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Myanmar

Art, activism and saving sacred rivers

Activist-journalist Myint Zaw has won the ‘Green Nobel’ for his campaign to save Myanmar's Irrawaddy river through art.

Southeast Asian Frontiers field course

Nicholas Farrelly reflects on an ANU field course about the Thailand-Myanmar borderlands

Vale Pamela Gutman

Trevor Wilson pays tribute to one of Australia's great Burma scholars

Reading Myanmar politics in 2015

New Mandala co-founder Nicholas Farrelly has a new column at The Myanmar Times

Burma and the Kipling mystique

Andrew Selth analyses the influence of the bard of the British Empire, Rudyard Kipling

A hopeful moment for civil society in Myanmar

Andrew Morgan looks closely at the changing landscape for civil society in the years after direct military rule

Kokang 2015: Unknown unknowns

Eisel Mazard reflects on the limited global appetite for understanding obscure wars in distant places

Fascist assemblages in Cambodia and Myanmar

Tim Frewer examines the rise of extreme Buddhism and ethno-nationalism across the Southeast Asian region

Saw John Bwe Lah’s funeral

Funeral of 103 year old Saw John Bwe Lah offers Gerard McCarthy a glimpse into a central Myanmar Karen community

Dissent and repression persist in Myanmar

Trevor Wilson examines Myanmar's recent violence and whether it will derail the reform process.

Myanmar’s brutal crackdown: who is in charge?

An inside look at Myanmar's response to student protests and what it says about the country's democratic transition.

Discipline and duty

Matt Schissler reports on student protests, violence and social media in Yangon.

Burma/Myanmar: Bibliographic trends

Andrew Selth surveys the changing landscape of publishing about the Southeast Asian nation

Political prisoners still languishing in Burma

Co-founder of the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners, Bo Kyi, introduces a new campaign

Australia’s leadership spill, with a Myanmar twist

Olivia Cable highlights an intriguing and unexpected connection between Australian and Myanmar politics

Aung San Suu Kyi in 2015

New Mandala co-founder Nicholas Farrelly has an overview of Aung San Suu Kyi's prospects in the year ahead

Myanmar in transition

Nicholas Farrelly is turning a regular spotlight on some of the big issues in Myanmar's ongoing political transformation

What’s left unspoken

After a recent trip to the country, Belinda Cranston asks how much is really changing in Myanmar.

Koh Tao trial another litmus test

Luke Corbin suggests the Koh Tao investigation is an example of institutional discrimination against the Burmese in Thailand

Remembering the work of Professor Andrew Huxley

Melissa Crouch reflects on the late Andrew Huxley's significant contribution to the study of law in Myanmar/Burma

Securitisation of Australian Aid

Tim Frewer argues the Australian aid industry is captured by those who will pursue the logic of security on behalf of Australians

Myanmar Update 2015: Making Sense of Conflict

The next Myanmar Update Conference will be held in Canberra on 5-6 June 2015. The Call for Papers is now open.

In the shoes of reporters in Naypyitaw

Olivia Cable asked Summit reporters what they thought of the ASEAN Summit and Naypyitaw

Reality check on Islam, Buddhism in Myanmar

Melissa Crouch suggests we should reconsider some of the big assumptions when analysing religious conflict