The surprise US decision to lift economic sanctions on Myanmar in October was hailed as a landmark step in the march from decades of near-isolation — and as a boon for American companies seeking to tap a big market where many had feared to tread. But critics say the move also had a darker side: it freed up the sprawling commercial interests of a military that ruled for almost 50 years.
YANGON, Myanmar – A Myanmar government official says a journalist has been killed while reporting on illegal logging in the northwest of the country. The local police say they are investigating the death. Continue reading “Myanmar reporter killed while investigating illegal logging”
Police in Myanmar are accused of regularly arresting and abusing members of one of the country’s vulnerable communities, but a social revolution of open-minded and liberal attitudes in the next generation could yet be their saviour. Is the country ready? Continue reading “Coming out of the darkness: Myanmar’s LGBT community emerges from decades of abuse”
By Matthew Smith
Editor’s note: Matthew Smith is co-founder and CEO of Fortify Rights. Follow him on Twitter @matthewfsmith. The opinions expressed here are solely his. Continue reading “Is genocide unfolding in Myanmar?”
Continue reading “ျမန္မာ့ စီးပြားေရး ပိုၿပီး ေတာ့ ေႏွးေကြးလာ ႏိုင္”
Continue reading “ဒါကိုတာ ပိုက္လိုင္း ရပ္တန္ ့ေရး အေရးေတာ္ ပံု ပို ၿပီး ေတာ့ က်ယ္ ျပန္ ့လာ”
By David Doyle, for CBC News Posted: Aug 24, 2016 8:08 AM ET
A powerful 6.8 magnitude earthquake struck Burma on Wednesday morning, killing at least three people and damaging temples in the ancient temple city of Bagan. Continue reading “At least 3 dead after 6.8 magnitude quake hits Burma”
A commentary by Yun Sun
Myanmar’s State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi, left, shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, Friday, Aug. 19, 2016. (Rolex Dela Pena/Pool Photo via AP)
Aung San Suu Kyi and her NLD government faced a tough situation with China at the time of their inauguration in March. But, as she visits Beijing this week, hopes are high again in China that a redirection of Myanmar’s foreign policy could be underway and the pendulum of Myanmar’s balancing diplomacy is swinging back to the east. But many challenges lie Continue reading “Aung San Suu Kyi’s Visit to Beijing: Recalibrating Myanmar’s China Policy”
By RYUTA SOMETAYA/ Staff Writer
While working as a physician at a Japanese university hospital, the injustice that Satoko Nachi felt planted a seed for her true calling in life.
Today, Nachi, 53, is striving to enhance villagers’ health through the planting of vegetable gardens in the Myaungmya district, southwestern Myanmar. Continue reading “Japanese doctor spreads veggie gardens through rural Myanmar”
HONG KONG — A landslide at a jade mine in northern Myanmar has killed at least 12 people, and dozens more might have been buried by the collapsed hillside, an official said on Tuesday. Continue reading “Landslide at Myanmar Jade Mine Kills at Least 12”
Updated May 22, 2016 11:05 a.m. ET
YANGON, Myanmar—Khin Shwe, a businessman once known for his close ties to Myanmar’s former spy chief, said he tried hard to get off the U.S. blacklist of people who backed the country’s former military junta. Continue reading “For Myanmar, End to U.S. Penalties Still a Murky Goal”
By Pavin Chachavalpongpun
A role reversal for Myanmar and Thailand is starkly in the making, as concerns about militarism seem to continue to migrate from the former to the latter at a speedy rate. Recent developments towards democracy in Myanmar have been impressive. After several decades of repression under military rule, a civilian government today rules Myanmar, while the military is retreating into the barracks. Continue reading “Militarism in Thailand and Myanmar: A Role Reversal in the Making?”
ယခင္ စစ္အစိုးရ လက္ထက္ ေခါင္းေဆာင္ ေဟာင္း ျဖစ္ သည့္ ဗိုလ္ခ ် ဳပ္မႈး ႀကီး သန္း
ေရႊ ႏွင့္ ၁၉၉၀ ေရြးေကာက္ပြဲ ၊ ၂၀၁၅ ေရြးေကာက္ ပြဲ အႏိုင္ရ NLD ပါတီ ဥကၠဌ Continue reading “အၿငိမ္းစား စစ္ေခါင္းေဆာင္ ေဟာင္း နဲ ့ ေဒၚေအာင္ဆန္းစုၾကည္ တို ့ နာရီ အတန္ၾကာ ေတြ ့ဆံု”
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