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To Hopeland and Back: Joint Ceasefire Monitoring Committee Meets, Continued

From 29-31 October, the Joint Ceasefire Monitoring Committee (JMC) members from both sides met at the Myanmar Peace Center (MPC) on Shweli Lane off...

Resolving constitutional crisis top priority for incoming NLD regime

According to the Union Election Commission (UEC) elections' outcome announcement, starting on the 9 November, coming out intermittently, which should take for about a...

To Hopeland and Back: Joint Ceasefire Monitoring Committee Meets

From 29-31 October, the Joint Ceasefire Monitoring Committee (JMC) members from both sides met at the Myanmar Peace Center (MPC) on Shweli Lane off...

Ethnic Politics and the 2015 Elections in Myanmar

Myanmar is heading to the polls in November 2015, with an expected shift in power from the old elite to the opposition National League...

GENUINE PEACE: The Wish of Ethnic Nationalities from November Elections Outcome

On the eve of the 8 November election, roughly about four to six scenario focus has been making the rounds. On 6 November, Myanmar Now...

Panghsang Summit Meeting, Joint Monitoring Committee and Military Offensives

As the 11 non-signatory ethnic armed organizations (EAOs) met in Panghsang, also known as Pangkham, the United Wa State Army's (UWSA) capital, from 1...

To Hopeland and Back: The Signing of the NCA

Since I wrote my last To Hopeland and Back journal, I’ve been in and out of Hopeland a couple of times, between Chiang Mai...

Tatmadaw’s offensives might derail peace process and disrupt elections

The quasi civilian regime of Thein Sein might have wanted it to look like isolated, accidental clashes between the Shan State Progress Party/Shan State...

China aims to forge ties as elections loom

Since the beginning of Myanmar's reforms in 2011, China has encountered new realities and challenges in the country. As a result of intensive policy...

What lies ahead in the aftermath of Naypyitaw treaty signing ceremony?

It is unfortunate that the Union Solidarity and Development-Military (USDP-Military) regime has to resort to its Plan B, partial-ceasefire signing, for its original plan...

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