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Tag: Ma Ba Tha

Posted inAT Finance, Myanmar

Suu’s strategies failed but NLD will win poll

by Htun Aung Gyaw October 24, 2019February 18, 2020

Burma’s democratic government has a chance to win a second term in office in the 2020 election because of Aung San Suu Kyi’s fame and her popularity is still strong within the country even though her government is facing many difficulties. Burmese politicians are preparing for elections in 2020 and that includes the military’s Senior […]

A Myanmar monk checks his Facebook with two Buddhist monk novices, April 11, 2016. Photo: AFP/Romeo Gacad
Posted inAT Finance, Middle East, Myanmar

Facebook tries to silence Myanmar’s hateful monks

by Lee Short July 5, 2018February 18, 2020
Supporters and monks belonging to the hardline Buddhist group Ma Ba Tha rally to the US embassy in Yangon on April 28, 2016.  
Photo: AFP/Romeo Gacad
Posted inAT Finance, Australia, Middle East, Myanmar, Oceania, Thailand, United Kingdom, World

Buddhist extremism, despite a clampdown, spreads in Myanmar

by Justine Chambers August 13, 2017February 18, 2020
Buddhist monks protest alongside activists (not pictured) against United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon for using the term Rohingya during the Asean summit in Yangon November 29, 2014. REUTERS/Soe Zeya Tun
Posted inAT Finance, Indonesia, Myanmar

Islamophobia redux in Myanmar

by David Scott Mathieson May 3, 2017February 18, 2020
Myanmar Buddhist monks participate in an anti-Muslim demonstration in Sittwe, Rakhine State on July 3, 2016. Sectarian violence has left scores dead since 2012. Photo: AFP / Win Moe
Posted inAT Finance, China, Myanmar, Thailand

Radical Buddhist revival in Myanmar

by Carole Oudot and Matthieu Baudey January 31, 2017February 18, 2020

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