Geopolitics: The art of choosing between the bear and the bee Until they heard me babbling about Mackinder and Spykman’s famous dictums (shortened here by...

During the last days of 2014, 27-31 December, SHAN president-founder and Pyidaungsu Institute (PI) for Peace and Dialogue’s managing director was in Loi Taileng,...

Today, 7 January 2015, marks the 19th anniversary of the surrender of Khun Sa and his once mighty Mong Tai Army (MTA) in 1996. At...

As 2014 comes to an end, all the woes and burdens that have been there from the previous year continue to exist and haunt...