8 Minutes To ReadKo Htwe describes ethnic media’s response to constraints on the press in Myanmar.
Tags: ethnicity, media, news, press freedom, technology
June 7, 2017
5 Minutes To ReadKyaw Kyaw Thein wonders how much the media landscape has really improved.
Tags: media, National League for Democracy (NLD), press freedom, reform
June 5, 2017
6 Minutes To ReadCourtney Wittekind reviews a new book on Buddhism and political thought by Matthew J. Walton.
Tags: Book Review, buddhism, democracy, morality, political dialogue
June 2, 2017
9 Minutes To ReadGum Sha Awng reviews the situation of displaced people in Kachin and Shan States.
Tags: conflict, displacement, humanitarian aid, Kachin, Shan State
May 30, 2017
5 Minutes To ReadKyaw Sit Naing describes the difficulties of entrepreneurship in Myanmar.
Tags: finance, technology, transition
May 25, 2017
4 Minutes To ReadStephen Weedon discusses the state of Myanmar’s insurance industry.
Tags: investment, transition
May 23, 2017
5 Minutes To ReadPhyu Phyu Thin Zaw discusses what’s missing in the education reform process.
Tags: curriculum, educational reform, ethnic languages, ethnicity
May 19, 2017
8 Minutes To ReadEMReF researchers consider the role of Myanmar’s local parliaments.
Tags: civil society, democracy, federalism, law, research
May 17, 2017
8 Minutes To ReadYan Naung Oak explains the current and future uses of open data in Myanmar.
Tags: civil society, development, elections, technology
May 15, 2017
3 Minutes To ReadAngshuman Choudhury considers the implications of the disintegration of the UNFC.
Tags: ethnic conflict, Kachin, peace process, Wa
May 11, 2017
6 Minutes To ReadDiana Huynh examines the historical and contemporary controversy of the Rangoon University Student Union.
Tags: National League for Democracy (NLD), transition, Yangon, youth activism
May 8, 2017
5 Minutes To ReadAshley South visits rural Karen communities on holiday.
Tags: borders, Karen, Karen National Union (KNU)
May 5, 2017
7 Minutes To ReadBrandon Aung Moe looks at regional lessons for Myanmar’s educational reform.
Tags: educational reform, infrastructure, Southeast Asia, youth
May 2, 2017
7 Minutes To ReadReshmi Banerjee talks with Yi Li about her new book on the Chinese migrant community in colonial Burma.
Tags: Book Review, Chinese, diaspora, migrants, migration
April 28, 2017
11 Minutes To ReadSai Latt challenges conventional wisdom on Myanmar’s political divides.
Tags: buddhism, film, memory, music, peace process
April 26, 2017
10 Minutes To Read
Htay Htay Win tracks down memories of her jockey grandfather, Thein Pe of the Rangoon Turf Club.
Tags: colonialism, history, memory, religion
April 24, 2017
4 Minutes To ReadThe Myanmar Media and Society team previews its current oral history project.
Tags: history, Islam, peace, religion, religious conflict
April 21, 2017
12 Minutes To ReadGiulia Garbagni draws on the St Antony’s archives to describe the Karen petition for statehood.
Tags: archives, history, Karen, nation-building, research, United Nations (UN)
April 19, 2017
6 Minutes To ReadLaur Kiik talks with a person who was at the root of the Myitsone resistance.
Tags: China, geopolitics, Kachin, Myitsone
April 17, 2017
< 1 minuteTea Circle will take a break over Thingyan.
Tags: tea circle, Thingyan
April 7, 2017
5 Minutes To ReadReshmi Banerjee loses herself in the Architectural Guide Yangon.
Tags: architecture, Book Review, history, Yangon
April 5, 2017
8 Minutes To ReadMael Raynaud considers what education reform debates reveal about current political conditions.
Tags: educational reform, National League for Democracy (NLD)
April 3, 2017
4 Minutes To ReadElizabeth Rhoads on ‘Bridgegate’ and by-elections in Mon State.
Tags: elections, ethnic politics, ethnicity, Mon, National League for Democracy (NLD)
March 31, 2017
2 Minutes To ReadThe Charles Wallace Burma Trust will sponsor one scholar or practitioner from Burma as a visitor to the Department of Politics and International Relations for one Oxford term in the […]
