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Tag: Burma

Posted inMyanmar

UN envoy to make Myanmar diplomatic push in Asia

by AT Contributor April 9, 2021April 9, 2021

The UN’s special envoy for Myanmar is to embark on an Asian tour to step up diplomatic efforts to tackle the crisis, as the death toll from the junta’s crackdown on dissent passed 600 on Friday. The push by Christine Schraner Burgener comes amid mounting international concern at events in Myanmar, rocked by daily protests […]

Posted inMyanmar

Myanmar envoy lashes out against the regime at UN

by AT Contributor February 27, 2021February 27, 2021
Posted inMyanmar

Myanmar locks down one million in Rakhine state

by AT Contributor August 26, 2020August 26, 2020
Posted inOpinion

An obstruction on the road to Mandalay

by Neville Sarony August 18, 2020August 18, 2020
Posted inWorld

Merrill’s Marauders: America’s greatest special forces

by Dave Makichuk December 30, 2019February 18, 2020
Posted inAT Finance, India, Myanmar, South Asia

How a Burmese millionaire changed the world

by Raja Murthy December 20, 2019February 18, 2020
Posted inAT Finance, India, Myanmar, South Asia

A Myanmar accountant’s anti-corruption legacy

by Raja Murthy April 21, 2019February 18, 2020
Newly elected Myanmar President Win Myint. Photo: Reuters
Posted inAT Finance, Bangladesh, Myanmar, South Asia

Can Myanmar’s new president deliver?

by Prajakta Gupte April 4, 2018April 4, 2018
A group of Riang (Yang-Wan-Hkun) in Myanmar in 1922. Photo: Wikimedia
Posted inAT Finance, Myanmar

Clarifying Myanmar’s complex ethnic makeup

by Sai Wansai December 7, 2017December 7, 2017
Thousands of Rohingya Muslims have fled to neighboring Bangladesh to escape military persecution in Rakhine state in Myanmar. The author says the government of Myanmar needs to work with minority groups such as the Rohingya to establish an all-inclusive national identify.  
Photo: AFP/Dibyangshu Sarkar
Posted inAT Finance, Myanmar, South Asia

All-inclusive national identity is the way to peace in Myanmar

by Sai Wansai November 8, 2017
De facto Myanmar ruler Aung San Suu Kai's indifference to press freedom has attracted intense criticism. Photo: Soe Zeya Tun/Reuters
Posted inAT Finance, European Union, Myanmar, Northeast Asia, World

Why Suu Kyi should reach out to Myanmar’s media

by Tej Parikh July 15, 2017July 15, 2017
The Yangon Stock Exchange (YSX) building. Photo: iStock
Posted inAT Finance, China, European Union, Japan, Myanmar, Northeast Asia, Singapore, Vietnam, World

Myanmar’s missing investment law liftoff

by Gary Kleiman May 25, 2017May 25, 2017
Tatamadaw soldiers in Lashio city. Photo: Carole Oudot
Posted inUncategorized

To stay or go? Stark choices for villagers in war-torn Shan state

by Carole Oudot and Matthieu Baudey December 27, 2016February 18, 2020

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