COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF’S CHINA VISIT: National interest, brewing proxy war and deterrence
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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?
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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?
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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
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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)
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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...
To Hopeland and Back The 22nd trip (Day-6) Part II
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Day six. Saturday, 15 October 2016 (Continued) Who art thou, striving manfully here in mid-ocean far from land? Who is the friend thou trustest in, to...
To Hopeland and Back The 22nd trip (Day-6) Part I
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Day Six. Saturday, 15 October 2016 Not by violence is violence ended Violence is ended by non-violence. A tale from the Buddha’s 550 jatakas, by Danai Chanchaochai,...
To Hopeland and Back The 22nd trip
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Day Two-Four. Tuesday-Thursday, 11-13 October 2016 Money sings. And I love music. Charlton Heston, Secret of the Incas (1954) I hesitate to write about the workshop...
FINALIZING INCOMPREHENSIBLE FRAMEWORK FOR POLITICAL DIALOGUE: Is UNFC to be blamed?
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As the war in Kachin and Shan States has been going on and off for a few years, with a newly exploded rebellion of...
To Hopeland and Back: The 22nd trip
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The following journal is about what had taken place during my last trip to attend the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement (NCA) signing anniversary which was...
