Tag: burma
Coronavirus Lockdown Disrupts Produce Trade
COVID-19 lockdowns have killed sales from the profitable produce trade in Taunggyi, merchants told SHAN. Sales in the Shan State capital started declining before...
Gunmen Murder Family In Northern Shan State
Gunmen killed five members from the same family in northern Shan State, including a twelve-year-old. Ko Myo, from Volunteers Without Borders, a local civil society...
New things to learn about an old neighbor
The Thais, like the Burmese do about them, have a cock-eyed view about its western neighbor. That is one of the reasons why non-Burmans...
BURMA’S PRO-DEMOCRACY REBELS – STICK TO YOUR GUNS!
"Stick to your guns" is a well-known English saying. It means that you will not compromise. You will continue to demand what you both...
American scholar: A long and winding road for Burma
To Zoltan Barany, professor at the University of Texas, who has focused his research and writing on military politics, the transition to democracy from...
Kaplan’s Burma
It took me 4 months to finish the 375- page ‘Monsoon’by Dr Robert D.Kaplan published 5 years ago. The book is not about Burma but...
Systematic and Widespread Drug Epidemic Destroying Ethnic Communities in Northern Burma
An epidemic of drug addiction is destroying communities and claiming a generation of young people and scores of men in Kachin State and northern...
Mizoram peace broker to return to Burma soon
Pu Zoramthanga, former rebel and ex-chief minister of Mizoram, will be returning to Burma soon to explore ways to assist in the current peace...
No Panglong for Thailand’s Deep South
Thailand’s Deep South, in sharp contrast to Burma’s non-Burmans, do not have any binding instrument like the Panglong Agreement to be used to enhance...
The peace process: 1878 history needs no repetition
IN 1878, Burma’s last most popular and revered King Mindon passed away at the age of 70. He had 62 consorts that had borne...
