VISA ON ARRIVAL: A discrimination act for former Myanmar citizens?
Tourists from six countries, Australia, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland and Russia, can now enter Myanmar with no requirement for pre-arranged approval. Accordingly, tourists can make...
NATION-BUILDING DEBACLE: Failure of Burmanization through institutionalized assimilation
When the three Karen activists Naw Ohn Hla, Saw Elbert Cho and Sa Thein Zaw Min were released, due to the fact that they...
CHILD SOLDIERS: Will government ratification of UN treaty end child soldiering?
As the civil war raged on in northern Shan and Rakhine or Arakan States, with no end in sight and ongoing bilateral ceasefire between...
Mega project impacts on life of local people (news feature)
There are full of gun-smoke on other side of Hsipaw town, where is the root of famous "Twilight Over Burma" movie. People have automatically felt...
Investigation: Shan State’s Pangolins Threatened With Extinction
Shan children in rural communities have long been seen wearing flat, shell-like pendants on their necks, a hole cut into its surface and hung...
BILATERAL CEASEFIRE TALKS: Aftermath of the second Kengtung meeting
On September 17, the Northern Alliance – Burma (NA-B) and the National Reconciliation and Peace Center (NRPC), which included the military or Tatmadaw representatives,...
KARENNI LAND CONFISCATION: Government’s land reform amendment and its negative consequences
On August 20, a 45-page “Federal land administration still a long way in the country's land reform sector report” was released by Kayah...
ETHNIC CONFLICT ESCALATION: NA-B raids in Pyin Oo Lwin and Nawngkhio
In the pre-dawn early hours of August 15, three members out four belonging to the Northern Alliance – Burma (NA-B), the Arakan Army (AA),...
KAREN MARTYRS’ DAY: Monopoly concept of the term “martyr” by NLD-led government?
Amid official warning from the
authorities not to use the term “martyr” in Ayeyarwady and Yangon, on the
occasion of honouring the Karen fallen leader Saw...
Ex-president pioneer of free press in Burma
From 1962 up to 2011, Burma or Myanmar was a pariah state in every sense of the word. But this perception has drastically changed...