Events

December 23, 2016

International condemnation of National League for Democracy (NLD) regime has been on the rise since the abrupt explosion of Rohingya uprising in...

December 12, 2016

The NA-B launched an offensive on Tatmadaw’s positons employing the strategy of “offensive is the best defensive”, while also showing their...

December 8, 2016

Let us look at the whole peace process of this some five years, four under the Thein Sein government and some nine months now under the NLD regime...

December 8, 2016

I never knew the world has different terms for different nationalisms until the 19-25 November issue of The Economist recently reached my hands....

December 6, 2016

On 2 December, Defense Minister Lt‐Gen Sein Win proposed to the Lower House that the Parliament should consider labeling the NA-B that launched...

November 18, 2016

While all the said issues are linked and important, each in its own way, Min Aung Hlaing’s Brussels visit is  the most outstanding, especially as...

November 11, 2016

From the outset, the UWSA has been quite skeptic to participate in the Union Peace Conference (UPC), also dubbed 21st Century Panglong (21CPC),...

November 10, 2016

While some lessons from such a project could definitely be drawn, it is not clear if such similar undertakings would follow suit anytime soon for...

Phil Robertson Deputy Director, Asia Division, Human Rights Watch. Photo: HRW
November 4, 2016

Land confiscation and land security is a problem in many parts of Myanmar. Why the focus on Karen State?

While land confiscation is an...

November 1, 2016

From the outset, the UPDJC, which is supposed to be made up of all-inclusive stakeholders, is not at all inclusive, especially where the warring...

October 31, 2016

It answers a lot of questions that have myself and other plagued Burma watchers, both Shans and non-Shans alike. It also brings back memories...

October 24, 2016

The political dialogue framework review and political talks, following the first anniversary occasion in Naypyitaw on 15 October, at the National...

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