Military coup puts Telenor’s future in Myanmar on the line (တယ်လီနောကုမ္ပဏီ အရှုံးပေါ်နေ )
Since Myanmar’s military ordered telecoms operators to shut their networks in an effort to end protests against its February coup, Telenor’s business there has been in limbo. As one of the few Western companies to bet on the South East Asian country after it emerged from military dictatorship a decade ago, the return to army […]
Myanmar Alert: National Union Government: People’s Defence Force (ပြည်သူ့ကာကွယ်ရေးတပ်မတော် ဖွဲ့စည်းကြောင်း ကြေညာခြင်း )
Myanmar’s National Unity Government (NUG), established by opponents of army rule, declared on 05 May that it would establish a “People’s Defence Force” as protection against government violent attacks towards its members. The statement noted that this was a prelude to establishing a Federal Union Army “in order to terminate the 70-year-long civil war.” The […]
We are not naive anymore: Myanmar EAOs skeptical about federal army (ကျွန်တော်တို့ အယုံမလွယ်တော့ဘူး)
The ousting of the National League for Democracy in the February 1 coup triggered a major shift in power dynamics between Myanmar’s ethnic groups. Now, with talk of a federal army and government growing, minority groups are pushing the Bamar majority for real changeSeven decades of ethnic warfare in Myanmar have produced an abundance of […]