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Myanmar

Myanmar Update 2013

New Mandala readers will want to know that the next Myanmar Update Conference will be held in Canberra on 15-16 March 2013.

Workers in Dawei

Part 2 in a three-part series focusing on under-analysed aspects of the Dawei deep-sea port and industrial zone project in southeastern Burma. This post discusses the role of labour and activists.

The Company in Dawei

Part 1 in a three-part series focusing on under-analysed aspects of the Dawei deep-sea port and industrial zone project in southeastern Burma.

Glimpses of the Thailand-Myanmar border

The overnight coach from Bangkok’s Morchit terminal to Mae Sot in the Northwest stops at several Thai army checkpoints where soldiers with bulletproof vests and surgical masks survey passengers’ identity cards.

Intolerance, Islam and the Internet in Burma

In this post from the archives, Sai Latt examines the role of the Internet in anti-Muslim hate speech