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Author: Alex Aung Khant

Alex Aung Khant is Executive Director at Urbanize, a local policy institute for urban and regional planning. Alex is from Yangon, Myanmar, and holds a Masters degree in Urban Studies and Public Policy from Sciences Po in Paris, France. He obtained his B.A. in Political Science and Asian Studies, also from Sciences Po Paris.
  • Essay

Comparing Approaches to Financing and Managing Mega-Development Projects between the National Government and Urban Authorities: A Case-Study of Yangon’s MRT Implementation

  • by Alex Aung Khant
  • Posted on February 5, 2020April 2, 2020

Alex Aung Khant presents different approaches to public infrastructure projects.

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  • Opinion

Broken roads and blocked drains: The recurring Samsara of Yangon’s urban problems

  • by Alex Aung Khant
  • Posted on October 4, 2017November 2, 2017

Alex Aung Khant reflects on the recurring nature of the urban problems he encounters daily.

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  • Opinion

Who to believe in a time of crisis?

  • by Alex Aung Khant
  • Posted on September 29, 2017November 2, 2017

Alex Aung Khant on navigating the media. Fake news. Since Donald Trump’s rise to the…

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  • 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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(Photo Credit, Courtney WIttekind)
  • Opinion

An Engineer, a Doctor or a Monk

  • by Alex Aung Khant
  • Posted on December 1, 2016January 30, 2017

Aung Khant reflects on possibilities available to Myanmar youth, and the future openings and lingering limits they represent.

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  • Note

Eulogy for an everyday hero

  • by Alex Aung Khant
  • Posted on September 28, 2016September 28, 2016

By Aung Khant In the early hours of Friday the 23rd of September 2016, U…

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  • News Analysis

The Beginning of the Last Days

  • by Alex Aung Khant
  • Posted on February 2, 2016February 3, 2016

The month of February is a peculiar one. It has never enjoyed the full status…

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Friday the 13th of November

  • by Alex Aung Khant
  • Posted on November 13, 2015November 13, 2015

Exactly five years ago, on the evening of 13th November 2010, crowds gathered outside the…

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Myanmar’s Transition and the Vote

  • by Alex Aung Khant
  • Posted on November 9, 2015November 20, 2015

A little over 27 years ago, the people of Myanmar watched helplessly as their protests…

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Series: COVID-19 and Myanmar

ကိုဗစ်-၁၉  နှင့် မြန်မာရာသီဥတုပြောင်းလဲခြင်းဆိုင်ရာ လူငယ်တို့၏  တက်ကြွ လှုပ်ရှား မှု

COVID-19 Policy Response Needs and Opportunities

Wavering at the Turning Point: Myanmar’s response to COVID-19 in March 2020

Tea Circle’s Book Reviews

The City and the Wilderness: Indo-Persian Encounters in Southeast Asia, Arash Khazeni, University of California Press, 2020, 264 pages.

Perspectives on War, Peace, and Rebel Politics: Introduction

Myanmar’s Buddhist-Muslim Crisis: Rohingya, Arakanese, and Burmese Narratives of Siege and Fear, by John Holt. Honolulu, Hawaii. University of Hawaii Press, 2019. 301pp.

Myanmar Media in Transition: Legacies, Challenges and Change, edited by Lisa Brooten, Jane Madlyn McElhone and Gayathry Venkiteswaran, ISEAS, Singapore, 2019, 407 Pages.

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

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

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