These characteristics, readily evident in the USA, Europe, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Myanmar and elsewhere today, include belief in a mythic (false) past, propaganda to divert attention and blame from the true source of corruption, anti-intellectualism and a belief in the ‘common man’ while deriding..…
Burma Newly Amended Law Helps Officials Seize Land, Critics Warn . . A sign demarcates the boundary of a forested area near a rubber plantation in Kalawthut village in Mon States’s Mudon Township / Lawi Weng / The Irrawaddy . . . 189 . . . . . . ... Myanmar faces many problems associated..…
The State Counselor said, Myanmar's re-emergence comes at time shift away from favor of bilateralism, and in some cases, even isolationism, and currency and trade tensions between some countries.. ... World Bank's most recent ease of doing business index revealed no improvement..…
Amnesty International has stripped Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi of its Ambassador of Conscience Award. ..…
China and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (asean) took part in their first-ever joint maritime drill in Zhanjiang, China, from October 22 to 27, revealing a potential shift in asean’s geopolitical alignment. . asean founded in 1967 by Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand,..…
ASEAN (Indonesia, Thailand, Phillipines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar) may also surpass Japan’s GDP in terms of exchange rate GDP. . ..…
At CPJ during September's General Assembly on the imprisonment of journalists in countries like Egypt, Bangladesh, and Myanmar, Germany spoke up powerfully defense of free press.. ..…