Myanmar - Himal Southasian (Page 7)

After seven years

I poked my head in the taxi and said, 'Mingalabar – Yuzana Hotel?' with a glint in my eyes that is one of the many subtle codes here in

By Anonymous

/ 1 Dec 2010

BURMA: Microscopic opening

After two decades of refusing to honour the results of the last elections, held back in 1990, the recent electoral exercise in Burma gave plenty of lead-up time for long-suffering

By The Editors

/ 1 Dec 2010

The generals’ election

In the run-up to Burma’s fraught polls, some of the junta’s leading cheerleaders are Western governments who are bending over backwards to justify their stance.

By Maung Zarni

/ 1 Oct 2010

Woman casting a ballot in a box. A man can be seen behind her also casting a vote. The ballot box has writing on it in Burmes

The politics of boycott

As elections loom, how will the decision by Burma’s main opposition party to sit out the elections affect the larger efforts towards at democracy?

By Htet Aung

/ 1 May 2010

A yet-darkened horizon

The national elections planned for later this year are currently dominating everything else in Burma, despite the fact that there has been no official announcement about when the polls will

By Larry Jagan

/ 1 Feb 2010

Life after Nargis

As the monsoon approaches a year after Burma’s cyclone catastrophe, the victims are still without support. Now, more suffering looms.

By Joseph Zeitlyn

/ 21 Jun 2009

Intrigue and backstabbing on the high seas

Rogue Agent: How India's military intelligence betrayed the Burmese resistance by Nandita Haksar Penguin, 2009

By Carey L Biron

/ 1 Jun 2009

Tidbits of the region’s media

On 3 May, World Press Freedom Day, as seminar attendees around the world parleyed about whether the free media was actually free, journalists in the Swat Valley were more likely

By Chhetria Patrakar

/ 1 Jun 2009

Beyond the corridor

Looking at northern Myanmar and India’s Northeast as a contiguous region.

By Pradip Phanjoubam

/ 31 May 2009

Among the Payas

Travel arrangements in Burma are not the easiest to coordinate, so I became somewhat apprehensive upon receiving a message from my travel agent in Mandalay warning that there had been

By D.N.S. Dhakal

/ 1 May 2009

Burmese selection

the generals are keeping a wrap on the election plans, as a way to force the results overwhelmingly in their favour.

By Larry Jagan

/ 13 Apr 2009

Rohingya, not Bengali

Yet again, the situation surrounding the ethnic Rohingya community of Burma has burgeoned from a national disgrace to a regional shame. Despite what had appeared to be a coincidence of

By The Editors

/ 7 Apr 2009