A panacea for the economy?
There’s been a broadly positive response to the new Myanmar Investment Law, which levels the playing field between domestic and foreign investors and seeks the accelerated development of targeted areas and economic sectors. THE LONG-AWAITED Myanmar Investment Law has received a generally positive response from the business community, which had been more critical of the […]
Analysis: Dealing With Defamation
RANGOON — After being detained, Eleven Media Group executives Than Htut Aung and Wai Phyo asked the government to abolish Article 66(d) of the Telecommunications Law under which they have been charged by the Rangoon divisional government. The two men made the statement to an applauding crowd at a police station in Tamwe Township on […]
Arrests of Eleven Media Group members of deep concern: Mizzima
Mizzima Media Group is deeply concerned about the arrest and charging of Dr Than Htut Aung, CEO of the Eleven Media Group, and Wai Phyo, chief editor of Eleven Media Group, this week under section 66(d) of the Telecommunications Law. The two journalists have been charged under section 66(d) of the 2013 Telecommunications law by […]
Is The Lady listening? Aung San Suu Kyi accused of ignoring Myanmar’s Muslims
(CNN)Women wail in the background as the camera pans across the scene. “Oh brothers, look at this, look,” the narrator says, as he films the remnants of a burned house, bodies clearly visible sticking out of the mud and ash. The disturbing video is one of a handful that have emerged from northern Rakhine State, […]
Anti-Muslim Buddhist monk in Myanmar: Trump ‘similar to me’
MANDALAY, Myanmar (AP) — Shunned by Myanmar’s new government and its Buddhist hierarchy, a nationalist monk blamed for whipping up at times bloody anti-Muslim fervor said he feels vindicated by U.S. voters who elected Donald Trump to be president. Ashin Wirathu, a high-profile leader of the Myanmar Buddhist organization known as Ma Ba Tha, drew […]
Khin Khin Kyaw Kyee
Khin Khin Kyaw Kyee Khin Khin Kyaw Kyee is a lead researcher in ISP Myanmar. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in …
Nay Htun Naing
Nay Htun Naing Nay Htun Naing is the Deputy Director of Communications at the Institute for Strategy and Policy …
Su Mon ThaZin Aung
Dr. Su Mon ThaZin Aung Dr. Su Mon Thazin Aung is Director of Training and Capacity-Building at the Institute for Strategy …
John Buchanan
John Buchanan John Buchanan is the Director of Research at ISP Myanmar. He is also a PhD Candidate in the …
Aung Thu Nyein
Aung Thu Nyein Aung Thu Nyein is the Director of Communications at ISP Myanmar. He is a former student activist …
Min Zin
Min Zin Min Zin is a founding member and the Executive Director of ISP Myanmar, an independent …
Interview with Min Zin: Democratic Voice of Burma
State Department names Burma one of world’s worst countries for human trafficking
The State Department has named Burma as one of the world’s worst human trafficking offenders, and it removed Thailand from the list, citing progress in cracking down on forced labor in the seafood industry. The annual Trafficking in Persons Report released Thursday is watched closely by the countries clustered at the bottom. It is viewed […]
Reports: Burma Votes for Change
The New Configuration of Power Burma’s 8 November 2015 general elections—won in a landslide by the opposition National League for Democracy (NLD), led by Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi—have ushered in the second phase of the country’s political transition. The NLD won 390 (79.4 percent) of the 491 (due to the cancellation of seven townships) total […]
Politics of Civil Society in Hybrid Regime (MMRQ Vol 1, No 1)
The Myanmar Quarterly Vol.1, No.1. October, 2016. Politics of Civil Society in Hybrid Regime Burma/Myanmar has entered its second phase of political transition, shifting power from the military-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) government to the elected National League for Democracy (NLD) party led by Aung San Suu Kyi in April 2016. Contrary […]