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Myanmar

May flowers

Matt Schissler offers another timely reflection on religious violence and hate speech in Myanmar

Myanmar’s ASEAN challenges

Ludovica Marchi asks if Myanmar can rise to the challenges of ASEAN chairmanship?

Myanmar’s unreliable narrators

Matthew Gibbons reports that Myanmar’s ongoing census ignores the country’s often malleable ethnic situation

Partitioned love in the dirty lake

Burma’s annual New Year’s water festival reflects the country’s growing disparities – even in romance.

Pathways to peace in Rakhine State

Taylor O'Connor analyses legacies of conflict in Rakhine State, assesses recurrent patterns of violence, and outlines pathways to peace.

Boom times and boom gates

Olivia Cable reports on human trafficking on the China-Myanmar border.

Myanmar up for the count

The first census in 30 years poses challenges in a deeply divided society. New Mandala co-founder Nicholas Farrelly offers some thoughts from Naypyitaw.

Looks good on paper: Education reform in Burma

Rosalie Metro brings a critical perspective to the fragility of Burmese education materials in an analysis that has major policy implications

China and Myanmar’s reforms

Trevor Wilson, former Australian Ambassador to Myanmar, examines the important relationship with China at this time of flux and uncertainty

Sleeping dogs

Yangon-based writer Matt Schissler meditates on the complexities of inter-religious conflict resolution in Myanmar

Beyond bigotry: Unravelling ethnic violence in Rakhine

Max Beauchamp analyses ongoing conflict between Buddhists and Muslims in western Myanmar

Nuclear inspectors, welcome to the jungle?

Kalman A. Robertson and Olivia Cable argue that Myanmar should allow provisional access for inspectors to sites of potential nuclear activity

Myanmar’s arms purchases are a problem

Jacob Sommer suggests we need a clear understanding of the goals and interests of the Myanmar government

Questions about rule of law for DASSK

ANU PhD student Kristina Simion has some interesting questions about law in Burma

Myanmar’s military: Money and guns

Jacob Sommer argues that arms imports are at an all time high, fueling the heaviest fighting in decades

The politics of honorary degrees

Last week Aung San Suu Kyi told an audience at the ANU she often wondered why universities confer honorary degrees on politicians

A Burmese skater posing with his board at Nanat Taw Bridge in Yangon. Photo by Ye Aung Thu/ AFP.

Rolling with the times?

Jacqueline Menager writes about why Burma's youth may not be ready for momentous change

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. Photo from Wikimedia commons.

Burma’s next president

Aung San Suu Kyi could become Burma's next president, says former Australian Ambassador Trevor Wilson

Myanmar’s academic ambitions

ANU postdoctoral fellow Pyone Myat Thu argues that education is the key to unlocking the country’s vast potential

On the cusp of disease transition in Myanmar

Sam Byfield and Maeve Kennedy reflect on the health consequences of a changing political and economic environment

Increasing insecurity in Myanmar

Recent bombings pose yet another threat to peace in Myanmar, writes Yola Verbruggen

Challenges for foreign investors in Myanmar

Aung Tun argues that foreign investors face big obstacles as Myanmar's transformation continues

After the bombings: 15 October in Yangon

Matt Schissler takes the pulse of the city after recent bombings and communal tension

Military can still be good state-builders for Myanmar

Erik H. Ribeiro suggests we need to pay more attention to the Tatmadaw's productive role