rights groups who accused the government of muscling out local...
October 3, 2013
| KIC
A local rights group, the Tavoyan Women’s Union (TWU), releases video it claims shows how Thai and Burmese developers of the Dawei deap-sea mega...
October 1, 2013
| S.H.A.N
Near Mae Suay, half way to Mae Sai, our pick-up was stopped by a police checkpoint. The officer took a look at the driver, a frail looking young man...
October 1, 2013
| KIC
The Karen National Union met last week with Burma government officials in Rangoon and Nay Pyi Daw to try to give its ceasefire arrangements and peace...
October 1, 2013
| KIC
Japan joined a meeting between Thailand and Burma to discuss how to kick-start the Dawei $60 billion mega project in southern Burma. It was the first...
October 1, 2013
| Phophtaw
Sometimes when relatives or friends come to visit the children that live at Baanunurak Orphanage (also called Di Di Safe House) thirteen-year old...
September 28, 2013
| Mizzima
Aung San Suu Kyi cut to the core of the doublespeak that passes for Myanmar government political and economic reform to challenge the naypyitaw...
September 25, 2013
| Chen Shaua Fui
"WE are freer now, but we are not safe." This is the observation of Nay Phone Latt, the executive director of Myanmar ICT for Development...
September 25, 2013
| Chen Shaua Fui
WHILE Myanmar may be seen as a "late bloomer" in terms of online connectivity, it has caught on fast and furious. And like the rest of the world, it...
September 25, 2013
| Chen Shaua Fui
AT a street corner in Kamayut Township, Yangon, a young man does what would be seen as freakish in his country just three or four years ago – he...
September 21, 2013
| Mizzima
Electricity prices in Malaysia are likely to be increased for the first time in more than two years as the government there struggles to cope with...
September 20, 2013
| Mizzima
Myanmar's professional football league is a nutshell of the country itself: burgeoning with potential, still sketchy in places and with a “have” and...