Activists: Myanmar Clinging to Political Prisoners
Continue reading “Activists: Myanmar Clinging to Political Prisoners”
Continue reading “Activists: Myanmar Clinging to Political Prisoners”
In November, President Obama will travel to Myanmar to attend the East Asia Summit, which brings together a broad range of nations from across the Pacific Rim. It will be the president’s second trip to Myanmar, following his landmark 2012 trip, which was the first by a sitting U.S. president to Myanmar since the country gained independence six decades ago. During the East Asia Summit, Obama almost surely will hold bilateral meetings with Myanmar President Thein Sein and other senior Myanmar leaders, including opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi. Continue reading “Obama Prepares to Travel to Myanmar at a Critical Time”
Photo Essay: after four decades of military dictatorship, Myanmar is taking faltering steps towards democracy. Simon Willis spoke to the photographer Matthias Messmer about capturing a country with a complicated present and a murky future
From INTELLIGENT LIFE magazine, September/October 2014 Continue reading “THE HAZE BLOCKS THE VIEW : MYANMAR’S SHAKY TRANSFORMATION FROM DICTATORSHIP TO DEMOCRACY”
မသန္မစြမ္း သူမ်ား ရဲ ့ အိုလံ ပစ္ ပြဲ ေတာ္ နဲ ့ အျခား အားကစား ၿပိဳင္ ပြဲ ေတြ မွာ အေျပးသမား အေန နဲ ့ ေရႊတံ
ဆိပ္ ဆုေတြ ရရွိခဲ့တဲ့ ေအာ္စကာ ပစ္စတိုရီးယာစ္ ကို တရား သူ ႀကီး သိုကိုဇီလီ မာဆီပါ က လူသတ္ မႈ နဲ ့ အပစ္ Continue reading “ေအာ္စကာ ပစ္စတိုရီးယာစ္ မွာ လူသတ္ မႈ နဲ ့ အျပစ္ မရွိ”
အစၥလာမ္ မစ္ ႏိုင္ငံေတာ္ ISIS လို ့ သူတို ့ကို သူတို ့မွည့္ ေခၚ ထား တဲ့ ဆီးရီးယား နဲ ့ အီရတ္ အေျခ
စိုက္ အၾကမ္းဖက္ အဖြဲ ့ အစည္း က ဒုတိယ ေျမာက္ အေမရိကန္ သတင္းစာဆရာ စတီဗင္ စတိုေလာဖ္ Continue reading “ဒုတိယ ေျမာက္ အေမရိကန္ သတင္းစာ ဆရာ တစ္ဦး ကို အိုင္ဇစ္ ေခါင္းျဖတ္သတ္”
လက္ရွိ၀န္ ႀကီး ခ်ဳပ္ ႏႈတ္ထြက္ ေပး ဖို ့ ေတာင္း ဆို မႈ ေတြ ျမင့္ တက္ လာ ခ်ိန္ မွာ
ၿမိဳ ့ ေတာ္ အစၥလာမာဘတ္ မွာ ေတာ့ အစိုးရ ပိုင္ အသံ လႊင့္ ရံု ကို တနလၤာ
ေန ့ က ၀င္ စီးခဲ့ တာ ေၾကာင့္ ရုပ္သံ ထုတ္လႊင့္ မႈ ေတြ ပါ ေခတၱ ျပတ္ေတာက္ ခဲ့ ပါတယ္။ Continue reading “ပါကစၥတန္ မွာ စစ္တပ္ က အာဏာ သိမ္းမယ္ လို ့ သတင္း ေတြ ထြက္”
ပါလက္စတိုင္း ကေလး ငယ္ေတြ အတြက္ ကုလ သမဂၢ က ေန ဖြင့္လွစ္ ေပးထား တဲ့ ရာဖာ ေဒသ က
ကုလ ေက် ာင္း ကို အစၥေရး ေလတပ္ က ပစ္မွတ္ ထား တိုက္ခိုက္ မႈ မွာ ဗံုးထိမွန္ ခဲ့ တဲ့ အတြက္ အနည္း Continue reading “ဂါဇာ က ကုလ ေက် ာင္း ကို အစၥေရး ေလတပ္ ဗံုးႀကဲ ဆယ္ဦးေသ ၊ အမ် ား အျပား ဒဏ္ရရ”
Myanmar presidential spokesman Ye Htut was nominated Wednesday to be the country’s new minister of information after his predecessor resigned, part of a cabinet shuffle amid tighter restrictions on the news media and criticism over the expulsion of aid agencies from areas hit by sectarian strife.
A presidential order published in the state-run New Light of Myanmar newspaper on Wednesday said Information Minister Aung Kyi and Health Minister Pe Thet Khin had been allowed to resign “of their own volition,” phrasing that usually suggests dismissals. Continue reading “Myanmar Shuffles Cabinet Amid Press Crackdown, Aid Dispute”
Shwedagon Pagoda is visible from almost all of Yangon
OFF-limits for years, Myanmar can now be freely visited.
In recent years, conveniences such as mobile phone coverage, internet access and internationally linked ATMs have all improved or made their debut.
Relaxing of censorship has led to an explosion of new media and an astonishing Continue reading “Lonely Planet guide: Top five things to do in Myanmar”
တင္ေက် ာ္ေက် ာ္စိုး၊ ၊ ၁၉၆၂ ခုႏွစ္ တြင္ အာဏာ သိမ္းၿပီး ေနာက္ ျမန္မာ ႏိုင္ငံ ကို ၂၆ ႏွစ္ ၾကာ အုပ္စိုးသြား ခဲ့ သည့္ အာဏာရွင္
ေဟာင္း ဦးေန၀င္း အား သူ ၏ ေနာက္ဆံုး ေန ့ မ် ား တြင္ ကမာၻ က အဆင္း ရဲ ဆံုး ႏိုင္ငံ မွ အခ်မ္းသား ဆံုး
လူသား အျဖစ္ သိထားခဲ့ၾကသည္။ Continue reading “ျပည္သူ ့ ပိုက္ဆံ ငါ့ ပိုက္ဆံ လုပ္ခဲ့တဲ့ ဦးေန၀င္း ရဲ ့ေငြမဲ မ် ား”
WASHINGTON — Sen. Mitch McConnell issued a strong call Thursday for Myanmar to amend its constitution to allow opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi to run for president and for the military to submit to civilian rule. Continue reading “Key senator urges Myanmar to reform constitution”
In early March, Yangon—the former capital of Myanmar (Burma)—played host to a conference held by the East-West Center, called “Challenges of a Free Press.” The event (which I attended) featured speakers from around the world, but was more notable for its local speakers, including Aung San Suu Kyi and Nay Phone Latt, a blogger who spent four years as a political prisoner before being released under a widespread presidential amnesty in 2012. In a country where the Internet was heavily censored for many years, online freedom was discussed with surprising openness, although concerns about hate speech on platforms like Facebook were raised repeatedly.
Continue reading “Myanmar’s Facebook Block Could Signal More to Come”
ရင္သားကင္ဆာဟာ အမ်ိဳးသမီးေတြအတြက္အရမ္းကို ေၾကာက္စရာေကာင္းတဲ့ ေရာဂါတစ္ခု ျဖစ္ပါတယ္။
ကင္ဆာေရာဂါ တိုင္းဟာ ဆိုး၀ါး လွသလို ရင္သား ကင္ဆာ ဆိုတာ ကလည္း ထိုနည္းတူ ပါပဲ။ Continue reading “ရင္သားကင္ဆာ လြယ္ကူစြာ ကာကြယ္ပါ”