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NLD picks up its campaign promise of constitutional amendment

People that have voted for the Aung San Suu Kyi-led National League for Democracy (NLD) were almost giving up hope for the amendment of...

Learning to Share: The 9th Asian Informal Drug Policy Dialogue

(12-15 December 2016) Every man is my superior in some way In that I learn from him. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) Since the last Shan Drug Watch annual...

Prohibiting Shan Consultation Meetings: Stakeholders need to rethink if peaceful co-habitation is still possible

Just before the year end, a row erupted between the Shan alliance, Committee for Unity of Shan State (CSSU) and the Tatmadaw (Military) and...

Learning to share: Euro-Burma Office (EBO) 20th anniversary reception

Every man is my superior in some way In that I learn from him. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) On the surface, it was going to be just...

Conceptual difference on federalism: The case of Burma or Myanmar

The beating around the bush is so intense that many almost lost track of the big picture or the main goal-setting of a federal...

Learning to share: NCA-S.EAO Preparatory Meeting for UPC 21CP#3

(14-18 December 2017) Every man is my superior in some way In that I learn from him. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) The NCA signatories’ meeting to prepare for...

2018 THE YEAR AHEAD: Achieving peace and resolving armed conflict would remain far-fetched in Myanmar

As 2017 comes to an end the ethnic armed conflict that have plagued the country for decades seems to be escalating, rather than reducing....

To Hopeland and Back: The 34th trip

(26-29 November 2017) The greatest bankruptcy in life is hopelessness. Attributed to The Buddha This time, my main purpose was to take part in the Sino-Myanmar Scholars...

2014 Population Census: The problematic of 135 ethnic groups categorization

Recently, on December 1, a report from Radio Free Asia indicated that the parliament would soon debate and decide upon the designation of 135...

SAO SHWE THAIK: In Memory Of An Outstanding Shan Statesman

On 21 November, the 55th memorial anniversary service of the death of the first president of the Union of Burma, Sao Shwe Thaik was...

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