Feature
October 16, 2010
| Jai Wan Mai
‘Where have you gone, Panglong Agreement?’ The lyrics echo in the minds of Sai Mong and a group of his friends....
October 13, 2010
| Nawdin Lahpai
Burma’s ethnic Kachin Independence Organization (KIO), declared war against drugs in a statement released October 5 in the country’s north,.....
October 13, 2010
| Jai Wan Mai
Ethnic ceasefire groups in the north of Burma have agreed to a common strategy in the face of any concerted Burmese Army offensives,...
October 11, 2010
| Banya Hongsar
Burma’s people hope Aung San Suu Kyi will be released on the 13th of November, as announced by the ruling military government,....
September 23, 2010
| Kyaw Hla
Burmese Rohingya refugees say they are not willing to go back home to participate in the November 7th elections.....
September 20, 2010
| Hseng Khio Fah
The Burmese military regime is going to great lengths to ensure its proxy civilian party, the Union Solidarity and Development Party.....
September 20, 2010
| Hseng Khio Fah
When voters in Shan State’s 55 electorates go to the polls on November 7th they will have 12 political parties....
September 20, 2010
| Hseng Khio Fah
The 2008 constitution bars many groups from taking part in the national elections planned for November 7th.....
September 4, 2010
| Kong Janoi
The passport office in Rangoon, the former capital of Burma, is full of people waiting to process documents and many residents....
August 10, 2010
| Tin Soe
The human rights of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh have to be protected in a sympathetic manner until problems....
August 5, 2010
| Soiha Ong
He leans back in his chair with a book on his lap and lights a cigarette; his crossed leg starts to jiggle. He is a tall man....
August 5, 2010
The high yielding variety of tea (HYV), known as BT-2, is being cultivated for the first time in vast areas of the Bandarban....
August 3, 2010
| Nem Davies
There are just over 80 days for approved political parties to contest the upcoming election according to the Junta’s unofficial announcement that the...
July 26, 2010
| Lin Myat Thaw Tar
Burma’s military junta is enjoying being a media celebrity in the build-up to elections it previously announced would be held at the end of this year...
July 2, 2010
| Perry Santanachote
Young Thu Zin Oo made his daily trip across the Pun Hlaing River from his village in North Okkalapa Township to the Sinmalite dock in Rangoon...