Tag: #Burma
Articles tagged with #Burma
Barbwire borders
As boundary walls go up around the world, the open Nepal-India border should be a model
Nepal activists protest Burma executions
Photos: SUMAN NEPALINepali rights activists this week took to the streets of Kathmandu against the execution of Phyo Zeya Thaw, Kyaw Min Yu (Ko…
Memories of a country in transition
Enya lake in Yangon. All photos: PRATIBHA TULADHARYangon Airport sprawled before us, swallowing two women, B and me. There were only so many…
Asia’s new Cold War
Photo: AMIT MACHAMASIThe recent coup in Burma is a stark reminder that the future of democracy in South East and South Asia faces a treacherous…
Kathmandu remembers Aung San Suu Kyi
Burmese political leader Aung San Suu Kyi when she visited Nepal in 2016. Burma is in the news again with this week’s military coup, and Nepalis…
The atom bomb saved my life
Photo: MANISH PAUDELThey ate rats with rotten rice, were ravaged by malaria and beaten by their Japanese captors. Only four of the 300 Nepali…
Lumbini Museum exhibition in Burma
President Bidya Devi Bhandari concluded her four-day state visit to Burma on 19 October by inaugurating an exhibition on Lumbini, a UNESCO World…
The new normal
Diwakar ChettriIt does not matter who advised Prime Minister K P Oli about attending the dubious Asia-Pacific Summit in Kathmandu last week…
Nepal and Burma delay, dilute and deny justice
Nepal’s flourishing diversity of ethnicities, languages and cultures and its socio-cultural closeness to Burma made me feel at home as soon as I…