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 Federalism ought to be a means to achieve peace and stability in Myanmar. Photo: AFP
May 5, 2018

Central to the debate is also Schedule 2 of the 2008 Constitution, which has in fact carved out some powers and responsibilities to the...

April 29, 2018

The KNLA’s Vice Chief of Staff Lt-Gen Saw Baw Kyaw Heh shared his views and opinions on this issue.

Q: What’s your view on the...

April 27, 2018

Thank you Excellency for giving an interview to Mizzima TV. Allow me to start with press freedom. May 3 is World Press Freedom Day, and...

Sir Michael Tugendhat ( Photo: Franco-British Lawyers Society)
March 28, 2018

Sir Michael Tugendhat (Ret.d) was a Judge of the High Court of England and Wales from 2003 to June 2014. He was the High Court’s most senior...

Journalists at work in the news room of of Myanmar Times weekly journal, Yangon, Myanmar. Photo: Lynn Bo Bo/EPA
February 9, 2018

In virtually every country in the world, women remain underrepresented in practically all positions of power, be it in politics, business or...

Janelle Saffin, a long-term friend of Burma/Myanmar, a practicing lawyer
February 6, 2018

This can happen through the Civil Service’s reforms already underway.

In Burma (Myanmar)’s transition to democracy, with the government...

January 26, 2018

The NMSP and the LDU jointly announced that they would sign the NCA shortly after having to separate meetings with State Counselor Aung San Suu...

Mr Nigel Roberts, Interim Director of the Technical Secretariat of the Joint Peace Fund. Photo: Thet Ko for Mizzima
January 6, 2018

As a prelude to the interview, Mr Roberts said he has been filling in between one director and another with the Joint Peace Fund, so he said he...

US Ambassador Mr Scot Marciel. Photo: Thura/Mizzima
December 22, 2017

We are now ending 2017 and looking to 2018. Let me start with a very challenging issue that Myanmar has been facing with the Rakhine...

December 16, 2017

The government said in a statement that Wa Lone, 31, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 27, were arrested for allegedly planning “to send important security...

December 8, 2017

In March 2016, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, State Counsellor of Myanmar (Burma), said in a speech that peace could not be achieved unless forgiveness...

November 28, 2017

It is extra-ordinary as it was allowed to hold the occasion for the first time since his death, as Sao Shwe Thaik’s residential Palace in...

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