Cause and karma
Amy Doffegnies
Before he was arrested, Ko Swe Win was already a target.
Category: Myanmar
Fallen idol
Andrew Selth
Since she assumed power, Aung San Suu Kyi has suffered a spectacular fall from grace.
Back to Mandalay
Joseph Woods
How a poem laden with colonial clichés gained such a hold on the Western imagination.
Pablo and Josie
James Jennings
When Pablo Nerduda landed in Burma.
Rakhine ramifications
Peter Firth
How the Rohingya disaster will affect Myanmar’s economic prospects
Frontier flux
David Eimer
How Aung San Suu Syi has failed to deliver peace to the borderlands of Myanmar.
MaBaTha
Matthew J Walton, Ma Khin Mar Mar Kyi and Aye Thein
A detailed examination of the Buddhist nationalist group that is causing havoc in Myanmar.
Poetry
Soe Nay Lynn, Amy Doffegnies
“Soe Nay Lynn”, “Vignette” “Pay Pay* at Phoe Htoo Teashop” & “The sky and its two stars”
Death in Yangon
Sean Gleeson
A slow Sunday afternoon in Yangon is shattered by the sound of gunshots.
The Rohingya
Julia Wallace
The long struggle for citizenship
Cronies Inc.
Nick Freeman
When Aung San Suu Kyi stopped supporting US sanctions against Myanmar, it changed everything.
The second Panglong trap
David Eimer
In Myanmar’s borderland conflict zones, promises of peace are wearily familiar
Guardian of Yangon
Poppy McPherson
Thant Myint-U writes “with an eye to what the past might say about the present”
Truth to power
Penny Edwards
You Need to Apologise to the People is in Burmese, written by a Burmese, about Burmese people
Derelict beauty
Cristina Maria Chiorean
The soul of Yangon reposes in buildings built by British, Indian and Chinese settler-traders
The Lady’s not for turning
David Eimer
Who needs friends when a whole country is in love with you?
Poetry
Maung Chaw Nwe, Sokunthary Svay
The latest in verse from around the Mekong region
The second laugh
Rachel Wong
Only Lonely Planet can get you “off the beaten path”, onto “the road less travelled”
Death or freedom
Sebastian Strangio
Myanmar fell apart as soon as it became independent
Defying Big Brother
Kenneth Wong
I came across a Winston Smith, a clerk who erased “unpersons”
Death railway
Alasdair Richards
The railway line that cost as many as 100,000 lives