Enslaved fishery workers near Pyapon City
13 Minutes To ReadKhin Myat Myat Wai reports on offshore raft fishing in Myanmar, as translated by Stephen Campbell.
Unfolding Scenes Behind the Curtain
8 Minutes To ReadDaw Htay Htay Win describes the history behind the distribution of Bogyoke Aung Gyi’s letter.
Where China Meets Pyu: The “Tharaba Gate” Bilingual Inscriptions at Pagan
4 Minutes To ReadLiu Yun analyzes the significance of an Chinese-Pyu inscription found at the Tharaba Gate.
Keiji Suzuki: The Japanese Lawrence of Arabia who helped end British Rule in Myanmar
5 Minutes To ReadAndrew Thomson discusses Japanese Officer Keiji Suzuki’s role in Myanmar’s independence movement.
Border Capitalism, Disrupted: Precarity and Struggle in a Southeast Asian Industrial Zone by Stephen Campbell. Cornell University Press, 2018. 206 Pages.
8 Minutes To ReadCourtney T. Wittekind reviews Stephen Campbell’s account of migrant labor in Thailand.
Reporting the Retreat: War Correspondents in Burma by Philip Woods, London, Hurst & Co., 2016, 206 Pages, ISBN: 9781849047173
4 Minutes To ReadGiulia Garbagni reviews a nuanced account of the challenges and contradictions of wartime journalism.
Myanmar’s Freedom of Expression as a Broken Promise of the NLD
11 Minutes To ReadYaw Bawm Mangshang analyzes the status of press freedom under the NLD-led government.
Myanmar’s Paletwa Township: A Photo Essay
< 1 minuteBobby Anderson captures Myanmar’s Paletwa Township in Chin State, and parts of neighboring Rakhine.
Burma, Kipling and Western Music – The Riff from Mandalay by Andrew Selth, New York, Routledge, 2017, 293 Pages.
5 Minutes To ReadReshmi Banerjee reviews Andrew Selth’s book on popular music in colonial Burma.
Hidden Words, Hidden Worlds – Contemporary Short Stories from Myanmar, Lucas Stewart and Alfred Birnbaum (eds.), British Council, London, 2017. Pp. 153.
5 Minutes To ReadRichard Roewer reviews a new collection of short stories from Myanmar writers.