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While humanitarian catastrophe in Burma's Arakan or Rakhine State, the nuclear proliferation in North Korea and the risk of a nuclear war, earthquake in...
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Many might have thought that, with the ongoing and growing problematic in Rakhine State reaching international height that has caught United Nations attention and...
To Hopeland and Back: The 32nd trip
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(11-15 September 2017) Everyman is my superior in some way In that I learn from him. (Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) My trip this time had two purposes: I...
Learning to Share: The PPST Strategic Meeting
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(4-7 September 2017) Everyman is my superior in some way In that I learn from him. Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) I’m sure I’m not the first one to...
TRUST-BUILDING INITAITIVE: RCSS’s Nay Pyi Taw Visit
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Following weeks of negative bad press stemming from the conflict in Arakan State, the Restoration Council of Shan State's (RCSS) visit, due to the...
TERMINATION OF HUMANITARIAN AID: Shan refugees in the limbo
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While the conflict situation in Arakan State is making international headlines, a little less known catastrophe in the making is brewing along the Thai-Burma...
ROHINGYA CONFLICT: Is a compromised solution still on the table?
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In any conflict it is always the hardest part to give way from one's entrenched position to a middle ground, or should we say...
THE MILITARY’S DEMOCRATIZATION DEBACLE: Tatmadaw not keen to return to the barracks
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It is good that gathering like “Forum on Myanmar Democratic Transition” held from August 11 to 13, which was attended by government's several ministers...
SIXTH UNFC-GOVERNMENT MEETING: “Is the glass half empty or half full?”
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Again, the official sixth meeting between the United Nationalities Federal Council's (UNFC) Delegation for Political Dialogue (DPN) and the government's Peace Commission (PC) held...
Learning to share: Another story for our time
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Last week, there was a discussion on whether the Union constitution adopted in 2008—by questionable means―should be amended or rewritten. Nobody had asked them whether...





