Is NLD’s ethnic reconciliation undertaking free from chauvinism?
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As the last phase of power transition is taking place, the ethnic nationalities' armed and unarmed groups are scrambling to interact, each in its...
Learning to share: The EAO8 Summit # 2
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The 8 ethnic armed organizations (EAOs) that were, together with the government, military and legislature, joint signatories of the historic (“hysteric”, according to some...
Ministry of Ethnic Affairs: A catalyst for positive change?
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As the final stage of power transfer from quasi-civilian government of Thein Sein to Aung San Suu Kyi-led National League for Democracy (NLD) regime...
People’s War on Drugs in Kachin State: Indication of Failed Policies
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The creation of Pat Jasan and its ‘people’s war on drugs' have brought to light a number of key drug-related problems facing not only...
Can Myanmar emerge as a neutral country?
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I’m against most of the 457 articles of the 2008 (also known as Nargis) constitution. I say most because there’s one article that I...
Time to have licit opium production in Myanmar?
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There are always two sides (some say three, or more) to a story. So it is with opium, the largest output of which is...
MYANMAR’S 40 to 72 PERCENT PROBLEM
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YANGON-If you walk the streets of this city at the end of the work day, you'll hear a distinctive sound: the clicks and taps...
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION: Workable coalition plan rather than confrontation is the way out
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At long last the presidential candidate names have been made known, after months of speculation, frustration and political push and pull, whether Aung San...
To Hopeland and Back: The 17th trip
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Day Five. Sunday, 6 March 2016 Get to know your opposite numbers at all levels socially. Friends take longer to fall out. The Global Negotiator Today, Sao Yawdserk...
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Day Four. Friday, 5 March 2016 Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate. John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) It was Sai Aung...
