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This photo taken from a boat on October 2, 2019 shows vessels docked at a port of a Chinese-owned oil refinery plant on Made Island off Kyaukphyu, Rakhine State. Photo: Ye Aung Thu/AFP
February 15, 2020
Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to Myanmar in January this year resulted in the signing of multibillion-dollar infrastructure deals, including...
February 10, 2020
U Ba Tin — Artist depiction of the proposed Shwe Kokko development – Who really benefits? The most important trade route between Myanmar and Thailand...
Myanmar women carrying buckets on their heads collect drinking water from the outskirts of Naypyitaw, Myanmar, 25 April 2016. Photo: EPA
January 13, 2020
"We live in a part of the world that will be hit incredibly hard by climate change. The disruptions to agriculture and food security will be enormous...
Hundreds of Rohingya refugees enter Bangladesh from Budichong, Myanmar through the Palongkhali border in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, 09 October 2017, after crossing the Naf river. Photo: Abir Abdullah/EPA
January 8, 2020
Sai Wansai — Myanmar holds the dubious distinction of coming in fourth in a list of five countries in the world that drove the most people into exile...
June 14, 2019
Mizzima editor and producer Myo Thant recently interviewed the new Indian Ambassador to Myanmar H.E. Mr Saurabh Kumar. In light of the recent re-...
February 18, 2019
A general view of the Myitsone area on a bank of the Irrawaddy river at Irrawaddy Myitsone, near the Myitsone dam project, Myitkyina, Kachin State...
Women's rights activist Yee Mon Htun.
December 4, 2018
Despite having spent most of her life outside of her home country, Yee Mon Htun has devoted her career to empowering marginalized groups in Myanmar...
November 26, 2018
Mizzima Editor in Chief Soe Myint recently sat down with Manipur Chief Minister Mr N. Biren Singh in Imphal, Manipur, India to discuss the historical...
This picture taken on May 11, 2018 shows internally displaced people in a church compound in Myitkyina after fleeing conflict between government troops and ethnic armed group in Kachin state. Photo: Ye Aung Thu/AFP
July 11, 2018
Myanmar has a proud history of peaceful protests. Exercising the right to the freedom of peaceful assembly in the face of state violence has been a...
 Federalism ought to be a means to achieve peace and stability in Myanmar. Photo: AFP
May 5, 2018
A widely held perspective, and what can be called the conventional understanding is that the debate on federalism in Myanmar is closely linked to the...
April 27, 2018
In recognition of World Press Freedom Day the Danish Ambassador, Mr Peter Lysholt Hansen, shared his thoughts with Soe Myint, Editor-In-Chief and...
Sir Michael Tugendhat ( Photo: Franco-British Lawyers Society)
March 28, 2018
A visiting UK High Court judge has spoken to Myanmar state officials about a judge’s role in dealing with complaints against the media.