March 30, 2017
5 Minutes To ReadMatthew J Walton looks at the controversy over a bridge in Mon State.
Tags: Aung San, ethnic minorities, ethnic politics, ethnicity, Mon State, National League for Democracy (NLD)
March 29, 2017
3 Minutes To ReadAn update from Liu Yun after the recent Pangkham summit.
Tags: China, ethnic conflict, peace process, Wa
March 27, 2017
6 Minutes To ReadJoanna Dolińska reviews the challenges associated with interpreting and translating in Myanmar.
Tags: Burmese, interpreting, Thabyay Education Foundation, translation
March 23, 2017
7 Minutes To ReadAung Khant muses on Yangon’s drainage and infrastructure challenges.
Tags: development, infrastructure, urban politics, Yangon
March 20, 2017
9 Minutes To Read
Tags: Book Review, borderlands, environment, ethnicity
March 15, 2017
11 Minutes To ReadMartin Michalon explains the effects of tourism on the Inlay Lake Region.
Tags: development, environment, governance, Inle Lake, tourism, travel
March 9, 2017
6 Minutes To ReadCourtney T. Wittekind reflects on the nuanced framing of war and peace offered by a new edited volume.
Tags: Book Review, borderlands, ethnicity, Kachin, peace
March 2, 2017
3 Minutes To ReadLiu Yun says skilled negotiators are needed in Myanmar’s Peace Process.
Tags: ethnic armed organisations, Northern Alliance-Burma (NAB), peace process
February 23, 2017
7 Minutes To ReadKyungmee Kim evaluates existing narratives of regulation and development of Myanmar’s waterways.
Tags: conservation, energy, environment, Myitsone
February 20, 2017
8 Minutes To ReadReshmi Bannerjee reflects on some of Myanmar’s famous waterways.
February 16, 2017
9 Minutes To ReadMarion Sabrié considers different views on Myanmar’s iconic river.
Tags: conservation, development, irrawaddy
February 14, 2017
11 Minutes To ReadPhacharaphorn Phanomvan reflects on the role of female Buddhist practitioners in Buddhist societies.
Tags: buddhism, gender, religion, Thailand, women
February 10, 2017
9 Minutes To ReadReshmi Banerjee talks to a relative about his “Burma years.”
Tags: history, Japan, Shan State, World War II
February 8, 2017
5 Minutes To ReadT. F. Rhoden reviews Renaud Egreteau’s new book on Burmese politics and the praetorian side of democratization.
Tags: Book Review, democracy
February 6, 2017
9 Minutes To ReadMael Raynaud continues his look at elite politics in Myanmar. Part One can be found here.
Tags: Aung San Suu Kyi, colonialism, democracy, saffron revolution
February 2, 2017
9 Minutes To ReadMael Raynaud explores elite dynamics in Myanmar’s social structure.
Tags: Aung San Suu Kyi, colonialism, democracy, saffron revolution
January 30, 2017
3 Minutes To Read
Tea Circle is now accepting submissions for a new forum on Myanmar’s Waterways.
January 26, 2017
6 Minutes To ReadReshmi Banerjee reviews Nehginpao Kipgen’s new book on Myanmar’s transition.
Tags: Book Review, democracy
3 Minutes To ReadKhin Zaw Win shares enthusiasm about growing public sentiment for peace.
Tags: activism, peace, violence
January 23, 2017
5 Minutes To ReadDiana Huynh explores the possibilities for Yangon’s future development.
Tags: National League for Democracy (NLD), urban planning, urbanisation, Yangon
January 20, 2017
3 Minutes To ReadLiu Yun takes a critical look at the NAB offensive and China-Myanmar relations.
Tags: borderlands, China, ethnic armed organisations, ethnic armies, peace, violence
January 18, 2017
5 Minutes To ReadThe Myanmar Media and Society Project team explores actions that have de-escalated conflict.
Tags: media, peace, religion, religious conflict, violence
January 13, 2017
6 Minutes To ReadCourtney Wittekind asks whether land claims might be calls for a re-orientation of time.
Tags: land, transition
January 10, 2017
< 1 minuteHappy New Year and Happy Myanmar Independence Day from Tea Circle!
Tags: tea circle
January 4, 2017
3 Minutes To ReadThe Programme on Modern Burmese Studies at St Antony’s College, University of Oxford, in collaboration with SOAS, University of London, will host a Graduate Student Workshop entitled “New Directions in Research […]
Tags: research
December 21, 2016
3 Minutes To ReadLiu Yun considers whether things have changed in the realm of civil-military relations.
