Feature
April 22, 2011
| Line Skovlund Larsen
(Feature) – The sun was up high in the sky when our group of Danish students and teachers walked into the People’s Park in Rangoon to chat about the...
April 20, 2011
| Laila de Champfleury
Rangoon (Mizzima) - The Lady is not a revolutionary. The heroine of the Burmese pro-democracy movement sat calmly, hands lightly clasped together on...
April 20, 2011
| Kanbawza Win/Taunggyi Time
The people of Burma especially the middle age person who had gone through the Burmese Socialist days clearly understands the psyche and rationale of...
April 8, 2011
| Soe Wai Yan
Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – Getting a job can be an uphill struggle at the best of times in Burma. But when it comes to applying for a government job, the...
April 1, 2011
| Thomas Maung Shwe
Chiang Mai (Mizzima) – A new report by the human and legal rights group Earth Rights International alleges frequent and severe abuses have been...
April 1, 2011
| Hein Min, Sandi Nwe, Ko Linn
Rangoon (Mizzima) – When it comes to corruption, Burma is just a whisker away from rock bottom.
April 1, 2011
| John Hanness
A total of 157 state-owned properties in Rangoon were put up for auction in March. Although details of the sale are sketchy, it follows the pattern...
March 22, 2011
| Joseph Ball
Rain lashed down at dusk on small fishing boats bobbing on a turbulent Andaman Sea as candles flickered through windows open to the elements. As I...
March 22, 2011
| Mandalar Maung
As the Internet and social media spread news of civil unrest and demonstrations in Tunisia, Egypt, Bahrain, Yemen and Libya, the military junta in...
March 22, 2011
| Kyaw Hla
Begum Fatema was five years old when she and her family left her home in Arakan State and fled to Bangladesh 15 years ago because of brutal treatment...
March 18, 2011
| Kaladan Press
Begum Fatema was five years old when she and her family left her home in Arakan State and fled to Bangladesh 15 years ago because of brutal treatment...
March 9, 2011
| Zoya Phan
Aung San Suu Kyi, the general secretary of the National League for Democracy, for example, leads the democracy movement, and she’s one of the most...
March 3, 2011
| Seng Ja
A large group of students, ages 8 to 15 years old, dressed in dirty clothes and with unkempt appearance, rush from classrooms as soon as the...
March 3, 2011
| KAYAH HTET
Dawtamagyi village-tract, in Demawso Township, was dark and almost quiet. The families in all but one of the 19 houses had settled down for the night...
March 2, 2011
| Manight Ewar
If the Burmese government and foreign investors have their way, the Hatgyi Dam will soon be generating 1,200 Mega Watts of electricity for Thailand...