Analysis

By JANE PERLEZ JULY 19, 2017 NAYPYIDAW, Myanmar — When Myanmar’s leader, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, wanted to hold a peace conference to end her country’s long-burning insurgencies, a senior Chinese diplomat went to work The official assembled scores of rebel leaders, many with longstanding connections to China, briefed them on the peace gathering Read more...

YANGON — Early this month, just days after a round of major talks in the capital, Naypyidaw, fighting broke out between the armed forces and the ethnic Kachin Independence Army in the northern state of Kachin Ahead of a clearing operation, the Myanmar military airdropped pamphlets ordering residents of Tanai township to leave and warned Read more...

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 Read more...

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 Read more...

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 Read more...

(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, Read more...

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 US 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 Read more...

In a Thai port dubbed ‘Little Burma’ the children of Myanmar migrant workers peer at white boards carrying the distinctive looping characters of their parents’ language Enrolment at the school, the first in the fishing hub of Samut Sakhon to offer a Myanmar curriculum including reading and writing, is surging as migrants wearied by the Read more...

BANGKOK — Myanmar recognizes 135 ethnic groups within its borders But the people who constitute No 136 They are the people-who-must-not-be-named Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the leader of Myanmar’s first democratically elected government since 1962, embraced that view last week when she advised the United States ambassador against using the term “Rohingya” to describe Read more...

WASHINGTON — Obama administration officials on Tuesday said they would lift a broad array of sanctions on Myanmar, removing restrictions on state-owned banks and businesses as they seek to reward a historic move toward democracy in a country dominated for decades by brutal military rule The moves, to take effect on Wednesday, will allow American Read more...