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To Hopeland and Back: The 23rd trip

Day Four. Tuesday, 8 November 2016 Moderation is remedy Excess is malady. Burmese proverb I know I have found my masters today. At least they are saying the...

To Hopeland and Back: The 23rd trip

Day Three. Monday , 7 November 2016 A drug is not bad. A drug is a chemical compound. The problem comes in when people who take...

To Hopeland and Back The 23rd trip

Day Two. Sunday, 6 November 2016 Drugs take you to hell Disguised as heaven. Donald Lynn Frost, Chairman, Sturgis Bancorp, Inc. On my way to Mingladon, where the bus...

To Hopeland and Back: The 23rd trip

Understanding is much deeper than trust. Anonymous My latest trip is about three things: To attend the drug policy dialogue in Naypyitaw To attend the meeting...

COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF’S BRUSSELS VISIT: Reiteration of continued quasi military-civilian rule

Quite a few interesting issues have popped up recently in relation to the ongoing democratization and peaceful reconciliation, such as freedom of press, pending...

COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF’S CHINA VISIT: National interest, brewing proxy war and deterrence

Commander-in-Chief Min Aung Hlaing's recent China visit, United Wa State Army (UWSA) - National Democratic Alliance Army (NDAA) military friction or debacle and Burma...

UNHCR’S REFUGEE REPATRIATION: A timely undertaking or just a trail and error pilot project?

The 25 October refugee repatriation, involving some seventy refugees, who left Thailand’s Tham Hin and Nu Po camps to return home voluntarily to Yangon...

NATIONAL-LEVEL POLITICAL DIALOGUE: The eighth UPDJC meeting a step forward?

The much awaited Union Peace Dialogue Joint Committee (UPDJC) meeting from 28 to 29 October in Naypyitaw was hailed as a step forward in...

“The Secret Army”: What Shans may like to know

The book has been published since 2011. But it is only this year I have the luck to receive a copy from a friend...

To Hopeland and Back The 22nd trip (Day 7-9)

To Hopeland and Back: The 22nd trip Day Seven. Sunday, 16 October 2016 Here in this deep and boundless waste, where shore is none to...

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