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),...
NLD picks up its campaign promise of constitutional amendment
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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
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(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...
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Just before the year end, a row erupted between the Shan alliance, Committee for Unity of Shan State (CSSU) and the Tatmadaw (Military) and...
