The 2018 documentary film Child of the Revolution opens with a shot of the rolling green mountains in Myanmar’s eastern Kayin State. A Karen woman begins her story—that of a family torn apart by decades of conflict but committed to…
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Southeast Asia Dispatches: Freedom of Expression in Myanmar
After winning the general elections in 2015, the National League for Democracy (NLD) became the first democratically elected, civilian-led government in Myanmar since 1962, which kindled hope that the country would see a significant shift in freedom of expression. Almost…
Tagged with: Burma, Freedom of expression, human rights, Myanmar, New Naratif, Southeast Asia Dispatches
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Myanmar’s Anti-War Generation
YANGON – “Without ending war we can’t move forward as a nation,” said 23-year-old Myanmar peace activist Esther Naw. Naw is under constant surveillance by Yangon’s Special Branch of the police, run by Myanmar’s Ministry of Home Affairs – one…
Myanmar’s Youthful Change – CBC The World this Weekend
YANGON, Myanmar – There has been a transition taking place in this Southeast Asian country since the end of 50 years of military dictatorship in 2012. The first fully democratic elections in 2015 brought Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for…
A Plan to Resolve one of Asia’s Longest Refugee Situations
MAE SOT, Thailand – The UN refugee agency field office in Mae Sot has been working for the last 15 years in nine refugee camps along Thailand’s western border. These camps are home to 102,777 refugees from Myanmar, formerly known as…
Tagged with: Burma, Burmese refugees, human rights, Mae Sot, Myanmar, Naypyidaw, PRX, refugee camps in Thailand, Refugees, return, Thailand, Yangon
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Myanmar’s Technology Leapfrog Into Mobile Money – PRX
YANGON, Myanmar – Burma’s democratic transition is leading to a tech transformation. Democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi told youth to stop wasting time on mobile phones and online. Almost half of Myanmar’s population is under 24 years of age. Everyone…
Tagged with: Aung San Suu Kyi, Burma, democracy, Mobile money, Mobile phones, Myanmar, social media, Southeast Asia, Technology, Yangon
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