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Category: Opinion

  • Opinion

Dire need for an alternative in Rakhine

  • by teacircleoxford
  • Posted on February 5, 2019February 15, 2019

Thiha Wint Aung explains why responding to AA with full military might would be counterproductive.

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  • Opinion

Under the Umbrella: Drugs and Myanmar Politics (Part V)

  • by teacircleoxford
  • Posted on November 7, 2018January 2, 2019

[Image credit: YE AUNG THU/AFP/Getty Images] Olly Gagiero describes how the suppression of Myanmar’s drug trade…

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  • Opinion

Myanmar’s Laws Ensure Journalists Cannot Speak (Part IV)

  • by teacircleoxford
  • Posted on November 7, 2018January 2, 2019

Darcy Moffatt discusses how the criminalisation of journalists robs Myanmar of press freedom. This is…

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Are our expectations of Myanmar realistic? (Part III)

  • by teacircleoxford
  • Posted on November 7, 2018January 2, 2019

Gabrielle Maginness writes about challenges to Myanmar’s transition to federalism. This is part three of a five-part…

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  • Opinion

On the Rote to Nowhere – Approaching Myanmar’s Education Reform (Part II)

  • by teacircleoxford
  • Posted on November 7, 2018January 2, 2019

Based on her observations, Madeline Luke explores potential improvements to Myanmar’s education. This is part…

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  • Opinion

Critical Thinking in Myanmar’s Education System (Part I)

  • by teacircleoxford
  • Posted on November 7, 2018January 2, 2019

Claire Allen considers an education curriculum based on critical thinking.  This is part one of…

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  • Opinion

The Insouciance of the Downtown Rangoon Book Scene

  • by teacircleoxford
  • Posted on September 17, 2018October 30, 2018

David Scott Mathieson discovers some curious displays in Pansodan’s thriving book stalls. Along downtown Rangoon’s…

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  • Opinion

‘Peace and education cannot be separated’

  • by teacircleoxford
  • Posted on July 5, 2018August 29, 2018

Radka Antalikova discusses the newly launched Graduate Research Diploma on peacebuilding and research at the…

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  • Opinion

Why Economic Sanctions won’t help the Rohingya

  • by teacircleoxford
  • Posted on June 26, 2018August 13, 2018

Andrew Thomson argues that the imposition of economic sanctions on Myanmar will not help resolve the…

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  • Opinion

Fostering constitutional conversation in Myanmar

  • by teacircleoxford
  • Posted on June 18, 2018August 13, 2018

Myat Myat Mon discusses the importance of constitutional conversation and how it can foster more…

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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

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

Citizenship in Myanmar: Ways of Being in and from Burma, Edited by Ashley South and Marie Lall, Singapore: ISEAS, 2018, 316 pages

Miss Burma. Charmaine Craig. 2017. 355 pp. Grove Press.

Buddhism, Politics, and Political Thought in Myanmar by Matthew J. Walton, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 2017. 226 pages.

Recent Posts

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    February 7, 2019

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