Tag: #Myanmar
Articles tagged with #Myanmar
Post-Coup Myanmar, Aung San Suu Kyi and the Way Forward
Meeting Daw Aung San Suu Kyi in Yangon in 1998.The 1 February 2021 coup d’état by Myanmar’s military (Tatmadaw), has been widely condemned by…
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…
Nepal’s electric transport future is here
RENEWABLE TRANSPORT: Symbolic gestures like President Bidya Devi Bhandari using an electric limousine, and more practical tax breaks for EVs…
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…
Bimstec facelift
Photo: MONIKA DEUPALAThat the fourth BIMSTEC summit would be declared a “success” was a foregone conclusion because there wasn’t really much…
Sorry state
Diwakar ChettriNow that the leaders of the awkwardly acronymed BIMSTEC (Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic…
The death of democracy
On 5 August, Bangladeshi artist, writer and organiser Shahidul Alam was interviewed on Al Jazeera about student protests triggered by the deaths…
How many tigers in Nepal?
After being hunted nearly to extinction, Nepal’s tiger numbers surged in recent decades thanks to a successful conservation program. But with…
Ramadan in exile
Rohingya refugees feel safe in Nepal, but have not given up the dream of returning to…
Living on the margins
One of the Rohingya camps in Kapan. Currently there are four such camps in Kathmandu, housing Rohingyas who started arriving in Nepal after 2012…