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Month: March 2017

  • News Analysis

Mon State’s Bridgegate: Ethnic Politics or Realpolitik?

  • by izzyrhoads
  • Posted on March 31, 2017April 3, 2017

Elizabeth Rhoads on ‘Bridgegate’ and by-elections in Mon State.

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Charles Wallace Burma Trust Visiting Fellowship: Call for Applications

  • by matthewjwalton
  • Posted on March 30, 2017March 30, 2017

 Apologies for the late posting to Tea Circle, but there’s still time to apply!

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  • News Analysis

Has the NLD learned nothing about ethnic concerns?

  • by matthewjwalton
  • Posted on March 29, 2017May 4, 2017

Matthew J Walton looks at the controversy over a bridge in Mon State.

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  • Opinion

Understanding the UWSA’s perspective on the peace process

  • by Liu Yun
  • Posted on March 27, 2017April 20, 2017

An update from Liu Yun after the recent Pangkham summit

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  • Essay

The Emergence of Language Professionals in Myanmar

  • by Joanna Dolińska
  • Posted on March 23, 2017May 17, 2017

Joanna Dolińska reviews the challenges associated with interpreting and translating in Myanmar.

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Photo credit: Aung Khant
  • Opinion

Dazed and Confused: The Future of Yangon’s Urban Direction

  • by Alex Aung Khant
  • Posted on March 20, 2017March 31, 2017

  Aung Khant muses on Yangon’s drainage and infrastructure challenges.

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Oh Su-Ann, editor Date of publication: 2016 Publisher: ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute
  • Book Review

Myanmar’s Mountain and Maritime Borderscapes – Local Practices, Boundary-Making and Figured Worlds edited by Su-Ann Oh, ISEAS Publishing, Singapore, 2016, 398 pages.

  • by Dr. Reshmi Banerjee
  • Posted on March 15, 2017March 31, 2017

Reshmi Banerjee reviews Su-Ann Oh’s edited volume on Myanmar’s “borderscapes.”

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Picture: credit to Alexandre Sattler/Regards d’Ailleurs, 2016
  • Waterways

The Inlay Lake Region in the Mists of Tourism Governance

  • by teacircleoxford
  • Posted on March 9, 2017March 13, 2017

Martin Michalon explains the effects of tourism on the Inlay Lake Region.

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  • Book Review

War and Peace in the Borderlands of Myanmar: The Kachin Ceasefire, 1994-2011, edited by Mandy Sadan, NIAS Press, Copenhagen. 2016. 540 pages.

  • by Courtney Wittekind
  • Posted on March 2, 2017May 18, 2018

Courtney T. Wittekind reflects on the nuanced framing of war and peace offered by a new edited volume.

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Series: Year in Review 2018

The Promises of Planning Under the NLD

Stalemate and Suspicion: An Appraisal of the Myanmar Peace Process

Myanmar’s Freedom of Expression as a Broken Promise of the NLD

Law & Constitutionalism in Myanmar: A Year in Review

Justice in Burma: Wounds on the Wall

Year in Review: Public Health in Myanmar

Marginalisation or Consolidation? The Parliamentary Year in Review

Genocide in the Modern Era: Social Media and the Proliferation of Hate Speech in Myanmar

Two steps backward to move forward: The energy sector moves in the right direction

Tea Circle’s Book Reviews

Myanmar Transformed? People, Places and Politics edited by Justine Chambers, Gerard McCarthy, Nicholas Farrelly and Chit Win, ISEAS, Singapore, 2018, 333 Pages.

Myanmar’s ‘Rohingya’ Conflict by Anthony Ware and Costas Laoutides. London: Hurst, 2018, 224pp.

Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Myanmar edited by Adam Simpson, Nicholas Farrelly and Ian Holliday, Routledge, 2018, 452 pages.

Opening up Hidden Burma: Journeys With – And Without – Author Dr Bob Percival, edited by Keith Lyons, et.al, Tenko Press, 2018, 230 pages.

Bagan And The World – Early Myanmar and Its Global Connections edited by Goh Geok Yian, John N. Miksic and Michael Aung-Thwin, ISEAS, Singapore, 2018, 230 Pages.

The Cell, Exile, and the New Burma: A Political Education amid the Unfinished Journey toward Democracy by Kyaw Zwa Moe, Yangon, New Myanmar Publishing House, 2018, 245 Pages

Border Capitalism, Disrupted: Precarity and Struggle in a Southeast Asian Industrial Zone by Stephen Campbell. Cornell University Press, 2018. 206 Pages.

Reporting the Retreat: War Correspondents in Burma by Philip Woods, London, Hurst & Co., 2016, 206 Pages, ISBN: 9781849047173

Recent Posts

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    December 4, 2019
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    December 2, 2019
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    November 27, 2019

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