Opinion

2021-11-18
Jade mining companies and government departments should be charged in the deaths of more than 170 jade pickers in a landslide in Gwi Hka mine in...
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...
Sai Wansai — To the surprise of Burma or Myanmar watchers and general public, Myanmar Tatmadaw or the Military resurfaced again after two years of...
Sai Wansai — The Karen National Union (KNU) and Karenni National Progressive Party (KNPP), the former a nationwide ceasefire agreement-signatory...
2020-03-24
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
2020-01-13
"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
2020-01-08
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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As buildings after buildings spring up in Shwe Kokko, a remote Karen border town bordering Thailand, many wonder if this mega-project real estate...
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
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...
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
2018-07-11
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...

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