The EU-Myanmar Investment Protection Agreement: the other human rights issues that the EU should be
ဥေရာပ သမဂၢ-ျမန္မာ ရင္းႏွီးျမႇပ္ႏွံမႈ ကာကြယ္ေရး သေဘာတူညီမႈ - ဥေရာပသမဂၢ အေနျဖင့္ စဥ္းစားသင့္သည့္ အျခား ေသာ လူ႔အခြင့္အေရး ကိစၥရပ္မ်ား...
Al Jazeera, Myanmar and the "ideal country"
The recent Al Jazeera focus on Myanmar "Aung San Suu Kyi's Myanmar" (see link below) paints a bleak picture of the first year of NLD...
Transparency, Peace and the European Union in Myanmar
Donors saying one thing, and their government doing another, is always a bad look. A network of civil society organisations in Myanmar...
Special economic zones and advocacy organisations
There might not be as much bulldozer consultation now, but how do advocacy organisations in Myanmar influence new economic development...
Villages, barbed wire and anthropology
Yangon has its fair share of barbed wire. But I found out last week that the home of barbed wire is the small town of Dekalb in Illinois...
The argument over the ‘source’ of democracy in Myanmar
Next week is the international Myanmar/Burma Studies Conference in the U.S. and I have a nerve wracking few minutes to present my ideas...
Why open contracting is crucial for Myanmar
ပြင့္လင္းျမင္သာေသာ စာခ်ဳပ္ခ်ဳပ္ဆိုမႈ An interview with Thit Thit Han from Spectrum PK Forum : What is 'open contracting', and why should...
Tin mines and accountability
It is one thing to allow citizens to voice their concerns. It is another for a government to respond to those concerns. But new decisions...