Opinion

April 6, 2021
Sai Wansai - It has not yet come to the stage where the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) has to decide whether the military junta or State...
June 15, 2020
Sai Wansai — To the surprise of Burma or Myanmar watchers and general public, Myanmar Tatmadaw or the Military resurfaced again after two years of...
April 4, 2020
Sai Wansai — The Karen National Union (KNU) and Karenni National Progressive Party (KNPP), the former a nationwide ceasefire agreement-signatory...
March 24, 2020
In Myanmar, limited groundwater resources must be used wisely to safeguard the livelihoods of thousands during the climate crisis. As we mark World...
Myanmar women carrying buckets on their heads collect drinking water from the outskirts of Naypyitaw, Myanmar, 25 April 2016. Photo: EPA
January 13, 2020
"We live in a part of the world that will be hit incredibly hard by climate change. The disruptions to agriculture and food security will be enormous...
Hundreds of Rohingya refugees enter Bangladesh from Budichong, Myanmar through the Palongkhali border in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, 09 October 2017, after crossing the Naf river. Photo: Abir Abdullah/EPA
January 8, 2020
Sai Wansai — Myanmar holds the dubious distinction of coming in fourth in a list of five countries in the world that drove the most people into exile...
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June 28, 2019
As buildings after buildings spring up in Shwe Kokko, a remote Karen border town bordering Thailand, many wonder if this mega-project real estate...
May 21, 2019
Eight Peace Process Steering Team (PPST) members plus other two Ethnic Armed Organizations (EAO), New Mon State Party (NMSP) and Lahu Democratic...
Photo by – Naunt Lao Naunt Lao/ Khun Tun Oo
April 10, 2019
As the 2020 election is just around the corner and only a year away every political party in Burma is gearing up and preparing to compete to the best...
September 17, 2018
This month of September marks five months since Saw O Moo, an unarmed civilian villager and Indigenous community leader who was killed by Burma army...
This picture taken on May 11, 2018 shows internally displaced people in a church compound in Myitkyina after fleeing conflict between government troops and ethnic armed group in Kachin state. Photo: Ye Aung Thu/AFP
July 11, 2018
Myanmar has a proud history of peaceful protests. Exercising the right to the freedom of peaceful assembly in the face of state violence has been a...
 Federalism ought to be a means to achieve peace and stability in Myanmar. Photo: AFP
May 5, 2018
A widely held perspective, and what can be called the conventional understanding is that the debate on federalism in Myanmar is closely linked to the...