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We Love Wirathu : Campaigns Launched
Supporters of firebrand nationalist monk U Wirathu launched campaigns to garner signatures in his support in Karen State and Mandalay Region earlier this month. The “We Love Wirathu” campaigns were launched in response to allegations that U Wirathu’s sermons were...
A Frontline Dispatch From the Tanai Conflict
Under the heavy rain, I boarded a boat with a group of fellow reporters and made my way to a patch of Kachin Independence Army (KIA) territory threatened by the Myanmar Army about an hour from Tanai town. Thousands of locals and migrants working the area’s gold and...
Kachin IDPs Face Hunger and Homelessness
TANAI TOWNSHIP, Kachin State — Three days ago, Steven Naw Ring, 35, and his family fled their home in the mining village of Nan Kon in Tanai Township, Kachin State. Fighting had broken out between the Myanmar Army, also known as the Tatmadaw, and the Kachin...
Programme Culturel Yangon juin 2017
Let My Voice Be Heard: Photography Exhibition | June 9-18 This photo exhibition showcases a selection of photographs produced through a participatory photography project with young people displaced by conflict in Kachin State. Myo Haung Road | June 17-21 The...
U Wirathu Claims Facebook Blocked His Accounts
Myanmar’s ultranationalist Buddhist monk U Wirathu claimed Facebook temporarily shut down his account in a video shared on another Facebook account last Friday. “On May 31 [Facebook] said they would shut down the account for a month, after sending a report,” he said,...
Ethnic Media in Myanmar: New Approaches
After reforms by Myanmar’s post-2011 government, the landscape for both mainstream and ethnic media has changed dramatically, with new media outlets blooming. Abolishing the country’s censor board and welcoming exiled media groups to publish in-country, the...
Does The Issue of Kachin State’s Displaced People
The Issue of Kachin State’s Displaced People. As the sixth anniversary of the resumption of Burma’s civil war between the Burma Army and ethnic armed group the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) arrives, civilians in Kachin State continue to be displaced by conflict....
For Laos, Chinese Banana Boom a Blessing and Curse
BOKEO, Laos — Kongkaew Vonusak smiles when he recalls the arrival of Chinese investors in his tranquil village in northern Laos in 2014. With them came easy money, he said. The Chinese offered villagers up to US$720 per hectare to rent their land, much of it fallow...