Feature
September 9, 2008
| S. N. Oo
In the last two centuries unfair treatment of society by other groups or by their government has gone up greatly. This has been due to campaigners...
September 5, 2008
| Say Reh Soe
Thousands of Kayan people from Burma, sometimes called "long-neck Karen," have in recent decades, like hundreds of thousands of other Burmese, fled...
August 22, 2008
| Zarni
Despite being a graduate of Yangon Technological University, Ko Ko said he has lost hope in finding a good job and plans to go abroad to earn money.
August 21, 2008
| Larry Jagan
The UN's special envoy to Burma, Ibrahim Gambari's current mission to help break the political deadlock between the military junta and the detained...
August 6, 2008
| Lawi Weng
Sitting together on the boat with some Burmese teenagers crossing illegally into Thailand, I overheard many of them talking quietly about...
August 5, 2008
| Daily Htet
When I was thinking about writing an article on the Kayan (Padaung Long-neck) people, I recalled a proverb which goes "there will be done nothing if...
July 31, 2008
| Written by Ring Aung & Htoo Htoo San
A new report by the Human Rights Watch (HRW) says Burma has the second biggest army in Southeast Asia and it bolsters its numbers with child soldiers.
July 15, 2008
| Siha Ong
At the Annual General Meeting hosted by the Mon migrant community in Klang, near Kuala Lumpur, Master of Ceremonies Nai Plu took the opportunity to...
July 13, 2008
| Shyamal Sarkar
Nothing can be more despicable than making money from the dead. But that is precisely what Burmese junta administrators and a section of police...
July 1, 2008
| Shyamal Sarkar
Cultivation of poppy and the consumption of opium has become the bane of Kachin State in northern Burma. Demand for opium far outstrips production...
June 26, 2008
| S.H.A.N
"The government is bankrupt and the generals have all the money," reported Mizzima News, on 25 April, quoting a member of an International NGO in...
June 20, 2008
| Asohn Vi
The dilemmas of survivors of Cyclone Nargis in the Irrawaddy Delta seem to grow everyday, even as meaningless restrictions prohibiting the movement...
June 18, 2008
| Larry Jagan
Millions of people throughout the world will mark the birthday of Burma's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi on June 19. The co-ordinated campaign...
May 27, 2008
| Lawi Weng
The origins of the recent influx of amphetamines into Sanghklaburi , Thailand are unknown and widely debated. The Mon people claim the pills are...
February 27, 2008
| Joi Htaw
The 61st anniversary National Day has been celebrated around the world where the Mon people are located. The National Day has been observed not only...