ACTS OF GENOCIDE ACCUSSATION: Thaung Tun and Company’s Geneva Lobby
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On March 9, Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein, U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights told a news conference at the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland that...
Government facing international negative opinion onslaught and peace process stagnation
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The National League for Democracy (NLD) regime is overwhelmed by the international negative opinion onslaught on Rohingya crisis and as well the peace process...
LASHIO AND SITTWE BOMBINGS: Urban guerrilla warfare in the making?
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First there was the unpleasant news of bombing of Yoma Bank, also affecting nearby Aya Bank, in northern Shan State capital Lashio, where 2 employees...
Unfolding blood teak scenario or struggle for rights of self-determination?
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Natural resource exploitation plays a very important role in Myanmar ethnic conflict spectrum like in all the other conflict-ridden societies, so much so it...
71st ANNIVERSARY UNION DAY: A reconciliation ray of hope from the NLD?
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Once again the 71st Anniversary Union Day was celebrated with the aim, as prescribed by the National League for Democracy (NLD) government according to...
Planned Dawei SEZ two-lane highway controversy
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As the Myanmar's Union Government announced its plans to resume the construction of a two-lane highway, connecting Dawei Special Economic Zone (SEZ) and Thai-Myanmar...
Gearing up for 2020 general elections?
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The recent President Htin Kyaw's January 4, Independence Day's speech outlining the amendment of the constitution could now be considered as an opening campaign...
UNFC TO FADE AWAY: How will the government handle the FPNCC?
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As one could just enthusiastically proclaims “and then there were ten,” to the 8 Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA)-signatory Ethnic Armed Organizations (EAOs) another two,...
Learning to share #29: The PPST Emergency
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(11-12 January 2018) Every man is my superior in some way In that I learn from him. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) In December, I was planning to travel...
Signatory EAOs responded with postponement of the 21CPC to the Tatmadaw’s heavy-handedness
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Simultaneously shortly after the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA)-signatory Ethnic Armed Organizations (EAOs) doled out a statement to postpone the 21st Century Panglong Conference (21CPC),...





