Rioting for Rule of Law – Prison Amnesties and Riots in Myanmar
5 Minutes To ReadLiv Gaborit and Andrew Jefferson discuss the value of amnesties in light of the recent prison riots.
Corruption: A Severe, Chronic Disease Myanmar Has to Fight
9 Minutes To ReadZaw Myat Lin discusses the issue of corruption and the current anti-corruption campaigns ongoing in Myanmar.
Taxing Shwe-Yin-Aye
3 Minutes To ReadSwe Zaw Oo narrates a perspective on the prevalence of tax evasion in Myanmar’s cash-based economy. Image courtesy of Swe Zaw Oo The sleepy afternoon of a Yangon street is woken Read the full article…
Myanmar’s future journalists confront the meaning of freedom of expression (Part 1)
10 Minutes To ReadMarie Puyessegur explores events in part one of a three-part series conducted as part of the MEMORY! Heritage Film Festival, an annual event in Yangon.
Hanging in the Balance: Challenges in Relocating a Post-secondary School from a Thai Refugee Camp to a Ceasefire area in Myanmar
9 Minutes To ReadSu-Ann Oh and Melanie Walker discuss the challenges of return to ceasefire areas faced by post-secondary schools in Karen refugee camps on the Thai-Myanmar border.
Myanmar’s ‘Rohingya’ Conflict by Anthony Ware and Costas Laoutides. London: Hurst, 2018, 224pp.
6 Minutes To ReadElliott Prasse-Freeman argues that a new book sacrifices analytical rigor for antipolitical “objectivity.”
Addressing Landmine Contamination within the Myanmar Peace Process: The Case of Karen State
7 Minutes To ReadGregory Cathcart and Saw Chit Thet Tun examine how Mine Action activities could ignite movement in the current peace process in Karen State.
Post-secondary Education in Myanmar: Reform from the Ground-up
9 Minutes To ReadShona Loong and Gray Rinehart discuss how local leaders in post-secondary schools pave the way for inclusive, critical, and community-based learning.
Remembering Michel Louis Méca’s birthday cake
4 Minutes To ReadDaw Htay Htay Win remembers chef Michel Louis Méca, and a very special cake he baked.
Dire need for an alternative in Rakhine
10 Minutes To ReadThiha Wint Aung explains why responding to the Arakan Army (AA) with full military might would be counterproductive.
