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Nowhere To Turn: The Eviction of Burma’s Minorities

The by-election victory of Aung San Suu Kyi last year promised much hope for Burma. Since then, and with pressure from the international community, the government of Thein Sein has been slowly forthcoming with reforms. However,...

by Neil Andrews

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Bought Brides: A Challenge To China’s Immigration Policy?

The huge flow of internal migrants in China is well-known and has been thoroughly reported on by observers of Chinese society (see this FAR article). Although less sizeable, another kind of migration is creeping up on the Part...

by Erik Svanberg

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Myanmar: The Golden Land in the East

Racked by ethnic violence in recent months, Myanmar is fast re-entering the mainstream news sphere for all the wrong reasons. While the country has been under military rule since the 1960s, since 2010 the country has re-opened...

by Urban Times

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Myanmar’s Poor, Young Glue Sniffers

Inhalant abuse through the use of cheap glue is a worsening problem among poor children in Myanmar. Yin Yin Hnoung, a medical student from the University of Medicine in Mandalay, interviewed some of these children and analysed...

by Chan Myae Khine

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WATCH: The Peacewalker – Changing The World One Step At A Time

Monk Ashin Sopaka came from a poor family. This meant that as a child he spent a lot of time walking from one place to another. What started out as a side effect of poverty slowly translated into a movement for peace and freedo...

by Priyanka Mogul

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Sri Lanka & Myanmar: The Face of Buddhist Extremism

An unholy partnership between peace advocating Buddhism and nationalism has been taking place in Sri Lanka and Myanmar. This new phenomenon of Buddhist extremism or radical Buddhism is sweeping through Asia, shattering all ster...

by Gaanashree Wood

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PHOTOS: Life Inside Myanmar

Award-winning photographer Geoffrey Hiller first visited Myanmar in 1987; and he was ‘haunted’ by what he saw in the country: “After a frenetic trip, it wasn’t so much the monks and pagodas that haunted me, but th...

by Mong Palatino

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Nowhere To Turn: The Eviction of Burma’s Minorities

Bought Brides: A Challenge To China’s Immigration Policy?

Myanmar: The Golden Land in the East

Myanmar’s Poor, Young Glue Sniffers

WATCH: The Peacewalker – Changing The World One Step At A Time

Sri Lanka & Myanmar: The Face of Buddhist Extremism

PHOTOS: Life Inside Myanmar

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